Whistocks yawl 1956 Boats for Sale & Yachts
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Whistocks yawl 1956 Boats Review and Specs
Year: 1956Manufacturer: Wooden Ships
Price: £27,500
(US$43,599)
Cutter-rigged Bermudian yawl Part 1 registered Length on deck 33’ Lwl 27’ Beam 9.03” Draft 4’7” Designed by amateur designer, Dr C Welford for himself and built by Whistocks of Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1956. The yacht was designed and built for blue water cruising and in previous ownership is reported to have sailed many thousands of miles including sailing up the Amazon. During the recent refit the owner found mosquito repellent from British Honduras which rather confirms the history. Sold to the present owner in 2007, then lying in Cornwall and in need of a refit, she moved up to Arbroath where she now lies and was refitted before relaunch in 2008. Health issues oblige sale now. Long keel with pointed canoe stern. Aft cock-pit. Tiller steering. Planked in mahogany above the water-line, larch below all copper fastened to steamed oak timbers. There are a number of apparently laminated heavy ring frames and a single stringer. Oak back-bone with elm dead-woods The size and spacing of the structural members indicates a particularly robust construction. Extenal iron ballast keel. Some internal lead trimming ballast. Oak floors. Bronze strap floors. Galvanised steel keel bolts. The deck is laid in GRP-sheathed ply and painted on longditudinal deck beams with extra reinforcing in way of the mast. The coach-roof is relatively narrow leaving generous, safe and uncluttered side decks and fore deck. Large cleat on the fore deck takes mooring lines. Manual windlass. Small hatch on the aft deck gives access to the lazarette. The coamings are in marine ply, painted and fitted with opening rectangular windows. The coach-roof steps up to a dog-house at the after end, hatch on the fore end in front of the mast and varnished grab rails each side with a pair of vents on Dorade boxes aft of the mast. A new gantry carries the life-raft on the dog-house roof. Timber steps each side of the mast in way and granny bars on the side decks provide extra security when worki
Fuel Hull Material Number of Engines |
Diesel Wood 1 |
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