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TALL SHIP FOR SALE!

Built in 1994. Steel hard chine with long keel. Hull plating thicknesses - 12mm half round keel bottom, keel sides and bottom plating 10mm, hull sides 7mm, above sheer tube and decks 5mm. Epoxy coated below the waterline. Hull portlights 12mm AR polycarbonate. Ballast in keel.

BUILDER

Designed and built by J Shores / S Fawkes. Plans copyright John Shores.

DIMENSIONS

Length on Deck: 21.88m 71'8" (ex bowspit and overhangs)
LOA 26.5m 86'11"
Length at waterline: 18m 59'1"
Beam:4.27m 14'0"
Maximum draft: 2.14m 7'1"
Bridge clearance:18m 59'1"
Hull material: Steel
Hull type: Displacement
Hull colour: Black and White
Keel type: Full Keel
Displacement: 49 metric tons
Fuel capacity: 900 Litres
Water capacity: 1536 Litres
Holding tank capacity: 635 Litres

70ft Tall Ship - Three Masted Gaff Schooner, heavily built Tall Ship in steel 1994, same owners from new, recently coded and regularly inspected and slipped, 2006 Perkins 130hp diesel, generator, fully equipped for charter or offshore cruising, 11 berths. 2026 survey and 2026 rig inspection report available. Wonderful opportunity to purchase a vessel ready for offshore cruising or commercial charter.

MECHANICAL
Perkins M130c inboard diesel engine (2006) with around 5346 hours, full-service record, annual services plus interval servicing.
PRM 750 gearbox, full service record. 3 x 300 litres steel diesel tanks: 900 litres. 3 bladed fixed propeller with stripper rope cutter, conventional stuffing gland and stern greaser. Cruising speed 7 knots, 8.8 average litres per hour.

ELECTRICAL
24v batteries, house bank 440ah (new 2019), 8 x Trojan 6v T105 D charged from dedicated 130A alternator. Engine start 2 x 12 v batteries. Sterling pro alternator controller, link monitor, Victron 80 amp battery charger, Sterling pure sine wave 2000w inverter 24v - 240V.

GENERATOR

Westerbeke Generator 5.7 kva 352 hours (as of December 23), full service record.

NAVIGATION
Sestrel Major compass, Garmin GPSMap 1222 plotter with radar, 2 NASA depth sounders (transducers on different sides of the boat), 2 x VHF radios (Standard Horizon GX2000E, MTech MT500), AIS transmitter Class B Digital Yacht. SSB Icom ICM801E, NASA wind speed, Garmin GPS, Walker Cherub Log. Navigation Lights: LOPO Light LED port, starboard, anchor and stern. Aqua signal filament bulb 20m+ for Port, starboard, steaming and stern and NUC.

SAFETY
Emergency tiller, spotlight 24v trailing lead, 12 x auto-inflate life-jackets (need testing) with clip lines, fire extinguishers MCA Category 1, gas alarm, fire alarm, carbon monoxide alarm, danbuoy with light, 4 x lifebuoys (one with light), 2 MOB recovery nets, 2 lifeslings.

DECK GEAR
Pushpit, pulpit and guardrails, quarter guard dodgers, sun awnings, boarding ladder, wheel steering, 6 sheet winches (2 of which are self tailing). Anchoring gear - 300lb CQR, swivel end forerunner 270 ft/ 3 shackles ¾ “ stud link, kedge 150lb CQR, hydraulic/manual winch (via electromagnetic clutch on the main engine). Mooring warps and fenders.

SAILS
The rig is annually inspected and maintained by owners and in excellent condition. The sails are synthetic canvas lowers (Clipper) with Terylene topsails and jibs. Sails by G Hurd/North Sea Sails.

High-quality traditional hand-spliced and leathered rig, Galvanised wire, 6x7 16mm lowers, 6x7 12mm topmasts, hand spliced, seized, leathered etc. Tan sails in clipper fabric - gaff foresail, mainsail, mizzen, staysail and storm jib. White sails in polyester - big jib, working jib, 2 x fishermans topsails and large light weather fisherman. Ropes all synthetic mostly braid on braid. All sails can be handled from on deck. For sail areas see rig plan image.

DOMESTIC
Solid fuel heating with oven. Water - 330 gallons in four individual welded plastic tanks - Tek Tanks. Non-pressurised water system, manual whale pumps. 2 x heads.

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation includes from forward to aft:
Two double cabins
One four-berth cabin
One single cabin/bunk space
Two toilets/heads
Open workshop
Saloon with gas hob (on deck stowage for four x 19kg propane bottles)
Solid fuel stove with oven
Table to seat 10
Main companionway
Chart table, library
Owners double cabin (could easily be converted to two single cabins).
Large amount of secure underfloor stowage aft.
See the accommodation plan.

OWNERS COMMENTS
NOTE

There is a an option to buy a successful independent charter (UK Limited Company) trading since 2005 including websites, Facebook and other social media accounts, mailing lists etc separately. The price does not include the business. Negotiations for the business must be direct with the Vendors.

VAT

UK HMRC have agreed "Trinovante" is a qualifying ship for zero rated VAT as stated in VAT notice 744c Supply Of Ships and Aircraft

FEATURES

New chart plotter / radar in 2022
New No 1 Jib (unused)
New polycarbonate portlights (abrasion resistant 12mm)

CODING

"Trinovante" was operating from 2005 to 2024 under the UK Marine Coastguard Agency Small Commercial Sailing Vessel Code and has a category 0 (unlimited operation) stability book.

REMARKS

"Trinovante" is still in the hands of the original owners, a husband and wife team who have competently maintained and regularly slipped her, operating her commercially since 2005. During 2023 she sailed to the Orkney and Shetland Isles. During the past 15 years, this British Registered schooner has become well known in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as her home on the east coast of the UK. This is a serious sea-going vessel designed for long-distance offshore sailing, with a functional and comfortable fit-out.

This three-masted schooner rig can be handled by two people but can also provide plenty of action for a larger crew. Off the wind, this rig is a very gentle gyber and very stable goosewinged. She feels stable and safe in rough weather and will often self steer. Reducing sail is usually done by dropping a sail rather than reefing. A big spread of light weather canvas means she will ghost along in light airs.

A hull survey was carried out in May 2026.