Description

Ladybird has been our family's pride and joy for over ten years.
Now that my two children crew are ages 15 and 13, and both now bigger than Mum, it is with great sadness that the family consensus is that Ladybird is now too small for us and is therefore up for sale.

This is an excellent opportunity for those who want to get straight on the water and not have to fix up the boat.
There is also a lot of new gear included so this is great value for money too.

Ladybird has been meticulously maintained and upgraded to high standards over the past ten years and is therefore in great shape for her next adventure.

Ladybird is a dry boat at sea, which is quite something, and has been kept on her trailer under cover all the time we are not sailing her.

I completely de-kit her, sails, battery, engine, spars, everything off, every time, clean her out and leave her with a dehumidifier.
The engine gets flushed and serviced every trip and the battery is left on a trickle charger.

The sails are stored flat in a loft. I am a bit OCD about the sails, I have a dingy racing past, you can ask any of the owners attending the CC rallies in the class forum about how fast Ladybird is!

I can deliver the boat if required for the cost of the fuel and I am open to reasonable offers.

Specifications

Accommodation

Spray hood - This folds flat easily and gives good protection to the cock pit when at anchor.

Disappearing galley upgrade - This I designed and made myself. Stainless steel gimble and a camping stove set up which clamps to the centre board case and gives you a full gimbaled sea cooking capability, but also packs down compact in less than a minute.

Logan table - Cabin and cock pit mounts for the teak table.

Stainless steel sink and hand pump tap with a water filter on the pipe.

As new and NEVER used, Thetford PortaPoti toilette, it has not even had any chemicals put into it.

Construction

United Kingdom Certificate of Registry Name and Official Number of Ship LADYBIRD - SSR106352

Hull Identification NumberZA-ZENCA013C300

Hull build number 31 was built in 2003 (I have all the documentation)

Deck halyard fittings upgrade - There was a known weakness in the factory-fitted deck hardware for both South African and Honnor Marine boats and this has been sorted with strong fittings.

Engine mount upgrade - New engine mount of laminated oak with rubber vibration mounts built into the bolted system so there is less vibration to the cock pit when motoring. This made a big difference.

Custom-made teak nav station upgrade - A beautiful compact nav station addition to the cabin bulkhead.

Solar panel - Permanent deck mounted with charge controller. Keeps the battery good for a two-week trip no problem.

Teak cockpit upgrade - The previous owner had lovely teak added to the cock pit.

Centre plate refurbishment - Boat raised, plate removed, centre plate box refurbished, complete underwater hull epoxy treated protection including plate, before new anti-fouling, this was a preventative precaution, there was no osmosis.

Centre plate mechanism upgrade - Plate pulley wire replaced with Dyneema and new rope installed.

Swim ladder fault damage refurbishment - The factory-fitted swim ladder by the previous owner and some boom impact damage was evident on the transom when I bought the boat. It turns out that the ladder had not been installed properly. The stern was repaired and strengthened and the ladder supported properly.

Rudder upgrade - The previous owner strengthened the rudder as there was a known weakness in the top where the tiller joins the rudder. There is plenty of information about this on the forum and I have helped other owners upgrade their rudders with a design for the strengthening plates.

Companionway hatch upgrade - New teak fitted and improved hatch with new lock system.

Equipment

Manual bilge pump.

Fenders and mooring warps - New warps and 5 fenders.

Stainless steel forestay and shrouds, with a radar reflector.

Custom DIY water tank - This is a modified jerry can which fits into the triangle space inside one of the lockers and gets you more room for gear.

Spar cradles - These are not pretty but hold the spars when towing the boat so there is no damage to the woodwork and are designed so you can still get down below when the boat has the mast down which is really useful.

Full boat cover - This can be used with the mast up or down.

Trailer refurbishment - New uprated brake hitch mechanism, new keel rollers with stainless steel bars to prevent corrosion, new bunk rails and refurbished brakes, new spare tyre and two main tyres in good condition.

Trailer guide legs - These slot in and help line the boat up to get it back on the trailer making things much easier, especially in a crosswind.

12 V sealed battery and main fuse protection.

Navigation Equipment

Complete re-wire - New electronics throughout, including new LED nav and anchor light, LED interior lights, and new marine-grade wiring, including up inside the mast. Standard Horizon GX2200 Matrix AIS/GPS DSC ships radio. This is great for navigation, it displays other vessels' AIS data on the display as well as GPS data which means that you do not have to have an extra chart plotter constantly draining the battery.

Magellan Meridian colour GPS/Chart plotter with cockpit mounting bracket for easy navigation.

Compass - Removable which mounts in cock pit when needed.

Depth sounder with depth alarm, the transducer located in the forward locker and cockpit display with backlight.

When I purchased Ladybird she came with an electronic Simrad tiller pilot and cockpit installations for the mounting and plug socket. I have never taken this sailing, we always had someone to helm, so cannot comment on how useful this is or if it even works, but it will be included with the boat anyway.

New wind arrow with radio antenna - new coax wire through the mast.

Navigation gear includes a hand-bearing compass, binoculars, USB and a 12V car socket for external electronics.

Engine(s)

Outboard engine - 6 HP Mariner

2014 but very low hours, less than 100 hours in the past 10 years, we like to sail so it is almost as good as new.

Preventative corrosion treatment of internal parts, a new cooling impeller on the last service, always flushed with fresh water.

Includes alternator and cable set up to charge the battery when motoring.

The outboard has a high thrust prop which means it has plenty of drive and is easy to manoeuvre the boat in marinas.

Cock pit external fuel tank - This means you can go on long trips with no worry about running out of fuel.

Sails & Spars

All woodwork - Kept maintained. The mast and bowsprit this year, the stern half of the rubbing strake was refurbished last year, boom and gaff spar the year before, and handrails the year before. (The forward half of rubbing strake is this year's job to do but it is not bad)

Bow sprit stays upgrade - A Dyneema cascade system has been added to replace the fixed wires. This means that you can easily raise and lower the bowsprit when entering a harbour and quickly convert it to a tripod to use for lowering the mast single-handedly. This is excellent for trailer sailing.

Bowsprit upgrade - Refurbished and preventative upgrade with epoxy at the stainless steel bracket where many get water damage.

Stainless steel mast gooseneck upgrade - This is a custom fitting and raises the boom to give better headroom in the cock pit. A very nice upgrade.

Mast head upgrade - The mast cap was re-designed to prevent rainwater from entering the masthead.

Harken roller furling upgrade - Both Genoa and Staysail.

All blocks replaced - Quality Selden roller bearing running rigging throughout.

All ropes replaced - Quality new English Braids ropes throughout, most replaced last year, including warps and running rigging. Dyneema foresail halyards, braid on braid main halyards and soft S-Mix sheets. Eye splices were added where required and a clever genoa sheet splice that prevents the sheet from snagging on the forestay during tacking.

Jammer upgrade - Some of the sheet and furling system jammers were replaced with Spinloc gear.

Mainsail - Good condition, new tell tales on the leach.

Mainsail luff rings upgrade - The previous owner added leather rings to the mast for the mainsail which makes hoisting and reefing the main easier.

Boom cover with boat's name.

Staysail - Good condition.

Genoa - Good condition.

Yankee - Brand new and never used.

Safety Equipment

Anchor - Stainless steel chain with spliced-in 8-plait anchor braid warp, very long (at least 60m for emergency anchoring in deep water).

Safety gear includes anchor ball day mark, fog horn, laser flare, fire blanket, emergency paddle and fire extinguisher.

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