Marketing Description
Very capable steel built ketch rigged motor sailer with interior helm. Inboard Ford Mermaid diesel engine with shaft driven propeller. Good suit of sails including main and genoa. Electronic navigation aids including radar, autopilot and colour chart plotter.
5 berth accommodation with large saloon, forward cabin, heads with shower and galley.
Mechanical
- Ford Mermaid 72 hp inboard diesel
- Reduction gearbox driving stainless steel shaft and 3-bladed bronze propeller
- Engine serviced late 2023
- Single lever engine control
- 1050 hours
Electrical
- Bank of 3x12V batteries fitted with isolators
- Starter battery replaced in 2023
- Batteries recharged via engine alternator or onboard battery charger
- 12V switch panel
- shore power with cable
Rigging
- Ketch rigged sail plan with deck steeped main and mizzen masts
- Stainless steel standing and terylene running rigging
- Roller furling headsail system
- Crusader mainsail with stackpack - 2013
- Crusader mizzen sail with stackpack - 2013
- Roller furling headsail with UV strip
- Lewmar winches
Navigation
- Compass
- Clipper Duet Speed/Depth
- Clipper Wind speed/direction
- Raymarine C80 colour chart plotter with radar overlay
- Icom ICM333 DSC VHF
- Lowrance Hook5 colour GPS/plotter
- Cetrek autopilot
- Navigation lights
- Clock & Barometer set
- Tide clock
Deck
- Lofrans Cayman 88 electric windlass
- CQR anchor with chain
- Dinghy davits
- Boarding ladder
Safety
- Horn
- Horseshoe buoy with light
- Danbuoy
- Gas detector
- Searchlight
- Manual bilge pump
- Electric bilge pump
- Fire blanket
- Fire extinguishers
Canvas
- Stackpack for main and mizzen sails
- Cockpit tonneau
Miscellaneous
- Dinghy
- outboard
- Warps and fenders
- Boathook
Accommodation
Spacious accommodation with berths for 5 persons in comfort. The main saloon is entered via the wheelhouse. Large U-shaped seating area to starboard with adjustable height table. This drops to make a large double berth. Opposite is a settee/berth. Beneath all the berths are storage. The galley is aft of the saloon sitting area and split port and starboard. To starboard is a countertop with stainless steel sink and pressurised hot and cold water. Flavel gas oven with 2-burner hob and grill. Storage units above and below. On the port side is a further preparation area with cupboard stoarge below and outboard. Front opening 12V fridge.
Between the saloon and the fore cabin is a full sized heads with marine toilet, sink with pull out shower and shower sump pump out.
The forecabin has 2 singles, hanging space and an opening deck hatch.
12V lighting throughout. Mikuni cabin heating.
Construction
Steel built ketch with GRP superstructure. Central keel with bilge plates port and starboard. Hull topsides painted white using a 2-pack epoxy paint. Protective steel rails with wooden capping. Raised bulwarks with scuppers. Deep cockpit with wooden topped lockers and teak grate. Emergency tiller position. Dinghy davits.
Wheelhouse with sliding timber door. Aluminium framed glazed windows let in lots of light and provide excellent visibility. Handily placed teak handrails on wheelhouse roof. manual anchor windlass. Chain locker.
Disclaimer
For a full, detailed specification with additional photographs and direct contact details for the listing office visit our website
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.
Unless otherwise stated on the specification sheet the following presumptions are made
- Sail drive and shaft seals are more than 5 years of age
- Fuel and gas hoses and regulators are over 5 years old
- Standing rigging and sails are more than 10 years old
Please note that as the broker/agent, we cannot guarantee or warrant the serviceability of any safety equipment included within the inventory, including but not limited to the condition, operation, or service dates of such equipment. It is the responsibility of the buyer to thoroughly inspect and assess the condition of all safety equipment prior to purchase.
NOTE - Please ring our offices prior to visiting, as the boat may be unavailable for viewing or located at a different marina.