Wooden Ships Comments on this 49′ Alan Buchanan Bermudan Yawl
49’ Alan Buchanan bermudan yawl built by Mashords of Plymouth to Lloyds100A1 in 1962.
Now in only her 3rd ownership, she was kept in Lloyds classification until 2004 when a lack of a qualified surveyor near her then home port made classification unrealistically expensive. She is an extraordinarily well built boat using top class materials and is a testament to the skills and quality of workmanship at Mashfords Shipyard.
Bought by the present owners in 2018, she was taken to Gweek Quay, Falmouth and underwent a major professional refit to put the boat back into top condition in readiness for some planned long distance sailing. A full list of the work done can be seen below.
She has proved to be an excellent family cruising yacht, easily sailed single handed if required with the aid of her modern autopilot, roller furling headsail and numerous self tailing winches.
The cutter headed yawl rig allows for a great variety of sail combinations making her a versatile and capable yacht.
With stunning good looks and great performance, this long legged capable vessel is the epitome of the classic yacht.
Length on Deck 49’
Length Waterline 35’
Beam 12’
Draft 6’9”
Sail Area 1200sqfft
Thames Tonnage 23TM
Refit
- Ballast keel removed, bolts checked and rebidded
- Majority of galvanised trap floors removed, re-galvanised ad replaced with new bolts
- New engine beds
- Teak deck raked out and re-caulked
- Teak deck partly re-fastened
- Topside splines replaced
- Engine removed, stripped and refurbished
- Cocpit refurbished
- All new upholstery
- New electronics
- New plumbing
- Galley rebuilt
- Various new sails
- New standing rigging on main mast
- New ProFurl roller furling headsail system
Construction
- Carvel planked in Burma teak, all copper rivet fastened to oak frames. Topsides re-splined.
- Sawn oak frames with 3 steamed oak intermediate timbers.
- External lead ballast keel, fastened with bronze bolts. Keel removed and rebedded and bolts checked in the recent refit.
- Heavy galvanised steel strap floors across the centreline on every frame. Many of these removed and re-galvanised in the recent refit with all new bolts.
- Solid swept teak deck fastened with bronze screws to the oak deck beams. Deck totally re-caulked and payed, partly re-fastened in recent refit.
- Varnished teak king planks, covering boards and toe rails.
- Coachroof with a raised dog house aft. Varnished teak coamings with chromed bronze windows. Sheathed plywood coachroof deck with a teak butterfly skylight.
- Varnished teak forehatch. Varnished teak dorade boxes with polished bronze vents.
- Self draining cockpit with varnished teak coamings and scrubbed teak thwarts. Bridge deck to the companion hatch. Teak cockpit sole grating.
- Wheel steering on a Mathway pedestal with rod and gear connections.
- Aft deck has a teak lazarette hatch.
Rig
- Bermudan cutter headed yawl rig on painted alloy masts.
- Keel stepped main mast with twin spreaders. Stainless steel standing rigging with bronze rigging screws to internal iron chain plates. Standing rigging all new in 2019 and 2020.
- Painted alloy main boom with slab reefing that is easy to operate.
- Main mast running backstays are dyneema and tensioned with a cockpit winch.
- Mizzen mast is stepped on the horn timber. Single spreaders with 3 stainless steel shrouds per side. Running back stays on bronze levers. Slab reefing alloy mizzen boom.
- Profurl roller furling headsail system new in 2020. Inner forestay is removable when not required.
- Pair of Lewmar 50 self tailing cockpit sheet winches
- Pair of Lewmar 58 self tailing cockpit sheet winches
- Pair of original non-self tailing cockpit sheet winches
- 4 x main mast winches including Lewmar 16ST, Lewmar 40ST and 2 original bronze winches
- Pair of Lewmar 40ST winches on the coachroof for running rigging
- Yankee (2019), Staysail (2019), Mainsail, mizzen (2019) plus storm jib (2019) and spinnaker.
Machinery
- Perkins 4.236 4cyl 70hp fresh water cooled diesel engine.
- Engine stripped and rebuilt in recent refit. New engine beds installed.
- Hurth gearbox to a centreline Darglow Featherstream 4 blade bronze propeller gives 6.5 knots cruising speed.
- Stainless steel fuel tank under the cockpit sole, total capacity of approximately 230 litres.
- Hydraulic engine driven pump to power the anchor windlass.
- Twin alternators for battery charging.
- 2 x 110ah batteries for engine starting. 2 x 110ah batteries for domestics. Single 110ah battery to run the fridge.
- 3 x galvanised steel water tanks with a total capacity of 450 litres.
- Calorifier on the engine for providing domestic hot water
Accommodation
- 8 berths with headroom of 6’9” in the saloon and 6’1” in the doghouse.
- Steps down from the companion hatch into the doghouse with a safe quarter berth either side under the side decks.
- Large varnished mahogany chart desk sits offset to port, below which is access to the engine. Electric panels, engine panel and electronic navigation instruments above the chart desk.
- Starboard side steps down into the main cabin with the galley to port.
- Galley has an ENO 2 burner gas stove with oven and grill. Stainless steel fridge set under the deck head on the starboard side. Single stainless steel sink with pressurised hot and cold water plus a manual pump feed. Good storage space around the galley with multiple lockers, plus a top access rubbish bin hidden under the counter.
- Half height bulkheads with vertical grab rails separate off the main saloon. Comfortable settee berth either side with a pilot berth outboard under the side decks. Lee boards on the pilot berths. Centreline varnished teak saloon table on gimbals.
- Starboard side passage going forward with heads compartment to port with a hanging locker to starboard.
- Heads compartment has a Jabsco manual sea toilet which discharges directly overboard. Corian hand basin with pressurised hot and cold water.
- The forecabin has 2 single berths with storage beneath. Forehatch above with a ladder up the bulkhead. Forepeak accessed through a hatch forward to access the chain locker and a large storage space.
Equipment
- Sestrel steering compass
- Raymarine Axiom Pro chartplotter/radar
- Raymarine Quantum radar scanner
- I50 depth and speed
- I60 wind indicator
- Autopilot
- ICOM M330 DSC VHF
- ICOM IC-M910 hand held VHF
- Full flag locker
- RescueMe EPIRB
- Ocean Safety six person life raft with hydrostatic release
- Jonbuoy
- 2 x horse shoe buoys with lights
- 2 x automatic engine space fire extinguishers
- 3 cabin fire extinguishers
- Fire blanket
- Rule auto electric bilge pump
- Whale double action manual bilge pump
- Echomax Active target enhancer
- Emergency tiller
- Fog horn
- Coastal flare pack
- 60lb CQR anchor with 70m of 3/8” galvanised chain
- Kedge anchor
- Torkmaster hydraulic anchor windlass
- Mooring warps
- Fenders
- Stirling battery management system
- Stirling sine wave inverter
- Galvanic isolator
- 3 x ARFLX solar panels and Photonic regulator
- Mathway steering system
- Water and fuel tank indicators
- 2 x engine alternators
- 5 x 110ah 12 volt batteries
- Stirling 240 volt battery charger
- ENO 2 burner gas stove with oven and grill
- Hot water HotPot calorifier
- Fridge
- Jabsco marine sea toilet
- Corian hand basin in the heads
- Osmosea New 12S50 water maker
- 2 x gas bottles
- Cockpit table
- Bengco stainless steel charcoal cabin heater
- Hatch and skylight covers
- Windlass cover
- Cockpit cover/awning
- Cockpit cushions
- 3 x bronze dorade vents
- 2.7m Seago inflatable dinghy with 2 pairs of oars
- Mariner 3.5hp 4 stroke outboard engine
- Boat hook
- 2 x buckets
- 10 litre jerry can
- Pair of Lewmar 50 self tailing cockpit sheet winches
- Pair of Lewmar 58 self tailing cockpit sheet winches
- Pair of original non-self tailing cockpit sheet winches
- 4 x main mast winches including Lewmar 16ST, Lewmar 40ST and 2 original bronze winches
- 2 x original bronze winches on mizzen mast
- Pair of Lewmar 40ST winches on the coachroof for running rigging
- Mainsail
- Yankee No.by SKB Sails
- Yankee No.2
- Staysail (2019) by SKB Sails
- Staysail No.2
- Mizzen (2019) by SKB Sails
- Storm jib (2019) by SKB Sails
- Spinnaker
- Mainsail cover
- Mizzen sail cover
- ProFurl roller furling headsail system (2020)
- 2 x alloy spinnaker poles
