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"Almira of Rhu" is a 1962 Classic Bruno Veronese 23ft Sloop. She is in nice condition and ready to set sail. Single cabin with 2 berths, a neat galley and marine toilet. She has a Beta 14hp inboard diesel engine which has only done 100 ish hours. What a wonderful little yacht, capable of taking on many an adventure.
Bruno Veronese designs are beautiful and this classic lady has been professionally epoxy sheathed below the waterline, water tight, easy to maintain and very well built.
◽ Current Marine survey available.
INTERIOR & ACCOMMODATION
Entering below decks from the cockpit's wide hatch you are instantly met by classic class. The craftsmanship that went into building these timeless craft is long lost. Beautiful steam shaped overhead deck beams, picked out by the white deck head in between. The hull ribs are visible in places and varnished, adding to her classic look, hand built furniture and quirky elements from a knowledgeable eye makes for a lot of character and practicality. Although you kind of sink into it's old worldly comfort you cant help but notice the light and airy feel created by the white deck head, coachroof sides and 6 large coachroof portlights.
From forward to aft -
The forepeak is a storage area.. There is a large wooden framed deck hatch to bring in light and ventilation. Centrally is a marine toilet hidden in a hinged top wooden box. Port side is a door fronted locker and to starboard is a shaped trotter box with a shelf locker above.
Centrally, two single settee berths face each other. At the foot of the port berth is a chart table. The port side berth has a fold away chart table.
Aft to port is the cooking area shut off from the port berth by a full height bulkhead. There is a a spirit stove with two drawers and a locker underneath. To starboard is full height bulkhead forming a storage area between it and the galley sink with locker underneath.
◽ Gimballed, Cook Mate 3100 2 burner ethanol stove.
◽ Stainless steel sink with manual fresh water pump.
◽ Galley equipment.
◽ 12v cabin lighting.
◽ Stereo radio.
GENERAL EQUIPMENT
RIG
◽ Sloop rigged wooden mast and boom.
◽ Mainsail slider track.
◽ Spinnaker pole mast track with pin stop pole ring.
◽ Stainless steel standing rigging, renewed 2012.
◽ 2 x mast mounted winches for halyards and reefing.
◽ 2 x genoa/spinnaker winches.
SAILS
◽ 6 sets of sails. The primary set look to be in very good condition.
ENGINE
◽ Beta 14hp diesel engine fitted 2012.
◽ Approx. 100 engine hours.
◽ Spare engine service kit.
NAV. EQUIPMENT
◽ ICOM VHF - at chart table.
◽ Autopilot.
◽ Clock and Barometer.
◽ Charts.
ADDITIONAL
◽ Clyde Winch - anchor windlass.
◽ CQR type anchor with chain.
◽ Cockpit cover.
◽ Struan dark blue mainsail cover and anchor windlass cover.
◽ Mooring warps and fenders.
◽ Horseshoe life buoy.
The designer - Bruno Veronese
Bruno Veronese’s design career started in the late 1940s in Genoa and his quite prolific output yielded some 30 yachts built to his designs including the Classics: COPPELIA, TYRSA, EURYDICE, VALLEY III and PANDORA; all notable for both their elegance and the strength of their design in construction. Benefitting also from the ideas of other designers, some influence of Jack Laurent Giles can be seen in respect of another boat Resolution II.
Bruno Veronese, under the pseudonym Capitano Black, wrote “Yachting” the first comprehensive manual for yachtsmen by an Italian author. Having written numerous articles also for the major yachting magazines, his final treatise “Yacht Progetto e Costruzione”, was published posthumously in 1991.