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Tela 16'6" LOD (18'9" overall) Classic gaff rigged Daysailer and trailer. Solid GRP construction with galvanized steel drop keel and wooden mast and spars and 250kgs of ballast. The "Wessex Waffler" never fails to attract admiring comments on Chichester Harbour. As you'd expect from a design which has its origin in a Bristol estuary pilot cutter where speed is money, she is fleet of foot for a traditional boat, sails beautifully through the tack and sails particularly well in light winds and to windward. In the eight years I have owned her she has been sai... read more