Description

Name: Suzelle
Year built: 1965
Hull No: 66
Layout: Well-protected, centre cockpit and aft cabin
Construction: Wood (Honduras mahogany on laminated oak frames), carvel, 11-inch frame spacing

Extensively cruised on the West coast of Scotland for the last 20 years (1000+ nm per year- St Kilda, Shetland etc).
Sea kindly yacht, with low freeboard for easy access
Currently cruised single handed or with one other
Based on the Clyde since new
Owners: Two owners since 1979. Current owner since 2005

Currently afloat in Kip Marina
In summer, kept on mooring at Royal Gourock Yacht Club. This mooring is available as part of sale (optional)

Specifications

Accommodation

Forecabin: Two berths with infill (to make generous double)
Main cabin: Single berth by lowering table
Aft cabin: Two single berths
Cushions for all berths
Curtains for all windows

Galley

Main cabin

Forecabin

Main and forecabin

Hanging locker

Heads

Aft cabin

Cockpit

Chart table in cockpit

Main cabin

Construction

Layout: Well-protected, centre cockpit and aft cabin
Keel: Long fin and skeg
Construction: Wood (Honduras mahogany on laminated oak frames), carvel, 11-inch frame spacing
Hull: Oiled (not varnished, therefore easy maintenance)

Drying out at Ullapool 2024

Motoring 2024

At pontoon, Gairloch, 2024

Anchored, Loch Roe, 2024

Keel stripped back 2020

Equipment

Galley and heads
Two burner methylated spirit stove
Stainless steel sink and draining board
Whale hand pump
Water capacity: 2 x 50l flexible tanks
Jabsco toilet


Anchors
Delta type
Danforth type
60m chain
Two-way, manual anchor windlass


Accessories
LED masthead navigation lights
LED steaming lights
LED strip lights in all cabins
Bilge pump (electrical and manual)
Sprayhood (Owen Sails)
Cockpit canopy (Owen Sails)
Cockpit cover
Warps
Fenders
Cockpit table (wood, removable, adjustable, folds flat)
Aft cabin table (wood, adjustable)
Spray dodgers (with boat name)
Ensign pole (wood, removable)
Solar panel (fixed on aft deck)

Galley

Galley

Heads

Spray dodgers and spray hood

Spray dodgers

Cockpit table

Navigation Equipment

Garmin chartplotter (approx 2021)
Raymarine VHF fixed radio
Nasa depth sounder, with through-hull transducer
Nasa AIS receiver
Nasa electronic compass (2023)
Digital yacht AIS receiver, linked to chartplotter (2023)
Tiller pilot (Simrad)
Tiller pegboard (pegs tiller at different points of sail)
Chart table (external, in protected cockpit area)
Meteo weather station

Chart table (external, in protected cockpit area)

Nasa AIS receiver, Raymarine VHF fixed radio

Garmin chartplotter (approx 2021), Nasa electronic compass (2023)

Tiller pegboard (pegs tiller at different points of sail)

Engine(s)

Engine: Westerbeke Universal M-25 (3-cylinder Kubota block, working)
Propeller: 3- blade, 13 inch
Cruising Speed: 4.5 knots
Batteries: Two leisure batteries, one starter battery
Fuel capacity: 60l

Engine from above

Engine from cabin

Sails & Spars

Sails
Fully battened main (Owen Sails, 2022)
Yankee, on roller reefing system (Owen Sails, 2016)
Staysail, hanked to inner forestay (Owen Sails, 2016)
Genoa 120% (North Sails, 2002)
Storm jib
Storm sail
Spinnaker
Light airs foresail

Spars and Rigging
Mast: Anodized aluminium (Proctor, 1977)
Boom: Wood (2021)
Standing rigging and guardrails: Fairlie Riggers, 2022
Running rigging: 2022
Stackpack
Spinnaker pole

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