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HISTORY and DESCRIPTION:
The Rapier 3100 class power-boat, designed by Len Cox has become an icon of the 1960s and was extremely successful in off-shore racing, particular the now legendary Cowes – Torquay race founded by Sir Max Aitkin. PEGASUS, capable of 20 knots with her planing hull shape has a notable racing history as power-boat 128 and won in the 1960s a good number of races and the Concours d’Elegance trophy for the ‘best all round’ production cruiser, she was built in 1966 by Christchurch Yacht Co. Dorset.
In previous ownership PEGASUS was extensively re...
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Year: | 1966 |
Length: | 31' |
Location: | London UK |
Price: | £34,500 Tax Exempt |
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HISTORY and DESCRIPTION:
The Vertue was designed by Jack Laurent Giles before the war and has become probably the most celebrated small cruiser ever, largely due to the amazing voyages made in these tough little ships.
It was Humphrey Barton who made the design’s reputation in his blue water voyages in Vertue XXXV and Hiscock spoke highly of the design. He engaged Laurent Giles to design his Wanderer 2 and 3 both designs owing much to the Vertue. Humphrey Barton concluded whilst celebrating his Atlantic crossing that the Vertue was ‘The most perfect small ocean-going yacht th...
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Year: | 1963 |
Length: | 25' 6" |
Location: | Gwynedd UK |
Price: | £19,500 Tax Exempt |
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HISTORY & DESCRIPTION:
Miller of St. Monance need little introduction as one of the most successful boatyards in the UK. 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 1930s through to the sale of the yard and subsequent closure in the 1970s. 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 became very popular and were built from...
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Year: | 1954 |
Length: | 35' |
Location: | North Ayrshire UK |
Price: | £27,500 Tax Exempt |
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140ft. Sail Training Ship LORD NELSON – built 1986 – Three-Masted Barque Rig – Out of Commission – Lying: Somerset
Overall Length: 140ft on deck (42.8m) 179ft over spars
Waterline: 121ft
Beam: 29ft 6ins (9m)
Draught: 13ft 6ins (4.12m)
Displacement: Gross 398 Tons - Displacement 490 Tons
Engine: Pair 260hp Cummins QSB5.9 M Diesels
Berths: 36 Berths, 9 single crew cabins, 10 trainee cabins each with 2 bunks With additional berths in port and starboard forecastles
Sail: Three-Masted Barque
Designer: Colin Mudie
Builder: James W Cook & Co, Wivenhoe, UK Vos...
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Year: | 1986 |
Length: | 180' |
Location: | Somerset UK |
Price: | £1,200,000 Tax Paid |
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HISTORY & DESCRIPTION:
The legendary David Hillyard needs little introduction as one of the most successful wooden boat-builders of the twentieth century, producing a staggering eight hundred boats from two-half tonners to large ocean-going schooners. The yard on the River Arun in Littlehampton, established in the 1920s was soon recognised for producing traditional, well-built family cruising yachts for a reasonable price.
The standard ‘Nine Tonners’ were built in reasonable large numbers and feature a centre cockpit, aft double cabin and canoe stern. The design offers r...
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Year: | 1965 |
Length: | 32' |
Location: | Hampshire UK |
Price: | £12,000 Tax Exempt |
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The Mevagissey Toshers were principally designed as a, one-man boat, for plummeting for Mackerel during the Spring and Summer months. The Tosher name was generically applied to small fishing boats built in Mevagissey, near Portmellon in Cornwall. Traditionally lug rigged, many were built in the 1920s and 30s. A Frazier built 20ft Tosher costing £65 in 1936. The boat building firm was established in 1850 by James Frazier in Mevagissey, the last member of the boat building family was the much respected William (Arthur) Frazier, June 1920 to January 2021.
MAUD dates from the 1930s and is...
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Year: | 1930 |
Length: | 18' 6" |
Location: | Cornwall UK |
Price: | £6,500 Tax Exempt |
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Overall Length: 49ft :: Waterline: 41ft :: Beam: 11ft 7ins :: Draught: 7ft 4ins :: Displacement: 21 Tons TM
Engine: 65hp Perkins Diesel Engine :: Designer: Cesare Sangermani :: Builder: Cantiere Sangermani :: Location: Italy
Sail: Masthead Yawl Rig :: Berths: Five Guests plus Crew :: Year: 1954 :: Price: £175,000
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In the last few years of the 19th Century, Ettore Sangermani established a small boatyard which soon gained a reputation for quality yachts. In 1946 the current location in Lavanga was est...
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Year: | 1954 |
Length: | 49' |
Location: | Italy |
Price: | £175,000 |
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HISTORY & DESCRIPTION:
SILVER KING was designed and built by Thornycroft & Co. Ltd. Hampton Upon Thames in 1965 for Alan De Costa of London. Alan kept her on the River Thames in the first year of his ownership, returning SILVER KING to Thornycroft’s in 1966 for the wheelshelter to be fully enclosed. SILVER KING was then sailed down to Palma, Mallorca where she was sold in 1967 to Leslie Bolson of Albion Gate, Hyde Park, London. Leslie moved SILVER KING to Cannes in the late 1970s where she was bought by Madame Dorothy Atkins of Eden Palm, Cannes. The current owners, the ...
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Year: | 1965 |
Length: | 62' |
Location: | Imperia Italy |
Price: | £40,000 Tax Not Paid |
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HISTORY & DESCRIPTION:
The Cyclone Design dates from 1919 and is a development of Harrison Butler’s early design Seagull published in 1912. LITTLE KINGFISHER is one of only a small number of yachts built to this successful design by A H Watty Boatbuilder in Fowey in 1926. Before the war, John Carter was a registered owner stationing the yacht in Itchenor. From 1947 to 1951 Major-General Sir Horace Roome KCIE CB CBE MC owned LITTLE KINGFISHER mooring her in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. During the 1950s Major D S Sole and later A E Bloomfield became registered owners keeping the yacht ...
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Year: | 1926 |
Length: | 21' |
Location: | West Sussex UK |
Price: | £12,000 Tax Exempt |
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HISTORY & CONSTRUCTION:
PANDORA was built to a design by Johan Anker to the newly created ‘metre rule’ set in London in 1906. She is most likely the first yacht built to the rule at the Anker & Jensen yard in Norway of which eight 9 Metre R boat were built before the Great War. Scott Hansen from Oslo was one of her original owners keeping PANDORA until the 1930s when Thomas Schlytter bought her, he also kept her for many years. In the 1950s O W Band of Norway bought PANDORA changing her name to FRI.
During PANDORA’s history, there have been nine owners sever...
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Year: | 1907 |
Length: | 46' |
Location: | Imperia Italy |
Price: | £75,000 Ex. Tax |
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