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PRE-OWNED DRASCOMBE BOATS

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These have always been a speciality of Churchouse Boats.

Not everyone can afford a new Drascombe but that doesn't mean you have to accept reduced standards or joy of ownership.

Drascombes are enduring craft. They are extremely durable, exempt from ‘model obsolescence’ and sell on condition as much as age. However, they are boats and exist in a harsh environment. Therefore, every now & then they need a good strip down & comprehensive refurbishment.

Our pre-owned boats may be refurbished stem to stern to give you a ‘new boat with experience’. This involves, as required:

  • Gelcoat repairs to hull & deck, deep cleaning & polishing of hull and topsides
  • Cleaning & repainting bilges
  • Removal of Teak, sanding to bare and applying a high-tech treatment to maintain finish
  • Stripping and re-varnishing spars from bare timber
  • Sails examined and serviced by our sailmaker, sheets & halyards laundered/replaced
  • Engine run up in fresh water, serviced by agent for make if required.
  • Trailer bearings, suspension and jockey wheel are checked.

The benefit to you is a warranted, fully functioning Drascombe in the peak of condition for her age. We can also incorporate modifications and equipment to suit your wishes and needs. We do not usually refurbish a boat until sold. In that way you are able to see the boat in its pre-existing condition and agree a price on a specification to meet your needs and standards, although these cannot be below our minimum standards as we are giving you a years warranty and want our good reputation to be sustained. Your deposit is regarded only as an expression of intent to purchase and is fully refundable if the end product fails to meet your expectations on final inspection. Churchouse refurbished boats are well known & regarded in Drascombe circles.

Alternatively, any of the pre-owned boats can be purchased either as they stand, or somewhere in between there & fully refurbished to suit your budget, skills & time available. Do not underestimate the time involved. Anything to do with a boat takes twice as long to achieve as you ever imagined & the British sailing season is quite short!

On occasions, for a modest fee, we undertake inspections of boats on behalf of purchasers, usually involving a video & commentary on the condition of a boat. This may save you a lot of fruitless & unrewarding travel. Drascombe owners are no different from others, beauty being in the eye of the beholder and none so rose-tinted as an owner judging his own craft!

Our current brokerage list follows but, if it does not contain the boat of your dreams, please call us. The stock changes quite rapidly and, if it isn't in stock it doesn't mean we don't know where to find one for you.

LIST AS AT:   03.03.10

For details of new boat prices & specifications see  New Drascombe.

 

DABBER

817

Lying:

Isle of Wight

Age:

1990

£4,200

Gear included:

Overall. Cover. Cockpit cover. Sprayhood. Oars & rowlocks. Bilge pump. Drop plate rudder. Anchor, chain & warp. Aft locker floorboards.

Engine:

2005 Yamaha 4hp 4S. Serviced July 2009.

Trailer:

CBL/SVT swinging cradle trailer

White gel hull with Dark Green topland. Shiny, minor scratches.

Duck Egg Blue gel decks in good order

Hull joinery is oiled, light silvery grey. Repairs to transom & bowsprit block, otherwise VGC

Spars are sound. Mizzen & gaff are varnished. Mat & bowsprit are oiled.

Sails are sound. Jib has roller furling & some bleaching.

 

Description based on information from owner. Boat not inspected by CBL.

Owner contact:

Churchouse Boats Ltd

 

DRIFTER 22

Lying:

CBL yard, Andover

Age:

2006

£17,000

 Drascombe Drifter 22

 

Gear included:

See below

Engine:

2002 Yamaha 8 hp. Sailpower prop. Charging facility. Remote tank. Engine serviced May 2008

Trailer:

2002 SVT swinging cradle trailer. Two speed winch & jockey wheel. Lighting board on extender brackets. Two hitch locks. New tyres fitted 2008.

BUILT IN WOOD EPOXY

This is the prototype boat, launched in May 2006

Can be seen in both Water Craft 58 & Sailing Today, November. (Copies available by e.mail.)

Blue painted hull over white bootop over red antifoul.

Cream painted decks.

Iroko hull joinery

Additional rubbing strake

Stainless steel stemhead fitting.

Iroko keel plank & lead ballast keel in steel shoe

Twin drop keels in galvanised steel with stainless steel drum winches. SS travel pins.

Epoxied hardwood/ply rudder with galvanised steel drop plate. SS rudder bar with Iroko tiller & bronze tiller head.

Spars are in Douglas fir, epoxied & varnished. Mainmast is in SS tabernacle

Sails are as new. Jib has roller reefing luffspar. Main has two rows of reefing points

Ropes are mainly buff sportline

Mainsail halyard clutch

Sliding jibsheet fairleads

Mainsail furling gizmo

Binnacle with winch

Sampson post on fore-deck. Pair bronze mooring cleats aft. Bronze fairleads

Manual bilge pump

Sprayhood & frame in burgundy acrylic.

Matching rectangular flysheet & folding pole

 

Cabin is fitted out with:

Bronze Drascombe windows & round portholes. Bronze opening forward portlight.

Bunk cushions

2 pair infill cushions that double as cockpit cushions. Extra cushion for ‘food-stool’

One infill board becomes cockpit table

Electrical control panels & power socket. 225 Ah high performance absorbed gel mat battery.

Sterling battery step-charger on board. Clipper battery monitor

Shore-line power cable. Connector plug mounted in cockpit.

240V twin switched socket outlet in cabin.

Cabin lighting including reading lights

Stbd galley unit in epoxied ply has SS sink & water pump. Twin burner gas cooker & gas installation (no bottles)

Two fire extinguishers & gas detector unit

Matching Port unit to house Portapotti & provide storage

Ply sole boards

 

Silva Sea Data set giving echo sounder & log

Raymarine wind instrumentation

Navtex weather forecast receiver

Compass in binnacle.

 

Masthead aerial for VHF. Speaker in cabin. (No radio unit)

Hawk wind indicator.

 

Also has Drifter Lifter & stemhead sheave unit for raising mainmast single handed.

 

This is the boat we built to develop the new model. It has been enjoyed for the past two years by its current owner who has maintained it well & added extra equipment.

 

It is too good to sit in our yard, un-used, so open to sensible offers.

 

Your chance to own & sail a piece of Drascombe history!

Owner contact:

Churchouse Boats Ltd

 

 My stock changes constantly & boats tend to sell quickly. So, if the boat of your dreams hasn’t leapt off these pages at you, please give me a call or send me an e.mail. We can establish your specific requirements & I will add you to my mailing list for details of new & suitable arrivals.
 

For intelligent conversation & help, ring: 01256 896292

e.mail: stewart@drascombe.org.uk

    Drascombe

       The Sail that becomes a Way of Life!