Price Details

Price: £7,500 GBP
Location: Maylandsea, CM3 6AL Essex GB
Make: Barbican 33     Year: 1979
Condition: Fair – Good    Category: Sail       Class: Cruisers
Keel Type: Centreboard

Description

Priced to Sell.: Barbican 33, a substantial GRP cruising yacht, (set up for sailing solo). A sea kindly vessel with centreboard (a draft of up to 2.44m, shallow as 4ft …a long keel, a comfortable and safe vessel.

Wheel steering from a deep open aft self draining cockpit.   All her lines lead back to the cockpit.  Decks are covered with the non slip Tracmarc.
She offers good standing headroom, below decks. A very practical, user friendly layout. New diesel fed heating system installed. Hot and cold pressurized water system.

The vessel has not been sailed for 8years. It has been empty for 6 months. Much of the vessel, equipment and gear needs re furbishing/ modernising/ updating/ and deep cleaning…..

The present Owner is well into his 80yr’s, he no longer has the confidence to take her out on his own…….Previous owner kept her for 18years. She has more recently been used as a liveaboard.
This Winter the owner moved off her.  She is presently kept afloat on a pontoon mud berth.

Measurements

Nominal Length: 10.06m    Length Overall: 9.87m
Length Of Deck: 9.96m     Length At Water Line: 8.20m

Beam: 2.92m     Draft: 2.44m    Air Draft: 12.80m   Max Draft: 2.44m     Keel Up: 1.22m

Specifications

Fuel Tank Capacity: 25gallons    Water Tank Capacity: 50gallons
Dry Weight: 7 tonnes         Displacement: 5750kgs
Cruising Speed: 6knots     Engine Power: 27hp

Accommodation

Berths: 6        Cabins: 2      Heads: 1
Passenger Capacity: 6

Builder/Designer

Builder: Terry Erskin      Designer: Maurice Griffiths
Boat Name: Blue Nereid    Registered No: 378103

Hull

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

  Out of the water 2019     

Engine

Engine Description: Yanmar 3QM diesel,  Single lever control, ignition and radio speaker sited in the cockpit.
Range of 300nm, Electric / manual start, Located under the companionway/ cockpit. Vetus Propeller. Regularly run up, although not been used for passage making for some years.
Engine Transmission Description: Shaft drive

    

Construction:

GRP moulded hull built by Terry Erskin. Designed by Maurice Griffiths, Heavily laid up, robust hull. Blue painted topsides over blue gel coat.
Decks painted cream have been laid with non slip Tracmarc. Internal ballast keel, enclosed casing for the centreboard.
Transom hung rudder.    Wheel steering from deep open aft self draining cockpit. Teak grating over the cockpit floor , cockpit drains

Interior professionally made and fitted out , cabin furniture and fittings. Head linings all in good order. clen and dry. Varnished woodwork.

All ports are well sealed no evidence of  water ingress. Sliding hatch over the companionway, removable varnished wooden wash boards (1 x Perspex screen)
    

Accommodation:

Two single berths (with infill makes up to a double in the forward cabin), glazed forehatch over.

Passageway with hanging wardrobe to port and a spacious Heads compartment to starboard with toilet ,shower, wash basin, Teak grating and flexible showerhead. Hot and cold water.
The saloon has two opposing settee berths, with a U shaped seating around a central drop leaf( two different sizes  of removable leaves) table , with a lifting pedestal  to starboard.

Infill berth cushioning to make up to a double  berth, if required. Holly wood laminated cabin sole with inspection hatches to access the bilge.

Stowage cupboards and shelving under the side decks, further stowage lockers beneath the seating. PVC coverings. Portlight windows run across the coach roof sides giving plenty of daylight. Curtain tracks to cover the ports.
A large /long single quarter berth runs under the cockpit starboard side with Navigation station.

Portside is the galley facility, a gimballed 2 burner gas hob with grill and oven. Stainless steel sink with pressurised hot and cold water.
An under counter fridge with 240v/12v supply plus a built in cooler box. Aft is a hanging wet locker . Hot water calorifier under counter.

Ring main / shore power socket in cockpit locker.

   

     

Equipment:

Bruce main anchor with chain and rope,  manual Windlass
Fixed stainless steel boarding ladder on transom
Fenders & warps
Boathook
Two part Spray hood with cockpit canopy (requires replacing)
Dodgers

Two heavy duty batteries, isolator switch.  Solar panel and battery management system. 12v/24v /240v electrical systems.

Recently installed hot air diesel heating system. ( Fuel Tank and Unit sited in cockpit locker)

    

Sails:

Bermudan Sloop Rig.  Deck stepped alloy mast stood in tabernacle and spars. 2 x winches on the coach roof behind the spray screen for the centreboard wire and jib reefing. ( Furling jib ), 2 x Alloy spinnaker poles
Stainless steel standing rigging, Sheets and ropes of varying materials, all of an age.
Main sail by Lucas with Lazy Jacks, slab reefing and a main sail cover. Three fore sails made by Goulding, a cruising chute with sock, nylon fabric… . All sails valeted in good condition, (unchecked)

      

 

   Cockpit as it was 2019.  

Navigation Equipment:

Purpose built chart table/ navigation station.

Wheel steering form a compass pedestal. Wind indicators in a panel over the cockpit companionway hatch.
Seafarer 5 echo sounder 2 x Nasa Logs
Garmin GPS Seafarer RT500 radio telephone Navtex.

Neco steering indicator with off course alarm.    She has self steering gear.  Steering compass at wheel pedestal.

Nasa wind speed and direction indicators and a radar reflector.   Wall mounted Clock and barometer

 

Safety Equipment:

2 x bilge pumps ( manual)
Fire extinguishers (expiry dates unchecked.) Fire blanket. Flares (expiry dates unchecked.), smoke alarm.
Emergency tiller
Decks surrounded by guard wires and stanchions. Stainless steel push pit and pulpit.
Wooden Grab rails on the coach roof outside  and throughout the cabin. .
Vented self draining gas locker in aft deck space ( new cockpit lid required.)

2 x Horseshoe lifebuoys

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.