Accessed through double, removable and panelled companionway doors, with wooden sliding hatch over, two cabins, offering four to five berths with a separate heads compartment: 

The forward cabin: fitted with two single berths in a V-berth formation with an in-filling cushion to provide a double berth if required. Light and ventilation via two very effective deck-lights and a centreline for'hatch. 

There is access to the chain locker through an opening hatch within the forward bulkhead. Storage is provided within the cabin by shelving outboard to either hull side and lockers beneath the bunks. 

 

The heads compartment: This utilises the beam of the hull immediately ahead of the main bulkhead, with a marine-flushing toilet unit fitted to port (within a wooden and fully closeable shroud) with a slide-out handbasin above/outboard that then can drain into the heads’ bowl. A hanging locker (currently used for many of the sails’ storage) is fitted to starboard side of the compartment. A holding tank can be supplied, loose, with the boat. 

 

Main Cabin: From the main bulkhead aft to the companionway the living space is open with partial bulkheads port and starboard, minimising the division between the saloon area, galley and nav. Table spaces. Such a layout makes the saloon feel significantly larger and maximises the light throughout the space from the 6 round portlights and companionway hatch. A straight bench settee berth is located to the starboard side, while to port, a shallow U-shaped settee berth surrounds the table and, in combination with the adjustable table could provide a wide single or ‘friendly’/tight double berth. There are four closed lockers to each side, behind the backrest cushions and all the space beneath the settees themselves is available for storage too – with the water tanks fitted aft, either side of the engine. 

 

Galley: located at the aft end of the living space, to port of the companionway and provides a simple, but practicable catering facility with a small stainless-steel sink (fitted with a foot pumped faucet) and a fully gimballed 2-hob burner cooker, with grill and oven. Space, outboard of the cooker’s swing has been well utilised by providing a deep, top-access locker with lid, while there is a conventional, below-work surface locker (shelved) beneath the sink that accommodates a rubbish bin. Crockery stowage is provided for beneath the port side deck. A carry-on refrigerated coolbox is included in the vessel’s inventory, together with a suitable 240- 210V AC step-down transformer. 

 

Chart table: located to starboard of the companionway steps and provided with a dedicated Navigator’s seat. A half-size Admiralty chart-sized lifting top is provided with deep fiddles to prevent charts sliding off and chart storage is provided beneath the table top. Outboard of the chart table, a 12-way 12V DC distribution and fuse panel is to the navigator’s right hand, with a fiddled and sub-divided shelf, suitable for almanacs, provide outboard of the navigator’s elbow. An Autohelm ST 50 multi-function display and Furuno GP-32 GPS are mounted above the chart table, the latter with output plug to be able to input the vessel’s position onto a laptop pre-loaded with navigation cartography. 

Engine: 

Fitted with a Vetus Marine M4.14 (Mitsubishi-based) four cylinder, naturally aspirated diesel, rated up to 33 BHP, with 2899 recorded running hours, driving a three-bladed propeller through a conventional stainless steel propeller shaft. A ‘soft’ coupling is fitted between gearbox and the shaft to ease torque impact upon engaging gears and to reduce transferred vibration underway. A rope cutter by Ambassador Marine is fitted ahead of the propeller and a Volvo Penta dry-seal fitted to the inboard end of the stern tube. The engine has been serviced and new flexible engine mounts fitted by Weir Quay Boatyard in advance of the boat being placed on the market. 

 

Electrical: 

Two individual lead acid batteries are selected and isolated using a rotary switch located alongside the navigator’s seat. The batteries have been ‘exercised’ and are in storage with the Weir Quay Boatyard. 

 

Tankage: 

Two stainless steel fuel tanks in total are fitted (both with approx. 65 litres max. capacity), one to each side of the engine space, with balancing pipe and common fuel/water separator filter housing to starboard side of the engine. 

Two stainless steel freshwater tanks (both with max capacity of 80 litres max. capacity) are fitted, one to each side, forward of the fuel tanks. 

A traditional Gaff Cutter rig with wooden spars. The mast is mounted on a hinged tabernacle. The bowsprit with hinged heel fitting and opening gammon iron allowing the bowsprit to be raised to reduce L.O.A for marina berthing (L.O.A with bowsprit lowered approx. 41ft). 

 

The rig is provided with running backstays and the Jib is carried on a Wykham-Martin furler, while the stays’l is carried on a Bamar roller reefing system with twin-groove aluminium extrusions. A fixed boom crutch, located abaft the cockpit, supports the boom (fitted with lazy jacks) and the wooden gaff when lowered. The gaff is fitted with a leather trimmed saddle. The mainsail’s luff is largely laced with a top row parrel band. 

 

Unlike the rest of spars, that have been re-finished and covered while the vessel has been laid ashore, the mast – a hollow spar - has been somewhat weathered to the port, forward side (the direction from which the prevailing weather and sunlight has been coming from with ‘Emily Grace’ laid ashore where she is. Its fair to say that we’ve assumed that a new owner will perhaps want to open the longitudinal joint in the mast, re-glue it and then re-finish the surface of the mast, but that otherwise the mast appears to remain reasonably sound. A surveyor/rigger would sensibly be asked to give opinion and recommendation. 

 

All the running rigging is currently removed, laundered and dry stored at the owner’s home. 

 

Sails: 

• Mainsail by SKB Sails of Penryn. 

• Stays’l (2018) by Sails Shape of Fowey/Lostwithiel. 

• Jib (2015) by SKB Sails of Penryn. 

• Tops’l by SKB Sails of Penryn. 

• Storm Jib of unknown make. 

• Ghosting headsail in rip-stop nylon of unknown make or age. 

• Chart work has been carried out on the owner’s laptop, placed on the chart table, for which a data socket/jack is left loose on the table. The GPS positional input is provided by the: 

• Furuno GP-32, with long antenna cable to position the antenna on deck if necessary. 

• Autohelm ST50 ‘Multi’ head instrument giving depth and speed/distance run. 

• ST4000+ autopilot control head, linked to Autohelm 2000 tiller pilot. Also connected to helm indicator sensor. 

• Clipper GPS repeater in cockpit. 

• Raymarine ST60 Tridata in cockpit. 

• Sestrel Moore, gimballed steering compass mounted on the coach roof to starboard of the companionway. 

In all, approximately 100 of the 28ft version of the Heard 28 design were built between 1968 and 2008. 

Despite being based essentially on the common hull design, each Heard 28 is slightly idiosyncratic and definitely an individual yacht in their own right. 

 

A single skin, GRP moulded hull incorporates approx. 5 tonnes of cement and steel ballast and is fitted with decks of glass-sheathed marine plywood. Solid Iroko was used for the coachroof sides, as were the cockpit coamings and bulwark cappings, with plenty of additional Teak and Iroko detailing in attendance. ‘Emily Grace’ was modified to offer a self-draining cockpit in the late 1990’s. 

 

Some softening of the coachroof sides has been seen surrounding the middle of the three portlights to each side and these have been attended to by the professional graving-in of veneered plywood, during the winter of 2024/2025. 

• • Pair of aluminium-alloy, adjustable sheer legs. 

• An inflatable dinghy by Seago. 

• Two-stroke outboard engine to suit the dinghy. 

• Lightweight sun cover c/w fibre poles to deploy across the boom and cast shade over coach roof and deck. 

• Windsock to fit over the for’hatch and direct air below at moorings 

• Fawn, nylon reinforced PVC, boom supported cockpit cover. 

• Fawn mainsail cover. 

• Stainless steel deck-eyes to secure the dinghy atop the coach roof. 

• Deck chocks for securing the anchor inboard, and on the deck. 

• Lofrans ‘Royal’ manual windlass with both rope and chain gypsies. 

• 45lbs CQR anchor, with extended shank to enable its stowage on the bow roller, rather than on deck. 

• 8mm chain cable. 

• Danforth-style kedging/picnicking anchor. 

• Lewmar 30 self-tailing primary headsail sheet winches. 

• 2 off Gibb, bottom action sheet winches. 

• 2 off smaller snubbing winches for handling the ghosting sail’s sheets. 

• 1 off Camping Gaz butane gas canister. 

• Mooring hook, Mooring device and deck scrubber. 

• Miscellany of mooring lines, including heavy-weight mooring strops for attachment to a mooring buoy. 

• 4 off inflatable fenders of varying size and shapes. 

• 2 off deck hoses. 

• 15 litre, plastic jerry can. 

 

• • Icom IC-M56 non GMDSS and DSC capable VHF radio with masthead antenna, plus emergency VHF antenna. 

• 12V DC bilge pump with manual and auto switching. 

• PVC covered wire jackstays running along the outboard edge of the coach roof, to either side. 

• Horseshoe lifebuoy. 

• Hook-on swimming ladder to assist MOB recovery. 

• 950g dry powder fire extinguisher (warranty date expired). 

 

General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as Liferafts, 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 owner’s specific needs. 

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant 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.