Seabiscuit IV - Robert Beebe designed long-range motor sailor

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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 Gardner 6LX 120 hp

Genset Westerbeke 6KW

Fuel Cap. 5000L

Water cap. 1000L

History

She was built by William Heard at Broadwater yachts in Ballina, NSW . Australia in 1985. She was built to commercial registration standards to carry passengers.

She was used as a chartered yacht in Sydney for several years before being delivered to HK in 1995. We have had her since 1999 and took her for a 3500 mile , 6 month family cruise through the Philippines and Malaysian waters in 2000. Now she is our home in Hong Kong, and taken out a couple of times a month throughout the year and continuously maintained.

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

Gardner 6LX engine driving 36” Hundestadt variable pitch prop

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 Philippines Jan 2000

Website – pictures and account of our trip at www.seabiscuit4.net