Classic Salcombe B Class for sale in Devon United Kingdom

Wooden Ships Comments on this Salcombe B Class

Salcombe B class racing dinghy built by Morgan Giles of Teignmouth in 1935 to a design by Edgar Cove, a local Salcombe boat builder and mainstay of the Salcombe boating community.

She was build No.319, job 1562 at the Morgan Giles yard.

Wooden Ships Comments on this Salcombe B Class

Salcombe B class racing dinghy built by Morgan Giles of Teignmouth in 1935 to a design by Edgar Cove, a local Salcombe boat builder and mainstay of the Salcombe boating community.

She was build No.319, job 1562 at the Morgan Giles yard.

She was built for a Miss Elizabeth Chorlton and we have records of her winning in Salcombe with Morgan Giles at the helm in 1935, thus qualifying for the West of England Conference Cup. This cup she won in July 1936.

Salcombe had a number of local racing classes, the A class being a larger keel boat and the C class a 12’ dinghy. This B class at 16’ with a tall 29’ mast was a powerful boat making the most of the exciting sailing conditions found in the estuary. It is not known how many survive but believed to be the last one remaining.

Bought in 2010, she was refurbished in present ownership over a 7 year period where a vast sum was spent with professional boat builders in Norfolk. Since then she has been used for racing at Blakeney, North Norfolk and the Norfolk Broads but with the progression of age the owner has decided to pass her on.

The boat is now back in Devon near Salcombe and it is hoped we can find a new custodian for her with ties to the local area for which she was built.

A very interesting boat with a refurbished hull, recent rig and sails, electric outboard and an excellent combination road trailer/launching trolley.

• Length on Deck: 16’ ½”
• Beam: 5’11”
• Weight: 266kg

Planked in tight seamed mahogany fastened with copper clenched nails to fine steam bent oak timbers.

The boat was approximately 50% re-fastened in 2015.

Oak stem and keel with a mahogany transom.

Decks are laid with wide pine boards fastened with bronze nails to the deck beams. Mahogany covering boards and king plank.

The deck was totally refurbished in 2015, much of it lifted, repaired and refitted with new fastenings.

Fore and aft bulkheads create chambers bow and stern for buoyancy bags.

Solid mahogany centreboard box with a 92kg bronze centreplate, raised and lowered with a bronze geared wheel and lanyard.

Mahogany thwarts and coamings.

Drop plate mahogany rudder with bronze hangings.

Fractional bermudan sloop rig on a solid spruce keel stepped mast.

Twin spreader mast with jumper struts to support the upper sections.

Varnished spruce roller reefing boom. Small stubby bowsprit.

Stainless steel standing rigging to external bronze chain plates.

Dacron mainsail and jib in barely used condition.

Bison 55 electric outboard mounts on a bracket that sits in the rudder pintles.

• Excellent quality road trailer with combination launching trolley
• Spare trailer wheel
• Bison 55 electric outboard motor
• Securing straps, spreader bar etc for towing
• Lightboard for towing
• 4 x buoyancy bags
• Dacron mainsail and jib (very little use)
• Rudder and tiller