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1908 E. Williams of Cowes Centreboard Bermudan Cutter

west sussex

£4,950 inc. VAT

Engine

-

Total Power

-

Engine Hours

NA

Class

Sail Classic

Length

6.08m (19.95ft)

Year

1908

Model

Centreboard Bermudan Cutter

Capacity

Boat Details

Description

Wooden Ships Comments on this Centreboard Bermudan Cutter

Built by E. Williams of Cowes, reputedly in 1908.

Found in a poor state by a local shipwright in Chichester Harbour, the boat was refitted and bought by the current owner after Covid.  Since then she has been kept on a drying mud mooring in Chichester Harbour and used for local sailing, she has been a wonderful boat for her owner, pottering about the harbour and visiting the various pubs in the area.

She has the benefit of being shallow draft with a dagger board so she can access shallow creeks with ease.  She can also take the ground meaning cheaper drying moorings are accessible to her, reducing annual running costs.

The boat has been used with a heavy duty yard trailer but could easily be towed on the road with a suitable road trailer, again giving the option to reduce annual running costs with the ability to take the boat and store for free in winter months.

A pretty little boat with 2 berths to spend nights aboard and explore shallow areas, a perfect weekend camping and exploring boat.

 

Length on Deck                          20’

Length Overall                           25’

Beam                                            5’

Draft                                             2’6”

Construction

Hull

Carvel planked in what is thought pitch pine.

Copper rivet fastened to fine steam bent oak timbers.

Dagger board arrangement in a mahogany case, raised and lowered by hand.

External lead ballast keel with bronze keel bolts.

 

Decks and Cockpit

New deck fitted at some point in the not too distant past, exact date unknown.

Marine plywood deck screwed to pine deck beams.  Sheathed externally in epoxy glass cloth and finished in cream deck paint.  Large oak hanging knees supporting the deck.

Small varnished mahogany rubbing strake all round.

Spacious cockpit with varnished mahogany coamings and thwarts.  Scrubbed pine cockpit sole boards.

Engine box with a varnished mahogany top serves as a cockpit table.

 

Superstructure

Coachroof with varnished mahogany coamings.  Single bronze portlight each side.

Sheathed marine plywood coachroof deck.

Varnished mahogany sliding companion hatch.

Rig

Spars

Bermudan cutter rig on a deck stepped varnished pine mast.  Newly fitted compression post under the deck.

Varnished pine boom, bowsprit and bumpkin.

 

Standing and Running Rigging

Stainless steel standing rigging to external bronze chain plates.

Staysail and jib on roller furling headsail systems.

Lazyjacks and StackPack system on the boom enable the mainsail to be simply dropped without it falling in the water.

 

Sails

Mainsail, staysail and jib.

Mainsail is from an X-Boat so of very good quality.

Machinery

Engine

Yanmar 1GM10 diesel engine.

Serviced annually.  New starter motor and fuel pump plus injector service 2025.

Centreline 3 blade fixed propeller.

 

Tanks

20 litre portable plastic tank in the lazarette locker with a water separator filter.

 

Batteries and Electrics

12 volt 95ah battery.  Charged from engine alternator and a solar panel with charge regulator.  All new electrical wiring.

Single 12 volt interior light in the cabin.

Accommodation

Berths

2 single berths.

 

General Description

Companion hatch removes to give access into the cabin, battery box to port.

2 single berths with nice quality cushions, 1 either side of the dagger board case.

Equipment

Mainsail

Staysail

Jib

Headsail furling systems

Boom StackPack system

Cockpit cover

Cockpit cushions

Beaching legs

Boarding/swim ladder

Fishermans anchor

Mooring warps

Fenders

Boathook

Auto electric bilge pump

95ah battery

Solar panel

Photonic Universe PU0512EU solar charge controller

Masthead navigation light

Fuel tank with filter

2 x berth cushions

Boat Summary

Make:

E. Williams of Cowes

Model:

Centreboard Bermudan Cutter

Boat Type:

sail

Boat Class:

Sail Classic

Build Year:

1908

Refit Year:

-

Hull Number:

-

Deck Plans:

Propulsion

Engine

Make:

-

Model:

-

No. engines:

-

Year:

-

Hours:

-

 

Type:

inboard

Fuel:

diesel

Propeller Material:

-

Total Power:

-

Specification

Dimensions

Length (Overall):

6.08m (19.95ft)

Length (Waterline):

-

Beam:

1.5m (4.92ft)

Min Draft:

-

Max Draft:

0.8m (2.62ft)

Min Bridge Clearance:

-

Weigths

Gross Weight:

-

Displacement:

-

Tanks

Fresh Water Tanks:

-

Fuel Tanks:

-

Holding Tanks:

-

Speed & Distance

Max Speed:

-

Cruising Speed:

-

Range at cruising speed:

-

 

 

Miscellaneous

Windlass:

-

Deadrise at transom:

-

Hull Material:

wood

Life Raft Capacity:

-

 

 

Accomodation

Seating Capacity:

-

Guest Cabins:

-

Guest Heads:

-

Cabin Headroom:

-

Crew Cabins:

-

Crew Heads:

-

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