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Hillyard 8 tonner

Brief Notes

Builder

David Hillyard, Littlehampton

David Hillyard designed and built around 800 wooden yachts between 1920 and 1978, at his boatyard in Littlehampton, Sussex, ranging in size from two and a half tonners to 28 tons. The 'ton' measurements do not relate to actual displacement, being a system of official measurement originally based on the number of 'tun' barrels a ship could hold

Length OA

30' 0"

Sail Area

 

Length WL

24' 0"

Rig

Sloop

Beam

8' 6"

Cabins

Forecabin and saloon

Draught

3' 6"

Berths

4 plus pipe cot

Displacement

6 tons

Engine type

various

Ballast

iron keel and lead pigs internal ballast

Engine bhp

8 - 10

Keel type

Long keel with option of bilge plates

All the Hillyard yachts have a distinct look with a good amount of freeboard and a moderate amount of sheer. While the smallest models were transom sterned with outboard rudders, most of the better known designs were heavy displacement long keeled vessels with canoe sterns. They have the reputation of solid construction and good behavior at sea. Hillyards remained in business until 2009, and had moved on to GRP production of catamarans and other modern designs, when the company ceased trading. Shortly afterwards a fire destroyed the boatyard.

Most Hillyards were built on oak frames, with planking of various timbers. Pre-war Hillyards were quite often planked in mahogany, whilst after the war larch, pitch pine and iroko were used more often.

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Apart from the one photo above of an 8-tonner under sail, the pictures here are of a very nice 1963 example

Hillyard 8 tonner
Hillyard 8 tonner

Heads and forecabin

 

 

Below: This 1963 yacht has the original two-cylinder Lister engine, of 8.5 hp

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