1951 Chumley & Hawke River Cruiser Class #64

• Wood carvel construction
• Softwood planking on oak
• Spade rudder
• Lifting cabin roof
• Professionally rebuilt 2016-2019, including:
  • 2016:
    • 20 new ribs and fastenings
    • 300ft new planking
    • 70ft replacement deck planking (port side) and new Trakmark covering
    • New toe rails and rubbing strakes
    • New mast and boom
    • New cap and throat shrouds
  • 2017/18:
    • 20 new ribs and fastenings
    • 100ft new planking
    • 6 new grown oak floors bearers
    • New stainless steel keel bolts
    • Replacement forepeak floorboards
    • Cabin roof refurbished
    • New canvas (lifting roof)
    • Domestic systems re-wired and upgraded to include LED bulbs, 12V charging socket and solar panel
  • 2019:
    • New backstays
    • New running rigging and backstay tackles
    • New cockpit furniture (benches and frame in mahogany and oak)
    • New cockpit floorboards (softwood)
  • 2022:
    • 69ft new planking
    • Hull stripped, gloss gel coated back to white (her original colour) and antifouled
    • Rubbing strakes and bowsprit varnished
  • Wintered ashore annually

• 5hp Mercury 2-stroke outboard (good condition, last serviced 2020)
• Purpose built side bracket
• Tiller steering
• 12V domestic battery
• Solar panel trickle charger

• Gaff sloop rig with topsail
• Wood mast/spar
• Counterbalanced mast stepped in tabernacle
• New mast and boom 2016
• Recent new standing and running rigging (see ‘Construction’ section above)
• Mainsail (2019, excellent condition)
• Jib (2019, good condition)
• Jackyard topsail (believed c.2005, good condition)
• No. 2 jib (1961, Jeckells, good condition)
• Storm jib (Lonton & Grey brown boat jib, believed c.2005, good condition)
• Navy-blue sail cover (recent, Jeckells)
• Older white canvas sail cover
• Blue canvas topsail cover

• 2 berths in 1 cabin
• New mattresses 2019 (Jeckells)
• Lifting cabin roof (hinged at front) providing 1.8m (6ft) headroom at aft end
• Single burner Campingaz stove
• 12V LED cabin lights
• 12V charging outlet (for phone charging)
• Lockers under bunks and under-deck shelving above bunks
• Ample storage in cabin/cockpit/forepeak for comfortable cruising

• Full awning providing over 1.8m (6ft) headroom in cockpit
• PVC cockpit cover
• Older white canvas cockpit cover
• Heavy duty all over PVC winter cover
• Lightweight plastic tarpaulin
• Old mast (used as a ridge-pole for winter cover
• Boat Safety Scheme certificate to 23.05.2024
• Automatic bilge pump (2016)
• Bronze and oak boathook
• Quant pole
• Deck scrub
• Mudweight
• 3 x rhond anchors
• Various mooring warps
• Various fenders

This much-loved river cruiser class Broads yacht is reluctantly offered for sale owing to a relocation. She has benefitted from a comprehensive restoration by the previous owner, as well as the current owner who has spent in excess of £8000 over the last couple of years making her an extremely desirable example of her class. Works have included having her hull completely stripped down, sanded, caulked and freshly gel coated back to her original colour of white.

Easily handled, even single-handed, and raced comfortably with with a minimal crew, she is ideal as a mid-sized traditional RCC yacht. She is being sold fully equipped with everything needed to go sailing

She has a comprehensive and varied history, having been launched into hire as ‘Clipper VI’, and sold into private ownership in 1961 (at which time she was renamed and registered with the RCC), and she is well known on both the northern and southern rivers. She even starred in the fiction story “The Cruise Of The Clipper: A Story Of The Norfolk Broads” written by Arthur Morgan Derham in 1952!

The vessel’s current Broads mooring, which is in a very desirable location is understood to be transferrable and is available by separate negotiation.

NOTE: The photos showing the vessel under sail are from previous ownership and used with kind permission of her previous owner. Other photos taken in 2022.