Construction:
Hull: GRP sandwich; light blue topsides – brown Copper Guard
antifouling + Arma Guard boottopping
Deck: GRP sandwich; underside T&G cedar; teak laid
Superstructure: GRP sandwich; marine ply core
External trim: painted
Keel: lead with encapsulated keel bolts
Beaching legs
Interior: varnished wooden trim throughout (marine ply, solid
hardwood, T&G cedar).
Columbian pine
deck beams.
Catwalk – blue-painted aluminium, teak walkway – which can be
dismantled in sections.
Should there be the necessity to lift an engine out, the teak-laid
flooring in the deck saloon has a removable
area. The Lewmar
hatches immediately above are also removable.
There is access to manual steerage in the aft stateroom, below the
chart table (accessed by lock and key)
Mechanical Data:
Engines: two Ford Sabre 120hp diesel (1990 – commissioned 1998)
Gearboxes: PRM 402D (Newage); reduction 2.56:1
Propellers: 3-bladed self-feathering
Cruising speed: 7 knots
Approx engine hours: 300 at July 2006
Cruising range: 1000 miles
Fuel consumption per engine per hour at cruising speed:
approximately 3 gallons
Other Mechanical:
24v electrical water pressure system
24v electrical water heating system
Bilge pumps: 2 x ME 1 electric (Jabsco)
Jabsco deck wash
Heating/air conditioning: 6 VR A/C units Marine Air electric
heaters in all cabins
Engine room has a remotely operated foam drenching system (AFFF)
and hand operated
Electrical:
Batteries: 2 in 24 volt banks of 120 amp hours – Nicad (1995);
lead acid (2001)
There is a 24v bank consisting of 8 x 12v lead acid for domestic,
giving 440 amp/hours at 24v
and a 24
volt bank consisting of 18 Nicad batteries and one in reserve with
the alternator running (Onan).
The 24v
system can be supplied from the inverter as well as charging the
batteries etc.
Generator: Onan 17.5kw type MDKAE 134 (183 hours) – new
Battery charger: Chloride Motive Power: 60 amps output, supply
220/240 v 50 c/s 1 phase 16 amp,
24v 225v
inverter, 3 kva (2003)
There is access to electrical wiring in deck saloon (accessed by
key)
Tankage:
Fuel capacity: 560 gallons (2546 litres) in seven tanks – 5 in
stainless steel, 2 in GRP
Filters etc.: fully comprehensive (isolating, crossovers, etc.)
Fresh water capacity: 300 gallons (1364 litres) in one fibreglass
tank with filters, baffles etc.
Holding tanks: 200 gallons (910 litres) in four 50 gallon GRP
tanks
Ashore/sea pump out systems
Navigational Instruments: On bridge:
Autonnic Research Arm 4,Speed, depth, wind speed and
direction,Distance, time, elapsed time,Echo sounder
Compass,Log,Rudder angle indicator,Philips A P Nav GPS, Cetrek
Autopilot
Sabre (Ford) Port and starboard engine panel (water temp low
pressure volts and rpm)
Twin engine controls and clutch for hydraulic system At Navigation station:
On left hand side fuel gauges for running tanks, generator revs,
fuel flow gauges and exhaust temperature alarms Facing across table:
Raytheon Radar scanner, Raychart 600A electronic chart system,
Swiftech VHF, Navtex by NASA,Philips GPS
AP
navigator system,,Autonnic Research ARM4 Speed, depth, wind speed
and directionDistance, time, elapsed time
Compass,Autopilot,Remote control steering lever
Accommodation:
Four single berths and four double berths in six cabins.All
directions are looking aft from forward:
The foc'sle consists of stowage for sails and miscellaneous gear.
The double chain locker mounted centrally contains the heavy
weather 5/8” chain (portside) and the normal bow anchor ½”
chain (starboard side). A companionway leads up to the foc’sle
to port and the entrance to the accommodation in the centre. A
sliding door to starboard leads to the forward heads compartment.
(All heads compartments have a washbasin, toilet and shower). A
second sliding door to starboard leads to a two-berth (bunks, one
over) crew’s cabin and to port a door leads to a double berth
‘en suite’ cabin. Proceeding aft a door to starboard leads to
the galley and to port a door gains access to a double berth ‘en
suite’ cabin. Aft the aft end of the passageway steps lead up to
the deck saloon.
In the deck
saloon immediately to port is a settee with the navigation
station. Aft of this are settees port and starboard with a
hardwood folding saloon table. On the aft port side a hatch leads
vertically down to the engineroom and workshop and there is marine
ply/hardwood flag locker and switch panel on the aft bulkhead.
Brief steps to starboard lead up the main deck and in the centre
steps lead down to the aft accommodation.
At the base of the steps there are double ‘en suite’ cabins to
port and starboard. There is a two-berth (bunks) ‘en suite’
cabin and further aft to starboard a door to a dry storage room,
fitted with storage shelves.
At the aft end of the passageway are steps up to the owner’s
stateroom starboard, and a companionway up to the poop deck to
port. The owner’s stateroom is full width with settees to port
and starboard and a chart table at the aft end (transom). There
are large square ports giving good light into the stateroom. A
wood-burning stove is mounted on the forward starboard bulkhead
and to port a passageway leads to the ‘bathroom’ to port and
forward entrance to the owner’s cabin with large double berth.
All the accommodation has been fitted out in wood to the very
highest standard and one would never imagine that you were in a
fibreglass vessel.
Domestic Equipment:
Creda Europa Solar plus, Creda electric hob model 42255 –
electric 220v/240v AC
Refrigeration system – 24 volt ship’s supply
Built-in Frigomatic refrigerator
Built-in Frigomatic deep freeze
6 toilets, 6 showers
Taylor twin-burner paraffin gimballed cooker
Built-on-dishwasher: Creda Modular 500 series DWB 501 (never used)
Spars and Rigging:
Rig: wishbone schooner
Spars: aluminium; deck stepped
Sparmaker: Southern Spars
Standing rigging: 1 x 19 stainless steel
Conventional stainless steel rigging, tensioner with bronze bottle
screws
80’ main mast, 62’ fore mast, 20’ main boom, 20’ fore
boom, 23’ spinnaker pole (140 Ø),
12’
bowsprit (150 Ø), 18’6” jib boom (171-94) extrusion,
23’6” wishbone (150 Ø tapered)
Main and fore mast in 365 x 194 section, main and fore booms in
255 x 145 section
Bowsprit hydraulically tensioned
Crows nest on foremast – blue-painted aluminium.
Sails:
All by Sanders Sails in Terylene cloth (1995):
Mainsail,Main foresail,Main staysail,Fore topsail,Fore staysail
Jib, Genoa, Twin running headsails, Spinnaker, Storm mainsail,
Storm jib
Winches:
10 Lewmar: 2 x52, 5 x 43, 2 x 46, 1 x Celtic - Mainmast/running
rigging 9 manual, 1 hydraulic
10 Lewmar: 4 x 52, 2 x 43, 2 x 46, 1 x 401 x Celtic -
Foremast/running rigging 9 manual, 1 hydraulic
4 Lewmar: 1 x 70, 2 x 55 - Aft (poop) deck Manual
1 Hydraulic windlass Aft anchor/warping Hydraulic
2 Lewmar 30s Mainsheet traveller Manual
2 Lewmar 30s Foresail traveller Manual
Deck Equipment:
Liferaft: Zodiac 6 man XDC 5CN 56C000 – latest certificate April
2004 (new 2000)
Avon Rib dinghy
Davits: electrically winches (aft)
SS guardrails on bulwarks, bathing ladder, boarding platform
4 anchors - forward: CQRS 240/140/75; aft CQR 75
Chain and warp:
Kedge 875 lbs, 45m of ½” chain; bow 240lb 109m of ½” chain
Storm 240lb 54m of 5/8” chain; stern 75kv 54m of ½” chain
Anchor windlass: two double forward/single aft/hydraulic drive
from electric PP + starboard ME
Steering: two positions – topsides wheel, hydraulic, hand lever
on nav. deck