Atkins Vixen (or similar gaffer) wanted to buy

I am located in Australia and looking for an Atkins Vixen design yacht. Also open to similar design with gaff rig. Email: elviajero@westsailor.com

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Gaff Rigged Cutter (Swiftsure)

The Swiftsure is a design from the John Welsford website (http://www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz).

Her specifics are as follows:

L.O.A. 16′ 5″ L.B.P. 14′ 9″ L.W.L 14′ 1″ Beam 4′ 7″ Sail Area 120 sf ft.

She is designed along the lines of an 18th century revenue cutter.  Since the plans did not stipulate the running rigging

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William Garden's BULLFROG is for sale

*** SOLD***BULLFROG, 30 feet on deck, 36 feet overall, gaff rigged cutter. Double ender. Designed by Bill Garden. Built in Seattle by Lester and Frank boatyard in 1947.

Oak frames, yellow cedar planked, iron fastened. Fir deck. Refastened in 1986, and a new Perkins diesel installed that year.

Needs intermediate level woodwork, paint and

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SOLD-Classic 1962 Atkin gaff schooner 30′ LOD, 40′ LOA

SOLD-Talofa is a gaff rigged 40′ LOA 30′ LOD wooden William Atkin-designed schooner with a square sail on a yard. She is a real classic sailboat for the purist.

Her hull is in good shape; fir on oak frames with a ceiling inside the ribs. She will need bottom paint while you have

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CLOSED, DONATED-San Francisco Bay Pumpkinseed sloop “Polaris” for sale

CLOSED, DONATED-Polaris is a gaff rigged sloop 34′ on deck, 29′ on the waterline, and has a beam of 12′. She draws 4’6″ and has a sparred length of 42′. Polaris is carvel built (fir on oak) and has mast and spars of spruce. She was built in Oakland very early in the

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