Description

This professionally refitted and maintained concourse condition Fairey Huntsman 28 twin screw sports cruisers is now some fifty five years of age and has had a vast amount of money spent on her during two staged refits in the last ten years to produce a vessel that is cosmetically and mechanically best of breed.


Internally the standard of joinery in her warm air heated accommodation is exceptional for a vessel of her size and overall she represents the marine equivalent of a Park Lane display motor car.


Designed originally by Ray Hunt and modified by Alan V. Burnard of Fairey Marine in Hamble, the Fairey Huntsman 28 is renowned for very superior handling characteristics and seakeeping. During the late 1960s and 1970s they were raced highly successfully offshore and gained many trophies.


Re-engined in 2001 with twin 6 cylinder turbocharged 5.9 litre Cummins 215hp diesel engines, close coupled to ZF reverse reduction gearboxes.


Bill Dunlop the renowned Fairey surveyor and former employee of the Fairey Marine factory carried out a pre purchase survey for her current owners in October 2011. This survey including engine oil analysis is available on request, however is now almost irrelevant because the few points identified were dealt with as part of more extensive work now leaving her in best of breed condition.

New teak decks (2013)


Her impressive inventory includes all stainless steel rudders and rudder tubes, Bruce anchor with chain, search light, forward coachroof deck hatch with glass pane, drop down washbasin, pushpit rail, stern ladder and exhausts along with many other stainless steel fitting on deck and throughout.


This Fairey Huntsman 28 benefits from being re-painted to a very high standard. Her exterior varnish work was re-varnished in 2016.


Other features include trim tabs, Simpson and Lawrence Horizon windlass, hydraulic steering system, Moto-Lita steering wheel, LED cockpit courtesy lights, electric head, oven with three burner grill hob unit, fridge, three battery banks, shore power and Mastervolt battery charger and an extremely fine cockpit sprayhood and extension which in the words of her surveyor "appears to be virtually leak proof".

Specifications

Construction

Hull: Hot Moulded Agba Veneer
Superstructure: Plywood & Mahogany
Laminated timber windscreen with Perspex panes, chrome plated trims and varnished timber capping rail
New plywood sub-deck with solid 6mm teak deck with new toe rails (2013)
Substantial polished stainless steel forward coachroof deck hatch with glass pane
Glass with chrome plate trim strip side windows
Panelled main companionway door with hinged hatch

Awlgrip Awlcraft 2000 repaint:
Superstructure sides in Oyster White (2013)
Cockpit and screen frame in Oyster White (2013)
Hull in Corinthia Blue (2013)
Cavita line in Cordovan Gold (2013)
Exterior varnish work re-varnished (2016)

Equipment

Simpson and Lawrence Horizon windlass
10kg stainless steel Bruce type bower anchor connected by swivel to 22 fathoms of stainless steel chain
Substantial polished stainless steel stem head fitting carrying the anchor, complete with captive hoop
Stainless steel bow throat plate
Three stainless steel/plastic mushroom screw-down vents on coachroof
All stainless steel topside skin fittings including the parson's hat fairing
Four roller fairleads, two fore and two aft
Six chrome plated T cleats
Crucifix bollard on foredeck
Fender eyes
LED cockpit courtesy lights (new 2013)
Two side deck fuel fillers on starboard
Single side deck water tank filler portside
Two stainless steel handrails on coachroof mounted on teak blocks
Stainless steel aft quarter trim
Fairey Marine bow badges
Timber mast
Stainless steel pullpit
Stainless steel pushpit rail
Substantial stainless steel stern ladder with timber treads (new teak tread 2015)

Safety Equipment

Stainless steel searchlight on foredeck
Two forward submersible bilge pumps with float switches
Two bilge submersible pumps aft of engine bay
One submersible pump installed at the transom
Whale manual diaphragm pump installed portside of helm drawing from under the forward end of the engine

Disclaimer

Nicolle Associates offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

This vessel is VAT not applicable.
As always photographs do not do justice so a viewing is highly recommended.
This boat is lying in Hamble, England.
2016 Nicolle Associates