Classic International Six Meter GBR32 for sale in Hants United Kingdom

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International Six Meter racing yacht built to Rule 2.

Designed by Johan Anker and built by Anker and Jensen in 1931.

She was built as the personal yacht of Johan Anker and in her he won the Scandinavian Gold Cup in Gothenburg in 1931. In 1932 she was sold to the great helmsman Magnus Konow who won the Gold Cup and the One Ton Cup. In 1933 she was sold to the UK and was converted for cruising around 1935 and spent much of her time after this on the Hamble.

In 2003 she was purchased by a well known member of the meter boat community, rebuilt and raced successfully at various events around Europe.

Purchased by the current owner in 2019 she then went through a major refit involving serious structural repairs and improvements, a complete new rig and all new systems. Clare Lallows yard on the Isle of Wight, together with an experienced yacht surveyor, completed a structural refit including new planking, frames and rudder replacement.

The yacht is now offered in full racing trim, optimised to a very high level and fully equipped for racing in the 6 meter series.

Top professionals have been engaged at all stages of the design and build to ensure the hull, rig and systems are as good as they could possibly be. The rig was designed in conjunction with various people including Tim Dean Consultancy Ltd.

Now under UK flag, this 6mR yacht is sailing under the sail number GBR31. Raced at the 2023 Worlds in Cowes and finished 11^th overall.

Offered for sale individually, but could be bought as part of a pair in conjunction with Abu. The systems, rigs and racing set up are identical on each boat making for exciting sailing as part of a team.

Length on deck 36’8”

Length Waterline 24’3″

Beam 6’

Draft 5’7″

Displacement 4.6 tons

Construction

Hull

Planked in mahogany all copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.

Sawn timber floors across the centreline

Titanium ring frame and new mahogany mast step recently fitted to spread the loads of the rig evenly and stiffen the hull.

Deck

Swept quarter sawn spruce deck screw fastened to douglas fir deck beams

Mahogany king plank and covering boards.

Twin cockpits with mahogany coamings.

Rig

The rig design was completed with the help of Tim Dean Consultancy Ltd to produce a high performance efficient rig.

The complete rig was delivered in 2022 and first sailed in September 2022.

Critical load data from the rig fed into the onboard system with various read out screens around the boat to give the crew real time information while racing. Data relayed via wifi to chase boat.

Spars

Fractional Bermudan sloop rig. Alloy mast and boom by Allspars, 2022. Full spec of spars available on request.

Stainless steel rod standing rigging. All rigging 2022, forestay new 2023.

Winches

2 x Harken Performa 50 and 2 x Harken Performa 46 2 speed self tailing winches below decks for line controls, set on newly fitted plywood structures especially designed for supreme crew ergonomics.

Single Harken Performa 50 mainsheet winch set on a central pedestal.

Deck hardware

All fittings and hardware designed, supplied and installed by Marine Rigging Servies Ltd of Gosport to race specification.

Sails

Rig electronics

Cyclops Marine Gateway unit to collate and distribute data from load cells.

Smartlink load cells for mainsheet, running backstays and forestay.

Equipment

B&G H5000 CPU Hercules

4 x B&G Triton 2 digital display

2 x B&G H5000 Graphic display at the mast

B&G wind sensor

B&G rudder indicator

B&G log

Tracer 22ah Li-Po battery for systems

Whale gusher manual bilge pump

Auto electric bilge pump 150 litres/min

12 volt battery for bilge pumps

3 x fender pads

Mooring warps

Padded boom crutch

All over mast up covers

Summer deck covers fitted around the cockpits

All sails by One Sails or Europ’ Sails, made from a Glued Vantage1 membrane and a film outer surface:

2 x Harken Performa 50 2 speed self tailing winches

2 x Harken Performa 46 2 speed self tailing winches

Harken Performa 50 self tailing mainsheet winch

Spinlock clutches