Beam :   2.80 m (9,4 ft)
Draft  :   2.10 m (6,9 ft)

Displ. :  16 ton-kg
 
 

Build :           Phillips & Sons of Dartmouth, 1935

Designer :      Laurent Giles Design Nr. 13

Construction : Philips & Sons Dartmouth 1935

Refitted :       Sangermani, superstructure, 1978?, according designer's office.

Rig :              Cutter Sloop

Pictures : 1936, Beken of Cowes : 20465, 20467

Material :

Pitch pine, grenen huid

Oak Frames

Oak keel-dead-wood with new stainless steel frames (316) to support the oak frames of the hull.

All cupper nails and bolts are original.

Only those in the planks around the keel-dead-wood are changed by A4 stainless steel nails and bolts.

Deck : Teak, new in 1996, recaulked in 2002

Interior : Teak en Mahony

Drink-water capacity : 230 ltr. In Stainless steel tanks.

Fuel - Diesel: 90 Ltr

Engine: Lombardinie 2002

HELEN is:

- Easy to sail by 1 person.

- Gives comfortable space for 4 - 6 persons.

- A beautiful immaculate maintained price-winning classic.

- As we are informed, the eldest sailing Laurent Gilles desing present.

- She is better then new and ready for sail for another 60 years.

- A beautifull classic sloop, with a large rig for here length and an aft heeling

  mast, which is the reason she beats most standard new plastic fantastisc

  bathtubes, upon till 51 ft, easily.

- Designed for South English coastal sailing, without an engine and able to

  point high to the wind.