An early model of these popular GRP sail cruisers. Easy to handle, a stable first sail boat yet very capable, good for for coastal waters. Auxiliary power, outboard in well, 10hp Tohatsu. Roomy interior, offering 5 berths in 2 cabins. She requires some cosmetic attention, otherwise in the water, tidy and good to go.... read more

A very capable GRP coastal cruiser, offers the combination of a cutter rig with a lifting keel. She was built in 2003, to a high and practical level of finish, perfect for shorthanded sailing. She is one of the original South African built Dudley Dix, designed Cape Cutters. Two owners only, from new. Present owner since 2011. He sailed her single handed on all of the Essex and Suffolk rivers. She was the overall winner of the 2019 East Coast Old Gaffers Race and has won many other local troph... read more

SCOD, a simple, yet practical, unadulterated Classic Racer / cruiser, Bermudan Sloop rig. He relatively deep long keel means she copes well with heavy seas . Her simple Traditional rig, makes her easy to handle single handed. She has a full service history for the last 28 years in her present ownership. Standing rigging has been renewed, and the mast has been rebuilt, a laminated hollow spar. Keel bolts have been drawn to keep a check , Planking re caulked and re painted, re antifouled. Engin... read more

"8ft Smack Yacht, bought as an open boat ,a "shell" from Portsmouth in 1985. The 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 Smack's Gaff Rig, have an engine installed, new rig, spars and sails, a deck and a simple coach roof over an open accommodation cabin. The restoration was completed and she wa... read more

"Quality Street" she is a one off and something rather special. She was purchased in a very sorry state 1990's. Her professional engineer owner stored her away as his project and set about having her professionally restored. She was totally stripped out of all her original outdated interior, re- engined, and the 2 moulds of the hull and the deck were re fastened and re sealed. A mammoth task. All new gear, fixtures and fittings were installed. The main bulk of the work carried o... read more

A very authentic gaff cutter, well built in GRP and finished to a high standard. Found to be easy to handle boa, and a delight to sail, All her lines lead back to the cockpit, ideal for single handed sailing. The accommodation is quite roomy for a vessel of this size. Displacement of 1.25 tons, to be sold with her mobile yard cradle. A trailer able pocket cruiser. A Yanmar 1GM 10 inboard diesel engine. This is a well-presented yacht at an attractive price. Well maintained and looked after.... read more

A prime example of these tough little GRP Gaff cutters. Joy has undergone a massive refit which has taken two and half years. Works carried out by Alan Staley Wooden Boatbuilder of Faversham, Kent. There's still a little way to go for her to be fully in Commission. She was purchased in a very poorly condition in 2020 as a Retirement project . Due to health reasons her present owner is not able to complete his project and will never take her sailing....... She must be SOLD..... ... read more

18ft Sea Otter, a double ended canoe, Gaff Yawl built by Master Boatbuilders, David Moss of Skippool River Wyre, Lancashire. A wooden stripped plank hull, raised fore-deck version. An open aft self draining cockpit. Wooden washboards in her companionway. She has an encapsulated lead ballast keel with a steel lifting centreboard, when lowered gives her a 3ft 4ins draft. Built and designed with the utmost attention, all of her fixtures and fittings have a specific use and purpose. She carries a ... read more

Colvic Countess 28 OFFER PRICE £10,950 A generously sized GRP cruising yacht, with a beam of 10ft 2ins. Twin bilge keels. A large self draining open aft cockpit. Beta Marine inboard diesel engine. In present ownership for the last 10years. Bermudan Sloop furling headsail and a fully packed Main sail. Last surveyed May 2019. A tidy well presented vessel, she a few minor issues to be attended too/ cosmetic defects, much to be expected for her age. She is due to come out of the water... read more

A very versatile compact GRP Motor Sailor, recently refurbished and modifications made during a major lengthy refit during 2023. Carries a masthead Bermudan rig, Alloy mast (deck stepped and boom.) Good accommodation 2-4 persons. A Fore cabin/ saloon/ potentially a double berth. An aft cabin has two full length single berths. Vessels has been re-engined with a Yanmar 3cylinder, fully serviced March 2024 , sited in the open cockpit amidships in a sound proofed engine box, much of the vessel... read more

A Bermudan Cutter built by Brook Motorcraft Company of Lowestoft (later to become Brook Marine in 1937).Designed by W W Downing for Mr Hamish Nichol FRCS . This vessel has been a pet project at the home of a retired cabinet maker. The restoration is complete, except for getting her to the water stepping the mast and bending on the sails. Then she would be good to Go. Hull is Carvel planked pitch pine on grown oak frames and American elm ribs with Burmese teak fore, aft and side decks, in g... read more

25ft , 4T, Teak Bermudan sloop, commissioned and built in 1950 to a Norman.E. Dalimore design (No:310), she is very original in her fit out. A reconditioned Yanmar GM10 diesel engine was installed in her in 2018. She has a long keel and a slight draft of just 3ft which extends to nearly 6ft with the centreboard board lowered. Open aft cockpit. A real classic, in good order.... read more

Contessa Juliet,1972. A Mark 1, GRP masthead sloop. Presently ashore, under cover for the Winter 23-24. She will require recommissioning in the Spring The engine is in good working order - it required a new exhaust and head, which was done in 2022. The seacocks were all maintained at the same time and are in good condition. Her sails are crisp and in good order, in addition there are two sets of old sails, in serviceable condition, suitable for cruising. The hull is in excellent conditio... read more

'Almita' is 26ft LOA She has a lifting keel yacht with a spoon bow and counter stern and is rigged as a gaff cutter. Centreplate drops down through a ballast keel she only draws 2ft 6ins, when it's raised. A previous owner for a number of years was Journalist Dick Durham, he reviewed her performance in Yachting Monthly, June 2009 -Gaff vs Bermudan'. He sailed her in both formats of rig. In her present ownership, of over 15 years, time and money have not been spared on her... read more

MAREN, Alan Buchanan design built in 1962. A long keeled keeled Masthead Sloop. Her present condition rebuild project requires finishing. 2023, a 18hp Volvo twin cylinder diesel engine with a stainless steel shaft and a Darglow folding propeller have been professionally installed. New engine beds and re configuration of the cockpit had to carried out, to enable a successful installation. Her restoration started 2008 at St Osyth Boatyard, Essex where she was built by Shipwright Denis Barne... read more

Widgeon, built in 1901 as a Gaff Cutter in Southampton by Fay's to a J.M Soper design. She has been in her present ownership for over 40years, used as a family cruising yacht. Making passages around the UK, Ireland, Northern France both sides of the North Sea, in to the Baltic, the Netherlands. She was converted to carry a Bermudan rig in 1956. A Carvel planked hull of Teak, above the waterline, a Pitch Pine planked, underwater hull. Laid teak decks. She came ashore some years ago a... read more

A traditional styled 20ft open day boat, inspired by Edwardian Pilot cutters 1890's. The Albert and Florence was built as a "one off", she carries a Traditional Gaff rig with small fixed bowsprit. In her present ownership she has been bought a 5hp Mercury four stroke long shaft outboard engine and a new 2019, Indespension Road Trailer, which she sits on very comfortably. 2016-18 she under went an extensive refit. Vessel has spent the summers on a swinging mooring on the Ri... read more