1990 Dutch Gipon Workumer Bol Gaff Sailing Barge - £37,500

Status : SOLD

Lying : Essex - Viewing strictly by appointment through Topsail

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General Specification

Designer : Gipon
Builder : Netherlands
LOA : 8.5m (27ft 11in)
Beam : 3.2m (10ft 6in)
Draft : 0.75m (2ft 6in)
Displacement : 6,500kg

Construction

• Steel construction, welded (5mm bottom, 4mm sides)
• Round bilge, hard chine
• Flat bottom with lee boards (very shallow draft!)
• Lead ballast (unknown weight)
• Two-part epoxy painted above waterline (cream with burgundy detailing)
• Hull below waterline taken back to epoxy finish, then 2 coats of Primocon plus 2 coats of antifoul applied 2017, re-antifouled 2018, 2019 & April 2021
• 4 x zinc anodes
• Oak transom-hung rudder, stainless steel fittings
• Steel decks, non-slip painted (good condition)
• Anchor locker
• Bronze fittings
• Teak toerail
• Teak cockpit and coachroof (oiled, not varnished, for reduced maintenance)
• Teak cockpit grate
• Wood cabin with deadlights and portlight
• Butterfly skylight hatch
• Lewmar deck hatch
• Teak forward hatch
• Carvings on bow
• Last surveyed 2017 (engine* and safety advisories all dealt with before leaving the Netherlands) (*water leak dealt with Oct 2019)
• Air draft with mast up approx. 11.2m (36ft 9in)
• Air draft with mast down approx. 1.85m (6ft 1in)

Rigging & Sails

• Gaff rig
• Wood mast (hollow pine laminated) and spars
• Lifting bowsprit (reducing mooring costs!)
• Mast deck stepped in tabernacle
• Mast lowering winch
• Harken blocks
• Marlow running rigging
• Mainsail (good condition)
• Jib (good condition)
• Staysail (good condition)
• Sail cover (April 2021)

Mechanical & Electrical

• 29hp Yanmar 3GM30 inboard diesel engine (serviced by main dealer summer 2020)
• Shaft drive
• Bow thruster
• Steel fuel tank
• 12V batteries (one replaced Oct 2019)
• Mostly rewired 2018
• CTEK 12V/10A MXS 10 battery charger
• Inverter
• Shore power

Accommodation

• 5 berths in 2 cabins
• Galley with sink, fridge drawer, stowage and cocktail cabinet
• Fixed gas system decommissioned in 2018 (portable camping-style stove used since by vendor)
• Heads compartment with 12V electric Lavac sea toilet (2018)
• Webasto diesel-fuelled cabin heating (2018)
• Hot water via calorifier (installed 2018) to galley sink
• Stainless steel freshwater tank
• Upholstery in very good condition
• Ample storage throughout, including under all berths and in hanging locker
• CD/FM radio
• 12V cabin lights
• 12V charging sockets

Equipment

Navigation Equipment

• Compass
• Sailor VHF radio
• Navigation lights

Safety Equipment

• 12V bilge pump
• Manual bilge pump
• Horseshoe lifebuoy
• 3 x fire extinguishers
• Fire blanket
• Fog horn

Deck Equipment

• Anchor and chain
• Bow roller
• Anchor windlass
• All-over cover
• Cockpit cover (2020)
• cockpit table
• Various fenders
• Various mooring warps

Remarks

This lovely Dutch cruising barge is understood to be well presented, with her steel hull in very good structural condition throughout. Well equipped and offering beautifully appointed cabin and cockpit, oozing with character (but easily maintained, being predominantly oiled, rather than varnished), this craft will turn heads where ever she goes. Designed as a coastal cruiser, her great Dutch pedigree, shallow draft and easily lowered mast, make her an ideal family sailing cruiser for inland waters, such as the Norfolk Broads, too. She would also potentially make a comfortable and unusual liveaboard vessel for a single person or couple. With lots of receipts for gear fitted over the last 3 years following a survey in 2017 when the vessel was still in the Netherlands (the current owner sailed her to the UK after purchasing her), this vessel is now regretfully for sale due to the vendor's retirement from sailing.

A suitable replacement motor vessel has been found and so a quick sale is desired!

BERTH: It's understood that the vessel's current berth could be transferred to the purchaser.