Cornish-Crabber 30 PILOT CUTTER for sale in Levington, United Kingdom

A luxurious one-off version of the well known and characterful Cornish Crabber Pilot Cutter, built for their managing director, which epitomises modern traditional British boatbuilding at its very best, with great attention to detail. Beautifully fitted out with teak joinery, the layout below is comfortable and practical and whilst full use has been made of modern systems and equipment, retains a cosy traditional ambience.

A luxurious one-off version of the well known and characterful Cornish Crabber Pilot Cutter , built for their managing director, which epitomises modern traditional British boatbuilding at its very best, with great attention to detail. Beautifully fitted out with teak joinery, the layout below is comfortable and practical and whilst full use has been made of modern systems and equipment, retains a cosy traditional ambience. The cutter rig is particularly versatile and with all lines led aft to the cockpit, all sail handling can be done from the cockpit without the necessity of going forward. Carefully maintained from new.

Viewing by appointment at our Suffolk Office (IP10 0LN

Accommodation

The accommodation is attractively fitted out with teak joinery with tongued and grooved cedar overhead on laminated beams. Full standing headroom in the saloon. There is good stowage throughout, ample handholds and excellent ventilation with six bronze opening portlights in saloon, main hatch, bronze forehatch and two portholes in forecabin and over the quarter berths. There are five berths in two cabins and the layout is both comfortable and practical with full standing headroom. In the forecabin, good sized V berth with stowage under. Separate heads compartment to port with marine toilet, with electric pump out, washbasin and shower. Solar powered ventilator. Traditional prism decklight. Hanging locker opposite. In the saloon, dinette to port with removable table. Galley opposite with ceramic tiled work surface. Smev four burner gimballed gas cooker with grill and oven. Stainless steel sink. 250 litres freshwater capacity supplying hot and cold pressurised water to galley and heads. Isostar fridge/freezer. Chart table to starboard with instrument panel and good chart stowage. Two large quarter berths port and starboard. Eberspacher diesel fired hot air central heating.

Mechanical Systems

Located abaft the companionway, re-conditioned Yanmar 3JH 4E four cylinder 38hp diesel engine, fitted 2018/2019. 130 hours running time. Electric start. Freshwater cooled via heat exchanger. Shaft drive to fixed pitch three bladed propeller via Aquadrive coupling. Shaft fitted rope cutter. 110 litres fuel capacity in stainless steel tank giving approximately 275 miles range at 5.5 knots cruising speed. Maximum speed under power 6.5 knots. Single lever control. Vetus bowthruster fitted 2017/2018.

Electrical Systems

• 12 volt 110 Ah domestic battery (2017)
• 12 volt 95Ah engine start battery (2020)
• 12 volt 120 Ah fridge / windlass / bowthruster battery (2019)
• Alternator charging
• 240 volt shorepower system
• Battery charger
• Immersion heater

Sails & Spars

Cutter rigged with tan sails by Suffolk Sails. Cream epoxy coated aluminium mast and boom by Eurospars. Varnished Oregon Pine bowsprit, fully retractable. Stainless steel standing rigging. Terylene running rigging. Fully battened slab reefing mainsail with three reefs. Lazyjacks. All lines led aft to cockpit. Strut kicker. Facnor headsail furling systems to jib and staysail. Two bronze Lewmar 8 halyard winches. Two bronze Lewmar 16 self tailing reefing and staysail winches. Two bronze Lewmar 30 self tailing sheet winches.

• Fully battened mainsailvery good
• Furling yankeevery good
• Furling & self tacking staysailvery good
• Cruising chute with snufferexcellent
• Various spare sails

Deck Equipment

• 35lb CQR anchor with 60m chain
• Kedge anchor
• Simpson Lawrence electric anchor windlass
• Stainless steel stanchions, pushpit and guardwires with gates
• Teak coachroof grabrails
• Sail cover
• Sprayhood
• Teak cockpit table
• Cockpit spray dodgers with boat name
• Boom awning
• Stainless steel boarding ladder
• Summer deck awning
• Winter cover (2004) with windows and access panels (cost £2500)
• Various fenders and warps
• Dinghy davits
• Stainless steel boarding ladder
• Outboard stowage bracket

Navigation Equipment

• Whitlock Polaris binnacle mounted steering compass (2000)
• Raytheon ST60 depth, boatspeed & log, windspeed & direction (2000)
• Raytheon ST60 multi display at chart table (2000)
• Raytheon 630 colour chart plotter (2000) at chart table
• Garmin 700 chart plotter with AIS at helm
• Raytheon ST6000+ autopilot (2000)
• DSC VHF radio (2017)
• Clock and barometer
• Masthead and deck level navigation lights

Safety Equipment

• Manual bilge pump
• 2 x electric bilge pumps
• 2x fire extinguishers
• Fire blanket
• Automatic engine room fire extinguisher
• Visiball radar reflector
• Gas alarm
• XM ORC 4 person liferaft (needs servicing)
• Deck floodlight

Construction

Built in 1995 by Cornish Crabbers Ltd to a design by Roger Dongray, exhibited at 1996 London Boat Show and launched shortly after. Hull number 42. Green GRP multichine hull with black sheer stripe. Twin teak rubbing bands with carved fashion pieces and carved name board. GRP coachroof with teak decks and coachroof. Varnished Iroko coachroof. Long keel (epoxy coated). Keel hung rudder. Whitlock rod wheel steering with hide covered wheel. Aft self draining cockpit. Self draining gas bottle stowage. RCD Category A-Ocean rating. LOA including bowsprit: 39'. A continual programme of maintenance and improvement has been undertaken as follows:

• 2009 - hull epoxied; coachroof teak re-laid
• 2014 - deck teak re-laid
• 2015 - new bowsprit
• 2016 - diesel tank removed and cleaned; wiring checked and refurbished
• 2017 - new standing rigging
• 2019 - cockpit teak re-laid; re-conditioned engine fitted
• 2021 - new saloon seating; re-antifouled