Van de Stadt design, 40 foot round bilged steel cutter/sloop, launched in 1991.
In excellent condition and fully equipped. A modified and extended 'Seal' design number 260.DETAILS:
| LOA: | 12 metres |
| Beam: | 3.6 metres |
| Draft: | 1.5 metres (Shoal draft long fin keel with internal lead.) |
| Hull: | 4 mm steel. Round bilged. |
| Deck | 3 mm steel. |
| Berths: | One double
in aft cabin. |
| Doghouse: | Stainless steel, GRP, teak trim and perspex. |
| Bimini: | Covers whole cockpit; designed to collect rainwater direct into tanks. |
| Engine: | Ford diesel 4-cyl model 2721E. 70 HP. Fully reconditioned by Wignells of Victoria. 2002. |
| Gearbox: | Borg Warner. |
| Propeller: | Autostream 20" feathering propeller. |
| Autopilot: | Coursemaster
550 with hydraulic linear drive and rate gyro. Emergency spare Plastimo wheel autopilot. |
| Wind Generator | Air Marine. |
| Solar Panels | Two Solarex 83 watt panels (1100 X 650 mm each) mounted over davits. Smart regulator. |
| Alternators. | Two 100 amp alternators. |
| Regulator. | Next Step smart regulator. |
Batteries
|
Four US145
6 volt golf cart batteries. Total 490 amp hours @ 12 volts. New 2002. |
| Battery monitor: | Heart Interface Link 10 battery monitor. |
| Radar/Chartplotter | Raytheon RL70RC. 24 nm Radome mounted on gimballed mast fitting. |
| Log/Depthmeter | Raytheon ST40 Bidata |
| Wind instrument. | Raytheon ST40 Wind |
| Radios: | Uniden MC790 VHF radio with Seaphone. GME GX287A 27 Meg radio. |
| Radio/Tape: | GME Electrophone GR940. |
| EPIRB | GME MT250C |
| Dinghy: | 8' GRP dinghy hanging from davits at stern. |
| Liferaft: | 6 person Beaufort. |
| Stove: | SMEV 4 burner gimballed gas stove with grill and oven. New 2002. |
| Refrigerators: | One 12 volt Danfoss chest freezer. One 12 volt Danfoss day fridge. |
| Forestays: | Three. Outer forestay with Profurl. Mid-forestay removable with high-field lever when sailed as sloop. |
| Mainsail: | One fully battened. Lazy-jacks. Three slab reefs. Two slabs are reefable from the cockpit. |
| Genoa: | One 110% approx. 1991. |
| Yankees:
|
One high cut approx
1991. One lower cut, with padded luff insert. Rob White Sails, new 2001. |
| Staysails. | Two. Good condition. |
| Storm jib. | One. Never used. |
| MPS: | One, pale blue with sock. Useable with spinnaker pole, or direct luff rope to bow. Good condition. |
| Anchors: | One 45 lb Plough with 50 metres 3/8 chain. Arco electric anchor winch. |
| One 35 lb Plough with 100 metres 20 mm nylon rope. | |
| Fuel tanks: | 170 litres in keel tank. 40 litres in header tank. Total 210 litres diesel fuel. |
| Water: | 400 litres. Rain-collecting bimini. Electric and manual pumps. |
