There has been a great deal of interest in her already. Accordingly, here is an update:Condition.The mast is off; she's under a tarpaulin and has been ashore for a little over four years. She is therefore dry. Her planks have not shifted and on launch, she will make a very spirited attempt to sink for a week straight until the timbers become pickled again in saltwater. I have been there before with her, during refits and once, for a year she was out of the water. She needs a mechanical bilge pump to handle the massive water ingress through every inch of her. Then switch to a big electic pump with a pre-set float switch to regularly activate and empty her. After five days to a week, she is completely watertight; it is amazing. This is testament to her finely constructed qualties: she is splined, not caulked. The hull therefore is sound, to the very best of my knowledge. It has always been her strength, her exquisite hull.Decks. As I said, brand-new decks, completed just before I put the tarp on four years ago. Marine ply and primer paint. Needs deck paint. There are a few minor finishing details which the carpenter did not do before I left the country, but these are relatively minor however require someone with skills to finish: toerail, bulwarks, inner forestay fitting, main hatch secure. These decks cost me £4,800. Cockpit. This is original and takes rainwater through the lazzarette hatches directly into the bilge (always has) so you have the tonneau cover on, over the cockpit, when it rains for a longer period - or if you are leaving her for the week. Personally I was going to have a shipwright redo it and and while he was doing that he could remove the only two small pieces of rot on the entire boat:-1) Starboard lazzarette, a portion of the box frame of the lazzarette is soft: any decent carpenter oould replace it in a very short time. It is NOT structural in any way. 2)  Slightly more difficult to get to, but again, not structural at all, is the plywood bulkhead between the saloon and the starbord lazarrette. There is a piece of the bulkhead that needs to be replaced, a piece about two foot square. No major problem for a decent chippy.The cockpit itself is self-draining with two holes to a Y fitting that leads the cockpit water (if any had been shipped) out through a heavy duty skin fitting, as you would expect. A new plywood cockpit sole is needed; not difficult.Interior. Good condition. Watertight. Please be aware that this is a cruiser racer and was designed and built as such. Her sections are shallow to give her the most beautiful shape. When seen from the stern, she has a wine-glass profile with a shallowish hull, leading down to an elegant keel. It is quite clear that she was designed to win races; she is slippery and fast and I have never lost a race with her in the Classics class. This does mean however, that you cannot stand up inside her, except where your head comes through the enormous main hatch. You can sit and lie down, but you can only stand up straight when the hatch is open.Below, accordingly, are two full-length bunks, a galley to port with a sink, and a chart table, starbord,  with intrument panel. Naturally the mast is keel-stepped and comes into the saloon from the deckhead. Forward of the saloon and the mast, to port, is a working heads in it's own cubicle, with a large wooden, opening hatch. Forward of that is a sail locker, forward of which is the anchor chain well and the prow. To starbord is space to rig a third full-length bunk. Aft of the chart table is that little (2) bit of rot. The plywood needs to be replaced; I have lived with it for years.Indeed I have lived aboard her, full-time, summer and winter, for eight years - and I have been delightfully happy throughout. While cooking, I had the hatch open and could therefore stand up. Even during winter, I had a tent over the boom which kept all but the most persistent weather from intruding. I got rid of the gas system because it was not safe and instead I cooked on a single burner using those little gas bottles. With a deep electric frying pan and a small electric rice cooker, I would regularly host three course dinner parties for six.Rig. A Proctor spar, probably one of the earliest alluminium examples. A real beauty: Gold-anodised, it is 7/8ths fractionally rigged with a diamond bobstay. A lovely taper to the top.All standing rigging, except the backstay has been replaced with really good wire that I obtained from a Sigma 33 that had racing plans and wanted a re-rig. I paid for it, but not as much as you might suppose. This new wire is beautiful and will last at least ten more years. As I said earlier, it is 1 mm thicker than it used to be.The backstay is sound, but I was going to replace it nearer to launch, since I had obtained a really sexy little backstay tensioner with a wheel that I wanted fitted. As is, the backstay fits perfectly and is without fault - it is just the only bit that I haven't replaced.In addition, there is an outer forestay to the masthead which would take a larger headsail for light wind reaching. This was put on retrospectively; I like it that it is there, for the extra support, but I have never flown a sail from it.Naturally, the fractional forestay is fitted with a good-sized Furlex system and works perfectly.I would personally replace all of the running rigging, however it is all sound enough, coiled and put away.She needs a new wind hawk and a new navigation and anchor light fitting. LED is obviously the way forward here.She will also new a steaming and deck light combo.She will need a new VHF arial and wire, through the mast, to connect to the brand-new GMDSS VHF transmitter I have fitted.The boom is solid, wooden and heavy. I would have replaced it sooner or later if I had ever found a suitable gold-anodised replacement, but that is a personal quirk - as is, the boom is perfectly sound, original and working. It is rather long and the mainsheet therefore comes to the bronze traveller that is aft of the cockpit - naturally.The cockpit is relatively huge. It constitudes a third of the boat length and the mainsail is surprisingly big, due to that elegantly tall spar and the longer than usual boom length. Sailing her therefore gives an extremely positive helm and is the secret to her race-winning ways. Just crack the mainsheet off a touch, sheet in the genny and, well, Va Va Voom!The tiller is very large, wooden and solid, a joy to helm with. When not in use it can hinge up and be made off to the mainsheet tackle. The cockpit then becomes a large, open, extremely convivial area. It is deep and safe whilst at sea and I have never been pooped.The principle reason for never having been pooped is due to the sexiest transom in Great Britain. It is small, elegant and well bred, having come from a generous sweeping overhang from the waterline, up. This stern of hers is universally admired and adored and never fails to stop one in one's tracks and then to gaze at it with the purist of satisfaction. It is a work or art. Indeed the whole boat is just that: a work of art; the yard owner at Partingtons, in Pwthwellhi, North Wales built the boat for his own family. He built her over four years, to a unique design by a local (Llandudno) naval architect.I have all of the paperwork, all of the correspondence between yard owner Partington and Bill Dunphy, the naval architect - all of the back-and-forth discussion about her design and build. I have all of the paperwork leading all the way back to 1964, even to the ordering and delivery of the single log that was used to make all of her planking - one single tree. It all makes fascinating reading and brings to life the yacht herself and, incidently accurately dates her and guarantees her Classic Yacht staus. She comes to you therefore with full provenance. She was launched in 1969.Essentially, therefore, the boat needs the ongoing attention of someone who is practical, mechanical and deeply caring towards this exquisite little wooden needle (LOA = 30'. Beam = 8' 6". Draught = 4' 6".) Nothing else will suffice. If you are not that person, then find someone who is, to help you. This masterpiece of a classic yacht is worth the ongoing work necessary from now. She sold in 1999 to my friend and boss at the time for £18,500. He sold her to me a year later for £13,500. The £5K difference was regarded by us both as a yearly bonus. I then spent the almost £5K for the new decks. It is time for her refit.I have given a fairly detailed overview however there are a couple of critical points still to express.Please do come to the yard, and see her and you will understand why I am so reluctant to let her go to some annonymous person. If you are too busy to do this then you are too busy to own her. I will give you all of her equipment such as sails, spare sails, fenders, lines, anchor, chain, boathook (wooden), everything else I have stored.Nick