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MARY PLAIN
Ocean 30, Carvel, Pitch Pine on Oak
MARY PLAIN
Post-war 1948 Classic Cutter
Extensively refitted and restored in 2010 now ashore in North Wales GB awaiting major refit.
Overall Length: 30ft 0in 9,14m Waterline: 28ft 7in 8,71m
Beam: 9ft 1in 2,77m Draught: 3ft 11in 1.18m
Displacement: 8182kg Official number: 181858
Builder: Wallasea Bay Yacht Station Ltd, Wallasea Island, Essex, GB 1948. Designer: A.A. Truman.
Hull: Carvel, 1⅛inch pitch pine planks, copper-fastened on English oak steamed frames with five bulkheads on an oak backbone. Wheel steering on varnished Iroko column. Long iron keel, estimated 2-tonnes. plus plastic-sheathed internal ballast of lead ingots and pig iron, with keel bolts renewed in 2006. New oak beam shelves and carlins in 2006. One-inch marine ply deck, sheathed in grp, new in 2006. Coach house with grp-sheathed larch-planked coachroof, all new in 2006. Self-draining cockpit with English oak beams, new in 2006. A4 stainless steel chainplates, new in 2006. Spruce bowsprit with A4 stainless steel bow rollers, sprit collar and stemband, fitted in 2010. Stainless steel pulpit, guard rails, lifelines. Canoe stern.
Rig: Bermudan cutter with solid 11,5m Sitka spruce mast, overhauled in 2014 and set in A4 stainless steel tabernacle, new in 2008, on a hardwood pad mounted over a bulkhead supported by compression posts. Norwegian pine boom. Twin spreader stainless steel wire rig with top diamond for rigid support, both fore-and-aft and lateral, to the upper section of the mast. Stainless steel mainstays and Seld`en bottle screws, new in 2006. Jackstays and bobstays renewed in 2012.
Sails: Main with slab reefing, staysail to the stemhead on continuous line roller furling gear leading to jammers at cockpit, yankee jib, all in Dacron and new in 2006. Blue sail cover. Halyard and sheet winches.
Deck gear: Original Gemmel & Prout manual windlass, Bruce main anchor with 80 metres galvanised, 8mm short link chain in forepeak chain locker, folding cat anchor, fisherman's anchor with warp and chain in aft lazaret. Cockpit tent and winter cover.
Engine: Yanmar 54hp 39.6kW 4-cylinder 4JH4AE vertical, direct injection diesel with mono plunger pump driving Yanmar gearbox by shaft to fixed pitch propeller, all new in 2006. Remote manual shaft seal greaser in cockpit with water-lubricated cutlass bearing. Morse controls, engine instrument panel, master switches, isolaters and 12V wiring all new in 2008. 2 x 12v batteries charged by 80aH engine alternator. Stainless steel 80-litre fuel tank with piping renewed in 2008.
Accommodation:Two cabins fitted out in varnished, washable cherry, oak and Iroko with pine cabin sole and gas catalytic heating. Access by cherry saloon doors, sliding hatch and companionway steps to 5-7 berths. Two full length singles in focsle, 2 double settee berths with drop table converting to double, quarter berth in saloon, occasional berths under cockpit tent. All berth cushions covered in marine grade bio-resist washable fabric. Galley with varnished wooden worktops and storage. Plastimo double-burner, grill and oven gas stove. Stainless steel sink with hot and cold water, delivered by 12-volt electric water pump from 80-litre fresh water tank and from 20-litre engine-heated calorifier. Gas refrigerator and portable coolbox. Gas system with grp-sealed locker installed to safety survey requirements in 2013. Separate wet hanging locker and heads with Plastimo porcelain sea lavatory.
Navigation equipment: Binnacle compass, Garmin GPS navigation system, Silva Nexus speed log, depth sounder, wind speed indicator, anemometer, VHF radio, hand-held VHF radio, barometer, brass clock, 12v electric cabin lighting, navigation and anchor lights. Chart table over battery bank to starboard in saloon.
Safety gear: Horseshoe lifebuoy on pushpit, emergency anchor and cable, radar reflector, manual bilge pump at cockpit level, two automatic 12v Rule electric bilge pumps, fire blanket and 3 portable dry powder fire extinguishers.
MARY PLAIN and her various Ocean-class sisters were designed immediately after the Second World War for construction by shipwrights who had recently built dozens of wooden fighting vessels for the Royal Navy, especially the 112-foot, 20 knot Fairmile B submarine chasers. Using access to rare supplies of first class timber, the Truman design offered a deep and safe cockpit, a wide saloon, high freeboard and 1,8m headroom.
The Ocean 30 cutter, launched at Wallasea Island in 1948, was named after a fictional bear, much-loved by young listeners to Uncle Mac [Derek McCulloch] broadcasting on BBC Children's Hour in the 1930s. Mary Plain, an orphan bear at the Bern Zoo in Switzerland, made her first appearance in the 1930 novel Mostly Mary the first of 15 Mary Plain stories published by the Welsh author Gwynedd Rae.
In 2005 a new owner for MARY PLAIN, only her third owner in 57 years, undertook a very thorough 3-year refit, achieving a restoration and a complete reconstruction of the coachroof.
New keel bolts were fitted. Straight-cut, flat topped oak floors were fitted between every third timber using new throat bolts. The owner installed a new Yanmar 4-cylinder 4JH4AE engine with a completely new drive train and shaft sealing.
The new painted marine ply deck, sheathed in epoxy/glass, included a varnished mahogany toe rail, new hatches. bronze mushroom vents and new grab rails.
Winter storage on the hard at Hafan Pwllheli has heavily weathered the white-painted pitch-pine planking and blue foredeck but the benefits of the deep and expensive refit between 2005 and 2008 remain. Her owner's illness dictates a change of ownership. We can offer prospective buyers an immediate transport quotation to any location.
Archive images thanks to Richard Gregson, Wooden Ships, Dartmouth
GBP 6,000.00
brokerage sale
Coburg Yacht Brokers
Sealand Boat Deliveries Limited
Douglas Boatyard, Becconsall Lane, Hesketh
Bank, Preston,
Lancashire, England. PR4 6RR
Tel: 01254 705225
International: +44 1254 705225
ros@poptel.org
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Please note: in this case we are acting as brokers only. The vendor is not selling in the course of a business. Whilst every care has been taken in their preparation, the correctness of these particulars is not guaranteed. Particulars do not constitute a term of any contract. A prospective buyer is strongly advised to check the particulars and, where appropriate, at his own expense employ a qualified marine surveyor to undertake a survey and, if necessary, to undertake an engine test. Offered for sale subject to being unsold.
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