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General Specs
LOA: 38'
LWL: 29'
Beam: 11'10"
Draft: 4'11"
Ballast: 8000lb. lead keel
Diplacement: 19,500
Hull: Solid hand-laid fiberglass full keel with keel hung rudder. |
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Engine
-Yanmar 3HM35F - 1994 - 34 hp.
-Kanzaki transmission (rebuilt 2007)
-55 amp alternator
-Isolated starting battery with parrallel switch
-3-bladed bronze 16X12 main propeller
-2-bladed bronze 15X17 propeller (spare)
-Shaft-saver flexible shaft coupling.
-Shaft mounted zinc. |
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Engine Room
Large engine room accomidates batteries, hot water tank, refrigeration compressor, and installed halon fire extinguisher. Room is large enough to work easily on and around engine (Paul is 6' 2" tall) . |
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Fuel System
-75 gallon alluminum fuel tank (750 nautical mile range at 5 knots)
-Racor 500 fuel filter
-Two lift pumps, one for engine, one for Diesel cabin heater.
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Accomidations
-Full v-berth captain's cabin, double berth and single folding berth to port, sliding single berth stbd., quarter berth stbd.
-Diesel Dickenson Newport Cabin Heater that runs off of main fuel tank - kept cabin warm throughout three Alaskan winters!
-6' 3" head room throughout main cabin, kitchenette, head, and v-berth, maximum 7' 2" clearance in center of cabin.
-Waste holding tank: 35 gallons beneath V-berth with electric macerator overboard-pump (2004)
-Jabsco manual toilet.
-Hot water pressurized shower.
-Teak and holly cabin sole varnished.
-Clipper oil lamp
-Dietz oil storm-lantern. |
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Galley
-Fridge/freezer-Alder Barber Cold Machine (2005).
-3 burner propane stove - 2.5 gallon tank with LPG electronic solenoid valve and leak detection system.
-Double stainless steel sinks
-Salt/fresh manual foot pumps
-Freshwater pressurized pump (2005)
-Microwave (1200 Watt AC)
-Water Capacity: two 50 gallon centerline stainless steel water tanks
-6 gallon 120VAC and engine-heated water heater.
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Propane
2.5 gallon propane tank in deck locker with solenoid valve |
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Navigation Equipment
-Toshiba Satelite Laptop (state of the art for the 1900's)
-Fugawi Navigation Suite ENC and raster charts
-Furuno Radar 1623 (2003).
-Depthsounder
-Humminbird fishfinder (not installed, but included)
-Knot meter and log
-Loran (no, we aren't joking)
-Binacle Ritchie compass
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Electronics and Communications
-Sony Stereo with indoor and outdoor BOSE speakers (2005)
-VHF-Standard Horizon Quest+ with RAM+ Remote Microphone in cocpit (2004)
-2 handheld VHF radios (2004)
-WI-Fi long range (7 mile) antenna for wireless internet (2005)
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Electrical
-4 battery bank, isolated started battery with three deep cycle batteries - total house bank capacity 300AH.
-Two battery parrallel switches (one for charging system, and one for emergency crossover)
-125 watt solar panel w/ Pro-Star 30 controler - (2005)
-True Charge AC battery charger
-Xantrex Battery Monitor (2006)
-1000 watt inverter (2004)
-Air-X Marine 400 watt wind generator - (2004) (controller shown in photo)
-Two 50 foot shore power cables |
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Other Equipment
-Sunbrella Winter Cover for entire boat (2009)
-Aries Windvane steering gear
-Dodger (repaired 2009)
-Custom companionway teak doors (as well as original drop boards for security) (new 2004)
-Custom alluminum antenna arch (see above photo) (2004)
-All thru-hull sea-cocks are bronze.
-Custom teak boarding/swim platform.
-Stainless steal boarding ladder (2005).
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Sails and Rigging
-All new running rigging (2004)
-Main with two reef points.
-2 furling jibs (working jib and 120 genoa)
-Cruising Assymetrical Spinnaker with chute-scoop
-Staysail
-Profurl system on furling jib
-Deck Stepped aluminum mast
-316 stainless steel wire rigging (replacing this year 2010)
-Bronze turnbuckles
-Telescoping spinnaker pole
-Three bronze Lewmar 25 winches in cocpit
-One bronze Lewmar 8 on mast
-One Stainless self-tailing Lewmar 16 on mast
-One spare Lewmar 8 (not installed)
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Ground Tackle
-35lb CQR with 300ft of 5/16" HT chain (new chain 2005)
-Fortress FX 16 Anchor with 15' of 3/8" chain and 200ft 1/2" nylon rode (2005)
-Lewmar Pro-Series 1000 electric windless (2005)
-Bow and Stern Rollers
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Dingy
-7' fiberglass dingy stows on deck athwartship.
-2 hp Honda 4-stroke engine (2005) |
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Safety Equipment
-Plastimo 6 man offshore liferaft in canister and mounted on deck (2004)
-ACR Global fix Category II 406 EPIRB (2004)
-USCG flare kit
-Full complement of safety harnesses, lifelines, and offshore life jackets(2003)
-2 fire extinguishers (2004), plus engine room mounted haylon bottle
-2 gumby immersion survival lifesuits (uh... old?) |
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Our Purchasing Story:
We really had no clue what we were doing, so calling us lucky would be an understatement. We looked online and in the newspaper and walked the docks of Kodiak aimlessly dreaming about how much fun it would be to own our own sailboat and live aboard. We both agreed on a price range somewhere between $20-$30,000. Paul thought it would be a great idea to buy a really fast boat because the only sailing he had really done was in Lasers and small racing yachts like J-24's. Saesha, on the other hand, had never sailed a boat before in her life (except for the 6 ft gaff-rig dingy that we built earlier that year in our spare upstairs bedroom). So Saesha's only real requirement was that it be big enough to live aboard (i.e. slightly larger than the 6 ft gaff-rig dingy that we built in our spare upstairs bedroom), and have the amenities to make living aboard comfortable (i.e. not a racing yacht). So we happily went about our business, each showing the other the cool boat we found on the internet. Saesha would show Paul a picture of a Westsail 32 and say "Look how comfortable it looks!",and Paul would show Saesha a picture of a Cal 34 and say "Look how fast it is!".
One day one of Saesha's soon to be brothers-in-law mentioned that he had seen a boat for sale over in Dog Bay. So after work we jumped in our little car and zipped over the bridge to check it out. It turned out to be a cutter-rig Downeaster 38. So, ok, maybe it won't outpace a Cal 34, but it didn't take any convincing for Paul to realize that maybe Saesha was right, if you're going to LIVE on a boat it should be designed for that purpose. And so what if it was TWICE what we orinally planned on paying!
We contacted the local Marine Surveyor (the ONLY Marine Surveyor) in Kodiak to come down and take a look at the boat. Talk about a waste of money! For $500 we would have expected him to at least visually VERIFY that what the owners told him was correct! But of course the bank wouldn't give us a loan without a "Marine Survey" so we got a "Marine Survey". The surveyor talked to the owners (whom he already knew because only 10,000 people live in Kodiak), asked them questions like: How long is the anchor chain? And What is the water capacity? And is there any sign of blistering? He then regurgitated that onto a piece of paper and signed it! So, obviously, the marine survey didn't uncover any major issues with the boat.
Putting all fear and logic aside, Paul got on the phone with his bank, and quickly arranged a loan. We met with the owners and took care of all the paperwork without an agent. The day after we signed for the purchase Paul departed on a two month Coast Guard patrol leaving Saesha to take care of the little details (like selling all our furniture, moving out of the apartment, and figuring out how to start the Diesel heater on the boat in typical 75 knot Kodiak wind storms). Somehow, it all worked out. Nobody is really sure how. Possibly this was due to the previous owners honesty and general good-naturedness and we obviously took very good care of the boat. Or maybe it was just dumb luck. Either way, every time we read some disaster story about a boat with this problem or that we realized that nothing we did would have uncovered such a problem. So, let this be a warning, this seems to be the exception to rather than the rule of boat buying.
The Mantra: The general plan has always been to keep the current and future costs to a minimum because we fully expect to be unemployed sometime in the near future.
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