2007 Ebbtide 39

Design and Purpose
This is a true adventure yacht, designed to go anywhere and keep going. Often described as a “bulletproof” yacht, she is very much the 4×4 of the sea. Built for reliability and safety, she offers confidence in demanding conditions while remaining manageable for a couple or family crew.
Design and Construction
Designed by Alan Pape, built by Moroven Yachts, and fitted out by Terry Erskine Yachts, the hull was constructed in 2001 and the yacht commissioned in 2007. A major refit between 2010 and 2012 further enhanced her capability, systems, and overall condition. Because of this careful development, she presents as a serious expedition yacht rather than a lightly adapted cruiser.
Handling and Onboard Layout
On deck, the yacht feels solid, purposeful, and business-like, with a layout clearly designed for safe operation in remote and challenging environments. At the same time, she remains comfortable at sea and easy to crew, which makes her suitable for adventurous private ownership rather than professional crew only.
Interior and Liveability
Below deck, the atmosphere changes to something more welcoming and practical. The interior is designed to support long periods aboard, offering comfort, warmth, and security after hard days at sea. This balance between strength and liveability is one of her standout qualities.
Expedition History
‘Wild Rover VI’ has a proven recent expedition history, including voyages to the Shetland Isles, Greenland, the Faroes, and Iceland. This real-world use underlines her capability and confirms that she is not a theoretical expedition yacht, but one that has genuinely been there and back.
Condition and Location
She has recently undergone a full professional repaint, including topsides, decks, and antifouling, and now presents extremely well. The yacht is currently afloat in Falmouth and ready for her next adventure.
Equipment and Information
Construction
Alan Pape design
Built by Movoren Seacraft
Steel hull with rounded bilges
Insulated above the water line
Full long keel
Transom hung rudder with tiller steering
Stainless steel toe rail
Captive fairleads
Heavy duty stainless deckware
Deck Equipment and Ground Tackle
Double bow roller
Stainless steel stanchions, pull pit and push pit
Bowsprit with bobstay
Muir Cheetah electric windlass
50m x 10mm calibrated short link chain c/w Spade & Bruce main anchors
100m x 24mm multiplait c/w CQR kedge
Wide, safe side decks and foredeck
Stainless handholds to coachroof
Granny bars at mast
Protection bars to saloon port holes
Sprayhood with S/S framework
S/S folding frame and boom gallows for cockpit awning
Deep cockpit with 2 cockpit lockers and aft storage deck locker
3 x Andersen winches at mast base
2 x Anderson 46 ST primary winches
2 x Anderson 12 ST secondary winches
S/S handholds from cockpit into companionway
Goiot sliding companionway hatch
Beaching legs
Cockpit cushions
Fenders, docklines & boathook
Machinery
Yanmar 4JH2E 50hp diesel - 1700 hours
80 amp alternator and Adverc regulator
Twin Racor fuel filters with change-over
Recent diesel tank clean and inspection panel installed
Aquadrive coupling
4 blade Variprop
Shaft rope cutter
Sleipner 12VDC bowthruster
Calorifier
Rigging and Sails
Eurospars deck stepped cutter rig
Mast steps for access aloft
Slab reef boom with stackpack, twin running poles, separate trysail track
Main traveller aft of cockpit
Boom gallows for safe reefing
Facnor furler to yankee - tracks on side decks
Hank on staysail - dedicated tracks on coachroof
Working sails:
Triple reef mainsail - 2021
Roller yankee genoa - 2021
Double reef staysail
Heavy weather sails: Trisail, Storm staysail
Light weather sails: Code zero & running sail on Facnor roller
Electrics
1 x engine start battery
2 x house batteries
2 x bow thruster and windlass batteries
Shore power connection
Mastervolt 10 a shore charger
Victron 750 w inverter
Charge splitter
Isolator switching
3 x solar panels
Matrix battery monitor
Navigation and Communication
Cockpit:
Raymarine ST60 tridata instrument
Ramarine ST60+ wind instrument
Raymarine P70s autopilot headunit
Sestrel Moore steering compass
Autosteer servo paddle wind vane self steering gear
Hydraulic steering ram
Chart Table
Raymarine plotter
Raethon radar
Raymarine remote autopilot control
Icom AIS transponder with integrated DSC VHF
Icom IC M505 VHF
Icom IC M802 VHF
ICS weatherfax/navtex
NASA communications receiver with backstay aerial
Accommodation
Guest cabin forward with twin berths & infill
Owner’s double cabin aft c/w additional single berth
Saloon with 2 settee berths, pilot berth & drop leaf table
Mikuni diesel fired central heating
Taylor’s Paraffin cooker
Pressurised hot & cold water via calorifier c/w immersion heater
Manual sea & freshwater pumps
Twin galley sinks
Frigoboat water cooled refrigerator
Lavac WC, washbasin and shower
Grey & black holding tanks
Safety
High capacity impeller & diaphragm bilge pumps
Manual bilge pump, bilge alarm
Para & Delta drogues
Polycarbonate storm shutters for saloon windows
Owners Comments
A short history, Wild Rover VI was originally called Lowena and was built at Islington Wharf in Penryn, Cornwall, commissioned in 2001 she was launched in 2007 with the aim of completing a Atlantic Circuit, sailing from Falmouth to the Caribbean and back across the North Atlantic to Falmouth. Lowena was then sold and renamed as Wild Rover VI. The owners' intentions were to sail around the world on the ‘Chichester Route’ Via Australia, single handed and he made many alterations to the vessel with this in mind, such as fitting the Goyet hatch, which almost turns the yacht into a submarine marine when battened down! He also fitted the heavy duty self steering gear (Auto Helm) which he imported from New Zealand. His intended venture never happened and he laid the boat up in a shed in Glasgow for approximately ten years. I purchased Wild Rover in 2019 with the intention of retracing the Gino Watkins expedition to East Greenland. Gino Watkins was lost on the Pan American expedition in Tutillik Fjord on the south east coast of Greenland. During my ownership Wild Rover has completed voyages to the Shetland Islands, The Faroes, Iceland, East Greenland and numerous trips to the Scillies and Ireland.