1930s Applegate Cordon Rouge Class River Cruiser

• Wood carvel construction
• Built in the 1930s (exact year of build unknown)
• Hull sikaflexed below waterline and caulked above waterline
• Hull newly repainted 2025
• Epoxy sheathed decks (GRP over plywood. Newly painted 2025)
• Good sized cockpit with raised helm positions both sides
• Unique winch operated lifting roof providing full standing headroom throughout cabin
• New hog 2013
• New custom designed modern keel and rudder 2013
• Silicone roof seals refitted 2025
• Several planks replaced 2023
• Previous major refits in 2000-04 (new planking, timbers and decks) and 2020
• Last antifouled 2025
• Wintered ashore annually
• Last surveyed 2022 (available on request)

• 10hp Nanni diesel inboard engine (professionally installed 2014, last serviced May 2021)
• Shaft drive to folding prop
• New impeller 2023
• 25 litre (approx) stainless steel fuel tank with extra takeoff point to facilitate installation of heating at later date
• Single lever control
• Engine control panel in cockpit
• 2 x batteries with charger and mains cable
• LED cabin lights
• Tiller steering

• Gunter rig
• Gaff rig is also possible with other sail provided
• Wood mast and spars, including bowsprit (Mast stripped and re-varnished 2025)
• Aluminium spars used with topsail
• Counterbalanced mast stepped in tabernacle with winch for easy lowering/raising  (tabernacle refurbished 2025)
• Stainless steel standing rigging all in good condition
• Running rigging renewed as required and all in good condition (mainsheet replaced 2023)
• Halyard winch on cabin roof
• 2 x sheet winches
• Headsail roller reefing gear
• All lines led back to cockpit
• Gunter mainsail (Jeckells, good condition)
• Older gunter mainsail (Jeckells, serviceable condition, white)
• Jib (2016, McNamara Sails, white, good condition)
• Spare jib (needs small repair on edge stitching)
• Additional large gaff mainsail with integral Topsail (2004, McNamara Sails, good condition, white, blue sail cover)
• Main sail cover (Jeckells, burgundy)

• 4 berths in 2 cabins
• 2 x single berths in forward cabin
• 2 x single berths in main cabin
• Berth cushions for all berths (Jeckells, good condition)
• Separate heads compartment with portable toilet and access to both cabins (door to forward cabin included but not fitted)
• Cadac portable 2 burner gas cooker used in cockpit
• Space for coolbox/galley equipment (including 12V socket) opposite heads
• Cockpit table
• New cockpit cushions (2023)
• Unique winch operated lifting roof providing full standing headroom throughout cabin

• Boat Safety Scheme certificate to June 2029
• Cabin and cockpit cover (burgundy, new 2023 in very good condition)
• Full height cockpit cruising awning with rails (very good condition, blue)
• Cabin cover to compliment cockpit cruising awning above (2020, blue, fits with cabin roof up)
• Navigation lights
• 2 x fire extinguishers & fire blanket
• Carbon Monoxide detector
• 12V bilge pump
• Lifebelt
• High, medium and low mast crutches
• Boat hook
• Mudweight
• 2 x rhond anchors
• Various warps
• Various fenders

In current ownership since 2022, this is a very well presented river cruiser class yacht having been well maintained following a renovation in 2020 and a thorough restoration in the early 2000s both by previous owners.

A new Nanni diesel inboard engine was installed in 2014, and her keel and rudder were replaced in 2013 to a new custom design. She is a very competitive yacht and over the years (with different owners) has many trophies to her credit, including Cock of the Broads, Breydon and Barton overall winner, Autumn Trophy and Best River cruiser in the Tri Icicle. That said, she is well balanced and easily cruised by just two.

She offers spacious and comfortable family accommodation for four with a flexible layout, and her unique, original, winch operated lifting roof, painstaking renovated by a previous owner, provides both full standing headroom throughout the cabin and an outstanding feature that cannot fail to impress!

This beautiful River Cruiser Class Broads yacht would be ideal for a family who wish to both cruise and race.

MOORING: It’s understood that a mooring may be available to the purchaser by separate negotiation (direct with the mooring owner) at the vessel’s current northern Broads location.

Please note: Photos provided by the owner  are from July 2025, except the second photo with the sail up. The final image (from 2021) with the blue covers also shows a blue sail cover which is now burgundy.