CONSTRUCTION

Built in 1966 by the Concordia Company of South Dartmouth, Massachusetts for Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator Richard Tilghman. Carvel planked cedar over 2" x 3 1/4" steam-bent oak on 12" centers. Bronze screw fastened. Oak keel, stem, 3" oak sided floor timbers. External iron keel. Deck beams are 2" x 3" oak on 12" centers. Decks are caulked white eastern pine finished with pine tar and oil. Bronze deck hardware. The trunk cabin is hard pine. The interior is a thick ceiling of native pine for additional strength.

The current owner of Gallant has performed an extensive restoration throughout. The hull timber heads have been replaced and capped with cedar. The cockpit coaming has been rebuilt with vertical fir, capped with fir, and the traditional and butterfly cabintop hatches have been rebuilt. The entire bulwarks and inner cleats from the deck up are new.

ENGINE

1984 Westerbeke 4-cylinder diesel, bought by current owner with 900 hours. After rebuild, owner estimates 30 hours currently. Fresh water cooled. Oak bed. ZF 25A transmission. 12v alternator. Dual Racor filters 500 series. Bronze shaft log for stainless steel shaft swinging a 3-blade bronze propeller, Rubber cutlass bearing, 2024 Flex Flax stuffing box. 2024 single-lever SeaStar CH 2100P sail engine controls. Wheel steering with worm gear.

Bilge pumps (2) are high-capacity Johnson 2200, 12v. Bronze thru-hull seacocks.

SAILS & RIGGING

Masts, Main and Fore Booms, and Gaffs are varnished pine, white tipped.

The fir Bowsprit and jibboom are painted white.

Standing Rigging: New 7x19 Stainless wire with Nicro press ends

Running Rigging: New Vintage 3-strand polyester rope

Sails built by Gambell & Hunter tanbark, recent: Main, Foresail, Staysail, Jib, Main Gaff Topsail

Extra Dacron Main white topsail.

ELECTRICAL

12v Two G31 maintenance-free lead acid batteries, 2022 in fiberglass-lined plywood box

Wiring: Multistrand PVC jacketed copper wire

12v DC circuit breaker panel

New electrical panel and master switch 1-2-Both, located on the aft cabin port bulkhead

Navigational lighting and interior lighting throughout

ACCOMMODATIONS

Below and aft of the forward chain locker is the forward cabin with 6' headroom that has a starboard berth with cushion and a port settee, both with storage below and are 5' 10" long. Next aft is a starboard hanging locker and a port enclosed head with a manual marine flush.

Next aft is the main cabin with single port and double starboard settees with new cushions. The starboard pulls out to make a double berth and the port settee makes into a single. Water tanks are below and a custom drop-leaf table between. Bright outboard lockers and shelving on both sides with white painted ceiling and bulkheads. Aft to port is the galley consisting of a large stainless steel sink with fresh water hand pump set in a bright woodwork counter with drawers and lockers outboard and below. Aft is a Jotul solid fuel stove with a copper and galvanized stack, Concordia's design. The insulation aft of the stove is copper over a fire-proof board. The large top loading insulated ice box is starboard. Next starboard is a quarter berth, and the starboard side engine room with excellent space. In the cockpit there is good access to the port side of the engine as well through a trunk cabin. The entire cabin has two port holes, six opening port lights, with four cabintop hatches, one being an opening butterfly hatch. Very good natural light and ventilation. The headroom is 6'2 1/2" in the main cabin.

Above starting at the fore deck is the main mooring bit that supports the bowsprit and jiboom along with the bob and whisker stays. The chocks are carved into the bulwarks. Her trailboards and name plates are new, carved and painted by the current owner. The windlass is aft of the bit. The side decks with hand rails on the cabin top lead to the aft cockpit with a newly built fir coaming. The wheel steering and pedestal are aft in the cockpit with seating (new cushions) for several. New galvanized and painted iron davits for the tender are fitted into the exterior coaming.

2025 UPDATE ON WORK

All seacocks have been removed, serviced, and re-installed

Approximately 30 hours on a major overhaul of the Westerbeke engine

The owner emptied the fuel in both tanks and polished the inside of the tanks before adding fresh fuel.

All blocks were serviced in 2024

All new boat cushions, interior and exterior

In the hull three planks were removed and replaced.

A repair and update to a scarf joint was made to the bottom section of the main mast.

"Over the past ten years this vessel has had some major work. She has been in her boat shop during that time where she had some plank replacement: the bottom was fully stripped, re-caulked, refastened, and painted. The decks were reefed and re-caulked, and the bulwarks were replaced along with the timber heads. During this time the chainplates were replaced and the wire rigging was replaced along with the running rigging." Paul Haley, 2022 of Capt. G.W. Full & Associates

EQUIPMENT

Navigation

6" Compass mounted on aft port cabin bulkhead

Garmin GPS installed, 2024

VHF radio

Simrad AP 22 Autopilot

Datamarine CD400 Depthsounder

General

New interior and exterior boat cushions

Dock lines

Fenders

Fire extinguishers

2 Bilge Pumps