Percy Mitchell Motor Boat Yacht, 30 Foot

I am selling my Superb Percy Mitchell boat that is fitted with a perkins 4102. Percy Mitchell was renowned as one of the finest boat builders in the world. The boat is in good working order and is currently out of the water at Stanleys boat yard in Windsor. It is having a new rudder fitted.As with boats of these nature it always requires a bit of ongoing maintenance but is in good working order.I have loads of historic photos some of which are shown, even it being originally launched.2 year boat safety certificate£500.00 deposit on completion on auction. Collection within 2 weeks.

Wooden ships comments on this Percy Mitchell Motor yachtBuilt by the celebrated Percy Mitchell of Mevagissey, Cornwall in 1962 as a gentleman’s motor yacht.Mitchell has a reputation for building very good quality, strong boats and this is no exception.The yacht has Mitchell’s typical pronounced sheer emphasised by a varnished sheer plank, varnished rubbing strake and toe rail over with a little kick-up to the stern, full bodied, attractive heart shaped transom, good flare to keep the bow dry, nice proportions and very pretty.Mitchell’s book shows a photo of her on launch day. Carvel planked mahogany all copper fastened to heavy sawn oak frames with 2 steamed intermediates on a long oak keel fitted with sacrificial hardwood shoe with short, shallow bilge keels each side.Oak rudder under the overhanging transom on a keel extension skeg.1.5 tons internal lead ballast. Heavy oak floors.Low maintenance, cascover sheathed ply deck.Long coach-roof with mahogany coamings, painted exterior and fitted with 4 opening bronze ports each side. Varnished fore hatch on fwd end, sky-light midships, grab rails each side, edged in varnished mahogany.Varnished mahogany dog-house gives good shelter over the fwd end of the large cock-pit, fitted with opening centre window and Kent Clearview screen.Wheel steering to port on cables to rudder-head with emergency tiller fitting,Stbd side entrance door to the cabin, engine under a box between, table over.Varnished hardwood sole boards, large seat/locker across the after end, steps down each side from the side decks. Perkin 4108 fresh water cooled with heat exchanger gives 6knts cruising.Throttle and separate gear change lever.Centre line 3-blade 21.5” x 14” bronze prop2 x 20 gall steel fuel tanks under after deck.Approx 1/3 gph consumption.

2 x 12v batteries on 12v circuits. 240v shore power connection. Accommodation. 4 berths.V-berths with infill to make a double berth in a fore cabin, lockers under, head-room under the fwd end of the coach-roof, hatch over, chain chute pipe between.Bulkhead to saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths, lockers behind the upholstered settee backs with shelf over. Drinks locker at fwd end of the stbd settee, side-board at fore end of port settee.Polished cabin sole, varnished table between.Aft to port, heads compartment with new 2010 sea toilet, s/s basin, Paloma gas water heater.Aft to stbd corner L-shaped galley with s/s sink, gas 2-burner grill and oven cooker, double doors to cock-pit. Wonderful warm atmosphere with dark varnished mahogany joinery, varnished coamings over, white deck-head and bulkheads.Pressurised water system from 30 gall water tank under cock-pit sole.6’ head-room all through.

2013 upholstery.Eberspacher D1 vents warm air to the cock-pit, galley area and saloon cabin. InventoryKelvin Hughes fluxgate compassGarmin 120 GPS.Icom VHF.Nasa sounder.Speed and distance log.2 manual bilge pumps + 12v bilge pump.Varnished boarding ladder,Cock-pit tent with zipped entrance.Radar reflector and shapes.Chain windlass mounted on fore deck.CQR anchorApprox 100’ chain.New 2013 cushions and covers A very attractive vessel, good design and build. A very good sea boat and or even live aboard vessel. About Percy Mitchell, he wrote a book Born in 1901, Percy Mitchell, of Portmellon, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, was variously described by some of his more technically qualified contemporaries as “one of the finest traditional boat builders in the world” and as “an artist in wood”. He left elementary school at the age of 14 just after the outbreak of World War I, and a year later commenced his apprenticeship at the local boatbuilding firm of Roberts and Co.

At a wage of 3 shillings a week, working from 6.30am to 5.30pm on weekdays, and until 1pm on Saturdays. Fishing boats were just beginning to have auxiliary engines fitted and he took an active part in subsequent alterations to luggers to accommodate these engines.At the early age of 22 Percy took over the boat builder’s Yard in Mevagissey from his employers and became his own boss, continuing to do repair work on the fishing boats at the harbour and to build Toshers (a local Mevagissey design used for catching mackerel on lines during spring and summer). His first Tosher, Sea Queen, is now in the collection of the Museum and can be seen in the Museum workshop for a time during the autumn of 2014 while work on her is carried out.Having been asked by a local fishing family to build a 39 foot first class lugger, Westward, he had to move from Mevagissey because it was impossible to launch a boat of that size through its narrow streets. He went to Portmellon, an open cove three quarters of a mile to the west. At this time Percy Mitchell had only been trained to use hand tools, but a boat of this size required substantial timbers to be cut.

Accordingly he decamped to Liskeard, to visit his accustomed timber merchants, taking with him all the plans, and lodged there for a fortnight selecting the oak he wanted and getting it cut to size on a bandsaw.Percy had had only a rudimentary education, but he taught himself to design boats from a set of drawings in an old encyclopaedia. Starting with only a building space, open to all the wind and weather, building shed, no capital, no launching equipment, with only his practical genius and patient courage, he overcame every obstacle and designed, built, and launched a magnificent variety of fishing boats, yachts, tugs and passenger launches.