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Type Gaff Cutter
Year Built 1904 (Refit 2006-2008)
Designer Charles E. Nicholson
Builder Camper and Nicholson
LOA 34.10m / 111’.88’’
LOD 30m / 98’.00’’
LWL 21m / 68’.90’’
Racing Class 19-20m rule
Beam 5.44m / 17’.85’’
Draft 3.80m / 12’.47’’
Construction 2¼’’ Carvel planked teak on Oak and steel ring frames
Engine Perkins Sabre, M265TI, MAX RPM 2200, Six Cylinders, 265 Hp
Consumption at RPM:L/h 1200:8.0, 1400:10.0, 2000:27.0
Generator Onan 17.5kVA - 80 amps max
(consumption 3.4L/h at 40 amps for 5h per day)
Engine driven alternator 150 amp
Heating Mikuni diesel
GRT 87.82
Guest Six in 3 cabins with en suite heads in each
Crew Six in 3 cabins (bunks for eight)
Flag British
Registered Jersey - Official Number 116200
Rig Martins Rigging
Spars Collars
Lower Mast 22.40m/73’.49” Columbian Pine
Top Mast 12.40m/40’.68” Columbian Pine
Boom 19.00m/62’.34” Columbian Pine
Mainsail gaff 11.00m/36’.10” Sitka Spruce
Bowsprit 8.00m/26’.25” Columbian Pine
Spreaders   Ash
Meissner Winches
4 x CMB 36 power, 3 x CMBH manual, 2 x 28-STB-47 self tailing
Sails Contender Dacron
Total 953m2 Working 483m2 (7’911sf)
     
Main 220.5m2  
Spinnaker (MPS) 252.8m2  
Trysail 72.5m2  
     
Staysail 57.3m2  
Staysail Strom 30.0m2  
     
Jib Yankee 87.1m2  
Jib Working 48.1m2  
     
Jib Top Large 61.9m2  
Jib Top Small 27.9m2  
     
Top Sail Large 55.8m2  
Top Sail Working 39.5m2  

Navigation
/Communication
General
B&G NAIS-400 Class B AIS
B&G AC12 Autopilot Computer
B&G 4G Radar with ARPA
Full catalogue world charts
McMurdo 406GHz EPIRB
2 x S.A.R.T

Nav Station
2 x B&G Zeus2 Glass Helm 16 inch chart plotters
Sailor Fleet Broadband / Inmarsat C distress
Simrad R35 VHF with DSC functionality
2 x Intel NUC computers with Windows 7 & 8
B&G Triton Autopilot Controller
Interphase forward looking sonar

Helm Station
2 X B&G Zeus2 7 inch chart plotters
B&G Triton Autopilot Controller
B&G Triton multi-instrument display

Crew Area
B&G Zeus2 7 inch chart plotter
ICOM M-421 VHF with DSC functionality
2 x B&G Triton multi-instrument display

Owners cabin
B&G H5000 multi-instrument display
Propulsion 3-blade fixed propeller
RPM:knots 1400:8.5, 1800:10, Sails 12 knots
Gear Box Gear Box PRM 1000 connected via Carden shafts to a
Aqua Drive-CVB-32-30 thrust bearing
Deep Sea seal on the inboard end of the stern tube
Power Supply 230v 50Hz AC / 24v DC
12# Dryfit A600 2v Gel cells with 1500ah/20 hr
Engine/Services separated and with parallel switch
24v separate DC bank for the NAV & COM with parallel switch
Mastervolt inverter 2.5kVA
Galvanic isolator
3# Mastervolt 100 amp battery chargers
Tanks Diesel 1400 litres (Bladders giving an extra 1000 litres)
Water 800 litres
Range 1120NM at 1400RPM, 1920NM with Bladders
Hamann chlorine waste system with 1 x 250 litre holding tank
Water 2 x Sea Fresh water makers
AC unit 200 litres per hour
PTO Hydraulic 200 litres per hour
Hot Water 2 x C-Warm CWB78-VTC at 78 litres each with twin
coils and double Heater elements
Fuel Control Duplex Racor Filter to engine
Simplex Racor filter to generator
Flexible armoured hose used for all pipe work.
Manually operated fuel cut offs to feeds and returns
Tenders/Tools 4.30m Zodiac Pro, Yamaha 60hp High Thrust
Classic Gaff Rigged sailing dingy built by Butler and Co
2 x Scuba sets with Bauer Junior II Compressor and accessories
Windlass
/Anchors
Thomas Reid hydraulic windlass with double gypsy
Bronze Fisherman Anchor 140kg
CQR Anchor 108kg
14mm stud link chain 140m and 60m
Bilge System 220v Gianneschi 401BT Fire / Bilge pump – Full rebuild July '22
24v Auxiliary fire 1 ¼" pump with deck outlets fore & aft
Manual deck mounted bilge pump
2 x automatic 'Rule 2000' in main bilge space with alarms
PTO clutch pump running off the engine
Crash pump 3" petrol driven
Fire Fighting Two 2” fire hydrants in the covering boards forward and aft
FE-227 manually operated extinguisher in the engine space
Machinery space intake/exhaust ventilation with manual/automatic shut down
Exhaust ventilation with automatic shutdown
Heat and smoke detectors in machinery space, lazarette and galley
Gas alarms below galley, saloon, galley bilge and aft bilge
2 kg Co2 extinguisher in galley/crew area
8 handheld extinguishers located throughout vessel
Safety 3 x Zodiac 8 man Liferaft with A Pack
MedLink WorldWide Service and MedLink MCA class A Kits
Ship’s Medicine Chest w/ Rx 3.0
First Responder Kit w/ Rx 3.0 x 2
Philips FRX Defibrillator
12 x ‘Kru’ , self inflating life jackets with harnesses
12 x M.O.B locator beacons (Mobilalarm V100) with EPIRB and onboard alarm