Remarks :
Under the ownership of the current owner for the past 10 years, she has been methodically maintained and a new engine installed with full engine log maintained. The shaft was drawn in 2002 and the gland repacked. The yacht is Part 1 UK registered.

Accommodation
A spacious and comfortable interior with ample room for six people. Forecabin with forehatch over. Full length bunk to starboard, short berth to port with a heads at the aft end. Infill between to make a large double berth. Bulkhead door to saloon cabin. Long lockers each side at the forward ends of the port and starboard settee berths, lockers under, shelves behind. Chart table at the aft end of the port settee, galley at the aft end of the starboard settee with gimballed paraffin cooker. All joinery in varnished mahogany ply with solid mahogany trim. Centre steps and door to the cockpit, centre door and steps down to the aft cabin. Port and starboard full length berths with infull to make a double when required. Six foot plus headroom in the saloon and aft cabin. Separate heads compartment in the forward port corner with Blake sea toilet and basin.

Mechanical and Rigging
Hillyards of all sizes have made some remarkable blue water voyages. Planked in 1.75" mahogany all copper fastened to steamed oak timbers at 7.5'C. All timbers through the midships area built double thickness. Long external iron ballast keel with heavy oak floors in way of the keel bolts and laminated floors elsewhere. The keel bolts were last drawn in a 1994 survey. The unique design of the Hillyard 37 provides a three cabin lay-out with a deep centre cockpit all in a very strong, docile and forgiving sailing hull and they usually have a powerful engine to get you home if you are in a hurry. A new engine was installed by the present owner in 1995, a Ford Mermaid Meteor 11 57bhp 4 cylinder naturally aspirated diesel engine with PRM Delta hydraulic, single lever controlled gearbox to centre line 3 blade propeller giving 5 knots comfortable cruising speed. 60 gallon galvanised steel water tank located under the port cockpit seat/locker 60 gallon diesel steel tank under the starboard cockpit seat/locker Masthead bermudan sloop rig on varnished rectangular mast stepped in a mahogany tabernacle. Varnished roller reefing boom,sheets and tails lead to the aft end of the after coachroof and are easily accessible. Galvanised wire rigging with galvanised rigging screws to external chain plates. Mainsail and genoa (1991), reefing working jib (1999). Spinnaker.

Inventory
Sestral Moore steering compass Seafarer sounder with cockpit repeater Brookes and Gatehouse log with cockpit repeater Brookes and Gatehouse windspeed and direction meter Huson VHF Garmin 75 GPS Autohelm ST4000 fitted 1998 30lb CQR anchor; Danforth kedge anchor, manual windlass on foredeck Plastimo 4-man valise liferaft (in date until 2005) Horse-shoe life buoy Flares and fire extinguishers Floating rope type MoB device 'Old' Avon inflatable dinghy Warps and fenders Mastmate mast-climbing device Emergency tiller

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