1998 Custom Built Aluminum Cutter Cruiser, 10 500 GBP

Remarks :
Sandy is a truly individual 8m aluminium cutter cruiser, built in Brittany in 1998 to a John Sadler design. Constructed with an unsinkable foam-filled hull and twin swing keels, she offers an unusual combination of shallow-water capability, sailing performance and practical cruising. She has been exceptionally well maintained and has benefited from an impressive programme of upgrades, including renewed standing and running rigging, a new mainsail, hull repaint, upgraded electrics and navigation equipment, new batteries and wiring, gearbox service, new prop shaft and numerous engine works. With comfortable accommodation for three, a well-appointed interior, beaching legs and an extensive sail inventory including a cruising asymmetric spinnaker and storm trysail, Sandy is a fascinating and capable little cruiser, ready for her next adventure.


Accommodation :
Accommodation for up to 3 persons
Main cabin with 2 single berths
Additional quarter berth
Comfortable interior with good headroom
High-quality wooden lockers and storage
Galley positioned within the main cabin
Dedicated navigation table
Large sliding skylight providing excellent natural light
Small enclosed WC compartment Chemical toilet
Galley sink Single-ring alcohol cooker
Cutlery and crockery included
Heavy-duty interior soft furnishings
Interior cushions reupholstered in 2024  
70-litre aluminium freshwater tank
Shore power connection


Inventory :
Sails & Rigging 

Mainsail - new in 2023
Spare mainsai
Furling jib
Storm trysail
Crossing asymmetric spinnaker  

Standing rigging renewed in 2022
Running rigging renewed in 2022
Plastimo roller furler for jib installed in 2025
Bowsprit re-rigged with wires from GS products and dynemma - 2024

Harken winches
Aluminium custom made mast by Technique Gremeni
Fully orientable bowsprit 

Deck equipment 

Tiller steering
Fully supported rudder
Harken manual winches
3 x anchors
3 x sets of anchor chain and rope
Fenders
Beaching legs
Seadek foredeck covering done - 2022
Full winter cover - 2023
Rebuilt sliding coach roof with Iroko rails - 2026


Navigation Equipment 

Raymarine Axiom 7 inch plotter - 2022
Cobra DSC VHF - 2022
Depth sounder, log / speed unit - 2022
Garmin GPS 128 plotter
Autopilot


Mechanical :
Construction

1998
Aluminum, Cutter Cruiser
Aluminium Hull with twin swing keels
Hull repainted in 2023 Mechanical

Yanmar 1 GN single cylinder
Diesel Engine
Raw Water Cooled
Stainless Steel 70 litres tank Stbd Midships
Stainless steel shaft, fitted with a Volvo inboard seal and a water lubricated stern seal

Gearbox serviced - 2024
New prop shaft - 2024
Fixed prop - 2024

Engine serviced - 2026
New exhaust valve, new stainless steel exhaust elbow, cylinder head machined - 2026
Electrical 

2 X batteries - 2025
Solar Panel
Shore power connection Victron galvanic isolator