Robert Clark 46 ft Steel Bermudan Sloop 1958 - Refit Project - Sold

SILVIO is a fine example of her designer Robert Clark’s relationship through the 1950s and 60s with the renowned skills of a select group of Dutch yacht builders in steel, resulting in superbly well-built, sleek and strong offshore racer-cruisers that could be pushed hard while keeping their shape, and relatively easy to maintain. Remaining with the same family all her life, SILVIO is a remarkable, time-stood-still study in mid-century authenticity. While enjoying the significant structural refit detailed below in 2010-2011, SILVIO has been stored and maintained ashore since she last sailed in 2017 and is in need of a refit to get afloat in a true classic at a reasonable cost.

These are historic. SILVIO has been stored ashore since 2017

"SILVIO is a true classic, thoroughbred yacht. Commissioned from the renowned Robert Clark as a racing and cruising yacht, she shares many similarities to her sister CORABIA (built 1957). SILVIO has remained in the same family’s ownership since her construction in 1957/58, and was named after their Derby winning racehorse. She remains almost completely original (though up to date with regard to electronics etc) and has been regularly maintained. Great care has been taken to ensure any replacement gear and fittings are in her original contemporary colours and style.

"SILVIO has competed in many races in British and European waters, including the 1961 Fasnet Race, as well as numerous cruises. The yacht is extremely well balanced, light and responsive at the helm; built for speed but extremely stable in a following or quartering sea. Designed for a racing crew of six, she has been handled by an extremely experienced sailor single-handedly."

2016-2017 EXTENSIVE MAINTENANCE INCLUDING:
- Full engine overhaul (last rebuilt 1996)
- Installation of mechanical bilge pump
- Shorted up supports to sail locker floor
- Installation of new cooking stove/ oven
- Repainting of mast and overhaul of rigging
- Replacement of lower lifelines

2011 SUPERVISED BY DAVID COX, M.R.I.N.A.
- Engine and tanks removed (major engine service)
- Hull slurry blasted to remove the paint coatings under the waterline
- Hull re-plating as necessary
- Doubler plates to lower part of keel and up c 18 in/ 45 cm
- Plug welded to the existing framing
- Aft end of the keel replaced from heel to the lower end of rudder tube
- Plating in hull tuck removed to access stern tube and rudder tube
- Stern tube and rudder tube replaced
- Tuck plating replaced
- Aft deck lifted
- New counter board welded in
- New backstay gusset welded in
- Steel king plank replaced
- New steel beam aft of companionway
- New gusset to port in way of galley
- New rudder fabricated
- New heel pintle and top and bottom bearings
- Hull grit blasted internally in the bilges
- Then coated with a two part epoxy primer
- External hull had all traces of oxide removed
- Grit blasting of weld heat affected zones to remove mill scale
- Then coated with a two part epoxy primer
- Engine reinstated on new mounts
- New stern tube bearing boss
- New water lubricated stern gland
- Additional traditional rope packing gland

Commissioned from Robert Clark by the experienced sailor the Hon Robert Boscawen MC, MP, as a racing yacht, SILVIO was named after his family's 1877 Derby-winning racehorse.

The yacht was a regular participant in offshore races, including the 1959 and 1961 Fastnet Races. The latter was one where just finishing was worth a prize, and SILVIO came in a creditable 7th in Class II.

However, this wasn’t her owner’s first experience in offshore racing, having raced the Household Division Yacht Club’s Abeking & Rasmussen 100 Square Metre “Windfall Yacht” GLADEYE (ex RELHER. later EISVOGEL) through the 1950s, and sailed closer to home with his earlier yacht, the 1904 Alfred Mylne/ Robertson of Sandbank Clyde 30 CORRIE [I] (not to be confused with CORRIE [II] the Fife/ Robertson of Sandbank Clyde 30 still well known on the Solent).

SILVIO's very close sister CORABIA, launched by the same yard a year earlier, became one of the best-known Dutch offshore racers of the late 1950s and early 1960s: a member of the Dutch Admiral's Cup team in 1957, 1961 and 1963. But SILVIO often seems to have finished ahead when they raced together.

SILVIO has been enjoyed as the family’s cruiser and occasional racer ever since, studiously kept in period and well maintained - including the structural needs of a 60-year-old - until relatively recent years of careful lay-up.

- Hull of mild steel, electric arc welded
- Encapsulated lead keel
- Sheathed marine plywood deck on steel deck beams
- Steel margins
- Chainplates welded to the vessel's primary structure

GENERAL
- Sheathed and painted marine plywood deck on steel deck beams
- Raised steel toerail, varnished teak capping
- Teak superstructures

FROM AFT
- Painted galvanised pushpit
- 2 x Bronze mooring fairleads port at taffrail
- 2 x Painted galvanised spinnaker sheet lead padeyes
- 2 x Walker log sockets
- Single bronze and teak mooring cleat

COCKPIT
- Varnished raised teak coaming
- Well type cockpit with deck extension as seats
- 2 x Varnished teak lazarette access hatches
- Tiller
- Engine control
- 4 x Harken bronze self-tailing sheet winches
- Raw teak seating slatting port and starboard
- Raw teak grating in cockpit sole
- Engine instrumentation at forward bulkhead
- Brass binnacle and steering compass
- Mainsheet traveller at bridge deck
- Clipper log

TRUNK CABIN
- Varnished teak uprights
- Sheathed and painted marine plywood roof
- Varnished teak companionway hatch
- Sprayhood frame
- Varnished teak handrails port and starboard
- Varnished teak butterfly skylight hatch
- 2 x Painted Dorade boxes with cowls
- Wood gas bottle locker
- Varnished teak forehatch with bronze port

SIDE DECKS
- Foresail tracks port and starboard on rail

FOREDECK
- 2 x Spinnaker poles stowage
- Painted steel Samson post
- Chain pipe
- Bronze fairleads port and starboard on rail
- 2 x Panama fairleads
- Bronze and teak mooring cleats port and starboard
- Bow roller
- White painted galvanised pulpit

GROUND TACKLE
- 35 lb/ 16 kg CQR bower anchor stowed on deck
- Smaller CQR kedge/ spare anchor stowed on deck

GENERAL
- Raw teak cabin sole
- Painted surfaces with varnished teak trim
- Varnished trunk cabin beams
- Grabrails in deckhead

FROM AFT
- Off watch seats port and starboard at companionway
- Teak topped engine box
- 1 x Step to sole

QUARTER BERTH TO STARBOARD
- Raw teak step/ bench
- Varnished hull side slatting
- Snatch block stowage
- Stowage under

CHART TABLE TO PORT
- Lockers/ drawers under
- Clipper depth repeater
- Standard Horizon GX2000 VHF
- 2 x Deckhead lights

HANGING LOCKER TO STARBOARD

SIDEBOARD TO PORT
- Stowage under and outboard

SALOON
- Over 6 f/ 1.83m headroom
- Settee berths port and starboard
- Lee cloths
- Shelves outboard
- Stowage under
- Drop-leaf saloon table on centreline
- Newport diesel heater at starboard fwd bulkhead
- Flue exits via WC Compartment
- Book shelf
- Butterfly skylight hatch in deckhead shared with galley
- 2 x Bulkhead lights
- 1 x Gimballed oil lamp

GALLEY TO PORT FORWARD
- Stainless steel sink
- 3 x Manual pumps
- Nelson 2 x burner hob with oven (2017)
- Foot lockers
- Plate and cup racks
- 2 x Deckhead lights

WC COMPARTMENT TO STARBOARD
- 2 x Entrance doors: forward and to passage
- Blake Victory marine toilet
- Sink with manual tap
- Lockers
- Heat from diesel heater flue
- 1 x Deckhead light

FORECABIN
- Berths port and starboard
- Stowage under
- Shelving port and starboard
- Forehatch in trunk roof
- 1 x Bulkhead light
- Access forward to anchor chain locker

RIG
Masthead sloop rig
- Alloy mast; 2 x spreaders
- Alloy roller boom
- 2 x Alloy spinnaker poles

SAILS
(Inventory TBC)
- Mainsail (McWilliam 1994)
- Genoa #2 Heavy (McWilliam 1992)
- Jib #1 Heavy (McWilliam 1999)
- Tri-radial heavy spinnaker
Older sails
- Genoa #1 (Hood 1970)
- Genoa #1 (Ratsey 1969)
- Ghoster (Gowen 1958)
- Jib #3 (Gowen 1958)
- Jib #4 Storm (Gowen 1958)
- Tri-radial light spinnaker

CANVASWORK
- Mainsail boom cover
- Butterfly skylight cover

MECHANICAL
- Mercedes Benz OM 636 42 hp diesel (1970)
- Major services 2017 & c.2010; Rebuilt 1996
- Fire retardant fuel lines
- Offset 2-blade fixed steel propeller

ELECTRICAL
- 12 Volt system
- Breakers
- Also a 240 volt shore supply with 30ma RCCB
- Basttery box below sole
- 1, 2 or Both isolating switch.

TANKAGE
- 2 x water tanks (capacity TBC)
- Diesel tank, capacity 70 L/ 15 Gal.

- Traditional steering compass in binnacle
- Clipper log repeater
- Clipper depth repeater
- Standard Horizon GX2000 VHF

- Mechanical bilge pump (2017)
- Lifejackets and harnesses
- Dan buoy /flag
- 2 x Horseshoe lifebelts with lights and spare bulbs
- Liferaft

- Boom crutch