Boat Overview
Designed by Christian Stimson and built by Harley Race Boats of Cowes, this Reflex 38 has been well maintained and updated. It benefits from a good inventory of racing sails.
She has been based in Sussex and under the same ownership for the last 16 years. The boat has been used for local round the cans club racing, fully-crewed and double-handed RORC offshore racing, and summertime cruising.
Set up for both fully-crewed and short/double-handed sailing, she includes both symmetrical and asymmetrical spinnakers/poles, a Facnor flat-deck headsail, and Selden code-zero furlers. Additional features include mainsail lazy jacks and a cockpit-mounted plotter.
Accommodation
Features include:
- Double berth in fore cabin
- Port & starboard midships berths with pipe cots above in saloon
- Port & starboard quarter berths with pipe cots above
- Ten berths in total
- Port side aft saloon with stainless sink featuring cold freshwater & saltwater taps
- Thetford twin burner & grill gas cooker
- Separate heads compartment with Jabsco sea toilet and stainless sink with cold tap
- 4kw diesel heater
Construction
Construction details:
- White GRP hull, grey deck and superstructure
- Deep iron fin keel with lead shoe
- Blade rudder
Equipment
Deck hardware includes:
- 2 * Harken 46, 2 speed, self tailing sheet winches
- 2 * Harken 40, 2 speed spinnaker winches
- 2 * Harken 40, 2 speed, self tailing halyard winches
- 10 * Spinlock clutches
- Harken towable genoa cars
- All lines led aft to cockpit
Running rigging was replaced in 2015 and includes:
- All line Dyneema SK75
- 2 * Genoa halyards (one doubles as spinnaker pole uphaul)
- 2 * Spinnaker halyards
- 2 * Main halyards (one is 2:1 purchase to allow hoisting from cockpit)
- Spinnaker sheets
- Genoa sheets
Additional equipment:
- Electric Anchor Windlass with remote control
Navigation Equipment
Navigation electronics include:
- Raymarine C80 Plotter (In Saloon Nav station)
- Raymarine Hybrid Touchscreen plotter (In cockpit)
- Advansea TR200 TX/RX AIS
- Raymarine True & apparent wind, depth, log
- Raymarine smart pilot with ST6001 controller & fluxgate compass
- 3 * auto pilot keypads in cockpit
- Raymarine wireless auto pilot controller on lanyard
- Secondary fluxgate compasses interfaced to ST40 Display
- 6 & ST6000 displays in cockpit
- 2 * NASA mast displays with remote controls
- 1 * ST6000 Multi display at nav station in saloon
- NASA Easy Navtext
- Silva bulkhead compass
- Plastimo hand held compass
- Weems & Plath Chronometer & barometer
Electrical features include:
- 12v cabin lights throughout
- 12v red night lights in saloon & heads
- 40W Solar panel on coachroof
- 2 * 85ah Domestic batteries
- 1 * Engine battery
- Three way battery switches
- BEP Matrix DC Meter display
- CD/Radio/aux Player with Saloon & Cockpit speakers
- "All in one" 240v AC 20amp battery charger
- 240v shore power socket with galvanic isolator
Engine
Engine specifications:
- Engine: Yanmar 40hp 3JH3E with 2350 Hours (Last service at 2302 Hours)
- Engine is freshwater cooled via heat exchanger with sea water input
- Drive: Yanmar SD50 Sail Drive (New cones at 1799 Hours, new shaft seals at 2179 Hours)
- Propellor: Darglow two bladed 16in bronze folding prop
- Steering: Edson 60 in wheel
Tankage:
- Fuel: 60 litres + 20 litre portable tank
- Water: 1 * 70 litre Fiamma hard tank (port side)
- 1 * 100 litre Plastimo soft tank (stbd side)
Sails & Spars
Spars and rigging details:
- Mast, boom and standing rigging replaced in 2015
- 9/10 fractional rig
- Rod rigging
- Dyneema backstay with backstay flicker & 24:1 purchase system
- Aluminium Z spars mast with twin swept back spreaders
- Aluminium Z spars boom & dipping spinnaker pole
- Aluminium Selden retractable bowsprit
- Twin groove foil on Facnor "Flat Deck" Furler
- Tidesmarine mast track system with matching aluminium cars on mainsail
- Mainsail Stackpack with lazy jacks & removable bonnet
- Kap-sails Headsail cover
Racing sails include:
- Laminate sails by One sails
- No 1, lightweight 135%, good condition
- No 3, tafetta backed, as new condition
- Main, two reefs, good condition
- Code zero on Selden Furler, good condition
- A2 light spinnaker in yellow, good condition
- A3 reaching spinnaker in black, good condition
Heavy weather sails:
- No 4 in Dacron, working condition
- RORC compliant Storm sail & Tri sail in dayglo orange
Safety Equipment
Safety equipment includes:
- McMurdo SmartFind G5 EPIRB
- ICOM DSC VHF
- Emergency vhf antenna
- Manual fog horn
- 2 * Lifebuoys
- 1 * Danbuoy
- 1 * rescue harness
- Fire Blanket
- Carbon Monoxide monitor
- 1 * 12v Rule bilge pump with float switch
- 2 * manual Whale bilge pumps
