9ft Hand built Pram dinghy, commissioned to be a tender too a Classic wooden Ketch. Built by Fabian Bush a Shipwright Boatbuilder of Rowhedge, Essex. She has her own rig and white Lug sail. A very eye-catching dinghy, a delight to sail. Dagger board keel. 2 x Buoyancy Bags. Canvas covered rope fendering. Varnish work, sole boards need reviving re brightening.... read more

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

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: An all wooden construction top quality materials. She has been very well maintained In her lifetime she has made several trips backwards and forwards to the Continent. Axillary power, Bukh twin cylinder diesel inboard. She offers accommodation... read more

25ft , 4T, Teak Bermudan sloop, commissioned and built in 1950 to a Norman.E. Dalimore design (No:310), she is very original in her fit out. A reconditioned Yanmar GM10 diesel engine was installed in her in 2018. She has a long keel and a slight draft of just 3ft which extends to nearly 6ft with the centreboard board lowered. Open aft cockpit. A real classic, in good order.... 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

Contessa Juliet,1972. A Mark 1,GRP masthead sloop. She has been under cover for the Winter. The hull is in good condition, no blistering and fair. Cooper coated anti-fouling applied in 2022 and is in excellent condition. Her sails are crisp and in good order returned from the valetters, she has two sets of old sails, in serviceable condition, suitable for cruising. A four wheeled twin axle road trailer. She has two new batteries and the engine will be serviced before she is relaunched in early June....She has been rewired, her teak work has re oiled Standard layout accommodation, berth cush... read more

'Almita' is 26ft LOA She has a lifting keel yacht with a spoon bow and counter stern and is rigged as a gaff cutter. Centreplate drops down through a ballast keel she only draws 2ft 6ins, when it's raised. A previous owner for a number of years was Journalist Dick Durham, he reviewed her performance in Yachting Monthly, June 2009 -Gaff vs Bermudan'. He sailed her in both formats of rig. In her present ownership, of over 15 years, time and money have not been spared on her continued maintenance and upkeep. At her last survey report 2018, there were NO recommendation to ... read more

At 42ft, Cygnet is a half sized wooden sailing barge. After several years of continuous sail cruising, she has been bought into a Barge Boatyard in North Essex. Her present owner has decided to sell her, the hold has ben cleared out , the engine has been removed, she's now presented as a blank canvas for a refit / rebuild......A new rudder has been made and is to be re-fitted. New leeboards are under construction and there is a shipwright commissioned for a new mast. Built in 1881 by G H Curel at Frindsbury near Strood, In 1988 she was sold to her current owner, who used her as a pri... read more