Hillyard 5 Ton Classic

[wombat88]

I'd love to own a small 2.5 ton Hillyard but it would have to be kept somewhere appropriate.

A yard soaked in the aroma of Stockholm tar where old men cut rudder stocks with adzes and pipe smoking women caulk seams with the gentle tap of a hammer. Others stand in a circle staring in awe at a glistening new Stuart Turner yet to start for the first time.

You know the sort of thing...

 

[winch2]

into a mud berth

Yep. Old dad used to drive his folkboat into a mud bank at the top of an estuary on the lowest spring for the winter. One of the tightest hulls I've ever encountered... leaked not a drop. Fun tho getting it off in the spring.

 

[Wansworth]

I'd love to own a small 2.5 ton Hillyard but it would have to be kept somewhere appropriate.

A yard soaked in the aroma of Stockholm tar where old men cut rudder stocks with adzes and pipe smoking women caulk seams with the gentle tap of a hammer. Others stand in a circle staring in awe at a glistening new Stuart Turner yet to start for the first time.

You know the sort of thing...

 

[Mark-1]

I'd love to own a small 2.5 ton Hillyard but it would have to be kept somewhere appropriate.

A yard soaked in the aroma of Stockholm tar where old men cut rudder stocks with adzes and pipe smoking women caulk seams with the gentle tap of a hammer. Others stand in a circle staring in awe at a glistening new Stuart Turner yet to start for the first time.

You know the sort of thing...

Pah! I'd keep mine in a clearing in a wood where stone age men fashion tree trunks into rudimentary canoes with fire and primitive flint tools. Your move.

(PS. Your prose is superb, I read that three or four times with a great deal of pleasure. Brilliant.)

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Sailled as crew on a lovely Vertue some years ago. I was filled with romantic notions of owning a wooden classic and was on the cusp of buying her when thankfully for my sanity and bank balance she sank on the way back from the Azores.
I bought a GRP Twister but still pine for a wooden classic. If I lost my mind today I would have this one : Laurent Giles Brittany Class | Classic Wooden Yacht For Sale

Running backstays - check
Offset Prop - check
Non self draining cockpit - check
hank on headsails - check
Lots of varnish - check
She's missing the roller boom furling but I'm sure that could be fixed ...........

 

[Tamar]

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[RunAgroundHard]

Yes indeed, if the toilet is good it could be worth more than the boat.

Exactly my thoughts. They sell for about £4k second hand, refurbished. Buy new for over £7k. It's a joke, and they are not that good either and can block as much as any other shitter. Lots of experience of one on a sail training vessel which regularly packed off after 2 days at sea and the wee darlings had to go.

Blakes Victory Blake Toilet Right Flush Brass/White

 

[Poignard]

With 119 watchers (actually 120 as I have just added myself!) there seems to be a lot of interest in her; even allowing of those who might be other Hilyard owners anxiously watching!



It would be a shame if an interesting classic like this were to be broken up for spares.

The seller might do better advertising her in France. I know of two similar Hillyards berthed in La Roche Bernard, Brittany.


The French seem more willing to take on old boats, and often form syndicates to make affording them cheaper by sharing the maintenance and other costs.

When I advertised my Twister for sale in France, two syndicates expressed interest in buying her.

 

[ianc1200]

Was it true that Hillyards would only build you a boat if they liked the look of you.

Lovely description of this in Michael Green's "The Art of Coarse Sailing" where in the end D Hillyard didn't like Green's friend and wouldn't build him the boat.

 

[Tranona]

With 119 watchers (actually 120 as I have just added myself!) there seems to be a lot of interest in her; even allowing of those who might be other Hilyard owners anxiously watching!

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It would be a shame if an interesting classic like this were to be broken up for spares.

The seller might do better advertising her in France. I know of two similar Hillyards berthed in La Roche Bernard, Brittany.

The French seem more willing to take on old boats, and often form syndicates to make affording them cheaper by sharing the maintenance and other costs.

When I advertised my Twister for sale in France, two syndicates expressed interest in buying her.

Perhaps that is more to do with the limited number of such boats in France compared with the UK reflecting the lack of pleasure boat building there in the 1945-1970 period.

 

[Wansworth]

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Perhaps that is more to do with the limited number of such boats in France compared with the UK reflecting the lack of pleasure boat building there in the 1945-1970 period.

t weren’t the French quite prolific churning out small fishing craft and say the golif if,they went for more curves adopting the new glassfibre material ?

 

[Tamar]

Exactly my thoughts. They sell for about £4k second hand, refurbished. Buy new for over £7k. It's a joke, and they are not that good either and can block as much as any other shitter. Lots of experience of one on a sail training vessel which regularly packed off after 2 days at sea and the wee darlings had to go.

Blakes Victory Blake Toilet Right Flush Brass/White

I messaged the owner in a fit of madness the other day and I'm happy to say he didn't reply. Not sure if I want to be led down the wooden boat wormhole again.

 

[DoubleEnder]

He he I’m about to buy a boat with a Blakes Victory. Superb, but missing the lid. Replacing the lid will cost as much as a new mainsail. Where’s that sheet of plywood?

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Love my Baby Blakes

 

[Poignard]

Love my Baby Blakes
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Must get a bit draughty using it there.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Love my Baby Blakes
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[winch2]

Any romantic thalassophiles about ?

Yep. We live on the South Coast half a mile from the blue stuff, the smell of mud, ships a hootin .....bliss. Last yr even got serious about an immaculate restored Vertue.. Well immacaulate as long as I didn't buy it. I love varnishing but there are limits and if we had got it there was noway we could have kept it pristine... but that interior? Deep amber woodwork, crisp white enamel and brass a plenty....I do find old age just a tad annoying.