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Belinda: This refurbished 1980s quarter tonner is a real labour of love

• December 3, 2019

Rupert Holmes looks at the latest yacht to join the highly competitive vintage quarter tonner class after a comprehensive refit and upgrade

Spending around 1,800 hours and the price of a new boat on revamping a 30-year-old 26ft keelboat might seem extraordinary, yet it’s par for the course for a quarter tonner. The enthusiasm this class inspires in its owners means that a large proportion of the fleet has benefitted from this sort of unusually throrough refit.

One of the latest to undergo the full refurb treatment is Belinda , a 1986 carbon Kevlar Gonzales custom design, which had a full makeover in the hands of John Corby. The entire project came in at a six-figure price, including sails, electronics and VAT.

“She had been built to a really high standard in a male mould and was already a very sweet boat,” explains Corby. “I had a client, Tom Hall, who at the time owned another quarter tonner [the 1977 Whiting-designed Runaway Bus ] as well as a Spirit yacht and wanted to refit a boat from scratch.

The revived quarter ton class races under IRC. Photo: Paul Wyeth

“Fortunately Tom and I aligned well in terms of what we thought was the best way to approach the project and our visions for the final outcome,” says Corby. “He wanted a boat that looks right – not all quarter tonners do – and the detailing had to be as good as possible.”

Substantial changes

The original keel was to be replaced with the Mark Mills-designed foil that has become almost standard among the reworked boats in the class. However, the original was bolted through a massive baseplate in the bilge and the keel bolts were thoroughly corroded.

The easiest solution was to cut the entire area away with a chainsaw, leaving a 1.2m (4ft) long and 0.46m (18in) wide gaping hole in the bottom of the hull.

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Dismantling of the boat didn’t stop there; all the remaining metalwork, including chainplates and deck hardware, was removed and discarded, as was the coachroof. Below decks the bunk fronts and a partial bulkhead are all that remains of the original interior.

There’s a new substantial grid in the floor to take the keel loads, as well as a vee girder joining the partial bulkheads underneath the mast step to add strength and stiffness to this part of the boat. “In all there is a huge amount of new structure around the keel, the mast and the chainplates,” says Corby.

To optimise the feel in the helm he also wanted the keel to be slightly forward of its original position. “Over the past 30 years mainsails have become much flatter,” he explains. “Designers used to struggle to reduce weather helm, but now you can be struggling to achieve enough feel.”

The asymmetric tack line emerges from just below the bow, which gives a better lead to the end of the pole

The boat has a slightly smaller sail area than some others in the class, reflecting that as a relatively late custom build (the majority of quarter tonner new builds were launched between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s) the structure is light, and even with 120kg of lead in the bilge the displacement will be around 50kg lighter (more than three per cent) than most of the other top boats in the fleet. However, the new carbon boom has been made over-length, so that additional area could be added.

One indication of the attention to detail that has gone into this boat is that, while most replacement coachroofs are fairly slab-sided and flat-topped, Corby and his team produced a one-off curved design that both looks better and is stiffer. It’s around half the height and much narrower than the original, which allows for a 6.5° headsail sheeting angle without the need for inhaulers.

Another example is the deck and sheer line around the front stanchion, which had a noticeable dip, as was common for IOR boats of the period. This was faired in with around 10-12mm of foam. In addition, the whole hull-deck joint was ground back, rounded off, and faired, while the new chainplates are composite.

A key decision was whether or not to move the rudder post forward. In the end it was decided to keep it in its original position

One new idea is the lateral compression post through the coachroof at deck level, which helps to prevent the rig squeezing the hull inwards at the chainplates. This is a hollow carbon structure, so control lines can also be run through it. Even the instrument pod on the mast is custom made in carbon, shaped to fit the individual instruments.

Creating complex deck layouts is easy, but it’s a much harder task to simplify them without compromising on the ability to control sail shape. Nevertheless, Belinda ’s layout is much more streamlined than the original. Jib halyard tension, for instance, is controlled by a tack downhaul, with a block and tackle system used to provide purchase.

Similarly, the lateral curved jib car tracks and narrow coachroof avoid the need for inhaulers. The jib car controls are crossed over so everything can be operated from the rail, and jib sheets can be taken to either the leeward primary winch, or to windward.

The curved transverse jib cars. Note the control lines that run through the athwartships compression post under the coachroof, the square end of which can be seen here

The spinnaker bag in the companionway is mounted on an upside down jib track to make it easier to slide back and forth. As well as competing in quarter ton class events, which ban asymmetric kites, Belinda has also been taking part in other races such as the Round the Island Race and Cowes Week , which don’t have that restriction.

There is therefore provision for using an asymmetric spinnaker with twin spinnaker halyards to make it possible to peel to a different sail. The tack line exits in the bow a few inches below the forestay chainplate, creating a perfect lead to the ends of the spinnaker pole, which is 350mm longer than the J (base of the foretriangle) measurement.

Corby identifies this as being one of the most challenging bits of the project. “Structural stuff doesn’t faze me,” he says. “The big hole in the bottom of the boat after we cut the keel out was little different to building a boat from scratch. But the painting and fairing was relentless.”

A detailed inspection of Belinda ’s hull and deck after weeks of long boarding and fairing revealed it was not absolutely perfect, so an extra 40 hours of sanding was added to the work schedule. The end result is stunning.

Specification

LOA: 7.74m (25ft 4in) LWL: 5.69m (18ft 8in) Beam: 2.70m (8ft 10in) Draught: 1.65m (5ft 5in) Displacement: 1,341kg (2,956lb) Headsail area: 14.85m 2 (159.8ft 2 ) Spinnaker area: 45.46m 2 (489.3ft 2 )

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Quarter Tonner by JOUBERT, 1/4 tonner

€18,000

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• Reference ID 501
• Builder One-Off
• Model Quarter tonner Joubert
• Joubert Nivelt
• Location Spain
• L.O.A. (mtr) 7.77
• Beam (mtr) 2.75
• Draft (mtr) 1.534
• Displacement (Kg) 1314
• Engine Renault

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Proto Quarter ton designed by Michel JOUBERT and built in Sandwich carbon-Kevlar 

1/4 tonner in very good condition, she had a full refit in 2018

• 2 folding blades propeller
• Antifouling Hempel SlicOne February 2020
• New hull paint Riveryachtcoating feb. 2020
• Standing rig full dyform 2018
• Main One Sails Vector3 2019
• Main for training / transport good condition
• Genoa 1 130% One Sails 2020
• Genoa 2 110% Quantum, old
• Genoa 3 105% dacron, old, good condition
• Spi large Quantum, Perfect condition
• Midium medium Quantum, good condition
• Spi small, old

Deck and Cockpit

Deckhardware renewed totally 2018

Complete electrical system 2018

• Mastervolt battery charger
• Two Bosch 2018 batteries
• Navigation lights and masthead
• LED interior lighting

Electronics and Navigational Gear

Autopilot Raymarine St6000

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.

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• Designer: David Thomas
• Builder: Fank Hoare
• Location: Hants
• Length on deck: 28'
• Tonnage: 1680kg

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Designed by David Thomas as a one-off Quarter Tonner racing yacht, built by Bob Hoare in 1975.  Hoare was well known for building fast racing boats Gold Medal winning Flying Dutchman ‘Superdocious’ for Rodney Pattison.

Proved to be a very fast and competitive boat over decades of racing.  Her most recent IRC Rating from 2016 was 0.866 which gives her a favourable handicap compared to the majority of Quarter Tonner yachts.

Light enough to be towed on the road, she comes with a double axle trailer.

An interesting, competitive and slightly unusual boat which could be back racing this summer with relatively little effort.

Length on Deck                 28’

Beam                                    9’

Draft                                      5’

Weight                                   1680kg

Construction

Cold moulded hull made from 3 layers of mahogany all bonded with epoxy.  The inner 2 layers are double diagonal with a full length fore and aft layer on the outside.

5 longitudinal stringers each side of the internal hull with 2 structural plywood bulkheads.

Fin and bulb ballast keel of 1550kg with a lead bulb.  Fastened with stainless keel bolts.

Yacht laid teak decks epoxy glued to a marine plywood subdeck with full length teak planks.  Varnished mahogany coverboard with stainless stanchions.

Low coachroof with varnished mahogany coamings and a sheathed plywood coachroof deck.

Lewmar forehatch with a well in the bow.

Open backed cockpit with a teal laid sole.

Blade rudder with a laminated wooden tiller.

Fractional ¾ bermudan sloop rig on a deck stepped alloy mast with alloy slab reefing boom.

Spars are Proctor spars, mast, boom and spinnaker pole.

Stainless steel standing rigging to internal stainless chain plates.  Lower and upper shroud each side with swept back spreaders.  Adjustable single standing backstay.

Twin groove Tuff Luff on the forestay.

Full wardrobe of sails of varying ages used for racing in the past.  Possible that a new owner would wish to replace these with new sails if the boat is to be raced competitively again.

Pair of Lewmar 25 non-self tailing cockpit sheet winches

Pair of Lewmar 7 non-self tailing winches on the coachroof deck with clutches for the running rigging.

Mariner 4hp 4 stroke outboard engine from 2002 mounts on a stainless frame over the stern.

Accommodation

6 berths including 2 saloon settee berths and 4 pipecot berths.

Companion hatch with a step down into the saloon.

Saloon settee berth either side with a pipecot pilot berth either side under the side deck.

2 pipecot berths can be rigged aft under the cockpit.

Joinery either side at the forward end of the main cabin with lockers under the side deck with louvered doors.

Centreline door into the forepeak which is used for storage and the Porta Potti heads compartment.

Ritchie steering compass

Raymarine ST60 depth, speed, wind

2 x CQR anchors

Horse shoe life buoy

2 burner camping gas cooker

Porta Potti 335 chemical toilet

Bunk and berth cushions

2 x Lewmar 25 winches

2 x Lewmar 7 winches

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