Vintage style wooden trailer-sailer
Currency
Length
23' - 7.00m
Vessel Location
Melbourne Victoria
Launch Year
1988
Hull Material
Timber Marine plywood, oregon spas, amoora
L'Appel, is an all wood, vintage-style, gaff-rigged trailer sailer in excellent condition. An individual and classic boat, she draws admiring comments now, as much as her designers did in the 1970s, imitating a design from the the 1930s. She was launched in 1988 and has been maintained by the very best of wooden boat restorers: Tim Phillips at the Wooden Boat Shop, Sorrento, then Tim Heaney at Frecheville Heaney Boats, Paynesville.
We have enjoyed sailing her for 20 years on Port Phillip then on the Gippsland Lakes. She is currently stored, for a modest fee, under cover at Metung in Gippsland on her registered trailer. Her length of deck is 6.25 m and with bowsprit is about 7 m.
Gaff-rigged like a couta boat, but with a 2 berth cabin, a substantial winched centreboard, and a comfortable cockpit, she is a pleasure to sail.
I include an article from a wooden boat magazine from Maine, USA, which describes her inspiration.
The registered trailer is included.
She is kept under cover in boat storage, for a modest fee, at Metung where the facility will trail the yacht to and from the boat ramp.
The name, L'Appel, (the French pronounced like the collar of a jacket), in French meaning "The Call" as in the call of the sea (L'Appel de la Mer) with a resonance of de Gaulle's appeal of 18 June 1940 to the free French and the resistance to fight on again the Nazis. But you can decide your own name, without bad luck.
We have enjoyed sailing her for 20 years on Port Phillip then on the Gippsland Lakes. She is currently stored, for a modest fee, under cover at Metung in Gippsland on her registered trailer. Her length of deck is 6.25 m and with bowsprit is about 7 m.
Gaff-rigged like a couta boat, but with a 2 berth cabin, a substantial winched centreboard, and a comfortable cockpit, she is a pleasure to sail.
I include an article from a wooden boat magazine from Maine, USA, which describes her inspiration.
The registered trailer is included.
She is kept under cover in boat storage, for a modest fee, at Metung where the facility will trail the yacht to and from the boat ramp.
The name, L'Appel, (the French pronounced like the collar of a jacket), in French meaning "The Call" as in the call of the sea (L'Appel de la Mer) with a resonance of de Gaulle's appeal of 18 June 1940 to the free French and the resistance to fight on again the Nazis. But you can decide your own name, without bad luck.
Price
AU $35,000 Now reduced
Vessel Name
L'Appel
Launch Year
1988
Length
23' - 7.00m
Beam
2.44 m
Draft
0.48 m (19 inches) (centreplate up)
Displacement
1475 kg (actual)
Keel / Ballast
Keel laminated out of oregon with new winch. Ballast lead ingots.
Vessel Location
Melbourne Victoria
Region
Victoria
Use
Leisure
Registration
JZ610
Rego Expiry
24/07/2025
Designer
Tom Tucker
Builder
Unknown
Hull Material
Timber Marine plywood, oregon spas, amoora
Decks Material
Marine plywood, oregon spars, amoora
Engine
Outboard, through cockpit hull
Engine Make
Mariner
Number Engines
1
Horsepower
8
Fuel Type
Petrol
Engine Hours
Unknown, regularly serviced
Engine Hours (2nd Engine)
NA
Fuel Consumption
Modest
Max Speed
6 knots
Cruise Speed
4 knots
Propulsion
Unknown
Thrusters
No
Genset
Unknown
Fuel
10 litres
Water
Take with you
Dinghy
No
Outboard
Mariner 8 HP
Covers
No longer
Accommodation
A useful cabin, rather grungy now, where once a hardy couple slept. They had a butane stove, a bimini, a mosquito net, and a bucket. You can still lie down on comfortable mattresses in the cabin. For the rest it depends how hardy you are.
Cabins
One
Berths
2
Shower
No
Toilet
Bucket
Entertainment
Sailing
Air-Con
Wind
Galley
Shelf where there once was a small butane stove
Refrigeration
None
Freezer
None
Stove
None
Water-Maker
No
Hot Water
No
Ground Tackle
Anchor and chain as depicted
Bilge Pumps
Yes, manual
Life Raft
No
Epirb
No
Life Jackets
Yes, 3 small life jackets, a few old ones in lazarette
Flares
Out of date
Fire Protection
Can't remember if the fire extinguisher is still aboard. I think so.
Electrics
No
Electronics / Navigation
Stars and eyes.
Sail Inventory
Main sail, tan - condtion good (somewhat faded by sun) with battons. Genoa tan- condition good. Storm sail - very good, never used
Mast / Rigging
Excellent condition
Deck Gear
All very good: sheets, halyards, springers, fenders.
Remarks
Well maintained, highly individual, small cruising yacht. A delight to handle. Classic sailing experience - reefing, trimming, tiller, hanked foresail, running back-stays. Beautiful to behold.
CONTACT DETAILS
Name
Richard Peppard
Telephone
Melbourne Victoria
Australia
Australia