Laurent Giles one off 36 ft Sloop 1959 - Vendido

VALE OF YORK is a beamy centreboarder. With her long overhangs – totalling 50% of the waterline length, pretty sheerline and deckhouse in the Giles manner she is a very elegant boat. The long ends and the large deckhouse allow for adequate headroom with some grace and without spoiling the profile. A special little boat; quite unspoilt and still much loved by her current owner.

VALE OF YORK was built in 1959 at Itchenor Shipyard for Colonel Norman Birch then commodore of the Humber Yacht Club. In his lifetime Birch had commissioned a series of yachts from Jack Laurent Giles; MAID, ROSE, ROSETTE; all OF YORK - and this was to be the last. The \'Vale\' refers both to the landscape around York, and \'vale\', Latin for farewell. David, Laurent Giles’s son recently recalled his father considering this VALE the prettiest little boat he ever designed. The current owner\'s late father bought the yacht in 1990 and sailed her to Holland, northern France, along the south coast and, all over the east coast, especially in the estuary waters of Essex and Suffolk.

- Mahogany topsides and teak below WL splined planking, copper fastened to hardwood frames
- Lead ballast keel
- Varnished teak cover board, bulwarks and toe rails
- Painted canvas over ply deck

- Double doors, sliding hatch and companionway steps down over engine to cabin below
- Varnished teak joinery, white painted deck head and raw teak cabin sole
- Chart table folding down over quarter berth to port
- Galley to stbd
- Plastimo Neptune 2 x gas hob, oven and grill
- Stainless steel sink and manual water pump
- Half bulkheads to saloon forward
- Settee berth to port converts to double with an infill
- Settee berth stbd
- Drop fiddled leaf table on centreline
- 2 x Oil lamps
- Eberspacher cabin heater
- Fwd to head compartment port side with Jabsco manual WC
- Doorways offer head facility and lockers opposite to saloon or as en suite to fore cabin
- Fore cabin
- 2 x Single berths with drawers under
- 2 x Reading lights
- Bulkhead fwd with access to chain locker

- Spruce mast and boom
- Main by Gowen
- Jib by Gowen
- Jib No 2 by Gowen
- Spinnaker

From aft
- Bronze fairleads and v large bronze and teak mooring cleats P& S
- Galvanised boom crutch
- Cockpit with raw teak sole
- Varnished teak cockpit seating over lockers for stowage and gas bottles
- Access to lazarette aft
- Original Tufnol winch to port
- 2 x Lewmar 40 primary winches on steel plinths outside cockpit coaming
- Control for centreboard mounted under side deck to port of cockpit
- Helm position with wheel steering
- Bronze compass binnacle with engine controls to the side
- Bridge deckhead Genoa tracks mounted on toe rail
- Doghouse and trunk cabin with teak elevations and bronze framed ports
- Stainless steel folding framed sprayhood
- 2 x Dorade boxes with chromed vents
- Deck stepped Mast
- Varnished teak hand rails each side along coach roof
- Large fore hatch at for end of trunk cabin
- CQR anchor on teak chocks forward of trunk cabin
- Original Simpson Lawrence anchor windlass
- Large teak and bronze mooring cleats both sides at bow

- Volvo 3 cyl 28 HP Diesel 2003
- 2 x 75 Ah batteries; one domestic; one engine start
- Deck head light in doghouse
- Light at chart table
- Reading lights in saloon
- Large deck head light
- 40 Gallon / 182 litre fresh water tank capacity
- 5 ½ Gallon / 25 litre fuel tank capacity

- Sestrel steering compass in the binnacle
- Valsat GPS
- MLR GPS
- Nasa marine echo sounder
- ICOM VHF

- Gas detector
- 2 x Powder fire extinguisher
- 2 x Electric bilge pumps
- 1 x Manual bilge pump