Gallery
Gallery
A Gallery Of Ferroboats
There are nearly 200 more pictures of Hartley & Samson ferroboats at
A junk-rigged schooner design by Robert Tucker. Self built by her German owner in the U.K. Intended for long-term live-aboard and single-handed cruising.


A 35ft double-ender adapted from a design by Atken. Built by Hartley & Brookes Associates.



An unusual Dutch gaff-rigged schooner the 'De Lente'. In the ownership of Jon Noz and Ita Luten of Rotterdam.

The 36ft sloop 'Wavebender', to a French design, by Ev Sayers.

'Brimstone', one of a group designed by Alan Hill for the well known marine cartoonist Mike Peyton. They are low cost shallow draught centre-plate vessels, designed for inland waterways and coastal cruising charter work.

The Alaskan charter-boat 'Nesika' designed by Bruce Bingham


'Cocoanut Zanzibar', a 45ft ketch. A resident of Gibralter for around 20 years. Believed built in the UK around the mid 70's.


'Curlew' a 24ft design by Prior Yachts of Essex in the UK. These little boats were available in several different hull configurations since the late 1950's. This one one was built in Brisbane and is a centre-board version


The 60' LOA schooner 'Alegrias', designed by Wilf O'Kell and Alan Lucas, was built in the late 70's just north of Brisbane in Australia.


The 'Alegrias', on charter work.

Canadian, Russ Lang's 44ft 'Melody Dawn'. Designer Jim White.

My name is Rob Tison, I live aboard my 46' Benford "Vintage" which was built in Seattle in 1972-76. I like your website!

Bruce Sannino's 65ft 'Listener' (ex Vim) at Annapolis. Maryland. USA. Designed and built in England about 1970.

Nice to see a page for ferro-cement boats. I have a 38ft ferro trawler (Sheena 2), that was launched in 1975. Her hull was pressure tested at 9,000lb/sq.inch 28 days after she was built. That was 24 years ago and she has held up without any failure of any kind for that length of time. I will check back often to see how your page is developing. Mike & Sue Johnston. Smiths Falls, Ont., Canada.

A 40ft Alan Wright design

One of many built by the British in 1943, this ferro-cement barge moored on the Thames, has a house built on her deck. The hull now 70 years old is still in good condition, requiring nothing but cosmetic maintenance.


'Okiwa', a superb replica of Slocums 'Spray'.


'Dove', a double-ender from Canada. Seen in 1975 in Whangarei during her 1972-78 world circumnavigation. One of 10 liberty ships built in Canada during WW2, now used as a breakwater for the Powell River Pulp Mill in British Columbia. Photo taken during the winter of 1998 by Peter Freeman on a trip to Desolation Sound.
