CUSTOM 48 FT STEEL SCHOONER
Length
15 m/48 ft
monohull
sail
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Description
Small pilot house 48 ft steel schooner with dooujble head sails flush deck forward with two steering locations: the covered# aft is for sailing and manuerving in tight quarters ; the center one above the sallon is for motoring or under auto pilot or sail steering system or wind vane operation. A warm and comfotable place. She features a full ocean keel with 2 mtr drat that provides ease of the inevitable grounding, good peroance instorm conditions, adequate ballast for stability and safety with the ease of motion onlhy a full keel can provide A stoutly built vessel with measured hulll thickneww of fromo 7mm to 10 mm along the keel. Dislaces around 25 tons loaded. A recently rebuilt 90 HP Reault Couach Diesel and new transmission provides around 8 knots but 5 to 6 is a reasonable crujising speed. Plan on taking on around 300 gals of fuel so cruising range under power alone is nearly 2000 miles at an economical speed of say 5 knots. With the schooner rig one has a wide range of options for sail usage. this vessel had almost 1400 sq. feet of sail assuring adequate performance in light winds and in storm conditions the main sails can be dropped and performance under storm stahy sail when off the wind is possible. Trysail on the fwd main mast is also a storm combination as are others. Due to motion and waves best to keep storm sils near the center though.
For vessel heating there is an Eberspacher diesel heater and a small carb. fed pot heater in the main saloon#. Hot water, 200 gal water tank, 2 heads with showers are crew friently items. sleeps 7 with 4 cabins and lots of storage that is so important to long distance crujising. Cooking on a three burner gimballed range with oven with required hand holds for cook# a very pleasnt saloon with a wrap around settee and mahogany table. the interior is wood paneled and the hull was sprayed with foam for insulation. finished that wioth eoxy paintA for protectioon against rust too. A 3.5 KW Diesel Gen set as well as wind gen and solar panels # furnish adequate ower . for batteries or through the battery charger. Ancors-can't have too many--the main will be a large Bruce say 50kg# with say 80 mtr of chain though for highwinds and if frahying isn't a cooncern, 3/4 inch nh3/4 inch nylon is best. So at least 100mts 3/4 nlon with additional 3/4 inch 100 mtr coils of a poly floating line. Smaller grapnel required for emergency too. Large Loftan 1000 as a windlass.
8 man liferaft on deck usual flares to USA standards as it is an USA vessel and treated as such on the high seas. al alumninum bottom RIB with outboard. oars too! If I can bring 3 inslated float suits, 3 insjlated fll work suits the usual PFD's useless in cold water thoough. and a gun (Polar and their cousins Alaskan Brown Bears)
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