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Original 55’ pilot cutter in superb condition following extensive award-winning restorations in Canada and England. Presently lying Falmouth, UK, but viewings easily arranged with knowledgeable owners who can also assist with a delivery. Carlotta is in turn key shape and ready for classic yacht race week or an extended offshore voyage. Please view our website or contact us by email for complete specifications and equipment list. Asking 320,000 British Pounds ( approximately $410,000 US).

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Cornish Crabbers 30 PILOT CUTTER for sale in Levington, United Kingdom

Levington, United Kingdom

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Cornish Crabbers 30 PILOT CUTTER

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Description.

A luxurious one-off version of the well known and characterful Cornish Crabber Pilot Cutter , built for their managing director, which epitomises modern traditional British boatbuilding at its very best, with great attention to detail. Beautifully fitted out with teak joinery, the layout below is comfortable and practical and whilst full use has been made of modern systems and equipment, retains a cosy traditional ambience.

A luxurious one-off version of the well known and characterful Cornish Crabber Pilot Cutter , built for their managing director, which epitomises modern traditional British boatbuilding at its very best, with great attention to detail. Beautifully fitted out with teak joinery, the layout below is comfortable and practical and whilst full use has been made of modern systems and equipment, retains a cosy traditional ambience. The cutter rig is particularly versatile and with all lines led aft to the cockpit, all sail handling can be done from the cockpit without the necessity of going forward. Carefully maintained from new.

Viewing by appointment at our Suffolk Office (IP10 0LN

Accommodation

The accommodation is attractively fitted out with teak joinery with tongued and grooved cedar overhead on laminated beams. Full standing headroom in the saloon. There is good stowage throughout, ample handholds and excellent ventilation with six bronze opening portlights in saloon, main hatch, bronze forehatch and two portholes in forecabin and over the quarter berths. There are five berths in two cabins and the layout is both comfortable and practical with full standing headroom. In the forecabin, good sized V berth with stowage under. Separate heads compartment to port with marine toilet, with electric pump out, washbasin and shower. Solar powered ventilator. Traditional prism decklight. Hanging locker opposite. In the saloon, dinette to port with removable table. Galley opposite with ceramic tiled work surface. Smev four burner gimballed gas cooker with grill and oven. Stainless steel sink. 250 litres freshwater capacity supplying hot and cold pressurised water to galley and heads. Isostar fridge/freezer. Chart table to starboard with instrument panel and good chart stowage. Two large quarter berths port and starboard. Eberspacher diesel fired hot air central heating.

Mechanical Systems

Located abaft the companionway, re-conditioned Yanmar 3JH 4E four cylinder 38hp diesel engine, fitted 2018/2019. 130 hours running time. Electric start. Freshwater cooled via heat exchanger. Shaft drive to fixed pitch three bladed propeller via Aquadrive coupling. Shaft fitted rope cutter. 110 litres fuel capacity in stainless steel tank giving approximately 275 miles range at 5.5 knots cruising speed. Maximum speed under power 6.5 knots. Single lever control. Vetus bowthruster fitted 2017/2018.

Electrical Systems

• 12 volt 110 Ah domestic battery (2017)
• 12 volt 95Ah engine start battery (2020)
• 12 volt 120 Ah fridge / windlass / bowthruster battery (2019)
• Alternator charging
• 240 volt shorepower system
• Battery charger
• Immersion heater

Sails & Spars

Cutter rigged with tan sails by Suffolk Sails. Cream epoxy coated aluminium mast and boom by Eurospars. Varnished Oregon Pine bowsprit, fully retractable. Stainless steel standing rigging. Terylene running rigging. Fully battened slab reefing mainsail with three reefs. Lazyjacks. All lines led aft to cockpit. Strut kicker. Facnor headsail furling systems to jib and staysail. Two bronze Lewmar 8 halyard winches. Two bronze Lewmar 16 self tailing reefing and staysail winches. Two bronze Lewmar 30 self tailing sheet winches.

• Fully battened mainsailvery good
• Furling yankeevery good
• Furling & self tacking staysailvery good
• Cruising chute with snufferexcellent
• Various spare sails

Deck Equipment

• 35lb CQR anchor with 60m chain
• Kedge anchor
• Simpson Lawrence electric anchor windlass
• Stainless steel stanchions, pushpit and guardwires with gates
• Teak coachroof grabrails
• Teak cockpit table
• Cockpit spray dodgers with boat name
• Boom awning
• Stainless steel boarding ladder
• Summer deck awning
• Winter cover (2004) with windows and access panels (cost £2500)
• Various fenders and warps
• Dinghy davits
• Outboard stowage bracket

Navigation Equipment

• Whitlock Polaris binnacle mounted steering compass (2000)
• Raytheon ST60 depth, boatspeed & log, windspeed & direction (2000)
• Raytheon ST60 multi display at chart table (2000)
• Raytheon 630 colour chart plotter (2000) at chart table
• Garmin 700 chart plotter with AIS at helm
• Raytheon ST6000+ autopilot (2000)
• DSC VHF radio (2017)
• Clock and barometer
• Masthead and deck level navigation lights

Safety Equipment

• Manual bilge pump
• 2 x electric bilge pumps
• 2x fire extinguishers
• Fire blanket
• Automatic engine room fire extinguisher
• Visiball radar reflector
• XM ORC 4 person liferaft (needs servicing)
• Deck floodlight

Construction

Built in 1995 by Cornish Crabbers Ltd to a design by Roger Dongray, exhibited at 1996 London Boat Show and launched shortly after. Hull number 42. Green GRP multichine hull with black sheer stripe. Twin teak rubbing bands with carved fashion pieces and carved name board. GRP coachroof with teak decks and coachroof. Varnished Iroko coachroof. Long keel (epoxy coated). Keel hung rudder. Whitlock rod wheel steering with hide covered wheel. Aft self draining cockpit. Self draining gas bottle stowage. RCD Category A-Ocean rating. LOA including bowsprit: 39'. A continual programme of maintenance and improvement has been undertaken as follows:

• 2009 - hull epoxied; coachroof teak re-laid
• 2014 - deck teak re-laid
• 2015 - new bowsprit
• 2016 - diesel tank removed and cleaned; wiring checked and refurbished
• 2017 - new standing rigging
• 2019 - cockpit teak re-laid; re-conditioned engine fitted
• 2021 - new saloon seating; re-antifouled

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General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as liferaft, fire extinguishers and flares etc., are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on board as part of the sale of a used vessel, may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owner’s specific needs.

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The Cornish Crabbers 30 PILOT CUTTER is 39 feet long and has a 9.5 feet beam. This 1995 diesel Cornish Crabbers 30 PILOT CUTTER with 38 horsepower

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Sailing Pellew, the biggest Falmouth pilot cutter in 150 years

• August 3, 2021

Pellew is the largest Falmouth pilot cutter launched in Britain for more than 150 years, but represents something even greater, as James Stewart discovers

The upper reaches of the River Truro are not an obvious source of sailing innovation. No foiling cats fly over its shallows as at nearby Carrick Roads. The high-tech superyachts of Falmouth’s Pendennis yard are unlikely to appear anytime soon. Yet it’s here, among light-industrial units and auto-mechanics playing Radio 2, between a metal scrapyard and gas storage tanks, that one of the most interesting recent launches in British sailing has emerged, a Falmouth pilot cutter named Pellew .

In February 2020 the 68ft hull of the Pellew was lowered into the river from the Rhoda Mary Shipyard. When I visit a year on from that momentous day – the culmination of over four years’ work and goodness knows how many more planning – the frame of a similar 19th-century cutter stands on the hard mid-restoration.

“She’ll cost her owner a million quid to restore,” Luke Powell says. “But there’s no logic to wooden boats. Building one is just cavalier and mad, a romantic idea that it’s something worth doing.”

Grasp that and you’re halfway to understanding why Powell built Pellew , the largest Falmouth pilot cutter launched in Britain for more than 150 years. With 2020 lost, she begins her maiden charter season this summer.

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Perhaps only Powell would have had the nerve for such a project. Through his company Working Sail, managed by his wife Joanna, he has not only designed and built eight Scilly pilot cutters since 1993, but has also helped rehabilitate a genre of seakindly working craft that had been left to rot following the arrival of glassfibre. His largest previous cutter was Agnes , a pretty 46-footer currently sailing charters.

Falmouth cutters each carried eight pilots, but could be double-handed on their return to port. Photo: Nic Compton

Workhorse of the seas: The pilot cutter

In their day, Falmouth pilot cutters upped the ante. Larger and faster than their rival boats of the Scilly fleet, they evolved into cracking coastal workboats. Tough enough to look after crews as they bludgeoned into heavy oceanic swells west of the Scilly Isles yet easily driven in light airs; and able to race to windward to meet inbound ships yet manageable short-handed by just two crew.

Imagine a Land Rover of the late-1800s and you’re close. An obvious choice, then, when Powell looked to scale up.

For all that, Pellew represents a game-changer. She is a third longer than Agnes , with three times the displacement at 74 tonnes. Her 14in keel, frames and scantlings are of Lincolnshire oak fastened in bronze. A 9-tonne external lead keel supplements 14 tonnes of internal ballast (a neat trick that boosts internal volume).

North Sea Sails in Tollesbury, Essex, produced her vast 3,500ft2 of canvas flown over five sails. The 60ft spars are of Devonian Douglas fir – it took the driver of their low-loader two days to navigate a route to Truro.

Without a surviving Falmouth pilot cutter as a template for his replica, Powell worked from a 1:12 half-model plus contemporary photos of an 1855 boat called the Vincent that worked out of St Mawes (the name is from Admiral Edward Pellew, the son of a St Mawes packet-ship captain who became a hero of the Napoleonic wars, noted for his skill and humane treatment of prisoners). And despite her larger size, Powell produced her lines as he always did – on paper.

While eschewing CAD design sounds almost wilfully traditional, it’s Powell’s secret to fine-tuning a design. He explains: “You get more deeply involved in it [on paper] – you see the faults, the kinks in the line whereas on a computer it always looks good. You can’t look into the depths of a design if it’s too easy to make.”

Initial drawings usually take him a month. “Then I’ll leave it for a month to see it with fresh eyes. It’s absolutely like painting.”

Like painting, Powell believes that, certain parameters aside, 98% of good design comes down to aesthetics. “There’s no point building a boat that is not pretty. You have to fall in love with it.” Most of us can relate to that.

Brute force is all that’s needed to haul in the jib sheet, provided here by Sam Coltman (left) and Luke Powell. Photo: Nic Compton

There’s no logic to the allure of wooden boats. Or at least none beyond their elegant lines, perhaps a second sense that on such craft form follows function. One look at those old pilot cutters and you feel that there is a boat to keep you safe in a blow.

As Yachting World’s Tom Cunliffe puts it in the forward to Powell’s terrific book Working Sail : ‘Luke Powell’s boats stand out in any seascape as the loveliest of all. His eye is extraordinary, but it never compromises the critical factor of how the boat swims on the water.’

A quiet radical

Coming aboard Pellew in Falmouth’s Penryn river, although she’s almost from-the-wrapper new, her spars and blocks still as shiny as conkers, she appears timeless.

Her off-black hull has a workmanlike heft to make the surrounding fibreglass yachts look like yoghurt pots, swooping rakishly from overhang to 23ft bowsprit. The only concession to modernity on deck is a doghouse over the main companionway to shelter charter crew.

Below decks, however, the old pilots would splutter into their pipes. Aft of a fo’c’sle with abundant stowage and a pipecot is a guest cabin with eight bunks stacked four a side, plus a spacious heads with a shower. A snug three-berth crew quarters with a separate heads and nav area are aft of the companionway.

Crew Kelda Smith (left) and Jess Clay tension a halyard. Photo: Nic Compton

Taking advantage of the full 18ft beam at the centre is a surprisingly modern living space. To starboard is a longitudinal galley with an electric hob and oven, and (what luxury!) a dishwasher.

To port is a pilot berth and heads, plus a dining table that seats 12 – the social heart of the boat which seems purpose-designed for yarning.

Powell lights up as we clamber below. “I love being aboard,” he says with a grin. “This feels like home. It’s the boat that I always should’ve built.”

Powell is one of life’s enthusiasts: garrulous, as romantic as he is practical when it comes to wooden boats, almost boyishly enthusiastic. He’s also as quietly radical as you’d hope of a man who, aged nine, sailed to Greece with artist parents on a 40ft fishing boat; Leonard Cohen became a family friend during their stay in Hydra.

Powell came back to England after a decade to learn his trade restoring Thames barges in Faversham, Kent. Aged 21 he returned to Greece, where a near-derelict pilot cutter caught his eye.

By then a jobbing nautical artist, he produced 50 paintings for her owner in lieu of the £3,000 price tag. It was while sailing in Greece on that boat, surrounded by one of the last wooden working fleets in Europe, that Powell had an epiphany.

“A long continuity of design and boatbuilding just stops in our time. I thought, ‘Is no one going to do something to keep this alive? Are we just going to walk away from hundreds of years of evolution?’” The upshot was Working Sail .

While romance went halfway to understanding the genesis of Pellew , the rest comes down to legacy. In the heyday of pilot cutters, before boat design became the preserve of naval architects with letters after their names, any backwater boatbuilder could’ve knocked you up a respectable wooden boat. It was just part of the trade, a knowledge passed down and refined over generations, founded on designs that had proven themselves on the water.

With a twinkle Powell says he is in “the peasant boatbuilding line”. He tells me of a letter he received from an established naval architect after launching Working Sail : “He wrote: ‘How dare you design boats! We have been educated to do this.’ When you think about it, there are a million different shapes to boats and they all work. I learned like the old builders did, by trial and error.”

So, he insists that Working Sail is nothing special. “We’re just the last people doing this.”

All of Powell’s boats are decorated with carvings, such as plant motifs around the mooring chocks and Pellew’s star at the end of the bowsprit. Photo: Nic Compton

Then Powell’s project got really interesting. After the demise of a project to restore a Cornish merchant schooner for want of funds, a friend and keen barge-sailor, Brian Paine, offered Powell a deal. He would donate £900,000 from the sale of his independent college in Rochester so that Working Sail could build a boat from scratch. (The total cost of Pellew was £1.2m.) There was just one condition – young trainees had to work on the build.

The decision was a no-brainer. “Everything dies if you don’t share the knowledge,” says Powell. “ Pellew is about keeping those old skills alive.”

Five young shipwrights in their early 20s were hired to work alongside the experienced three-strong build team. Sam Coltman, 26, was lured from Pendennis to produce the metal fittings.

Everyone at the time realised Pellew was something special, he tells me as we prepare to sail, loosening the heavy mainsail, shackling halyards to the staysail and jib. These boats matter, he says: “Everything is different about a wooden boat: the movement, the creaks. They feel alive.”

Reassuring solidity

Powell fires up the 125hp John Deere engine deep within Pellew ’s guts. The propeller shaft was set almost a metre off-centre to port. A good aesthetic call, but it gave Powell the jitters on his first trial.

“I wasn’t sure beforehand whether we would make it around the first bend in the river [because the shaft was offset] but she performed perfectly. She feels big under power but as soon as the sails go up she’s totally manageable.”

We hoist the main on one of the two not-strictly-authentic hydraulic capstan winches. “Cheating really,” Powell says, but they are there as a concession for a guest crew who will be largely novices.

“We don’t have the same skill set as those sailors of the old days. There’s no point in making her so authentic she’ll be dangerous.” He anticipates the winches will come in handy for gybes in a blow.

Pellew is embarking on a first charter season, cruising Cornwall and Scotland. Photo: Nic Compton

No chance of that for us coming out of Falmouth harbour. All sails flying – including the topsail for the first time – we make a respectable three knots towards the St Anthony Head lighthouse in a Force 3.

A mile offshore the wind fills to a southerly Force 5, tearing rags of foam from the waves. Pellew squares her shoulders and leans into the blue-black seas as the numbers climb on the log: 6 knots, 7.1, 7.5, 8 knots. “Hey! We’re really going!” Powell yells at the tiller. In a Force 7 she’ll “do 10 knots, easy”.

The topsail and flying jib come down as the topmast begins to flex. The gaff cutter was the ultimate rig of its era: flexible, relatively easy to manage, able to pivot a boat easily around its mast and drive it to windward. The perfect rig for pilot boats, in other words.

We make around 60° off the wind, perhaps a pinch less, racing towards the horizon like the pilots of old, our wake foaming behind like a steadily unfastening zip. Pellew shrugs off the building seas with an easy motion that engenders confidence. It seems a huge pity when we have to turn back.

No museum pieces

Not everyone agrees with Powell’s approach. Some classics societies have argued that replicas devalue the original boats; that the focus should be on preservation not recreation. Back on land he is scathing: “They’d rather there was one boat left that was unique so they could sit around it and polish it.”

Boats are machines, he says. “They have to function. The sea is no kinder to a boat that’s 200 years old. When they take something like the Cutty Sark and become anal about saving the wood it’s pointless. The actual boat is the shape and its fitness for sea, not the material.

The comfortable guest accommodation on board. Photo: Nic Compton

“A brand new Cutty Sark would have been much more valuable than that shocking relic now stuck above a glass cafe.”

So, yachts are not just made to go sailing they are – I’d recommend you sit down now, classics owners – also made to be ‘disposable’. That’s quite the statement from someone who has just spent five years building one.

“Boats should be mortal, not so precious you’re frightened of breaking them,” he explains. “If you break one make another! You can do that quite happily if the tradition is still alive, and the only way to ensure it’s still alive is to build not repair, which means new boats and new boatbuilders, which bring in more people, more energy. Get enough and the whole scene snowballs.”

I had assumed Pellew was another replica, albeit a large one. Yet she is in fact one of the most interesting launches in Britain in years. Combine her revival of the Falmouth pilot cutter, her blooding of a new generation of shipwrights and Powell’s refreshing take on a sector that can be somewhat Luddite and Pellew appears to be something more.

I don’t want to sound overly messianic here, but it offers a manifesto for a living classics industry, one based on more than nostalgia, and which should thrill all sailors. Better still, she is a stonking boat.

The long-term goal is to establish Rhoda Mary Shipyard as a hub for traditional boatbuilding: more apprentices (on my visit I met an evangelical 20-year-old who had never set foot in a marina before his traineeship let alone a traditional shipyard), perhaps a forge and a sailmaker. The hope is that Pellew will be the first of the big stuff.

But not for Powell. After five years living and breathing the build, he aims to hand the baton to the next generation. He wants to go sailing. This year he captains Pellew on Cornish and Scottish charters alongside his wife, Joanne, as first mate, a cook and, for longer passages, a trainee. Next year? Perhaps the Azores, maybe Norway or Greece.

The interior is surprisingly light and modern, concealing luxuries such as a boiling water tap and dishwasher, as well as a dining area for 12 crew to gather around. Photo: Nic Compton

“She represents freedom. She’s for going over the horizon. That’s what boats are all about.” Given her MCA Category 0 rating, those horizons are limitless.

So what happens if Powell is commissioned to create the first 110ft Cornish merchant schooner of the modern era? He thinks. Then with a smile: “I suppose I’d have to say yes, wouldn’t I.”

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The Bristol Channel Pilot "Alexander T", asking price EUR. 239.000, is an extraordinary marriage of yesterday’s traditional sailing ideals with the best of today’s technology and design. Low maintenance construction. Built to MCA Category Zero and ready to go sailing. Alexander T is built for shorthanded sailing. She will be auctioned on Oktober 13th in cooperation with BVA-Auctions and Yachtbid.com. For further details and viewing days go to https://bit.ly/Auction_Bristol Startbid of the auction is EUR 50.000, offers can be made from Oktober 6th on the website of BVA. Keen seller.

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Nigel Irens 40 ft Pilot Cutter 1997 - Sold

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BROKER'S COMMENTS

After many years adventuring and cruising the World in gaff cutters, Tom Cunliffe invited Nigel Irens to create for him such a design. WESTERNMAN - inspired indeed by the original pilot boats of the Bristol Channel and able to cruise 2 or 4 handed for say 3 months on the go but nevertheless comfortable as well at sea as in harbour, has been a resounding success. Exactly as you would expect, she is wonderfully complete from her rig and deck layout to her cleverly worked interior in antique pitch pine. Experience is the best school and it would be difficult to improve upon her or add to her inventory. WESTERNMAN has been tried and tested and is totally ready.

‘Westernman’ was the nickname given to hands on the original Bristol Channel pilot cutters. They sailed the boats far to westward to board their pilots onto ships inbound for Bristol, Barry, Cardiff and other western ports - then kept to sea no matter what the weather, waiting for their pilots to return when bringing their next outbound ships down channel. WESTERNMAN seems to be an honourable and fitting name for a vessel that would surely have been appreciated by these unsung heroes.

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Construction

- Douglas fir strip planks on laminated frames - 2 layers bi-axial e-glass epoxy - Lead keel, bolted - Pine planked composite deck and superstructure: - Teak external trim: - Panelled timber interior in antique pitch pine and mahogany; oiled / varnished and painted; - Heavy timber cabin sole

Accommodation and domestic equipment

Aft is the self draining lazarette with propane storage etc. The cockpit is a pilot cutter classic; safe, deep and comfortable with seating over 3 large lockers starboard with ample dedicated liferaft / flares and warps etc stowage. A companionway hatch and large step over the engine housing leads down to the accommodation below summarised as 3 single berths, 2 double berths etc in 3 + cabins. All berths are long and headroom high as current owner is 6 ft 6 in tall. Aft via a doorway to port is a double quarter berth with storage outboard - with nearby forward an area designed for the hands to mill around, or hang out at sea with places to sit and lean while yarning with cook. Navigation is to port; a good chart table with full modern electronics as detailed; GPS lead to drive PC plotter; inverter; lamp from World War II MTB in brass. The galley is opposite to starboard with a fixed cooker and unencumbered stowage, big brass fiddle and pan clamps, plate racks etc. The Spinflo 4- burner hob and grill with separate oven is powered by 3 x 13 kg propane bottles (in lazarette). The cooking range is deliberately massive for foreign cruising. The cold box is readily convertible to simple 12 V fridge. Beyond semi bulkheads the saloon is panelled in 150-year-old reclaimed pitch pine and has features including: - Robust mahogany table with proper fiddles extends to seat 10 - Storage – enough for 200 charts; commodious bookshelves, 5 oil lamps etc - Teak skylight, opening scuttles, and deck prisms - Wine rack in locker with glass racks above - Wood / coal cabin heater stove - 12V stereo music system with CD, tape, radio (LW & FM), Ipod via tuner (not supplied) The two settees form superb heavy weather sea berths and occasional extra berthing in harbour, featuring removable solid timber leeboards. The next compartment houses a wash basin to port and large heads (Groco top model US made WC and shower to starboard making a complete athwartships washroom all with full headroom. The fore-cabin; owners cabin has double berth to starboard, which extends to a very big berth in harbour and is fitted with white painted tongue and groove panelling with varnished mahogany leeboards and trim. The Fo’c’sle – still with standing headroom contains shelves and open storage.

Rig, spars and sails

Gaff cutter rig - Wood (mainly hollow) spars by Noble Spars / Covey Island Boatworks - Galvanised plough steel wire standing rigging; well maintained in excellent condition - Bobstay tensioning tackle (8:1) Spectra - Topmast forestay on turning block and 4:1 tackle - Shrouds tensioned via dead-eyes - Lanyards set up via throat halyard + jigger = 16:1 - Forestay passed through stemhead tensioned with galvanised bottle screw on deck - Large diameter lightweight bamboo booming out pole - Bamboo jackyards - Working tops’l set without yards - Mainsheet can lead to aft capstan (for heavy conditions) - 2 bronze mast winches for reefing and / or topsail sheet Sails (Tan Dacron by SKB Falmouth 1997 unless shown otherwise; area c 1,450 sq ft) - Mainsail (3 reefs etc) - No 1 Jib - Staysail (1 reef) - No 3 Jib - as new - Working topsail - Jackyarder – as new - Jib topsail – as new - No 2 Jib (Crusader Sails) 2006 Winches – all bronze - 2 x Lewmar 30 ST 2 spd manual staysail sheet - 2 x Traditional unknown power manual topsail sheet / reef tackle

Deck equipment and ground tackle

- Hand-crafted wrought iron tiller - Lewmar Sprint (Simpson Lawrence) bronze electric anchor windlass with warping drum - Simpson Lawrence 1259 bronze electric aft capstan - 1 x Tepco lightweight GRP stem dinghy - 1 x Honda 4-stroke, 2.5hp outboard engine (2006) - 2 x boarding gates in the 12 inch bulwarks - Removable bronze stanchions with Dyneema guardrails and boarding gates - 1 x 85 lb Fisherman (main bower) anchor (stows easily on pad outside starboard bulwarks) - 1 x 40 lb Spade kedge anchor - 30 fathoms 7/16th inch galvanised tested chain + appropriate kedge warp - Mosquito netting (companionway and portholes) - Solid oak cockpit table for 4 - Terracotta mainsail cover - Terracotta covers for forehatch and skylight - Terracotta cockpit cover (doubles as a properly supported cockpit sun awning) - H D teak boathook; bronze grabbit hook for retrieving bower anchor via staysail halyard - Powerful oil-burning dioptric lens anchor light - Bosun’s chair etc - Rope bathing ladder

Mechanical, electrical and tankage

- Lister Alpha 45 hp diesel engine - Standard mechanical gearbox approx 3:1 reduction - 3 bladed propeller - Speed: max 7 knots; cruising 6, economy 5 ½ - Engine hours not known but 12 years of cruising with this unit - All maintenance according to Lister’s recommendations - Cruising range circa 550 NM - Fuel consumption per hour at cruising speed: - 12 V, 250 AH domestic battery 2008 - 12 V, 60 AH engine start battery 2006 - 75 A alternator - Sterling battery charger - 12 V and manual water pressure system - Calorifier – engine heated - 2 x Rule 12 V and 1 x Whale bilge pumps - 90 gallon / c 410 litre Fuel in two stainless steel tanks independently switched and filtered - 220 gallon / 1000 litre fresh water in integral wood epoxy (in-line filtered pump) - Reserve tank - 35 gallon / c 160 litre stainless steel holding black water tank (pump out ashore)

- Plastimo bubble steering compass on teak slider in companionway with 12 V light - Windpilot pendulum / servo wind vane self steering - Large chart stowage - Raymarine instruments: - C-series 120 large bulkhead plotter c 2003 - VHF DSC radio c 2008 - VHF hand-held (little used) c 2003 - Radar c 2006 - Marpa with gyro stabiliser c 2005 - AIS 2007/8 - Echo sounder, speed and log combination - 4000 Instrument autopilot drives pendulum self-steering if wind vane no op 2008 - Multi-purpose cockpit read-out and control c 2003

- 4 person Seago liferaft (2008) – 3 year warranty - RORC-style flare pack (2009) - 406 EPIRB (serviced 2009) - 4 x lifejackets - 2 x dry powder extinguishers (large); 1 fire blanket; 1 engine space extinguisher

Miscellaneous

Items currently on board but excluded from the sale: various pictures, hangings etc., anchor weight, Walker log, 2 forward oil lamps (will be replaced with like), drawer handle, small mirror from aft cabin, half-model, Derby crockery and wooden plates. Crockery etc is personal but can be replaced in moderation by negotiation.

These particulars have been prepared from information provided by the vendors and are intended as a general guide. The purchaser should confirm details of concern to them by survey or engineers inspection. The purchaser should also ensure that the purchase contract properly reflects their concerns and specifies details on which they wish to rely.

Sandeman Yacht Company

Brokerage of classic & vintage yachts.

Type: Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter | Replica of Peggy

Designer: Cockwells

Merlin is three feet longer than Peggy to provide a larger saloon and workshop space.

Crafted over two years, we followed traditional methods, constructing her hull from an oak frame and larch planking cut from the round, and casting bespoke bronze fittings to the highest standards.

Merlin’s build was featured over seven monthly issues of Classic Boat magazine in 2010.

Her owner uses Merlin for corporate and private charters, wildlife expeditions and charitable work in the UK, Brittany, the Baltic and further afield. You can read more about her here .

• Length overall 14.6m
• Length waterline 13.1m
• Design draft 2.29m
• Displacement 26t
• Speed 7 knots

• Oak rudder fitted with wooden tiller complete with bronze fittings and copper strap
• Rig Mast type: Nobel spars
• SKB Terylene sails in off-white
• Deck and cockpit finished in teak
• Starboard double birth
• Mirror and shallow drawer with shelves as dressing area
• 12V DC system and sockets
• 240V AC system shore power and sockets
• VHF antenna and GPS aerial
• Electric toilet

I have sailed her for many seasons now and I’m absolutely delighted with her. She consistently impresses me and I’m very pleased with the nature of the boat, her build quality and how she sails.”

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Tristan Rowe

After-Sales Director

Tristan has amassed more than 20 years’ experience in customer care within the marine industry.

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Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Breeze

• Designer: Traditional
• Builder: Coopers of Pill
• Location: Devon
• Length on deck: 39'6"
• Beam: 12'6"
• Draft: 6'6"

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Full specification

Bristol channel pilot cutter breeze for sale, wooden ships comments on this piece of maritime history.

Breeze was built by Coopers of Pill in 1887 as a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter , one of the smaller sailing boats in the fleet, a 39ft sailing boat, and thought to be the only surviving example of a Coopers-built cutter.

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Breeze languished for many years before being bought by the current owner and given to RB Boatbuilding in Bristol for restoration.  Her proper lines were established to put the correct shape back into the boat, and she was rebuilt from the bottom up between 2014 and 2016.  This was a total restoration. Only several small parts of the original sailing boat were left, including the mast step and part of the main beam with the official number carved into it.

All the planking, 99% of the frames, deck, interior and systems are new.  The mast was used again, but the rest of the rig was replaced.

Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter

Breeze is now in superb condition inside and out, and a very pretty and fast cutter that can be easily handled by two people rather than needing a large crew as is required on the bigger boats.  Interestingly she was fitted with twin electric motors and a large generator, a very satisfactory solution to the problem of where to place a prop shaft on a boat that was never designed to have one.

The interior is stunning with 7 berths including a double in the saloon, finished in varnished oak.  The large skylight makes her light and airy, access through the hatch is simple as the cabin sole and cockpit sole are not too different in height.

A very rare chance to own an original Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, a piece of our maritime heritage that has been totally restored and is ready to sail away.

Length on Deck                 39’6″

Length Overall

Beam                                    12’6″

Draft                                      6’6″

Construction

Planked in larch and oak bronze screw fastened to sawn oak frames.

Futtocks of the frames fastened together with copper rivets.

Grown oak floors across the centreline fastened through the frames with copper rivets.

No external ballast keel.  All internal ballast made of lead shot and concrete.  Centreline bolts all bronze.

Straight laid quarter sawn tight grained douglas fir deck on oak deck beams,, caulked and payed with pitch in the traditional way.  Deck fastened with bronze screws.

Bulwark all round on oak stanchions mounted through the coverboard in the traditional manner.

Iroko coachroof coamings with an integrated iroko skylight.  Bronze portholes in the coamings.  Iroko forehatch offset to starboard.

Self draining cockpit well with seating at deck level.  Scrubbed teak cockpit gratings.

Transom hung rudder with her original galvanised tiller.

Gaff cutter rig on a keel stepped solid pitch pine pole mast.

Varnished pine boom, gaff and bowsprit.

Galvanised wire standing rigging, new in 2016, with dead eyes and lanyards to external galvanised chain plates.

Running backstays on levers.

Running rigging all new in 2016 using traditional 3 strand rope.  All varnished wooden blocks.

Galvanised pin rail by the shrouds each side to take the falls of the running rigging.

Roller reefing on the mainsail with the original Appledore reefing system.

Staysail hanks to the inner forestay.  Jib with an integral luff wire runs to the end of the bowsprit on a traveller.

Bowsprit can be run inboard to reduce overall length.

Mainsheet is a 4:1 tackle with double tails made off to a specially designed galvanised horse on the aft deck.

All sails new in 2016 by Patrick Selman.  Cream Clipper Canvas with bolt ropes, all in excellent condition.  Mainsail, topsail, staysail, No.1 jib and No.2 jib.

Boat powered by twin electric 48 volt motors, one each side for easy manoeuvrability.

LMC Marlin 5 motors from Lynch Marine with belt drives to stainless steel shafts.  Deep Sea Seal stern glands.

Pair of 2 blade bronze counter-rotating feathering propellers give a cruising speed of 5 knots, max speed 7 knots.

4 x 12volt 200ah gel batteries for domestics and powering the motors.

Batteries charged with a Fischer Panda AGT 11Kva diesel generator installed under the chart desk.  Dedicated start battery for generator.

Mastervolt 48 volt 25amp charger run by the generator or through shore power connection.

75 litre stainless steel fuel tank under the cockpit sole

140 litres of fresh water in 2 separate plastic tanks under the port saloon settee.

1 manual and 2 electric bilge pumps.

Accommodation

8 berths in total including 1 double in the saloon.

All interior joinery is new,  mainly in varnished oak.

Steps down from the cockpit with galley to port and quarter berth to starboard.

Quarter berth is very long with good headroom.

Galley is along the port side with a gimballed GN Espace Levante 3 burner gas stove with oven and grill.  Single sink with hot and cold pressurised water, pumped out manually.  Oak work tops with storage space beneath and behind.  Top loading 12 volt fridge.

Chart desk opposite to starboard, faces outboard with a varnished oak top.  Raymarine nav screen above with electrical distribution panel.  Generator and chargers beneath the chart desk with sound insulation all round.

Main saloon has a large skylight above for light and ventilation.  Solid fuel cast iron cabin heater to port with a locker outboard.  Heavily built solid oak dropleaf saloon table on the centreline.  Port and starboard settee berths with lockers and shelves behind.

Starboard side settee has an infill to create a double berth.

Port side passage way into the forward cabin with the heads compartment to starboard.

Heads has a manual Jabsco sea toilet which discharges directly overboard.  Hand basin with bronze tap.

Forward cabin has 4 single berths, 2 either side, all of good length and width.  Forehatch above to starboard.

Full specification and details available upon request

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