Laurent Giles Wanderer Boats Review and Specs

Year: 1985  
Manufacturer: Wooden Ships
Price: £38,750
(US$61,434)  

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Wanderer Class sloop Length on deck 30? Beam 9?4? Draft 5? Displacement 7.53 tons Thames Tonnage (volume) 9.17 TM Designed by Laurent Giles, Lymington The Wanderer Class was a development of Hiscock?s Wanderer 111 designed by Laurent Giles and built for him in 1952. In Wanderer 111, Hiscock sailed 32,000 miles in a 3-year circumnavigation. After his experience with Wanderer 111 he judged she would be a better ship with a little more beam and sail area and the result was the Wanderer Class. Several were built in UK yards and quite a few by Cheoy Lee in Hong Kong who had also built 15 of the Laurent Giles Vertues. This yacht was built in Southampton by the previous owner and his company, she is believed to be the last wooden Wanderer built in UK and the construction was supervised by David Hopkins, Marine Surveyor from Hamble. She was launched in 1985. The quality and strength of build is excellent and she is presented in clean and tidy condition, ready to sail. Planked in iroko, all copper fastened to 1 ¾? x 1 ¼? steam bent oak timbers in 2 laminations to avoid inevitable fracture on the tight turn at the tuck and the bilge, heavier and closer spaced in way of the mast, on an oak back-bone. 1.5 ton iron ballast keel. Massive oak floors on every second timber with galvanised strap floor on the other timber making a very robust back-bone. Stainless steel keel bolts. Deck laid in 2 thicknesses of 1/2″ marine ply, Cascover sheathed and painted. 5? toe rail with varnished iroko capping. Pair of varnished wood mooring cleats on the fore and after decks. Heavy Sampson post, slotted to accept and hold the chain on the fore deck. Totally clear side and fore decks. Capstan-type chain windlass on the fore deck Twin chain roller galvanised stemhead fitting. Stainless steel pull-pit and stanchion posts with twin guard wires. Varnished iroko coach-roof coamings with 2 fixed windows aft and 4 opening bronze port holes each side. Nicely cambered sheathed and painted ply roof with varnished grab rails each side. Heavy duty, varnished iroko fore hatch on the fwd end of the coach-roof. Dorade vent in the middle of the coach-roof. Cabin entrance sliding hatch in a garage with grab rail each side. Spray-hood over on stainless steel frame. Deep, sheltered self draining cock-pit with high, varnished iroko coamings give a tremendous feeling of security. Tiller steering to transom-hung rudder. Seat/locker each side divided into 2, long locker forward, short locker aft. The locker faces forming the cock-pit well lift and hinge with the lid to give excellent access to these deep storage lockers. Locker aft in the well to the lazarette with a glass holder on the coaming above under the tiller ? just right for a whiskey glass. Teak gratings in the well. Large, opening ply panel in the well gives excellent access to the stern tube etc for service. Wide bridge-deck across the front of the cock-pit. The cabin entrance hatch is slightly off-set to stbd with a sliding hatch in a garage. Solid iroko varnished louvered washboards with optional mosquito or clear Perspex wash-boards. Masthead bermudian sloop rig on round section, hollow, painted, built wooden mast stepped in a galvanised steel cup on the coach-roof with a similar mast section compression post below the deck. Single spreaders. Steps up the mast. Stainless steel standing rigging with stainless steel rigging screws to internal bronze chain plates. Twin standing back-stays to the quarters, twin lowers and cap shrouds. Fore stay with Harken roller furling gear. External bronze mainsail track. Slab reefing varnished boom with stainless steel goose neck fittings on twin mast bands Halyards led aft through turning blocks on the mast and coach-roof to jamming cleats under the spray-hoo

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Fuel  Hull Material  Number of Engines

Diesel Wood 1

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