This blog began in late 2006 with the planning and preparation for a circumnavigation of the world in my 39-foot sail boat Pachuca. It then covered a successful 5-year circumnavigation that ended in April 2013. The blog now covers life with Pachuca back home in Australia.

Pachuca

Pachuca
Pachuca in Port Angeles, WA USA

Monday, December 25, 2006

Description of Pachuca

Pachuca currently has the following specifications and inventory:

  • S&S 39
  • Designed for ocean racing to IOR specifications
  • Launched Nov 1983
  • Built in Bassendean, WA by Prestige yachts
  • Round bilge, GRP construction
  • Bolted on lead keel
  • LOA: 11.89 m
  • Max beam: 3.50 m
  • Draft: 2.3m (7.5 ft)
  • Weight: 8.5 tons
  • Mast clearance: 16 m
  • WA Registration No. 33990
  • Australia Registry of Ships number AUTWA033063CJ5
  • Call sign VNW5280
  • 6 x Maxwell winches (4 in cockpit, 2 on cabin)
  • All halyards to cockpit
  • Plastimo “Olympic 135” or “Horizon 135” binnacle compass
  • Trimble NT200D GPS with repeater at binnacle
  • Lowrance “Globalnav” GPS
  • Navman depth sounder
  • Brooks and Gatehouse “Hornet 4” instrumentation:
    • Boat speed
    • Log
    • Wind speed
    • Wind direction
    • Reset log (whatever that is)
    • Timer
    • Battery voltage
    • Alarms
  • Kenwood HF (SSB) marine transceiver
  • Kenwood “MAT-100” antenna tuner
  • GME 16Mhz marine transceiver
  • GME EPIRB
  • 4-burner gas stove with oven (Italian, no more details)
  • Danfoss refrigeration system
  • Sentinel GM23 gas sniffer (solenoid gas cutoff)
  • 5 batteries in two banks:
    • 2 for engine starting (Bank 1)
    • 1 for electric anchor winch (Bank 1)
    • 2 for the house (Bank 2)
  • SABB “2G” marine diesel auxiliary engine
    • 2 cylinders
    • 22 HP
    • Salt water cooling
    • 2 x alternators (one for starting batteries, one for house & winch batteries)
    • Bosch starter and fuel injection system
  • Autohelm “ST6000” self-steering (installed 1999)
  • PAR marine toilet (manual)
  • Jabsco “31750/31755”drain pump
  • JABSCO 37202-2 drain pump (for shower)
  • RULE 1500/2000 electric bilge pump
  • 2 x WhaleGusher manual bilge pumps
  • BOMBARD inflatable tender (French)
  • Mercury 3.3 HP outboard
  • 3 anchors: 1 x plow (35 lb), 1 x Fisherman's/Admiralty (about 35lb), 1 x Danforth
  • 40 meters of 3/8” (10mm) chain: 205.6lb/93.5Kg, 131.23ft/21.87fathoms
  • Spare rode has 7 meters of 3/8” (10mm) chain: 16.3 Kg.
  • 1 x electric anchor winch
  • 2 x S/S diesel tanks, each D=350mm H=740mm; 71 litres per tank, 142 litres total
  • 2 x S/S water tanks, each h=300mm, w=450mm, l=1070mm minus 70mm x 150mm wedge along outboard length. Yields 139 litres per tank, 278 litres total.
  • Full-batten mainsail in stack pack
  • Roller-furler jib (Hood roller)
The installation of a wind generator is planned. Radar is being considered.

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