1971 Bawley-type Gaff Cutter - £12,500

Status : SOLD

Lying : Norfolk Broads - Viewing strictly by appointment through Topsail

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General Specification

Designer : John Leather
Builder : Cyril White of Brightlingsea
LOA : 9.75m (32ft 0in)
LOD : 7.5m (24ft 7in)
LWL : 6.88m (22ft 7in)
Beam : 2.74m (9ft 0in)
Draft : 1.12m (3ft 8in)
Displacement : 6,400kg
Keel : Long

Construction

• Wood clinker construction
• Mahogany topsides, all copper fastened
• Larch below waterline
• Oak frames and floor bearers
• Long cast iron ballast keel
• Lead ingot trimming ballast
• Transom stern
• Hardwood rudder on steel shoe and pintles
• Varnished oak tiller
• Varnished hardwood rubbing strakes
• Raised foredeck and wide side decks in marine ply
• Large cockpit with good stowage constructed in pine and plywood on pine beams
• Mahogany coach house
• Mahogany handrails
• Timber bitts and cleats on foredeck
• Sampson posts on stern deck
• Iron keel bolts understood to have been replaced 2009
• Last surveyed November 2014

Rigging & Sails

• Gaff cutter rig
• Deck stepped fir mast (understood to have been replaced 2013) on galvanised compression post
• Galvanised tabernacle and mast lowering strut
• Fir boom and gaff
• Aluminium topsail yard
• Retractable fir bowsprit (new 2015)
• Galvanised steel stem fitting, chain plates and rigging screws
• 7x7 stainless steel standing rigging (understood to have been replaced 2014)
• Artificial hemp type rope running rigging (serviceable condition)
• Wykeham Martin furling gear on both headsails
• Traditional varnished wooden blocks
• Slab reefing mainsail (2001, North Sea Sails, tan Dacron, serviceable condition)
• No 1 jib (1998, James Lawrence, tan, good serviceable condition)
• No 2 jib (Gowen, tan, weathered condition)
• Staysail (2001, North Sea Sails, cream, good serviceable condition)
• Topsail (1997, James Lawrence, cream, good serviceable condition)
• Sail cover (tan, good serviceable condition)

Mechanical & Electrical

• 10hp Sabb single cylinder diesel inboard engine
• Shaft drive to 2 blade variable pitch propeller (forward, neutral and reverse)
• Engine professionally overhauled 1990
• New cylinder head fitted 1993
• Alternator serviced 2001
• 8 gallon (approximately) steel fuel tank
• 75Ahr 12V battery (new 2003) with isolator switch
• 12V fused switch board
• Tiller steering (oak)
• Spare short tiller

Accommodation

• 4 berths in 2 cabins
• Large settee berth to starboard in saloon
• Quarter berth to port in saloon
• 2 x 6ft 3in berths in forecabin
• Red leatherette berth cushions
• Green back rest cushions
• White deckhead with varnished beams
• Varnished cabin sole
• Galley to port with gimballed gas stove (new 1999, 2 burners and grill), sink (foot pump and brass tap) and large coolbox (stows in locker forward of stove)
• 5 gallon steel freshwater tank
• 2 x 4.5kg Calor Gas butane bottles (not full, stowed under side deck in cockpit)
• Jabsco sea toilet (new 1998, no holding tank, located under port berth in forecabin)
• Navigation table to port
• 2 x oil lamps
• 12V electric cabin lights
• Force 10 gas cabin heater (new burner 2013)
• Escape hatch in forecabin
• Fixed glass windows in saloon
• Fixed brass port lights in forecabin
• Privacy curtaining
• Ample stowage throughout

Equipment

Navigation Equipment

• Browne steering compass
• Garmin GPS 178C sounder/plotter
• Navigation lights
• Anchor ball and motor sailing cone

Safety Equipment

• Stainless steel stanchions in bronze bases with guard wire
• Horseshoe lifebuoy
• Jacob's boarding ladder
• Deck knife in leather holster
• Radar reflector
• Whale Gusher manual bilge pump
• Original brass manual bilge pump
• 12V electric bilge pump with float switch (TBC)
• 2 x fire extinguishers (not guaranteed in date)
• Fire blanket

Deck Equipment

• 25lb CQR anchor with 40m (approximately) chain
• Fisherman kedge anchor with chain and warp
• Boom crutch
• Boat hook
• Various mooring warps
• Various fenders
• Fender board
• Cockpit dodgers (tan, good serviceable condition)
• Cockpit cover (tan, good serviceable condition)
• 2 x forehatch covers (tan, good serviceable condition)
• Over boom sun awning
• Ensign and staff

Tenders

• Waveco inflatable dinghy (2013)
• Avon inflatable with outboard bracket

Remarks

This very attractive Bawley Yacht was built to a high standard by a renowned builder. She is of a very traditional design with clinker hull, long keel and transom stern, and with her long bowsprit (retractable to minimise mooring costs!) and cutter rig, she is essentially part Bawley, part yacht. Ideally suited to creek crawling and cruising the East Coast, she will undoubtedly turn heads where ever she sails!

Note: This vessel is British Part 1 registered.