SAMSON 77 TOPSAIL SCHOONER C-WITCH 62  

This is serious deep sea sailing here, no hotmail will be answered but if you genuinely have a bit of money tucked on side to make your life interesting, or less miserable, or simply different for the rest of the herd, this is the opportunity of a lifetime as a similar boat today will cost over $ 900 000 to build out of your reach needless to say, no dreaming, we all know what it costs to live in Australia....., this is a travelling house or a sick society last refuge for the ridiculous price of a box on wheels with a bluffing badge

Ship built following the "model code of recommanded practice for the construction and survey of ferro cement hull, Marine board of Victoria", (for a charter application)

A flush deck hermaphrodite brigantine for the purists, as they were found marauding the Grand Banks in 1860 hunting for that miraculous mackerel harvest... Nowadays more domesticated as sailcargo, tourist training or live aboard... But not for the 7 seas corporate sailor with a young floating family, she needs a minimum of 2 fit crew with muscles under fore and aft, and with wit and knowledge, 4 agile crew coming with square rig training and without fear of height ; it comes with 2 jibs, 1 topgallant, 1 topsail 1 course sail, 1 lower staysail caped by1gollywobbler, staysail or fisherman and the spanker with its topsail, all made of flax, 50 new jackstay robands, gaskets under way, baggywrinkles still to be fitted on stays
square sails mended last year by Yamba sail maker
She is full comp insured with Williams and australian ON registered, the British rego is out of date
fitted witha devilish Ford Lehman 180 hp turbo/ velvet Borg, oil driven stuffing box
has Ford 4 cyl 80hp Dunlite 3 phases, supplying 415 v 40 kva gen plant
has another 240 volts VM 182,8hp fixed diesel plant
desalinator, Citor 1500,12v;
24v house power throughout but agreemented with a 24/12 v reducer for electronics
2 watertight doors for accessing & sealing engine room, butterfly hatch
island bed, double decker bunks, peak bunks for total 6 permanent crew
red velvet saloon, butterfly hatch
kitchen with classic wooden doors Danfoss driven fridges and freezers, brass railed green marble bench tops under way
2 bathrooms one with tub
1 remaining dinghy, outboard, 10 men life raft survey not current
to do: anchor power winch to reconnect to 24v instead of previous 415v, welding on one of the davits, some wood work about stanchions bases, painting etc
belaying pins on racks and at masts bases and one for main's jaw & peak, braces etc, Jarvis style winch 2 speeds for bracing squares and one man hauling the spanker's gaff
Vigil RM dome radar
Satnav Marinex
Stowe Navigator central unit
VDO instruments, wind, speed, revs, etc
HF, SSB, VHF, 27 mghz pilotphone IX radios, all AWA brand
AWA 600 aquaprobe sounder paper roll
TEAC Stereo
Sunergy Panel charging
Invert- a- power 200 invertor 24/240 v
2 toilets, Brandon hand type, on fresh water tanks
Rinai hot water system
pressure water
galley green marble top with 240v hotplates
inbuilt bath and 2 showers
average speed 8/10 knts, depending on wardrobe and skills
Has new anodes
last antifouling 3 years ago
last survey/valuation by shipping professionals in 1999: $ 846 000 dollars
This would induce a psychedelic Call Now dollars depreciation in 24 years if considering my today's advertised sale price, now, how that grabs or titillate your mercantile side?
Would be if they could be no need to apply as understandable
Cecil Norris for the original design
Construction achieved in a proper shipyard and to perfection by rule obedients aircraft engineers, no money spared no corners cut (unusual in the backyard ferro world)
Spencer Thetis, of Cowes, for the rigging & masting
sails 1850 tradition made of Duradon in Scotland
hollow masts, main sail bent on bead hoops
35 kg Admiralty Anchor wooden stocked imported from Norway on cathead, heavy 2nd stockless anchor, a stern fisherman's
a figurehead
original plans are on the net, under Samson C Witch schooner