Frances 26 ‘BLUE ILEX’ – SOLD

Thursday 26th August 2021

Mark Cameron Yachts are delighted to announce the successful sale of the Frances 26 ‘BLUE ILEX’.

The Frances 26 BLUE ILEX is one of the last boats to be built by Victoria Yachts in Warsash; the 1994 London Earls Court Boat show exhibition boat for the company, she also featured in the PBO review of that same year. A cutter rigger version of the Frances 26 design she is set up for comfortable cruising with all  lines lead aft to the cockpit with the exception of the foresail halyards. Below decks she features the later layout with four adult-sized berths, childs berth, linear galley and heads compartment aft.

A much loved example of the Frances 26 her inventory includes highlights such as:

• Hull polished and antifouled ready for launching 2021
• Yanmar 2YM15 marine diesel engine, installed new 2013, less than 500 hours run
• Sterngeard overhaul in 2013
• Simrad autopilot
• Tack Tick wind instrument (2011)
• Autohelm ST50 Depth and Log instruments
• Icom IC-M411 DSC VHF (2008)
• Lowrance HDS M5 plotter
• Saturn Sails Mainsail, fitted new in 2018
• Saturn Sails Yankee, new in 2020, not used to date
• Seago inflatable dinghy

Staying in Scotland with her new owner  BLUE ILEX will be launched next week before enjoying some late season cruising. We hope the current weather holds for her new owners first cruise at the helm.