Laurent Giles yawl Boats Review and Specs

Year: 1952  
Manufacturer: Wooden Ships
Price: £490,000
(US$786,695)  

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Bermudian Yawl Lutine is one of the most famous of English yachts, now offered for sale after a total rebuild followed by several seasons extensive cruising and racing. Designed by J Laurent Giles for Lloyds Yacht Club and built by Camper and Nicholson in 1952. At a time when racing in America was very competitive, Lloyds Yacht Club wanted a yacht to compete with the Americans on their terms so she was designed to the Cruising Club of America rules rather than the Royal Ocean Racing Club rules. She was rebuilt for the 2001 America’s Cup Jubilee Regatta and came 3rd in Class One Length on deck 58’6” Lwl 41’6” Beam 13’2.5” Draft 8’6” Displ 26.5 tons Thames tonnage 33 TM Sail area 1400sq’ Lutine has exceptionally sweet, very traditional lines with a relatively short bow over-hang and a well-balanced counter stern. She has ample freeboard and a typical Giles sheer to make her a dry boat capable of putting in fast times even in a sea. She has also proved to be very easily handled after the refit and the owner regularly sailed the yacht with himself and his wife though he raced with a full crew. Teak planking fastened with galvanised bolts through the steel frames, copper rivets through the steam bent timbers. All new steel angle frames at approx 3’ centres with new 2 steamed oak timbers between. Lead ballast keel. All new silicon bronze keel bolts. Regalvanised strap floors on each of the steam bent timbers with new galvanised bolts. Steel plate gusset floors bolted to the steel angle frames. In a recent improvement, an original design fault has been made good by adding steel brackets to the steel plate floors to pick up the keel bolts thus now effectively tying the hull structure to the back-bone and the ballast keel and removing the leak which the yacht has had since new when pressed hard as all old Lutine hands remember. Teak deck and deck structures, all replaced new in the 2008 refit. The Restoration. The yacht was found by the present owner in a derelict condition in 1999 and underwent a major rebuild before being relaunched again in 2001. In the rebuild, the hull was stripped completely and the deck removed. Only the planking and the back-bone were left of the original structure. All the steel frames were replaced. New galvanised bolts in the steel frames. All steamed timbers replaced, copper and bronze fastened. New stem. The beam shelf was doubled up from the mast forward. All new silicon bronze keel bolts. The deck was rebuilt to the original plan with all new deck beams and a new teak deck laid on a marine ply sub-deck. The teak is yacht laid and joggled to a centre king plank and bonded to the ply sub-deck with no visible fastenings. Seams payed in butyl rubber compound. The side decks and fore deck are totally clear and uncluttered with nothing to trip over. Bulwark all round with capping in varnished teak, very nicely shaped round the fine counter stern and incorporating bronze panamas forward and aft to take mooring lines through the rail rather than over the top where they will damage the varnish. Large chrome and teak cleat on the aft deck to take stern mooring lines. Massive oak Sampson post just aft of the stem with cast bronze capping takes the forward mooring lines. The deck structures comprising a dog-house and coach-roof, a small sky-light either side of the mast, a large sky-light forward of the mast over the owner’s cabin with chromed vents on Dorade boxes each side and a fore hatch were all rebuilt to precisely the original designs working from th

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Fuel  Hull Material  Number of Engines

Diesel Wood 1

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