Boat Overview
Model: 46′ Steel Gaff Ketch
Designer: Ernst Van der Laan
Builder: MOF boat builders, Cape Town
Year: 1997
Location: Liverpool
Length on Deck: 46'
Length Overall: 57’8″
Length Waterline: 41′
Beam: 13'6"
Draft: 6'1"
Tonnage: 17 tons disp
Price: £135,000
Reference: REF: 9313
History
This vessel was originally intended as a boat to carry cargo. The saloon was designed as the hold with living accommodation aft. However, this plan changed rapidly after launch, and she was fitted out as a private yacht before leaving South Africa for South America. The family spent many years cruising and living aboard between Brazil and New York, with significant time in the Caribbean, where she proved to be a very comfortable and safe family cruising yacht. The current owners purchased her while in the Caribbean and used her as a cruising home in the tropics before sailing back to the UK in 2012.
Specifications
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Displacement: 17 tons
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Sail Area: 2210 sqft
Construction
The entire hull was shot blasted when new and painted with International epoxy paint, preserving it extremely well. The topsides were repainted in black Jotun in 2014, and the decks were repainted with Epifanes in 2011.
Hull: Built in South Africa in 1997 to Norske Veritas standard from 5mm welded steel plate. Angle bar frames at approximately 100cm centres with 40x40x6mm angle longitudinal stringers. The keel is of 8mm plate with a 12mm bottom plate. The hull is insulated to the waterline with 2″ polystyrene foam.
Decks and Cockpit
Decks are of 4mm welded steel plate with a 12″ mahogany bulwark all around, held with steel stanchions welded to the deck. A varnished Iroko capping rail is mounted on the bulwark. The self-draining cockpit is made of 3mm steel plate with scrubbed teak sole and seat gratings.
Superstructure
The dog house is made of 4mm steel plate with fixed glass windows. It features a steeply cambered roof of 1/2″ T&G mahogany planking overlaid with 12mm marine plywood and sheathed. A sliding hatch on the centerline with double teak companionway doors provides access to the cabin, with a spray hood to prevent water ingress.
Rigging
The vessel features a gaff ketch rig on hollow steel tube keel stepped masts. Varnished wooden booms, gaffs, bowsprit, and topmast. The bowsprit and wooden spreaders were replaced in 2014. The standing rigging is galvanized with rigging screws to chain plates welded into the deck.
Sails
All sails were made by North Sails of Cape Town in 1998:
- Mainsail: Duradon
- Mizzen: Duradon
- Staysail: Duradon
- Jib: Duradon
- Reaching Jib: White Dacron
- Flying Jib: White Dacron
- Storm Jib: White Dacron
- Main Topsail: Tan Dacron
- Mizzen Staysail: Tan Dacron
Machinery
Engine: 254 Ford 4D 80hp naturally aspirated diesel mounted on the centerline under the dog house sole. Single lever controls to the Borg Warner Velvet drive box. 35mm stainless shaft to a 3-blade bronze propeller. Maximum speed: 7 knots. The engine is fresh water cooled with a keel cooling system.
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Fuel Capacity: 135 gallons in the main tank + a header tank
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Additional Tank: 120 gallons not yet commissioned
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Fresh Water Capacity: 200 gallons in 3 separate tanks
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Grey Water Tank: 35 gallons
Accommodation
The accommodation is spacious for a boat of her length, offering several separate sleeping cabins:
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Berths: 8 berths with 2 doubles and 4 singles
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Main Cabin: Large double to port, table to starboard, navigation equipment to port
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Saloon: Large saloon table, settee berths both sides
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Galley: U-shaped with a gimballed 2-burner gas stove, twin stainless steel sinks, hot and cold pressurized water
Heads
The main heads compartment to starboard has a Blakes Lavac sea toilet and a shower with a stainless tray and teak grating. The second heads forward is for the guest cabin and has a Jabsco sea toilet with a stainless hand basin.
Equipment
Navigation
- Sestral Moore steering compass
- Garmin 128 GPS
- Uniden MC 1010 VHF radio with additional cockpit speaker
- ICOM hand-held VHF
- Horizon Depth Sounder
- Navico Tillerpilot
- Aries Mk IV Windvane
Safety
- Four person Avon Life Raft (new 2008, serviced to 2015)
- EPIRB
- Lifejackets
- Flare kit
- Emergency grab bag
- Safety harnesses
- Fire extinguishers
- Manual bilge pump
- 1 electric engine bilge pump
Ground Tackle
- 60lb CQR with 56m of 10mm chain
- 60lb CQR with 30′ of 10mm chain and 200′ of 1″ warp
- 145lb Fisherman's anchor with 30′ of 10mm chain
- 45lb Danforth stern anchor with 10′ of chain and 200′ of 1″ warp
Disclaimer
These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide. Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
