Sadler 34

Sadler 34 – 1989 - £19,500
The Sadler 34 design by Martin Sadler offers quick, sea-kindly performance that professional skippers have long recognised and applauded.
One of the mid-run examples built by Sadler Yachts Ltd in 1989, to a hull design incorporating PU foam core to provide positive buoyancy in the event of a hull breach, with a consequential benefit being a degree of thermal insulation, with straightforward & practical ‘wipe-down’ surfaces internally – no drooping vinyl linings to worry about!
Above the waterline, the design harks back to a time when grace spoke volumes - and the Sadler 34 continues to come with a very high quotient on the 'pride upon rowing away' scale, while beneath the water’s surface her fin and skeg hull form offer better speed and manoeuvrability than many of her ‘full’ or long-keeled peers.
This one, in common with the majority, is tiller-steered for a more direct sailing feel and much better utility of space within the cockpit. She is fitted with the deeper, ‘standard’ 1.78m keel.
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Accommodation
Originally fitted with up to eight berths in three cabins with a generous, U-shaped galley and a forward-facing chart table, centreline leafed table, heads compartment forward and a forward cabin separated from the heads by wooden door, all based on Sadler's foam stiffened sub moulding that provides insulated accommodation and built-in buoyancy.

An Eberspacher Airtronic-D2 hot air heater is fitted, with a single outlet within the main saloon, with another vent fitted in the heads compartment, but not connected to the ducting as yet. A CD/FM radio and stereo speakers is fitted within the main saloon.
Forward cabin: Two berths, formed in a 'Vee' can provide a double berth using an in-fill cushion. Open shelving alongside berth. Under berth lockers are lined (dry) storage lockers used for light wind sail storage. Hanging locker, dedicated to the forward cabin is provided to starboard. Opening overhead Lewmar deckhatch (lens replaced and clear) for light and ventilation.
Heads Compartment: This extends across the beam of the hull forward of the mast, with doors ahead and to the main bulkhead for privacy. A Jabsco 'Twist n Lock' marine flushing toilet is fitted. Hot and cold water via a shower faucet fitted to a moulded hand basin. Shower sump with 12v drain pump. All sea valves in this compartment are of the Blakes, tapered seacock design. Hanging locker to starboard for oilskins, life-jackets and harnesses. Ventilation is provided by two 'Tannoy' passive ventilators overhead.

Main Saloon: U-Shaped seating to port providing either a settee berth or convertible to a double using an in-filling panel & cushion to enable the U-shaped seating to convert to a double if required, single settee berth to starboard with a lee cloth. Centreline-mounted saloon table with internal bottle and cutlery storage and drop leaves. Above the settee berth to port side, there is provision for a pilot berth utilising a hinged panel (Note that there is no pilot berth cushion following the replacement of the main cushions). When not deployed, this pilot berth area is more usually used as additional open and deep-fiddled storage to port side. Light and ventilation through toughened glass windows to the coachroof's sides and a centre-line deck hatch over (lens replaced and clear). A rigid freshwater tank is located beneath the starboard settee berth while a substantial, lined stowage space is provided beneath the port side settee berth.

Navigation area: A well-sized, forward facing chart table accommodates folded charts and almanacs within, with a further storage shelf and a deeply-fiddled cave locker outboard of the chart table. A fabric covered seat with internal storage is fitted abaft the chart table.

Galley: Located to port of the companionway (for comfortable use when hove to on starboard tack while making a cup of tea), the Sadler 34's galley is notably generous in offering a large amount of work space & security to a cook at sea with workable storage. Re-fitted with an Smev 2 burner, oven and grill gas cooker. Twin sinks are fitted within the forward peninsular. Pressurised H&C water supply and a separate hand pumped freshwater faucet. Front-opening 12v refrigerator and a separate deep, top opening insulated dry storage box is fitted to this Sadler 34's galley, Ample storage for crockery, cutlery and stores.
Aft cabin: Located to starboard, this cabin extends forward of the companionway steps/
engine box, thereby able to offer some seating and a hinged fiddled surface for small items
ahead of the berth. Light and ventilation is provided by an opening portlight to the cockpit's footwell, plus the coach roof’s side window and a 'Tannoy' ventilator above the cabin's standing area.
Mechanical
Fitted with a Volvo Penta 2003 diesel engine, rated at approx. 28 HP, driving a 2-bladed, fixed propeller through a conventional shaft. The engine’s flexible mounts appear to have been replaced. A dripless shaft seal and a clear-topped cooling water strainer are also fitted and the original monitoring panel has been supplemented by the fitting of ammeter; oil pressure gauge; temperature gauge and a mechanical engine hr. meter. Recorded hours currently (Oct 2026): 8301.

Electrical Systems
Three lead acid batteries are fitted within dedicated storage recesses formed within the aft cabin's internal moulding: 2 x 120 A/hr capacity batteries for 'Domestic and Services' bank, with a separate 74A/hr battery for engine cranking. All batteries new in 2022.
Batteries charged by engine-driven alternator and a Sterling Power Pro-Charge 12v/20A battery charger by for use when the vessel is connected to electrical shore support.
An Adverc battery management module is fitted to enhance the alternator's output charge.
Tankage
Fuel: Approx. 25 gallons (112 litres) diesel carried in a stainless-steel tank located toward the rear of the cockpit’s port locker.
Freshwater: approx. 50 gallons (200 litres) freshwater carried within a rigid tank amidships beneath the starboard settee berth.


Sails and Spars
Rigged as a bermudan, masthead sloop over single spreaders, with a Harken headsail furling system. The standing rigging reportedly dates from 2008, but was thoroughly checked and overhauled in 2013; all work carried out by Harris Rigging on the Dart.
• Mechanical backstay adjuster.
• Lightweight, fixed-length bearing out pole to ‘goose-wing’ the headsail.
• Original, heavier spinnaker pole (currently stored at vendors’ home), together with spinnaker sheets and other gear.
• Running rigging and reefing lines are led aft to cockpit via deck organisers and a variety of clutches six of which have been upgraded to be Spinlock XTS.

The Sail Wardrobe:
• Soft battened mainsail (late 2023) by Westaway Sails in good quality ‘Stack-Pak’ style sail cover by Ocean Canvas in Plymouth.
• Roller furling genoa also by Westaway Sails of the same age, with a foam-padded luff to enhance reefed sail shape.
• Symmetrical spinnaker (stored at vendors’ home).

Navigation Equipment
Within Cockpit:
• Twin Contest steering compasses.
• Navman 3150 wind speed & direction display.
• Navman D3100 Log/Speed display.
• Northstar ‘Explorer’ D310 depth display.
• Raymarine E7 Hybrid Touch chart plotter (with Navionics cartography).
• 18” digital radar scanner on pole mounting, for display read out on the plotter’s screen.
• Simrad TP32 Tiller pilot.
At chart table:
• Garmin GPS Map 292 chart plotter (with Garmin cartography).
• Nasa Clipper Navtex.
• Nasa BM-1 battery monitor.
• Aneroid barometer.
• Battery operated clock by FCC (larger one on the main bulkhead by ‘Wempe’ for display purposes only, being as of ‘commemorative’ limited edition).

Deck Equipment:
• Bruce 15 kg anchor & chain.
• Twin stemhead rollers.
• Lofrans manual windlass.
• Lewmar 43 self-tailing primary sheet winches.
• Lewmar 16 self-tailing halyard/reefing winches on coachroof.
• Lewmar 7 Spinnaker sheet winches.
• Acrylic sprayhood with zip to rear edge by Ocean Canvas of Plymouth.
• Full cockpit enclosure with side and rear openable panels to match.
• ‘Stack-Pak style mainsail cover.
• Spinlock, extendable tiller extension.
• Pair of midship mooring cleats.
• Stern boarding/swimming ladder.
• Outboard engine storage rail mount.
• Suzuki 2.5 outboard engine.
• Zodiac Cadet 230 Aero inflatable dinghy.
• Leafed cockpit table on Lagun adjustable mount.
• Pair of combined cockpit seating cushions with attached backrest cushions.
• Fenders & warps.

Safety Equipment
• Icom IC-M421 DSC/VHF radio.
• Cockpit-mounted manual bilge pump.
• Additional manual bilge pump fitted within the main cabin.
• ‘Blipper’ mast-mounted passive radar reflector.
• 2 kg fire extinguisher located beneath the chart table.
• 1 kg fire extinguisher within the galley.
• 1 x un-named horseshoe lifebuoy with floating light attached.
• 1 x life sling by Crewsaver.
General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as life rafts, EPIRBs, fire extinguishers and flares etc. are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on-board as part of the sale of a used vessel may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owners specific needs.


Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrants the accuracy of this information nor warrants the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.