1972 Seamaster Sailer 23 - £3,250

Status : SOLD

Lying : Norfolk Broads - Viewing strictly by appointment through Topsail

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General Specification

Designer : Jack Laurent Giles
Builder : Seamaster Boats, Dunmow, Essex
LOA : 7.01m (23ft 0in)
LWL : 6.02m (19ft 9in)
Beam : 2.44m (8ft 0in)
Draft : 0.76m (2ft 6in)
Maximum Draft : 1.68m (5ft 6in)
Displacement : 2,250kg
Ballast : 907kg
Keel : Lifting

Construction

• GRP construction
• Original gelcoat finish
• Stub keel with steel centreplate (lifting mechanism understood to be in good working order)
• Anchor locker with hawse pipe
• Non-slip decks
• Good-sized cockpit with lots of storage
• Transom-hung rudder
• Teak rubbing strake
• Last ashore 2016

Rigging & Sails

• Masthead Bermudan Sloop rig
• Alloy mast/spars
• Mast deck stepped
• Standing rigging believed to have been replaced 2010
• 2 x sheet winches
• 2 x winch handles housed in canvas winch handle holders
• Roller reefing genoa (good condition, UV strip replaced by Jeckells 2018)
• Slab reefing mainsail (good condition)
• Mainsail cover
• Spinnaker (1990, very little used)
• Storm jib (1972, hank-on, as new)
• Jib (1972, hank-on, as new)
• Working sail area 250 sq ft

Mechanical & Electrical

• Yanmar YM10 diesel inboard engine (2010, estimated 200 hrs from new)
• Shaft drive to 3 blade prop
• 5 gallon fuel tank
• Yanmar engine control panel in cockpit
• Single lever control
• Tiller steering
• 2 x 12V batteries
• Perko 1/2/both/off battery selector switch
• 2 x 12V fused switch panels
• Battery test meter
• 230V shore power
• Shore power cable (socket in cockpit)
• 230V double power and USB charging socket in cabin

Accommodation

• 5 berths in 2 cabins
• V-berth (converts to double) in forecabin
• Dinette converts to double in saloon
• Single quarter berth in saloon (folding galley worktop over head area)
• PVC berth cushions (good condition)
• Large saloon table with drop-leaf extension
• Linear galley with Thetford gas stove (2 burners with pan clamps & grill), stainless steel sink (with worktop insert & cold supply via footpump), worktops and dedicated stowage
• Heads compartment with sea toilet (no holding tank) and large storage area opposite
• Ventilation/escape hatch in forecabin
• 10 gallon freshwater tank
• 12V cabin lights
• Curtains and carpets where fitted
• Maximum headroom approximately 1.8m (6ft)

Equipment

Navigation Equipment

• Plastimo Mini Contest bulkhead compass
• Gimbaled compass
• NASA Clipper depth with repeater instrument in cabin
• GME GR200W AM/FM/VHF Broadcast Radio (radio offers listening capability only, VHF antenna whip missing)
• Masthead and deck level navigation lights

Safety Equipment

• Boat Safely Scheme certificate to 2020
• 12V auto bilge pump
• Manual Whale bilge pump
• Dry powder fire extinguishers
• Fire blanket
• Smoke alarm
• Stainless steel pulpit and pushpit
• Stanchions with guardwires
• Teak handrails
• Life jacket
• Mast climbing gear
• Hook-on removable boarding ladder
• Horseshoe lifebuoy
• Radar reflector

Deck Equipment

• Sprayhood (2010, windows replaced 2018)
• Sprayhood rear zip-on panel (2010)
• Windowed cockpit enclosure/tent on stainless steel frame (2010) providing full standing headroom
• Cockpit dodgers with name (2010)
• Cockpit seat cushions
• 20lb CQR anchor with chain and warp
• Samson post
• Boat hook
• Various warps
• Various fenders
• Pick up buoy

Other Equipment

• Comprehensive service and history file

Remarks

The Seamaster Sailer 23 is a well known and well proven design from Lauren Giles. She is similar in many ways to the popular Westerly Pageant, offering spacious family accommodation and safe, capable sailing performance, making her ideal for inshore/coastal cruising as well exploring inland waterways such as the Norfolk Broads where she is currently lying. This example, whilst she would benefit from some exterior cosmetic tidying (general cleaning, re-varnishing of handrails, etc., and re-antifouling) benefits from having been re-engined in 2010 (with low hours since) and also boasts a very useful cockpit enclosure which provides an additional 'room' with full standing headroom when moored. She also offers a good sized galley, large dinette area and a separate heads compartment and sleeping cabin. Previously kept on the south coast (with one owner keeping her for some 30 years), she was purchased by the current owner for Broads use three years ago and is now for sale as the owner wishes to down-size. An ideal first boat.

SERIOUSLY FOR SALE! Offers will be considered!

MOORING: This vessel's current northern Broads mooring is paid for to March 2020 (approximately £1,000 per year) and any transfer/ongoing arrangement will need to be agreed by the mooring owner.