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F57118 |
Newbridge Pioneer Pilot |
Lying |
Hampshire |
Builder |
NB Yachts, Chard, Somerset |
Year |
1987 |
Price |
£13,950
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LOA |
25' 10" |
Sail area |
348 sq ft main and genoa |
Brief details |
LWL |
20' 6" |
Rig |
Sloop |
The Pioneer Pilot
is one of the smallest pilothouse sailing cruisers around, being
based on the Pioneer hull, but with an enclosed wheelhouse, with
alternative tiller steering in the cockpit. She offers a quite roomy
modern 26 foot hull with a smallish double berth aft cabin, and
2-4 more berths forward in an open plan layout. |
Beam |
9' 0" |
Cabins |
2 |
Draught |
3' 0" |
Berths |
4-6 |
Displacement |
5,875 lbs |
Engine |
Volvo 2002 diesel |
Ballast |
2,650 lbs |
BHP |
18 |
Keel type |
Twin iron bilge keels with skeg-hung rudder |
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Newbridge Boats started life building a GRP
version of the pretty little Robert Tucker designed 21 foot
Corribee in the very early 1970s. They later also built the
23 foot Virgo, with a distinctive wrap-round painted stripe
to help disguise the quite substantial coachroof.
In the early 1980s they dropped the Corribee, as despite
taking it through three versions, with progressive tiny increases
in interior volume, it could never be regarded as spacious
for its length. They thus introduced a range of more 'modern'
designs, including the Navigator, Venturer and Pioneer, all
sharing the distinctive style of a dark-painted band around
the coachroof, although the hulls were not all by the same
designers.
The Newbridge Pioneer was designed by Bill Dixon (well known
for Moody designs) in 1985/86 as the largest of the range,
and was built in two versions, the Pioneer Pilot having an
added pilothouse moulding to give an interior steering position.
About 80 were built in total. In 1990 Newbridge, by then having
changed their name to NB Yachts, went into liquidation, as
the proliferation of mass-produced small French yachts was
hitting all small British boatbuilders.
As you would expect from a Bill Dixon production boat design,
The Pioneer and Pioneer Pilot have a good reputation as sensible
family cruisers with good accommodation for their size and
respectable sailing performance.
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