John Williams wants 3 crew for FARAWAY 2, CUSTOM 48 FT STEEL SCHOONER, 15m.

From liverpool, United Kingdom to SITKA, United States.

May 2018 to November 2018.

CUSTOM 48 FT STEEL SCHOONER Length 15 m/48 ft monohull sail Description boats crew logout profile Add New Boat View Archived Boats Your Boats FARAWAY2 48 ft steel schooner Length 15 m/48 ft monohull sail farawaysworld.blogspot.com Description Pilot hour 48 ft flush deck steel schooner,with full keel, 2mtr draft over 14 ft beam and displ. over 25 tons loaded. Those are the specifics now lets consider why this vessel is ideal for the planned next voyage for her. The North West passage (NWP) offers some chanllenges to vessls the first is possible ice conditions along the route. Steel is obviously the choice here due to it's strength just not tensile but the ability to yield too. Recent measured [plate thickness for the vessel is from 7 mm to 10 mm immensely strong.She was also prefessionaly built so welds were done properly. Full keel offers many advantages as they are inherently kindly if the vessel inevitably grounds, often the usual finn keel design could easily develop cracks where stresses are too high as the boat stops not gradjully but abrujptly . The full keel will slide up with usually no damage. All veryh important when navigating in areas whee charts are not entirely adequate. will cause cracks or at least highly stress plates where forces become immese when stopping like hittin a rock or shoal. Full keels are easy to handle in storm conditions and will run off with slight attention to the helm with a droque system behind if required.Seakindly they are too as this vessel proves to be. comfortable motion with weight distributed and not jerky if overly ballasted. easier , of course on the rigging to avoid rapide mast movement. Why a schooner rig? Well I've sailed ketch rigged vessel over 4 times around the world and can attest that the split rig is idea for short handed sailing. although that aft mast is somewhat larger than the mizzen on a ketch some erformance aspects are the same. Ease of sail handling is one: Sim;ly drop one of the mains to avoid having to reef it and heavens not rooler reef it as ssil designs unless cut very flat are not met to be as strong in that mode as well as the shape problems. The vessel with her nearly 1400 sq feet will also perform well in light winds. Now in the Arctic and Antactic, I've been both places, usually light easterlies prevail during the summer with gale frequency low. Hence Schooners with all that sail and the easyh ability to reduce it depending on the conditions offer a fine alternative to the regujlar sloop rig vessels. Here she has usual slab reefing# on the mains with the ability to easily hand on a trysail. The head sails well I prefer to change those-especiallyi the head sail-so obviously the hanked on offers the best alternative and resjlts in less windage aloft . That is especially important at anchor in strong winds with the vessel wanting to sail off the wind if too much windage forward as well as troube when heaving too in stronger winds. Yes, the dble headsail schooner is the obvious choice. Of course all this route with the likely hood of a good portion of the winds being calm requires that a good reliable diesel engine with plenty of fuel. The 90 HP Renault Diesel recently rebuilt with only about 180 hrs will do just fine. I plan to supplement the existing 150 gals of onboard tanks with several smaller bladder tanks stored below as well as deck tanks stored on the spacious deck amidships. Total I'm considering now is around 300 gals and at 5 knots a reasonable and economic cruising speed that would allow around 1500 miles. Enough to get to the next village! Interior is to the crew's delight with berths for 7 with two doubles aft divided by a mahogany partition with head and shower there. Forward is the insulated engine comopartment with gen set and main. then is the galley with a 3 bruner gimbaled range with oven. sink with fresh and salt water# and a bar arrangement across. The main saloon is quite attractive with a [pleasantly attractive with its curved settee and mahogany talbe. An unique serving port opens aft into the galley. Abovve all is the pilot station with excellent viewing through the small pilot house ports. A center cocpit opens just aft of this pilot house station with its chart table and nav. instruments. A dodger can be kept over this center cockpit. Fwd and stbd. of the galley comes the head with shower. Both heads have hot water from a water tak off the 200 gal. main tank. Fwd then are more storage and the twin vee verths with a pipe berth just aft on the port side. In the bow is the chain locker and as that hatch is clear it allows amle light into the Vee berth region and storage areas aft. Yes, nicely laid out and with the most important aspect included. That, of course is Storage . You can't crujise unless hyou have lots of that. My 4 world trips and over 200,000 miles of cruising can attest to that! She has the usual electronics though I do prefer just regjular charts but Open CPN works well too. Radar, AIS Receiver only, ICOm 735 Broadband transceiver, GPS, near new Furuno and several others, depth sounder, Auto pilot and with windvane and siiple sheet line steering there won't be much handsteerin other than in restricted channels and ice. Bow thrustor for tight maneuvering ,protected prop for ice and grounding.and lines getting snagged. Two steering stations wioth the aft one covered as well as solar panels ontop of the cover, wind gen. too. Battery charger for gen set. a 3.5KW model. and two sore skiffs a allminum bottom RIB an anolder Avon for emergency. Oh, of course a rifle for Bears both Polar and their cousins the Alaska Bronw bear that I'm familiar with living in SE Alaska. I hope IO've covered the main points here. It is a vessel ideal for the adventure and apleasant experience you'll never forget thanks John Williams

What roles/experience are needed (Crew 1): Watch-leader

What roles/experience are needed (Crew 2): does not matter

What roles/experience are needed (Crew 3): does not matter

Sailing with a Rally:

I'm looking for (gender): either

Cabins/Sleeping : own cabin-own bunk

Smoking on board: non-smokers only

Total people on board: 4

Crew roles: HOME TO ALASKA-MY 48 FT STEEL SCOONER IN THE UK ILOGICAL HOMEWARD AND MOST INTERESTIING ROUTE IS VIA NORTH ISLANDS,NWP, BERING SEA, GULF OF ALASKA (COASTAL CRUISING) TO SITKA AND WHALE ISLAND MY ISLAND HOME

Money: expenses shared equally

Travel to and from boat: negotiable

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