1924 Ernest Collins River Cruiser

• Privately commissioned and never in hire
• Pitch Pine on Oak construction (frames at 36in intervals interspersed with ribs at 9in intervals)
• Pitch Pine decks, epoxy mat covered and painted
• Pitch Pine cabin roof
• Mahogany transom
• Teak and Oak decorative woodwork
• Underwater seams sealed with Sikaflex
• Above water seams epoxy glued
• Aerofoil rudder
• Wintered ashore undercover annually

• 6hp Tohatsu four stroke Sailpower High Thrust outboard (new 2008)
• 12v battery charged from engine

• Gaff Cutter rig
• Total sail area : 1,000 sq ft approximately
• Hollow Douglas Fir mast
• Mast stepped in tabernacle with winch for raising and lowering
• Spruce gaff
• Douglas Fir boom
• Standing rigging new 2001-2005
• Running rigging new 2001-2005
• Mainsail
• Jigger topsail
• Roller reefing genoa
• No. 2 jib
• All sails custom made by Saturn Sails
• Main control lines led aft to cockpit for ease of handling
• Current handicap : +1
• Realistically requiring a crew of 4 to sail, her owners state that “Under sail she is an absolute delight, being highly responsive to the helm and well balanced when on the wind. She is very much a team effort to sail and responds with bucket loads of sheer exhilaration.”

• 5 berths in 2 cabins separated by half bulkheads
• 3 x large single berths (one 6ft 9in long!) plus pull-out double berth (or fourth single berth)
• LP Voyager 2500-1 gas stove (new 2010, 2 burners, grill & oven)
• Separate heads compartment with sea toilet (no holding tank) and sliding handbasin (no water supply, drains into toilet)
• 12v cabin lights
• 2 x gimbaled oil lamps
• Curtains and carpets where fitted

• Navigation lights
• Boat Safety Scheme certificate (expires 2014)
• Float-operated bilge pump
• 2 x fire extinguisher (not guaranteed in date)
• Fire blanket
• Awning
• Flat cover
• Quant pole
• 2 x mud weights
• Rond anchors
• Various warps
• Various fenders
• Historical records and memorabilia

This well known River Cruiser Class Broads yacht has a good racing record, but also provides comfortable accommodation for family cruising. She is one of the last of the large gaff rigged racers to be built prior to the change in rating rules which resulted in what is now considered to be the ‘standard’ Broads yacht design, and she is one of the only remaining yachts of this genre to still to be carrying an almost original sail plan. She was the subject of a thorough, but sympathetic, restoration and refit in 2000, and she has since been maintained to a very high standard and with no expense spared. Sadly for sale due to the younger members of the family having flown the nest, this is a chance to purchase, in the words of the owners, an “opportunity to enjoy some of the most exciting sailing available on the Broads” and an almost unique piece of Broadland, and indeed British, yachting history.