Bristol Channel Cutter Sam L. Morse - A Special Offering

OWNER WISHES HER SOLD.

THIS BCC28 IS VERY NICE AND IS A WONDERFUL OFFERING

This lucky BCC has had a serious refit in 2007 complete with the new engine and drive train, new sails, new mast and boom, new electronics, new everything! The original owner cared for the boat for twenty years! You may have heard that the famous Sam L. Morse Company that built the Bristol Channel Cutter from about 1976 to 2007 has closed the doors and sold the molds to Cape George Marine. You can still buy a new one for about $400K, and a bargain at that.

Not to worry. There are still 126 BCCs floating and everywhere in the world. Luckily, there are benefactors...rare people in this world, who simply must connect to those bygone days, when sailing small seaworthy vessels across oceans and around the world was GREAT. It was the dream of many, a pursuit of a sum, and a conquest of a few! (Those where the days!) But, today it is different. Today's lovers of the sea are people, like the the owner of this vesse, a real BCC, who, just for love and appreciation of all that was and could be. If you love the asthetics and practicality of a real, traditional pilot cutter. you will love this boat. There are few like our current offering. This vessel has been adopted and refit in 2007 to the tune of about $100K! (Oh Yes!) This boat has a benefactor who has gone beyond what was even needed to just make her new! The benefit is to you. Keep reading!

The BCC is the boat that has caused so many people to dream of sailing the seven seas. Go small, go simple. go now. She is also the boat that has taught hundreds of people to sail, really sail. She is of the old world and it was a good world. She is simple and safe and sea worthy. A trusted boat and a good friend. You can circle the world, or sail your local waters and have a "real" boat. You'd be proud to own this boat.

We are pleased to offer this wonderful example of a 1983 Bristol Channel Cutter built by Sam L. Morse, hull #62. One that has spent its first 25 years being completely loved by a fist owner, one who know ol' Sam Morse and one who loved and cared for her really well. (Rare) Her adoptive parent and benefactor, then took over a few years back and actually gave her a complete refit. I commend him for his careful restoration of the boat. He has only restored her and has not disturbed her. Everything is perfectly natural. Just important stuff like the mast and rigging and everything else is natural. You decide next. This is one boat to buy!

NEW:

• Recent upgrades include AIS transponder, Raymarine sailing instruments, New 12v panel, new batteries!, Alpenglow LED cabin lights, Ritchie compass, New marine toilet, New holding tank, Deck washdown pump, New hot water heater, new pressure water pump, New galley sink, faucets and counter, new cockpit shower, and more!
• New Standing Rigging all done by Brion Toss! 2006
•  New Yachttech Mast. Boom sanded and painted under Brion Toss supervision.
•  New Shaffer Furler for the Headsail
•  New Running Rigging
•  New Port Townsend Sails (Carol Hasse)! 2007 Beautiful (We had them on Aloha #95)
•  New Asymetrical Spinnacker
•  New Canvas - Sail covers
•  New Dodger (Artful Dodger, only the best) 2007
•  New Yanmar 3YM30 engine! 235 hours!!!
•  New Engine mounts
•  New Stainless Steel 1" Shaft
•  New Cutlass Bearing
•  New Dripless shaft seal
•  New Max Prop 15" 2007
•  New Raymarine Electronics C80 Color Radar and Plotter
•  --Radar
•  --Plotter/GPS
•  --Raymarine ST60 Wind Speed and Depth
•  New Auto Tiller pilot ST6000
•  New AC/DC electrical panel
•  New LED Tricolor light Beautifully fared bottom and new bottom paint
•  Exterior woodwork all cetol
• Proper ground tackle
•  Decks in beautiful condition
•  Sam L. Morse Factory Interior is beautiful condition
•  Forward workroom nicely finished by the factory
•  Bronze opening ports
•  Cozy cabin heater
•  New standard marine toilet
•  Holding tank with Y valve

Those are just the highlights. This is one lucky Cutter! With this last owner, she has been lavished once again! This is a wonderful Bristol Channel Cutter, one that has just been loved is is yearning to sail someplace. She is a really good boat. One of the early BCCs laid up in 81 and completed in 1983, then completely rebuilt for you!

There will be no more Sam L. Morse BCCs! It is wonderful to have to opportunity to present a real factory-finished BCC that is so well loved. After twenty-five years, she was fortunate to receive a huge influx of cash to make her so ready to go. There are not so many with a new mast and boom, new rigging, new sails, new engine, new dodger...not many at all.

The cost of building one today is at least $300K. Loon is a bargain. You can buy her and sail around the world! (You don't have too...you can sail at home. She still wants to go someplace near or far. She's ready! Are you?

Loon is now in Annapolis!

A Bristol Channel Cutter is a work of art and if you appreciate fine art and craftsmanship. You will find the interior of the factory finished Sam L. Morse BCC to be a temple. As you probably already know, the BCC has the most pleasing and functional layout you will ever find on a 28 foot boat. Recognized in Ferenc Mate?s Best Boats?all three issues for all the right reasons. The Sam L. Morse builder is famous for the highest quality of construction that equals the style, the grace, and the pure function that Lyle Hess sought to achieve. It is this attention to every detail that makes the Lyle Hess-designed Bristol Channel Cutter stand out from the rest. As you enter the companionway, the large, workable galley is to port, the chart table/nav station to starboard, and the ideally sized salon forward with a cozy heater built-in on a tiled ?fireplace?. The double berth pulls out on the port side creating a comfortable sleeping arrangement for two. The dinette is formed from the settee to port with a beautiful table. The starboard settee is also a comfortable sea berth. In addition, the Quarter Berth aft on the port side is a great sea berth, but also provides amazing storage. The forward cabin is designed as the head, dressing room, workshop, walkin closet, and access to the sail locker forward. The interior of a BCC is a place you just want to sit and contemplate the magic of this world. It is so beautiful, you?re happy just sitting, reading, resting, and rejuvenating. I tend to lie awake and stare around, and finally sleep well.

• Comfortable underway and at anchor
• New Cushions and upholstery
• Ample storage for long voyages
• Innovative double berth in the main salon
• Table amid ships
• New cushions!
• Settee/berth to port
• Starboard settee/sea berth
• Starboard quarter berth
• Nav station-chart table to starboard
• Forward cabin for the head, stowage, workshop and sail locker
• Forepeak chain/rode locker
• Headroom 6'1"
• Comfortable cruising for one or two people
• A temple to a time gone bye.

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