40 ft Kim Holman Ketch - Sold

SILENT FLIGHT was built to a design by CR Holman, a designer known as \"the man who never designed an ugly boat...\" and she is no exception! She is referred to as a \'Landfall Ketch\', as the first boat built by Claud Whisstock for himself was named LANDFALL.

This Holman classic design won a reputation as a fast and comfortable passage maker - she really is a superb cruising yacht; the boldly-sheered, short ended hull belies the fineness of the lines beneath - the cockpit is very deep and well protected and the volume below impressive, very comfortably sleeping 6 people.

Bermudan Ketch Rig
- Deck stepped main mast, keel stepped mizzen
- Gold anodised aluminium alloy main and mizzen masts plus spinnaker pole by Sailspar
- Main boom by Z spars 1997
- 1 x 19 stainless steel standing rigging of 1997
- Gas kicker
- Lewmar 8 winch at base of mast
- Z spars main boom and headsail furling system 1997
- Synthetic rope running rigging

Sails and Canvas
- Mainsail 1999
- Slab reefing
- Furling Genoa 1997 and mizzen all white Terylene by Suffolk Sails
- Pale blue mizzen staysail date unknown; possibly original probably by Gowens
- White Terylene Genoa – hanked; possibly original and probably by Gowens
- Mainsail and Mizzen sail covers in dark blue
- Spray hood with vision panels
- Dodgers

From aft
- Stainless steel davits for tender
- Bronze fairleads each side
- Galvanised pushpit with stainless steel guard rails forward through stanchions each side
- Aft deck with gas bottle
- Teak laid deck; new 1997 wide and uncluttered side decks
- Deep cockpit well protected with high coamings
- Teak grating cockpit sole
- Helm position with seating aft
- Traditional teak and bronze spoked ships wheel
- Steering compass, autopilot and a Simrad unit reading speed / depth / log, engine control
- Bridge deck separates helm position from fwd cockpit
- Mizzen mast stepped on a massive log bolted across adjacent sawn floors under the cockpit
- Seating either side access below to tanks under the side decks
- 2 x Lewmar 48 2 speed ST primary winches on pedestals outboard; one each side
- Doghouse and trunk cabin with varnished teak hand rails fore and aft each side
- Coach roof sheathed in glass fibre cloth and plastic resin
- 2 x Dorade vents
- Teak slatted decking on coach roof
- Main mast stepped on the coach roof
- Period brash navigation lights
- Fore hatch
- Simpson Lawrence Horizon 1500 electric anchor windlass installed Dec 2000
- CQR bower anchor with calibrated galvanised chain
- Bowsprit heel against a very sturdy Sampson post and bolted
- Timber bowsprit secured to hull by a steel band bolted into the stem
- Sampson post fitted through deck and securely morticed into the apron
- Fisherman kedge anchor with warp
- Bronze cleats each side
- Galvanised fairleads
- Galvanised pulpit

- Plastimo canister stowed 6 pers life raft in service
- Life sling
- Fire extinguishers
- Fire blanket
- Electric gas detection alarm with 2 sensors
- First aid kit
- Jackstays
- Twin deck lights
- 2 x manual diaphragm bilge pumps
- Electric bilge pump
- Electric navigation lights

- Rigid GRP tender, rowlock and oars
- Stainless steel boarding ladder
- Fenders, and various mooring warps
- Boat hook
- Dodgers with vision panels
- Winter cover
- Cockpit cushions

2010
- Re-caulked the teak deck
- Re-built forward cockpit floor and machinery access trap

2012
- Manufactured and installed new stainless steel gooseneck fitting for the kicking strap/ram
- Installed new sail covers, spray hood, dodgers, and instrument covers
2013
- Replaced alternator

2014
- Completely overhauled Baby Blake WC using new seals and a new discharge barrel

2014/15
- Underwater hull lightly sand blasted to remove layers of anti-fouling back to bare wood
- Cast iron keel cleaned back to bare metal
- Hull received four coats of primer/undercoat
- Keel given rust preservative treatment and two coats of an epoxy primer/undercoat
- Hull given two coats of anti-fouling and the boot top applie
- New main anode fitted
- Mainsail, Genoa, and mizzen sails repaired, laundered and dry stored
- Sail covers, spray hood, dodgers, and instrument covers repaired, laundered and dry stored
- The name Silent Flight applied to the dodgers

2015
- Silent Flight remained ashore during 2015 as owners moving from France to the UK

2016
- Re commissioned the boat, putting everything back on board
- Two coats anti-fouling, repainted boot top
- Re-painted white hull and gold coloured cove line
- New anode installed on auto prop
- Re-painted dog house roof and main coach roof
- Re-painted inside faces of the bulwarks
- Re-painted the white paint to the cockpit
- Re-varnished bright work to the cockpit and coach roof handrails
- Re-varnished the cabin sole
- Replaced all batteries 5 x 115 Ah leisure batteries
- Replaced ICS 6 plus Navtex antenna and control box
- Fitted new stainless steel exhaust manifold outlet to heat exchanger
- Overhauled fuel injector pump
- Serviced the engine
- Replaced domestic water pump to head washbasin/shower head
- Replaced existing curtains

2017
- Anti fouling applied
- Rigging checked over by Allspars; main and mizzen halyards repalced
- Anchor windlass serviced
- Cutlass bearing replaced
- General equipment and systems service

- Phoenix 42 (based upon a Perkins 104.19) 4 cylinder 43 hp diesel engine fitted new Aug 97
- Freshwater cooling via heat exchanger, on flexible mounts
- Engine number PH42 – KF30266J745364A. Injectors renewed in 2003
- PRM Delta hydraulic gearbox with drive via a flexible coupling to a stainless steel shaft
- Bruntons Autoprop H5 3 bladed automatic variable pitch 450 mm propeller 2002
- Cutlass bearing new 2017
- Bruntons hydraulic shaft brake 2002
- Vetus 80 kw bow thruster 2000
- Simrad HLD2000 electro hydraulic autopilot 2003
- 70 A alternator / charger
- 1 x 105 Ah engine start battery
- 2 x 105 Ah domestic batteries
- 2 x 150 Ah batteries dedicated to the bow thruster
- 240 V shore power system with ring main
- Merlin auxiliary mains battery charger
- Yacht rewired with new switch panel in 1997
- Cockpit mounted engine instrumentation panel
- Tachometer, temperature, battery state and exhaust temperature gauges
- 160 litres approx fuel in 2 stainless steel tanks fitted new in 1997 with all lines replaced
- Gas bottles in aft deck locker
- Pressurised hot and cold water is supplied from a 55 litre hot water tank in the galley
- Water heated by the engine and 240 V mains electric immersion heater

- Raytheon R10XX radar
- Simrad AP22 autopilot system
- Cockpit mounted control unit, fluxgate compass, rudder feedback unit
- HLD2000 electro-hydraulic drive unit
- Autopilot system interfaced with the other instruments and GPS
- IHS combined weather fax
- Simrad Dataline X system depth sounder, log/speed, wind speed/direction
- Nav system repeaters at cockpit with master instrument at the navigation station
- Garmin 75 GPS interfaced with instrumentation
- Navico Sea Ranger 5600 VHF radio telephone
- Sestrel Major steering compass
- Blaupunkt stereo radio/cassette player

Access and General
- Sliding hatch in doghouse, doors and companionway steps down
- 2 x Pilot seats; one each side
- Cabin joinery in various varnished hardwoods
- White painted bulkheads and deck heads

Galley to port
- Plastimo Neptune 4500 gimballed stainless steel 2 burner gas cooker, grill and oven
- Stainless steel sink with crockery storage
- Spice rack and cutlery drawers
- Rinnai gas fired water heater sited above the galley sink.
- Isotherm Cruise 49 electric refrigerator with energy management system 2003

Navigation to stbd
- Full size chart table, with stowage under
- Table can be raised to expose a single pilot berth
- Radar, GPS, master instrument repeater and weather fax by chart table

Main saloon
-Large and comfortable U-shaped settee to port converts to a double berth
-Stowage space behind
-Settee berth to stbd a also with
-Lockers outboard and drawers below
-Dining table to port and seats 6 comfortably

Forward to head compartment
-Blake’s sea WC
-Tannoy ventilator overhead
-Stainless steel wash basin with vanity mirror
-Shower head and taps with pressurised hot and cold water
-Rinnai gas fired water heater

Fore cabin accessed by sliding hardwood door fwd
- Vee berth with infill make a large double berth
- Drawers under the port berth
- Large bin locker under starboard berth
- Shelved lockers to starboard
- Handrails and bookcases above each berth
- Hatchway access to the foredeck

SILENT FLIGHT is generally referred to as a ‘Landfall Ketch’ based upon the first example built by Claud Whisstock for himself and named ‘Landfall’.

Built in 1972, this yacht was first owned by a Mr Christopher Pulley and originally called KARAMA; based on initial letter pairs of his and his wife’s Christian names. Pulley sailed with his family out of the Deben around the English East coast, North Sea – and on one occasion the Baltic. He sold to John Marsh in 1997 to be refitted 1997-1999 and renamed SILENT FLIGHT. She was bought by the current owner in June 2001. SILENT FLIGHT was the last of 7 such yacht built to the designs of C R Holman of Holman & Pye, yacht designers of West Mersea, England. She and her sisters, Pleides Ephemerae 1960, Tammy Norie 1963, Rosa Maria 1966, Talulah 1970, Marisco 1971 (a replacement for Tammy Norie destroyed by fire), were based upon the original boat called landfall 1958. Landfall was built by Claud Whisstock at his yard at Woodbridge for his own use.

The current owners have cruised from Suffolk, up and down the English Channel and then to Morbihan in Southern Brittany, where she lay for several years until her recent return to England; now in the West Country. She is a comfortable boat, not a racer, but carries sail well and keeps going when the conditions are rough. She is admired by all who see her and referred to “as a proper boat!”

- Carvel iroko planking on close spaced steamed oak frames and copper fastened
- Stem, keel, transom, and sternpost of iroko and oak
- Massive sawn hardwood timber floors
- Laid teak
- Iroko coach roof, coamings and trunkings
- Traditional long cast iron keel
- Keel hung iroko rudder