Fully Restored 1947 Nordic Folkboat 25' Classic Sailing Yacht, Wooden Boat.

1947 Fully Restored Nordic Folkboat for sale I have taken on a new larger project, and I have to sell my wonderful folkboat ‘Lorema’. I am asking £8000 for a quick sale. She was fully restored in 2013. She completed a transatlantic crossing in 2015 and won her class in the Antigua Classics Yacht Regatta that year (as well as a special mention in the Concourse d’Elegance and a ‘Smallest Yacht’ award). She is beautiful and she sails beautifully.

I lived on board for years and cruised many thousands of miles in her, and it is very sad for me to let her go. However, I do not have time to sail her now, and it would be even sadder for her to deteriorate unused in a shed. She is in a boatyard in the river Fal, very close to Falmouth. She has never had any type of engine. She carries a wind-vane self-steering gear, a used suit of sails, a sculling notch and oar, a woodburning stove, a paraffin cooker (needs maintenance) and lamp, liferaft (needs servicing), a good 25lb CQR anchor with 60m of chain, and a lot of cruising gear (everything you need to cross oceans!

...lots of lines, lifejackets, trailing log, sextant and tables, a very heavy storm anchor, handheld VHF, etc etc). She has a decked-over cockpit, which gives a huge amount of interior storage space aft, and removes the risk of swamping the cockpit in large seas. It also provides a good platform for rowing the boat with the sculling oar, which provides slow but effective propulsion in calm conditions. Her interior accommodation is small and basic but very cosy - she is very traditional and has no engine, no heads, no tanks, and few on-board electronics (only navlights, anchorlight, one cabin light, 12v speakers, automatic bilge pump, and a solar panel to provide power). She has two bunks in the saloon, which can be joined together to make a huge bunk the whole width of the boat.

Two more bunks can be made in the forepeak if necessary. She has been on the hard in a boatyard in Cornwall (outside for a while, and then in a shed) for over a year, and at some point needs some varnish-and-paintwork to bring her back to her full beauty, although she would be ready to sail away for the summer season once her mast is put back in (taken out for shed storage) and some antifoul is applied. She is a classic wooden yacht, and as such requires a skipper with experience, patience and either the time or the money to keep in good shape. It is important to me that this boat is kept alive and loved and sailed, and I am open to offers should the right person approach me. Her restoration in 2013 included replacing the following; topside planks, entire transom, beamshelf, several frames, much of the deck, soleboards, mast, boom, forehatch, tiller, cabin sides, keel bolts checked, etc etc.

A viewing is highly recommended, due to the unique nature of this boat. I will be in Cornwall on the boat for the next few days (5th - 8th July 2017). Please get in touch to come and have a look. I would be happy to help a new owner rig the boat and show them her quirks, if I am available and in the UK. This boat is advertised elsewhere.

Here is an excerpt from an email I sent to an interested party; it should answer many questions about cost and condition- "She is in good condition and certainly capable, and actually having seen her today for the first time in nearly a year I’m surprised how good she looks. Essential work needed before sailing:Light rub-back on hull, spot priming and antifoul to be applied.put mast back in and standing/running rig set up. Important work to be done in a year or two:A very small portion of side-deck is soft underneath the fibreglass. This should be investigated and replaced, although I’ve known that its been there for years, and it’s not stopped me sailing her.Masthead backstay fitting is a bit of a jury rig, and should be replaced, although it works fine as is. Cosmetic/other:Paraffin cooker is not working and needs servicing or replacing.exterior varnish is not nearly as bad as I expected, but some parts need stripping and re-coatingre-paint topsides at some point, but again, they don’t look bad from a distance.the interior soleboards are messy and could do with stripping and re-coating (with G4 or similar PU sealant)The inside of the planks and the bilge would benefit from a deep-clean and, eventually, more varnish/paintSelf-steering gear needs re-painting.The last time I sailed her she was taking on some water and had to be pumped a few times a day whilst sailing, but she had already been out of the water for a year at that point.

I am confident that she would take up in a few weeks of being in the water and only leak minimally after that. She is very seaworthy and could easily go long-distance cruising again soon. Something to bear in mind is that she is a unique boat to sail and handle - not the rig so much, but the quirks that I have developed in getting her fit for ocean crossing - the self steering gear, sculling oar, the decked-over cockpit, the woodburner, etc. She would take some getting used to, and is not always comfortable. You have to be agile and fit to sail the boat in rough weather without falling off, and you have to be prepared and patient to cruise with no engine.

But it is possible, and is extremely rewarding. Everywhere I went in this boat, I had amazing adventures, she looked after me well, and people gave me a wonderful reception. It is a challenge and a risk to take such a small boat long-distance, but was the most rewarding thing I ever did, and it changed my life. --------- A folkboat is a wonderful boat to learn to sail on because it has a very simple rig, handles beautifully, and is small enough to be manageable. Thousands of people have learn to sail on this design.

However, this particular one has no engine, which would make it a much steeper learning curve. It would be challenging for you, but if you can learn quickly then you would become a very good sailor quickly. She also has no GPS - I would recommend getting one to start of with, but again, if you wanted to start with traditional navigation from the beginning, the same principles apply about the learning curve etc. You can get a GPS plotter on your phone very cheaply if you want one. Costs: At the moment her storage is 250 pounds per month, which is more than double what it would be if she were outside (she is in a shed).If you are living aboard, and she is in the water, the running costs wouldn’t be very much.

At first, while you are learning, you would probably want a Swinging Mooring or a pontoon berth, which might cost between 50 - 200 pounds per month, but as soon as you are comfortable anchoring under sail, then you can almost always find free anchorages.When I was cruising, my only costs really were for maintenance materials (I’m guessing 400 pounds per year, mainly for paint and varnish etc) and food, and occasional marina charges if I felt like being on a pontoon.If you want other people to do the maintenance for you it will obviously be a lot more - many hours of work need to go into keeping a boat like this in prime condition." Read about Lorema's adventures on my website and blog - www.sampsonboat.co.ukNote; the sailing photos were taken in Antigua in 2015. The interior photo is from 2013. The photos of the boat in the shed are current (taken 05/07/17).