Hurley 22 for sale.Please see the second photo (reality) I took that photo yesterday. Much loved and much sailed. Reality has set in and due to ill health she has to find a new home.This Hurley has been in our family for many years now. I bought it 50/50 with my mother when she lived in west Wales. She has come with us to round the country and is currently on her drying / swinging mooring on the East Coast.As you can see from the photos, Several years of neglect have taken their toll.
The beautiful shots are two years ago on the same mooring. As you can see she is built to take the ground. Apart from a spell on the river Orwell and a few years on the Norfolk Broads, she has spent her life happily going up and down with the tide. The very bad parts. Due to ill health and age our boat has been left to fend for herself for more than 18 months.
Apart from mooring and bilge checks. As you can see, lack of attention takes its toll very quickly.The topsides are filthy and the anti-fouling hasn't been re done in 4 years. I have the anti-fouling, its just still in the tin.The boat is damp inside, the cushions are mildewed on the underside and the damp has taken a lot out of the varnish. Not pumping the bilges for a year has allowed dirty water to spread about the bilge.The electrics do not work. I took a battery booster pack out with me yesterday and it transferred no power.
I assume the battery is dead. |It hasn't been charged in at least a year since the solar panel cables sat in a puddle. The electric issues are more than just the battery because I could not get any power to any part of the system. No lights, stereo, vhf or anything. I haven't chased it, it may be something really simple.
Who knows? The Hurley 22.They don't make them like that any more! Really they don't! Unlike many small boats the Hurley 22 is a proper little ship and with her encapsulated keels there are no worry about structural issues.She has 4 full berths. 1 double in the bow and two singles to port and starboard going aft under the cockpit seats.
There is an anchor chain locker in the bow Can't say how much chain there is as we tend to keep the QCR in the lazarette and use chain and warp.To port and starboard of the forward berth there is shelving and a small cupboard aft. Under the berth is the freshwater tank filled from a deck filler with a locker under to port and starboard.At the aft end of the forward berth, on the centre line is a sea toilet. The intake through hull stopcock is in the locker to port and the outlet to starboard. Please note that there is no holding tank for the toilet and if used it discharges to sea. Aft of the bulkhead to port is the sink and stove.
The in built sink has a freshwater tap / pump. The sink, as with the sea toilet drains straight to sea.The Gas stove has been removed and replaced with a gimbled spirit stove.To starboard there is seating backed by cupboards.Aft of the sink unit there is a further seat, backed again with cupboards. There is a pull out work surface table that slides under the cockpit seating. This fills over the port aft seat to provide galley space in port and chart table when at sea. The fiddles stop everything falling off.
This table doubles again as the cockpit table cor alfresco dining.On the aft bulkhead there are cupboards to port and starboard and a drawer to port above the slide out table. To starboard is the stereo and VHF.The companionway steps are the engine covers which remove completely to gain access to the venerable yet bomb proof Stuart Turner 5hp 2 stroke inboard engine. The main power switch is to port and the battery is under the berth to port.under the cushions to star is the inbuilt cool box.There is further storage nuder each single berth.In the cockpit the there are two lockers. Inside the starboard locker is the bilge pump. The exhaust exits through the port.
On the port side is the throttle.In the cockpit floor there are small access hatches to service the grease for the shaft and an access for the removable gear lever. There are also two cockpit drains to keep your feet dry.In the centre of the cockpit floor is a mount for the cockpit table leg.On the coach roof bulkhead to port is the speed/ log readout to starboard is the compass.Aft of the tiller is the lazarette. The hatch lifts aft accessing the substantial storage. The fuel tank is to starboard. There is a removable 'plug' in the lazarette floor for hanging an outboard for those boats that do not have an inboard.
As this plug is just a plug I found that it weeped water when in a very rough sea, so I laid some fiberglass around the edge whilst holed up in Southwold.On the transom is fitted a folding ladder which means dry boarding and boarding from the dinghy are much easier. Rig.The mast is held with cap shrouds and fore and aft lowers. Backstay and both inner and outer forstay. The mast foot is on a Tabernacle. This means that, with a few friends , you can lower the mast.
I traversed the Norfolk Broads in this way.At the masthead there is the tri-colour nav light, the windex and the VHF aerial.She has a main with two reefs and three head-sails. Jib Yankee and storm. With the inner forstay she can be sailed with the yankee as well as the jib for a bit more drive. There is also a cruising shute for downwind and she caries a spinnaker pole which works well at keeping the chute out when downwind. On the fore-deck is a hatch, above the forward berth, which has the solar panel.The sliding companionway hatch is covered by a canvas spray hood on two hoops.
This is removed for the winter. I have tried to remember everything and to be honest. She is in a state. Really she is. Its very depressing.
She has been a faithful companion and I have sailed her solo in weather that no one should be out in. And she couldn't care less. She will look after whoever has a jetwash and a few days inclination to spend with the Vim. You can not sail with too much canvas because she will just round up in to the wind. That makes her very well behaved and balanced.
In heavy north sea short chop, trying to beat too hard on, she is definitely wet. Crack off and accept you are going to take longer and life is much more pleasant. The engine will get you there eventually, 4kts is about it, but being such an old design, if you throw fuel in one end it will just keep on going. Its quicker to sail though.She is lying on the North Norfolk coast and the winning bidder is welcome to continue to use our mooring for a while. I won't need it again for at least 6 months.
I am willing to sell the ground tackle but its worth £700 so we would need to talk about it. I have started at £99 and for mothers sake I have listed a buy it now.She isn't as bad as she looks but she does look really bad Happy Bidding
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