TARDIS - 1997 28' SAM L. MORSE CO Bristol Channel Cutter
Santa Cruz California United States
$59,500 USD

Entering thru the main companionway, the galley is to port and a top loading ice box to starboard. There is very generous engine access behind the easy-to-lift-out ladder.  Amidships, there are port and starboard settees, with a pilot berth to port that makes into a double. Forward of the mast is the head and storage.    

2-burner Seaward gimballed propane range

Manual fresh water system

Single sink

Force 10 propane heater

Windex wind direction

Raymarine speed and distance logs

Raymarine ST 60+ depth sounder

Raymarine autopilot

Ritchie compass

Garmin chart plotter

Standard Horizon Matrix VHF with AIS

West Marine hand-held VHF radio

12V DC

(2) AGM batteries (92 amp hrs each) - 2024

Battery parallel switch

Portable battery charger

35-lb CQR anchor with 200’ 5/16” chain

25-lb CQR anchor with 30’ 5/16” chain and 150’ 5/8” nylon rode

Simpson Lawrence Hyspeed manual windlass

Covers for all hatches and coamings

9’ inflatable dinghy

Anchor and steaming lights

Running lights

Tricolor light

Lifelines and stanchions

Boarding gates

Dock lines and fenders

Radar reflector

Windex

Actual LOA: 37’9”

Last bottom paint – July 2025

9/32” Type 316 SS Wire standing rigging - 2012

Aluminum keel-stepped mast

318 Harken roller furling on headsail

Winches:

 (2) Lewmar #30 self-tailing primary winches

 (2) Meissner winches on cabin top

 (3) Meissner winches on mast

 (1) Meissner winch on boom

Sails:

 Main – 253 sq ft

 Staysail – 123 sq ft

 Yankee jib – 230 sq ft

 Jib top – 297 sq ft

All sails are Doyle - 2013

1997 27hp Yanmar 3GM30F diesel engine with approximately 250 hrs.

3-blade prop

Extra propeller

Racor 500 fuel filter

Raw water sea strainer

Stove and engine fuel shut-off valves

Cockpit engine controls

Manual engine fire extinguishing

(1) manual and (1) electric bilge pump

Manual tiller steering

Manual head with overboard discharge

16-gal plastic holding tank

(6) life jackets

(2) fire extinguishers

Flares

Horn

LifeSling

All seller’s personal effects on board are excluded from the sale of this vessel.

TARDIS is a 1997/2011 Bristol Channel Cutter, #109 as built by Sam Morse in Costa Mesa, California. The boat was originally sold as a kit with the three main bulkheads factory installed, plywood floor and engine pan. The engine was on a pallet bolted to the floor. Most hardware was supplied by the factory including chain plates, rudder fittings, bowsprit and boomkin fittings and opening ports.  

The first owner was in Colorado and installed rubrails, built the rudder, built but did not install the boomkin and bowsprit. He also epoxy coated the bottom.

In August 2006 the boat sold to Ames Point Boat Works in Wisconsin. They did not continue any work but hoped to sell it to a buyer who would have them finish it. 

In December of 2009, the current owner bought it and brought it to Santa Cruz, CA. He finished the interior woodwork, installed the hardware, did the engine installation, and completed most of the work by 2011. The Ballenger mast and 316 rigging were new in 2012 and the Doyle sails were new in 2013. The current owner’s workmanship is excellent, rivalling the Sam Morse craftsmanship.

Bristol Channel Cutters are THE BEST small blue water cruiser and were made famous by Lynn and Larry Pardee. TARDIS is near new condition and ready to go.    

With only 250 hours on the engine, this boat has had very little use and shows in excellent condition. This BCC 28 is out of a time machine, hence the name, TARDIS, which is a fictional hybrid of a time machine and spacecraft. And TARDIS is ready to take you places !!

****1 year Santa Cruz slip Possible****