28′ Wright and Harris Gaff Cutter

We are very proud to be able to offer to you one of the top 250 most beautiful classic yachts in the World (according to Classic Boat Magazine, and us too!) 

Lin and Larry Pardey said it decades ago, and its more true in todays economy than ever before.. go small, go simple and GO NOW!

A heritage that produced the Bristol Channel Cutters, the Falmouth Working Boats, and inpsired designers such as Fife, Herreshoff, Laurent Giles and many more, this is a true yacht, a vessel of class and style and authenticity that any real sailor would be proud to call their own, and bring joy constantly throughout ownership. 

As her most recent survey confirms, ‘Sauntress’ has been maintained to a high standard, and having had multiple major refits throughout her life, the most recent in 2005, she is really an authentic classic boat in young condition.   With her self draining cockpit and her stout washboards for open sea work, her additional sawn frames amidships, her massive hanging knees in the main cabin, her upgraded lead keel, her Voyager self steering, her solar set up with two batteries, her peak and throat halyards run back to the cockpit, her stainless steel lifelines, her jib and foresail on Wickham Martin gear,  she can be largely handled without leaving the cockpit – particularly important when coming to a mooring buoy, a quay, to anchor, or whatever, but useful offshore too, she is truly an ocean capable voyaging yacht for those that care what they sail, not just where. 

Although very traditional and very simple, apart perhaps from her rig, she is both ocean capable and huge fun to sail… not to mention, more often than not,  ‘the prettiest yacht in the anchorage.’ As for the square sail. It was Claude Worth who wrote. “Never again will I go to sea without a squaresail.”   You might agree once you make a passage onboard ‘Sauntress’ yourself!