1988 'Wicked Witch' steel 31 foot Ketch

Free to a New Home

Afloat in Dartmouth

Wicked Witch was owned by her current owner for 32 years. She was built in 1988 by a skilled Glaswegian welder who worked for Babcocks. The owner is getting older now and lives further away, so they wish to Re-Home her after recent problems with the engine (now resolved). The hull is reported to be in good condition, though.

She is a 31ft ketch built to Maurice Griffiths design plans the Water Witch design. She has a centre keel and skeg with bilge plates which allows her to dry out making her able to take the ground allowing estuaries and creeks to be explored. She is a strong sailing boat she crossed the North Sea before current owner who sailed her across the English channel twice. 

According to the current owner she is built from corten steel with her saloon cabin being fibre glass. She doesn’t leak.  She has a cockpit canopy that covers the centre cockpit.

There is a forward berth, the main cabin where the table drops down and in the stern cabin a berth equivalent  to a single bed. The cabin floor sole boards are varnished teak and can be lifted to inspect the bilges.

Her decks are lined with tek dek giving a hard wearing teak appearance without any maintenance. The cockpit, cabin door, stern door, cockpit coping, rubbing strake and rear platform are teak.

Draft 3foot 3 inch
Beam about 9foot.
Calorifier giving hot water heated up by the engine, two stainless steel tanks.
Gas burner hob, grill and oven
Heads with the normal pump out toilet and sink with a tap that doubles as a shower.
Automatic and manual bilge pump.
Wheel steering by Edson and has an autopilot, depth sounder, fishfinder and wind instrument
VHF radio
Battened main sail, mizzen and a furling genoa, also a mizzen staysail
Lancing marine marinised Ford 416 XLD 1600 engine (it is no longer overheating and starting & working fine now)
20 amp solar panel that keep two 110 amp batteries in peak condition

The current owner indicated that she was kept on top of maintenance, she has been lifted out antifouled every year, painted and varnished where needed. She would suit someone though who lived by the sea and could maintain her.

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