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GL Watson Cutter for sale in Ireland

LOCATION

Ireland

YEAR

1894

LENGTH

42.49 ft.

DETAILS

Condition

Used

Year

1894

Make & Model

GL Watson Cutter

Boat type

Sail

Length

42.49 ft.

Fuel Type

Diesel

Location

Ireland

MEASUREMENTS

LWL

23.26 ft.

Draft

6.17 ft.

Beam

8.01 ft.

DESCRIPTION

PEGGY BAWN’s 2 year restoration, widely regarded as exceptionally authentic, is recognised in the almost unrivalled “Coefficient of Authenticity” in her CIM rating. Cruised and raced in the seven years following, she is noted for her perfect balance and good manners. In 20 knots under finger tip control, her toe rail kisses the water, and in up to 17 knots, a flutter in her jack yard topsail marks her optimum groove. Moreover easily rigged and sailed by two, this perfect Victorian cruiser racer offers a competent owner the opportunity to step back in time, into the shoes of her illustrious designer, who created her at the very peak of his career - the year after designing BRITANNIA for the Prince of Wales. Apart from her delightful clipper bow, her hull shape displays her as a miniature “Britannia”.

At classic regattas she has shone, not just in racing performance, but also as the “most beautiful”, “oldest”, or “most authentic” example of the genius of the Golden Age of Yacht Design. Even her hydrostatic parameters conform to the ideals later defined by Olin Stephens.

She is ready to provide another century and more of sailing bliss to new owners. With her come 10 free copies of Martin Black’s superb biography of G L Watson, helping to define her unique place in yachting history. Meanwhile her well specified and equipped Harbeck trailer provides for great versatility in getting to race venues and for storage. This trailer is such an important aspect of the versatility of this yacht that we detail a section to it below.


Custom made Trailer


This yacht comes with her own custom built fully equipped Harbeck road trailer

Brokers Comments


PEGGY BAWN’s 2 year restoration, widely regarded as exceptionally authentic, is recognised in the almost unrivalled “Coefficient of Authenticity” in her CIM rating. Cruised and raced in the seven years following, she is noted for her perfect balance and good manners. In 20 knots under finger tip control, her toe rail kisses the water, and in up to 17 knots, a flutter in her jack yard topsail marks her optimum groove. Moreover easily rigged and sailed by two, this perfect Victorian cruiser racer offers a competent owner the opportunity to step back in time, into the shoes of her illustrious designer, who created her at the very peak of his career - the year after designing BRITANNIA for the Prince of Wales. Apart from her delightful clipper bow, her hull shape displays her as a miniature “Britannia”.

At classic regattas she has shone, not just in racing performance, but also as the “most beautiful”, “oldest”, or “most authentic” example of the genius of the Golden Age of Yacht Design. Even her hydrostatic parameters conform to the ideals later defined by Olin Stephens.

She is ready to provide another century and more of sailing bliss to new owners. With her come 10 free copies of Martin Black’s superb biography of G L Watson, helping to define her unique place in yachting history. Meanwhile her well specified and equipped Harbeck trailer provides for great versatility in getting to race venues and for storage. This trailer is such an important aspect of the versatility of this yacht that we detail a section to it below.

General Description


PEGGY BAWN is a typical example of a traditional long keel carvel wooden yacht; gaff rigged with a long ballast keel of lead, a sternpost hung elliptical rudder, fiddle bow and long overhanging counter. Tiller steered, she has a small cockpit leading via a companionway to a fitted interior.

There is a butterfly skylight over the coach roof, which is a continuation forward of the cockpit coaming. The mast is through the deck, keel stepped. The bowsprit is supported on traditional bitts through to the gammon iron. The hull is painted in a white enamel gloss finish with gilded details, the underwater in a green antifouling lifted to form a boot-top line. The deck is pine, the covering board, inside of toe-rail, coach roof sides, skylight, companionway, fore hatch and coaming are varnished, the coach roof top; painted canvas.

Construction


This is a summary of the essential construction elements. Comprehensive details and descriptions of materials used – and in the restoration are available on request.

- Pitch pine carvel planking over grown oak frames and intermediate steamed timbers
- Rudder of teak stock with teak and oak blade
- Bronze and copper fastenings
- New nickel aluminium bronze floors
- Eastern white pine deck over larch and Douglas fir beams
- Teak top strake, covering board and cockpit, oak deck house
- Lead keel (50% ballast ratio)
- Bronze deck fittings
- Original iron tiller and engraved brass rudder stock cap

History


Designed by G L Watson and built by John Hilditch in Carrickfergus for the Commodore of the Carrickfergus Sailing Club, J. Alfred Lepper, PEGGY BAWN was launched in 1894. Watson was the pre-eminent yacht designer of the period, having designed BRITANNIA for the Prince of Wales in 1893 as well as numerous others. He also personally raced in comparably sized yachts to PEGGY BAWN.

The yacht was very little altered and generally lightly used for most of her recent life. By the end of the 1990s and out of commission an abortive start on her restoration was made. The current owner purchased her in the winter offor complete restoration.

The owner, Hal Sisk, has previously owned and restored several sailing yachts. His project manager, Iain McAllister, is a professional yacht captain and had known of PEGGY BAWN since the early 1980s. The boat builder was Michael Kennedy, a very experienced shipwright who led a small team of other craftsmen. The consultant naval architect was Theodore Rye, who specialises in restoration work of wooden sailing yachts. The marine engineer was Harry Hannon.

The restoration / rebuild was over two years, from April 2003, and took place in a modern, roofed and well lit workshop at Rathmoylan, Dunmore East, Co Waterford. Featured on the front covers of “Classic Boat” and “Wooden Boat”, this exemplary restoration was covered in 9 successive articles in Classic Boat.  She was winner “Restoration of the Year” Germany 2006. Today she is competitive under CIM and Baltic Racing Rules.

Accommodation and Domestic Equipment


- Interior normally accessible via the companionway or fore hatch
- From aft, the companionway steps lead down to the accommodation below
- Under the companionway is the electric motor, screened from view but not separately boxed
- Matched pair of sideboards port and stb’d with drawers and stowage accessible from forward end
- 2 x Full length seats fwd with stowage under and outboard via lift out and hinged panels
- Small fold up edge piece to extend the seat width for sleeping
- Removable bare boarded cabin sole
- Panelled full beam bulkhead forward of the seats
- 2 x Full height forward opening doors set in the middle for access forward
- Foc’sle simply laid out with a bench seat to port and pair of simple lockers aft
- Origo Spirit hob
- Plate rack to starboard

Rig Spars and Sails


The rig is gaff cutter; the mast, bowsprit, boom and spinnaker pole all well built spars, solid and built up of nice lengths of timber; scraped and refinished. The gaff and topsail yard are new solid spars from Collars Ltd. The retained fittings of galvanised iron or steel include the gooseneck bands, gaff throat straps, mainmast irons and sheave. New galvanised mild steel items include the gooseneck straps and boom clew iron. There is a new bowsprit cranse iron in cast bronze. The bobstay hull fitting is a forged bronze fitting, screwed to the stem, linking to a forged and adjustable bronze bobstay rod. The mast is stepped by a simple tenon and there is a bronze bar deck strut under deck.

The standing rigging is unpolished 7 x 7 stainless steel hand spliced with collar and shackle eyes aloft and custom bronze bottle screws below. The rigging was all specified and fitted by Peter Martin, ex of Spencer Rigging Ltd, a professional rigger specialising in traditional work. The all new running rigging is a tan-coloured three strand Polypropylene

There is provision for a mainsail, staysail, jib, long roper jib, topsail and spinnaker. The staysail is set on a forestay, where the jib is set flying on a traveller to the bowsprit end. The "long-roper" jib is a full hoist on the topmast forestay light airs ghosting sail with sheet lead via the leeward mainsheet cleat.

Dacron sails by Ratsey & Lapthorn
- Mainsail (with two reefs) 383 sq ft / 35.58 sq m
- No 1 jib 117 sq ft / 10.87 sq m
- No 2 jib
- Long roper jib
- Staysail 75 sq ft / 7 sq m
- Jackyard topsail 86 sq ft / 8 sq m
- Balloon jib

Similar set of cotton sails purchased with the yacht, made by Perry’s of Dún Laoghaire, dated 1957 and 1958, but little used and in remarkable condition. There is no cotton long roper.

Deck Equipment and Ground Tackle


- Cast bronze gammon iron forward, with gated rollers each side for anchoring and mooring
- Cast bronze eye plate fitting right forward, through-bolted, for the straddled end of forestay
- Bowsprit heel fitting through-bolted bronze plate supporting a traditional set of “H” bitts
- Removable bowsprit secured with an oak fid
- Cast bronze chain pipe to starboard
- Original foredeck teak hatch with removable oval hatch top on centreline
- 4 x Cast bronze eyebolts at mast; the forward two linked into the mast strut rod below decks
- Mast wedged and booted through the deck and well supported
- 2 x cast bronze whisker stay chain plates, screwed fastened with silicon bronze screws
- Chain plates thru-bolted with new ½ inch bronze bolts for cap, lower shrouds and backstays
- Jib sheet lead through "lizard" strops led through toe rail
- Staysail leads are to a pair of traditional bulls-eye fairleads
- Hardwood timber cleats for the runners and mainsheet
- Bronze cleats on the coaming side for the headsail sheets
- Bronze quarter blocks and mainsheet horse, all through bolted
- 2 x Fortress anchors 
- c 50 m  8 mm anchor chain
- Adequate warps and other lines
- Fenders for mooring and towing
- 2.4 metre inflatable Plastimo dinghy with oars and pump

Mechanical Electrical and Tankage


- Asmo Marine Thoosa 8.5 kW 48 volt DC motor, driving via a belt driven reduction gear
- Conventional 25 mm 316 stainless steel shaft, offset via custom stern gland to port
- External clamp coupling enables tail shaft to be removed
- Custom welded bronze removable “A” bracket, bolted to the sternpost
- 14 inch diameter three bladed Max-Prop propeller
- Max speed c 5 knots +
- Motor control lever is located in the port cockpit locker.
- Battery switch forward in port cockpit locker.
- 8 x 6 volt semi-traction glass mat batteries nominal capacity 220 Ah
- Controller and charger port sideboard

Navigation Communication and Electronics


- Gimballed unlit compass mounted to be visible from the cockpit with port & stbd mounts
- Hand bearing compass
- Garmin GPS chart plotter
- Handheld GPS
- VHF
- Barometer

Safety


- 2 x Horseshoe life buoys, one with a light
- 6 x Life jackets with integral harnesses
- 2 x double ended harness lines
- Coastal flare pack
- Aerosol fog-horn
- Jabsco Amazon Warrior double action bilge pump with outlet over the hull side

Miscellaneous


- Buckets
- Bosuns chair
- Purpose-made Harbeck “fifth wheel” semi-trailer, suitable for both Europe and USA
- Brenderup box trailer shelved-out as bosuns stores fits on main trailer

Restoration Rebuild Refit and Maintenance


The restoration / rebuild was over two years, starting in April 2003, and took place in a modern, roofed and well lit workshop at Rathmoylan, Dunmore East, Co Waterford.

Prior to starting the rebuild, two months were spent recording the dimensions and construction processes of the original and a full size lofting took place, recorded on CAD. In general the original work and the rebuild were done to standards exceeding those of Lloyd’s Register Yacht & Small Craft rules (although there is no evidence the yacht was ever classified).

PEGGY BAWN has been completely rebuilt to the extent that she has a completely new hull and deck atop the original lead keel. Certain sound non structural parts of the original were retained and re-used such as the fore hatch, skylight, companionway hatch, cockpit seating, the majority of the interior furniture, the tiller and rudder head and most of the rig. Since restoration she has continued to be professionally maintained.

Custom Built Articulated Trailer by Harbeck


Peggy Bawn’s custom-built “5th wheel” articulated king-pin trailer was made in 2007 by leading German boat trailer specialist Harbeck, based on their SA100 type. It adds several dimensions to her security - in transit and in storage - and makes her eminently suitable for attending events worldwide. The trailer is very much part of the “package.”

The initial raison d’être was driven by the desire to ship her across the Atlantic for a season in east coast US waters by the safest means possible: inside a roll-on-roll-off ship. Usually boats must be lifted at the port from the delivering truck to one of the ship’s “Mafi” trailers in a secure area without the possibility of personal supervision. These are hard-wheeled, no-suspension low loaders which are shunted onto the ship by tractor units. As the trailers are often shorter than the boat, in the event of an unplanned “shunt”, there is the possibility of the boat being damaged fore or aft by touching adjacent cargo. Then the reverse process at the arrival port…

This trailer is longer and wider than the boat, thereby protecting her from such shunting. Moreover because loading and unloading only ever happens under personal supervision at a boatyard, instead of a secure port compound with no possibility for access, all means can be taken to reduce the chance of damage.

Another advantage of having her own trailer is that the boat can be prepared for haulage in good time, without an impatient trucker hanging around. Typically therefore everything is prepared for uplift days before the haulier is due, allowing, among other things, time for the boat’s minder to get to the next destination in time.

A timber tie-down frame is designed so that its four carpeted pads sit on the deck. At four points, tie-down straps lead from the trailer up and round the ends of two athwartships spar parts of this frame and back down to the trailer, meaning that no straps cross the boat, the capping rail is protected and the tie-down is positively vertical at four points. Further straps are then not required at her sensitive overhangs. There is a transport cover made to her lines, with deep sides to protect the topsides from the elements, and the whole vessel from potentially rusty deck-head drips, ship funnel and truck exhaust soot, and general transportation pollution.

Since 2007, Peggy Bawn has travelled on her trailer from Denmark to Maine via Bremerhaven and Baltimore; from New York to Denmark via Baltimore and Gothenburg; from Denmark to the Clyde via Esbjerg-Immingham; from Ardfern, west coast of Scotland to Plymouth & Falmouth; from Falmouth to Denmark via Harwich-Esbjerg; from Denmark to Lymington via Esbjerg- Harwich and from Fowey to Denmark via Harwich-Esbjerg – all without even the slightest damage.

In winter storage, Peggy Bawn is always sitting on her own substantial cradle – with three keel and six hull supports - which is incorporated into the trailer but removable. The cradle was originally made during the rebuild and is strong enough to be used for craning her from four lifting points, using her own spreader bars if necessary. It also supports her with the waterline level (impossible otherwise because of her “v” profile), allowing drainage of any accumulated water in the non-self-draining cockpit to run off via the bilge sump bung. The centre, longitudinal, keel supporting member is designed to be unbolted from the rest of the cradle to be used in the keel trough of a specialised commercial transport yacht trailer, keeping her level to waterline as above.

The trailer is designed for winching up a Brenderup “Cargo” box trailer onto the rear section, under Peggy Bawn’s counter overhang, using a custom ramp system. This shelved box trailer serves as a secure, dry store in transit, especially for her cotton sails. For the return voyage to USA it satisfied the voyage insurers that everything loose and valuable was locked up – because Peggy Bawn does not have a lock at her companionway.

There is further information including detailed plans with dimensions and compliance with various national road etc regulations available on request.

Other Equipment

PEGGY BAWN

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

HULL

Designer

G L Watson

OTHER

Builder

John Hilditch, Carrickfergus Co. Antrim, NI

Displacement(kgs)

4989.52

Keel Type

Full keel

ABOUT GL WATSON CUTTER

The GL Watson Cutter is a 42 feet long that boasts a 8 feet beam.