Price Details

Price: £6,950 GBP
Location: Walton on the Naze,  CO14, Essex. GB
Make: Gaff Sloop, half decker , ” A Day Tripper ”  1938.
Condition: Restored and well maintained.
Category: Traditional Tan foresail and main sail
Class: Day sailer    Keel Type: Centreboard

Description

‘Billows’ a 21′ half deck day boat, built in 1938 by Phillips of Rye, as a Sailing Trip boat, possibly for Folkestone,  one of the last sailing working boats, built at that Boatyard.
A lifting centreboard gaff sloop, comprehensively  rebuilt  in 1993.She is in excellent condition with all of her brightwork, well varnished,
She is in the water on a swinging mooring in full commissioned, including a new 5hp Mercury outboard with very low hours.

Images were taken June 2026.

Measurements

Nominal Length: 6.40m
Length Overall: 7.32m
Length At Water Line: 6.25m

Beam: 2.59m
Draft: 1.22m
Air Draft: 6.71m
Max Draft: 1.22m

 

Specifications

Fuel Tank Capacity: 25litres
Displacement: 850kilograms
Cruising Speed: 4 knots
Engine Power: 5hp Outboard, New.

Passenger Capacity: 6

Builder/Designer

Builder: Phillips of Rye
Boat Name: Billows

Hull

Hull Material: Wood
Hull Design: Displacement
Hull Speed: 7: knots

Engine

Engine Model: Mercury
Engine Description: 2026 5hp Mercury Outboard 4stroke, petrol. very low hours, new.
Motor can be stowed in a well and covered when not in use.
Engine Transmission Description: Outboard

Construction:

     

Hull planked in white pine, oak framed with mahogany thwarts, interior benches, and transom. Her deck fittings are all in bronze.
Clinker planked, paint and varnish finish, inside and out. Dark Blue topsides, cream decks. Red Antifouling. Refitted and relaunched late June 2026
Two older surveys, receipts of work completed since 2017.
Emails from the person who restored her in 1993 plus various other bits of info.
Frank Halls Boat yard have attended to some small jobs, including fitting new bilge keels last year and a new rudder pintle.

Accommodation:

Surround bench seating aft  centre thwart. Centreboard box. Dry stowage under foredeck.

Equipment:

Oars
Fenders
Warps
Varnished wooden tiller.
Two part rudder blade
Lifting centreplate.
All over fitted mooring cover, main sail cover both valeted and re-waterproofed this year.

Sails:

Varnished wooden spars.
Mast sat in tabernacle, deck stepped.
Jib sail and a gaff main sail, reefing lines.  Sails in excellent condition. Traditionally rigged with halyards and blocks.

Navigation Equipment:

Tiller steering

Disclaimer: Disclaimer: The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel.

A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.