Category: Equipment and boats for sale

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44ft LOA Loch Fyne skiff Fairy Queen for sale

 

This is Fairy Queen, a Loch Fyne skiff now with a gaff cutter rig and currently afloat in southern Galway Bay, Ireland – and she’s for sale. The photos above were taken a few days ago.

The Fairy Queen is 35ft on the keel, 13ft in beam with a draft of 5ft 8in, and about 17tons unballasted, built in larch on oak, with a Douglas fir mast and a 72hp Ford D series engine.

The owners are looking for a croft or a patch of land in a remote part of the Highlands or the West Coast of Scotland – so some kind of exchange may be possible.

I’ve pasted some older photos below – as usual, click on the thumbnails for much larger images. If you’re interested and would like to contact the owners, drop me a line at gmatkin@gmail.com and I’ll let you have their contact details.

 

 

 

For sale: pilot cutter Breeze, and cutter Medusa Bay

Pilot cutter Breeze

I’ve learned that two great but very different boats are for sale.

The 39ft pilot cutter Breeze is up for auction on eBay. She was built in 1887 by Coopers of Pill near Bristol for the pilot Albert Cope.

She started her working life working from Cardiff in 1887 and continued to work primarily in the same family ownership until around 1912. She’s believed to be the second oldest Bristol Channel pilot cutter still around, and the only remaining example of a Coopers of Pill-built cutter.

Also the Conyer-built 37ft cutter Medusa Bay is for sale priced at €90,000 in Belgium. She’s said to be in near perfect condition, and I know she has a number of admirers in North Kent, so if anyone is interested, contact me at gmatkin@gmail.com and I’ll put you in touch with the current owner.

  

 

For sale: the Albert Strange-designed gaff yawl Charmina

Albert Strange Association member Richard Rouse has put the beautiful Albert Strange designed gaff yawl Charmina up for sale after having owned her for 29 years.

She was built in 1923 by Ernest Woods of Cantley in Norfolk, and is of pitch pine on oak frames.

Charmina  has had just six owners, including the prolific writer Keble Chatterton, who is said to have written several books about her, including Charmina on the Riviera.

She’s 28ft LOD, and has 3-4 berths, a Bukh 8hp engine, and her original compass and oil lamps, and is said to be in excellent order.

Charmina has won many races in the Solent area, and her owner says she makes a wonderful cruising boat.

If you’re interested, contact Richard through the ASA website.