Golden Hind 26

Maurice Griffiths designed a series of small shallow draught cruisers for plywood construction in the 1960s and 1970s, of which the 24 ft and 26 ft Eventides were the best known. Later designs included the Golden Hinds, built originally as a 28-footer, and later enlarged to 31 ft.

The Golden Hind 26 was designed by Maurice Griffiths in the late 70s as a smaller version of the existing Golden Hind 31. The GRP hulls were moulded by first by Terry Erskine Yachts, then by Mark Urry at Golden Hind Marine. About a dozen complete yachts were built by these builders.

Quite a number of other hull mouldings were sold for owner completion, this yacht illustrated is one of the these, and an example of what we occasionally see where an amateur fitout can be substantially better than most "professionally" finished yachts.

The forecabin has 75" long vee-berths, on this particular yacht with a cleverly built telescopic hawse pipe for the anchor chain, built to move forward when the berths are in use.

Conversion to a double is also possible

The heads compartment has a Lavac marine WC, with a holding tank, and a small washbasin

There is a samson post at the aft end of the plank bowsprit , which also acts as a base for the self-tacking spar for the staysail. The jib is on a roller furler at the end o the bowsprit.

The mast is rigged for lowering, with a hinged tabernacle and stainless steel tubular extensions to the two forward shroud plates allowing the shrouds to remain tensioned whilst the mast is lowered using a tackle rigged using the self-tacking staysail boom.