Miller Fifer 1961 Boats for Sale & Yachts
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Miller Fifer 1961 Boats Review and Specs
Year: 1961Manufacturer: Wooden Ships
Price: £35,000
(US$54,320)
Miller Fifer motor sailer. Length on deck 33′ Lwl 31′ Beam 10’4″ Draft 4′ Tonnage 12TM James Miller built many fishing boats at his yard in St Monance on the Fife coast, the largest over 70′. He also built some very fine yachts to various UK designer’s plans working from the 1930’s through to the sale of the yard and subsequent closure in the 1970’s. The yard used their knowledge of the Scottish fishing boat, famous for it’s sea-worthiness, to produce a range of motor sailers, the Fifers, which becams very popular and were built from the late 1950’s through to the end of the yard’s production. The Fifers followed the lines of their working sisters having long keels, a powerful sheer, good freeboard and a signature canoe stern though some of the last boats built had transoms as a quicker build option. Sizes varied from the little 26′ 6 tonners, the 28′ 9 tonners, the most popular 33′ 12 tonners and a few larger models close to 40′, some with twin engines. The construction is robust, 1″ planking on heavy sawn oak frames with a long iron ballast keel, oak floors, varnished mahogany superstructure. This is a very smart version of the 33′ 12 tonner. Planked in larch fastened with galvanised iron boat nails to 4″ x 4″ sawn oak frames on an oak back-bone. Long iron ballast keel secured with galvanised bolts through the massive oak floors on every frame. Steel plate rudder on vertical stock with a massive galvanised quadrant in the lazarette, chains and rods to the traditional spoked teak wheel. Jimmy Miller laid his decks in thick teak caulked and payed on a thin marine ply sub deck, the planks joggled in to the coverboards forward and aft with a varnished toe rail. Varnished mahogany capping rail on stainless steel stanchions. Deep aft cock-pit with walk-in, full length doors to the wheel-house. Long coach-roof with varnished mahogany coamings and sheathed ply deck. New traditional sky-light in the middle, varnished grab rails each side and bronze mushroom vents under the windscreen. 4 modern oval alluminium slide-open windows each side. Square fore hatch on the fore deck with perspex top. Teak laid seats lockers in the cock-pit with deep lockers below. Wheel steering and console in the wheel-house forward starboard. Slide open wndows each side. Bermudian ketch rig on varnished masts. Stainless steel rigging with stainless steel rigging screws to internal stainless steel chain plates. The main mast is stepped in the patent Miller double vent, galvanised steel tabernacle which allows the mast to be lowered with ease. The small mizzen mast is stepped on the wheel-house roof and can be unstepped by one man. Terylene sails, new sail covers. Hanked foresail. This small rig sets 285 sq’ and gives a useful push when motor sailing and carries the boat smoothly through broken water as well as
Fuel Hull Material Number of Engines |
Diesel Wood 1 |
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