Hampton Safari Owners Club


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This information has been researched and compiled from various sources which are understood to be accurate.
No responsibility can be taken for any inaccuracies that may have been inadvertently included.

Principal Dimensions:	LOA	25ft 7ins ( 7.8 m )
	LWL	23ft 7ins ( 7.19 m )
	Broads Auth toll 'area'	22 sq m
	Beam	9ft 6ins ( 2.90m )	(plus gunwhale fendering)
	Draught	2ft 2ins ( 0.66m )	(Draught and weight vary with the individual fit-out and tankage. Full tanks can weigh 0.75 ton !)
	Displacement	3.1 tons ( 3,150 kg )
	Tons per inch immersion	0.4
	When lifting	the minimum aft strop lifting point is 4 ft from transom.

Marks I and II

with sliding wheelhouse/lounge

(Standard internal layout shown, wc and shower may be transposed.)

They are somewhat difficult to distinguish because individual boatyards completed the Hampton moldings to their own spec.
Mark 1's (usually) didn't have the integral molding for the gas bottle stowage under the afterdeck, or the molded in mudweight holder on the foredeck. The control panel molding was different and the keel was smaller.

We are still researching this, the most common style. There are a number of subtypes:

Mk1J (Constructed by L.H. Jones)
Very different in layout and drive, open plan cabin with the toilet aft and propulsion via an hydraulic drive. Hull and Cabin mouldings as per Mk1. Two single berths only. (See Richard Griffith's boat in the gallery.)

Mk1D (Dawncraft 26)
The history of these is a little clouded. They differ in having one long cabin side window and a round port hole in the aft quarter, otherwise they appear to be Mk1 mouldings . The aft cabin on some perhaps all, was unusual, in having 2 single berths.

Any site visitor input on this subject will be most welcome.

Mark III

With fixed wheelhouse, sliding sunroof, and forward well.

Mark IV

With raised, fixed wheelhouse/lounge.
(only three were made, and one of those has been extensively modified.)

(interior layout kindly supplied by David Coster)

The original sales brochure was scanned and is published here by kind permission of Mrs Hampton.

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A slighltly different brochure was produced for the hire boat market.

It is a testament to the original design concept that even now (30 years on), there are still a few boats available for hire with various Broads hire fleets, both Blakes & Hoseasons.

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We now have the original scale drawings of the Safari, (Mk 2, but identical hull to the mk3).

They reveal that although the design might appear slab sided above water level, the underwater profile is quite complex, with a relatively deep keel for directional stability, and yet a shallow draft.

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Grateful thanks Mrs Hampton, her Son and Kenny Stone for the provision of this material and the extensive background knowledge that they enthusiastically gave to enable the creation of this web page.