A very versatile compact GRP Motor Sailor, recently refurbished, undergone an amount of modifications during a lengthy refit during 2023- to date. She carries a masthead Bermudan rig, Alloy mast (deck stepped and boom.) There is accommodation 2-4 persons. A Fore cabin/ saloon. A semi covered cockpit/ helm and an aft cabin which has two full length single berths. Vessel has been re- engined with a Yanmar 3cylinder, fully serviced March 2024 , its sited in the semi open cockpit amidships in a sound proofed engine box. Much of the vessel has been re-wired, windows have been removed and ... read more

11m Tyrell & Young Smack Yacht, a traditionally rigged Gaff cutter, moulded GRP hull, composite construction built in 1993. Her Lines were taken off a 1922 Shuttleworth built sailing smack SECRET. She offers comfortable accommodation for two -four persons. Wheel steering from a flush deck with a deep foot well , the mast is deck stepped in a tabernacle (it lowers within her length, using the lifting bowsprit as an "A" frame.) She has a comprehensive wardrobe of sails. Out of the water Milford Haven.... read more

Boat only £5,500, a vintage Sporting vessel. Fully restored, in working condition. The vessel was bought in 2022 as a “Covid Project” she needed saving. She has some provenance, from 1990sto date but nothing about where she was built, by who and for who?. Everything was stripped back to bare wood, repaired and refurbished. The hull has had strengthening fillets added to her, along the keel, epoxied in place and painted, aiding here waterproofness. There are hundreds of photos detailing every aspect of the restoration. To be purchased separately, ( if required.) &... read more

A Bermudan Cutter built by Brook Motorcraft Company of Lowestoft (later to become Brook Marine in 1937).Designed by W W Downing for Mr Hamish Nichol FRCS . This vessel has been a pet project at the home of a retired cabinet maker. The restoration is complete, except for getting her to the water stepping the mast and bending on the sails. Then she would be good to Go. Hull is Carvel planked pitch pine on grown oak frames and American elm ribs with Burmese teak fore, aft and side decks, in good order. The internal layout has been sympathetically altered to accommodate: a new flush toile... read more

A Boston Smack Yacht built by the renowned Gostelows Shipyard in 1932. A Traditional Gaff Cutter rig, her lines based on the sailing Fishing/ working vessels of the day, working off the Lincolnshire / Norfolk coast lines. Her shape has similarities to the Essex and Kent Smacks or the Prawner/ Nobbies of the North west... Built as a pleasure yacht: Wooden construction, top quality materials. She has been very well maintained Axillary power, Bukh twin cylinder diesel inboard. She offers accommodation for 4 persons. Last surveyed 2020. In her lifetime she has made several trips backwards ... read more

32ft Wooden Gaff Cutter, built 1914, A pleasure Yacht. commissioned as a "one-off " design, elements of her similar to the King’s Lynn fishing smacks of that time. She was reported to have been a retirement gift to a boat yard foreman. The Gaff rig was converted to Bermudan rig in the 1950’s. Then in the 1990's she reverted and rerigged as a Traditional Gaff Cutter. Comprehensive ownership history, records of the Works carried out, plenty of her sailing as a Bermudan Cutter in the 1980's. Old survey report 2015 present ownership of 10 years. Stood ashore u... read more

Mersea Fisherman's Open Dinghy. A traditional wooden clinker sailing dinghy, MFOB, Class racing off Mersea Island Essex. Painted clinker construction with centreplate, carries a gaff rig. This example was built by a Shipwright Johnny Milgate of Peldon. She has competed in the MFOB/ Winklebrig Fast Fleet achieving some good results. Kept in sailing condition, ashore for the Winter.... read more

26ft Nordic Folkboat, clinker wooden construction .Built by the renowned Shipwright of Brightlingsea, Cyril White in 1959. A very simplw and practical vessel. easily handled , sea kindly manner with her long keel. Built and registered as a Nordic Folkboat although she hasn’t been measured for a modern certificate and thus sails as a British Folk boat. She has an RYA YTC Certificate. She was restored in, 2015, An extensive undercover project taking her back to sound wood. Then epoxied inside and out. The mast was replaced, new rigging and a new suit of sails. Wooden boatbuilder Adria... read more

Thames Sailing Barge Lady Gwynfred, this was her barge boat – built as a replacement for her original tender. in the 1950’s. When the barge was taken out of service the dinghy was converted into a sailing dinghy. In her conversion she was restored and rigged to comply with the Mersea Fishermen’s Open Boat specifications, she has raced with the MFOB fleet ever since. She is a 14ft clinker wooden gaff rigged open dinghy with a centreplate, with an axle-less trailer.... read more

A very attractive Classic dayboat. Built 1902 to a J Pain Clark design. A Gaff Sloop with a Traditional rig, blocks and tackle. Small outboard engine, used off the side deck. The fixed bowsprit gives her LOA 29ft. She has been well maintained and restored by her owner and the Boatyard themselves. She is in good order. Stands on her own Galvanised cradle when ashore. Ashore each Winter, now refitted and due to be relaunched, May 2023 onto her swinging Summer mooring on the River Orwell.... read more