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For Sale — 1988 Bristol Channel Cutter Angelsea Lyle Hess design · Pardey layout · Just out of a two-year, no-shortcuts refit · Currently sailing the Virgin Islands Asking $85,000 USD It’s time, unfortunately. After 18 years aboard Angelsea, we’ve come to accept that we’re getting a little too old to sail and maintain her to our own standards. So we’re doing the one thing we can still do right by her: handing over a boat that is finished, sorted, and sailing — not a project. She has just come through a two-year refit at TOBY in St. Martin, and she is in the water and cruising the Virgin Islands right now. Rig, engine, ground tackle, electrical, electronics, refrigeration, galley, cushions, bottom — all of it done, and done in the last 24 months. Whoever buys her steps aboard and goes. True to her heritage, she’s a capable, sea-kindly cutter built for bluewater passages, self-reliant voyaging, and quiet anchorages far from the crowd. Why This One Is Different • Bronze, not stainless. Every stainless deck fitting and chainplate has been replaced with solid bronze — corrosion and crevice-fatigue worries permanently off the table. • Dyneema standing rigging, black, brand new. Angelsea was the first boat in the Caribbean to go to Dyneema standing rigging, back in 2008. This is the third renewal cycle after 14 years, 9mm, tensioned with deadeyes and lanyards — no turnbuckles, no swage fittings, nothing to hide a crack. Good for 10+ years. Probably longer but no statistics yet. • A

Hello, Is this Bristol Channel Cutter still for sale? Thank you, Francis

Greg, yes removing the plywood floor makes the dinghy significantly lighter. Roger Olson, the dinghy’s designer did this on his Cherub and put moved the flotation on the outside while using it in Panama

Hi Wayne, I haven’t seen a Cherub with the floor removed before. Do you think it was worthwhile to do so? Are the fenders rigged so that they can also be used on the outside of the gunwales as a flotation collar?

Dear friends, I want to give you update on this project and pick your brains once again. I ended up going with PTF bronze chainplates. I am finally back to my boat and starting the refit. I recently opened the boxes with the chainplates. They are massive. Much thicker and heavier than SS ones. I have removed all the interior strip boards in the cabin and forward cabin (except the ones in the quarter berth - too complicated) - to access the chainplates bolts, revarnish the strips, paint the fiberglass inside of the hull and probably replace the polystyrene insulation with closed cell foam if i can source some. So far I have managed to remove all the plates fairly easily except the port forward one, where i had the unpleasant surprise of finding out that the nuts and backing plates are glassed over, and the bobstay plate that will require a lot of grinding and chiseling as suggested by Bil. The holes of the new plates won’t fit exactly the existing ones on the hull so I will have to fill and redrill. Now I have a few issues to solve and want to make sure i don’t do anything silly when dealing with the expensive bronze plates. the chainplates have bends where the angle is a little too steep (see photos) and don’t sit well on the wooden channels/rub rails, but are more elevated. Given the thickness, they are hard to bend. Even if i were able to bring them to sit against the channels and the hull by tightening the bolts, they would not sit flat on the channels, but at an angle. On

Hello again , Billy Here Pixie is for sale . Please see below if my first effort to notify has not been posted . If interested please phone me at 403 617-6394 before I contact a broker .Pixie is in Victoria BC . Too many items to reiterate here but she is completely refitted after returning from New Zealand last September. Yours Sincerely, Billy and Cathy Norrie 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Hello again , Billy Here Pixie is for sale . Please see below if my first effort to notify has not been posted . If interested please phone me at 403 617-6394 before I contact a broker .Pixie is in Victoria BC . Too many items to reiterate here but she is completely refitted after returning from New Zealand last September. Yours Sincerely, Billy and Cathy Norrie

Good day everyone . We are selling Pixie . Pixie is in Victoria BC and we are moving to Alberta and selling all our BC items. A major life change . Pixie is “Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion “ refit 100% since returning from New Zealand just one year ago . With many many sail items and gear safe in our home . She is berthed in RVYC in an excellent berth . Too many details to itemize here , but I am keen to talk and sell PLEASE just phone me 403 617-6394 , before I hire a broker . Thanking you , Billy and Cathy Norrie 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Good day everyone . We are selling Pixie . Pixie is in Victoria BC and we are moving to Alberta and selling all our BC items. A major life change . Pixie is “Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion “ refit 100% since returning from New Zealand just one year ago . With many many sail items and gear safe in our home . She is berthed in RVYC in an excellent berth . Too many details to itemize here , but I am keen to talk and sell PLEASE just phone me 403 617-6394 , before I hire a broker . Thanking you , Billy and Cathy Norrie

My 2GM20F is in need of this repair now! The main concern for me is the FI pump. Would appreciate any additional details, suggestions or tips to proceed. I didnt really comprehend any of the instructions mentioned related to the FI pump (removal or replacement) i can appreciate that this piece alone has a lot of intricate parts tgat must be reassembled precisely so I want to educate myself on it fully before turning any wrenches.