Howard Ford Marine Sales
Tidemill Yacht Harbour
Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB, IP12 1BP
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1977 Samphire 26

location icon Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Year 1977
Length 25'7 ft / 7.8 m
Builder/Manufacturer North Sea Craft
Price
£5,950

The Samphire 26 is a sea-kindly coastal cruiser with a moderate draft, ideal for exploring East Coast rivers and beyond.

This particular example is the six-berth version, she has been in the same ownership for 17 years and benefits from new standing and running rigging in 2020.

Specifications

Year Built 1977
Category Sail
Length Overall 25'10 ft / 7.87 m
Beam 8'6 ft / 2.59 m
Max Draft 3'5 ft / 1.03 m
Construction Fiberglass
Keel Full Keel
Drive Type Direct
Engines 1
Total Engine Power 10 hp
Cruising Speed 5 kn
Maximum Speed 6.5 kn
Fuel Tank Cap. 10 L
Bridge Clearance 3'6 ft / 1.07 m

Engine 1 Specifications

Make: Yanmar
Model: SB12
Fuel: Diesel
Engine Power: 10hp
Type: Inboard
Propeller Type: 2 Blade
Drive Type: Direct
Accommodation

The accommodation offers up to six berths in two cabins.

Steps leading down from cockpit to saloon with chart table and quarter berth to port side and galley opposite comprising stainless steel sink with cold pumped water and Flavel Radford II two burner gas hob and grill and crockery storage.  Settee berths to both sides with additional pilot berth to port. Full width heads compartment with Portapotti and hanging locker opposite. V berth forward with stowage beneath and escape hatch to foredeck. Teak and Holly style cabin flooring. Eberspacher warm air diesel heating.

Mechanical Systems

Located abaft the companionway. Yanmar SB12 single cylinder 10hp diesel engine. Electric start. Raw water cooled. Shaft drive to fixed pitch two blade propeller. Twin lever control. Maximum speed 6.5 knots. Cruising speed 5 knots.

Alternator charging to 2 x 12 volt batteries

12 volt switch panel

Eberspacher warm air diesel fired heating (May need a service)

Sails, Spars and Rigging

Masthead rigged sloop. Anodised aluminium mast and boom. Stainless steel standing rigging (replaced 2020). Terylene running rigging (replaced 2020). Slab reefing to mainsail.  Headsail furling system. 

Mainsail - Dolphin - 1998

Furling Genoa - Dolphin - 2001

Deck Equipment

2 x Bruce anchor

Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit, stanchions and guard wires

Various fenders and warps

Dodgers

Boarding ladder

Hardwood coachroof grab rails

2 x Halyard winches

2 x Sheet winches

 

Safety Equipment

Manual bilge pump

Fire extinguishers (expiry date unknown)

Fire blanket

Lifebuoy

Foghorn

 

 

Navigation Equipment

Bulkhead steering compass

Kelvin Hughes Husun 65 VHF radio with aerial

Echopilot Combined sounder and log

Navigation lights

Construction

Built in 1977 by North Sea Craft to a design by David Cannell. Blue painted GRP hull with Cream band and hardwood rubbing strake. Cream GRP superstructure with grey non-slip paint finish to decks. Long keel with encapsulated ballast. Transom hung rudder. Tiller steering. Aft self-draining cockpit. Self draining anchor locker. 

Comments

The Samphire 26 is a sea-kindly coastal cruiser with a moderate draft, ideal for exploring East Coast rivers and beyond.

This particular example is the six-berth version, she has been in the same ownership for 17 years and benefits from new standing and running rigging in 2020.  Viewing by appointment through Howard Ford Marine Sales.

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.