Wooden Ships Comments on this Hillyard 9 ton Sloop 9 ton Hillyard built by Hillyards of Littlehampton in 1961. Typical of their 9 ton design with a canoe stern, centre cockpit and split accommodation. Professional refit in 2020 including replacement of the keel bolts, new standing rigging and re-painting the bilges. The 9 ton Hillyard was the original family cruising boat and was built in very large numbers, they offered 2 sleeping cabins plus the saloon, up to 6 berths and a spacious saloon. The central cockpit is deep, safe and spacious. These boats are not fast but are comfortable and safe, ideal for family cruising and the design features have been copied time and again in modern yachts. The canvas sprayhood and zip up back means the cockpit can be made totally enclosed giving another dry communal space. Although looking a bit scruffy, this yacht has had professional maintenance in recent years and represents a lot of boat for the money. Length on Deck 32’ Length Waterline 29’ Beam 8’7” Draft 4’6” Thames Tonnage 9TM Sail Area 381sqft Construction Carvel planked in mahogany all copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers. Sawn oak floors across the centreline External iron ballast keel with galvanised keel bolts. Keel bolts new in 2020. Some internal iron trimming ballast. Original T&G pine deck overlaid with marine plywood and sheathed in epoxy glass cloth. Finished in non-slip deck paint. Painted mahogany toe rail fastened to the base of each stanchion, typical Hillyard design feature. Original ‘gas pipe’ Stanchions with solid top rail. Varnished mahogany coachroof coamings with a sheathed plywood coachroof deck. Deep centre cockpit with a canvas spray hood and zip up back which completely encloses the cockpit in poor weather. Wheel steering with cables to the rudder stock. Rig Masthead Bermudan sloop rig on a hollow wooden deck stepped mast in a wooden tabernacle. Wooden slab reefing boom with a stack pack system. Galvanised standing rigging and rigging screws to internal stainless chain plates. Backstay and shrouds new in 2020. Roller furling headsail system. Pair of Lewmar 30 self tailing cockpit sheet winches. Pair of mast winches. Mainsail and genoa in serviceable condition. Machinery Yanmar 3GM30 29hp 3cylinder diesel installed new in 1995. Last serviced in June 2018 with new exhaust elbow. Centreline fixed 3 blade bronze propeller gives 5-6 knots cruising speed. Stainless steel fuel tank new in 2006 of approximately 100 litres. 2 x 12 volt batteries of 120ah each. Charged from the engine alternator or through the Sterling 20amp charger when connected to shore power. Calorifier connected to the engine to provide domestic hot water. Accommodation 6 berths including a double in the aft cabin, 2 saloon settee berths and 2 singles in the fore peak. Starboard side door into the aft cabin with a heads compartment to port and 2 single V-berths that convert to a large double with a central infill. Heads compartment has a Jabsco manual sea toilet which discharges directly overboard and a hand basin with hot and cold pressurised water. Starboard offset door into the main cabin with galley to port. Galley has an Origo 2 burner spirit stove and a plastic galley sink with hot and cold pressurised water. Top loading cool box. Centreline dropleaf saloon table with a settee berth either side. Trotter box at forward end of each berth to increase sleeping length. Usual Hillyard storage lockers above each trotter box. Centreline passage going forward with large storage lockers either side. Fore peak has 2 single berths with lots of storage space below. Full specification and details available upon request Disclaimer: These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
