The world is your oyster when onboard one of North Devon’s premier schooner, the Misty Moonbeam. Built in Southampton by ship builder Mike Corbin Misty is now moored in the estuary behind Chivenor Business Park.A 90ft cutter rigged schooner custom designed and built for cruising and now owned by Charles Peter Burridge of the Chivenor Trade Centre, Misty will soon be available for private or corporate charter, either for short or long voyages.

Guests can set sail in the knowledge that the vessel is equipped with the latest safety equipment and has recently been refitted to include a Furuno 3D radar and plotter equipment as well as an automatic identification system. Charles has also had new sails fitted to make sailing Misty even easier.

Misty Moonbeam has two Ford Sabre diesel engines, roller furlong gib and staysail. She has already made a number of journeys, for both business and pleasure purposes, and can set sail from Chivenor with a qualified Skipper and Crew.

Charlie would like to thank Tony Glover (Glover Marine, Bideford), Peter Sanders (Sanders Sails Ltd, Lymington), Bob Bowers (Southern Spar Services, Southampton), John Rice and Bob Barnard (Marine Electronics, Bideford) and Dave White (harbourmaster, Dartmouth Marina) for their kind help during the upgrading and refitting of Misty Moonbeam.

91' Michael H Corbin Two-Masted  - Rigged Schooner

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)

AP navigator system,,Autonnic Research ARM4 Speed, depth, wind speed and directionDistance, time, elapsed time
Compass,Autopilot,Remote control steering lever

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.

Bowsprit hydraulically tensioned
Crows nest on foremast – blue-painted aluminium.