A keenly priced period piece, MUSKETEER OF STUTTON is a fine and untouched example of the good job the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rule did in encouraging sensible offshore yachts with a very long shelf life beyond their initial competitive years. For almost 50 of her 60 years MUSKETEER has roamed the Atlantic and Mediterranean as a bona fide, well-mannered cruiser, while introducing countless novices to the joys of that.A keenly priced period piece, MUSKETEER OF STUTTON is a fine and untouched example of the good job the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rule did in encouraging sensible offshore yachts with a very long shelf life beyond their initial competitive years. For almost 50 of her 60 years MUSKETEER has roamed the Atlantic and Mediterranean as a bona fide, well-mannered cruiser, while introducing countless novices to the joys of that. Much of her ability for such voyages stems from a snug rig and a thoroughly practical accommodation layout developed by the Camper & Nicholsons design team from bitter experience. But MUSKETEER hasn’t entirely abandoned her competitive ways: she was a class winner at 2017's 30th Anniversary Antigua Classic Regatta.
- Repainted the topsides in white - Woodwork in front of coachroof taken right back - Coachroof spline replaced then 8 x varnish - Woodwork around windows, toerail, coachroof, painted/ revarnished - Cockpit refurbishment - Areas underneath main winches repaired, winches refitted - Whole cockpit varnished, 2 x coats - Skin fittings & blocks all investigated and fittings serviced - Repainting of ceiling in saloon & heads - Engine serviced and running very well
CAMPER & NICHOLSONS YARD NO. 886 MUSKETEER OF STUTTON was designed (principally by Peter Nicholson) and built by Camper and Nicholsons' Southampton yard over the winter of 1962/63. She was launched in the spring of 1963 for Peter (later Sir Peter) Green, then Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, and featured in that May's Yachting World magazine. Originally built as a yawl, in 1964 she was converted to a sloop by adding 3 feet to the main mast and removing the mizzen. She raced competitively in the UK during the 1960s, winning the RORC points championship at least once and taking part in two Fastnet Races. MUSKETEER's racing career came to an end in June 1970 when she was sold to Nigel Pattison of Itchenor Sailing Club who sailed her to the West Indies (for his honeymoon) and back over a 2 year period, returning in 1973. Following a short period with W.M. Tubby of Guernsey, ownership transferred to Royal Cruising Club member Henry S. Williams of Plymouth, a former flag officer of the Royal Western Yacht Club of England and a leading light in that club's involvement in the Single Handed Transatlantic Race and the Double-handed Round Britain Race. In 1980 MUSKETEER was purchased by fellow club member and serious blue waters cruiser Jonathan Trafford who restored her yawl rig and took her on a cruise to the Caribbean and the USA 1981-83. On her return she remained that family’s cruising yacht until she was sold in 1987 to Kevin and Jan Townsend who cruising many happy sailing miles on her: much of Europe from Spain’s Atlantic coast, France, Ireland, Scotland to Norway and the Baltic, including Russia and Estonia. She also took part in some of the Tall Ship races: 1991 (Ireland), 1993 (Norway and Denmark) and in 1996 (Rostock, St. Petersburg and Turku, Finland). Through the 2000s the Townsends offered Ocean Yacht Master courses and lived on board for a period. Her present owners purchased MUSKETEER from the Townsends in 2007 since when she's been maintained by Poole-based shipwright Lee Woodford, and sailed with friends and family, and in sailing adventures for novices. She completed another Atlantic circuitthe last leg on a ship), taking in Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta 2017: winning Classics Class D and coming 3rd in the Concours for privately maintained Classic Division yachts.
- Originally built under Lloyds Supervision to their top 100A1 Classification - In Class until 1988 - Moderate displacement hull form - Clipper bow and short overhang counter - Honduras mahogany planking on Canadian rock elm timbers - Lower six planks of teak - Teak laid decks on plywood substrate (c 2010 by Lee Woodford, Poole)
GENERAL - Varnished mahogany bulwark/ toerail and capping - Mahogany deck carpentry - Teak laid deck FROM AFT - Stainless steel pushpit - Bronze fairleads port and starboard on taffrail - 2 x Bronze and raw teak mooring fairleads - Raised lazarette hatch - Liferaft stowage at pushpit - Quarter Tufnol sheaves port and starboard ALLOY MIZZEN MAST - Single set of alloy spreaders - Wood gas lockers port and starboard; teak laid tops COCKPIT - Deep, sheltered self-fraining cockpit - Raised coamings - Teak slatted sole boards - Full width helm seat in helm cockpit - Ship's wheel and compass binnacle - GHC Autopilot repeater - 4 x Raymarine repeaters: GPS; speed; wind; depth - Chromed Lewmar sheet winches port and starboard - Associated Tufnol cleats - Lewmar traveller; Tufnol mainsheet block - Lewmar 22 mainsheet winch - Associated Tufnol cleats - Sheet tidy under - Forward cockpit seats port and starboard - Fwd part of seats sheltered under doghouse extension - Lockers under - Raw teak bridge deck - Yanmar engine panel - Secondary chromed Lewmar winches port and starboard; alloy plinths - Associated Tufnol cleats & teak and bronze port and starboard COMPANIONWAY DOGHOUSE WITH ROOF EXTENSION AFT - Sliding companionway hatch in garage - Varnished teak grabrails port, starboard and aft - 2 x Windows port and starboard RAISED DECK 'BLIP' OVER MAIN ACCOMMODATION - Mainsheet padeye - Raised hatch over saloon - 3 x Ports - 4 x Ventilators - Varnished grabrails port and starboard SIDE DECKS - Genoa tracks at toerail port and starboard - Spinnaker poles stowage port and starboard ALLOY MAIN MAST - Teak box at mast base for winch handles FOREDECK - Raised forehatch - Simpson Lawrence Seatiger manual windlass - 2 x Bronze mushroom vents - 2 x Bronze and teak mooring cleats - Chromed mooring bollard - Inner forestay - Chromed mooring fairleads port and starboard - 2 x Bow rollers - 45lb CQR type anchor stowed in stbd roller - 85 m Chain; 50 m warp - 60 lb Danforth secondary anchor - 35 lb Bruce kedge anchor - 10 m Chain; 50 m warp
GENERAL - Sleeps 8 in 3 x spaces - Varnished mahogany, painted and plastic laminate finish - Mahogany plywood sole - 2 x Steps down to engine box - 2 x Steps down to sole GALLEY TO PORT - Stainless steel sink - Mixer tap - Seawater tap - Tecma Nelson Gas cooker - 2 x hob burners - Oven - Top loading fridge - Plate and utensil stowage - Food lockers - Top loading pot locker - 4 x Deckhead lights (2 x with red night shades) - 3 x Bulkhead lights (1 x with red night shade) - 1 x Oil bulkhead light LARGE FWD FACING CHART TABLE TO STARBOARD - Quarter berth aft - Navigation displays - Chart reading light - Chart stowage under - VHF Radio - Navtex - Bookshelves - Stowage SALOON - Settee berths port and starboard - 2 x Staggered pilot berths port and starboard - Lockers port and starboard - Drop leaf saloon table on centreline SALOON FWD LOBBY - Taylors cabin heater to starboard - Seat - Lockers and bookshelf WC COMPARTMENT TO PORT - Jabsco manual toilet - Stainless steel sink - Lockers - 1 x Deckhead light - Hatch in deckhead FO'C'SLE - Hanging locker to starboard - Wide single berth to port - Locker under - Lockers to starboard - Sail stowage to starboard - Forehatch in deckhead - 1 x Deckhead light
RIG Alloy Main Mast and Boom - 2 x Sets of alloy spreaders - Lazy jacks - 4 x Lewmar halyard winches - 4 x Spinlock rope clutches - Spinnaker pole track on leading edge - Foot loops Alloy Mizzen Mast and Boom - Single set of alloy spreaders SAILS 1 x Mainsail; 3 x slab reefs 1 x Furling genoa (Harken furler) 1 x No. 2 genoa 1 x Working jib 1 x Tri-sail 1 x Mizzen 1 x Mizzen stay-sail 1 x Light gen 1 x Storm staysail 1 x Cruising chute
MECHANICAL - Yanmar 4cyl 56hp dieselHurth gearbox - Aquadrive flexible coupling/ thrust bearing - Fixed 3-bladed propeller ELECTRICAL - Varta Marine Batteries - 2 x Service - 1 x Engine start - 1 x Sterling pro-charge Ultra battery charger - Battman battery monitor TANKAGE - 2 x Water: 90 Gal/ 414 L total - (Tank 1, below floor = 67 Gal/ 304 L) - (Tank 2; below seat = 24 Gal/ 110 L) - 1 x Diesel: 35 Gal/ 158 L
NAVIGATION/ ELECTRONICS - Sestrel Major steering compass - Garmin GHP 12 Corpack - Garmin GHC 10 Auto Pilot - Garmin A1S 600 class B transponder - inc. GPS antenna & VHF splitter - Garmin 750S - Furona Radar Model 1720 - Raymarine ST60+ instruments COMMUNICATIONS - Garmin VHF 200 radio - Brookes & Gatehouse Homer MF/HF receiver - with Heron antenna - Nasa Easy Navtex receiver - Glomek TJ Antenna
- 8-Person Ocean Safety Sola SB Liferaft - 2 x Life rings c/w lights and drogues - 1 x Dan-buoy - Full set of flares - 10 x Lifejackets each with light & whistle - 8 x Harnesses & strips - Full first aid kit - 8 x Thermal Protective Aids - Marine gas Alarm - Fire blanket - Manuak bilge pump - Auto bilge pump
- Large, lightweight varnished plywood and mahogany cockpit table - 1 x Zodiak Cadet 285 FR NEO Hyperlon tender
