EQUIPMENT
Here she is in October 2001, anchored
in an amazing, almost landlocked pool at Spanish Waters in Curacao, part
of the Netherland Antilles.
Amongst the equipment aboard are the
following :-
- Anchors -
74lb Bruce / 60lb CQR / 35lb CQR / 55lb Fisherman
- Chain - 2 x
50m 10mm (3/8") / 40m 8mm (5/16")
- Warp - 2 x
50m 16mm nylon octoplat / 50m 16mm nylon 3 core
- Windlasses -
Lofrans Tiger (electric) / Lofrans Royal (manual)
- Bowthruster
- Nobels, 8hp
- Liferaft -
Autoflug 6 man
- Tenders -
Hard (deck mounted) 2.4m GRP / Avon Rover 2.81 / Avon Redstart
- Water tank -
1100 ltrs (242 gals)
- Desalination
- Seafresh 130lts/hour
- Diesel tank
- Two tanks totalling 600 ltrs (110 gals) / Additional 170ltr (38 gals)
in containers on deck
- Heating - 8
kW, air circulated
- Refrigerator/Deep
freeze - Two Isotherms
- Electrical supplies
- 12v 390AH / 24v 160AH / Dolphin diesel generator set, 240v, 4kVA, 50Hz
AC
- Wind generator
- AirMarine, 5.5A @ 15kts, 26A @ 25kts
- Solar panels
- Four Siemens 12v 55W (1.7 sq m total)
- GPS navigators
- Furuno GPS Navigator / Garmin GPS12 XL handleld / Garmin Foretrex 201
mobile
- EPIRBs - ACR
Global Fix / Mc Murdo MCM 406A
- Sextant
- Zeiss Yachtman
- Instruments -
Raytheon ST60s, wind, speed, depth, log, autopilot
- Radar -
Koden MD3000
- Radar ESM -
CARD, S/X band, directional radar emission detector
- AIS passive radar
(Automatic Identification System) - NASA
- Forward looking
sonar - Echopilot
- Auto Pilots-
Raymarine ST6000 / Tecnautic, driving hydraulic autopilot /Autohelm
2000+ driving Monitor servo-pendulum
- Wind Steering
- Monitor, servo-pendulum windvane
- Diving compressor -
Bauer, Junior 100 ltr/min
- HF/SSB radio
- ICOM IC725 / ICOM IC706 MkIIG (10KHz - 30MHz, 100W, )
- HF Modem - SCS
Pactor PTC-IIe (e-mail, FAX)
- Marineband VHFs
- ICOM IC-M502/Skanti USE300 (25/1W main tranceivers) & ICOM
IC-M3A/ SX-MICRO 90 (handhelds)
- Audio -
CD/MP3/Tape/Radio receivers (LW/MW/SW/VHF), output 4 channel 80W
- Video - 17"
Flat Screen (TV tuner/DVD/VCD/SVCD/DivX/Video camera
- Weather data
- NASA Navtex /NASA Meteoman /WXFax & Gribfiles via HF-SSB / Home
built WX Satellite Receiver (137.5MHz)
What this list implies is many hours
spent maintaining, repairing and replacing lots of this very nice but
complex kit. A definition of 'Blue Water Cruising' might well be :-
"Undertaking
boat maintenance in exotic places"
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