Price Details
Price: 12500 GBP
Location: Hollowshore, nr Faversham, Kent Kent GB
Make: Other
Year: 1895
Condition: Re-built, Re-rigged as a Gaff Cutter
Category: Sail
Class: Antique and Classics
Keel Type: Full Keel
Description
28ft wooden Smack Yacht, bought as an open boat from Portsmouth,1985.
REDUCED
Testers Boatyard, Hollowshore, Kent, sold her on, as a “restoration project” to her present owner in 1986. Originally, she was a twin masted Lugger, built circa 1895.
It was decided that she would be re rigged to carry a Gaff Rig, A new rig was made, new spars and sails, and an engine was installed,
The Boatyard built her a deck and a simple coach roof over a cabin.
The restoration was completed, and she was back sailing in 2013.
Old surveys were made of her in 2014 and again 2018.
Afloat on a pontoon mooring, refitting and repainting underway.
She has been found to be a good sailing vessel and fast too.
She has won and been placed in local sailing matches.
Length
Nominal Length: 8.53 meter
Length Overall: 10.97 meter
Length Of Deck: 8.53 meter
Length At Water Line: 8.38 meter
Measurements
Beam: 3.05 meter
Draft: 1.37 meter
Max Draft: 1.37 meter
Specifications
Displacement: 10.00 : kilogram
Cruising Speed: 6 : knots
Engine Power: 22
Number of Engines: 1
Accommodation
Berths: 4
Cabins: 1
Heads: 1
Passenger Capacity: 4
Builder/Designer
Builder: Testers Boatyard, Faversham Kent
Boat Name: Megan
Hull
Hull Material: Wood
Hull Design: Displacement
Hull Speed: 10: knots
Engine
Engine Model: Vetus
Fuel Type: diesel
Engine Description: 22hp diesel Vetus M3.10 engine shaft driven to a triple bladed bronze propeller.
overhauled in 2013.
Stainless steel fuel tank
Engine Transmission Description: Shaft drive
Additional Description
Construction: Single wooden hull. 1inch planks of mahogany have been over laid (double diagonal
using West epoxy system) this was done in 1998 by Chatham Dockyard.
Double layer 15mm ply Cacover sheathed and painted.
Oak through deck stanchions. Iroko capping rail an covering board. Oak deck beams
Painted Oak bitts.
3.5 tons Lead Ingots.
3 separate cabin area with full bulkheads.
Antifouled every 2 years.
Accommodation: Companionway ladder. a dining table which fixes to the ladder, when required.
2 opposing berths with vinyl covered berth cushions, with stowage shelving built in on both sides. 5ft 9ins standing headroom below. A further two bunks and a sea toilet, fitted in the forepeak 2004.
Hatches over the accommodation forward, a sliding main hatch and an engine hatch.
Equipment: 22kgs Fisherman's anchor , 25m 10mm galvanised chain.
Overall winter cover new in 2003
Avon inflatable dinghy
Mooring lines and fenders
Sails: Rigged as a Smack yacht cutter, she has a pully inside the mast for a jackyard topsail
Gaff main sail ( 3 reefing lines ), sail sail cover. Mast hoops.
A staysail and a jib, designed and made by Rochester Sails, Paul Martin 2005,
Made in cream polyester sail cloth, Sail area of 600sqft.
Hollow laminated mast of Douglas Fir new 2003
Bowsprit Solid spruce
Boom and gaff of solid Spruce made new 2003 ., all spars overhauled, stripped and re-varnished,
Shrouds 10mm galvanised wire to Dead eyes. ( standing rigging )
New blocks and running gear ( braid on braid rope) 2011,
Navigation Equipment: Tiller
echo sounder
compass
Safety Equipment: electric and a manual bilge pump.
fire extinguishers.
Fire blanket.
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








