Designed by Kim Holman and built by Whisstocks of Woodbridge in 1972, Silent Flight, is the last of the seven Landfall Ketches built. They were designed as comfortable, capable passage makers and built to a high standard with quality materials. They are shallow draft boats, allowing access to cruising grounds off limits to most yachts of their size. Carvel planked in Iroko on oak frames. External iron ballast keel.
Designed by Kim Holman and built by Whisstocks of Woodbridge in 1972, Silent Flight, is the last of the seven Landfall Ketches built. They were designed as comfortable, capable passage makers and built to a high standard with quality materials. They are shallow draft boats, allowing access to cruising grounds off limits to most yachts of their size. Carvel planked in Iroko on oak frames. External iron ballast keel. Bermudan Ketch rig with aluminium spars. Perkins 43hp engine. Long list of recent work carried out by The Elephant Boat Yard. Substantial price drop ( 23/7/20 ) due to owner moving abroad and needing to sell.
Boat NameSilent Flight
SpecsBuilder: Whisstocks of Woodbridge
Designer: Holman & Pye
Keel: Full
DimensionsLOA: 40 ft 4 in
Beam: 11 ft 0 in
LWL: 32 ft 2 in
Length on Deck: 40 ft 4 in
Minimum Draft: 4 ft 11 in
Maximum Draft: 5 ft 0 in
Displacement: 14000 kgs
AccommodationsNumber of heads: 1
BOAT DETAILSCarvel planked in Iroko, copper rivets, fastened to steam bent oak frames.
Massive sawn wooden floors
External iron ballast keel
Laid teak deck glued to a plywood sub-deck with no fastenings.
Painted toe-rail with a varnished capping.
Varnished Iroko coamings with Aluminium framed windows.
Epoxy sheathed plywood coachroof.
RIGBermudan ketch rig on gold anodised aluminium spars. Deck stepped main mast and keel stepped mizzen mast. Alloy Z-Spars slab reefing booms fitted 1997. Alloy spinnaker pole.
Stainless steel standing rigging new in 1997 to internal galvanised chain plates.
Roller furling genoa, furling system fitted in 1997.
Pair of Lewmar 48 self tailing sheet winches on cockpit coamings
Pair of halyard winches at the mast including a new Andersen 28 self tailing
SAILSMainsail, mizzen and genoa by Suffolk Sails in good condition. Mizzen staysail and older genoa included.
MECHANICSPerkins 43hp 4cylinder marine diesel fitted new in 1997. New injectors 2003. New exhaust system 2017.
Single lever controls to the gearbox with a stainless shaft to a centreline 3 blade Brunton Autoprop H5 propeller. New cutlass bearing 2017. Shaft brake fitted.
160 litres of diesel in 2 separate stainless tanks either side of the cockpit.
ELECTRICSVetus 80kw 2000 electric bow thruster
New batteries 2016. 1 dedicated start battery, 2 x domestic batteries and 2 x bow thruster batteries.
Batteries charged from engine alternator or shore power system with a Merlin 240v charger.
Calorifier hot water tank run from the engine or the 240v supply.
LAYOUTThe Doghouse has a pilot seat each side with full standing headroom over the engine box.
Steps down into the main saloon with the galley to port and chart desk to starboard.
The Galley has a Neptune 4500 gimballed 2 burner gas stove with oven and grill. Single deep stainless sink with pressurised hot and cold water. Isotherm Cruise 49 12 volt fridge located opposite the galley. Ample storage space for domestic equipment in lockers and shelves around the galley.
The Chart desk faces outboard and lifts to access a single pilot berth. Chart stowage beneath the desk and electronic instruments to hand.
Half height bulkheads with vertical grab rails separate off the main saloon.
Port side U-shaped settee converts to a double berth. Single settee berth to starboard.
Centreline dropleaf varnished saloon table seats 6 people comfortably.
Starboard side passageway going forward. Heads compartment bi-fold door comes back to close off the passageway entirely and make a large private space.
Blakes manual sea toilet to port, discharges directly overboard. New seals on heads and new seacocks 2018. To starboard is a stainless steel hand basin and storage.
The fore-cabin has a large double V-berth and plenty of storage space. Full headroom beneath the coachroof, hatch above for access.
DISCLAIMERBucklers Hard Yacht Brokers offer the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
