Heard 25 "Sandpiper of Mevagissey" for sale

This is a Heard 25 designed by Percy Dalton along the lines of Falmouth Working Boat. She is simply but very nicely fitted out in teak, with laid teak decks. She is in her original ownership, and since launch has only been sailed for 4-5 months each year, the remainder of the time being stored ashore under cover inside the owner's barn. This is a beautifully built and fitted out example of the type, and is set up for daysailing, classic racing and cruising for a crew of two. Although there are four berths and the cockpit can seat six, she would be very cramped if four were to sleep on board. She is for sale now at £35,000, somewhat reluctantly, as the owner feels age is creeping up on him. Full details and an inventory are on www.yachtsnet.c...

[@robertcooke1774]

i had a percy dalton 22 ft falmouth oyster dredger, i crossed the atlantic 4 times in her singlehanded. superb sea boats

[@StellarSailor]

Would you recommend a boat like this for a single handed circumnavigation?

[@rodrigosenra2693]

My dream sailboat right there.

[@jonathansimmonds5784]

Is this out of the Iris Elizabeth mould Barry Chisholm built at Penryn? If so a totally brilliant boat, well it would be seeing as Percy designed it...

[@daleskidmore1685]

Very nice boat. I had it in my mind at 5k over the asking price too.

[@laxmannate07]

Beautiful

[@wiebedevries6149]

Onbeleveling nice waths the price

[@beaconflix6390]

How much?

[@brian.7966]

£35,000

[@willymueller3278]

@@brian.7966 Too much !

[@jonathansimmonds5784]

@@willymueller3278 That's what happens when you 'yottify' a gaffer. All that stainless for one thing, galvo'd mild steel and cheaper joinery would slash the cost of building, make fittings not buy them at chandlery prices. The trouble is there are too many middle class blokes with money buying 'traditional' boats. I used to look upon the gaffer as the working mans boat, one he could build and maintain himself, a bit like motorcycling used to be in the 50's, the poor man's mode of transport. I saw on Facebook a posh bloke from the Solent in his 30ft gaff cutter had broken one horn off his gaff jaws in Guernsey, what did he do? Flew himself and the family home at great expense leaving the boat to be repaired by a local boat builder then he flew back with crew to sail the boat back....

[@willymueller3278]

@@jonathansimmonds5784 By saying too much, I ment, too much for me. She is a beauty and certainly worth the money. I just sold my boat for 20 000, a 46 foot 20 tons ketch which I had for 36 years, I built the whole boat myself, exept for the hull, which is in steel, wineglasshaped, all the fittings are in galvanized steel and I sailed her from Rio to Greenland and seven times across the Atlantic. The only thing that ever broke, was a selftailing forestay, thats all. And I repaired it under way. By the way, stainless steel fittings are not such a bad idea, the price over mild steel is not so much, its the time making them, that costs money. And stainless has to be a bit oversized, otherwise it breaks, but always looks shiney. So long.

[@guybenett4571]

nice boat, but the engine is crap !!