1968 Trident 24

• GRP construction
• Designed by Alan F. Hill
• Built by Marine Construction Ltd.
• Cast iron ballast (ballast ratio 40%)
• Air draft approximately 8.69m (28ft 6in)
• Antifouled April 2008
• Paint finish above waterline

• Lynch 24v 4.7kw electric inboard motor (serviced by manufacturer – LMC of Honiton, Devon – March 2010)
• Direct drive to shaft with 2 blade prop with rope cutter
• Curtis engine controls (some new 2007)
• 4 x 6v 225ah traction batteries (new 2008)
• Smart battery charger (24v) with shorepower hook up
• Nasa battery monitor
• Four-stroke petrol generator
• AirX wind generator
• 2 x 24v 5w solar panels
• 10amp 24v to 12v adaptor
• Wiring mostly renewed in 2008 and all in good, reliable, working order
• Tiller steering

• Junk rig
• Keel stepped 9.14m (30ft) unstayed tapered aluminium mast (note: this mast is not stepped in a tabernacle for lowering/raising)
• Aluminium and fibreglass spars and battens
• Single 280sqft tan junk sail (not blue sails shown in some photos), old but serviceable
• Sail cover
• All sail controls operated from cockpit

• 4 berths in 2 cabins
• Forward cabin with 2 x 1.78m (5ft 10in) V-berths (no berth cushions as cabin currently used for storage only)
• Sliding door to separate heads compartment with Lavac sea toilet (no holding tank), with hanging locker opposite
• Main saloon with 2 x 2.13m x 0.66m (7ft x 2ft 2in) single settee berths (berth cushions and curtains all new 2007)
• Galley with single burner gas stove and sink with hand pumped cold water supply
• 2 x 10l portable freshwater tanks, plus a number of smaller bottles, giving about 45l in total
• Additional, currently unused, 50l (approximately) flexible water tank under the forward V-berth with filler on foredeck
• Chart table
• All bands radio with 2 remote speakers
• Lockers under all berths and under side decks in both cabins
• Maximum headroom main cabin: 1.65m (5ft 5in)
• Maximum headroom forward cabin: 1.37m (4ft 6in)

Navigation Equipment

• Garmin chartplotter/sounder (greyscale) with charts for Newhaven to Amsterdam
• Cobra DSC VHF
• Wind speed meter
• Nasa Navtex
• LED navigation and anchor lights

Safety Equipment

• 2 x lifebuoys
• Manual and electric (float switch) bilge pumps
• 2 x fire extinguishers and fire blanket (all new 2008)
• BSS Certificate (expires Aug 2012)

Deck Equipment

• 10kg plough anchor with 20m chain and 30m rope (all new 2007)
• Anchor winch with rope and chain gypsy
• Cockpit spray dodgers
• Beaching legs
• Warps
• 6 fenders plus bow fender
• Boathook
• Bucket, brush, etc
• Technical manual produced by owner’s association

The Trident 24 has a proven record of sea worthiness, with many examples having completed single handed channel crossings and at least one having crossed the Atlantic. She is a tough, reliable and easily managed yacht, with wide decks and all controls led back to the cockpit, and with her shallow draft, she is also a very versatile vessel.

This example was was purchased new in 1968 as a ‘Sailaway’ with a Vire petrol engine. She was fitted out by her first owner, an electrical engineer, over the next couple of years, and was converted to an electric engine in the late 1990s. Her current (and second) owner purchased her in 2006, and he has since updated and simplified the electrics which are now very reliable and produce plenty of torque for close quarters manoeuvring. Whilst her owner states that she would benefit from some cosmetic improvement (for example, by the renewal of the forward headlining – a job which was started by her former owner, but sadly never finished – and general interior repainting/varnishing), she is otherwise a very well equipped yacht which is lying afloat, in commission and ready to go! She is for sale due to a change of plans.

Update February 2011 : REDUCED FOR A QUICK SALE and subject to the purchaser moving the boat before the end of March 2011.