Description

Spacious, stable, beautifully balanced, fast and responsive. Perfect for day sailing and dinghy cruising.
Much admired boat. Featured Classic Boat (GB), Bateau (Fr) Loisirs Nautique (Fr), Falmouth Classics handbook. In excellent condition.

Tough GRP woven cloth hull construction with wooden decks. Proctor designed National 18 hull. She was first launched as a National 18 in 1972 – and subsequently relaunched as a professionally designed lugsail yawl in 1997. Large self-draining cockpit, with six capacious stowage lockers under the cockpit floor – keeps all the weight of cruising gear in the right place. Ample room to sleep two adults comfortably. Easily sailed by two people (=18 stone) but will take four adults for day sailing. Can also be sailed single handed by competent helm in appropriate conditions.

As well as being such a good cruising dinghy this boat is also effortlessly fast, sailing at 5-7 knots most of the time. Outstanding light weather performance. How quickly do you want to get to the Rally?

Overall Winner Fowey Classics 1998, Winner RFYC Dayboat Class, FGSC Dayboat Class and Fowey Regatta Dayboat Class 1998, Overall Winner Falmouth Classics 1999, Overall 2nd Great Glen Raid 2001 and other prizes for Plymouth Classics Fowey passage races. First boat to finish Fowey to Falmouth passage race 1998. All achieved with a husband and wife team except for one extra crew in the Great Glen Raid.

Tough, stable, spacious and responsive: excellent day sailing and dinghy cruising platform. LOA 18ft, LWL 18ft, beam 7ft 5ins, draft plate down 4ft 3ins, sail area 185 sq ft. Unstayed carbon fibre spars (Carbospars mast with CompoTech yard), superb James Lawrence sails. Fully battened main with 3 large reefs.

Inventory includes Bosun grid steering compass, Stowe analogue speed & distance log. Delta & Fisherman anchors, anchor warp and chain. Sims spruce oars, fenders, mooring bridle & pick-up buoy, cockpit cover. Avon Redstart 8ft dinghy c/w oars, bag & pump. Bramber trailer with new wheels, tyres and suspension autumn 2012. (Travelled less than 18 miles since then to nearby launch site).

Last sailed in 2021 and stored in dry shed since. Buyer to collect.

Smart, functional, attractive, interesting and unique boat with head turning appearance and performance.
There is no other boat like her.

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