White topsides, 2024

   October 2025        2023

Price Details

Price: £ 18,500 GBP
Location: nr Faversham Kent UK
Make: Norman E Dallimore design Sloop
Year: 1932
Condition: Very good.
Category: Sail
Class: Antique and Classics
Keel Type: Centreboard

    Summer 2025 

Description

A Classic Bermudan Sloop of 1932, Design no: 159 from Mr Norman E Dallimore. Kept in a good, well maintain condition. with practically new engine….
In 2000, Priscilla was at Alan Staley’s boatyard, Faversham, Kent, where the ballast keel was taken off, it was then shot blasted and epoxy painted. A new centreboard was fitted, all her keel bolts were replaced.
In 2007, Priscilla came back to the East Coast, where she found herself a good safe mudberth mooring in Oare Creek, Kent, where she still kept is twenty years on.
Alan Staley’s boatyard has taken care of almost all her maintenance. He replaced the deck, new teak deck and replaced the rudder.
In 2009 a new engine was installed.
In 2022 Priscilla was scraped back to bare wood, all seams were re caulked and she got a complete new paint system.
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Vessel’s history

There’s a full history of Priscilla is documented, including some interesting cruising trips written by previous owners over the years. The first owner kept her on the Thames Estuary.

In the1950’s Priscilla was sold and moved to the South Coast, UK .
A book “To Cork and Beyond” was published 1985, when the previous owner Mr. Sydenham bought her and sailed her to Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Her present owner bought her in 1995 and sailed her to The Netherlands, and from there Priscilla made many cruising trips to the Dutch and German Islands and Denmark.
She resides afloat on a mud berth mooring in Oare Creek.

 

Measurements

Nominal Length: 8.84m
Length Of Deck: 8.80m
Length At Water Line: 7.95m

Beam: 2.77m
Max Draft: 1.17m

Specifications

Fuel Tank Capacity: 40litres
Water Tank Capacity: 90litres  ( 2 x tanks)
Displacement: 5.00 tonnes
Cruising Speed: 5 knots
Engine Power: 25hp
Number of Engines: 1

Accommodation

Berths: 4  Cabins: 2   Heads: 2    Passenger Capacity: 4

 

Builder/Designer

Builder: Harry Kings & Son, Pin Mill,
Designer: Norman E Dallimore
Boat Name: Priscilla

Hull

       

Hull Material: Wood – Pitch Pine
Hull Design: Displacement
Hull Speed: 7 knots

Engine

Engine Model: Beta Marine B-25    Fuel Type: diesel       No of Cylinders: 3       Starting Type: electric
Control Type: 12V, de luxe panel (tachometer, psi, volts, temp., key ignition )
Range: 160 nm,     Shaft driven,   Propeller Type: fixed, 3-blades
Engine Location: under the cockpit sole        Last Serviced: 9th May 2026
Gearbox: TMC 60     Cooling System: water

Construction:

       

Traditional carvel planked Pitch Pine,  riveted, clenched
Cockpit Type: Deep open aft, self draining.
Deck Construction: Laminated; Pine 10mm, Plywood 3x4mm mahogany, Teak 10mm, Deck Colour: Teak.

A bronze tube amidships for the centreboard casing which is completely fitted under the iroko planked cabin sole,
Superstructure, varnish finish
Topsides painted white.
Ballast: 2 tons,  Transom hung rudder and tiller

       

Accommodation:

Headroom 5 ft 10 ins
Berth Lengths: 6 ft 11 ins
Layout ;: Forepeak; a double bed with mattresses and storage under.
Heads on port with Jabsco manual toilet
Saloon; 2 full length settee berths each side with mattresses and pillows.
A large drop leaf table for either navigation or dining. A Butterfly sky-light over,  oil lamps and electrical lighting.

   

  Images were taken October 2025

     

A Taylors 029 paraffin cooker/oven, stainless steel sink, teak lockers, bronze handle pumped water supply from the freshwater tanks.
Taylor paraffin heater in the saloon
Two polypropylene water tanks under the saloon berths

Equipment:

Ground Tackle: 35lbs CQR

20lbs Fisherman’s kedge anchor.
A Main sail cover.
Pram hood cover over the companionway, Cockpit cushions

Rig  & Sails:

Silver spruce hollow mast – solid pine boom
Mast: Keel Stepped
Spinnaker Pole
Bermudan Rig
Main sail reefing points
Standing Rigging Material: Galvanised and stainless steel
Running Rigging Material: Polyester
Halyard Winches: x 2 bronze winches
Centreboard winches

Sail Wardrobe:
Main sail by TD Sails, Dacron cream, Good
Jib by TD Sails Dacron cream, very good
Genoa by TD Sails Dacron cream, Good
Storm jib in Dacron, tan, Good

Navigation Equipment:

Tiller steering
Navigation lights, tri colour on mast
Original Sestral Major steering compass in cockpit
Nasa echo-sounder
VHF Sailor RT2048
Chart plotter Garmin
Receiver; Nasa Weatherman

   1988          1958

Safety Equipment:

MOB rescue sling
2 fire extinguishers, fire blanket
A spare tiller
bilge pump electrical Rule 1500 with float switch
bilge pump manual, Whale Gusher 10
lifelines on deck for harnesses.

Wooden grab rails on the coachroof

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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.