BINKER is a true classic yacht with plenty of pedigree in first class condition.
Following an extensive restoration in 2015, Classic Boat magazine published a beautiful and comprehensive article on the boat. BINKER is based in La Spezia area NW Italy.
The price has been reduced to rush the sale due to the owner's health issues.
Designed by Starling Burgess in the USA and built by Julius Peterson in New Jersey in 1934, in the opinion of the doyen of traditional English boats, Peter Gregson, her design was inspired by the work boats of the Itchen Ferry, with several development eventually leading to the build of BINKER. The first owner and designer wanted a boat that could be easily sailed by himself and his teenage son with good windward performance yet easily handled. She proved to be fast, comfortable and sea kindly as well as having very attractive lines. Uffa Fox wrote a detailed account of the boat and was full of praise for her.
HISTORY
BINKER was designed for Boyd Donaldson, a yacht broker in partnership with Starling Burgess at the time, specifically for him to cruise and explore with his teenage son. “Be seaworthy, have a good turn of speed to weather. Comfortable, safe and fun cruising”. BINKER enjoyed many years of cruising the east coast of the United States, then came to Europe from the Unites States and was purchased by Robin Todd, a yacht captain who rebuilt her in Florida and began his Atlantic voyage in 1997, overrun by hurricane Irine while approaching the Azores. Limping into Horta Robin repaired the damage and sailed BINKER to the UK. Thereafter the boat was sold and went into disrepair.
Found in 2008 in a very bad state by Jamie Robinson, she had a total rebuild. Since her launch in 2015 she has been sailed from Scotland to Devon and up to the Orkneys via the Caledonian Canal and proved herself to be a great sea boat.
The rebuild involved replacement of much of the planking and structural timbers, a new deck, new interior, new rig and all new machinery and systems. The work has been done to a very high professional standard and she is now completely finished and ready to be cruised and raced by a new owner.
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCOMODATION
Planked in a mixture of Cedar, Mahogany and Larch.
All bronze screwed fastened to steam bent oak timbers, many of which are new.
Sawn wooden floors, all new, side fastened to the frames.
External 3.5 ton lead ballast keel with new stainless steel keel bolts. 800kg of internal lead trimming ballast.
Yacht laid Afromosia deck glued over a marine plywood subdeck. Deck and deck beams all new in the rebuild.
Varnished teak coachroof coamings with bronze portholes.
Coachroof deck made of Iroko and sheathed externally.
Self draining cockpit well. Seating at deck level with a varnished teak coaming round. Tiller steering.
2015 detailed restoration, 2019 manteinance update available. In 2020, the hull has been painted and antifouling applied.
ACCOMODATION
4 berths including 2 quarter berths and 2 saloon settee berths.
Step down over the raised engine box with a high level quarter berth either side. Galley to starboard and chart desk to port.
Galley has a 3 burner gas stove with oven and grill. Single stainless sink with manually pumped fresh water. The top of the engine box is used for extra work space for the galley.
Chart desk faces outboard with a lifting lid and storage below.
Half height bulkheads separate off the main saloon with full length settee berth either side and centreline dropleaf table. Storage shelves behind and below the settees. Original butterfly skylight above the saloon.
Moving forward past the mast is a heads compartment to port with a Lavac sea toilet and hand basin with manually pumped fresh water.
The forepeak is given over totally to storage with large sail bins either side and a 12v fridge box.
Chain locker right forward.
EQUIPMENT
MACHINERY
- Beta Marine B20 20hp 3 cylinder marine diesel installed new in 2015, approximately 300 hours.
- Single lever controls to offset 3 blade feathering Darglow propeller. Cruising speed of 6 knots.
- 200 litre stainless steel fuel tank aft.
- 3 x 12 volt gel batteries for engine starting and domestics. Charged from engine alternator or through 240v charger with installed shore power system.
- Manual and electric bilge pumps.
RIG
- Bermudan cutter rig on a keel stepped hollow wooden mast.
- Hollow varnished boom and staysail boom with a solid varnished bowsprit.
- Staysail boom and spinnaker pole new in refit.
- Stainless steel standing rigging, new 2015, to external stainless chain plates.
- Single standing backstay with dyneema running backstays. Hanked on jib with boomed staysail.
- Full wardrobe of sails from 2015/2016.
- All bronze Lewmar self tailing winches.