Price Details
Price: £38,000 GBP
Location: Brightlingsea, Essex. GB
Make: Leigh Cockler, Bawley
Year: 1914
Condition: good
Category: Traditional Sail
Class: Antique and Classics
Keel Type: flat bottomed with Centreboard
Description
Built in 1914, MARY AMELIA, a famed Leigh Cockler, Bawley rig. An ex working fishing boat, she commercially fished, under sail until the late 1920’s.
Converted to a motor fishing vessel, and continued working well into the 1950’s.
After ending her working days she was left, sunk nr Pin Mill, Suffolk. 1970’s.
Then 1981 to 1983, Colin Fox at the Webb’s Boatyard, Pin Mill, re-floated, rebuilt and rerigged her. With the exception of putting the centerplate and casing back in her (It had been removed, along with her rig, when converted to motor).
As a result , once back in commission under sail, her performance was all rather disappointing.
The present owner purchased her in 2002, he sailed her for a few years, before deciding to take her to the St Osyths Boatyard, to have a new centre board and casing installed. The bulk heads were strengthened up,
this work transformed her sailing performance. In 2008 she went into a boatshed for an 18 month, 70% rebuild which included the installation of a 37hp Beta diesel engine. She was then surveyed and licenced for work,
enabling her to carry up to 8 charter passengers. Sailing under a Smack Sailing Exemption in local waters. She has competed in Smack Races, Traditional Sail Regattas and with the Old Gaffers.
A Traditional vessel, ideally suited to sailing on the East Coast, with her shallow draft and centre plate lifted, suitable for sailing in and out of all the East coast rivers, at nearly any state of the tide.
Her owner has relocated to Cornwall, where the sea conditions are not ideal for her. He’d rather she remained on the East Coast.
Presently, she is under cover on a tidal pontoon in the Smack Dock, Brightlingsea, Essex.
Measurements
Nominal Length: 10.36m plus Bowsprit
Length Overall: 12.80m
Length Of Deck: 10.36m
Length At Water Line: 9.91m
Beam: 3.35m
Draft: 2.74m
Keel Up: 0.84m Keel Down: 2.74m
Air Draft: 15.24m
Specifications
Weight 6 tons Displacement: 10.5tons
Cruising Speed: 5 knots Hull Speed: 8: knots
Engine Power: 37hp
Accommodation
Berths: 4 Cabins: 2 Passenger Capacity: 8 (when licenced)
Builder/Designer
Boat Name: Mary Amelia
Engine
Description: 37hp Beta Marine 1305, four cylinder, naturally aspirated Indirect raw water cooled diesel engine with a wet exhaust. Engine flexibly mounted.
Hurth gearbox. Stainless steel shaft to the triple bladed Bronze propeller. Single lever, Morse controls.
Construction:
A single wooden displacement hull with centreplate. Paint finish, internally and externally. Carvel larch planks on oak steamed ribs and cut frames.
Oak deck beams and 1 1/2” thick deck planking, Hold converted to accommodation cabin.
A straight, vertical stem, a long straight keel, flat bottom with a
tight turn to the bilge. Transom stern. Three quarter decked, an enclosed
forecastle, bulkhead , a long fish hold/ cabin, boarded over with Canvas covers, wide side decks and an open cockpit aft.
Centreplate 0.75 tonnes plus internal ballast of lead and pig iron stowed under the cabin sole boards.
Old Survey Reports 2011 & 2016
Accommodation:
Forecastle with twin bench berths / sail stowage. Sitting headroom. Portable single Camping gas cooker.
The old fish hold has been made habitable with bench stowage berths, a central dining table. A small wood burner against the forward bulkhead.
Oil lamp lighting. Painted out.
Equipment:
25kgs Fisherman’s anchor with chain. Stowed on the foredeck, Anchor chain over a manual barrel winch.
Tiller steering from a transom hung rudder.
15kg Kedge anchor.
Mooring ropes and fenders.
Boat hook
Pair of oars
A Bosons’ Chair
A heaving line
A tow line
A radar reflector
Sails:
Traditional Bawley Gaff Cutter Rig, Solid wooden, mast, Gaff and Bowsprit
Standing gaff main sail, loose footed. Fore sails & Top sail. Made by North Sea Sails – Traditional Tan or white –
Wardrobe : Main sail , Jib 1 & 2 , Fore sail 1 & 2, Top sail 1 & 2.
Navigation Equipment:
Tiller steered onto a transom hung rudder.
VHF 1 x handheld ICOM
GPS
Compass
Handheld compass
Set of navigation light
Anchor light
Day Shapes
Anchor Ball Yes
Motor Sailing Cone
Safety Equipment:
Automatic and manual bilge pumps.
Fire bucket
Fire blanket.
Fire extinguishers ( expiry dates unchecked)
A breath powered horn
2 x safety harnesses
An emergency battery-operated torch, Flares
Rigid life ring attached to Dan Buoy and Light.
Rigid life ring attached to 30m buoyant line.
8 x life jackets.
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.