1984 Bristol Channel Cutter 28

The Kelsea is built with uncompromising quality and fully renewed over the past few years, she shows like a new boat. New engine, standing rigging, wiring and much more make this BCC ready to cruise the world. Exquisitely finished bright-work and bronze fittings provide for an appealing exterior finish. 

With a bowsprit and boomkin (38'2" LOA), long keel and nearly vertical stem, the Bristol Channel Cutter sails impressively well and is world renowned as a high end pocket cruiser.  

All the way forward is a chain locker / sail locker. This is followed by the enclosed forward head and workbench area. There is a centerline manual toilet under a lift seat and a pull out sink (which cleverly drains into the head) with pressure water. Next aft is the main salon with a centerline table with a fold up leaf on starboard. To port of the table is a settee with storage behind an upper pullout berth with storage and bookshelves outboard. 

Aft is the galley on the port side and the chart table / navigation station on starboard. The primary electric panel is all the way aft above the engine compartment. Next to this is a hanging wet locker. Extending aft under the cockpit on starboard is a comfortable quarter berth. 

There is a bulkhead mounded Weems and Plath barometer, clock and oil lamp, four cabin fans, a Newport Dickinson propane heater and a chart storage cabinet in the quarter-berth overhead. New interior cushion foam on settees and berths. Headroom is 6'2". 

Kelsea also has a hot water heater in the lazarette and spray nozzle with faucet for showers in cockpit. Two water tanks 65 gal total (25gal & 40gal) combined with the Katadyn water maker offer ample fresh water aboard. 

An L-shaped galley is immediately to port upon entering the cabin. A single stainless steel sink with hot and cold pressure water, freshwater manual foot pump, Force 10 range, oven and broiler, all new aluminum propane tanks and new fuel lines. 

Ample storage is provided by lockers, cabinets, and shelves. Opposite the galley is a chart table with a top loading icebox underneath. The galley has additional counter top space with a special diner-style flip up countertop extender that mates to the chart table. 

Beta B25 engine installed new in 2019 and is still under warranty. All mechanical systems gone through, hoses replaced, wiring renewed. Since purchased by current owner in 2018 the boat has gone through a complete cosmetic and mechanical renewal. 

• Bronze three bladed Austral propeller
• Cockpit engine controls
• Engine alarm
• Fresh water cooling on engine
• Electric fuel lift pump for bleeding fuel system
• 2-1/2 gallon day tank
• Handheld fire extinguishers
• Manual head with holding tank and overboard discharge
• Tiller steering with Aries wind vane. Tiller easily removed to open up cockpit
• Dedicated space for Katadyn Power Survivor water maker (thru-hull already installed.)
• Four new seacocks. 

Electronics

• Furuno CP-1871F GPS/plotter/depth. 
• Widelink B6000W AIS transponder with silent switch and antenna splitter 
• Raymarine I60 wind instrument mounted on swing bracket
• Standard Horizon Eclipse GX1400 GPS/E VHF radio
• Raymarine Tiller Pilot with wireless remote
• Connections for iPad navigation
• USB charging ports throughout the boat
• Emergency VHF Antenna 

• All wiring and circuitry renewed since 2018
• 110 volt AC and 12 volt DC systems
• Two Lifeline 120 amp hour AGM house bank batteries totaling 240 AH
• One Lifeline 120 amp hour starting battery
• Battery parallel switch
• 20 amp automatic battery charger
• Xantrex 1000 amp inverter
• ACR charging relay
• 70 Amp alternator
• Victron battery monitor
• All lights are LED

• Three anchors: S60 Spade primary with 275' Anchor 5/16" hi-test chain, 35# Bruce with 250' rode, FX-16 Fortress stern anchor
• Bronze manual windlass
• Lifelines and stanchions, spliced bowsprit foot ropes
• Stainless steel pushpit with seat on stern
• Dodger
• Cockpit awning with zip-off side curtains
• Sun awning from mast back
• Cockpit cushions
• Removable deck boxes at mast base
• Fender and mooring lines
• Coast Guard safety package
• Four PFDs
• Lifesling
• Salt water deck/anchor washdown at bow
• Hot water heater in cockpit lazarette
• Hot and cold freshwater shower in cockpit
• Aries servo pendulum self steering mounted on stern 
• Tri-color masthead light, navigation and anchor lights
• Bottom painted in 2022

• New standing rigging - 2021
• Double spreader aluminum mast stepped on keel
• Storm trisail track on mast
• Stainless mast steps to masthead
• Harken roller furling on headstay w/ new cover in 2023
• Boomvang
• Whisker pole stored up mast
• Tanbark Mainsail with 2 reef points
• Tanbark yankee jib
• Tanbark staysail
• Tanbark 110% genoa
• Storm trisail
• Two self tailing and five standard Barient bronze winches
• Drifter

Tanks

Fuel: 1 x 35 gal Aluminum

Fresh Water: 2 x 65 gal Stainless Steel

Holding: 1 x 15 gal Plastic

The hull length is 28.08 ft (8.56 m), but including the bowsprit and boomkin it is 37.75 ft (11.51 m)

The boat has a draft of 4.83 ft (1.47 m).

Design

The Bristol Channel Cutter is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a cutter rig, a spooned plumb stem, an angled transom, a keel and transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel. It displaces 14,000 lb (6,350 kg) and carries 4,600 lb (2,087 kg) of lead ballast.[1]

The hull length is 28.08 ft (8.56 m), but including the bowsprit and boomkin it is 37.75 ft (11.51 m)[1]

The boat has a draft of 4.83 ft (1.47 m) with the standard keel.[1]

The boat was originally fitted with a Swedish Volvo MD 7A diesel engine of 13 hp (10 kW) or a Japanese Yanmar diesel of 27 hp (20 kW) for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds 30 U.S. gallons (110 L; 25 imp gal).[1]

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with two straight settee berths and a pilot berth in the main cabin and an aft quarter berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the port side at the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a stove and a sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located in the bow and includes an optional shower. The fresh water tank has a capacity of 64 U.S. gallons (240 L; 53 imp gal) and the holding tank has a capacity of 15 U.S. gallons (57 L; 12 imp gal). Cabin headroom is 75 in (190 cm).[1][3][7]

The design has a hull speed of 6.9 kn (12.8 km/h).[3]

The Company 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. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

Owner's personal items excluded.  Exclusions include, however are not limited to, Seller's personal possessions, loose items, binoculars, handheld radio(s), charts, tools, fishing equipment, spare parts, clothing and foul weather gear, galley equipment, linens/bedding and any items not specifically listed on equipment list specifications sheet.