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Stephen Jones Micro 18/Micro Tonner/Micro Cupper & Trailer - £1,995

Status : SOLD

Lying : Norfolk Broads - Viewing strictly by appointment through Topsail

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General Specification

Designer : Stephen Jones LOA : 5.5m (18ft 1in) Keel : Centreboard

Construction

• GRP construction
• Lifting keel with bulb (operated via 12V winch)
• 2 x rudders (1 shallow, 1 deep)
• Last ashore 2019
• No recent survey

Rigging & Sails

• Masthead Bermudan Sloop rig
• Alloy mast/spars
• 2 x Lewmar Size 6 Single Speed halyard winches
• 2 x Lewmar Size 6 Single Speed sheet winches
• Mainsail (good condition, age unknown)
• Jib (good condition, age unknown)
• Spinnaker (good condition, age unknown)
• Jib sock (2020 by Stephen Westwood, Brantham)

Mechanical & Electrical

• 24V Hydroforce 86lbs transom mounted electric trolling motor (2019)
• Tiller steering
• 4 x 12V batteries for motor (2019)
• Further single 12V battery dedicated to keel winch
• 3 x small solar panels (2 currently located dockside)
• 3 x solar charge controllers

Accommodation

• 2 berths in 1 cabin
• Minimally equipped 'racing' interior
• Chrome solar mushroom vent
• Unbraked single axle road trailer
• Boat Safety Scheme certificate to 2023
• Fire extinguisher
• Stainless steel pulpit
• Stanchions and guardwires
• Plastimo Mini-Contest steering compass
• Masthead wind indicator
• NASA Target2 Depth
• NASA Target2 Log
• Various fenders
• Various warps

Understood to have raced successfully (on handicap) on the Thames estuary under previous ownership, this Micro Tonner/Micro Cupper doesn't presently meet class rules due to her electric keel and electric motor. These items do however make regular sailing, club racing and cruising a pleasure! Purchased by the current owner in 2019 and relocated from the south coast (Gosport) to the Norfolk Broads, Ready Sorted is now regretfully offered for sale due to ill health.

Requiring some cosmetic improvement (for example, the repainting of the decks, washing of running rigging and completion of the relining of the cabin), plus routine maintenance, Ready Sorted's new owner will quickly be rewarded following a little time and effort. An easy project.

MOORING: The vessel's southern Broads mooring is understood to be transferable (current cost approximately £530 inc VAT per annum).

THIS VESSEL IS SERIOUSLY FOR SALE AND OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED.

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• Boat REF#  ·  100507
• Length  ·  5.49m
• Year  ·  1983
• Construction  ·  Wood Laminate
• Underwater profile  ·  Lifting Keel
• Sleeping berths  ·  4
• Engine  ·  1 x gas 2 stroke 4hp, Suzuki DT4 ()
• Lying  ·  Southampton UK

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Extra Details

1 1/2 engine hrs. NASA battery meter. Electric winch for keel hoist.

Sloop rigged Supa Spars Other spars (2004) with Stainless Steel standing rigging (2004)

Mast is carbon fibre and un used as is the stainless rigging. There are two spinnaker poles unfitted. The sails are again unused.

Electrical Systems

12 volt battery, 1 batteries charged by:

Construction

She was the prototype for a GRP micro cup yacht and about 6 hulls were taken from her in all. She has had 15 coats of two pack varnish !

Accommodation

1 burner spirit Stove

Nav Equipment

Broker's comments.

What a pleasure it was to photograph this lovely little yacht. If you are after something a bit special and different from the run of the mill plastic jelly moulds this is it. The attention to detail and the professionalism that the owner has prepared her too is fantastic. The first to view will buy her ! Just look at the photos, they say it all.

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Belinda: This refurbished 1980s quarter tonner is a real labour of love

• December 3, 2019

Rupert Holmes looks at the latest yacht to join the highly competitive vintage quarter tonner class after a comprehensive refit and upgrade

Spending around 1,800 hours and the price of a new boat on revamping a 30-year-old 26ft keelboat might seem extraordinary, yet it’s par for the course for a quarter tonner. The enthusiasm this class inspires in its owners means that a large proportion of the fleet has benefitted from this sort of unusually throrough refit.

One of the latest to undergo the full refurb treatment is Belinda , a 1986 carbon Kevlar Gonzales custom design, which had a full makeover in the hands of John Corby. The entire project came in at a six-figure price, including sails, electronics and VAT.

“She had been built to a really high standard in a male mould and was already a very sweet boat,” explains Corby. “I had a client, Tom Hall, who at the time owned another quarter tonner [the 1977 Whiting-designed Runaway Bus ] as well as a Spirit yacht and wanted to refit a boat from scratch.

The revived quarter ton class races under IRC. Photo: Paul Wyeth

“Fortunately Tom and I aligned well in terms of what we thought was the best way to approach the project and our visions for the final outcome,” says Corby. “He wanted a boat that looks right – not all quarter tonners do – and the detailing had to be as good as possible.”

Substantial changes

The original keel was to be replaced with the Mark Mills-designed foil that has become almost standard among the reworked boats in the class. However, the original was bolted through a massive baseplate in the bilge and the keel bolts were thoroughly corroded.

The easiest solution was to cut the entire area away with a chainsaw, leaving a 1.2m (4ft) long and 0.46m (18in) wide gaping hole in the bottom of the hull.

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Dismantling of the boat didn’t stop there; all the remaining metalwork, including chainplates and deck hardware, was removed and discarded, as was the coachroof. Below decks the bunk fronts and a partial bulkhead are all that remains of the original interior.

There’s a new substantial grid in the floor to take the keel loads, as well as a vee girder joining the partial bulkheads underneath the mast step to add strength and stiffness to this part of the boat. “In all there is a huge amount of new structure around the keel, the mast and the chainplates,” says Corby.

To optimise the feel in the helm he also wanted the keel to be slightly forward of its original position. “Over the past 30 years mainsails have become much flatter,” he explains. “Designers used to struggle to reduce weather helm, but now you can be struggling to achieve enough feel.”

The asymmetric tack line emerges from just below the bow, which gives a better lead to the end of the pole

The boat has a slightly smaller sail area than some others in the class, reflecting that as a relatively late custom build (the majority of quarter tonner new builds were launched between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s) the structure is light, and even with 120kg of lead in the bilge the displacement will be around 50kg lighter (more than three per cent) than most of the other top boats in the fleet. However, the new carbon boom has been made over-length, so that additional area could be added.

One indication of the attention to detail that has gone into this boat is that, while most replacement coachroofs are fairly slab-sided and flat-topped, Corby and his team produced a one-off curved design that both looks better and is stiffer. It’s around half the height and much narrower than the original, which allows for a 6.5° headsail sheeting angle without the need for inhaulers.

Another example is the deck and sheer line around the front stanchion, which had a noticeable dip, as was common for IOR boats of the period. This was faired in with around 10-12mm of foam. In addition, the whole hull-deck joint was ground back, rounded off, and faired, while the new chainplates are composite.

A key decision was whether or not to move the rudder post forward. In the end it was decided to keep it in its original position

One new idea is the lateral compression post through the coachroof at deck level, which helps to prevent the rig squeezing the hull inwards at the chainplates. This is a hollow carbon structure, so control lines can also be run through it. Even the instrument pod on the mast is custom made in carbon, shaped to fit the individual instruments.

Creating complex deck layouts is easy, but it’s a much harder task to simplify them without compromising on the ability to control sail shape. Nevertheless, Belinda ’s layout is much more streamlined than the original. Jib halyard tension, for instance, is controlled by a tack downhaul, with a block and tackle system used to provide purchase.

Similarly, the lateral curved jib car tracks and narrow coachroof avoid the need for inhaulers. The jib car controls are crossed over so everything can be operated from the rail, and jib sheets can be taken to either the leeward primary winch, or to windward.

The curved transverse jib cars. Note the control lines that run through the athwartships compression post under the coachroof, the square end of which can be seen here

The spinnaker bag in the companionway is mounted on an upside down jib track to make it easier to slide back and forth. As well as competing in quarter ton class events, which ban asymmetric kites, Belinda has also been taking part in other races such as the Round the Island Race and Cowes Week , which don’t have that restriction.

There is therefore provision for using an asymmetric spinnaker with twin spinnaker halyards to make it possible to peel to a different sail. The tack line exits in the bow a few inches below the forestay chainplate, creating a perfect lead to the ends of the spinnaker pole, which is 350mm longer than the J (base of the foretriangle) measurement.

Corby identifies this as being one of the most challenging bits of the project. “Structural stuff doesn’t faze me,” he says. “The big hole in the bottom of the boat after we cut the keel out was little different to building a boat from scratch. But the painting and fairing was relentless.”

A detailed inspection of Belinda ’s hull and deck after weeks of long boarding and fairing revealed it was not absolutely perfect, so an extra 40 hours of sanding was added to the work schedule. The end result is stunning.

Specification

LOA: 7.74m (25ft 4in) LWL: 5.69m (18ft 8in) Beam: 2.70m (8ft 10in) Draught: 1.65m (5ft 5in) Displacement: 1,341kg (2,956lb) Headsail area: 14.85m 2 (159.8ft 2 ) Spinnaker area: 45.46m 2 (489.3ft 2 )

First published in the November 2017 edition of Yachting World.

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Mini Tonners were one of the 'level' rating classes under the old IOR Rule, smaller than Quarter Tonners at around 20ft to 24ft length (IOR rating not exceeding 16.5ft). The Mini Tonner UK class has been set up to get these old racers back together and offer cheap and fun racing in proper little yachts. Many minitonners are production yachts, the most famous being the Sonata, but including Limbo 6.6's, E Boats and Evolution 24's, there where some special one off prototypes also built to the rule. These are super-fun, cheap to run and own boats. Many of the Mini Tonner designs have relatively short, or lifting keels that mean they can be easily towed and kept on a trailer, so the costs of ownership can be kept under control. Racing for the Main event trophies will be conducted under IRC regulations and ratings. Author: Piers Stanbury

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Gem 550 Micro 18ft Trailer-Sailer Sailing Boat with Road Trailer. It was originally designed Rob Humphreys and has a lifting Keel. This is a great boat for day sailing and has bench seats/bunks inside, technically I believe it is meant to be 4 x Berth but I would not say it is suitable for any overnight stays as there are no toilet facilities or hand wash on board. I think most of these boats that where built in the UK where made between 1978 and 1984 and some raced in the European micro-tonner class. The design/molds have since been moved to Australia where more boats have been produced.

Gem 550 Micro 18ft Boat Specifications. LOA: 5.49m/18ft LWL: 5.08 / 16ft 8in Beam: 2.41 / 7ft 11in Draft with Keel Down: 0.99m / 3ft 3in Draft with Keel Up: 0.23m / 9in Air Draft: 1.52m / 5ft I am selling this boat as spares or repairs as it hasn't been in the water for many years and I haven't had time to check everything is in working order, as far as I know it is ready to sail but it will need some TLC to get her back in good shape and sale is "sold as seen". I bought this boat 2nd hand and the sails already had some repairs done, you can see this in one of the pics and there are some small tears, I would assume you will need to do some work on them to get them back in shape. I'm including an outboard motor but don't know if it still works and will need a service before being used as it hasn't been run for several years. It is a large trailer sailer and you will need a heavy powerful vehicle to tow it.

The boat was used on Lake Windermere for many years and I was planning to use it on Rutland Water. This type of boat was used to race off the coast but that is way beyond my experience level and I'm not sure what the rules are for using a boat at sea, I'm still a novice sailor. I never got the time I wanted to go sailing or improve my skills, so it's time to let someone who has time to care for her and sail "Meg" to buy her.

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