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Classic Colin Archer design, VILDE is a strongly built and beautifully maintained wooden cruiser. Perfect for long-distance cruising with a storied history and robust construction, she's an ideal vessel for those seeking both adventure and comfort on the seas.
FURTHER BROKER’S COMMENTS:
Launched in 1982, to an original 1902 Colin Archer design commissioned for a Danish physician, VILDE was built by Norway’s legendary traditional boat yard - Hardanger fartøyvernsenter.
Unmistakably a Colin Archer design with her canoe-stern, full-length keel, and topsail-rigged gaff cutter sailplan, VILDE is extremely strongly built using 2” Norwegian oak planks over frames with her top strake, deck and everything above completed in 2” unvarnished Burma teak.
Purchased by her current owners in 1998, VILDE has been used for serious offshore adventures including multiple crossings of the Atlantic in both low and high latitudes and has more recently returned to her build yard for an extensive refit to modernise her sail-handling, navigation, close-quarters manoeuvring and cruising comfort.
Her specification highlights include:-
• Oak on oak construction with 2” teak deck
• Solid teak interior joinery
• Full-length keel with lead ballast and fully supported rudder
• Norwegian Spruce gaff-rigged mast with topsail
• Retractable Oregan Pine bowsprit to reduce LOA in port
• Cutter rig with furler for running jib and jib-boom for working jib
• Andersen electric main halyard winch
• Lewmar self-tailing primary winches
• Doyle Dacron sails
• Hydraulic servo-steering system
• Monitor windvane self-steering system
• Sabb (Mitsubishi) 72hp diesel engine with shaft drive and 2 or 3 bladed propellers
• Sleipner Sidepower bowthruster
• Raymarine autopilot
• Simrad chartplotter
• B&G sailing instruments
• Lithium-Ion service batteries
• Shorepower
• Hot & cold pressurised fresh water
• Plumbing for watermaker
• Vacuum heads with holding tank
• Seawater cooled refrigeration
• Eberspacher hot-air diesel heating
• Webasto 10kw engine-supplied hot-air blower heating
• Electric anchor windlass
• Sprayhood
• Tender and outboard
• 6-man liferaft
Note - VILDE is Norwegian registered and taxes paid.
OWNER’S COMMENTS:
We bought VILDE in January 1998 and spent the following year preparing her for an Atlantic cruise with the kids which we performed in in the 1999 to 2000.
We had a fantastic trip across Atlantic to the Caribbean where we cruised among the islands for a couple of months before going north via the intercoastal waterway to New York and Boston. We then went to Newfoundland and visited the old Viking settlement before crossing to Greenland.
Crossing the Davis Strait to Greenland we were hit by a storm with 26 m/s winds and 10 m waves but the boat performed perfectly.
We spent 5 weeks in complete sunshine in Greenland waters among humongous icebergs, whales and seals, before crossing back to Norway via Ireland. We repeated a similar trip with our grandkids in 2018-19
We then went directly to the boatyard in Hardanger for a complete photo-documented refurbishment. We splined all the strakes across above the waterline, re-caulking the rest of the hull. We also removed the front and stern stem from that original fusion at the waterline. At the deck the old Sikaflex was removed and the boat was re-caulked with cotton, then primed twice and new Sikaflex was filled in. The total cost for the refurbishment was 1 million NOK (approx. Euro 87,000).
VILDE it is not the typical Colin Archer design as she is approx. 12.25m feet long (LOD) but only 3.60 cm wide, meaning she’s quite narrow. This gives her excellent sailing capabilities and on longer crossings, such as the Atlantic, we saw an average of 6 knots, with a record run of 192Nm in one 24hr period, giving her an average of 8 knots in 29 knots of wind.
Living on board a wooden boat like VILDE is very different from a modern boat. Firstly, being in the warm tropics we experienced a cool boat during the night because of her thick solid oak hull which also kept cool during the daytime because of her white hull.
Her 2-inch-thick teak deck and thick hull kept her very cozy and warm in the Arctic with close to freezing water temperatures. In addition, during heavy sailing her thick wooden construction keeps her very quiet inside, and as an example of this is that the kids were sitting down below playing chess during the storm crossing the Davis Strait.
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
RCD Status:
• Our understanding is that the vessel is exempt from the European Union’s Recreational Craft Directive as she was first placed into service within EEA waters prior to June 1998.
Hull & Deck Construction:
• Oak construction with 2” Norwegian oak planking over Norwegian oak frames – re-caulked 2020
• 2” Burma teak laid side decks
• White painted topsides - 2020
Keel & Rudder:
• Full length keel profile with fully supported rudder blade
• Approx 5,000kgs lead ballast (plus a further 2-300kgs moveable internal trimming ballast)
• Rudder blade overhauled 2020 with addition of stainless steel reinforcing plates
MACHINERY
Engine & gearbox:
• Sabb (Mitsubishi) 4-cylinder diesel engine producing approx. 72hp
• Shaftdrive gearbox.
• Fresh water engine cooling via raw water intake and heat exchanger
Maintenance & Performance:
• Engine hours – approx. 5,500hrs as of Summer 2024
• Date of last engine service: Spring 2024
Propulsion & Steering:
• 2-bladed fixed propeller on stainless steel shaft
• Spare 3-bladed propeller
• Sleipner Sidepower 24vDC 110kg bowthruster with control in cockpit and further handheld remote control – 2019
• Tiller steering with direct connection to rudder.
• Brattvaeg hydraulic servo-assist steering system will be spplied
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
Voltage systems:
• 12vDC primary domestic system with 12vDC start circuit and 220vAC via shorepower
Battery Banks:
• 200Ah Lithium-Ion service battery - 2021
• 12vDC engine start battery – 2024
• 24vDC windlass and bowthruster
• Victron battery monitoring system
Alternators:
• 12vDC pluss 24vDC engine mounted alternators
Shore Power:
• 220vAC shorepower connection - 2018
PLUMBING & GAS SYSTEMS
Fresh Water:
• 12vDC high pressure fresh water pump system
• Hot water supplied via engine cooling with calorifier or via 220vAC immersion heater element from shore power
• Hot & cold pressurised water to galley, heads and cockpit shower
• Plumbing for fitment of watermaker
Bilge Pumps:
• 12vDC automatic bilge pump
• Manual bilge pump
Seacocks:
• Composite skin-fittings throughout – 2018
• Stainless steel skin-fitting for engine inlet
TANKAGE
Fuel:
• Approx 300 litres fuel capacity in 1x tank
Fresh Water:
• Approx 300 litre freshwater capacity in 2x tanks
Holding Tanks:
• Approx 80 litre blackwater holding tank discharging to sea or via deck extraction
NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
• Simrad NSE8 8” colour GPS chart plotter and radar display – 2012
• B&G Triton multi-display with wind, speed and depth transducers – 2018
• Raymarine autopilot – 2018
• Steering compass
Communications Equipment:
• Shipmate VHF with DSC
• AIS
DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT
Galley:
• Techimpex 2-burner gimballed gas stove with oven
• Twin stainless steel sinks with pressurised and manual fresh water supplies
• Isotherm refrigeration with 12vDC seawater cooled compressor - 2018
Heads
• Lavac 12vDC vacuum heads - 2004
Heating & Ventilation:
• Eberspächer Airtronic 4kw diesel-fired hot air cabin heating system - 2017
• Isotherm 10kw hot air blower connected to engine - 2020
ACCOMMODATION
Summary of Accommodation:
• Up to 8 berths in two cabins plus saloon.
• Forward guest cabin with three single bunks
• Saloon with twin settee berths and outboard single bunk
• Aft cabin with double berth
• Head aft
Accommodation Finish:
• Teak interior joinery
• Teak floors
• White painted wood headlinings
• Cloth upholstery
• Curtains
DECK EQUIPMENT
Rig:
• Topsail gaff-rigged cutter
• Mast – Norwegian Spruce. Hollow. 17.6m height – 2017
• Timber boom
• Retractable bowsprit – Oregon Pine. Hollow for 2/3rd length with bronze sliding rods – 2020
• Bobstay fitting – 2020
• Standing rigging – 2020
• Furlex manual flying jib furler – 2019
• Boom for jib
Winches:
• 2x Lewmar 50ST 2-speed manual self-tailing primary winches
• 2x Gibb 40 manual secondary winches
• 1x Andersen 46ST 2-speed electric self-tailing mainsail halyard winch - 2017
• 2x Gibb 2-speed self-tailing manual reefing winches on boom
• 2x Gibb halyard winches on mast
Sail Wardrobe:
• Doyle/Brodersen Dacron battened gaff mainsail with 3-reefing points - 2017
• Doyle/Brodersen Dacron gaff topsail – 15sqm - 2017
• Doyle/Brodersen Dacron furling running jib – 32sqm - 2019
• Doyle/Brodersen Dacron boom-mounted hank-on working jib – 22sqm - 2017
General:
• Guardwires with stanchions
• Teak-capped bulwarks
• Glazed skylight above saloon
• Dorade vents
• Cockpit table
• Boarding ladder
Anchoring & Mooring:
• Lofrans Flakon 24vDC 1,700w reversing anchor windlass with rope and chain gypsies - 2020
• 42kgs CQR anchor with 60m 13mm chain
• 50kgs Fishermans anchor
• Mooring lines, anchor, lines, and fenders included.
Covers, Cushions & Canvas:
• Mainsail cover
• Working jib cover
• Sprayhood
Tender & Outboard:
• Inflatable 10 foot tender
• Yamaha 4hp 2-stroke outboard
SAFETY EQUIPMENT:
General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as liferafts, Epirbs, fire extinguishers and flares etc. are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on-board as part of the sale of a used vessel may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owners specific needs.
• Viking 6-man liferaft – 2018