GL Watson 36 ft Gaff Cutter 1887 - Sold

This Victorian yacht from the board of G L Watson retains many of her period features. Her experienced and knowledgeable shipwright owner has stripped out the boat’s interior (which was not original) to provide a blank canvas project for a new owner, while maintaining the fabric of the yacht’s structure – and the vessel’s hull would seem to be in impressive condition. BEROË has the potential to be a stunning and almost unique period piece yet is of a size to be easily sailed.

BEROË has no interior and is therefore considered to be a project

BEROË was commissioned by RE Collins, son of the founder of Collins book publishers of Glasgow.
The yacht is included on the British Historic Ships Register.

- Pitch pine 1 inch carvel planking on 2 inch grown oak frames with steamed intermediates
- Copper fastenings
- Teak sheer strake, bulwarks and capping rail
- English elm keelson
- Forged Iron strap floors and welded steel hard floors all galvanised
- External lead ballast keel, approx 5 ton and 10 bronze keel bolts
- Yellow pine deck clothed over with teak covering boards and king plank
- Hardwood – probably oak; deck beams
- Galvanised steel hanging knees
- Teak hatches, coamings and skylight
- Steel framed doghouse entrance
- Steel ring frame forward at mast station
- Timber rudder blade

- The accommodation space below is unfurnished
- Access below by sliding hatch and 2 x drop in washboards aft end of doghouse

Rig and Spars
- Pole masted gaff cutter
- Douglas fir main mast
- Redwood boom, gaff and bowsprit
- Mixed galvanised and stainless steel fittings
- 316 Stainless steel standing rigging hand spliced and served with leathered soft eyes new 2007
- Hybrid wire and rope tackle running backstay
- Leathered ash mast hoops
- 3 strand polyester running rigging new 2007
- Retractable bowsprit with leathered gammon iron and traveller
- Ash cheeked blocks with bronze sheaves throughout

Sail inventory
- 1 x Polyester, triple stitched vertical cut mainsail with three reefs
- 3 x Jibs; new with hank eyes to set atop if required
- 1 x Old polyester triple stitched jib
- 1 x Polyester hanked luff jib topsail
- 1 x Polyester hanked luff staysail
- 1 x Polyester triple stitched hanked luff storm staysail
- 1 x Polyester triple stitched gaff head topsail;
- 1 x Polyester Yard topsail with aluminium yard and club
- 1 x Nylon asymmetric - no snuffer

Flush decked with teak hatches and doghouse
- Bronze fairleads and ensign staff socket
- Bronze mushroom vent in aft deck
- Iron main sheet horse
- Cast bronze rudder boss with boat and maker’s names
- Galvanised steel tiller with bronze clamp
- Boom crutch
- Self draining cockpit with teak lazarette locker and teak deck cleats outboard of coamings
- Teak deckhouse with sliding hatch, windows to sides and fwd, hand rails over
- Butterfly hatch skylight with canvas cover
- Cast bronze dorade cowls and teak boxes
- Teak and bronze cleats, bronze fastened
- Bronze and Lignum sheet leads
- Mast and pin rails at base and to sides at gunwales
- Teak light boxes for navigation and stern light housing
- Galvanised manual patent type windlass which also houses bowsprit heel
- Retractable bowsprit
- Stem head fitting for inner fore stay
- 1 x 55 lb CQR anchor
- 1 x 35lb CQR anchor
- 1 x 45lb Fishermans anchor
- c 200 ft / 60 metres total galvanised chain
- c 330 ft 100 metres 18 mm multi plait nylon rope
- c 200 ft / 60 metres 18 mm 3 strand nylon rope

- 30 HP Lister Petter Alpha 3 Diesel engine
- Parker Hydraulic drive to 17 inch West Mekan bronze controllable pitch propellor
- Cockpit controls
- Copper oil port, starboard, stern, steaming and anchor lamps
- 1 x A4 Stainless steel 45 litre diesel fuel tank
- 1 x A4 Stainless steel 20 litre hydraulic reservoir

- 1 x 12 V automatic bilge pump
- 1 x Manual bilge pump