Description

The steel hull was built by Feltz, Hamburg, Germany in 1993. It was then fitted out by an individual (also in Germany) and launched in 1996. It is obvious from the round bilge construction, T section framing and stringers (instead of the normal flat bar), twin skin Rudder etc that it was built by a professional ship building company whose main construction material is steel.
I bought her in early 2012, although German registered she was in a boatyard in Portugal from where I sailed her back to Portsmouth. We have had many adventures in her along the South coast of the UK and North coast of France but we are getting no younger and are now looking at a camper van instead.
She is a well equipped comfortable cruising yacht (though the only shower is in the cockpit as being steel I did not want one inside) with moderate draft and ease of anchoring and independence from facilities being a priority. She sails well with a bit of wind and can often be sailed just using the furling genoa which is much bigger than the main sail. The relatively small main sail can be rigged so the first reef can be put in from the cockpit. She also motor sails well in light winds using minimal fuel as she is a bit over propped.
The gantry is rigged for hawling up and storing a dingy with outboard and works really well together with the transom platform. My last dingy was a Yamaha 275 with a Yamaha 6hp 4 stroke outboard, we had a big dog so used to hawl up the dingy with him in it when we had him with us and were alighting from the dingy (see pics).

All her instruments and electronics are post 2014, as are her windlass and combined masthead tricolour and anchor light. All her internal lights are led. All her navigation equipment and instruments are Raymarine. I have tried to list most things in the specifications below.

Specifications and Equipment.

Length 11.89 meters
Beam 3.5 meters
Draft 1.8 meters
Weight approx 13 tons
Anchor is a genuine Bugel galvanised 30kg
80 meters of 10mm galvanised anchor chain with 5 meters 18mm Liros anchor line.
Lofrans Tigres 1500 24v windlass with chain counter.
Peugeot Indenor XPD 4.90 marinized 2.1 litre engine
Bowman XDP 4.90 heat header exchanger
ZF 25 M gearbox
Vetus Engine Panel
Paguro 4000 generator
240V 2000kw Isolation Transformer
Eberspacher 5kw diesel heater.
Main fuel tank in keel approx 560 litres and 30 litre day tank
Main fresh water tank stainless approx 300 litres
Auxiliary fresh water tank plastic 100 litres
Stainless Calorifier 40 litre 1200 watts
Holding tank plastic 160 litres
Raymarine ST60 Depth
Raymarine ST60 Wind
Raymarine ST60 Speed
Raymarine P70R autopilot head (pilothouse)
Raymarine ST70P autopilot head (cockpit)
Raymarine Smartpilot SPX-30 autopilot
Raymarine fluxgate compass
Raymarine GPS receiver
Raymarine Axiom Pro 9 S (E70481) Chart plotter with extensive electronic charts
Raymarine Quantum 2 Q24D (doppler) Radar (E70498)
Icom VHF IC-506 with integrated AIS receiver
Icom M91D handheld vhf
Icom IC-M802 SSB with AH-4 automatic antenna tuner
Studer Xtender XTM 2400-24 24v inverter charger
Studer Xtender Battery Status Processor BSP 500
Cristec CPS3 12V/25A charger
6 x Rolls S6 275 AGM 250AH batteries (2 for 12v bank and 4 for 24v bank)
SOLARA S 325P36 Ultra solar panels x 2 (gantry)
SOLARA semi-flexible solar panels x 2 (pilothouse roof)
SuperWind 350 winder generator
Lopolight combined anchor and tricolour masthead light (20m)
Taylor twin hob with oven paraffin cooker
Panasonic Microwave
2 x fridges one with very small freezer compartment
Electric flush toilet

Specifications

Accommodation

Forward Double cabin with wardrobes and aditional storage.
Aft double cabin has small seat with storage underneath and boot locker.
The pilothouse seating area can be converted into additional berths. There is a vast amount of storage areas in the pilothouse.

Construction

Steel round bilge with T section stringers and frames.
Double skinned rudder.

Equipment

Please read description.

Navigation Equipment

Please see description.

Engine(s)

Marinized Peugeot XPD 4.90 2.1 litre
Bowman Heat Exchanger.
ZF 25M gearbox

Sails & Spars

Please see discription. She does have a baby stay and running back stays to use when it is deployed however the baby stay must be attached to the cleat on top of the windlass when deployed (I have a quick method for doing this) as the deck connection has had it's strengthener removed to make the anchor chain locker larger. I would only use the baby stay for a storm gib as I have found an inner foresail does not increase sail performance noticeably.
The mast is on a tabernacle so can be folded back. I would use the baby stay, spinnaker pole and windlass to achieve this as it is a heavy mast but have never done so.
The Genoa and main sails are around 4 years old but have only been used for two seasons. All sails are in excellent condition.

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