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SadlerShallow Fin Keel - £28,950

The Sadler 34 offers the sort of quick and sea-kindly performance that's long been recognised and applauded by hardened professional skippers. Indeed this example is owned by a professional superyacht's Captain.

Designed by Martin Sadler and built by Sadler Yachts Ltd to a hull design incorporating PU foam core to provide positive buoyancy in the event of a hull breach, with a consequential benefit being a degree of thermal insulation and straightforward wipe-down surfaces internally. The Sadler 34 design is fitted with a cast iron external fin keel and skeg supported rudder and comes with a high quotant on the 'pride upon rowing away' scale.This one, in common with the majority, is tiller steered for a more direct sailing feel and much better utility of space within the cockpit and has the shallower 1.48m 'Shoal keel' fin.Benefiting from significant equipment upgrades in the current ownership including:- a new, high-spec fully-battened mainsail by Dart Sails, with Rutgerson roller luff cars.- a new Harken Mk IV furling system for the headsail.- a new Eberspacher heating system installed.- a new Starlight gas cooker with grill & oven by Dometic.- a new Raymarine 'Element' 7HV plotter.- a new Icom Class B AIS Transponder

Accommodation:

Up to seven berths in three cabins with a generous, U-shaped galley, forward-facing chart table, centreline leafed table, heads compartment forward and forward cabin separated from the heads by wooden door, all based on Sadler's foam stiffened sub moulding that provides insulated accommodation and built-in buoyancy. A two outlet hot air heater by Eberspacher was fitted in 2022. A Pioneer CD/radio unit is fitted, with twin speakers mounted on the main bulkhead and two cockpit speakers.

Forward cabin:Two berths, formed in a 'Vee' can provide a double berth using an in-fill cushion. Open shelving alongside berth. Under berth lockers are lined (dry) storage lockers used for light wind sail storage. Additional removable storage nets have been provided to hang from benaath the deck head. Hanging locker, dedicated to the forward cabin is provided to starboard. Opening overhead deckhatch (a recent replacement) for light and ventilation.Heads Compartment:Extends across the beam of the hull forward of the mast, with doors ahead and to the main bulkhead for privacy. A Jabsco 'Twist n Lock' marine flushing toilet is fitted, connected to a holding tank. Hot and cold water via a shower faucet to a moulded hand basin. Shower sump with 12v drain pump. All sea valves in this compartment are of the Blakes, tapered seacock design. Hanging locker to starboard for oilskins, life-jackets and harnesses. Ventilation is provided by two 'Tannoy' ventilites overhead.Main Saloon:U-Shaped seating to port providing either a settee berth (with lee-cloth) or convertible to a double using an in-filling panel to enable the U-shaped seating to convert to a double if required, single settee berth to starboard. A centreline-mounted saloon table with internal bottle storage and drop leaves. Above the settee berth on the port side is an open, fiddled shelf, with a closed locker and additional, fiddled book shelf to starboard. Light and ventilation from a centre-line deck hatch (a recent replacement) over and fixed, toughened glass windows to the coachroof's sides. A bladder tank for freshwater is located beneath the starboard settee berth while a substantial, lined stowage space is provided beneath the settee berth to port. Navigation area:A well-sized, forward facing chart table accommodates folded charts and almanacs within, with a further storage shelf and a deeply-fiddled cave locker outboard of the chart table, where the AIS transponder and VHF have been mounted. A vinyl covered seat is fitted abaft the chart table, complete with a supporting strap for the navigator.Galley:Located to port of the companionway (for comfortable use when hove to on starboard tack while making a cup of tea), the Sadler 34's galley is notably generous in offering a generous amount of work space & security to a cook at sea with workable storage. A new Starlight 2 burner, grill & oven gas cooker by Dometic was fitted in 2022. Twin sinks are fitted within the forward peninsular and have individual covers. Pressurised H&C water supply and a separate hand pumped saltwater faucet. A deep, top opening refrigerated cool box is now fitted to this Sadler 34's galley, with a relatively large and shelved locker provided where the original, front-opening fridge would have been.Aft cabin:Located to starboard, this cabin extends forward of thecompanionway steps/engine box, thereby able to offer some seating and a hinged fiddled surface for small items ahead of the berth. A fiddled, open storage shelf alongside & above the berth has been widened. Light and ventilation is provided by an opening portlight to the cockpit's footwell, plus the side window and a 'Tannoy' ventilator above the cabin's standing area.

Mechanical And Electrical Systems

Fitted with a replacement Bukh DV24HE 24HP diesel engine in early 2016Currently indicating only around 710 hours run from newSpeedseal easy change impeller coverShaft drive to a fixed, 3 bladed propellerCarried on board are a substantial amount of useful engine spares and service parts

Electrical Systems:Three lead acid batteries are fitted within dedicated storage recesses formed within the aft cabin's internal moulding: 2 x 115 A/hr capacity batteries for 'Domestic and Services' bank, with a separate 105A/hr battery for engine cranking. (All batteries were new in 2021)

Batteries charged by engine-driven alternator and a Pro-Charge Ultra 12v/20A battery charger by Sterling Power for use when the vessel is connected to electrical shore support. A Pro-Split R splitter, again by Sterling Power is fitted to enhance the alternator's output charge

A Nasa BM-1 Compact display is fitted at the chart table to monitor the batteries' state of charge.

Tankage:Fuel: Approx. 25 gallons (112 litres) diesel carried in a stainless steel tank located toward the rear of the cockpit locker. Provided with a sight-gauge and a low-fuel warning light; the latter fitted alongside the companionway.

Freshwater:Approx. 50 gallons (200 litres) freshwater carried within a flexible, bladder tank amidships beneath the starboard settee berth.Holding tank: GRP tank located under the forward cabin's port-hand berth of unknown capacity, but with a clear inspection hatch to view the content's level.

Sails And Spars

Rigged as a single spreader masthead sloop with a Harken Mk IV headsail furling system (fitted new in 2022).S/S standing rigging last replaced in April 2016Mechanical backstay adjuster.Alloy, fixed-length spinnaker pole.Running rigging and reefing lines (all in clean condition) are led aft to cockpit and handled by a variety of Lewmar winches, with the headsail sheet primary winches being self-tailing Lewmar 43 winches. Spinnaker sheet snubbing winches are fitted too.

The Sail Wardrobe includes:

Fully battened mainsail with Rutgerson roller luff cars (New in 2022 - by Dart Sails).
Cross-cut, roller furling Genoa by Southern Sails, with a foam-padded luff to enhance it's reefed sail shape.
Asymmetrical cruising chute, within an ATN snuffer.
Symmetrical spinnaker.

Navigation Equipment

Within the Cockpit:

2 x Steering compasses
Raymarine Element 7HV colour chart plotter with AIS Overlay (plotter new in 2022) fitted on a trunnion mount, next to companionway.
TackTick MN100-2 Wind speed & direction display.
Nasa Clipper Log/Speed display.
Nasa Clipper Depth display.
Nasa Clipper GPS repeater/SOG display.
Autohelm ST4000 Autopilot control head with a separate activating arm.

At Chart table area:

Icom IC-M323 DSC/VHF radio connected to a Vesper Marine SP160 Splitter.
Icom MA-510TR 'Class B' AIS transponder.
Actisense W2K-1 Nema2000 to WiFi gateway to enable display of navigation data on a tablet.
Icom IC-M35 buoyant, hand-held VHF radio.

Deck Equipment:

15kg Rocnor anchor (new in 2022) with approx 40m chain cable.
CQR-type kedge anchor with a length of chain & warp (looks to have been unused).
Twin stemhead rollers.
Cockpit seats covered in synthetic 'Flexiteak' (new in April 2016).
Set of cockpit cushions.
Acrylic sprayhood (navy blue) with grab bar to rear edge.
Bimini frame and cover (stowed below).
2 x 'Blue Performance' rope bags/tidies for the rope ends.
Pair of midship mooring cleats.
Stern boarding/swimming ladder.
Fenders & warps.

Safety Equipment

Manual bilge pump.
12V DC bilge pump, with automatic and manual switching.
Automatic, inflatable danbuoy by Jonbuoy.
Firdell Blipper mast-mounted passive radar reflector.
2 x dry powder fire extinguishers.
1 X FSS50 portable potassium powder, aerosol extinguisher on clips above engine cover.
Emergency VHF antenna by Banten.
Aerosol signal horn.
Inshore flare pack by Seago ('in date' to 09/2023).General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as life rafts, 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 owners specific needs.

History And Construction

Anecdotally, we're told that this particular Sadler 34 was originally owned as his personal yacht by a senior Army officer, based for a time at the British Services', Kiel Sailing Centre in Germany. It was upon his insistence that the forward sections be 'beefed up' and additional ballast weight be fitted to the foot of the keel. It was at this time too that a holding tank was provided by the adaptation of the internal moulding's locker under the forward berths to provide the tank. We believe that, in his ownership 'Faustina' cruised the Baltic and down into the Mediterranean Sea.

It can be seen from the documentation held that she was returned to the UK and formerly sold within the family to the original owner's son, with the boat being based in the Southampton/Solent sailing area for many years by the following two owners before being bought by the current owner (the fifth ownership from new) - who is a professional Yacht Captain.

VAT paid status is verified by an authenticated SAD (C88) and covering letter from HM Customs and Excise, dated February 1993

As you will have read above, many good and expensive upgrades have been commissioned over the last two years; the underwater surfaces were slurry blasted to remove old antifouling coatings during the winter 2017/2018, the mainsail is 'As-New' & in lovely shape and modern electrical systems and items of electronic equipment have been fitted.

There is evidence of her time spent in the hot climes of the Mediterranean in the form of some crazing to the gelcoat both on the topsides and in the cockpit areas for example, but we're confident that 'Faustina' will be of interest to those looking for a well founded, upgraded and modernised example of this reassuringly capable British cruiser.

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