HISTORY & DESCRIPTION:
Built 1933 by Dickies of Tarbert, pitch pine on oak, this Harrison Butler sloop has been with the same owner since 1979. There are 4 berths in the cabin and forward there is sail storage and the heads. The cockpit seats are storage for warps and lines, the aft cupboard houses the fuel tank. The bilge pump is under the port seat. There is a ‘Poppy’ charcoal burning stove forward in the cabin.
Previous owners include:
Philip & Heather MacGregor 1979 – 2022 Weymouth
Dr’s JO & Ellen EE Jarrett 1972-1979 Rhu; Ormidale
David Pearson 1968-1971 Gourock; Colintraive
John Duncan 1961-1967 Gourock
JC Walker 1958-1960 Glasgow
WR John 1954-1957 Glasgow
HN & J Constantine 1949-1952 Glasgow
EL A & G Reid 1939-1947 Glasgow
S & W M Lidell 1937- 1939 Greenock
James R Richmond 1933-1936 Greenock
Over winter 2016/17 Bukh DV24 Diesel Engine installed (engine costing about £3,000)
The decking has also been redone and the forward hatch renewed.
2018/19 new toilet was fitted and a cockpit cover made.
£12,057 spent in December 2017 on general over-haul of hull and new deck. Invoices for £591 June 2017 and £461 May 2018.
Inventory
Life belt. Yellow
Life belt red/white
Danbuoy
Spray hood Frame
Boom, spinnaker pole, boat hook, Helm x 2
Fenders 4 x white 1 x blue
Radar reflector
Plastimo rescue sling
Cover for main sail
Table (fixes to mast in cabin)
Solar panel
White sail battens
Steering compass
Echo sounder
Walker Log
Safety harness x 2
Mooring warps
Folding steps (hook under toe rail)
5 fire extinguishers
Fog horn
Flares
Spare light fitting/wire
2 metal Jerry cans and several plastic cans
New large water tank
Battery
Winch handle in cockpit and one in slot at base of mast
Berth Cushions x 4
Mast with spreaders and rigging and halyard
Galley
Single burner gimballed camping gas stove
Fire blanket
Battery
Sails
Mainsail
Working jib
Spitfire jib
Genoa jib
Storm jib
And sheets
BROKERS NOTE:
An increasingly rare opportunity to acquire a remarkably original 1930s Harrison Butler sloop with many of the outstanding features associated with this talented designer. In current forty-three year ownership and subject to an extensive professional refit some five years ago. Laid up since 2018 GRAEALAN will require re-commissioning and is offered at a sensible guide price to reflect this. A wonderful coastal or long-distance cruising yacht with an active owners Association for social and on water meets.
Archive images afloat and more recent photographs ashore.
GUIDE: £4,000
LYING: Dorset
VIEWING: Through CLASSIC YACHT BROKERAGE, ISLE OF WIGHT
DISCLAIMER: Classic Yacht Brokerage offer the details and photographs of this vessel in good faith as a guide but cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information or images, or warrant the condition of the vessel, machinery or rig. Buyers should instruct their representative, agents or their surveyors to investigate such details as the buyer requires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
