SHIP SPECIFICATIONS
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General InformationHull Information
Structure
Machinery and Propulsion
Sails and Rigging
Navigation Station
Miscellaneous Equipment
Electrical System
General Information
- Built by: Pendleton Boatyard
- Where: Wiscasset, Maine
- Date: 1926
- Designed by: John G. Alden and Assoc. of Boston, MA
- Length Overall (L.O.A.): 81' 6"
- Length on Deck (L.O.D.): 63' 4"
- Length on the Waterline (L.W.L.): 47"
- Width (Beam): 14' 8"
- Depth (Draft): 8' 10"
- Displacement: 42 tons
- Staterooms: 2 doubles, one with 4 bunks. Main salon sleeps three.
- Heads (Bathrooms): One, with shower and vanity.
Hull Information
- Hull Material & Thickness: Originally 1-1/2" long leaf yellow pine. Currently replanked with Douglas Fir Vertical grain
- Frame Material, Spacing and Dimensions: 4 x 4 5/8" White Oak mostly new, has iron composite frames
- Fastenings and Material: Originally galvanized steel nails. Currently replanked with monel screws above waterline and galvanized screws below, both 3 1/2" #18
- Decking Material: 1 1/2" Teak caulked with several dead lights mounted in deck
Structure
- Beams: 4 x 4 oak rebuilt with side pieces add
- Bulkheads: mostly new, mahogany with teak veneer
- Sheer Line: Fair to the eye
- Ceiliing: Battens & Cabinetry
- Longitudianls : Fir floor timbers and stringers all refastened with 1/2" galvanized bolts. Stringers 2" x 5" in three layers, shelf 2 3/4" x 5"
- Stem: White Oak with 3/4" galvanized bolts new apitome samson post
- Keel: 9 x 20 Oak
- Stern Timbers: Oak and long leaf yellow pine
- Ballast: Bilge areas have been re-pitched. Material cast iron
- Weight: 25,000 lbs
- Secured by: Keel bolts; 1 1/2" galvanized steel, new in 1976
Machinery and Propulsion
- Main Engine(s): 1989 Perkins M135 diesel
- Cylinders: 6
- H.P.: 135
- Cooling System: Self-contained fresh water with heat exchanger
- Exhaust System: Wet
- Cruising Speed: 8 knots
- Reduction Gear: Borg-Warner
- Ratio: 2:1
- Engine Room Ventilation: Natural flow and two blowers
- Tankage:
- Water - 200 gal; Fuel - 150 gal
- (2) Racor fuel filters
- Borg-Warner reduction gear
- 1 1/2 stainless stell shaft
Sails and Rigging
- Spruce hollow box masts
- Bermudan (Stays'l) Schooner rig
- 9/16" stainless stell standing rigging
- Bronze turnbuckles
- Jiffy reef slab reefing system
- Nylon 3/4" & 3/8" running rigging
- (2) Barlow #32 winches
- (12) mounted winches
- (2) mains
- Jib
- Fisherman spinnaker
- (2) staysails
- 120%, 140%, 160% genoas
- Storm jib
- Gollywobbler
Navigation Station
- Furuno 16 mile Radar
- Benmar Autopilot
- Micro Logic GPS
- Magellan GPS
- Standard Horizon Quantum VHF
Miscellaneous Equipment
- 406 mhz EPIRB
- Danforth 60# anchor
- Nilson 12V anchor windlass
- CQR 90# anchor & 75lb Danforth
- Bow & Stern pulpits
- Stainless stell stanchions with 3 sets of SS life lines
- (5) bilge pumps
- (7) Dry chemical fire extinguishers
Electrical System
- 12V DC - 110V AC systems
- (4) 8D batteries
- (3) Battery chargers; 30 amp; 120 Amp Heart Invert / Charger; 30 amp Newmar
- 50-amp 110V shore power cord
- Newmar electrical panel with Cole Hersee battery isolating switch
- Tinned and crimped wire by Anchor Brand to USCG specs
- 180 amp alternator