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Rare Broads One Design ‘Brown Boat’ for sale

Broads One Design Heron for sale in Wales

Original 100-year old Broads One Design (or Brown Boat) Heron (number 13) is for sale after her owner suffered an accident that limits his mobility.

She is gaff rigged and is 23ft long with a 5ft beam, with a fixed keel and requires one metre depth of water. She was fully refurbished a few years ago, and has been very recently re-varnished and anti-fouled, and has recent sails made by made by Jeckells.

There’s a history of the class here, and I gather there’s a video showing Heron sailing somewhere on the Internet, although I haven’t found it.

The asking price of £8,500.00 includes a recently overhauled four wheeled road trailer. For information email me at gmatkin@gmail.com and I will forward the message.

Marcus Lewis dinghy for sale – and a Percy Mitchell tosher too

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Fowey boat builder Marcus Lewis has this newly built 11ft clinker-built rowing dinghy for sale.

The handsome little boat is based on a tender to the sailing yacht Veronique owned by Colonel Treffry, of Place near Fowey in the 1930s. It is planked in spruce, with steamed oak timbers, mahogany top strake and seats, and will be supplied complete with a pair of scoop paddles, bronze rowlocks, and a cover.

Marcus tells me he’s currently building two Fowey River dinghies scheduled for completion this spring: the planking is almost complete, the green oak is ready to slice for timbers, and the copper nails are on order.

Also, the 18ft Percy Mitchell-built Tosher Marcus has stored for some time has got to go because he needs the space it is currently occupying.

It needs a complete rebuild, but Marcus says it has suberbly shaped hull suitable for almost anything. ‘The last owner put in a big Lister two-cylinder diesel and went fishing, but the usual treatment these days is a gaff rig, with a 4-5ft bowsprit, jib and staysail, with a topsail if you are feeling adventurous.

‘It bit of time would have to be spent working out the sail plan and centre of effort, and a bit of a calculation about an additional keel – she has no external ballast keel at all, but a 300-400lb shoe well bolted underneath, and a bit of internal trimming ballast would keep her down to her marks, and make her a stiff enough to sail well.’

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Currach for sale, Argyll

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Here’s something you don’t see every day – a currach for sale in Scotland. It’s currently in the hands of retired boat builder and part-time boat dealer Dave Hart, who lives on the banks of Loch Long, Argyll.

Dave’s currently working on a few minor repairs, and says the currach  is 19ft 9in in length and just under 4ft in beam, has three thwarts and a sternsheets, a transom-style stern that can take an outboard can be fitted on, two pairs of oars and floorboards.

The builder is unknown – I’ve no doubt Dave would be pleased to have information about this – but he believes it’s a professional job.

I think Dave is open to reasonable offers. Email me at gmatkin@gmail.com in the first instance and I’ll pass your message on to Dave. I’d also say if anyone in the South-East corner of England buys this boat, could they please invite me to come and have a row on the sea in it some day?

For more about currachs at intheboatshed.net, click here.