Lymington 27

Never heard of it but a friend has just bought a lymington Slipway 5 tonner of about 26/27 ft long, built in the 50's she is a pretty little double ender with the topsides amidship raised to give a full width saloon. Ring any bells? Mike.

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Mickshep - I've just got some more information on the boat and that sounds like the one. What does your friend think of it both in construction and handling? Do you know if it's practical to sail single handed?


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Hi Dan. Reputed to be a cracking little sea boat. Nice small deep cockpit, with the raised topsides there is a surprising amount of space below and lots of room to move about on deck. My last boat was a Robert Clark 5 tonner and was a pleasure to sail single handed, as with most of the boats in this size range and era they are narrow, deep and heavy when compared to the modern equivelent which is in my opinion no bad thing, They have a relatively long keel and should balance well and be a lot less twitchy than more modern designs, (but then I am biased) If I remember right the Lymington slipway 5 tonner was built with larch planking which lasts pretty well, they also had an impresive lump of iron bolted onto the keel as ballast so should stand up to their canvas well. The ones I have seen had roller furling boom for reefing the mainsail, This method gets a good slagging off these days as it spoils the shape of the sail which is a pity as with the addition of a couple of tapered laths to the boom it can be made to work o.k, If you want to p.m me with an e-mail address I'll see what I can find out for you and get any photo's.
Some years ago I met a young chap living aboard one he had restored and was addament was going to take him to the W Indies, He'd sailed her all over and allways single handed, he had faith in them. Cheers, Mike.

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Mike - Thanks for the info. That all matches up to what I've been able to dig up. You're right, this one is planked with larch. It's been sitting in a shipwright's workshop for the last seven years and he's been restoring it for himself but has suffered an injury and had to stop work so it's available at a very attractive price. The hull's fully restored and the keel's back on with new bolts. There's also all the parts he took off - interior, engine, prop, shaft, mast, rigging (not that I'd want to re-use that) etc etc. However even if it's all there and in reasonable order, it's still at least two months solid work to put back together and invariably there'll be a couple of grand's worth of bits to change so I have to decide if I really have the time. A few pics would be very useful - sorry, what does PM mean?

Incidentally I am a great fan of roller furling despite its shortcomings, it's an absolute boon in close handling or when your alone. I like the challenge of getting the best out of a boat, but hey if I wanted optimum performance I wouldn't be interested in one of these in the first place. Also as most of my sea time is on square riggers, frankly anything that a)goes to windward and b) moves in less than a stiff F4 is frankly astounding.

DAN

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Hi Dan. 'Shipwright restored' Blimey! I wish I could have found something like that when I was looking, Re the P.M, If you are lopoking at this post, move your computer mouse so that the cursor is on 'mickshep' in the top left hand corner of the post. click, this will bring up my Bio, at the bottom of the page is a 'send private message' link, any message sent this way will appear only on my computer so e-mail address or phone number not broadcast to all and sundry. If you recieve a P.M a red symbol will flash to the left of the 'Main Index' icon above. Click on this to read P.M. I will send one now so you can see how it works. Regards, Mike.

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