1997 Norfolk Smuggler

Vivid Blue Marine has for sale a beautiful & spacious lustrous black-hulled Norfolk Smuggler sailing yacht. The perfect vessel for sailing and cruising. Very stable and fast, and with a spacious cabin and cockpit, she's an excellent family boat. 'Blue Moon' is a very fast and stable craft, well-equipped and in very good condition. This sailing vessel has been used on South Coast for six years; not used for last two years during which she has been kept ashore, covered and on her recent SBS trailer.  She has a mast lowering 'A' frame permanently rigged, which doubles as a pulpit when not in use.  Mainsail cover and whole deck ‘tonneau’ cover. Yanmar 2G/18hp inboard diesel. Shore power, battery charger, diesel heater, Separate folding chart table,  AutoHelm, Garmin 120 GPS, Simrad radio, spray hood.  MEASUREMENTS & SPECIFICATIONS Vessel Type: Gaff Cutter Designer: Andrew Wolstenholme Builder: Norfolk Boatyard (Charlie Ward) Make: Norfolk Smuggler 25 Year Constructed:  1997 Sail Number:  7 Berths: 4 Engine: Yanmar 18hp Engine power: 18hp Fuel type: Diesel Drive type: Shaft Drive  Length over all: 25' Length at waterline: 22'3" Beam: 8' 9” Maximum draft: 2'9" Hull material: Glass Fibre  Hull type: Displacement  Hull colour: Black Keel type: Retractable Keel Displacement: 2.04 metric tons Max Draft: 4.93 ft / 1.50 m Min Draft: 2.75 ft / 0.84 ACCOMMODATION Beautiful fully lined interior of the highest quality, V berth forward and two settee bunks. Masses of well organised storage. Fold down chart table. Extendable cabin table, clock, barometer, gimballed oil lamp.  Gas cooker with two burners and grill. cupboard under sink, drawer and cupboard under cooker. Cool storage box. 12 V electric lighting 1x 24 outlet and shore power. Opening port lights all round. 2 x 12V sockets. Top hatch. ENGINE Clean, well-maintained 2GM Yanmar - Vetus siphon break, exhaust hose, elbow, temp sensor and water pump bearings. CONSTRUCTION Heavily built and beautifully finished hull. Centreboard lowered and raised from cockpit. (2'9" up 4'11" down)  LO Bowsprit 30' LO Hull 25'. EQUIPMENT Fenders, warps, boathook, ensign, 10kg Delta anchor and chain. Anchorman windlass. Hardwood boom gallows, shore legs with lilted sockets.  Stainless steel pushpit with folding boarding ladder. Gaz bottles (2) in stem locker. Black water holding tank. Webasto dieselheater controlled from cabin. Ensign on pole. Sails & Spars Wooden mast in tabernacle with gooseneck on tabernacle so boom and sails can remain in place with mast down. s/s Mast lower 'A' frame permanently rigged. Wooden boom. TENDER  Inflatable lightweight tender with 2.5hp 4 Stroke Mercury outboard. Complete with SBS four-wheel braked trailer, used four times, never submerged, the boat was always craned on and off. FACTORY DESCRIPTION The Norfolk Smuggler 25 has been carefully designed to ensure a single-handed sailing ability when required. The cockpit is as large as the Gypsy’s to allow comfortable sailing for up to six adults and to provide ample stowage space in the cockpit lockers. The cabin trunk provides standing headroom through the yacht without looking cumbersome, and ahead of this there is a safe foredeck to provide security for the foredeck hand. This vessel has been designed to be shoal draught with a centreboard increasing draught from 2’9″ with plate up to 4’11” with plate down. The centreboard is raised and lowered with an easy to operate manual winch. The Smuggler has a heavy displacement hull with a good ballast ratio to provide power under sail and good internal volume. Due to her firm turn of the bilge hull form, her stability is exceptionally good. The high peaked gaff rig, used to such good effect on the Norfolk Gypsy, has again been used on this boat but this time cutter rigged to break down the larger sail area and to provide different permutations when the time comes to reduce sail. The rig will provide excellent sailing performance in all points of sail with exceptionally good windward performance. The use of the high-peaked gaff is so the spars are short for ease of transporting and storing. The added benefits of the light weight and flexible gaff is that it tends to bow around the halyard attachment point when the wind gusts, automatically flattening the sail at the right time. Also, by tweaking the peak halyard, you can (although you don’t have to) produce very effective sail shape adjustments when changing point-of-sail, or during varying wind conditions. (To flatten the sail in strong winds or to loosen the leach in light aires) High-tech racing boats spend hundreds of thousands doing this with carbon-fibre and stainless steel – here we do it (in a cruder, but effective way) using douglas spars and polyester line. The deck stepped mast is housed in a large tabernacle (with fixed gooseneck to simplify mast lowering). The Smuggler 25 is, therefore, eminently suitable for canal sailing, for example, when mast lowering and raising is necessary on a frequent basis.HaftungsausschlussDas Unternehmen bietet die Einzelheiten dieses Schiffes in gutem Glauben an, kann jedoch die Richtigkeit dieser Informationen nicht garantieren oder gewährleisten, noch den Zustand des Schiffes garantieren. Ein Käufer sollte seine Vertreter oder Gutachter anweisen, die Einzelheiten zu überprüfen, die der Käufer validiert haben möchte. 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