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- General Specs:
- LOA (length overall) - 43'10"
- LWL (length at waterline - this is what really determines boat speed) - 38'8"
- Beam (how wide we are) - 12'11"
- Draft (how deep we are in the water) - 6'4"
- Ballast (lead weight) - 10,000 lbs.
- Displacement (before all our junk made it on board) - 30,000 lbs (est.)
- Sail Area - 1,011 Sq. Ft.
- Our boat was designed by Doug Peterson and built by Jack Kelly in
Taiwan in 1981. Our hull number is 284.
Click icon for floor plans - Alternate power to the wind is a 54 horse power Perkins diesel engine
- Our diesel generator is a Kubota 8KW. This gen set gives us the ability to generate AC power that will run our hot water heater, refrigerator from AC, and outlets in addition to charging our batteries.
- 110 gallons of fuel with an additional 3 x 5 gallon jury cans on deck just in case. We burn about 1 gallon per hour while under engine.
- 175 gallons of water in 5 separate tanks.
- Watermaker by Katadyn, model 80E that will make 3.7 gallons per hour. My biggest excitement about this is that we can rinse off the boat at the end of a passage and not worry about running out of water. The salt water does so much damage it's nice to be able to rinse it all off.
- Sails -
- we carry a main furler the mainsail rolls directly into the mast instead of being hoisted and lowered - we can put up the sail or reef with the simple push of a button. We were a bit hesitant when looking to buy this boat about this equipment. What if the sail got "stuck" in the mast or part way out? We now think this is one of our best pieces of equipment.
- Storm trisail - this is a handkerchief sized sail and used when nothing else is small enough. This is used in severe weather to provide stability more so than propulsion. When a sail boat is in the ocean with no sails up, they will tend to bob a bit more than if there's something, anything up. Only in the severest winds would we even consider running under "bare poles."
- 2 Staysails - this is a smaller sail that is flown between the mast and the bow. It's a smaller sail than the main or jib. We have a yankee and a regular staysail. The Yankee is a smaller staysail and used in higher winds.
- Genoa #1 - 105% of 8 oz (if I remember correctly) material. The sails are measured by the percent of area that they take up if you draw an imaginary triangle from the forestay, the mast and the deck. The 105% means that this genoa is slightly bigger than that area.
- Genoa #2 - 140% of 6 oz material. This is a bigger, lighter sail, and what is normally on our roller furler. Like the main, our genoa is on a furler that makes getting the sail up or down very easy. The sail is raised on the forestay, then rolled around the forestay when it is not being used. To bring the sail out is a simple matter of pulling on a line (rope) and unrolling the drum. Most boats have a roller furling headsails.
- Asymmetrical Spinnaker - this is the colorful sail that you sometimes see in pictures flying from the front of the boat. It's made from a lightweight material (I think nylon, but not sure) and used in light air to go generally downwind.
- Our primary anchor is a 60 lb. CQR. We also carry a 45 lb. Bruce, a 30 lb. fluke, a 44 lb. claw, and a 60 lb. navy anchor. All these were already on the boat when we purchased her, with the exception of the 60 lb. CQR. We wanted a size larger than is recommended. We don't really need all these others, but haven't made the decision which one to leave behind. They all had their own homes already so it was just as easy to leave them be until we feel like deciding.
- Electric windlass for raising the anchor. Abe is the one to bring up the anchor while I steer the boat, but even with his strength, pulling up a 60 lb. anchor with chain gets really old very quickly.
- 300' of 3/8" chain. At the bottom of the chain is 10' of line securing the anchor to the boat. If we needed to leave an anchorage quickly for whatever reason, we could pay out the remainder of chain and cut the line. We normally anchor in water that's 20' or less and use about 100 - 135' of chain.
- 6 x 97 amp hour gel batteries for the house bank (lights, radio, water pump, inverters, etc.), 1 x 97 amp hour gel battery for our starting bank (for starting the engine or generator), 1 x 97 amp hour gel battery for our electric windlass
- Link 10 battery monitor to watch the state of our house bank. This tells us how much we've used, what we have left, and what each piece of equipment uses of our battery capacity.
- 3 x 100 watt ICP brand solar panels to help recharge batteries.
- Windvane autopilot that steers by the wind only and doesn't use any electricity. This uses the a fairly simple servo-pendulum system to steer the boat by the wind. Very cool toy! See Monitor's site for details about how it works - they explain it much better than I. This will be used mainly while under sail.
- Raymarine Autopilot, Type 2 (for boats to 44,000 lbs.) linear drive unit. Our unit also has an S3G computer with gyro, rudder reference unit, and ST8001 control head.
- Raymarine RL70C Radar with 4KW dome. This will provide about 25 miles range of data. The 4kW theoretically will go to 40 miles, but because ours is atop a pole instead of on the mast we don't get quite as far of a sweep.
- Raymarine ST60 series depth/speed/wind instruments. Each of these has a separate display face. They will all "talk" with one another, the radar and autopilot. Raymarine has done a lot of good things with integrating all the instruments and making a great product, in our opinion.
- Interphase Probe is a forward-looking sonar. It uses a transducer placed near the front of the hull to capture images of what's below the water. It will sound an alarm if there's a container floating, and can also be used to help us navigate through tight bay entrances or reef-strewn areas.
- We have a Icom 710R single sideband/Ham radio with the AT-130 tuner. To allow e-mail via SSB, we have a Pactor-IIpro modem. We can transmit about 400 baud per minute on this system. Very slow, but excellent for staying in contact and providing updates. We bought the radio and tuner on e-Bay.
- Refrigerator - I think it's Grunert, but not positive. We like to speak kindly of it in the hopes that it continues to run. Most boaters have issues with their refrigerators at some point. We do have a freezer compartment, but it has an engine-driven compressor that has never been hooked up (since we bought the boat). We have the compressor on board and at some point hope to have the freezer capacity as well as that will provide some "fresh" meals during long passages.
- 2 heads (we use one as an actual head and the other for storage)
- Lectra/San sanitation device - the head waste is pumped to the Lectra/San that treats waste with salt water and electricity, rendering the waste inert. We can then pump directly overboard without harm to the marine environment. It's all managed with a simple push of a button. The second head does have a holding tank for those places we might go that require a holding tank. Holding tanks are then pumped at a separate time to a discharge facility.
- We found an old, refurbished air compressor on e-Bay. We can use it to refill SCUBA tanks. It's a fairly small unit, and will fill slowly (1 tank in 25 minutes), but fortunately we shouldn't be in any hurry to get refilled. This is run off AC, and therefore, run only when we have the generator running.
- Abe and I are both certified SCUBA divers. We have our own tanks (2 each) and gear. We hope to get local help in each of the places we visit as to the best places to dive, what to watch for, what to avoid, etc. We can also use our gear to dive the bottom of the boat to clean it.
- 6-man life raft by Winslow. What a great company they've been to deal with. One plus to their product - if we ever have to deploy the life raft they'll give us a brand new one! Not sure if we would have a boat to put it on at that point (why else would we inflate the raft unless our boat were sinking?), but the salesman told us if nothing else we could sell it on e-Bay. We asked them to pack in a deck of cards in the life raft to give us something to do.
- A hand-pumped watermaker for our life raft. Another e-Bay buy. This Katadyn (formerly Pur) watermaker will make 1 gallon of water for every hour of hand pumping. Not a lot, but certainly enough to keep us hydrated.
- Blaupunkt radio and CD changer is certainly needed to provide entertainment and mood-music. It's quite nice to be jammin' in the middle of the ocean. Boogie-in' certainly passes the time more quickly on passages.
