1966 36ft GRP Long fin keel (encapsulated lead ballast) with spade rudder, 7-berth Ocean Cruiser/Racer, powered by a single 2005 30hp Yanmar inboard diesel engine with shaft drive.
The Excalibur 36 is a powerful and fast all-weather cruiser by a well respected designer.
Interesting original history & a family owned boat for over 50 years.
Excalibur II could be sailed away as is, but could do with some updating in places.
Lying at Portland on hard standing.
E. G. van de Stadt designed the Excalibur in 1962, the design looking very like an enlarged version of his already very successful Pionier designs for GRP production, which were early examples of cruising boats with separate spade rudders, at a time when most cruising yachts still had long keels with keel-hung rudders.
All the Excalibur hulls were moulded by Tylers, with encapsulated lead ballast, and a GRP headlining moulding. Hulls were finished mainly by Southern Ocean Shipyard in Poole, who built about 50 of these yachts, but some were also finished in Holland by various yards. It is reported a that a very few later exapmples had a modified underwater profile with a fin and skeg rudder.
Despite being designed primarily as a cruiser, Excaliburs won the RORC Class II Championships in 1963, 1964 and 1965, but as racing designs evolved with more beam and smaller keels they ceased to be competitive, except in heavy weather.
They are now a good example of a classic cruiser-racer. Bigger and faster than a Contessa 32, and not dissimilar to a Nicholson 35, they are a very capable and strongly built yacht for bluewater or coastal cruising.
Navigation Equipment
2016 Autohelm 2
Garmin GPS 152
Nasa Log (works intermittently)
Autohelm Windspeed & Direction (Direction is working but anemometer wind cups at masthead are jammed and may need replacing)
Nasa Depth Sounder
Hand Bearing Compass
Helm Steering wheel binnacle compass (binnacle light needs replacing, the compass works but needs recalibrating)
Ventimeter (hand held winspeed indicator)
Icom IC-M501EURO DSC VHF Radio Transmitter
Full set Admiralty Charts UK South + France to La Rochelle
Tidal Charts
Dividers + Chart Plotter
Deck Navigation Lights
Masthead Navigation lights
Steaming plus deck lights
Mechanical
2005 Yanmar 3YM30 30hp Diesel inboard engine with shaft drive and 3 bladed prop.
serviced annually.
Backup Mariner 2.5hp 2-stroke Outboard engine
Electrical
Inboard re-wired plus new switch box 2020
2x 12v Heavy Duty Batteries
1x new battery switching gear 2021
Accommodation
The forecabin has a vee-berth 6'3" long 'on the vee', convertible to a double with an infill.
The Excalibur has a GRP moulded headlining throughout, which is easy to keep clean, unlike vinyl linings.
The saloon port & starboard berth backrest can be raised, nominally to make an extra berth, but more practically to open up a much larger berth.
The saloon settees are both 6' 3" length, and saloon headroom varies between 6' 2" to 6' 4". Aft of the chart table is a short quarter berth, the forward part of which serves as the chart table seat.
Heads compartment to port, with doors separating it from saloon and forecabin. Manual sea toilet and cold manual pumped water.
Galley area to Port side, Gas cooker (two ring hob/grill/oven) sink with cold manual pumped water (Sink tap needs replacing)
Bosuns locker - miscellaneous chandlery items + spares
Ships clock
Berth cushions for all bunks
Pioneer CD Player
Barometer
Safety Equipment
Life jackets x 2 (need new cannisters)
Spare seacock bungs
Fog Horn
Emergency Tiller
Fire Extinguisher
Dan bouy + Life belt
Manual bilge pump
Sails & Rig
Main sail - slab & roller reefing
Furling jib
Spinnaker
Cruising chute
Ghoster
Stay sail
Spinnaker boom x 2
Halyards & sheets full set
Roller reefing handle
Deck & General
Cockpit spray hood
Mainsail boom cover
Mast and rigging replaced in the 1970s
Cockpit sides
Mooring lines
4x Fenders
3x Winch handles
Gas cylinder housing
Waveline six seater dinghy + oars + pump
Boat hook
Spare warps and shorelines
Swimming ladder
Cockpit cushions
Spare gas cylinder
Anchor and chain
Collapsible hose pipe + fittings
Courtesy flags
Bosuns Chair
Decklines & Lifelines
Fishing Lines & nets
Tool Kit
Bosuns knife kit
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