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 Project 1500 (electric) / Lofrans Royal (manual)
- Bowthruster
- Nobels, 8hp
- Liferaft
- Autoflug 6 man
- Tenders
- 2.4m Deck mounted GRP hard tender/ Avon Rover 2.81 inflatable / Avon
Redstart inflatable / NRS 1655 two person inflatable canoe
- Watertank-1100ltrs(242gals)
- Desalination
- Seafresh 130lts/hour at 28°C
- Diesel
tank - Two tanks totalling 600 ltrs (110 gals) / Additional
260ltr (58 gals) in containers on deck
- Air
conditioning - Carry-On 7000 (850W)
- 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 / Zenstar III mouse
- EPIRBs
- ACR Global Fix / Mc Murdo MCM 406A
- Sextant
- Zeiss Yachtman
- Instruments
- Raytheon ST60s, wind, speed, depth, log,
autopilot
- Forward
looking sonar - Echopilot
- Radar
- Koden MD3000
- Radar ESM -
CARD, S/X band, directional radar emission detector
- AIS
passive radar (Automatic Identification System) - NASA
- 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
- Worldspace Satellite radio / CD/MP3/Tape/Radio receivers
(LW/MW/SW/VHF), External 4 channel 80W PA
- Video
- 17" Flat Screen (TV tuner / DVD / VCD /
SVCD / DivX / Video camera) / Philips 8.5" sleeping cabin video
player, most formats
- 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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