AS she is today Saul Gloucester sitting on her Road Trailer , January 2026
cockpit and engine box. 2023Original Sail Plan with Bumpkin, 1934
ALL IMAGES ABOVE were taken by MJLewis in 2022 Burnham on Crouch
Price Details
Price: £2,500 GBP ” AS IS”
Location: Saul, Gloucester GB
Builders & Designers : Cardnell’s Boatyard , Maylandsea, Essex
Year: 1934
Condition: Requires commissioning
Category: Classic Sail, In present ownership used as a motor vessel on the Canal
Class: Antique and Classics
Keel Type: Full straight ballast keel
Description
SAMPHIRE is a charming Classic wooden Bermudan Sloop, she has very similar lines to the Blackwater Sloops. Commissioned in 1934 for a Group Captain, built and designed by the highly regarded Shipwright Mr G.E.Cardnell of Steeple (the father of the Cardnell Brothers Boatyard of Maylandsea). She was built to Lloyds A100 standard. Top specification materials. To be SOLD with her Twin axle Road Trailer .
Kept with her is a comprehensive file of documents and letters, including original design drawings and build letters, sent and received between the designer, the shipwrights and the commissioning customer.
Between 2012 -2016 ,she underwent an extensive restoration and refit, both inside and out.
Sadly, sold away from the East Coast in 2023.
She now available again to purchase, requiring a new custodian.
All the professional made coachwork berth cushions and sails are in dry store.
Vessel ashore and under cover. She requires recommissioning. she has stood ashore under cover for sometime.
Measurements
Length Overall: 7.32m
Length Of Deck: 7.32m
Length At Water Line: 6.86m
Beam: 2.13m
Draft: 1.07m
Air Draft: 10.67m (when rigged with mast stepped)
Max Draft: 1.07m
Specifications
Fuel Tank Capacity: 25ltrs
Water Tank Capacity: 25ltrs
Displacement: 2500kgs
Cruising Speed: 4 knots
Engine Power: 6hp
Number of Engines: 1
Accommodation
Berths: 4
Cabins: 1
Heads: 1
Passenger Capacity: 4
Builder/Designer
Builder: G.E.Cardnell, Cardnell Brothers, Maylandsea
Designer: G.E Cardnell
Boat Name: Samphire
Hull
Hull Material: Wood (Mahogany & Pitch pine)
Hull Design: Displacement
Hull Speed: 5: knots
Engine
Engine Description: A Lister Petter AC1 diesel engine 6hp. Inboard. sited internally within an engine box, on the starboard aft quarter.
Shaft driven to a single twin bladed feathering propeller. Newly installed 2018.After her major overhaul. Controls in the cockpit.
Construction:
Carvel planked mahogany planking on Oak frames. 500kg iron ballast keel. A counter stern. Underwent a total refit 2012-2016.
Hull was completely stripped out, her interior furniture and fittings all restored or rebuilt , re varnished. The exterior hull planking was burnt off and re caulked.
Decks are Pitch Pine planked covered with marine ply, epoxy sheathed and painted with nonslip paint finish.
A generous open aft cockpit with surround bench seating and lockers.
All the interior woodwork has been sympathetically restored, whilst being updated to create a surprisingly spacious interior.
She has been kept under a cover, ashore for a while.
The topsides require re-painting and antifouling, she would need time to take up again.
Interior “as is”, soft furnishings in dry store, January 2026
Stern locker , underwater hull “AS seen in 2022” She had been out of the water for some considerable time…..
Accommodation:
The cabin has been likened to a Tardis. It has been beautifully reworked. Mostly varnished mahogany with a new panelled deck head.( minimal headroom)
She boasts a hot and cold pressurised water system, stainless steel water tank, an emersion heater, to a single wash basin in the galley area.
A single Origo single burner spirit stove All bought materials and equipment were new and went unused for several years after the overhaul.
The cabin lighting has been converted to 12v LED lights. Oil lamp
In the fore cabin a new Jabsco sea toilet, hidden away under the starboard side berth in the forepeak .
A privacy door between the cabin areas. 4 x single settee berths all of a generous length.
All new berth cushioning, professional coachworks, in blue high quality velveteen upholstery. Hatch in the foredeck.
Accommodation all set up in 2022
Equipment:
Twin Axel Road Trailer.
Deck fittings mostly Gunmetal bronze.
CQR Anchor and anchor chain in the forepeak.
Blue canvas cockpit cover.
Kedge anchor with warp
Mooring warps and fenders.
Tarpaulin deck cover
Sails:
Bermudan Sloop Rig.
Spruce Mast and Boom with all new 2016 stainless steel fittings.
A Long mast of 31ft.
The Boom, was shortened when the auxiliary engine was fitted. Engineless sailing days.
Stainless steel backstay levers.
Suit of Sails ( unseen, unchecked) ,…..
N.B: Please note that none of the Rig, Sails or Spars have been viewed by the Broker.
Navigation Equipment:
Tiller steering
The engine box doubles as a chart table and navigation station.
Navigation gauges mounted on a swing out board, to be seen whilst on the helm.
Compass
Dataline speed and depth sounder
Dataline wind system (mast head anemometer requires installation)
Lowrance Globalmap – 3500GPS chart plotter.
Autohelm tiller pilot.
Clock and barometer fixed to forward bulkhead.,
Navigation lamps – (to be fitted.)
Safety Equipment:
Fire extinguisher ( expiry dates unchecked)
Automatic electric bilge pump
Manual bilge pump.
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.