Classic Percy Dalton Tosher for sale in Hants United Kingdom

Wooden Ships Comments on this Percy Dalton Tosher

Built in Porthleven, Cornwall in 1971 by a local shipwright as his own boat.

Found on the beach in St Just in the late 1980’s she underwent a decade long rebuild, finally being launched in March 1993. She then won first prize in the Amateur Boatbuilding competition at the Wooden Boat Show in London of that year, a testament to the quality of the rebuild work carried out by her owner over the previous 10 years.

After being neglected once again and left ashore for 3 years, the current owner bought the boat from the Isle of Wight in 2020 and carried out a further diligent refit with the help of a professional shipwright, replacing the transom, refurbishing the deck, replacing the rigging and ensuring the boat is absolutely sound.

This is a very pretty little boat with plenty of history that has had 2 significant periods of refit work leaving her in apparently very good structural and cosmetic condition.

Length on Deck 20’4”

Length Overall

Beam 8’3”

Draft 3’

Construction

Carvel planked in pine all copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.

External iron ballast keel with iron keel bolts. History of bolts unknown.

Solid iroko swept deck fastened with bronze screws to the iroko deck beams. Caulked and payed. King plank and covering boards in iroko. Complete deck structure new in 1994.

Iroko bulwark on iroko stanchions which are mounted through the covering board. Twin iroko rubbing strakes.

Large cockpit with iroko coamings.

Painted cockpit sole boards.

Trnasom hung rudder with tiller steering.

Rig

Gaff cutter rig on a keel stepped varnished wooden mast. Single set of spreaders with a fidded topmast.

Varnished wooden bowsprit, boom and gaff yard.

Pair of lower shrouds and a single cap shroud each side to external galavnised chain plates. Running backstays on 4:1 tackles. Forestay to the stem head.

Staysail and jib set on a Wyckham Martin furling gear which is was recently fitted to both sails.

Sails include mainsail, topsail, staysail, jib and flying jib. All new from Penrose Sails in 1994 but used very little since that time.

Machinery

Beta Marine 14hp twin cylinder diesel fitted new in 2016.

Centreline fixed 3 blade bronze propeller.

New stainless steel fuel tank under the aft deck.

2 x 12 volt batteries, one for engine starting and one dedicated to the bilge pump. Both charged from the engine alternator.

Equipment

Mainsail

Topsail

Staysail

Jib

Flying jib

(All sails from Penrose Sails in 1994)

Beta Marine 14hp diesel, 2016

2 x 12 volt batteries, 2022

Electric auto bilge pump

All over boat cover, new 2022

Anchor and chain

Mooring warps and fenders

2 x boat hooks