Arthur Robb Bermudan Yawl Please refer to WOODENSHIPS.CO.UK  for more information.
 (REF: 33444)
£99500
Designer: Arthur Robb
Builder: Port Hamble Ltd
Year: 1959
Location: Devon
Length on deck: 42'6"
Beam: 11'6"
Draft: 5'11"
Tonnage: 18TM

Full specification
Construction | Rig | Machinery | Accommodation | Equipment
Wooden Ships Comments on this Arthur Robb Bermudan Yawl
Designed by Arthur C. Robb and built by Port Hamble Ltd in 1959.
Built for the Royal Military Academy Sailing Club and funded by the Nuffield Trust with an £8000 donation towards the build.  She was named Wish Stream after a small stream running through the grounds of the Sandhurst Academy.
She spent her early years racing with the military, taking part in numerous Fastnets and other offshore races.  She was then sold to the CEO of IBM Europe and was based in Denmark, before being sold in 1983 to sculptor Clark Murray from New York who kept her in Maine before sailing south in 1995 to the Caribbean and then on to Europe.
The present owner acquired the boat in 1997 after falling in love with the lines of her sistership.  Since then she has been professionally maintained with much structural refit work carried out when necessary and cruised extensively from Denmark down to La Rochelle and over to Ireland.  She has taken part in the regular Classic Channel Regatta winning the cross channel race overall in 2009.
This is a well proportioned and well set up yacht, easily handled with her split rig making her an excellent cruising boat, but also a tough regatta competitor when required.  A fine pedigree yacht that has covered tens of thousands of ocean miles over the years.
 
Length on Deck                          42’6”
Length Waterline                       30’
Beam                                            11’6”
Draft                                             5’11”
Thames Tonnage                       18TM

Construction
Hull
Carvel planked in teak fastened with bronze screws to steam bent oak timbers of 1.75” x 2” @ 9” centres.  Hull re-fastened in 1987.
Galvanised steel strap floors across the centreline.  Floors removed and re-galvanised with new bolts in 2001.
Bronze floors in way of the engine and aft.
Grown oak floors with galvanised throat bolts up forward.
Heavy duty galvanised mast step.
External lead ballast keel of 3.5 tons fastened with iron keel bolts.  Bolts new in 2001.
 
Decks and Cockpit
Red cedar sub deck in straight laid planking.  Overlaid with marine plywood and sheathed in GRP glass cloth.
Self draining cockpit with scrubbed teak thwarts opening to lockers beneath and a bridge deck to the companionway.
Wheel steering on a Whitlock pedestal with cables to the rudder quadrant.
 
Superstructure
Varnished teak coachroof coamings with bronze portlights.
Marine plywood coachroof deck sheathed with GRP cloth.  Teak dorade boxes, skylight and grab rails on the coachroof.
Teak forehatch and lazarette hatch.
Rig
Bermudan yawl rig on keel stepped alloy masts
Roller reefing varnished spruce booms.
Twin alloy spinnaker poles.
 
Standing and Running Rigging
Stainless steel standing rigging new in 2001 to internal stainless steel chain plates.  New chain plates in 2006.
Forestay new in 2006.
Heavily rigged main mast with a single standing backstay and removeable inner forestay.
Mizzen mast has running backstays on bronze Highfield levers.
Harken 3-486 roller furling headsail system.
 
Sails
Mainsail                         Hood                 354sqft               2006                   Excellent condition
No.1 Genoa                   Hood                 454sqft               2006                   Excellent condition
No.2 Genoa                   Bohndell           306sqft                                          Good condition
No.3 Genoa                   Bohndell           240sqft                                          Good condition
Storm Jib                        Bohndell           177sqft                                          Fair condition
Spinnaker                       Bohndell                                                                  Fair condition
Reacher                          Hood                 550sqft               2010                   Excellent condition
Mizzen                           Hood                 75sqft                 2006                   Excellent condition
Mizzen staysail             Bohndell                                                                  Good condition
Trysail                             Ratsey                                                                      Good condition
 
Winches
2 x Barient 32 cockpit sheet winches
Captive wire halyard mast winch with dyneema halyard.
2 x Barient 22 mast winches.
Machinery
Engine
Nanni 4-220HE 50hp engine installed new in 2004.
Halyard Aquadrive CVB05.10 to a centreline 4 blade Featherstream propeller gives 6 knots cruising speed at 1.5 litres/hour.  Propeller new in 2022.
Engine driven Jabsco salvage pump with manual clutch.
 
Tanks
170 litre stainless steel fuel tank under the cockpit sole.
360 litres of fresh water in a stainless tank under the saloon cabin sole.
 
Batteries and Electrics
2 x Varta 230ah domestic batteries.
1 x 115ah engine start battery.
Charged from engine alternator with an Adverc regulator system.
10amp wind generator and 10 amp towed water generator.
Installed shore power system with a 240 volt Sterling 60 amp 4 stage battery charger and plug sockets throughout the cabin.  Back up Merlin 30amp 3 stage battery charger
 
Domestic Systems
Domestic hot water from a calorifier installed new in 2022.  Heated from the engine or 240 volt immersion.
New domestic plumbing 2022.
Taylors paraffin cabin heater plus radiators in saloon and heads.
Accommodation
Berths and Headroom
7 berths in total with 2 quarter berths in the doghouse, 2 saloon pilot berths, 2 saloon settee berths and a single in the forepeak.
Starboard side saloon pilot berths can be converted into a double.
6’3” headroom through the saloon.
 
General Description
Companion steps into the doghouse which has a bench seat and quarter berth either side.  Good vision out of the windows while seated making this an excellent spot to shelter while on passage.  Engine below doghouse sole.
Further steps down into the main cabin with galley to port and chart desk to starboard.
Forward facing varnished teak chart desk with a seat and drawers below.
Half height bulkheads separate off the main saloon.
Saloon settee berth either side plus a pilot berth each side under the side deck.
Starboard side pilot berth pulls out to form a double.
Centreline varnished teak dropleaf saloon table.
Taylors paraffin heater on the forward bulkhead.
Starboard side bi-fold door going forward with large hanging lockers to starboard and heads to port.
Passageway into the forepeak with a top loading freezer compartment on the port side.  Single berth to port and lots of storage space.
 
Galley
L-shaped galley with pitch pine work tops.  Luke Heritage Model 3G 2burner gas stove with oven.  Twin stainless sinks with pressurised hot and cold water.
Top loading fridge set into the work top.
Lift up table flap for extra work space when required.
12 volt freezer compartment in the forepeak.
 
Heads
Wilcox-Crittenden Skipper sea toilet discharges directly overboard.
Hand basin with pressurised hot and cold water.
Radiator heated from the engine.
Equipment
Steering compass
Autohelm SeaTalk Multi at the helm & chart desk
Autohelm Navdata at the chart desk
Autohel, SeaTalk depth, log, wind, compass and VMG in the companionway
ICOM IC-M59 Euro VHF
ICOM IC-M71 handheld VHF
Autohelm ST4000+autopilot
Garmin 152
Yeoman plotter
ICOM Class B MA-500TR AIS Transponder
Weather fax
 
SeaMe transponder
6 person liferaft, service date 2026
EPIRB
Lifebuoy
Offshore flare pack (expire 2027)
1 x manual bilge pump
3 x auto electric bilge pumps
Engine driven Jabsco salvage pump with manual clutch
Fire extinguisher
 
45lb CQR anchor with 80m x 10mm chain
10kg Danforth kedge anchor with 25m warp
Barient electric bronze capstan windlass
40kg Fishermans with 200m of warp
 
Mainsail                         Hood                 354sqft               2006                   Excellent condition
No.1 Genoa                   Hood                 454sqft               2006                   Excellent condition
No.2 Genoa                   Bohndell           306sqft                                          Good condition
No.3 Genoa                   Bohndell           240sqft                                          Good condition
Storm Jib                        Bohndell           177sqft                                          Fair condition
Spinnaker                       Bohndell                                                                  Fair condition
Reacher                          Hood                 550sqft               2010                   Excellent condition
Mizzen                           Hood                 75sqft                 2006                   Excellent condition
Mizzen staysail             Bohndell                                                                  Good condition
Trysail                             Ratsey                                                                      Good condition
 
Mizzen and mainsail covers
2 x alloy spinnaker poles
2 x Barient 32 cockpit sheet winches
Captive wire halyard mast winch with dyneema halyard
1 x Barient 22 mast winch
 
Bunk and berth cushions
Skipper sea toilet by Wilcox-Crittenden
Luke Heritage Model 3G gas cooker
Paraffin cabin heater
Radiators in saloon and heads
Taylors paraffin cabin lamp
 
Spray hood
Boat hook
Teak boarding ladder
 
 
2 x Varta 230ah domestic batteries
1 x 115ah engine start battery
Adverc charge regulator system
Sterling 60 amp 240 volt battery charger
Merlin 30amp 3 stage battery charger
Calorfier with immersion coil
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