1971 Sea King 27 Cutter

• Wood clinker construction
• Iroko on oak
• Long shallow keel with bilge plates
• Transom hung rudder
• Pitch Pine tongue and groove decks and coachroof, overlaid with mahogany plywood and GRP sheathed (decks re-sheathed 2006 and in good condition)
• Pitch pine and marine plywood cabin uppers
• Sampson post
• Varnished cabin sides and cockpit
• Decks and coachroof painted in pale blue coloured non-slip paint
• Hull topsides finished in Sand coloured paint
• Anitfouled in Coppercoat epoxy 2018
• Last surveyed August 2016 (all recommendations carried out)

• 25hp Beta Marine 3 cylinder, fresh water cooled, inboard diesel engine (2009, 190 hours at time of writing)
• Shaft drive to three blade 13″ propeller
• 30 litre fuel tank (2009, Tek Tanks) with cut off valve
• Beta engine instrumentation panel (2009)
• Single lever control in cockpit
• Tiller steering
• Spare tiller
• 2 x 12V AGM batteries (1 x 130Ahr age unknown, 1 x 105Ahr June 2018, stowed under cockpit floor)
• 2 x battery cut-off switches, one controlling battery usage
• Fused 12V switch panel
• Alternator charging
• Charge meter

• Masthead Bermudan Cutter rig
• Wood mast, boom and bowsprit
• Mast stepped in wood tabernacle
• All standing rigging (stainless steel) renewed 2016
• All running rigging (Terylene) renewed 2016
• All reefing lines and halyards controlled from cockpit with jamming cleats
• Main sheet horse
• 2 x Harken 10 single speed self-tailing sheet winches
• 2 x original TUPH single speed phenolic resin second sheet
  winches
• Mainsail with slab and roller reefing
• Genoa on Facnor SD100 roller reefing
• Staysail on Facnor SD100 roller reefing
• All sails in tan Dacron by Crusader Sails (2005), in good condition, last serviced by Crusader Sails in 2019 including new UV strips on foresails
• Mainsail cover (2020)

• 5 berths in 2 cabins
• Interior finished to traditional teak design
• 2 x single settee berths (port side converts to double) in main cabin
• 2 x single berths (converts to double) in forecabin
• Galley (to port) providing Taylor’s 029 paraffin cooker (non-gimalled, two burners and warming oven, external 8.5 litre fuel tank in cockpit locker), stainless steel sink (cold supply via Whale pump) and storage lockers
• Saloon table
• Chart table/navigation station (to rear starboard of main cabin)
• Heads compartment (to port) providing Jabsco sea toilet (no holding tank)
• Hanging wet locker (to starboard opposite head)
• Storage under all berths, plus further full height locker in forecabin
• Portable water containers in cockpit locker (30 litre combined)
• 12V cabin lights
• Berth cushions for all berths (good condition)
• Curtains (where fitted)
• Houdini hatch in forecabin

Navigation Equipment

• Silva bulkhead compass
• Silva S15 DSC VHF with masthead and spare aerial
• Simrad depth, boat and log combi display
• Masthead and deck level navigation lights
• Clock and barometer

Safety Equipment

• Galvanised steel pulpit, pushpit, stanchions and stainless steel guard wires
• Coachroof grab rails
• Safety lines across coachroof
• Boarding ladder
• 2 x horseshoe lifebuoys with lights
• Dan buoy
• Radar reflector
• Anchor and motor sailing day shapes
• Foghorn
• Whale manual bilge pump (in starboard cockpit locker)
• Whale 12V auto bilge pump (only partially fitted at time of writing due to lockdown)
• 3 x dry powder fire extinguishers
• Fire blanket

Deck Equipment

• Anchor windlass
• 25lb CQR anchor with 45m marked and calibrated chain
• Fisherman’s kedge anchor
• Sprayhood (2015)
• Cockpit cover (2020)
• Short winter cover
• Various mooring warps
• Various fenders

The Sea King is a heavy, comfortable cutter-rigged cruising yacht of traditional design built locally in Essex. This example has been in the current ownership since winter 2001/2, having had three former owners, and has cruised the east and south coasts extensively, and also sailed to Cherbourg and the Baltic with a previous owner. She has been regularly maintained to a high standard, including having her hull copper coated in 2018, deck re-sheathed in 2006, new standing and running rigging in 2016, new Beta 25 inboard diesel engine fitted in 2009, and new cockpit and sail covers just last year. For sale only due to a change of cruising area.

BERTH: It’s understood that the vessel’s berth is transferable (currently paid for to 31st March 2022).