Description

This Ferrocement vessel has a circumnavigation under her belt and has clearly proved to be capable as an ocean going, passage making yacht.
She has a very generous accommodation, headroom throughout over 6ft 2ins. and she's 12ft on the beam amidships. Professionally fitted out substantial furniture and fittings.
She has been in her present ownership since 2012. She is now too much for him to keep up with her general maintenance and has found her too heavy to handle on his own, he has used her as a liveaboard option, sailing kept to coastal cruising with a trip last season over to Holland.

Specifications

Accommodation

Accommodation below decks offers a large saloon with integral navigation station with full size chart table and galley opposite.
2 heads,forward has a basin, its toilet is presently uninstalled / black tank removed requiring replacement. The second heads is a sea toilet.
The three separate sleeping cabins,( 2 x doubles and 1 single).
In the saloon there is a pilots berth and a small child's berth, further berths possible on the fixed settees. Stowage built into these below and behind under the side deck.
The galley runs along the port side with built in stowage, a double sink with hot and cold water , a cool box.
A gimballed gas cooker with double burner , grill and oven. Gas stowage in cockpit locker.
Foot pump at galley
manual pump in the main heads fresh water , cold only.
4 x stainless steel water tanks.
A storage locker runs aft under the cockpit port.

Galley

Saloon looking aft

single cabin

fore heads, require reinstalling.

forepeak double cabin.

Construction

Ferro hull supplied by Ferro Marine Services of Burnham on Crouch in 1987 professionally plastered out under the supervision of the designer/ marine surveyor Alan Hill. 1993 bought as a bare hull over the next ten years she was fitted out.
Integral long keel with encapsulated lead ballast a racked bow and a cut off counter stern Round bilge, a slight sheer line. Antifouled below the waterline
Layup: Steel rod form, galvanised chicken wire and mortar.
Decks have hard wood deck beams. 2 x layers of marine ply epoxy sheathed and painted. Several deck hatches let into the decks all Lewmar Ocean type.
Hard wood beam shelf laid onto of the cement beam shelf to give added strength and secure fixings for the stanchions and the deck beams. Resulting in a very strong and a good seal between the hull and the deck.
A low profile superstructure, has proved useful for reducing the windage but does allow for six foot plus headroom below. decks.
Open deep aft self draining cockpit, sheltered with a sprayhood. a Bridge deck divides cockpit from the main hatch and companionway to the accommodation.
Two large stowage lockers in the bow and a lazerette.

2012

1987

cockpit

Deck construction

Equipment

All the deck gear is of high grade marine stainless steel: Cleats, bow rollers.
2 x 45lbs Plough anchors with chain
Simpson Lawrence Manual anchor windlass
Canvas Sprayhood over the sliding main hatch.
Fixings for navigation gear under the sprayhood.
Equipment manuals.

Anchors x 2

Navigation Equipment

Autohelm ST 4000
Tiller Steering.
Icom VHF Radio new 2023
Garmin chart plotter GPS, 2022
Depth sounder and log
Plastimo contest 130 Bulkhead steering compass
Navigation lights. Tri colour anchor, stern.
1 x radar reflector.
Anchor ball
Barometer and clock

tiller

navigators stool

Engine(s)

Engine sited under the companionway through the main hatch.
Mounted on stainless steel plates above ferrocement engine bearers.
Nanni 4:200HE diesel engine. 2003. Serial no: 621009 139315 201146
4 cylinder fresh water cooled, marine diesel engine. Electric start, ignition and gauges in the cockpit. Single lever controlled
Shaft driven 19ins twin bladed propeller.
Hurth reduction gearbox
2 x stainless steel fuel tanks (180 & 250litres) 1 in the bilge the other sited behind the engine and is gravity fed.
Engine spares.

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Sails & Spars

Alloy main mast new 2003, keel stepped .Twin in line spreaders
The running rigging and standing rigging all fitted by Fox's of Ipswich.
Standing rigging stainless steel 1 x 19 wire.
Z Spar mizzen mast with stainless steel rig was all replaced in 2015.
Alloy spars.
The deck layout is very uncluttered and strong.
Mainmast and mizzen shrouds shrouds the mainmast running backstays and main backstay spans are all attached to substantial welded angle brackets through bolted to the hulls beamshelf, some with reinforced ferrocement knees beneath the deck.
Sail control sheet tracks and blocks
3 x Halyard winches
2 x Lewmar self tailing two speed sheet winches
2 x Barlow 27 single speed winches
A Furlex headsail roller reefing gear.
Main sail by Kemp 2021, A furling jib, 3 x fore sails and mizzen.
All sails are used but serviceable.
2 x spinnaker poles

Main mast

mizzen mast

Furling headsail

winches

Sheets and sail covers

Electrics

solar panel 80w
3 x 12 v Heavy Duty Batteries.
12v ships circuit
Ring main for 240 shore power.
LED cabin Lighting
Stirling management system

Safety Equipment

Stainless steel push pit, pull pit, stanchions and safety netting.
High grade stainless steel grabrails on the cabin top and around the saloon ceiling below.
Carbon monoxide alarm
Fire blankets
fire extinguishers
Whale gusher manual
Auto electric bilge pump
Horseshoe lifebuoy

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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