1986 Easticks 28' Custom Built River Cruiser - £26,000

Status : FOR SALE

Lying : Norfolk Broads - Viewing strictly by appointment through Topsail

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General Specification

Designer : Neil Hunt
Builder : Easticks, Acle
LOA : 10.36m (34ft 0in)
LOD : 8.53m (28ft 0in)
Beam : 2.5m (8ft 2in)
Draft : 1.07m (3ft 6in)
Keel : Fin

Construction

• GRP hull
• Original black gelcoat finish
• Epoxied and copper coated below waterline from new (just requires a jet wash annually - no antifouling required!)
• Custom built with unique shallow draft aerofoil keel
• Custom built GRP aerofoil rudder (new 2020)
• Epoxy decks (renewed 2005 and epoxy painted in 2021)
• Solid mahogany cabin sides and cockpit
• Lifting cabin roof
• New teak and holly cockpit floor (2020)
• Full professional refit completed in 2005 by Adams of Belaugh
• Winter boatshed stored ashore annually at respectable boatyard
• Last surveyed 2017 prior to purchase
• Hull cut and polished (2023)
• Newly varnished rubbers, toe-rails, Bowsprit and Sampson post (2023)

Rigging & Sails

• Gaff rig with integral topsail
• Solid spruce mast boom and gaff
• Aluminium topsail spar
• Counter-balanced mast stepped in tabernacle for easy raising/lowering
• Steel standing rigging (good condition)
• Synthetic running rigging (good condition)
• 2 x Lewmar sheet winches, plus further winch at mast
• All sheets lead aft to cockpit for ease of use - including topping lift
• Harken Blocks
• Mainsail with 3 reef points and modified with additional panel (lighter colour) inserted to provide improved performance (Jeckells, approximately 2004, good condition)
• Jib (McNamara Sails, 2008, good condition)
• New Jeckells jib (2022, used once in 3 Rivers Race)
• Second mainsail (slightly older, white) with integral topsail and longer boom (included)
• RCC handicap -5%

Mechanical & Electrical

• 3.5hp Tohatsu 2-stroke petrol outboard motor (very light at approximately 12kg! Last serviced May 2023)
• Removable side-mounted outboard bracket
• Keel was designed with an electric propulsion system in mind and there is space for motor and batteries below cabin sole
• Tiller steering
• 12v heavy duty leisure battery (new 2021)
• DC master isolation switch
• DC fuse panel

Accommodation

• 5 berths in 1 cabin
• Double berth under foredeck
• Single berth and second single/pull-out double berth in main cabin area
• Origo 2 burner meths/bio-fuel stove in cockpit locker
• Cockpit table
• Portaloo in dedicated locker in cabin
• Lifting cabin roof with canvas side curtains
• Comfortable sitting headroom with cabin roof raised
• 12v cabin lights
• New berth cushions for main berths (Jeckells 2022, only used once)
• Cockpit cushions

Equipment

Safety Equipment

• Boat Safety Scheme certificate (expires May 2026)
• Emergency ladder
• Fire extinguisher (not guaranteed in date)
• 12v bilge pump with float switch
• Manual bilge pump, original brass, serviced with all seals renewed

Covers & Awnings

• New summer cruising cockpit awning (2023 by Jeckells - awaiting delivery!)
• Full-length lightweight mooring cover (very good condition)
• Tonneau-style mooring cover (very good condition)

Other Equipment

• Quant pole
• High & low boom crutches
• Mud weight
• Rhond anchors
• Various warps
• New fenders (2022)

Remarks

A Three Rivers Race winner, this very well presented and maintained Easticks 28 Broads River Cruiser Class yacht is one of only a handful of custom designed and Easticks 28 built to special order. She benefits from a large, extra length cockpit which can easily accommodate 5 adults, though 2 can sail her comfortably, and she has a single cabin with berths to accommodate 5 adults and cooking facilities provided in the cockpit. She is rigged with an integrated topsail which has been optimised to provide superb sailing enjoyment and performance in a wide range of wind conditions and is particularly good in light/medium winds. Having enjoyed much success in both river and broad regattas, she is renowned for being one of the fastest Easticks 28s on the Broads! Her owner states that "Joy has a fantastic rig and keel and sails impeccably". With her copper coated hull and epoxy decks, she is also a very low maintenance yacht, with very low hours required to get her ready each season - usually a hull clean and polish, and re-varnish of rubbers and mast is all that is required. This is a rare opportunity to own a well known and distinctive river cruiser, which is equally suited to family Broads cruising or RCC racing. Sadly for sale now due to health and family commitments resulting in only one weeks use last year. She is ready to go, sail away and enjoy

The following is a selection of some of this yacht's previous racing successes:

• Three Rivers Race winner (1992) for "First Boat Home" winning the "Elias" Trophy and also "First Cruiser Home" winning the "Mora" Trophy
• Ames Cup (TMOR)
• Yare Navigation Race Overall including the Jeckells Trophy
• Two times winner of the Sabrina Trophy
• Two times winner of the Claret Jug
• Mora Trophy (Three Rivers)
• Two times winner of the Balderston Fife
• Buckworth Trophy (Wroxham Week B Fleet)
• Two times winner of Autumn Trophy Down River Race
• Satyr Cup (Wroxham Week B Fleet)
• Simon Kremer Memorial Trophy (Wroxham Week)
• The current owner has only raced her 3 times in his 6 year ownership, twice in the 3 Rivers Race - finishing 4th (River Cruiser) in 2019 and 3rd in 2022.

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