45ft Gaff Cutter Vintage yacht
"THALIA"
for sale

This Vintage Yacht has the capability to win BIG in the US and Mediterranean Classic regattas !
Offered by Central Broker No Limits Classic Yachts to a real classic yacht enthusiast for only UK pounds sterling £200.000

This is an OVER 100 year old super beauty, incredible restored and fast vintage yacht that just sailed across the Atlantic and won top honours in the Grenada Classic Yacht Regatta and Antigua Classics !
Thalia is a beautiful yacht built by G F Wanhill at Poole in 1889.
Her hull is carvel built of oak frames and oak and pitch pine planking with bronze fasteners.
She is cutter rigged with gaff sails.

Thalia went to Ireland in 1891 until 1914, where there are records of Thalia racing in the archives of the Royal Cork Yacht Club from 1891-96.
Thalia was based on the Thames from 1914 -1963.
In the 1960s she sailed to Turkey and the African coast returning in the 1970s.
A rebuild was started in the late 1980s, and then abandoned with no deck.
She was about to be broken up when present owners bought her in 1993.
Thalia was first registered in 1889 and she appears to be the only remaining yacht built by the Wanhills yard of Poole.
Wanhills had a reputation of building yachts from the 1850s until the 1890s.
Three of the twelve yachts racing in the first Americas cup race of 1851 were built by Wanhill; their most successful being Egira built in 1865 who won the Queens Cup in Cowes seven times.
The techniques that Wanhill used to build successful racing yachts are evident in Thalia, such as keeping the weights out of the end of the boat.
He achieved this by tapering the planking from 2inch thick at the center bottom to 1inch thick at the counter and stem, framing in pairs of 5inch by 4inch at the keel to 2inch by 2inch at the deck level.
From 1890 to 1918 Thalia was in Ireland where she raced with success out of the Royal Cork Yacht Club.
She was later based in Essex until the 19 sixties when she appeared in a breakers yard in Southampton with damage to the starboard bow.
She was salvaged at the age of seventy, still in her original state and sailed to the Mediterranean and the west coast of Africa.
In the seventies Thalia was sailed back to England and spent several years in Southampton, until she was taken to the Coombes boatyard in Bosham where work started.
The deck and several frames and planks were removed, until the owner ran out of money.
Consequently she sat in the yard for three years until her present owner who had been contemplating buying her for some time, discovered that she was about to be broken up and the original parts would be sold.
This was the start of a four year restoration project.
Since that time she has cruised and raced as a family boat around the south coast of England until her longest voyage from the Solent to the West Indies in 2007.
She is now possibly the oldest yacht to have crossed the Atlantic.
In nearly 120 years Thalia's name and her use have remained unchanged.
Much of the boat's interior is still in its original form.
The panelling in the saloon along with the hatches, fittings and the willow patterning in the heads are original as they were in 1889.

Thalia is also prestigiously registered with the UK National Maritime museum, as a vessel of historic importance.
She has her name on the walls of the Royal Cork Yacht club.
From the 1890's: First owner R Foley, commodore of RCYC
We have Racing results from Cork and Dublin (several wins)
Original bills of sale from 1918,1920s,1960's
Survey approx 2004/2005

Atlantic crossing in 18 days (squalls up to 50knots) in 2007
A Classic boat article 2002
History of yachting in the South coast of Ireland said: "almost certainly the most original yacht of her era afloat".
Thalia took part in the America's Cup Jubilee in Cowes 2001
Raced in regattas in Cork 1890's alongside yachts such as Britania.

Race winnings with present owner:
Yarmouth Old Gaffers: several times
Solent Old Gaffers
Plymouth classics 2 times
Falmouth classics 2 times
Fowey Falmouth feeder race
Concorse
Yarmouth Old Gaffers
Plymouth Classics
Classic Boat Magazine regatta Yarmouth
Hermes Mumm Regatta Cowes: most traditional boat
3rd in class ARC Atlantic Rally for Cruisers 2007 crossing
Grenada Classic Yacht Regatta 2008 Winner in Class and Overall Winner + most photogenic boat winner.
Antigua Classics 2008, Vintage class winner + Antigua Classics most photogenic boat +Classics Best Restoration winner.

Technical info:
Length on the Waterline:11.58 metres (37.96 feet)
Length Overall:13.72 metres (44.98 feet)
Gross Tonnage:11.65
Draught:2.1 metres (6.89 feet)
Maximum Breadth:3.17 metres (10.39 feet)

CLASSIC YACHT FOR SALE - NO LIMITS YACHTS
PHONE HOTLINES
St.Maarten: +5995237671- St.Martin: +590590872268
St.Barth: +590690629955 - Martinique: +596696261612
Antibes opening soon !
Fort Lauderdale: +19545995575
Skype In USA number:+19548403601