Seabiscuit
IV - Robert Beebe designed long-range
motor sailor
SOLD !!
Principal
Dimensions
LOA - 58’
LOA, 50’ on deck, 48’ waterline
Beam 16’
Draft 6’6”
Displacement 30
tonnes – unladen
Ballast 4 tonnes of manganese lead
scarfed into full length keel.
Sail area 1,110 Sq.ft ( 7 sails inventory)
Engine
Genset Westerbeke 6KW
Fuel Cap. 5000L
Water cap. 1000L
History
She
was built by William Heard at Broadwater yachts in Ballina, NSW .
She was used as a chartered yacht in
Seabiscuit
IV was built to the same hull shape as ‘Passagemaker’ and the process of
designing that optimized long range hull is fully described in the book
‘Voyaging under Power” by Robert Beebe.
Construction
Carvel
built of spotted gum and white beech on spotted gum frames.
White beech deck, ,
Yellow
wood double diagonal bulkheads,
Rosewood, Silver Ash, Black bean and Crow’s
ash interior & furniture
(
The names may be misleading - All
are Australian timbers – and forms of eucalypt/gum tree )
Copper
fastenings with bronze nuts & washers.
Both
masts Aluminium, rigging SS Stranded, oversized and checked thoroughly in 1999
when rigs were removed to fit steps and separate trysail track.
Equipment
Westerbeke
6KW genset – new in 1999
Heart
Interface 2KW freedom charger/Invertor
Heart
Link 2000 battery monitor
800Ah
battery bank – main
200Ah
12V system – solar maintained (4x55W Siemens panels)
PUR
survivor watermaker
Dive
compressor
Full
sunbrella covers – fixed poop deck frame carrying solar panels
‘Flopper
stopper’ for rolly anchorages
3
anchors
24v
Windlass
Hydraulic
steering with two stations – pilot house/ deck
TMQ
Ap4 / Benmar Autopilot system
12’
Avon RIB, (old) 8hp Outboard
10
man liferaft
EPIRB/Flares
etc.
VHF
Inmarsat
Mini-M station - Trane&Trane voice/data telephone
Shipmate
RS5000 GPS plotter
B&G
Network Speed/depth/GPS
Interphase
forward scanning sonar
NASA
Navtex receiver
Performance
Designed
for optimum range at 7.5kts she achieves this at about 800rpm in flat water,
and uses a little over 1L/mile. Cruising
range is conservatively 3500 miles. To
sail well needs 18-30kts of wind, but decks stay very dry and in all conditions
she is easily handled by 2 people and not hard to single hand.
The pictures
1
At
anchor in HK Dec 2001
2
During repaint
in 2001, with Epoxy primer on.
3
Prop
& rudder detail
4
Under
sail in
Website – pictures
and account of our trip at www.seabiscuit4.net