1977 Charpentier design Trireme 43

Vessel rebuild needed and systems upgrades

Must sell due to health problems. Low price to help offset cost of rebuild. All Reasonable Offers Considered. We can help hook you up with a reasonably priced professional boat transporter to move her to your location or a boatyard.

Vessel is currently hauled-out on the hard on our property, inside her boat “bow” shed. Photos span a number of years (date printed on them) and show her under full sail, at the dock as a liveaboard, as well as in her current state hauled out for major refit.

Recommend buyer has experience with steel boats or is a welder, as well as experience refitting vessels, and willing to put in the work to get her back on the water for blue-water cruising or use as a live-aboard.

History and Performance: For sale by the original owner, a professional mariner, who built her along with two sisterships in Biot, France. Trireme design by renowned French naval architect Francois Charpentier. Has the strength and durability of a steel hull, while doing a minimum of 6.5 to 7 knots, faster in the right conditions, with the flexibility of a cutter ketch rig. Interior is beautifully finished and comfortable as a live-aboard.

She has given us many enjoyable and successful seasons cruising and chartering in the Med and the Caribbean, including sailing school and blue-water crossings, and a liveaboard in Florida and elsewhere. Due to her steel hull and blue-water capability, she is ideal for the PNW and beyond.

Equipment: 43 ft LOD, 49 ft LOA w sprit for cutter rig Hull: welded mild steel, three hard chines Bottom 5 mm (3/16 in. or 0.20 decimal inch) Topsides 4 mm (3/16 in. approx. or 0.16 decimal inch) Deck/Coachroof 3 mm (1/8 in. or 0.12 decimal inch)

6 ft. 2 in. headroom throughout Two staterooms, sleeps 6 (full-width cabin with double bed aft; port and stbd bunk beds forward that can easily be redesigned to a double-berth Center-cockpit, wheel steering to a quadrant Ketch rigged, deck stepped main and mizzen aluminum masts Vetus 33hp engine, model 414A102, approx. 300 hours Misc. boat gear, equipment, sails, etc.

Hull strongly built, sound -exterior repainting due, touch-up of some bilge rust Cockpit wood coaming -rebuild/add new dodger Gear, fittings, masts, engine removed to on-site storage for refit -reinstall Some equipment and systems old - upgrade or replace due to age Sails good

Last major refit in 1997: Hull, topsides, and deck painted S/steel chainplates, bowsprit, and deck fitting upgrades, new s/steel stanchions Engine serviced Interior upgrades

Currently protected from the elements inside its boat shed Import Duty Paid

Also Available: Boat bow shed -fully dismantlable Metal boat stands Boat shed stairs