Otter

Price: £16,000
Boat type: Spharan 30 - a prototype never put into production but based on the Cormorant type boat built in some numbers in Holland in the 1960s.
Length : 9.14m
Beam: 2.75m
Displacement: 5.7 tons
Description: A steel hulled, centreboard shoal-draught motor sailer based on the Dutch grundel-yacht type.
Contact: lukemarsh28@hotmail.com

It is of a double chine design, constructed of 10mm mild steel base plate, 12mm keel, stem and skeg and 6mm centreboard casing with decks, coachroof and cockpit in 3mm plate. The decks are overlaid with treadmaster non-slip material. The hull is of 3mm plate with 20x5 curved bar ribs at 600mm centres. Hull seams are fully welded on both sides.

The circular mast partners are incorporated into the coachroof and the foot is welded to the base plate.

The mast is solid Douglas fir 40 feet long and tapering from 11" diameter to 6", sheathed in GRP and finished with a brown gel-coat with the top 6 feet painted white.

The sail is understood to be 500 sq. feet, junk rigged in 7oz. Cream polyester, designed and made in December 2000 by Christopher Scanes of Devon.

It has a Yanmar 2  QM15 diesel engine in a compartment below the cockpit. Reconditioned in 2006.





The interior is finished with a lot of mahogany type panelling and has a fore cabin with single bunk, chemical toilet, wash basin and storage lockers, a saloon with folding centre table mounted on the centreboard housing and 2 seating/bunk units with shelving wells behind and storage beneath, as well as a TV shelf and video recorder recess. The Galley has a cooker with oven, sink, fridge and storage lockers on one side and the chart-table, communication equipment and cupboard on the other. Two bunks extend under the cockpit and a step / toolbox unit is attached to the engine access hatch below the companionway.

The Cockpit has seating to both sides with lockers beneath and a centre stern mounted tiller.
25mm Stainless steel tubing is used on stanchions, pushpit, and pulpit with 5mm stainless wire guard-rails.

The boat was purchased in 2002 in England, by my brother, who carried out some improvements to the basic interior and fittings and sailed it to Holland.
He sailed the Ijselmeer and then took it through the canals and rivers to the Mediterranean and visited Spain and the Balearic Islands. He returned to the Barcelona area in August 2004 and the boat is in storage in an open, but secure, park where it can be viewed by prior appointment and appropriate authorisation.

Marina costs seem quite reasonable there and it is currently around £190 per month.
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www.portginetsa.com



Inventory:    will include -

DECK GEAR:-
35lb CQR anchor, anchor chain and anchorplait
Cockpit cover
Fenders
Ensign staff
Reefing ties
Compass
Extension speaker
2 bilge pump handles
Washboards
Auto tillerpilot
Sail cover
Boat hook
Mooring lines
Cockpit cover ridge spar
Winch handle
Windlass handle
Lifebuoy and light



CABIN:-
CD player/radio
Marine VHF radio
Heater
Chemical toilet
Sundry crockery, knives, cutlery and pans
Loose cushions
Framed pictures
Insect screens for ports
Clock and barometer
Magellan hand held GPS
Sundry charts/pilot guides
Navigation instruments
Gas bottles
Sundry spares