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Item 150 For Sale Built 1980 in a boatyard in Vancouver, BC. One of 6. SSR documented. 45ft on deck, 50ft overall, 13ft beam. 20 tons.

Has a cutter ketch rig and balances very easily with or without using either the mizzen or the staysail. Comes with fully battened main with the Dutchman furling system built in. The 135 per cent genoa is on a Profurl furling system. Also has many spare sails including a working jib and storm jib. Mast has steps to the top. Boat is located in San Carlos, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Price: $35000US. Contact for further info [email protected]

Item 149 For Sale Ketch "Encarnacion" 1978/85, LOA 21 m; Hull length 17.85 m; Width 5.15 m; Draught 2,35m.The "Encarnacion" is built under the guidelines of Germanischer Lloyd for the High Seas Yacht. She has sailed for 25 years as a professional ship under German flag and is owned by the current owner since.The expansion is very tastefully decorated in teak and mahogany.A large living room, a kitchen with fridge, freezer, microwave, stove and oven, as well as 12 beds in 5 cabins and 2 bathrooms (one with shower) makes the ship a real home. She is equipped with a teak deck. The hull is made of ferrocement, superstructure made of aluminum and the entire rig including masts made of stainless steel.MWM engine 6 cylinder 120 hp; Generator 7,5 KW; Bauer dive compressor; Radar; Weather fax; GPS; FM radio; ERPIRP; Radar transponder.2000 l diesel tank stainless steel; 2000 l water tank is also stainless steel; Hydraulic windlass and main bilge pump;75 Kg anchor with 90 m anchor chain. For the operation of the well-preserved sails are 10 winches (Andersen) available.You can request a complete equipment list, additional information and photos contact [email protected] Berthed in Kiel / Germany.Asking Price:149,000 Euro (tax-deductible)

Item 148 SOLD 37ft Samson C-Bird sloop. Factory built hull by Samson marine division. Cruiser. Partially finished below decks. Have all line drawings and specs. Main with 2 reefs, drifter, and 3 jibs. Powered by 2cyl. Saab diesel engine with variable pitch prop. Make offer, will also consider all trades.

Item 147 For Sale Jamie 52' LOA 16' beam built 1969 at marine view boat works in Tacoma, Washington. Powered by twin 8-71 Detroit diesels, welded steel fuel tanks, 8kw Westerbeck genset, 400 ah bank of new full river storage battery's, 32 volt battery bank for engine starting. electronics are all furuno, 24 mile radar/chartploter, color-sounder, GPS, VHF, anchor is 200 lb forfjord with 10 feet 1" chain and 20' of 3/4"chain 60 fathoms of rope, hydraulic crane on pilot house, running hot and cold water. 300 gallon stainless fresh water tank, oil stove heats 30 gallon hot water tank by convection, well insulated with thermal pane windows in galley, all new tile in bathroom, wood work is totally finished in living areas. sleeps six, washer and propane dryer, fresh bottom paint and zincs. hauled out in Hoonha, Alaska, ready to go. A slip in Hoonha is $1,200 for a year. Asking $20,000 USD [email protected]

Item 146 For Sale Phoenicia. Bluewater Cruising/Liveaboard Yacht, centre cockpit, flat deck, sloop,long keel, launched in 1979 in Saint Raphael, France. Length 14.20 Beam 4.20 Draft 2.20. Aft cabin has full size double bed and toilet with shower, big kitchen, huge space saloon, front cabin full size double bed, two berths and toilet, sleeping for 8. Engine GM Detroit Allison 89hp running perfect. Mainsail (new), genoa big, genoa medium, staysail, spinnaker,storm jib. New electric system, 4 solar panels (350w) 2solar chargers (new), alternator (5oow, new), battery charger (new), batteries 400ah, GPS, GPS plotter, radar detector (new), depth sounder (new),Vhf, autipilot, 2 bilge pumps, Bow thruster, fridge, water heater. Electric anchor windless, 4 deck winches, 2 more mast winches, valise liferaft, 2 dinghy, bimini, sails and ropes storage hatch, 4 anchors. Diesel 700l, water 1000l stainless steel, lots of tools and spare parts. located south of Spain, near to Portugal. Price 25,000euro, sea worthy, perfect for charter and living. For more information and pictures contact [email protected]

Item 145 For Sale Samson C-Lord 'Makoa Kai Hele'. Rigged and ready for Ocean Voyaging. Self Steering Wind Vane, SSB,DSC VHF Radio, 6 man Life raft , Complete set of new Working Sails (total of 12), 2 Solid Fuel Fireplaces, 3 (three) 12/110 Volt refers, 120lb main anchor w/400 ft of 5/8ths chain ,80 lb anchor with 400 ft chain both on independent bow rollers and separate windlasses, 75 lb anchor on custom stern roller aft, Utra Suede upholstery thruout, 3 Cabin Layout with 2 full heads that have separate shower stalls, 3 GPS systems, Lap top Nav Computer loaded with world charts, Sat Phone with all attachments for Computer, 200 Gals water in SS Tanks, 200 Gals Diesel for a range of 950 NM +, New 11 Hypalon Inflatable, 15 HP Honda Outboard, 9 ft sailing dink on Davits, Solar Panel on radar Arch, Outriggers for trolling, Green stick trolling pole, Dive Compressor with 50 ft air hose...etc. to much to list here, is truly a Open Ocean Voyaging sailboat that is set up for short handed sailing in extreme comfort. Boat is lying at Berkeley, California. $99,000 USD. For a full spec sheet with interior and exterior photos Contact Wyn Folsome 1-415-299-7168. [email protected]

Item 144 For Sale 70' Peterson Schooner. Built 2002. in Marina Del Rey, California. 12 sail bags (light, medium, and heavy weather for each sail) Rig built at abeking & rasmussen, Germany . Barlow winches. aluminum masts 3 double beds, 1 queen bed master state room Beautiful teak master state room, 2" teak caprail. 6 bronze hatches and 1 36" porthole for anchor storage room access. 3/8" west system epoxy micro balloons covering hull and penetrating epoxy inside and out of hull. end tie in san pedro for $710 a month includes utilities. Will deliver anywhere in world. Best Cash US DOLLAR OFFER [email protected] +1-310-200-1602

Item 143 For Sale 36' Ferro Gaff Ketch. The hull was built in Gweek, Cornwall on Colin Archer lines, the remainder was built/made by the couple we bought her from. Survey from the build and survey from when we bought are available. This has been our home for the last 14 years as we have wandered the North Atlantic from Senegal to the Arctic Circle. 5 Atlantic crossings and 70,000 miles have proved her to be a wonderful boat. Glassed ply decks. Bulwarks/capping rail in Iroko. Coach house in Iroko. Doghouse, marine ply and Iroko. Tiller steering. Main mast keel stepped, mizzen deck stepped. Small cockpit with drain holes. Lazerette. Two cockpit lockers. Servo-pendulum wind vane. Bilge pump. 2 sets of winches. LOD: 36" - 10.97m; Beam 12.75' - 3.89m; Draft 7' - 2.10m; LOA inc bowsprit & self steerer about 47' - 14m. Boat is currently in Guadaloupe en route to the Plymouth area. See http://gafferhannah.blogspot.com/ for more pics. We're asking 39,000UKP but feel free to make a reasonable offer. Contact [email protected]

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Frances 26: a proper little yacht

• David Harding
• September 24, 2024

With her long keel, appealing lines, big-boat feel and surprisingly roomy interior, the Frances 26 is a sought-after, second-hand buy, says David Harding

The Frances 26 came as a sloop or cutter. Credit: David Harding Credit: David Harding

Product Overview

Boats that are both modest in size and classic in style can look gorgeous. They can also sail beautifully, weather storms, cross oceans and give their owners years of pleasure wherever in the world they happen to be.

Just look at what people have done with the Folkboat, Vertue and Contessa 26, for example.

You don’t have to be young or adventurous to appreciate them, however: not everyone is a Tania Aebi, Sebastian Smith, Blondie Hasler, Mike Richey, Richard Clifford or Humphrey Barton.

Besides, not all of us have the urge to complete a single-handed circumnavigation , live aboard in the Med with our family, race around Britain or face hurricanes and knockdowns during a crossing of the north Atlantic.

For most cruising folk, time on the water is about enjoying sailing closer to home.

And if you happen to favour boats of classic appearance and modest size, the likes of the Folkboat, Contessa and Vertue might well be the perfect choice.

The Frances 26 has a beam of 8ft/2.44m. Credit: David Harding

Perhaps their principal drawback – common to Folkboat-inspired designs and to slim-hulled classic yachts of an earlier era – is that they’re simply too small down below for many of today’s cruising sailors.

As Mike Hall, who owned an Endurance 40 for nearly 30 years, points out, ‘when you’re older and downsizing, possibly with a bad back, you really want standing headroom – and that’s not easy to find on an appreciably smaller yacht that looks good and still has most of the attributes that a proper yacht should have.’

Mike and his wife Clare were facing a dilemma familiar to owners who have decided the time has come to move to something smaller.

Their Endurance, Tristan da Cunha , served them well. Mike fitted her out himself in 1984/5 from the ferro-cement hull and deck, subsequently covering many miles from his base in the Bristol Channel.

Tristan ’s log shows more than one hop across Biscay to northern Spain, together with extensive cruises around northern Europe.

I got to know her too, joining Mike and Clare on a number of filming missions: Tristan frequently doubled as a mobile base for the shooting of their broadcast-quality nautical films.

While the filming life continued, the time came to review the sailing. Tristan was too big, too heavy to handle and too labour-intensive to maintain.

The question was what to buy next.

A wide, sunken foredeck is edged by teak-capped bulwarks on the Frances 26. Halyards are at the mast. Credit: David Harding

When you have become accustomed to a 40ft (12m) concrete cruising yacht with a motion that makes Lundy Island feel lively; a boat you have built, loved, cherished, modified and maintained for more than 30 years and that has carried you safely across thousands of miles of sea, where do you go from there?

The choice is undoubtedly harder if, like Mike, you’re unashamedly an old-school sailor.

You don’t want slab sides, light displacement and acres of plastic.

At the same time, you want a good amount of space within an overall length of no more than about 26ft (8m).

Your boat needs to be something you can be proud to own and on which you can put your own stamp. Comfort, quality and character are paramount.

With several decades of sailing experience behind him, Mike had a few ideas.

For example, in the 1960s he had owned a Trident 24 and, having a lot of respect for Alan Hill’s designs, he thought he could do a lot worse than have another look at one.

‘It’s a very pretty, traditional-looking boat,’ he recalled, ‘but when we went below and sat down in the saloon we discovered there was no headroom under the side decks. I had no memory of this at all. It had seemed quite comfy when I had one.’

Even the heavier, fuller-bodied Vertue, which Mike regards as one of his all-time favourites, struck him as “very cramped, dark down below and somehow old fashioned’.

Enter the Frances 26

Finding a boat of classic appearance that offered an acceptable degree of comfort within a suitable length was proving difficult.

That was until Chuck Paine’s sweet-lined double-ender, the Frances 26, entered the equation and rose unchallenged to the top of the list.

Back in the 1970s, the then editor of Yachting World , Bernard Hayman, drew her to the attention of the British sailing public.

Mike took note. More recently he saw one out of the water on the East Coast and was struck by her hull lines.

So, when a Frances 26 came up for sale in Bangor, he had to have a look.

The photo that inspired the Frances 26: This shot of the boats that inspired the Frances 26 was taken in Tobermory by a young Chuck Paine on a back-packing holiday before he set up his design office in Maine. Credit: Chuck Paine

He went, he saw, he bought – and, in the autumn of 2012, Grayling moved to her new home near Bristol.

On arrival, she looked nothing like she does now. The external woodwork – all in teak – had been coated in a dark grey paint.

She was sound and clearly had potential, but needed an awful lot of work to make her a worthy successor to Tristan .

The grey was stripped off and the gleaming varnish-work restored.

Tristan ’s green livery was replicated on Grayling .

Both above decks and below she has been turned into what must be one of the smartest Frances 26s afloat.

As a design, she’s a head-turner; no doubt about that.

‘And from this my first design was born’: Paine made this sketch of the Frances 26 in a notebook he carried with him. Credit: Chuck Paine

The builders in the UK – Victoria Marine and their later incarnations – were known for building strong boats, fitting out the mouldings from Northshore, so structural issues are unlikely.

Indeed, Mike describes her as ‘hugely well built’, pointing out features such as the way the bulkheads are properly laminated into the hull and the use of hardwoods even in out-of-the-way places down below.

‘I’ve been shocked when looking under the bunks of some boats that have a reputation for quality, and finding lots of softwood down there,’ he says. ‘Their builders take care over the bits you’re meant to see.’

We will take a closer look below decks on the Frances 26 a little later. First, how about the sailing?

To find out whether her manners match her appearance, I visited Grayling .

Every test you read describes the performance and handling qualities differently.

Most are broadly complimentary, including those that refer to the utterly implausible like upwind speeds of 6.5 knots.

When I put this to the designer, he replied, ‘I can’t imagine a Frances 26 making more than 6 knots, and that would be well off the wind hanging on for dear life.’

Frances 26: Measure for measure

The word I would use to sum up the handling of the Frances 26, under both power and sail, is ‘measured’.

She does things gently. Reversing out of a berth, she responds best if her bow is given a nudge in the right direction.

She can be encouraged to go where you want within limits, given enough space and no hindrances like an awkward wind.

If you’re used to a long-keeled 40ft heavyweight, she probably feels light and manoeuvrable.

In addition to the full-length keel , she has a small engine by today’s standards (various Yanmars and Volvos were fitted, Grayling having the 10hp Yanmar 1GM).

That’s not a lot of horses for a boat displacing nearly 7,000lb (over 3.1 tons, or 3,000kg if you think in metric).

As with many boats from this era, plenty of examples have been re-engined and you will find some with 15hp or more beneath the companionway.

The Frances 26 has a protected cockpit, even without the sprayhood and dodgers. There’s a locker to starboard and a lazarette under the aft deck, where the gas bottle lives too. Credit: David Harding

Another factor to consider on a double-ender with a transom-hung rudder is that the tiller’s arc is more restricted than on boats with a transom stern.

Under power, she’s definitely a little ship.

Once we had motored from her berth around to the lock, I was reminded that this was the Bristol Channel.

Locking in or out at low tide, you find yourself staring up at a rectangle of sky framed by towering lock-sides.

There’s much whooshing of water – as they call it in these parts, or liquid mud to the rest of us – and then lots of froth appears.

It’s all in a day’s sail for Bristol Channel veterans like Mike and Clare, who reckon that most South Coast yachties don’t realise how easy they have it.

Even so, they would never dream of swapping. And, lest I risk conveying the wrong impression, it must be said the lock-keeping at Portishead is hard to fault.

Once clear of the lock on our first outing we had a reasonable breeze while I was taking the photos.

It disappeared the moment I hopped aboard Grayling, so the only answer was another trip to the coast of chocolate-coloured water, imposing locks and ferocious tides.

Thankfully this time the weather gods were more obliging.

It was all still relatively gentle, with 12-14 knots of breeze from the south-west, but enough for a half-decent sail.

Various rigs are seen on the Frances 26. The original was a fractional configuration with a small headsail, often a boomed self-tacker.

Then there was a Bermudan cutter sporting a short bowsprit , and a gaff cutter too, though you see many more of the former than of the latter.

In the middle is the straightforward masthead sloop as on Grayling.

The sails , while presentable by the standards of a typical cruising yacht, were far from new and the mainsail in particular needed some pulling into shape.

Once we had done what we could with it, we reached offshore, across the strong east-going tide, to create searoom for a decent beat.

Given the strength of the tide, a fouled-up log impeller and the lack of a sacrificial toothbrush, we gauged our speed from a cross-tide reading on the GPS.

Around 5.3 knots in these conditions seemed perfectly respectable.

Plenty of teak and brass below decks, contrasting with the white finish to the bulkheads and cabin sides. Mike has added much of the trim himself. Credit: David Harding

Like most boats on a reach in any breeze, the Frances 26 developed a meaningful tug on the tiller at times.

Easing the mainsail made it manageable.

The effects of the weather helm were amplified by the unbalanced rudder, which Chuck Paine changed in favour of a fully- balanced alternative when he drew Frances II, a 37-year update of the original design, in 2011.

Hardening up on the wind, we estimated our speed at around 4.5 knots in a sea that was moderately flat with just a few popply patches to test the boat’s motion.

I had wondered whether she might exhibit some hobby-horsing tendency, but none was apparent.

More noticeable was her readiness to heel to 15 or 20° before stiffening up.

At that stage, even provoking her by bearing away with the sheets pinned in resulted in nothing more than the occasional dipping of the toerail.

In general, once the Frances 26 had dug her shoulder in and got into gear, she tramped along very happily.

She had an easy motion and showed little inclination to be brought up short by the waves, her high bow throwing the water aside to good effect.

As the designer put it more poetically, ’her sleek lines cut through resistance like a dreadnought. Point Frances toward a destination and she was unstoppable.’

Paine was referring to his own boat because, in 1974, he designed her for himself, ‘to be capable of yearly cruises to and among the Caribbean islands, small enough to fit my limited budget, but large enough to survive a gale at sea’.

In this case, ’to… the Caribbean’ meant from Maine, though there are reports of Atlantic crossings, and a boat called La Luz – an original-style flush-decked Frances built in Maine by Morris Yachts – has recently sailed from Georgia to New Zealand.

Crossing oceans is not what she was designed for, however, and Paine admits that she lacks the draught to point well or carry her sail in a blow (it’s just 3ft 10in/1.17m).

That’s why, with Frances II, he made the keel both shorter and 5in (13cm) deeper as well as giving her slightly greater overall length and a taller rig.

Even so, the original Frances doesn’t do too badly: La Luz ’s owner has faced some heavy windward work and been impressed by the way she handles.

Interesting though it is to see how a designer would change one of his own boats with four decades’ more experience to draw upon, you won’t find a Frances II. If you like the Frances, the original is what you’ll get – typically flush-decked in the USA, and with a short coachroof in the UK – unless you buy the plans and build a new one.

And the originals, like Grayling , are thoroughly likeable little boats.

She won’t point particularly high, around 100° between tacks being the best we could manage by the compass without losing speed and increasing leeway, but she’s no slouch.

She’s a comfortable boat to sail, too, with a helm that, upwind, is agreeably light. I put her through the ‘circuits and bumps’ routine (heaving to, spinning with the sheets pinned in, sailing under just the mainsail, and so on) and she performed most of them with no complaints.

One aspect that I would have to get used to is the helming position. It’s very much a sit-in cockpit – ideal for two, manageable with three – edged by vertical coamings in teak.

I found that the only way to see the telltales on the luff of the headsail was to use a length of line as a tiller extension and perch right on the forward end of the windward coaming.

It’s not desperately comfortable. You would probably get used to sitting in and sailing blind.

As you would expect, tacking is a deliberate process, largely because it takes a while for the clew of the genoa to negotiate the forward lowers.

In the early days, Victoria Yachts in the UK offered the Frances with a choice of layouts, mostly open-plan to make the best use of space.

The version that became the norm has a quarter berth to port and a separate heads compartment to starboard, forward of which is a small hanging locker.

Along the port side are the galley and a hinge-down chart table.

The short coachroof, with two ports in its forward end, gives nigh on 6ft (1.83m) of headroom.

Fit-out is bright and simple, with white-painted and laminate-faced plywood, varnished trim and, thankfully, no interior mouldings.

There’s no headlining either, making for easy access to the fastenings for the deck fittings.

An open-plan layout makes good use of space. Structural members stiffen the hull in the absence of a full-height bulkhead. Note the keel-stepped mast – an unusual feature on a cruising boat of this size. Credit: David Harding

Such brightness and simplicity could result in a rather spartan feel, but Mike and Clare have made Grayling ’s interior particularly warm and welcoming.

Mike has crafted extra teak trim that matches the original so well that it’s hard to tell what’s new and what was there before.

He has also added photographs and assorted nautical artefacts from Tristan that make the interior something of a maritime history lesson if you study carefully.

Soft furnishings have been given careful thought too. For example, the duvets are rolled up along the hull sides on the forward berth so they double as cushions.

Modern touches added by Mike include LED bulbs and a six-outlet ring-main with brass fittings.

In terms of ergonomics, the compact heads is more useable than you might imagine from the outside.

Berths are long enough if you can stand up. The front of the engine can be reached with the companionway steps removed and it’s possible – as Mike has found – to remove sludge in the fuel tank through the access panel in the quarter berth.

Verdict on the Frances 26

In the words of Chuck Paine, the original Frances 26 is an imperfect, classic design. She’s comparable in many ways to an MG TD.

‘They spewed oil and weren’t very fast by today’s standards, but they were so cute and stylish that owners have enjoyed every minute of their use for decades’.

Perhaps the designer is being a little harsh on his first creation.

The Frances 26 was never conceived as an ocean greyhound. Nonetheless, she goes pretty well for a heavyish, shoal-draught 26-footer with a long keel.

She looks lovely, and really is one of few boats in this size range that combines appealing lines and an easy motion with respectable performance, standing headroom and a remarkable amount of space below decks.

With Grayling , her owners have come as close as is possible to imbuing a 26-footer with the elegance, character and feel of a 40ft offshore cruising yacht.

It’s a rare 26-footer that allows anyone to do that.

Cantiere Delle Marche Acciaio 123 Astrum

Description

Acciaio 123’ is a strong and robust steel and aluminum explorer vessel whose exterior lines carries both masculine and elegant traits. After the very successful Darwin Class and Nauta Air ranges, the Acciaio range from Cantiere delle Marche raises the bar of what an explorer vessel should be like in terms of design, functionality and quality. Her 37,35 mt in length overall and 7,80 mt (or 25,5’) of beam contributes for a gross tons of 350. The hull design offers not only class-leading fuel efficiency but also a noiseless cruise and extreme guest comfort. A bulbous bow ensures good seakeeping for a boat whose Owner embarks on voyages in seas that often keep other yachts at the dock. Her interior offers 6 guest cabins spread across three guest decks, including a full beam master cabin on main deck and a VIP cabin on upper deck. The main salon has separate areas for dining and lounging with a TV screen located on the aft bulkhead. A big sliding door connects the main salon to an outdoor beach club of 53 sq mt: a head-turner, chill out zone in which cockpit, transom staircase and swimming platform becomes one single area with direct access to the sea and open air. A large media room/sky lounge is located on the upper deck that open up to a large alfresco dining area outside. Moving upstairs and the superyacht sundeck is fitted with a spa pool and sunpads, while the hard top Bimini allows guests to relax in the shade and enjoy a light meal or a drink from the bar. The large aft area of the sundeck can be either use to set up free standing chaise longue, accommodate toys or be used as a fitness and yoga area. The Owner’s fun and enjoyment of the sea is secured by the ample selection of water toys that Acciaio 123 can carry. In fact, beside a 5 mt tender in the garage and a jet ski on the bow, lots of space has been purposely built in two storages located underneath the tender housing and on the foredeck area. The systems aboard Acciaio 123 ’ hold typical CDM over engineered standards: 12 mm steel hull, motorized bilge pumps, black, gray, and bilge waters that have been adapted from the world of work ships and designed to be used 24/365, cupronickel piping, independent rudders, automatic parallel between generators. In terms of performances, Acciaio 123 ’ reaches a top speed of 13 knots and a range of 5.500 nautical miles at 10 knots of cruising speed.

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