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Bruce Roberts Offshore 38, steel sailing cutter built in Ontario
Well equiped for offshore cruising and single hand
The boat is in Rio Dulce, Guatemala.
Let me give you a quick overview of the boat:
A new canvas over the cockpit would be nice, and it is time for new anti-fouling.
To the steel part: At the front end of the bilge/keel is some rust that needs attention. Some rust at the rudder tube, it needs to be replaced. And in the deck at the front is a hole, patched with fiberglass. Should be repaired, too.
All appliances and equipment are working.
The diesel engine is working ok.
Batteries are ok, four years old. The starter battery is one year old.
Mainsail and genoa are overhauled, rigging checked and the fore-stag renewed.
I live on the boat and I was last year sailing in Belize without any trouble.
Equipment: Lenght: 38 ft Beam: 11 ft Draught: 6,5 ft Displacement: 7 t Built: 1991 Sleeps 4 Half lenght keel
Engine: Perkin 4.108, 50 hp, about 3000 hrs V drive transmission
Sails: full batten mainsail Genoa on furling 130 % Genoa 100 % Yankee self taking Stormsail
Tanks: all stainless steel Fuel 69 gal Water 117 gal Holding 32 gal Waste water 5 gal
Anchor: Windlass Seetiger SL555 two speed manuell 45 lbs CQR on 280 ft chain 30 lbs Bruce on 27 ft chain and 130 ft rode Storm anchor on chain and rode Dingy anchor
Winches Lewmar two speed self tailing All lines into cockpit Windpilot Autohelm Lavac head
Instruments: Compass Ritchie D5S Radio VHF Standard GX1500S West Marine SC200 Depth Horizon/Clipper Wind B G Radar Raytheon R10X GPS Garmin 128 GPS Charts Lawrance Elite 5HDI Navtronics Charts SSB Icon M710 tuner Short wave reciver Radio Shack DX394 Epirb Arc Rib36 Autopilot Raymarine EV-100 wheelpilot
Elektric: Solar Panels 3x90 W Wind generator 500 W Batteriebank 4x6 V deep cycle Starter batterie 1x12 V Inverter 1000 W Batterie charger 10 A
Galley: Stove Force10, 3 burners with oven, propan Fridge 5.6 cuft, EZ Cold Double SS sink
Dinghy: Walker Bay Dinghy 8 Yamaha 2 hp, 2 stroke
Liveraft 4 persons TV and DVD player Printer
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
A more accurate formula devised by Dave Gerr in The Propeller Handbook replaces the Speed/Length ratio constant of 1.34 with a calculation based on the Displacement/Length ratio.
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio.311
Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64)2/3
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam1.33)
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
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