SAILING YACHTS

Bénéteau Océanis 373 Clipper 11.25m - 37ft sloop SERENDIPITY, built 2006, immaculate example of the special 'owner's version'. Winner of Cruising World's Best Value award 2004. Six berths in 2 cabins. Afloat North England, easily transported. GBP 84,950.00 Pictures and details

West Cork cutter MACALLA, built 200 on traditional lines, larch on Irish oak frames. Iroko laid decks. Two berths forward. Vetus four-cylinder inboard diesel engine. Overhauled 2007 in South of France. Pictures and details

Classic teak ketch TAI-MO-SHAN, only three owners since she was built in Hong Kong in 1933, designed by Rouse, sailed by Illingworth, remarkable pre-war espionage history, British registered, fully restored and ready for action in Turkey. Features as FERNANDO in movie MAMMA MIA. NOW SOLD - Pictures

BONNIE JEAN, 1976 Verl 900 grp fin keel Bermudan sloop 9.0m, new 33 hp Vetus diesel. 6 berths in 2 cabins, on hard Lancashire, GB, 4-man liferaft. GBP 17,500.00.Pictures

EMMA, Westerly Nomad grp bilge keel sloop in excellent condition, 4 berths 2 cabins, Sole single cylinder 8 hp diesel, afloat Lancashire GB. Owner retiring. GBP 4,000.00. NOW SOLD - Pictures

LA LUCHA, a fine 1965 Alan Buchanan-designed East Anglian MkII wooden sloop in 1933, built by King of Pin Mill. Excellent condition at Douglas Boatyard, Hesketh Bank GB. GBP 15,500.00. Pictures Full pictures

LECK, a 2003 kit-built Sadler 25 bilge keeled sloop with teak-laid decks, 2 berths in 2 cabins and Yanmar diesel engine. Owner has died. GBP 8,000.00. NOW SOLD - Pictures

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 1908.