EUR 245,000
Based on a John Leather featured French pilot boat ketch, - apart from the schooner rig - her lines have also been adapted with finer sections below the waterline to improve general sailing and upwind capabilities. RAGNAR is now an incredibly seaworthy blue water sailer; proven safe - and dry given her high bulwarks. Spacious and comfortable below decks she is nevertheless easy to handle by just two people. Indeed her owners have thus just completed a four year circumnavigation (30,000 nm) and a
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GBP 30,000
The Arthur Robb Lion Class is a classic racer cruiser - and in that mode as capable of long crossings as short trips, well proven by her present owner. Robustly built but with graceful lines, she's also spacious below with headroom enough for her 6 foot 4 inch tall owner, whose original intention to cruise has evolved somewhat on finding her to be such a fine racing boat. Usually cruised with 2 aboard she is very manageable. For racing, especially with the spinnaker, she's more ably crewed by 4
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EUR 450,000
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A superb schooner PETITE LANDE is to John Alden's original 1927 design of KINKAJOU, built then of steel. Now in aluminium by Universal Yachting in Garros, she is a high specification vessel very well maintained by her current owner, combining the qualities of comfort with much elegance. She is demonstrably the perfect long distance live aboard cruising yacht having recently participated successfully in the Atlantic 'Transat Classic".
CONSTRUCTION
- Aluminium AG4 smooth
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GBP 130,000
From the board of Ed Burnett, in association with Nigel Irens and built by the Elephant Boatyard in 1998 ZINNIA may owe her easy lines not a little to the influence of West Country pilot boats with maybe just a hint of Laurent Giles and Harrison Butler. Whatever the influences, the designers and ZINNIA'S extremely knowledgeable owners have created a 30 foot gaff cutter for offshore and coastal sailing (but with an Atlantic circuit already under her belt) as sure footed and well mannered as her
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GBP 17,500
Designed as a state of the art racing machine by Kim Holman in 1963, the famous class leader TWISTER OF MERSEA was an early race winner on both the East and South Coast of UK circuits. Twisters are one of the absolute classic long keel cruisers, first built in wood in 1963. Accommodation is quite functional but they are fast and seaworthy, as well as very pretty and nowadays considered a safe, steady cruising boat with a good sea kindly motion. TWISTING SHADOW is a boat that will look after you
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GBP 125,000
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Did yacht design change and the World with it in 1965 WHIRLAWAY is one of those yachts - and Holman one of those designers highlighting their achievement prior to that zenith year. WHIRLAWAY is sea kindly, fast and beautiful. It was not to be long before yacht owners would be happy to settle for any one of these three qualities.
WHIRLAWAY has a history and underlying beauty that has inspired her owners continuously to upgrade and enhance her - with significant refits si
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GBP 245,000
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Fred Shepherd designed yachts were renowned not only for their great beauty but for the important practicality of more spacious accommodation than could be had in most boats of the 1930s - and perfectly demonstrated in this case. Living aboard could be very comfortable but without compromising her fine sea keeping and sailing qualities.
In his book 'Oyster River' George Millar gives a wonderful account of his short-tacking AMOKURA with ease up the narrow tidal channels a
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GBP 125,000
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Inspired by ocean racing the success of FINISTERRE, Charles MacCulloch of Halifax had Sparkman and Stephens design FAIRWYN - then absolutely state of the art - to be built by McGruers of Clynder of the finest materials with no expense spared under the close supervision of Rod Stephens himself. She is essentially a larger version of FINISTERRE, three-time winner of the Newport to Bermuda race in the 1950s.
FAIRWYN'S 50 years could almost be described as a game of two halves
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GBP 255,000
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It has been said that Philip Rhodes designs were moderate in all respects except for their beauty and performance - INFANTA is a perfect example of this with strongly curving sheer and with overhangs that are not extreme. She is more striking to the eye than many vessels that appear to try a lot harder.
Under current ownership INFANTA won hearts at the British Classic Yacht Club Regatta taking the Je Ne Sais Quoi' Award (2008) and later in the year, at the Transat Classiqu
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GBP 800,000
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Johan Anker was considered an artist in yacht design and was greatly concerned with the beauty of lines - BOJAR doesn't disappoint; indeed as a boat of such breathtaking and effortless beauty, she genuinely lifts the human spirit, and perhaps even defines the term 'classic yacht.'
In these days of restoration, it is rare to find a boat both so original and in such fine condition. She has enjoyed the same ownership for 28 years and the short Norwegian sailing seasons with
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GBP 55,000
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It is for good reason that Illingworth is sometimes referred to as the founding father of modern ocean racing - a strong advocate of building ocean racers smaller and lighter, he was involved in more than five hundred designs, and the highly successful Class III French ocean racer MAICA, which spawned a class of sister ships, was typical.
CHAMOIS was the third boat to be built, after PRIMEVERE and ALVENA and she has been lovingly and generously restored, her structure car
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GBP 14,000
HISTORY
In 1887, Queen Victoria's jubilee year, a captain A.W. Phillips had a small cruising yacht built at Southampton by H R Stephens Ltd and named her MYSTERY. She was designed as a Una or Cat boat and was rigged thus; that is with her mast right forward, no head sails but a huge gaff mainsail. Her hull and deck were built of solid oak timbers with 3/4' planks. The lifting cabin roof and cockpit made of the best teak.
Given her wide beam and shallow draught enabling her to sit upright o
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USD 900,000
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In 1954 the CCA rating rule, Sparkman and Stephens and ABEKING and RASMUSSEN, all three institutions in their ascendency, came together to create IMPALA, a yacht which, even in an era noted for the creation of fine boats, was considered a particular beauty.
S&S designed IMPALA in the tradition of STORMY WEATHER and others in their long line of full keel ocean racers. She is wider in the beam, both amidships and aft, than most of her sisters. On the other hand she draws o
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EUR 2,500,000
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SUNSHINE is a recreation of the original 1900 design by William Fife Junior. Totally faithful to that design this yacht has a magic and feel more soulful than some of her well restored and original sisters, famous as they were for performances in the classic races of their era, such as the Kaiser's Cup trans-Atlantic and other races held in Europe by the various royal houses and classic yacht clubs. Thus William Fife designs are known for high speed and exquisite elegance, a
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GBP 695,000
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Beautiful, nearly-new, classic wooden schooner in superb skipper-maintained condition, designed and built by Gannon & Benjamin, Martha's Vineyard, USA and launched 2001 - their designs are famous for their speed, seaworthiness, practicality and simplicity.
With comfortable accommodation for 8 in four cabins, she displays superb craftsmanship both above and below deck. 1800 sq ft working sail area; 178 bhp Yanmar diesel. Conceived as his 'dream yacht' by the designer, to c
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GBP 120,000
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In the present ownership since 1990, she has spent the last 4 years as a guest of the Musée Maritime in La Rochelle. MELORA III proved well suited to her cruising ground with a modest draft of 2 metres. Her powerful hull profile, rig and horsepower to spare, ensures very comfortable passage making. Unmistakably Alfred Mylne with pronounced sheerline, and designed for comfortable fast cruising under modest canvas, MELORA III has perfect manners and is easily handled.
CONST
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GBP 21,500
The Luke 5 ton auxiliary was designed by W.L. Hobbs to compare favourably with any other vessel of it size and type - with her swept- up cruising bow and pretty raked transom, she is a classic post war cruising yacht in similar mould to the Laurent Giles 'Virtue'
'A real husky sailing boat, built for hard use, easily driven, stiff and ready for any weather.........' reads the original sales literature promulgated by her builders Port Hamble Ltd. There's no doubt that PENDRAGON was built to a
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USD 130,000
The 46 foot California (Cal) 32 was designed by Nick Potter in 1936 and was not only his favourite design, but his most successful. Like the New York 32 a Sparkman and Stephens yacht, they satisfied several almost conflicting criteria: to be a formidable racer and a comfortable cruiser suitable for offshore work.
It has been said of Potter's designs that '......they were easy boats in the water, never making a fuss or getting the crew unnecessarily wet......' In the California 32 this certain
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EUR 350,000
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When the current owners of this vessel bought her in 2005, their surveyor, at the time of purchase commented that the 50ft
Motor Sailer, FREDELA, proved to be an absolute joy to survey......adding she was constructed to the highest standard our of the best materials. After purchase and with few recommendations, after survey, the new owners put FREDELA with one of the best known wooden boat yards in France and further refined this unique vessel, including MCA coding for char
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