MJLewis Boatsales Ltd | |
Downs Road Boatyard, 19A Downs Road, Maldon, Essex, CM9 5HG, UK | |
Contact: | Catherine Dines |
Telephone: | Reveal Telephone Number |
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£13,950 ONO | | |
Status: | Available |
Location: |
Maldon, CM9 5HG Essex UK [View Map] |
Reference: | Athena |
25ft , 4T, Teak Bermudan sloop, commissioned and built in 1950 to a Norman.E. Dalimore design (No:310), she is very original in her fit out.
A reconditioned Yanmar GM10 diesel engine was installed in her in 2018.
She has a long keel and a slight draft of just 3ft which extends to nearly 6ft with the centreboard board lowered. Open aft cockpit. A real classic, in good order.
Vessel name: | Athena |
Condition: | Good |
Vessel type: | Single wooden displacement hull |
Designer: | Norman E.Dalimore |
Builder: | Dan, Webb and Feesey, Maldon, Essex. |
Model: | 4T Aux Sloop Design No:310 |
Fit Out: | 1951 |
Constructed: | 1951 |
Refitted: | 2024 |
Guests: | 3 |
Berths: | 3 |
Cabins: | 2 |
Heads: | 1 |
No. of engines: | 1 |
Engine model: | Yanmar 1 GM |
Engine power: | 9 |
Fuel type: | Diesel |
Drive type: | Shaft drive |
Cruising Speed: | 4 Knots |
Maximum Speed: | 8 Knots |
Nominal length: | 25' |
Length over all: | 25' |
Length at waterline: | 19' 3" |
Maximum draft: | 4' 9" |
Draft, keel down: | 4' 9" |
Draft, keel up: | 3' |
Bridge clearance: | 30' |
Hull material: | Wood |
Hull type: | Displacement |
Keel type: | Centreboard |
The saloon is entered through pair of opening doors and a sliding hatch.
A Taylor paraffin cooker at the aft end of the saloon to port with a worktop/shelf to starboard.
Forward are opposing wide slatted bunk tops with lockers behind the seat backs and trotter boxes.
Lighting is provided by oil lamps
At the fore end of the saloon is a hanging locker with a chain locker below on the starboard side.
The foc’sle has been refitted with new bunks and a Blakes marine toilet.
She is carvel planked in teak on steamed oak timbers. She has a large external lead ballast keel with a bronze centreplate. She has been re-decked in the past with plywood sheathed in glass mat and epoxy resin. She has a teak sided coach roof and her deck furniture and cockpit are teak with bronze fittings. The cockpit drains into the bilge.
The hull is fairly visible throughout the boat. The planking is teak with steamed oak or rock elm timbers, oak beams and a pine beamshelf and stringers. Internally the planks are tight and the timbers are not broken. There is one galvanized floor aft, all the other floors are wooden. Either side of the centreplate slot the bronze keel bolts are in the floors, forward the bolts are on the centreline.
8ft Pram dinghy.
Fitted canvas cockpit tent cover.
Tiller steering
Clock
Varnished wooden deck stepped mast.
The mast and boom are spruce. Spreaders are ash. The fittings on the mast and boom are bronze. The boom is fitted with roller reefing.
The rigging was overhauled and renewed as required, by TS Rigging Ltd, 2018
Whale gusher 10, manual bilge pump. fitted under the cockpit
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.
Note: Indicated location is approximate general area only.