A Wood Long Keel Bermudan Ketch built in 1985
'One of the most beautiful yachts I have ever seen' were the words of Eric Hiscock when seeing a sister ship years ago.'Marvelous in a seaway, unusualy dry and with her long keel a good course keeper' A fine yacht for extended crusing.
Length: 54ft / 16.46m Waterline length: 34.8ft / 10.6m Beam: 12.7ft / 3.87m Draft: 5.9ft / 1.8m
1* 80 hp Diesel Perkins 4.236
engine with good front, top and side access. Heat exchange cooling.Borg Warner gearbox. 40mm s.st.shaft with sailing brake.Three blade fixed propeller.Tanks include: 2 x Diesel, total capacity 750 litres. Fresh Water approx 500 litres.
100 amp Alternator with “maxcharge” regulator unit charging 12 volt battery system with two battery banks, 3 batteries in total of approx 450 amp hr. Shore power circuit. 2 x 350 watt inverters. Incandescent cabin lighting with conduit wiring.
Include white terylene mainsail, mizzen, 2 x furling jibs on Profurl gear, boomed staysail and storm jib. Slab reefing for mainsail with reefing winch mounted below main boom gooseneck.
5 berth
She offers a five berth layout, excluding the use of the forward cabin settee or saloon settees. From forward: fo’c’s’le with chain locker and dividing bulkhead with access panel. Forward cabin with settee to port and double berth to starboard with deep leeboard and stowage space under the berth for warps etc. The boards under settee and berth cushions have holes cut for ventilation. Opening hatch above with tie bar security and two oval opening ports. About 5’10” headroom under the hatch. The hull sides, where exposed, are finished with varnished Iroko battens, allowing plenty of ventilation to the hull structure. Hanging locker and two stowage cupboards plus two open cave stowages to port. Good sized separate toilet compartment to starboard with a teak shower grating, draining to a sump with pump out aft through a single hull outlet. Ceramic white hand basin (drains to sump with hand pump-out) with pressurised cold water only. Wilcox Crittenden marine toilet with easy access to toilet seacocks. 6’3” headroom in toilet compartment. Opening oval bronze side port for ventilation. Deck prism light above hand basin. Toiletry locker outboard with stowage racks. Main bulkhead with doorway aft to the saloon with a solid Iroko saloon table offset from the centreline to starboard with wide extension flap to port. L-shaped settee to starboard with pilot berth outboard, 6’5” long. A similar length pilot berth is fitted on the port side with shorter settee and refrigerated locker stowage on the forward bulkhead. Sideboard arrangement aft to port, primarily used for the galley with off white patterned plastic laminate work surfaces. Two excellent 12” depth stainless steel sinks on the aft bulkhead with hot and cold pressurised water supply (hot water via heat exchanger calorifier or immersion 220volt.). Good depth galley lockers outboard plus four galley drawers, locker under sinks with pump-out pump and two further lockers. Taylors 030 paraffin cooking stove (oven and two burners). Danfoss compressor 125 ltr capacity refrigerator. Skylights over galley and saloon. Opposite to starboard: Stowage locker with electric panel inside and recessed communications receiver. Beneath this, a sideboard with two drawers under and aft of this the chart table with lift-up top and navigator’s seat with sitting headroom under the side deck. Centreline with engine casing and installation with book shelving on the aft bulkhead. Adjacent to this, a step up to the doghouse serving as “a ship’s general utility area” with three bosunry drawer stowages, general stowage space and oilskin hanging facilities. Sail stowage under the companionway steps to the cockpit with tool locker/cum seat. A quarter/pilot berth to port with engine instrumentation panel on the forward bulkhead and compass. Fixed side windows. Companionway to the cockpit with some stowage under the aft deck. Cockpit side benches are sealed for security. Please request a hard copy of the Particulars for the full inventory, an abreviation of which is below:
Navigation equipment: B & G Horizon 209 and Hunter speed/log and depth.Raymarine ST6000 autopilot, (2003) Furuno Navtex NX300.Raytheon RN300 GPS and chart plotter (2002) Motorola MC2000 VHF. HFSSB radio, Motorola Micom with auto tuner. Weather fax via SSB/ computer.
Deck equipment: Zodiac dinghy. Yamaha 8hp outboard motor. New, 2003 RFD Liferaft. MOB. Tiger manual anchor windlass. 1 x 65lb CQR anchor, 1 x 45lb CQR and 1 x 30lb CQR. 50 metres of 12mm galvanised chain. Warps and fenders.
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