S/V Selkie

Westerly Ocean-master 48

Length
15 m/49 ft

Monohull

Sail

Description

The boat is a cutter-rigged sloop built by Westerly. It's center cockpit with a hard Bimini where all lines lead too. which means she can be easily handled in serious heavy weather. There are six berths onboard; that means two berths in the aft, two V-berths and two bunk beds located forward-port. There's two heads (toilets) onboard, both of which are equipped with showers. The center console is a large open area with a couch that seats up to fifteen, We've fit at least twenty before. The galley is a line galley rear starboard, equipped with a three-burner propane oven & stove on a gimbal. With both a freezer and refrigerator. The vessel is equipped with a desalinator so fresh water is never an issue. She has a dive compressor in the aft transom to fill any of the four scuba tanks onboard with accompanying dive gear; really all you need, I'm bringing some more gear onboard when I arrive- which will allow for up to 4 divers at a time. There is a full Kite-surfing kit onboard that's basically brand-new. The vessel has an accompanying dinghy; a fiberglass tender with a 25hp Yamaha outboard. The boat's engine is the bullet-proof Volvo-Penta. As I said she's a cutter-rig sloop with a keel-stepped mast. Which means the mast is ever so slightly placed forward of the vessel instead of in the center and she runs both roller-furling headsail and smaller staysail. The mainsail is in-mast Furling and there is an asymmetrical spinnaker onboard that was used across a lot of the South Pacific during those crossings. She is Fiberglass with steel rigging, and by the end of March or early April would have undergone a significant refit. Onboard is also a large computerized house-bank battery system with a Honda generator in the engine room and new Solar panels atop the aft transom; so electricity is also never an issue.

Additional details

Currently my plan is to get the boat to Alaska via a May-July Pacific crossing west to east. First direct from the Oceana region to Hawaii and second from Hawaii anywhere in the Pacific Northwest and northward within safety of the coast through the higher latitudes needed to cross to get to Juneau. There is a possibility for a longer voyage westward through the Indian and Atlantic, through Panama or Cabo de Hornos; then northward to Alaska- that could take more than a year; at the moment though that's not the plan (but it is definitely a possibility; in which case crew timeframes would be flexible). As for Timeframes of the west to east pacific crossing; there is the option to be onboard for either one major crossing or both if you have time. Preferably both, if not at least the first. Both crossings are 2,500NM+ opposite the trades. So if experience or ocean-miles are what you're looking for- there's both to be had if you have the heart for it. Longer-term plans mean living aboard in Juneau while going to school/working there. Should a westward option be deemed safer by myself in the next month; long term plans could include a greater "round the world" kind of year from Fiji to Alaska the right way. Something else to talk about if you're more interested in that than the wrong-way Pacific crossings and if whoever sees this has the heart and the time. Current crew include: me, myself and I. I'm looking for help. traditionally though I lived aboard with my parents and three younger siblings and we were comfortably living onboard as a family of six for seven years. As a family, and personally I've had crew before and I am not looking for someone who's soul intent is a free-ride. This will be two hard crossings followed by what could be weeks in high-latitude shoulder-season sailing. The boat can be put through anything; what I'm not confident in is my ability however, to not sleep for weeks on end. Which Is why I'm looking for crew; someone; or some people to both enjoy a love of the ocean, and be ready for some serious challenge.