Boat Overview
Year: 1975
Model: Ruffian 30
Type: GRP Half Tonner
Description: Lovely boat to sail, well balanced, equipped with Lewmar and Harken winches, furling genoa, spare sails, roomy interior with 6 berths, big chart table, inboard diesel saildrive.
Mechanical
Engine: Volvo MD5S 8hp single cylinder diesel inboard with saildrive to fixed propeller.
Charging: Alternator charging to 2 x 12v batteries.
Fuel Tank: Approx 10g.
Navigation
- 2 Plastimo bulkhead compasses
- Clipper Duet echo sounder and log
- Clipper wind
- Icom ICM411 DSC VHF radio
- Furuno GPS with cockpit repeater
- Chart table
- Barometer
- Navigation lights
- Steaming light
- Masthead lights
Safety
- Horseshoe lifebuoy
- 2 fire extinguishers
- Fire blanket
- 2 manual bilge pumps
- 1 electric bilge pump
Deck Gear
- Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit and guardwires
- Tiller
- Spinnaker pole
- Whisker pole
- Harken 40 self tailing sheet winches
- Lewmar 30 secondary winches
- Lewmar 30 self tailing halyard winches
- Lines led aft to cockpit
- Danforth anchor with chain
- CQR anchor with warp
- Mooring wraps and fenders
Sails
- Slab reefing mainsail (1990) with mainsail cover
- Genoa roller reefing system (Plastimo 810-S) with No 1 genoa (Mylar 1998)
- Genoa, storm jib and tri-radial spinnaker
- Spare mainsail
- Alloy mast and boom by Proctor
- Stainless steel standing rigging renewed in 2002
Domestic
Galley: Nelson gas cooker with 2 burners, grill and oven, 12v portable coolbox, sink with hand pumped fresh water supply from approx 20g tank.
Toilet: Jabsco marine toilet in separate heads compartment.
Accommodation: 6 berths in 2 cabins with 2 "v" berths in the forward cabin, 2 quarter berths and a conversion to a double in the saloon.
Owners Comments
"Rumpus" was purchased by her present owner in 2003. She has been used for some light racing initially but mostly shorthanded cruising on the East Coast, based out of West Mersea on the River Blackwater. Her saildrive seal was changed in around 2001 and her standing rigging on purchase in 2003. She has been Gelshield epoxy coated beneath the waterline in the past (which looks very clean) and a survey was carried out in 2003.
