Teulu is a 1985 Colvic Victor 40 Ketch. She was designed by John A Bennett & Assoc. and her hull was produced by Colvic Craft. It is understood she was professionally outfitted by Aberdour Yachts Ltd in Scotland and as all the Colvic Victors were outfitted independently, it is rare you come across two of the same! She is a spacious blue water cruiser with large aft cabin and pilot house on full length deck. Her relatively heavy displacement, sensible ballast ration and skeg configuration gives her excellent sea worthiness.

She was originally registered in Poole in 1987 under a different name and then sold to an owner in London where she stayed for many years. Following this, another owner kept her in Gosport, before we then bought her in Plymouth, Devon in March 2022.

Although there wasn’t a ships log when we purchased her, studying the location of the various receipts and invoices over the years, demonstrates she has travelled to France and the Azores. Furthermore, upon getting her Kemp Sails serviced, we were informed they were created with a double taped luff- a particular request of someone who would want to sail offshore- so who knows which other bits of the world she visited!

The lack of historical records for us, makes us incredibly intrigued to her past but seeing the extra large custom fuel tanks and radar platform (to name a few) indicates the strong possibility somebody, somewhere down the line, travelled her far.

She has a Sole Diesel Mini-74 engine, which as it was replaced around five years ago, has only 400 hours on it. Although an uncommon brand, we understand the base to be Mitsubishi. It is an incredible efficient motor (so much so, that when we added a sight glass to measure the tank level), it didn’t go down for well over 140 hours! Alongside the engine, we have a hydraulic gearbox. Zach did some research a few weeks ago and found out it was actually a tractor gearbox, modified for marine use- who knew!

Since owning Teulu, we have made several of our own interior and exterior upgrades and adjustments to make her our own. We have listed (most) of these down below, although when you are constantly living and working on a boat, some often go forgotten!