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What is a Gaff?

A sail gaff is a type of spar (pole) used to support the head of a fore-and-aft sail. It is most commonly used on sailing vessels and is similar in style to a lugsail's yard. The sail gaff is held in place by the gaff jaws, which are hoisted up to the mast. The gaff is positioned so that the sail has the correct angle of attack in relation to the wind. The gaff vang and/or topping lift keeps the gaff rigid and in place when the sail is set. The gaff can also be used to support a boom that holds an extra sail known as a spanker. A sail gaff, when added to the sail, makes the vessel more efficient and allows for a variety of sail designs.

Which manufacturers build gaff sail boats?

Manufacturers that produce gaff sail boats include Cornish Crabbers , Norfolk Gypsy , Fountaine Pajot , Elkins and Cape Cutter .

How much does a gaff sail boat cost?

A used gaff sail boat on TheYachtMarket.com ranges in price from £12,000 GBP to £3,380,000 GBP with an average price of £267,000 GBP . Factors including the condition, age, model and specification will affect the price of a gaff.

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• Make Gaff Rigged
• Model Classic Schooner
• LOA 57ft/17m
• Class Sailing Cruiser
• Keel Long Keel
• Rig Schooner
• Engine Single Diesel
• Drive Shaft Drive
• Layout Deck Saloon/Pilothouse
• Ancasta Ref 22025
• Name El Caboandres

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Boat Details

Designer: Sir Thomas Glenn-Coats of Alfred Mylne 

Builder: McGruer & Co

Model: Q Class / 6 Metre 

Boat Location: Lymington, UK 

Price: £39,000

Length: 34 ft 1 in 

Beam: 6 ft 6 in

Draft: 5 ft 4 in

Hull Material: Wood 

Description 

Duet needs no introduction if you have been a regular at any Mediterranean classic regatta in the past decade, having been busy cleaning up the silverware at the likes of Coupe d’Automme Yacht Club de France, Les Voiles d’Antibes and Regates Royales Cannes.

Originally designed by Sir Thomas Glen-Coats under the Alfred Mylne design office and built in 1926 at the McGruer & Co yard. Her original design was to a 6 Metre rule and after the war converted into cruiser/racer with the well-designed cabin and interior, Duet then raced under the Solent Q Class and now races under CIM. 

Duet has had several refits but most recently refitted at a yard in Lymington in 2010. Following this refit she went on to win overall at the Yarmouth Old Gaffers Festival, which saw some 150 + gaff rig boats take part. A quick pit stop in La Trinite-sur-Mer on her way to the Mediterranean saw Duet win the Open Championship for classic 6 metres. Since then she has won a number of regattas in the Mediterranean.

Duet is the perfect combination of a cruiser racer which has both measurements certificates for classic regattas and the 6 Metre class (with a Bermudian rig). A great inventory which would allow her next owner to go on and win races.

Currently in storage in Cannes.  

Accommodation   ​

2 Single Berths 

Toilet 

Electric Aquapella inboard 24v by Bellman B.V. with fixed 2 blade or custom made 3 blade max prop type feathering, shaft driven c/w disc brake

Electronics  

Tacktic System including speed/depth/wind/direction 

2 Compasses 

Dec k Equipment

x7 Harken bronze winches (including 2 period style 'pancake' winches with modern Harken internals)  

Harken genoa tracks and cars

Harken mainsheet traveller cars 

Hollow wooden main and topmast by Noble 

Wooden boom 

x2 spinnaker poles by Collars 

Lightly used racing wardrobe to CIM requirements, i.e. material and design/period cut

No 1 Drifter

AP Spinnaker

Running Spinnaker

Over boom cockpit cover

Deck/hull custom cover for storage/transit

Additional  Information

APM 245 Certificate 

CIM Certificate 

6 Metre Measurement certificate (with Bermudian rig) 

Disclaimer 

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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Eastwood Whelpton have a fleet of 16 yachts that are suited to sailing on the rivers and lakes that make up The Broads, and we will have a yacht that will meet your needs in terms of size of accommodation, comfort and sailing ability.

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Our Fleet of 8 traditional gaff-rigged Broads River Cruisers are part of The Broads’ tradition of low freeboard, inland waterways cruising and racing yachts with the core design dating back to Victorian times when holidays in Norfolk became popular with the gentry of the time.

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44 ft Gaff rigged Yawl 1995 - Sold

YOUNG LARRY

44 ft gaff rigged yawl 1995.

These details are provisional and may be amended

BROKER'S COMMENTS

First prizes for the best vintage replica on the fussy Mediterranean circuit tells you a little about this vessel’s beauty and detail - but do not be fooled into thinking YOUNG LARRY is a delicate regatta showboat. In her second and current ownership she has cruised extensively in the Arctic, the Pacific and Atlantic seaboards as well as European waters. YOUNG LARRY is a genuine blue water cruising boat. Strong, beautiful and wonderfully thought out and was built with very few compromises.

The concept for YOUNG LARRY derived from the Charles Nicholson designed 1907 gaff cutter LARRY, which the original owner had owned and sailed over many years. With the additional guidance of designers including marine architect Jim Harris of Barrow in Furness and inspiration from Dr Harrison Butler’s “Cruising Yachts Design and Performance”. The result is the perfect cruising yacht; robust and yet with an ambience and character to give enormous pleasure to all who sail her. In her first ownership, YOUNG LARRY cruised extensively in the Mediterranean and successfully competed in many of the classic regattas there, twice winning The Best Classic Replica in the Conde de Barcelona Regatta, Palma and her class in the Coppa del Rey in Mahon. In her current ownership, YOUNG LARRY has been sailed through the North West Passage, Alaska, western North America, the Caribbean, the eastern US and Canadian coasts and European waters. In 2014 / 15 she returned via Greenland, Baffin Island and NE Canada - sailing back to Ireland on a comfortable and fast 14 day passage.

Construction and finish

- Keel in ¼ inch (6 mm) mild steel - Main hull in 5 mm steel, all of which hot blasted and epoxy primed in UK - Frames spaced every 2 ft (0.6 m) with horizontal stringers every 18 in (0.46 m) - Lead ballast blocks, bound with molten lead and heavy steel bars welded across the floors - Smooth sole plates overall to the bow; easy to clean and maintain - Deck, coach roof and doghouse are in 4 mm (1/6 in) epoxy primer coated steel - Douglas fir 1 ¼ in / 32 mm planking overlay thoroughly primed, sealed, glued and caulked - Deck through bolted with stainless steel countersunk bolts - All quarter-sawn wood for the deck, masts and spars from MH Southern Ltd, Jarrow - Deck is 3 foot wide to the sides - Teak skylight made by John Moody, Chillington, Devon - All plywood is marine ply, the trimming and facing of mahogany - Deck, coach-roof and doghouse have 5 coats International Interprime 820 epoxy primer with International 709 polyurethane top coat - Interior coated with International Interprime 820 - Bilges have about 30 coats of epoxy paint

Accommodation

All joinery of a high standard of design and construction - Deep, well protected self draining cockpit - Sliding hatch and double glazed doors access forward into doghouse - Stand up chart table and seating both sides - Companionway steps over the engine space lead down from the doghouse Large user-friendly galley to port with plenty of work space and cupboards - Gimballed Force 10 gas hob and oven - Top loading icebox and fridge - Stainless steel sink and mixer tap Small single berth cabin aft of the galley with its own port light and doors Double berth to starboard - Open to the saloon for the benefit of ventilation and or its heater - Curtain for privacy if required Saloon c 8 ft 6 in / 2.6 m long and 12 ft / 3.7 m across; light and airy - Headroom under the beams is 6 ft 4 in / c 2 m) and more under the large teak skylight - Generous book shelves glass-fronted lockers - Drop leaf mahogany dining table - Flap down writing desk - Refleks diesel heater - Double doors open forward Head compartment - Lavac WC new 2014 - Basin and shower with standing headroom and large hanging locker to starboard - Access forward Double berth to port - Hatch over to fore deck - Sail stowage under and work bench to starboard

Rig, spars and sails

Gaff yawl rig - 58 ft Douglas fir main mast is stepped on the keel - Halyard winches on mast - Mizzen stepped thru deck and while short, assists balance under sail and steadies at anchor - Douglas fir mizzen mast carries all the aerials and the Autohelm gyro compass - Douglas fir spars - Rigging and wooden blocks by TS Rigging, Maldon, Essex - Standing rigging mainly hand-spliced galvanised wire parcelled and served - Servings treated with boiled linseed oil / Stockholm tar / varnish mix Sails - Main sail, 2009; slab reefing - Jib 2011 on a “code zero” type furler which allows the bowsprit to be shipped - No2 jib as new 2014 - Boomed self tacking staysail 2011 - Mizzen - Mast head topsail - Cruising chute in double pocketed sock

Deck layout equipment and ground tackle

- Cockpit with pedestal wheel steering, compass and engine controls - Dymena runners on Highfield Levers - ST sheet winches - Maxwell anchor winch - can also hoist dinghy or MOB to foredeck - 105 1b CQR main anchor - 60 lb CQR anchor - 60 lb fisherman cast anchor - 328 ft / 100 m 7/16th inch / 11 mm chain - 328 ft / 100 m anchor line in deck box - Emergency tiller - Misc warps, lines and fenders - Telescopic Yacht Leg Co beaching legs < 20 tons

Mechanical electrical and tankage

- 50 HP Yanmar Diesel engine on centre line below doghouse - 24 V 60 A alternator - 13 A 24 V Mastervolt battery charger - 3.6 A Ctek 12 V battery charger - Link 10 Ammeter for 24 V service batteries - 12 V Alternator for engine start supply - 240 V Inverter - 2 x 240 V Sockets for shore power - Electric deck / anchor wash-down pum - All domestic wiring double insulated controlled by Newmar trip switches in doghouse - Hot and cold pressurised fresh water - Main fuel tank in the keel c 80 gallons / 364 L - Day fuel tank. C 12gallon / 60 L - 4 x Flexible fresh water tanks 140 gal / 470 l - Black water tank

Navigation, communications and electronics

- Furuno Navnet radar / plotter 2010 - Echopilot forward looking echo sounder 2014 - Autohelm 7000 hydraulic auto pilot - Autohelm log / speed and echo sounder - Furuno Navtex receiver 2014 - AIS engine transmit and receive linked to Navnet - Furuno Navtex 2014 - DSC VHF 2010

- Life raft - 2011 - Various MOB aids

Miscellaneous

- Set of line drawings - Half model on saloon bulkhead - CD, tape & radio; saloon and doghouse speakers - Comprehensive spares; list available on request as per list

These particulars have been prepared from information provided by the vendors and are intended as a general guide. The purchaser should confirm details of concern to them by survey or engineers inspection. The purchaser should also ensure that the purchase contract properly reflects their concerns and specifies details on which they wish to rely.

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Wooden ships comments on this Cornish gaff cutter built by Kitto of Porthleven, Cornwall in 1898 as a sailing fishing boat. These little boats from this area were commonly known as hookers and worked a few miles off-shore with long lines. They are documented in Edgar March’s book Inshore Craft of Britain in the days of Sail and Oar.

The design typically features a long keel with considerable drag, straight stem, occasionally even fractionally raked aft and a slightly raked transom stern with transom-hung rudder, good freeboard and generous beam. They carried a high peaked gaff cutter rig on a pole mast setting a large topsail on a yard and the bowsprit was set running. They were working boats so had to be practical and functional, they stood up well to their canvas and the buoyant bows would rise to the swell to keep them dry.

The mainsail was usually loose-footed and the tack could be triced up to spill the wind or they would scandalise the gaff while hauling the lines like the Falmouth oyster boats.

The hookers had a cock-pit aft, a fish hold and net hold midships with the net on a transverse roller and even  the smaller boats had a small cabin forward with a bogey stove as they would often spend a few days at sea.

Only a few of these lovely boats have survived and this is certainly one of the best examples, slightly bigger than the average hooker and now extensively rebuilt.

She worked for a while in Falmouth as an oyster dredger but was reckoned to be too deep for the grounds.

In previous 20 year ownership up to October 02, Pat Crockford from Falmouth gave her a major rebuild when the deck was replaced, a new rig fitted, engine and interior replaced, all documented in a 6 page Classic Boat article, December 1993.

Planked in yellow pine fastened with galvanised boat nails to 3” x 4” sawn oak frames in futtocks at 14” centres. This is a very substantial construction.

The appearance of the underwater shape indicates that the draft has been increased by the addition of an oak keel of approx 9” depth below the original oak keel with an iron shoe of approx 4” depth below it, the whole secured with galvanised through bolts checked within the last 10 years.

In addition, there is a quantity of internal ballast carefully stowed in triangular section  lead ingots laid across the frames clear of the planking.

Grown oak floors.

The deck laid in the Falmouth refit in solid teak, narrow planks swept in and joggled to the cover-board, caulked and payed in butyl rubber. All new deck beams

New beam shelf. It appears the topsides were raised by one plank when the new beam shelf was fitted.

Varnished margin board round the coach-roof.

9” deep bulwark with varnished teak capping.

Galvanised stemhead fitting takes the fore stay, single chain roller to stbd. bowsprit gammon iron to port.

Bronze fair leads on the capping rail.

Rowlock holders each side of the cock-pit for use with sweeps.

Bronze capping to the rudder stock head, inscribed with the yacht’s name.

Long wrought iron tiller.

The coach-roof was new in the Falmouth refit, built in varnished teak coamings with 3 small fixed port

lights each side.

The coach-roof is quite wide taking advantage of the yacht’s generous beam and tapers

gently down forwards so does not stand out significantly above the bulwark.

The coach-roof deck is double planked with scrubbed teak externally over internal painted pine boards.

Traditional varnished sky-light with copper drip strips and bronze bars.

Teak grab rails each side of the roof.

Varnished Dorade vent boxes with soft rubber removable vents.

Spray hood with forward window on s/s frame.

Deep self draining cock-pit with high bridge deck at deck level and two teak-laid seat locker lids each

Open shelf under the side deck each side.

The varnished teak cock-pit coamings are raked outwards to make comfortable back rests that do not cut

into the back, bronze capped.

T&G varnished teak lift-out door to the lazarette.

The well is GRP sheathed and fitted with two brass trimmed, lift-out inspection panels, covered in

Wrought iron tiller with varnished hand grip.  Pegs in the aft coaming form a simple self-steering.

Stainless steel fuel tank in the port fwd locker.

Manual bilge pump in port aft locker.

Batterries in the stbd fwd locker.

Stowage in stbd aft locker.

Fold-down varnished mahogany table against the bridge deck bulkhead with drop-down leg.

Gaff cutter rig built new in the Falmouth refit on varnished spruce pole mast stepped through the main deck onto the keel. This is a very tall mast, certainly taller than her original working boat mast but allowing her to set the sail which gives her her reputation for speed.

The lower section of the mast is squared to above deck level with a square stainless steel collar box on deck to keep the apperture watertight.

Single spreaders.

Stainless steel standing rigging about 15 years old.

Twin lowers with soft eyes around wooden cheeks above, swaged Norseman terminals into open-bodied s/s rigging screws with swivels to external galvanised chain plates which reach well down the topsides.

The after lower is set well aft so the running back-stays are not necessary all the time.

Single cap shroud round the spreaders to external chain plates alongside the forward lower chain plates.

Runners on tackles usually set up alongside the shrouds but with deck eyes aft when in use.

Fore stay to a very substantial galvanised stemhead fitting which reaches well down the front of the stem and round over the top of the stem.

Bowsprit gammon iron set to port with opening upper half of the rig allowing the bowsprit to be steeved up.

Bob-stay on chain and tackle.

Fixed s/s bowsprit buys to s/s rigging screws on external fittings.

Jib on leathered traveller.

Varnished spruce main boom with stainless steel end collar pivots on a vertical galvanised pivot post between twin heavy section galvanised steel mast bands very adequately spread the loads of this long boom and powerful mainsail. Belay pins on the lower band take the falls.

Double tailed main sheet with varnished wooden blocks to a stainless steel sheet horse on the aft deck.

Reefing winch on the throat of the boom, stbd side.

Bronze track on the fwd face of the mast with stainless steel ring on bronze car to take a pole.

Varnished spruce gaff with traditional leathered gaff saddle. Peak and throat halyards on varnished blocks.

Stainless steel, marlin served, mainsail  mast hoops.

Twin topping lifts to the boom.

Substantial fixed boom gallows on bronze tube verticals with hand-hold turns and scrubbed teak cross bar.

Headsail sheet tracks on the side decks with single cars.

All winches on the cock-pit coamings:

Pair of modern Lewmar 43 self tail sheet winches.

Pair of top-action Lewmar 16

Pair of older design bronze Gibb28.

All working sails by SKB Sails, Falmouth in cream terylene approx 2000:

Staysail  new 2007

Older suit of sails for a smaller mast.

Beta 28hp 3-cyl diesel engine fitted new in 2007 with 60hrs (winter 10)

Centre-line installation under the bridge deck with stainless steel shaft angled to 9” stbd off-set prop. Conventional stern tube and stuffing gland.

German SWB bronze 4-blade feathering prop. Single lever controls.

6knts cruising speed.

15 gall stainless steel fuel tank in the port fwd cock-pit locker.

2 x 12v batteries in the stbd fwd cock-pit locker. 12v circuits.

Switch board under stbd side deck, saloon.

Fuse box in the locker below.

Extensive new wiring.

Accomodation 4 berths.

Fore peak with double berth to port, wide shoulders, narrower towards the feet fwd. Single large mattress.

Plastic drain pipe chain chute takes the chain right fwd.

Low seat lockers to stbd allow comfortable seating for socks.

Reduced head-room under the deck but comfortable sitting head-room on the berths.

Very nicely varnished teak deckhead with varnished, carefully shaped and finished deck beams.

Mahogany slats to the ship’s sides.

Fore hatch over with bull’s eye light.

T&G varnished pine bulkhead from port side across to the mast leaving the stbd side open for access.

Heads compartment to stbd by the access opening, fitted  with Jabsco sea toilet. The door is skewed so even with the door closed the Jabsco affords a comfortable seat though sitting head-room only.

To port of the mast a Taylor’s drip-feed, diesel fired cabin heater on the bulkhead with lagged flue to deck. Stainless steel fuel tank above in the corner.

Saloon cabin with generous port and stbd settee berths with stowage under accessed either from the front or from above with the cushions lifted. Due to the position of the heads compartment fwd to stbd and the galley aft to port, the settees are slightly staggered.

Upholstered seat backs with shelves and lockers under the side decks above the seat back lockers.

Galley in the after port corner with smart almost new stainless steel Voyageur 2000 2-burner, grill and oven gas cooker, gimballed with crash bar.

Good work surface in the after corner with circular s/s sink pumped overboard, hand pump in the locker under.

Foot pump to the galley sink from 30 gall stainless steel water tank under the stbd settee berth.

Stowage space under the side deck.

Chart desk in the aft stbd corner with short trotter box under and lockers. Electrics and instruments under the side deck above. Pretty turned rail across the front edge.

Engine box between chart desk and galley serves as a seat when working at either and a step down from the cock-pit. Open space under the bridge deck and either side of the engine box for stowage of odd bits.

5’10” under the sky-light

5’6” under the deck

White painted deckhead with varnished oak beams and varnished teak coamings. The cabin top is the full width from seat back to seat back so giving a good feel of space.

Varnished teak sole boards on a wide cabin sole. Plenty of space between the settees.

Exposed beam shelf, varnished half deck beams and side deckhead, heavy hanging knees.

Plastimo porthole compass, stbd of entrance hatch.

Raymarine sounder and log.

Compact VHF

4 life jackets

Horse-shoe life buoy

Selection of flares (probably out of date)

Fire blanket

Manual bilge pump in the cock-pit locker

12v bilge pump on flat switch.

Fisherman anchor

15fthms chain

Manual chromed windlass on the fore deck.

Beaching legs stowed on the coach-roof.

Fenders and warps.

Built for fishing in Mounts Bay, this boat is similar to but slightly bigger than the nearby Falmouth oyster boats and heavier built for the open sea work with double frames all through.

She was in the same family ownership with 3 generations of the Laity family for 80 years until decommissioned and laid up in 1978 during which time she was mostly dredging oysters in Falmouth.

She was bought shortly afterwards by Pat Crockford, a Falmouth fisherman with years of experience with the oyster dredging and took on a new lease of life. The oyster industry had collapsed, she was no longer viable as a working boat so Pat converted her for leisure use. Over the next 10 years he gradually changed and improved her until she became the fastest boat in the fleet and a regular race winner.

A new taller mast was fitted, the sail area increased, the ballast increased, much of the planking replaced, the deck replaced, a cabin top built and the cabin fitted out below.

Much of the work and history is documented in a Classic Boat article Dec 1993.

Sold by Wooden Ships Yacht Brokers in October 2002 to the present Cornish owner.  She has a reputation for being a fast boat, especially with her new taller rig. Very comfortable, safe deep cock-pit, proper West Country gaff rig, surprisingly spacious and practical cabin and the weight to make her a comfortable boat in a blow.

Disclaimer:

These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.

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