This 46 ft steel centreboard yawl was designed by Royal Huisman’s chief naval architect for himself in 1965. A fast beautiful – and perforce strong ocean going classic yacht; she is a fine example of Dutch steel yacht construction at its best. 50 years on; refit work was carried out 2015/16 in Antigua and since then LUCY has been shipped to England, where she is now moored on the East Coast.
Brokers Comments
This 46 ft steel centreboard yawl was designed by Royal Huisman’s chief naval architect for himself in 1965. A fast beautiful – and perforce strong ocean going classic yacht; she is a fine example of Dutch steel yacht construction at its best. 50 years on; refit work was carried out 2015/16 in Antigua and since then LUCY has been shipped to England, where she is now moored on the East Coast.
Brokers Comments
This 46 ft steel centreboard yawl was designed by Royal Huisman’s chief naval architect for himself in 1965. A fast beautiful – and perforce strong ocean going classic yacht; she is a fine example of Dutch steel yacht construction at its best. 50 years on; refit work was carried out 2015/16 in Antigua and since then LUCY has been shipped to England, where she is now moored on the East Coast.
History Note
Designed by Henk Tingen, the chief naval architect for Royal Huismann, he had this yacht built by for his own use by Kok Shipyard at Muiden near Amsterdam. In due course he sold her to a family who took her to the USA and kept her on the Great Lakes where she remained for approximately 20 years. She was then sold on to a new owner in Maine on the East Coast and it was here that she partially sank due to a skin fitting failure. Mark Johnson a boat builder on Rhode Island then bought her and over the next 20 years carried out major refitting, information on which can be seen below. It was near completion of this project, when he was about to enjoy the fruits of his work on the boat that he was diagnosed with cancer and died very sadly before he could fulfil his dream. The current owners bought the boat from his partner, who it was had named her LUCY after his grandmother. Previous names had included CAIRNGORM and SAIL MATE. More recently LUCY has participated in the Antigua Classics and in 2016 was shipped to the UK.
Construction
- Corten steel hull with steel rubbing strake running 2/3rds the length
- Stainless steel centre board trunking
- Stainless steel skinned epoxy filled rudder
- 2 inch Marine ply deck laid over steel deck beams with stainless bolt fastenings
- Steel deck beams
- Steel trunk cabin
- Cockpit in teak joinery
- Stainless steel cockpit sole new 2015 as lifting hatch over engine room
- Hinged grating sole
Accommodation and Domestic Equipment
- Companionway steps down
- Varnished interior, white painted T&G deck head with
- 4 x Chromed bronze opening ports
- 4 x deck head lights
- 4 x bulkhead lights
- 2 x smaller cabin lights
Galley to port
- Force 10 4 burner hob and oven
- Stainless steel sink with hot and cold mixer tap
- Salt water pump
- Vitrifrigo 12 V fridge below sink
Chart table and navigation to stbd
- Nav instruments
- Quarter berth aft
Saloon
- U shaped settee berth to port around dining table
- Stowage lockers behind and book case above and outboard to port
- Banquette seating to stbd
- Pilot berth outboard to stbd with reading light
- Large hatch in deck head
- Sliding door forward to en suite and fore cabin
Head compartment with teak grate
-Jabsco manual WC 2014
-Shower
-Basin with hot and cold mixer
-Opening port
Fore cabin
- 2 x Opening ports and 2 x bulkhead lights
- 2 x Single berths
- Stowage lockers under
- Large hatch in deck head
Large focsle
- Stowage for sails, warps lines and outboard
- Flush hatch to fore deck
Rig Spars and Sails
- Carbon fibre main mast painted with grain finish to simulate wood
- Carbon fibre mizzen mast painted with grain finish to simulate wood
- Lewmar 43 main halyard winch
- Barient mizzen halyard winch
- Stainless steel rod standing rigging to stainless steel chain plates
- Fully battened main sail
- Fully battened mizzen sail
- Genoa on Harken roller furler
- 2 x Spinnakers
- Storm sail
- Spray dodger
- Cockpit awning
- Sail covers
Deck Layout, Equipment and Ground Tackle
From aft
- High bulwark
- Varnished teak toe rail Panama eyes both sides to stainless steel mooring cleats
- Mizzen tackle
- Aft deck with high lazarette hatch
- Teak dorade box
- Mizzen mast
- Chrome vents each side
- Teak coaming round large deep cockpit
- Raw teak slatted seats with lockers under
- 2 x Lockers aft either side of helm
- Chromed compass binnacle Engine controls each side
- 2 x Lewmar 44 ST Secondary winches on steel plinths for mizzen and staysail
- 2 x Barient 35 ST Primary Genoa sheet winches on steel plinths
- Centreboard winch to side of companionway
- Instrument repeaters port side speed, wind and depth
- Raised trunk cabin with spray hood over and teak hand rails each side running forward
- Genoa track on toe rail each side; each with 2 cars
- 2 x Varnished teak dorade boxes with chromed vents
- Large Lewmar hatch on centreline over saloon new 2014
- Main mast with 2 spreaders and alloy boom
- Ventilator
- Flush hatch over focsle
- Ideal 12 V anchor windlass with drum and capstan
- Stainless steel mooring cleats each side
- Panama eye fairleads each side
- CQR anchor with 3/8th inch chain stowed on stainless steel bow roller
- Danforth HT 28H kedge anchor with rode stowed in focsle
- Pushpit, pulpit and stanchions have been removed for aesthetic reasons but are available
Mechanical Electrical and Tankage
- Yanmar 4JH5E 54 HP Diesel
- Racor filters
- Balmar hifgh output alternator charger
- Featherstream 20 inch 3 bladed propeller new 2015
- Ritchie Edson steering gear with Dyneema linking to quadrant
- Prowatt 1000 inverter
- Electrical control panel, isolator, breakers, volt and ammeter
- Engine control panel, rev counter fuel level
- Propane gas solenoid control
- AGM Engine start battery new 2014
- 4 x AGM domestic batteries new 2014
- Deck lights mounted on Main mast
- Fuel in keel tank and steel tank aft stbd total capacity exceeding 150 gallons
- 2 x Galvanised steel 75 gallon fresh water tanks each side of centreboard case total 150 gallons
- Aluminium 9 or 10 Kg Propane tank in lazarette
- 1 x 10 gallon plastic holding tank
Navigation Communication and Electronics
- Ritchie steering compass in binnacle
- Furuno radar (scanner on mizzen mast)
- Icom SSB (antenna on mizzen mast)
- Furuno Navset RDP 139 radar / plotter
- Trimble GPS
- Icom M700 SSB radio
- Icom AT 130 SSB tuner
- Standard Horizon VHF
- Northstar 800 Loran
- Horizon depth /speed/wind
- Robertson auto pilot removed but available
Safety
- Avon 6 person life raft , last serviced 2005
- Emergency tiller
- Flares
- Life jackets
- Life rings
- ACR Electronics MOB floating light
- Medical / 1st aid pack
- Whale diaphraqgm manual bilge pump at cockpit
- Whale Orca auto electric 1,300 gph bilge pump
- 1 x BC fire extinguisher at galley
- Auto Halon engine room extinguisher
Refit details
Rhode Island
Deck replaced
New engine fitted
Wooden mast and spars replaced with carbon fibre spars
Vessel re-wired throughout
Standing flexible wire rigging replaced with stainless steel rod rigging
All the sails and awnings replaced with new, and replaced
2014
- New Jabsco marine WC fitted
- New Lewmar hatches
- 5 x New AGM house batteries
- New Raymarine speed and depth instruments fitted
- Carbon fibre rig and recent suit of sails
- Stainless steel steering cable replaced with dyneema
2015 Hauled out at Jolly Harbour Antigua for refit
- Engine taken out.
- Cockpit sole taken out and new fabricated stainless steel sole welded in place
- Engine room / bilges painted.
- New Yanmar 54 HP engine and gearbox and new exhaust system fitted.
- Carbon fibre mast and spars rubbed down and repainted to resemble wood
- Standing and running rigging inspected and re fitted
- New teak cockpit helmsman lockers built either side of steering position
- All bright work to cockpit, toe rail and hatches stripped and re varnished
- Saloon and forepeak painted and varnished
- Topsides re sprayed with Awlgrip Matterhorn White
- New Vitrifrigo 12 V fridge
- New 10 gal water heater in port locker - not yet installed
- Additional 100 ft 3/8th inch anchor chain purchased
- New cutlass bearing fitted
- New feather stream 20 inch three bladed feathering propellor fitted
- Re launched April 2016
Other Equipment
LUCY
