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Easticks 28

£24,000

Overview

Designed by Neil Hunt, 'Joy' is a well-presented Easticks 28 is a rare custom-ordered Broads River Cruiser with an impressive racing history and exceptional sailing performance. Powered by a new E-propulsion electric pod drive and battery (2025), with a 3.5hp Tohatsu outboard as backup, she offers quiet, efficient cruising alongside traditional sailing charm.

Her gaff rig with integrated topsail, solid spruce spars, and well-maintained Jeckells sails deliver excellent performance, particularly in light to moderate winds. Known as one of the fastest Easticks 28s on the Broads, she is a Three Rivers Race “First Boat Home” winner and multiple regatta trophy holder.

The yacht features a GRP hull with coppercoat, epoxy decks, and a custom shallow-draft aerofoil keel and rudder, making her both low maintenance and highly capable on the Broads. Below deck, the single cabin comfortably sleeps up to five across two doubles and one single berth, with a cockpit cooking setup and practical cruising amenities.

With her large cockpit, lifting cabin roof, and extensive refit by Adams of Belaugh, this distinctive and much-loved cruiser is ideal for both family Broads cruising and competitive RCC racing. Ready to sail away and enjoy, she represents a rare opportunity to own a proven and beautifully maintained Easticks 28.

Price:

£24,000

Hull Material: 

GRP

Displacement:

-

Boat Model/Make:

Easticks 28

Boat Details

Year Built:

1986

Max Speed:

-

Cruising Speed:

-

Max Speed:

-

Engine HP:

-

Engine Hours:

-

LAO (metres):

10.36 m

Boat Size: 

34 ft

Beam:

2.5 m

Draft:

1.07 m

Fuel Capacity:

-

Water Capacity:

-

Holding Tank:

-

Location

Potter Heigham, Great Yarmouth NR29, UK

Full Specs, Equipment and Information

Designer:
- Neil Hunt

Make & Model:
- Easticks 28 (1986)

Engine:
- New E-propulsion electric engine pod and battery (2025)
- 3.5hp Tohatsu 2-stroke petrol outboard motor (Serviced May 2023)

Sails:
- Mailsail (3 Reef Points) (Jeckells 2004 – Good Condition)
- Second Mainsail
- Jib (2008 – Good Condition)
- Jib (2022 – Jeckells – Used Once)

Rigging:
- Gaff Rig (Integral Topsail)
- Solid Spruce Mast, Boom and Gaff
- Aluminium Topsail Spar
- Counter-Balanced Mast
- Steel Standing Rigging (Good Condition)
- Synthetic Running Rigger (Good Condition)
- 2 x Lewmar Sheet Winches (Additional Winch at Mast)
- Harken Blocks

Construction:
- GRP Hull
- Orignal Gel Coat
- Epoxied and Copper Coated (No Anti Fouling)
- Custom Built Shallow Draft Aerofoil Keel
- Custom Built GRP Aerofoil Rudder (2020)
- Epoxy Decks (Painted 2021)
- Solid Mahogany Cabin Sides and Cockpit
- Lifting Cabin Roof
- New Teak and Holly Cockpit Floor (2020)
- Full Professional Refit (2005 – Adams of Belaugh)
- Hull Cut and Polish (2023)
- Varnished Rubbers, Toe-Rails, Bowsprit, Sampson Post (2023)

Electronics:
- 12v Heavy Duty Leisure Battery (2021)
- DC Master Isolation Switch
- DC Fuse Panel

Accommodation:
- Cabins: 1
- Berths: 5 – 2 x Double, 1 x Single
- Head1: Portaloo
- Cockpit Table
- 12V Cabin Lights
- New Berth Cushions (Jeckells 2022)
- Cockpit Cushions
- 2 Burner Stove (Cockpit Lockers)

Safety Equipment:
- BSS (Expires May 2026)
- Emergency Ladder
- Fire Extinguisher
- 12V Bilge Pump
- Manual Bilge Pump

Covers and Awnings:
- Full-Length Lightweight Mooring Cover (Excellent Condition)
- Tonneau Mooring Cover (Excellent Condition)

Additional Equipment:
- Outboard Bracket
- Quant Pole
- High and Low Boom Crutches
- Mud Weight
- Rhond Anchors
- Various Warps
- New Fenders (2022)

Comments:
A Three Rivers Race winner, this very well presented and maintained Easticks 28 Broads River Cruiser Class yacht is one of only a handful of custom designed and Easticks 28 built to special order. She benefits from a large, extra length cockpit which can easily accommodate 5 adults, though 2 can sail her comfortably, and she has a single cabin with berths to accommodate 5 adults and cooking facilities provided in the cockpit. She is rigged with an integrated topsail which has been optimised to provide superb sailing enjoyment and performance in a wide range of wind conditions and is particularly good in light/medium winds. Having enjoyed much success in both river and broad regattas, she is renowned for being one of the fastest Easticks 28s on the Broads! Her owner states that “Joy has a fantastic rig and keel and sails impeccably”. With her copper coated hull and epoxy decks, she is also a very low maintenance yacht, with very low hours required to get her ready each season – usually a hull clean and polish, and re-varnish of rubbers and mast is all that is required. This is a rare opportunity to own a well known and distinctive river cruiser, which is equally suited to family Broads cruising or RCC racing. She is ready to go, sail away and enjoy

Racing Pedigree:
- Three Rivers Race Winner (1992) for “First Boat Home”
- Ames Cup (TMOR)
- Yare Navigation Race Overall including the Jeckells Trophy
- Two times winner of the Sabrina Trophy
- Two times winner of the Claret Jug
- Mora Trophy (Three Rivers)
- Two times winner of the Balderston Fife
- Buckworth Trophy (Wroxham Week B Fleet)
- Two times winner of Autumn Trophy Down River Race
- Satyr Cup (Wroxham Week B Fleet)
- Simon Kremer Memorial Trophy (Wroxham Week)

Agent Details

Matthew Taylor

07557 097597

Disclaimer

Hinds Taylor Yacht Brokers 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. Any buyer should instruct his or her agent, or their 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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