28' Bristol Channel Cutter BCC 28 Cruisers

Accommodations

Chain locker and forepeak storage area are forward followed by an enclosed forward cabin area with a centerline covered head, a hanging locker and shelves to starboard and a unique pull-out wash basin along with storage lockers and drawers to port. Next aft is the salon with a centerline fold-out dinette; a cozy Force 10 cabin heater, settee/berth and bookshelves to starboard; a settee/berth and pilot berth to port. There is ample storage below and outboard of the settee/berths and the pilot berth is really incredible as it slides out to form a double berth that is quite comfortable for two.

Next aft to starboard is the chart table with refrigerator under. There is a unique Lye Hess fold-out counter that extends across to the sink on the port side forming a secure U-shaped functional galley with an incredible amount of counter space. The three-burner stove with oven is to port of the companionway while to starboard there is a wet locker and a perfect sea berth/quarter/berth.

12-volt lighting throughout plus three Sorensen kerosene lanterns. The interior including the cabin sole is beautifully finished in hand-rubbed teak and she is kept light and airy with bronze opening ports, butterfly hatch and sliding hatches in both the forward cabin and salon.

One of the most practical galleys in a seaway with magnificent storage, huge preparation counter and special trash bin; safety bar and safety harnesses.

• 12V Technautics refrigeration in a well-insulated box
• 3-burner Force 10 propane stove/oven with Marinetics remote solenoid switch
• Single deep S/S sink
• Foot pumps for fresh and salt water

• Datamarine Dart speed and distance l9gs
• Datamarine Dart depth sounder
• Navco TP100 tillerpilot
• Navco TP30 tillerpilot
• Bulkhead-mounted 5” Ritchie compass
• Handheld GPS
• Binoculars
• Weems & Plath clock and barometer
• Lead line depth
• Complete windvane steering system that has never been installed

• 12VDC and 110VAC systems
• (2) Group 27 batteries new 2009
• Battery parallel switch
• 20-amp Professional Mariner battery charger
• Standard Yanmar alternator
• Siemens SM-55/3.15 amp solar panel
• (2) shore power cords
• (2) AC outlets in cabin

• 35-lb CQR anchor with 200’ chain and 150’ rode
• 22-lb Danforth-type second anchor
• 5-lb lunch hook/stern anchor
• Manual bronze ABI windlass
• Canvas cover for cockpit
• Sun awning
• Covers for tiller, winches, hatches and combings
• Fatty Knees sailing dinghy
• Avon inflatable roll-up dinghy
• Running, steaming, anchor, deck and tricolor lights
• Bowsprit with bow pulpit and rails
• Dock lines and fenders
• Port and starboard boarding gates
• Swim ladder
• Lifelines and side stanchions
• Massive Sampson post
• 25-lb rode rider
• Boomkin with custom stern rail
• Custom chocks for Fatty Knees dinghy
• Fast-draining deck with wide side decks and 8’ bulwarks
• Lee cloth
• Large opening hatch above forward cabin
• Butterfly hatch above main cabin
• Bronze opening ports with screens
• Huge lazarette storage
• Outboard motor mount
• Over-sized bronze chocks and cleats
• Boomkin and boom gallows
• (4) cockpit cushions
• Solar shower in cockpit
• Mahogany bulwarks and all exterior wood well maintained with Sikkens Cetol wood finish

• Semi-displacement hull shape
• Full keel with massive external rudder
• Encapsulated lead ballast
• Solid hand-laid fiberglass built when Sam Morse ran the company and quality and pride of workmanship were at the highest level.
• Decks are fiberglass over marine ply
• Last bottom paint June 2010

• Easy to single hand!
• Fully-battened North mainsail (270 sq ft) with (3) reefs
• North genoa on Harken roller furling system
• Hank-on North staysail (134 sq ft) with (1) reef
• North drifter/gennaker
• Lazy jacks for mainsail
• Mainsail preventer system
• Mainsail sheets at boom end and sheets from either port or starboard
• Double-spreader, aluminum, keel-stepped mast repainted 2001
• S/S wire standing rigging
• All standing rigging on good condition
• (5) standard and (2) self-tailing winches: (2) bronze Barient #22-39 ST primaries; (2) bronze Barient #10 cabintop staysail winches; (3) bronze Barient #10 halyard winches on mast
• Bosun’s chair complete with block and tackle

• Racor fuel filters
• Baja fuel filter
• Cockpit engine controls
• Easy access to engine room behind companionway
• (1) fuel tank; (2) water tanks
• 2-blade prop
• Manual tiller steering
• Stove fuel shut-off valve
• Manual Whale gusher bilge pump in cockpit
• Electric bilge pump with manual/automatic switch
• Manual head with Y-valve, overboard discharge and removable bladder-type holding tank

• (3) PFDs
• (2) fire extinguishers
• MOB pole
• Jack lines
• (2) harnesses
• EPIRB
• Lifering
• Sea anchor
• Drogue
• Ditch bag

Lyle Hess designed boats to withstand the rigors of bluewater cruising, and Sam Morse built them to age gracefully and to meet all of the demands that many years and thousands of miles of passagemaking can present. Everything about the Bristol Channel Cutter exudes quality and seaworthiness. She is stout hearted and performs admirably in both light and heavy airs.

This particular vessel provides an opportunity for a discriminating buyer to purchase a well-maintained, lightly-used, one-owner vessel that is now reluctantly for sale by the 87-year-old owners. Gypsy Queen was the last BCC to be built by the Sam L. Morse factory while Sam himself was still in charge and when quality and pride of craftsmanship were at the highest level. The owners watched their vessel being built as Sam affectionately referred to her as ‘The Queen’, and she has continued to enjoy that same kind of affection and care throughout her life.

This vessel is a must-see for those who know that the Bristol Channel Cutter is built to go anywhere in the world, and this one is special as she is very clean and ready to take you to the destinations of your dreams.

All seller’s personal effects are excluded from the sale of the vessel.

The Company 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.