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We now have  all the 3Tonner drawings  scanned and on CD

 and  will send a CD to you, at cost, £5.00 UK and £6.50 overseas.

 

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Also Featured on this page are some of the many other designs  by Alan Buchanan.

There is also an owners assoc.

Including!

This is the Neptune and Neptunian range, from an advert in an old Y.M.

I have some friends, ex colleagues, who sail one out of Ramsgate!

 

 

'Brie' This was in the ownership of Robert Ford of Knibworth, is he still the owner we wonder?
 
 

Does anyone know this boat? There is a possibility that it is the same boat as in the black and white pictures. Interesting to note there is an Eventide and a Waterwitch in the background.
 

 

  
 

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We think this is a 3Tonner, can anybody tell, Mike Ash would like to know!

May 2010 Mike has been back, it is a 3 Tonner and he bought it, she is called 'Petite Fleur' now moored in Cornwall.
 
 

Alan H. Buchanan 10 Metre.
 
 
 
 

De Ruyter Class Motor sailer.  'Santiago'

We have just heard from  Roby and Marick, the owners of 'Santiago', apparently the boat is ok after Hurricane Dean  passed through Martinique, 16.08.07.  They have her ashore now repairing the steel plate hull.   Hope to hear more from them soon.

 

 
     
 

Details of Alan's De Ruyter class boat.
 
 
 
 

Kayann Built 1991/2 in iroko with ¾” thick planking, bronze-fastened and glued, based on the Alan Buchanan YM 3-tonner design, but with m/h rig, lead keel, s/d cockpit, side decks. Double-skinned transom. Teak deck, coachroof, cabin sole, cockpit sole.
 
 
 
  The 3 Tonner 'Sanderling' owned by Mike Field. The boat (and Mike) are based in Australia.

You make know Mike from www.woodenboatfittings.com (see our links page)
     
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  This picture and the two below, have just been sent in by Mike.  they are of the building, as 'Hilda D' and show the strip planking and  other details of the construction. Dated 1972/3
     
   
     
   
 
 
 
   I believe this is another 3 Tonner, this pic was taken in 'Crocketts Bay'  any clues.??

December 2006, we think we have the answer. 'Duyfken' 

     
          These were taken from the web, November 06,  where she was for sale. in South Australia.  who owns her now?
     
  Same boat as above I think?
     
  And again.
     
  Here we have the skipper in 'Port Phillip Bay'  Come on do not be shy who owns this beautiful craft now.    I found these files in my pile of discs, but I have mislaid the details on the owner.
 
 
 
  Alan Buchanan 'Yeoman'
     
  'Martooni' This beautiful Mk II Yeoman dates from 1958 and was featured in PBO November 2008.  Pic from PBO. 

 
    PBO list some of the other designs by Alan as, the Halcyon 23 and 27, the Wind Elf, MkII, the GRP Queen class, a development of the timber 'Vashti' and the Neptune and Nantucket class boats.
 
 
 
  'Sparrow' ready to launch back in 1975!  Built at Tim's yard on the Thames at Staines.  Nick never got to grips with her sailing, but a later owner took all the Club silver home with her!
     
   This is 'Sparrow' taken in Lymington 1978.  the owner at the time was Nick Entract, I remember him...   He would dearly like to know where Sparrow is today, can you help?  Contact Nick at  n.entract at ntlworld.com   I have just mailed Nick, Nov 06!
     
  'Sparrow' up for sale! November 06.  the former owner, Bryan has just bought the next vessel in the gallery. 'Blue Waves'.  Bryan is one of our latest registrants Nov 06.
 
 
 
   'Blue Waves' a Buchanon  Wind Elf design
 
 
 
  'Floray' For years I have admired this vessel, sailed by Mike and Heather Gager out of Tollesbury, here she is out of water to reveal her Buchanan lines!  I will have to get one of her under sail, she is a picture! Thanks to J. Stevens for this pic, of her ashore at Tollesbury Sailing Club.
 
 
 
   I have been looking for a suitable boat for my daughter, I have been offered a boat, that looks to be highly suitable, a 'SeaFarer'.  Turns out she was designed by Alan Buchanan!  A nicer little day boat I have yet to find!  ( Sadly I did not buy it, too expensive, and too far away, but I have found her a boat designed by none other than Uffa Fox!)

  'Escapade', belongs to friends of ours in the Scillies.... 

 
 
 
       Two more 'SeaFarers' found on the net! No names to these ones, but the last shows she is a gutsy little boat, any owners coming forward?  There are apparently a lot of these little boats in Pembrokeshire and the South west of England.... found 2 in Burnham on Crouch...  not for sale though...
 
 
 
  'Panda'.   A SeaFarer!  August 2007, just purchased by Chris Reed, who has joined us. He bought this for £10.00 so he tells me!  there is a bargain I missed!
     
  Yes she is in need of a little TLC, but the hull is GPR and the woodwork is manageable. Hope to see her sailing before too long!
 

 

 
   East Anglian 'One Design'?.  'Hippocampus'  another of Alan's successful designs.

September 2009.

First of all I enjoyed looking at your very nice website, as I’m a fan of Alan Buchanan’s designs and wooden boats in general.

 Just a note to say that the East Anglian couldn’t be classed as a one-design as there are slight variations to coach roofs  and other small differences, and so was designated the East Anglian restricted class.

I am also particularly pleased to see the photograph of Hippocampus, as my family used to own her  in the early 1980s. She is a mark one East Anglian with a Clyde Cruising Club coach roof (stops before the mast), and was built at St Osyth in the 1960s . Hippocampus is iroko on oak below the waterline and mahogany topsides.

 I don’t know if this information is of any use but thought I’d get in touch.

 

Regards and Best Wishes,

Roger H. Harman (MMØBRG)
 
 
 
 
  'Humbug'  Great name for a 3 Tonner! for sale on the net, hope the new owner joins us to give more details. Found by J. S. of course.
 
 
 
  Another found on the net for sale, by J. S., on boats and Outboards site.
 
 
 
  'Aelfwyn'  a Buchanan designed 'Saxon' class I now have been informed, by the owner, Timothy.  She was snapped in the Blackwater near to the Nass beacon,  September 2007.  Unmistakably an Alan Buchanan! Timothy has been in touch to add a few details. She was raced by Alan Buchanan in Burnham Week, 1961 and did very well apparently!
     
  She was in Belgian ownership for some years and raced from Oostende, then registered in Australia!  Tim has owned her for the last 3 years.

As she slowly sailed away from me I could not resist taking a pic of that stern!
 

 

 
  'Zanzibar'     A 3 Tonner.  Mike is writing up a page on the restorers section for her, click here to go there.
 
 
 
  This Buchanan design was spotted  for sale on the web October 2008 by John Stevens.  I had no idea Alan designed clinker boats.  anyone know anything about her?
 

 

 
     
     
     
     
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