Nordic Folkboat No Reserve

I bought this yacht in 2013 and am sadly selling her because I now have too many other family commitments. In 2013 she was listed for £5,995 and bought for £4,500, though I am auctioning without reserve. Capella has been on hardstanding at Suffolk Yacht Harbour for a year as I have not had time to sail her. She is a wonderful boat to sail and I had several years of great fun single handing her on the East Coast. Suffolk Yacht Harbour is a truly lovely marina with a great yacht club and a wide range of marine services.

Her current fees for hard-standing (including cradle hire) and electricity fees are just over £200/month. Marina fees at SYH are roughly £2700/ year (you would need to check). However, she could easily be moved to a mooring buoy on the River Orwell e.g. At Pin Mill, where the fees are much lower, or into cheaper marinas down the coast. I have made some improvements to Capella including getting her Vire inboard engine reconditioned, and repainting the GRP in the interior and interior floorboards, though she definitely now needs some TLC since I have not had time to work on her.

In 2015 I also added a brand new Tohatsu outboard (£1500), with controls in the cockpit, to provide additional engine back-up to the Vire inboard engine, which I found occasionally cut out due to the spark plugs getting oiled over or which sometimes couldn't cope heading into heavy wind and tide. Both the engines will need servicing as they haven't been run for a year. The inboard has had anti-freeze run through it for winter. Although she is a modest boat, Capella was upgraded by her previous owner with a complete new rig - mast, boom, standing and running rigging, fuller and sails, in 2010 (so she has had a lot of money spent on her on the right things). The layout offers four berths in one cabin with 5ft 8 max headroom (V berth forward with marine toilet under).

Opening hatch to deck. Hanging locker. Two settee berths. Chart table to starboard with gas hob and grill opposite. Fractionally rigged sloop.

Anodised aluminium mast and boom by Z Spars (2010). Stainless steel standing rigging (2010). Terylene running rigging (2010). Slab reefing mainsail. Sailspar headsail furling system (2010).

Two sheet winches. Halyard winch. Mainsail - 2008. Good. Furling genoa - 2010. Very good.

Cruising chute. Very good. Located abaft the companionway, Vire single cylinder 7HP engine reconditioned 2014. Electric start. Shaft drive to two bladed propeller.

Seawater cooled. 30 litres fuel capacity, 4 knots cruising speed. Single lever control. Stern-mounted 5hp Tohatsu outboard. Single lever control to cockpit.

Tiller steering. Tiller-arm autopilot. Electrical systems: alternator. Two 12 volt batteries. Aerogen wind generator.

Deck equipment: Bruce anchor with chain (no windlass, can pull up by hand). Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit, stanchions and guardwires. Teak coachroof grab rails. Sail cover. Various warps and fenders.

Boom tent. Navigation equipment: NASA depth, boatspeed and log. Navman DSC VHF radio. Masthead and navigation lights. Safety equipment: fire extinguishers.

Radar reflector. Manual bilge pump. Construction: White GRP hull. Teak toe rail. Pale blue GRP superstructure with moulded non-slip (some nicks and cracks in superstructure that could do with filling).

Long keel with encapsulated ballast. Keel hung rudder. Tiller steering. Alf self-draining cockpit with stopcock to prevent back wash. Max draft 4ft 3.

This boat has no original VAT receipt (I have a letter from the vendor's agent stating that this was lost in a flood). I have a copy of the survey from 2009 which I am happy to share. Photos -I've included some as she was this year in March and some when she was looking in better shape when I was sailing her regularly. So hopefully there will be no surprises but you can get an idea of what she's like when looking good.