1937 Deben Cherub

• Carvel construction
• 1 inch pitch pine on rock/Canada elm steam bent timbers copper fastened (nails/roves)
• Teak cabin trunkings, cockpit coamings and toe rails
• Keel of oak with cast iron long ballast keel
• Keel hung rudder with well detailed grown ash tiller steering
• Painted deck and coach roof constructed of epoxy fibreglass sheathing on okoume 4mm plywood on epoxy on original 1 inch pine planking (renewed 2012)
• Top overcloak rubbing strake in iroko (renewed 2012)
• Ample cockpit lockers including voluminous lazarette
• Chain locker with bronze mushroom screw down ventilator
• Last surveyed 2006
• Antifouled 2014

• 9HP Yanmar 1GM10 single cylinder diesel inboard engine
• Forward/reverse mechanical gearbox with 2:1 reduction
• Three blade bronze 300mm RH propeller on centre line
• Recent new Vetus water trap
• Recent new exhaust system
• Fuel lines renewed 2002
• Stainless steel diesel tank in forward port side cockpit locker (approximately 5 gallons with graduated dipstick)
• Stern greaser, cooling water seacock, anode fixing and manual bilge pump under cockpit sole
• Large heavy duty starter/domestic battery (2012) with isolator switch
• Navigation, mast, steaming and internal fused light switch panel

• Gaff sloop rig
• Varnished douglas fir mast (2002)
• Heavy duty timber tabernacle (new 2014)
• Varnished pine boom
• Varnished pine gaff (2011)
• Varnished douglas fir bowsprit (2002)
• Bronze goose neck
• Leathered bronze gaff saddle
• 2 x jib sheet winches in tufnol with detachable handles (recent)
• Stainless steel standing rigging
• Synthetic fibre rope running rigging on contemporary ash blocks
• Headsail (white) by Suffolk Sails (2013)
• Wykeham Martin headsail furling gear with bronze furling handle
• Mainsail (white) by Longton & Gray, Burnham On Crouch (2013)
• Storm jib
• Aluminium jib pole
• Mainsail cover (serviceable)
• Strong points for running backstays recently installed, but running rigging to these needs to be completed

• 2 generous settee berths in 1 cabin
• Teak internal joinery
• Flavel Vanessa gas stove with two burners and grill (Camping Gaz stored in forward starboard side cockpit locker)
• Small chart table that can be set in place over the cooker area
• Two fixed and two opening port lights
• 12v cabin lighting
• Stowage under berths plus dry/hanging locker
• Sitting headroom, approximately 1.37m (4ft 6in)

• Electric auto bilge pump (recent)
• Manual bilge pump
• Fire extinguishers (not guaranteed in date)
• Navigation lights
• Bulkhead compass
• Depth sounder
• Clock and barometer
• 2 x anchors
• Heavy wooden beaching legs
• Boom tent cover (serviceable)
• Various warps
• Various fenders
• Boat hook
• Various documents, receipts, records of work, etc.

This very pretty Deben Cherub is understood to have been the last built (sixteen were built in total between 1924 and 1937). She is unique in having a large cockpit and short cabin, with all the preceding yachts having had smaller cockpits and larger cabins. She has clearly been well looked after, and is well equipped and benefits from many recent repairs and upgrades, including new sails. She has been well cruised around the Deben, Orwell, Stour and Walton backwaters solo and with the ‘Old Gaffers’, and the owner informs us that on a summer evening, a third crew member can easily be accommodated in a boom slung hammock! She is reluctantly for sale due to recent health issues, and is currently lying afloat, in commission and ready to sail. A real east coast classic!!

Mooring: The vessel’s current east coast mooring is understood to be available to the purchaser, subject to additional negotiation.