1986 Easticks 28 Custom River Cruiser (Electric)
General Specification
Construction
- GRP hull
- Original black gelcoat finish
- Epoxied and copper coated below waterline from new (just requires a jet wash annually – no antifouling required!)
- Custom built with unique shallow draft aerofoil keel
- Custom built GRP aerofoil rudder (new 2020)
- Epoxy decks (renewed 2005 and epoxy painted in 2021)
- Solid mahogany cabin sides and cockpit
- Lifting cabin roof
- New teak and holly cockpit floor (2020)
- Full professional refit completed in 2005 by Adams of Belaugh
- Newly varnished rubbers, toe-rails, Bowsprit and Sampson post (2023)
- Hull cut and polished (2025)
- Winter boatshed stored ashore annually at respectable boatyard
- Last surveyed February 2024 prior to purchase (available on request)
Mechanical & Electrical
- New E-propulsion electric engine pod and battery (fitted 2025 below cabin sole boards, keel designed with electric propulsion in mind)
- Removable side-mounted outboard bracket (if outboard desired)
- Tiller steering
- 12v heavy duty leisure battery (new 2021)
- DC master isolation switch
- DC fuse panel
Rigging & Sails
- Gaff rig with integral topsail
- Solid spruce mast boom and gaff
- Bowsprit
- Aluminium topsail spar
- Counter-balanced mast stepped in tabernacle for easy raising/lowering
- Steel standing rigging (good condition)
- Synthetic running rigging (good condition)
- 2 x Lewmar sheet winches, plus further winch at mast
- All sheets lead aft to cockpit for ease of use – including topping lift
- Harken Blocks
- Mainsail with 3 reef points and modified with additional panel (lighter colour) inserted to provide improved performance (Jeckells, approximately 2004, good condition)
- Jib (McNamara Sails, 2008, good condition)
- New Jeckells jib (2022, excellent condition)
- Second mainsail (slightly older, white) with integral topsail and longer boom (included)
- RCC handicap -5%
Accommodation
- 5 berths in 1 cabin
- Double berth under foredeck
- Single berth and second single/pull-out double berth in main cabin area
- Origo 2 burner meths/bio-fuel stove in cockpit locker
- Portaloo in dedicated locker in cabin
- Lifting cabin roof with canvas side curtains
- Comfortable sitting headroom with cabin roof raised
- 12v cabin lights
- Berth cushions for main berths (Jeckells, 2022, barely used)
- Cockpit cushions
Equipment
Safety Equipment
- Boat Safety Scheme certificate (expires May 2026)
- Emergency ladder
- Fire extinguisher (not guaranteed in date)
- 12v bilge pump with float switch
- Manual bilge pump, original brass, serviced with all seals renewed
Covers & Awnings
- New summer cruising cockpit awning (2023, Jeckells)
- Full-length lightweight mooring cover (very good condition)
- Tonneau-style mooring cover (very good condition)
Other Equipment
- High & low mast/boom crutches
- Mud weight
- Rhond anchors
- Various warps
- Fenders (2022)
Remarks:
This very well presented and maintained Easticks 28 Broads River Cruiser Class yacht is one of only a handful of custom designed and Easticks 28 built to special order.
She benefits from a large, extra length cockpit which can easily accommodate 5 adults, though 2 can sail her comfortably, and she has a single cabin with berths to accommodate 5 adults and cooking facilities provided in the cockpit. She is rigged with an integrated topsail which has been optimised to provide superb sailing enjoyment and performance in a wide range of wind conditions and is particularly good in light/medium winds.
Having enjoyed much success in both river and broad regattas, she is renowned for being one of the fastest Easticks 28s on the Broads! With her copper coated hull and epoxy decks, she is also a very low maintenance yacht, with very low hours required to get her ready each season – usually a hull clean and polish, and re-varnish of rubbers and mast is all that is required. (It is noted that the mast would currently benefit from being varnished.)
This is a rare opportunity to own a well known and distinctive river cruiser, which is equally suited to family Broads cruising or RCC racing. Now for sale now due to the purchase of another boat she is ready to go, sail away and enjoy.
Although not raced by the current owner, below is a selection of some of this yacht’s previous racing successes demonstrating her racing pedigree:
- Three Rivers Race winner (1992) for “First Boat Home” winning the “Elias” Trophy and also “First Cruiser Home” winning the “Mora” Trophy
- Ames Cup (TMOR)
- Yare Navigation Race Overall including the Jeckells Trophy
- Two times winner of the Sabrina Trophy
- Two times winner of the Claret Jug
- Mora Trophy (Three Rivers)
- Two times winner of the Balderston Fife
- Buckworth Trophy (Wroxham Week B Fleet)
- Two times winner of Autumn Trophy Down River Race
- Satyr Cup (Wroxham Week B Fleet)
- Simon Kremer Memorial Trophy (Wroxham Week)
MOORING: It’s understood that this vessel does not have a transferrable mooring.
Please note: The photos are July 2023 when she was last for sale with Topsail. We understand she is currently presented to much the same good standard.
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