Overview

Samphire 26, "Limbo" - Long-keeled offshore cruising yacht, updated, and in ready-to-sail condition. 

Looked after by the same owners for 10 years and sailed transatlantic: see sailinginlimbo.blogspot.com.

Lying Southampton.

Limbo is a good-looking, rugged offshore cruiser of real character.  

“The Samphire 26 is an exceedingly robust little vessel with the pretensions of a yacht much larger, a genuine ‘proper little ship’” 

- Yachting Monthly, November 1994

"Samphires looked and were powerful seaboats, and proved capable of long passages"

-Yachting Monthly A-Z of secondhand boats.

Solid, seaworthy, and classic in design and appearance, Limbo feels much larger than her compact size suggests.  

Her long keel gives a draft of only 3’6”, making her a very flexible boat for coastal exploration. 

Heading offshore, she inspires confidence - so much so that her current owners happily sailed her two-handed from the UK to the Caribbean (www.sailinginlimbo.blogspot.com.)

These were expensive boats when new (in 1979, the cost was £13,340 when a Sadler 25 cost £7,684!) which is perhaps why she is quite a rare boat with only 30 or so built.

She’s particularly easy to handle single-handed, with good directional stability and the sheet winches and mainsheet easily reachable from the tiller.

She's also a safe family boat, with the mainsheet clear of the deep, well-protected cockpit.

We generally passage plan on 4 - 4.5 knots (we averaged 125 miles a day across the Atlantic - 5.2 knots) but off the wind in a breeze she will do 6.5.  She has a comfortable, reassuring motion at sea and stays dry in nearly all conditions.

Her 18 hp engine is more than adequate in size to power her, even in a chop.

Her accommodation is unusually bright and spacious for a 26 footer with over 6’ headroom in the aft part of the saloon. The fit-out is all-timber with no GRP modules.

Stowage space throughout is excellent.  The cockpit is much more spacious than that of many similar-style boats.

Please check the detailed specification, but in 2017/18 alone she has had new batteries, a new spray hood and newly painted decks.  She has modern electronics including a cockpit-mounted chart plotter.  

This is a properly set-up and equipped yacht, genuinely ready to go without work.  She was most recently sailed in September 2018.  

Please get in touch to arrange a viewing or just for more information:

samphire26@outlook.com