1979 Camper & Nicholsons Nicholson 35

Boat Overview

The Nicholson 35, built by Camper and Nicholson, has a production history of over 20 years with more than 200 units produced. Its traditional lines and high-quality finish make it visually appealing, rewarding to sail, and comfortable to be aboard. The deep, well-protected cockpit ensures crew safety on deck. Below decks, the traditional layout offers comfortable living space, whether at anchor or on passage. The Nicholson 35 is a sought-after modern classic, popular among those who value reliability in all weather conditions.

Specifications

• Engine: Yanmar 3JH-4E marine diesel engine, 39hp (2008)
• Propeller: MaxProp 3 blade, bronze feathering propeller
• Self-Steering: Hydrovane Self-Steering gear
• Wind Generator: Rutland wind generator
• Onboard PC: 12VDC PC running Open CPN charting software with NOA screen, flexible keyboard, and mouse
• VHF: Standard Horizon Matrix AIS/GPS DSC VHF
• Radar: Furuno 1623 radar with mast-mounted scanner
• GPS: Furuno GP32 GPS
• Heater: Force 10 gas fired heater
• Cooker: Tecma Nelson gas cooker, two burner, grill, and oven (gimbal mounted)
• Standing Rigging: Stainless steel wire, fully replaced in 2008
• Roller Reefing: Profurl C320 roller reefing system on forestay (2018)
• Winches: 2x Pontos Compact, 4 speed, self-tailing winches
• Sails: Tri-sail and storm Jib
• Anchor: Rocna bower anchor on chain rode
• Windlass: Lofrans Cayman 88 electric windlass (2008)
• Dinghy: Avon inflatable dinghy with outboard

Location

The Nicholson 35 BLUE TERN is currently lying afloat at Campbeltown Marina and is available for viewing by prior appointment.

Press Review

‘Like all long fin-keeled heavy displacement cruisers, the Nicholson 35 is designed to take almost any adverse weather and sea conditions in her stride. Her overhanging, deep-vee bow section means she parts the waves resolutely, with little drama or spray, exuding only a gentle rocking motion as she goes....
She makes good passage time due to her steadfast ability to drive through the rough stuff, and being so stable and sea kindly means you can live, sleep and cook aboard safely and comfortably, relaxing in the knowledge that these robust and resilient vessels have covered millions of sea miles in their lifetime......
She comes with an excellent pedigree and is fondly loved by those for whom safety and comfort at sea is more important than speed and agility. That’s not to say she can’t make impressive passage times. Given enough wind she’ll still be battling to windward in sea conditions that would make many a more modern cruising yacht owner run for the nearest cover.
The original deck gear was made from top quality materials and substantially engineered, thereby making it all simple to maintain regularly. Obviously, it depends on how they’ve been worked over the years, but it’s not unusual to find them still going strong with 40 year-old winches, tracks and cars.’

Yachting Monthly. Used Boat: Nicholson 35. Chris Beeson, February 2017

Construction

Hull Construction

• Traditional heavyweight GRP moulded hull
• Polyester hand-consolidated laminate
• Long moulded fin keel with encapsulated ballast
• GRP formed stiffening members
• Plywood bulkheads glassed to hull and deck
• Underwater hull antifouled 2023
• Finished in grey/blue two-pack paint

Deck & Superstructure Construction

• Traditional heavyweight GRP moulded deck
• Single-piece deck moulded incorporating superstructure and self-draining cockpit
• Polyester, hand consolidated laminate
• Moulded bulkwark along deck edge
• Teak capping rail
• Laid teak decking to finish side decks and foredeck
• Laid teak panels to form cockpit seat tops
• Hardwood grating on cockpit sole

Keel & Rudder

• Long fin keel moulded as part of hull
• Encapsulated lead ballast
• Skeg hung rudder

Machinery

Engine & Gearbox

• Yanmar 3JH-4E marine diesel engine (2008)
• 39hp @ 3000rpm
• 3 cylinder, naturally aspirated, indirectly cooled
• Mechanical reversing V-drive gearbox
• Single lever morse control

Maintenance & Performance

• Engine serviced annually, last service July 2022 (little use during 2023)
• Cruising speed 6kts

Propulsion & Steering

• Stainless steel prop shaft
• Stuffing type conventional sterngland
• MaxProp 3 blade, bronze feathering propeller
• Cable system wheel steering
• Stainless steel wheel with hyde cover
• Emergency tiller

Windvane Self-Steering

• Hydrovane Self-Steering gear
• Transom mounted

Electrical Systems

Voltage Systems

• 12VDC onboard power system

Battery Banks

• Engine Battery – 1x 12VDC, lead acid
• Domestic Battery – 2x 12VDC, 105Ah Trojan TMX27 deep cycle traction batteries

Alternator

• Single engine driven alternator
• 12V – 80amp

Wind Generator

• Rutland wind generator – Not currently fitted
• Stainless steel mounting pole

Inverter

• Victron Energy Blue Power Phoenix Inverter
• 12VDC, 300W

Battery Monitor

• Victron Energy BMV712-SMART battery monitor

General

• 12V socket at chart table

Plumbing

Fresh Water

• Full pressurized hot and cold water system
• Mixer tap in galley
• Manual fresh water pump in galley
• Mixer tap in heads, pulls out for use as shower head
• Hot water provided from engine heated calorifier

Salt Water

• Manually pumped salt water tap at galley

Bilge Pumps

• Manual bilge pump
• Electric bilge pump

Tankage

Fuel

• Single diesel tank
• GRP tank built-in to hull below cockpit sole
• Approximate capacity - 182 Ltrs

Fresh Water

• Single keel tank for freshwater
• Approximate capacity – 364 Ltrs

Navigation & Communication Equipment

On Deck

• Depth/Speed/Log – Raymarine ST60+

Below Decks

• 12V PC – Onboard 12VDC PC running Open CPN charting software with NOA screen, flexible keyboard, and mouse
• Radar – Furuno 1623 radar with mast-mounted scanner
• GPS – Furuno GP32
• Wind – Thomas Walker & Sons wind direction and speed instruments – no longer operational

Communications Equipment

• DSC VHF – Standard Horizon Matrix AIS/GPS DSC VHF

Domestic Equipment

Galley

• Galley Stove – Tecma Nelson gas cooker, two burner, grill, and oven. Gimbal mounted
• Coolbox
• Stainless steel sink
• Mixer tap
• Manual fresh water tap
• Manual salt water tap

Heads

• Blakes Lavac Zenith manual marine toilet with Henderson Mk V pump
• Wash hand basin
• Mixer tap which can be pulled out for use as shower head

Heating

• Force 10 gas fired heater
• Fitted at aft end of saloon table

Lighting

• Overhead lighting throughout the interior
• Bulkhead/reading lights in way of bunks

Accommodation

Summary of Accommodation

• Twin berth forward cabin converting to double
• Heads compartment
• Saloon offering up to three occasional berths, including quarter berth
• Galley
• Nav Station / Quarter Berth

Accommodation Finish

• Traditionally built interior with joinery of teak and teak-faced hardwood veneered plywood with solid teak hardwood trims and fiddles
• GRP mouldings to form the base of galley and heads units
• Soles of teak hardwood veneered plywood with holly stripe
• Vinyl headlining

Description of Accommodation from Forward

Forward Cabin

• Two berths traditional V-berth layout
• Lee cloths fitted to both bunks
• Central infill section with cushion converts the bunk into a double berth
• Chain locker forward of bulkhead
• Locker space under V-berths

Heads

• Immediately aft of the forepeak
• Spanning the full width of the boat
• Walk-through heads with sliding doors to close off from both the forepeak and main saloon areas
• Blakes Lavac manual sea toilet located outboard to port
• Vanity unit with small countertop, mirror, and inset wash hand basin to starboard
• Wet locker to port, outboard of toilet

Saloon

• Open plan layout with no partition of space between the main bulkhead and companionway
• Settee to starboard with pullout base to form good sized single berth with lee cloth
• U-shaped bench settee to port with infill to create compact double
• Saloon table mounted centrally with double drop leafs
• Selection of lockers below settee bases, outboard of seat backs and overhead to port and starboard
• Bookshelves with fiddles above port settee

Nav Station

• Forward facing chart table located aft of port settee in saloon
• Navigator sitting on forward end of quarter berth facing forward with removable back rest
• Quarter berth extending aft along port side
• Ships switch panel mounted outboard of chart table
• 12V PC housed within case outboard of table
• NOC screen, Furuno GPS and radar displays mounted forward of table
• Chart storage within table
• Bookshelf outboard to port above chart table

Galley

• To starboard side of companionway
• U-shaped galley
• Gimbal-mounted gas cooker mounted centrally outboard
• Short section of counter top with coolbox locker beneath forward
• Worktop aft with inset sink, drainer aft of sink and top loading coolbox outboard of sink

Deck Equipment

Rig

• Keel stepped, single spreader, masthead sloop rig
• Anodised alloy mast and spars
• Standing rigging of stainless steel wire, fully replaced in 2008
• Profurl C320 roller reefing system on forestay (2018)
• Removable inner forestay
• Slab reefing mainsail
• Rod kicker
• Spinnaker pole
• Twizzle rig, twin furling headsails on single foil with twin poles and universal joints, included but not currently fitted
• Lazyjacks
• Mast steps to spreaders

Winches

• Primary Winches – 2x Lewmar 43, two speed
• Secondary Winches – 2x Pontos Compact, 4 speed, self-tailing
• Mast Mounted Halyard Winches – 1x Lewmar 16, two-speed; 1x Lewmar 8, single-speed
• Mast Mounted Reefing Winch – 1x Lewmar 8, single-speed

Sails

• Mainsail – White dacron, fully battened, slab reefing
• Genoa – White dacron, roller reefing
• Genoa – White dacron, roller reefing, 150%, UV Strip. North Sails
• Tri Sail
• Storm Jib
• Spinnaker

Canvas Work

• Mainsail Cover – stackpack type cover with mast boot and lazyjacks
• Sprayhood – With additional stainless steel grabrails external to hood port and starboard

Anchoring & Mooring

• Bower Anchor – 20kg Rocna anchor on chain rode
• Kedge Anchor – 35lb CQR anchor
• Electric Windlass – Lofrans Cayman 88 electric windlass with chain gypsy and warping drum. Foot button controls on foredeck (2008)
• Selection of mooring warps
• Selection of fenders

Tender

• Inflatable Dinghy – Avon inflatable dinghy
• Outboard – Mariner 2hp, 2-stroke

General

• Stainless steel pulpit and pushpit rails
• Deck mounted stanchions supporting double tier guardwires
• Double bow roller built into stem
• Stainless steel Samson post on foredeck
• Deck mounted mooring cleats forward and aft
• Midships cleats on genoa tracks
• Fairleads mounted on capping rail forward and aft
• Teak grabrails running the length of the coachroof outboard edges
• Dorade type ventilators immediately forward of sprayhood
• Gas locker in starboard side deck with overboard drain (gas hose and regulator replaced 2023)
• Primary winches mounted on cockpit coamings forward
• Outboard storage bracket on pushpit rail
• Boarding/Swimming ladder
• Ensign staff

Safety Equipment

General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as liferafts, Epirbs, fire extinguishers, and flares etc. are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on-board as part of the sale of a used vessel may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owner's specific needs.

• Navigation Lights:
  • Masthead Tri-colour/anchor masthead light
  • Steaming light
  • Low level nav lights
  • Mast mounted deck flood light
• Life Saving:
  • Liferaft – Seago 4 man valise, first service now due
  • KIM MOB rescue sling
  • Horseshoe Lifebuoy x2
  • Gas Alarm – Pilot gas alarm system
  • Fire Blanket
  • Grab Bag

Disclaimer

In this case, we are acting as brokers only. The Owner is not selling in the course of a business. Whilst every care has been taken in their preparation, the correctness of these particulars is not guaranteed. The Purchaser is strongly advised to check the particulars and where appropriate at their expense to employ a qualified Marine Surveyor to carry out a survey and/or to have an engine trial conducted which if conducted by us shall not imply any liability for such engine on our part. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.