Hartley Boats Gull Weekender £15995 incl VAT

Save £4000.00 Spring Offer Only £11,995.00 inc VAT.

The Gull is the best 12ft sailing dinghy ever designed and built in the World , the Gull Weekender is very special.

Reasons Why

• Reducing the weight of the Gull by using new build technology and materials then adding a ballasted centreboard keeps the weight of the boat light. Also available is an aluminium launch trolley making launch and recovery easy.
• With nearly 3000 Gull owners and a growing fleet.
• The Gull is the most stable 12ft sailing dinghy already but now, the Gull Weekender gives you that extra confidence in those windy and gusty conditions, in-turn making a more enjoyable sail.
• Higher boom than the standard Gull no chance of being hit by the boom on a gybe.
• Comfortable seating with a deep cockpit, good legroom and a dry cockpit.
• Sailed single-handed or by 2-people.
• Light boat – easy to launch and recover.
• One rope slab reefing mainsail plus fully furling reefable genoa system meaning you can be reefed down within 22 seconds.
• Gull sailors are still enjoying sailing the boat after 35 years, we are the only manufacturer offering a 4-year guarantee.
• Ideal for coastal waters with an integral rear storage locker to store food & wine, clothing and an outboard motor & pad.
• The Gull Weekender is one of the few Dinghies capable of sitting on a floating mooring indefinitely

Gull Weekender ready to sail £15,995.00 inc VAT.

Save £4000.00 Spring Offer Only £11,995.00 inc VAT.

Secure Your Boat Today

• This spring offer is sold on a first come, first served basis. A £500.00 deposit secures your build slot and your Spring offer with the final payment due just prior to collection. If required we are able to deliver. 
• For more details, please email sales@hartleyboats.com or call 01332 369751

Facts and Information

The most stable 12ft sailing dinghy in the world has just got better, now with its ballasted centreboard. When sailing in heavy winds the boat refuses to capsize it just luff up into the wind instead of capsizing, the boat is virtually impossible to capsize. A lighter construction to compensate the ballasted centreboard makes handling this boat on or off the water easy. The simple and quick to reef (within seconds) slab reefing main and its furling reefable larger jib system is superb, a high boom, easy to use controls, with twin metal balers, a tabernacle for easy mast handling. A centre main fitted and a sealed rear locker large enough to store all provisions together with a engine gives you the perfect day cruiser.

Following the success of the Wayfarer Weekender with the ballasted centreboard we have been asked many times by Gull sailors ‘when will you build a Gull with a ballasted centreboard?’ My response has always been that the 12ft Gull is renowned as being the most stable clinker-built sailing dinghy of its size ever designed, why should I need to change anything?

But, with the Wayfarer Weekender outselling the Wayfarer I now acknowledge a ballasted centreboard would give sailors when cruising single-handed out at sea that extra confidence that the boat, with this extra safety feature, will bring much more confidence to time spent on the water, the decision to fit a ballasted centreboard has been made – we will launch our new Gull Weekender at the RYA show in February.

The only way to a new successful Gull is to repeat the Wayfarer Weekender new design planning removing the weight by building a lighter hull to compensate for the weighted ballasted centreboard.

The Development

This is not easy and only achieved by a great deal of planning, time and new build techniques. Yes, it is more expensive, we build using foam sandwich this is vacuumed-bagged to give the hull its rigidity, with special bulk heads all saving weight but costing a great deal of time, resulting in a longer boat build time, but ensuring this new Gull when built is much lighter but will also last the rigors of time, as with all Gulls.