Petit Prince 12.5 for sale in Cardiff United Kingdom

Petit Prince 12.5 from 1985 Cutter rigged steel hulled sloop, set up to cross oceans with Perkins 4108 inboard diesel, 6 berths (aft owners cabin), Full sails wardrobe, wind vane self steering and full set of electronics.

Lying Penarth

Inventory And Systems

Engine & Diesel
• Perkins 4108 engine with about 4,700 hrs in illuminated, soundproofed compartment under cockpit
sole with 360 access.
• Three bladed bronze prop with rope cutter
• Twin Racor switchable fuel filters with vacuum gauge blockage telltale
• Vetus anti-syphon break
• Water inlet filter (renewed in 2018)
• PSS dripless shaft seal (salt water lubricated)
• Heat triggered halon replacement engine room fire extinguisher
• Three diesel storage tanks in keel… (103 litres + 80 litres + 67 litres = 250 litres)
• Diesel day tank above engine to supply engine and diesel heater (40 litres)
• Additional 120 litres of diesel in lazarette in gerry cans
• Perkins 4108 workshop manual

Electrical
• 4 x sealed wet cell lead acid batteries (New in 2018)
• 1 x wet cell lead acid battery for engine starting
• Parallel switching between house bank and engine start
• Merlin AMS smart alternator management system controlling;
• Hitachi 70 Amp alternator
• Solar: 250W panel mounted on arch
o 2 x 150W flexible panels for attachment to lifelines
o 2 x Victron MPPT Controllers (for redundancy)
• Rutland 913 wind generator
• Marlec wind generator controller
• Mastervolt 12/40 40Amp battery charger for shore connection
• Synergex PW-1000/12 1000W inverter
• Comprehensive electrical switch and fuse panel (with oodles of working space)
• Digital voltmeter
• LED tricolour and anchor light
• Hella navigation lights
• Deck light

Water and Plumbing
• Water maker located in heads… runs off 12v system (draws 9A, making 20 litres/hr)
• 5 x water tanks totalling 350 litres (all with inspection hatches)… main one is used for the water
maker
• Awning has gutters that allows use as a rain catcher… possible to collect ~100 litres/hr in tropical
rain showers
• Freshwater day tank in heads to control daily water usage. Can be switched in or out.

Gas
• 2 x 13kg LPG tanks located in purpose built gas locker, with drains and changeover valve
• Entire gas system replaced in 2004
• Solenoid valve at tanks to isolate system when not in use… switch at electrical panel
• Bubble gas leak detector in lazarette
• Additional gas tap in galley

Galley
• Nelson Spinflow gas cooker with twin burners, grill and oven
• Twin stainless steel sinks with footpumps for salt and freshwater
• Tiled work surface
• 2 x UK mains electrical outlets
• Webbing strap system to allow you to wedge yourself in when cooking in rough conditions
• Large fridge (with freezer box) cooled by Danfoss BD35 compressor

Salon
• Spacious and comfortable with seating for 8 people around 3 sides
• Vast storage under seats, behind seats and in lockers
• Oiled parquet flooring
• Lee cloths to both saloon berths
• Fan above one berth
• Bookshelfs x 2
• Radio with remote and feed for 3.5mm & Bluetooth

Chart table and navigation
• Garmin GPS128 for basic low power navigation… drives the GPS repeater at the cockpit
• ICom VHF
• ICom HF 801E
• Pactor 4 modem
• ICom Tuner unit in aft cabin
• Raymarine SL70 Radar
• Nasa Clipper navtex receiver
• Vesper marine Watchmate 750 AIS receiver
• Nasa Clipper barometer with history function etc.
• Clock (for Ships time)
• Panasonic Laptop built-in with DC-DC charger & Spare battery

Head
• Jabsco manual toilet
• 167 litre holding tank with discharge pump and sealable diverter valve
• Single sink with freshwater footpump

Corridor
• Doubles as the wet-locker
• Rattan fronted lockers with wire trays for vegetable storage
• 2 x open fronted lockers for safety equipment
• Engineering stores area with dividers for boxes/trays

Aft Cabin
• Double berth with lee cloth
• 2 x hanging lockers
• 2 x sets of 3 drawers
• Bench seat
• Book shelves
• Fan

Forepeak
• 2 x single berths with privacy curtains
• 2 x large storage bins beneath (big enough for dinghy)
• Another storage locker at the forward end
• Power and lights for reading

Safety Equipment
• EPIRB (will need re-registering and service)
• Cabin manual bilge pump
• Cockpit manual bilge pump
• Roaming 12v bilge pump
• Bilge pump alarm
• Liferaft (4 man) (will need servicing) It’s the better version one !
• Jordan series drogue (with all the chain etc. ready to launch) (VERY heavy)(110metres, 147 cones
with ballast chain) attaches to dedicated chainplates on stern
• Horseshoe buoy with light
• Lifesling man overboard recovery system
• Jackstays

Comforts
• Refleks drip fed diesel heater (can also be used as a hot plate)
• 8 x opening hatches
• All opening hatches have detachable fly screens
• 6 x dorade vents
• LED lighting throughout
• Waterproof rubber flooring to galley/working area
• All cupboards/doors have lockable catches
• 3 x washboards… 10mm thick polycarbonate/2 part wooden/security grill

Mast and Rigging
• 12m alloy Francespar mast with two spreader pairs
• 12mm Forestay (2005)
• 2 x 10mm backstaysstb one has HF aerial insulators etc)
• 10mm upper and lower stays (2018)
• 10mm baby stays (2018)
• 8mm non-running backstays
• 4 x mast winches for halyards and reefing
• Boom brake (not currently fitted, but it’s on the boat somewhere)
• Mast steps

Sails
• Mainsail with 4 reefing points… 4th reef is very deep to obviate the need for a Trysail (new in 2016)
• 8:1 main sheet block to Goiot main track aft of cockpit
• Crusader LDC yankee cut headsail on Goiot roller furler (2011)
• 2 x Goiot traveller tracks for low cut headsails
• 2 x Goiot traveller tracks for high cut headsails
• Staysail… boomed with hanked on sail (unknown age) with single reefing point
• Hanked on Storm jib
• Old spare mainsail
• Cruising chute
• 2 x Spinnaker poles
• 2 x Barient self tailing cockpit sheet winches
• Barient genoa cockpit furling line winch

Cockpit
• Binnacle mounted Sestrel compass (with deviation card available)
• Nasa Clipper GPS Repeater (4 x data readouts)
• Raymarine Tri data
• Raymarine Wind
• Raymarine Autohelm
• Engine control panel
• Shade awning
• Cushions
• 4 x safety harness secure points

Steering
• Twin steering options…
• Wheel via hydraulic system
• Permanently rigged tiller direct to rudder
• Autohelm system via hydraulic system
• Aries ‘lift-up’ wind vane… Super piece of gear… in winds of 4 kts up to crazy !

Anchoring
• Delta 25kg main bower anchor
• Fortress FX-23 spare
• CQR 25kg
• 22kg FOB Danforth type anchor (at bottom of lazarette I think ?)
• 5kg dinghy anchor (If it wasn’t stolen with the dinghy)
• 90m of 10mm galvanised chain
• 100m of 20mm line in easy to deploy bag (for kedge anchor)
• Twin stainless steel bow rollers
• Secondary anchor chain/rode of 60m via hawse pipe
• Stainless steel stern roller (can be used via a cockpit winch)
• Goiot 2-speed manual windlass
• Large anchor locker
• Snubber x 2
• Anchor ball (might need re-rigging)

Miscellaneous
• Large lazarette
• Fenders (mostly rather tired)
• Boathook
• Deck brush
• Fender plank x 2
• Various 20l cans

Spares
• Prop
• Various engine spares
• Aries wind vane spares
• Heads spares
• Pump spares