£13,900 | | |
Status: | Available |
Tax Status: | Tax Not Paid |
Location: |
Christchurch Dorset UK [View Map] |
Little Wonder is a British Hunter Ranger 245, a compact family cruiser and highly regarded sea boat for it’s size with a surprising amount of room below. Bilge keels make her a good costal cruising yacht able to explore shallow waters of the Solent and beyond and is ready for this sailing season. She is overwintered on dry land at Elkins boatyard, Christchurch, Dorset, due to be craned in on 30th April to be moored on our Christchurch Sailing Club river mooring.
Vessel type: | Cruising Yacht |
Designer: | David Thomas |
Builder: | British Hunter |
Make: | Hunter Boats |
Model: | Ranger 245 |
Fit Out: | By factory |
Constructed: | 2001 |
Berths: | 6 |
No. of engines: | 1 |
Engine model: | Yanmar 1GM10 |
Engine power: | 10 |
Fuel type: | Diesel |
Drive type: | Shaft drive |
Length over all: | 7.94m |
Length at waterline: | 6.40m |
Beam: | 2.67m |
Maximum draft: | 0.98m |
Hull material: | Glass Fibre |
Hull type: | Displacement |
Hull colour: | White |
Keel type: | Twin Keel |
Displacement: | 2370 metric tons |
Fuel capacity: | 25 Litres |
Water capacity: | 20 Litres |
The accommodation offers up to six berths in an open plan layout with approximately 6’ max. headroom at companionway and galley.
The saloon is trimmed with teak cabinetry and soft furnished with original Hunter burgundy upholstery in good condition throughout. The upholstery and canvas have been stored in dry conditions each winter and dehumidifiers used in the saloon
Forepeak double V-berth, with stowage beneath including, 3 rail mounted hanging storage boxes. An opening window-hatch offers through ventilation and access to foredeck.
Fixed central drop-leaf table with port and starboard settee berths, stowage lockers underneath.
Navigation station to port with hinged chart table. Heads compartment, partitioned from the saloon by a bi-folding canvas door with an environmentally sound 9 litre chemical toilet, a hand basin with hand-pumped water with storage shelves behind and storage beneath. There is a draining hanging cupboard for wet-gear.
To starboard a practical moulded galley is equipped with a Plastimo Neptune gimballed 2-burner gas cooker including a grill and oven. Above this is a glass-fronted crockery cupboard. The moulding houses a stainless steel sink with electrical and manually pumped water, integral food storage box, and storage beneath.
The starboard aft cabin is a double berth. Fixed portlight aft and two opening port-lights to cockpit.
Constructed by Hunter Boats Ltd in 2001. Factory completed with white GRP hull, superstructure, and decks with moulded non-slip surfaces. Dee form side rubbing strakes – all in excellent condition. The hull below the waterline was grit blasted, epoxy and copper-coated in 2014.
Deck
Running rigging control lines to cockpit. Secured with jam clutches and/or jam cleats. Single Harken winch.
Stainless steel pulpit and pushpit, guardrails. Spray-hood. Spray dodgers.
Anchor locker contains CQR anchor with approx. 17.5m chain plus warp.
Mooring cleats 2 x stern, 2 midships, 2 x bow. Boat hook. Storage locker in cockpit containing fenders and warps.
Electrical equipment
240V AC Shore-Power unit, offering mains sockets in the saloon and battery charging for both batteries. 12V dc electrical system powered via 2 lead acid batteries and charged via the engine alternator or shore power. A small solar panel mounted on the companionway hatch provides battery trickle charging.
• 240V AC Shore-Power and battery charging unit
• Two lead acid batteries, charged by Engine alternator/Shore power, battery selector switch.
• Solar Panel for supplementary charging to either battery
• 12V DC distribution panel
• Saloon LED lighting
• Additional reading lights (3); to forward Vee-berth, Chart-table and aft cabin
• Voltage LED indicators for each battery
• Exhaust temperature alarm and monitor
• Galley sink electrical water pump
Inventory:
Deck Equipment
• Anchor CQR
• Chain/Warp ~17½/17½m
• Mainsail Burgundy Stack-Pack and Lazy-Jacks
• Halyard & Reefing clutches
• 2 single-line, slab-reefing lines lead to cockpit clutches
• Burgundy Spray hood over companion-way
• Bi-Data: depth and speed/log, with cover
• Compass and cover
• Tiller cover (Burgundy)
• Boarding ladder on transom
• Pulpit, Stanchions/guardrails and Taff-rail fully enclose the deck
• Starboard mounted fill-cap for 20 litre water tank
• Forward facing side fixed windows, provide a bright saloon
• Burgundy Canvas cover (over forward three windows)
Cockpit locker
• Kedge Anchor (small collapsible) & warp
• 10 Fenders (Burgundy)
• Foam fender board
• Numerous Mooring warps
• Boat hook
• Bucket & mini bailer
• Deck brushes…
• Winter halyards
• Binoculars
Additional Useful equipment
• Steps – easing access to forward Vee-berth
• Water hose, gun and adaptors
• Cockpit table (free-standing)
• Cockpit seating cushions (Burgundy)
Accessories
• Yanmar tool-kit in original plastic hinged lid box
• Yanmar engine start crank
• Additional tools and extras for specific purposes
Below deck – A folding, aft facing chart table to port with chart illumination light, 12v socket and 240V mains while on shore power, storage above and below. VHF-DSC Silva radio and Garmin GPS units, both linked to the ship data ring. Further storage shelving is available forward of this.
Cockpit - Compass (Plastimo Navman), Depth/Speed/Log (Autohelm ST30 BIDATA), tiller pilot (Raymarine S1000+).
Wind Direction - masthead vane Windex.
Navigation – Bow steaming lights, Masthead LED Tri-colour & 360°White.
Laminated wooden tiller with Carbon Tiller extension
Yanmar 1GM10 single cylinder 10hp diesel engine (last serviced by the owner 2023. Direct seawater cooled. Exhaust temperature alarm and monitor.
Drive: Yanmar gearbox, 25mm Shaft drive to 2-bladed fixed propeller, Stern Gland: Volvo seal. Aluminium shaft anode.
Single lever control with electric start.
25 litre fuel capacity giving approximately 80-mile range at 4.5 knots cruising speed. Maximum speed under power 6 knots.
Fractionally rigged sloop. Stainless steel standing rigging new-2018. Manual backstay adjuster.
Self tacking jib. Slab reefing mainsail with Stack-Pack and lazyjacks.
1 x Mainsail (good condition), 1 x headsail (Adequate condition), 1 X light wind foresail.
Anodised aluminium mast and boom by Z Spars.
Plastimo headsail furling system. Lines led aft to cockpit cabin roof mounting one Lewmar winch.
Horseshoe life buoy, portable fog horn.
2 Fire extinguishers , fire blanket by galley.
Manual bilge pump, large aft self-draining cockpit.
Self draining self contained gas bottle storage.
First Aid box (bulkhead mounted)
Jack-stays (not rigged).
Day shapes
Note: Indicated location is approximate general area only.