Description

The BR20 is an exceptional open trailer/sailer boat with plenty of cockpit room for family or friends. Easy and safe to sail and yet, with water ballast tanks empty, a fast and responsive boat with excellent performance on all points of sail.An excellent inshore creek exploring boat, very capable in larger seas also.

Unused for 5 years in total as other boats sailed while stored in boat shed or else not used due to back injury.

Specifications

Accommodation

Open boat with sprayhood. Sleeping platform allows overnighting under sprayhood and bow deck.

Construction

GRP

Equipment

GRP hull battleship grey, with rubbing strips. Deck / cockpit: cream. Antifouling: International VC Offshore, red.

Extensively modified and professionally upgraded resulting in a safe and easy to sail boat.

Carbon main mast. Gunter yard track. Stronger and stiffer carbon Gunter yard. Gunter yard in mainsail luff pocket. Improved reefing system. Mainsail luff tensioner pulley, on track. Carbon mainsail boom with patent mainsail foot tensioning. Allen pin gooseneck. Lazy jacks. Ratchet mainsheet block. Dyneema shrouds.This Gunter rig is superior to Bermudian for cruising or Raids allowing for extremely quick lowering of yard and sail.

Stronger and longer jib boom, fitted for flying additional asymmetric foresail. (asymmetric not included.) Jib with stronger luff wire. Bigger diameter stainless steel jib furling drum (important to avoid jamming furler in high winds). Pulley system for jib halyard tensioning / main mast stepping.

Mizzen: Stronger and stiffer mizzen mast. Reinforced no-twist mast socket. Allen hinge gooseneck for boom. Improved sheeting system.

Sprayhood: sand. Tekdek seating. Two rowing positions. Set of 10" oars. Boat cover: red.

Centreboard: Improved uphaul. downhaul. brass leading edge protector emulating original GRP profile. Underwater case turbulence and scooping deflector. Pivoting pin protection fitted.

Rudder: Hardwood sheaves to eliminate rudderblade play. Rudderblade leading heel impact protector. Telescopic tiller extension.

Automatic one-way storage compartment drain valves. Automatic ballast tank airvent. Two manual bailing pumps for sump. Additional and improved self bailers for sump / ballast tank. Bigger drain bungs for filling / emptying ballast tank.

Engraved curved teak nameboard on transom.

2015 6 hp Tohatsu, only 25 hrs approx. No extra fuel tank inc as used so little have had no need to carry one.

German built quality galvanised unbraked trailer fitted for single-handed launching and recovery.

Anchor, fenders, ready to sail. Folding sleeping plank for overnighting under sprayhood.

Unused for 5 years in total as other boats sailed while stored in boat shed or else not used due to back injury.

Navigation Equipment

Lowrance Hook4 incorporates Chart plotter,fish finder, depth indicator. Brand new 12 v battery.

Engine(s)

Sails & Spars

Gunter rigged ketch. Mizzen sail extremely useful to hold boat into wind. The Gunter rig allows immediate dropping/ raising of main sail and very suitable for creek sailing in comparison with bermudian rig.

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