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Shindig is a custom built 39ft cruising cutter designed and owned by the British designer and boat builder Andrew Simpson & Associates. Andrew Simpson is perhaps better known as the associate editor of Practical Boat Owner - a popular yachting publication in the UK. The design criteria was that Shindig should be easily sailed by two people, with good performance, bright and open interior, easy to maintain with all fastenings and secondary fixtures removable. Good visibility from below and a strong rig. From the cockpit, sails can be easily handled. Below she is well thought out, light and airy in an open plan design.
Accommodations
The layout offers up to 6 berths in 2 cabins + saloon.
There is full standing headroom and good ventilation throughout.
Forward there’s a spacious guest berth for a couple, which doubles as a compartment that serves as a sail locker when not in use. Proceeding aft is the main saloon area with wrap-around seating around a folding drop leaf table. The settees can also serve as bunks. Aft of the saloon is the u shaped galley area to port with stainless steel sinks, gimballed 2 burner stove and oven, top loading frigoboat 12v refrigeration and plenty of storage. To starboard, a stand-up chart table with sea berth below it. The ‘owners cabin’ aft to starboard has a large double berth with stand-up headroom and a large bunk. Opposite to port is the heads compartment with a huge space for storage immediately behind it. Apart from general stowage this is where the Katadyn reverse osmosis water maker lives.
Mechanical Systems
Original 2002 Yanmar 3JH2E 36hp engine, engine hours unknown but generally appears to be in good condition, Kanzaki gearbox drives a stainless steel shaft via an Aquadrive thrust bearing assembly. Fitted with an oil filled shaft seal unit and a Flexofold prop.
Electrical Systems
- 2 x House batteries
- 1 x Start batteries
- 1 x Solar panel
- Merlin Smart gauge
- Inverter
Spars & Sails
A very well designed masthead cutter rig featuring a deck stepped mast - 2002. Harken genoa furler, boomed self tacking staysail arrangement and slab reefing mainsail with lazyjacks. The sails are all said to be in good condition.
- Mainsail, slab reefing
- Furling genoa
- Staysail
- Andersen top quality winches throughout
Deck Equipment
- Spade anchor
- Lewmar vertical windlass
- Anchor chain
- Tiller steering
- Tiller autopilot
- Monitor wind vane
- Cockpit cushions
- Swim ladder
- Various fenders and dock lines.
- BBQ
Navigation Equipment
- Compass
- Garmin GPSmap 162 gps
- Lowrance VHF radio
Safety Equipment
- Liferaft - may be out of service
- 2 x inflatable Life jackets - need servicing
- 1 x Electric bilge pump
- 1 x Manual bilge pump
- Fire Blanket
Additional Equipment
- Katadyne Power survivor 80E-2 water maker - may need servicing
- Tohatsu 4hp outboard engine - may need servicing
- Inflatable dinghy
- Some spares & tools
- Assorted cutlery, crockery & Linen
Construction
Designed and built by Andrew Simpson in Poole in the UK. Shindig is constructed of a stripped cedar planking hull, fiberglass-ed and vacuum bagged. She has a fin keel with a flared bulb with a partially skeg hung rudder. Shinidg also has water ballast. By which 380kg (850lb) of seawater can be transferred from side to side or emptied or filled – all with a single pump.
Registration
Shindig has a UK SSR registration and there are no outstanding mortgages or encumbrances.
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.