Description
BROKERS COMMENTS
It has been said that if Laurent Giles had never designed a sailing boat he would be remembered for his power craft…...the sweeping, elegant simplicity of WOODPECKER’s lines are certainly memorable. This vessel's semi-displacement hull probably represents a pinnacle in this hull form and she has been listed as the "beau ideal" among medium-sized fast motor cruisers.
WOODPECKER underwent a full restoration in 2000 / 01 and fully maintained since. Considerable attention has been paid to ensure her original character was retained with modifications made in some areas to enhance her practicality as a family cruising yacht. Further evidence of this includes; the wonderful dining area on deck and the fact that WOODPECKER can be used easily by just two people.
WOODPECKER has that very special quality that makes knowledgeable people stop, look and admire.
HISTORY
WOODPECKER was built in 1948 for a Mr A A Hall, a gentleman of means, and there can be no doubt that he knew exactly what he wanted. Hall had already owned another Laurent Giles design built of 45 feet and named SAMAKI.
WOODPECKER was built by the highly respected yard of R A Newman & Sons of Poole and became a well known sight cruising the Solent and South coast of Britain, regardless of the weather - she remained with the Hall family until 1962.
In the early 1980s the boat sat in a mud berth in Wootton Creek, on the Isle of Wight. It was a Mr Nigel Humphreys who realised the vessel's potential and he set about restoring her so that she could be used and enjoyed - thankfully her former owner had spent a fortune having her hull sheathed in heavy Admiralty grade copper and she remained sound and dry. WOODPECKER spent some time cruising the East coast of United States, where she was available for charter, later returning to France under a new French owner.
Two years of meticulous restoration work, starting in 1999, was needed to take the boat to her current level of condition and layout; which would hopefully have pleased even Laurent Giles himself ! Although conceived to carry 10 people in great comfort for a day out; WOODPECKER now sleeps 6. This vessel is large enough and easy enough to use to make her a unique family yacht, with a wonderfully private separate owner's cabin of generous dimensions, and areas for convivial dining both on deck and below.
CONSTRUCTION
Double diagonal Honduras mahogany with longitudinal pine stringers running inside the ribs at intervals between garboard and gunwhale. The outside of the hull is also glass sheathed and painted with royal blue Awlgrip paint. External brightwork; 8-10 coats of Epivanes varnish and the vessel's interior is coated in oyster white Awlgrip paint.
DECK LAYOUT
The deck layout of WOODPECKER has been changed very little - the only additions are sympathetic and help her to be enjoyed as a family yacht. A bathing platform has been added in teak on her stern which allows an Avon jet rib tender to be stored. An Opacmare passarelle allows easy boarding when moored stern-to.
The decks are pitch pine and were new at the time of her restoration. The vessel's side decks are wide and uncluttered - she has teak varnished coverboards and bulwarks and a raw teak rubbing strake. The superstructure, including trunk cabin, wheelhouse and deck saloon are painted white with sky lights (butterfly hatches) and other deck furniture in varnished teak.
There is a cosy cockpit or welldeck, aft of the trunk cabin, which houses a massive lazarette. There are two teak boarding ladders. The trunk cabin roof has two dorade boxes (teak) and chrome vents; teak cheeked blocks for the boom (for steadying sail) and butterfly hatch ventilating the owner's cabin. There is a large sunbathing platform made from raw teak, covered and emblazoned with the yacht's woodpecker logo. The raised part of this coachroof has a tabernacle style mast step and spruce spar for the steadying sail.
The wheelhouse,
Updated: 27/02/2009
Laurent Giles 70 ft Motor Yacht
EUR 650,000
approx GBP 577,000
Contact
Sandeman Yacht Company Limited
33 High Street
Poole
BH15 1AB
UK
Phone: +44 (0)1202 330077
Fax: +44 (0)1202 330060
Mobile: +44 7711 527196
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- WOODPECKER OF POOLE
- 1948
- ES
- 70' 0" / 21.34m
- 4' 0" / 1.22m
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