Custom Pilothouse Trawler 48ft Yacht Liveaboard

Original Danish Tuxham 38 bhp 1-cylinder engines replaced with Kelvin 4- cylinder engines 75hp
- Variable pitch sterngear was replaced with fixed pitch propellers
- Interior substantially remodelled and refitted

Fuel consumption comes out consistently at just under 16 litres per hour at cruising speed which is 8 kts. That is at 1200 rpm on both engines. It is possible to run on one engine at 1200 revs which gives about 5.5 kts for half the consumption or to run at 800 rpm on both engines giving 5 kts for much reduced consumption (no exact figure).

ELECTRICAL
230 V
- Markon 3.5 kVA alternator belt driven off stbd main engine - 4-Way change switchboard: Off/Shore/Panda/Markon
- 8 x circuits to all compartments - separate breaker switches
24 V
- Direct drive alternators on each main engine
- Stbd charges domestic batteries; port charges starter batteries - Domestic battery bank: 4 x US Battery XC 305HC 340 Ah 6 V
- Starter battery bank: 2 x Varta K7 115Ah 12 V
- Original switch and fuseboard for 24 V circuits serving all compartments - La Marche Constavolt A40 – 24 V– 40 A charger
- Fitted to La Marche CD 40 Charge Divider
- Automatically charges domestic and starter banks as required
- Battery charger for Panda and Honda outboard starter batteries
Generator
- Fischer Panda ‘Super Silent Technology' 10,000 PMS 50 Hz, 10.5 kVA (2015)
- Total hours 785
- Serviced May 2021 by Fischer Panda.

There are two separate systems – a 230v ‘mains’ system supplying standard shore type outlets around the boat (and the windlass) and supplied by either shore power, the PANDA generator or the MARKON alternator. The low power system is 24v and is supplied from 4 x 6v batteries charged from the main engines or from the ‘mains’ supplied battery charging system. The main engines have a separate bank of starter batteries, again 24v. The only 12v batteries are for starting the PANDA and for the HONDA outboard and they have their own charging arrangements.

Ketch rigged Wood spars () with Stainless Steel standing rigging ()

She can be sailed, but with limitations. Because of the relatively small size of the sails and the weight of the boat you probably need force 5 or more to get going well. Also she does not go very well to windward. Downwind in a good breeze is fine though.

RIG
- Bermudan ketch rig
- 2 x Spruce masts, each in deck mounted tabernacles - 2 x Spruce booms
- Main boom doubles as a derrick for lifting RIB
- Stainless steel standing rigging, rope running rigging
SAILS
- Jib, mainsail and mizzen
- All tan coloured heavy duty Terylene with sail covers
- Tabernacle with small steel pin rail
- ComeUp DHC-1600 24v electric hoist winch for derrick - Stainless steel purchase wire and remote control
- For RIB launching/ recovery

12 / 24 volt battery, 240 volt generator, 240 shore power voltage, 6 batteries charged by: engine, shore power, generator Fischer Panda 10000_NE_PMS

1986/87 Hull taken back to bare metal inside and out and re-coated. Additional to that, in 2005 the entire underwater hull was shot blasted back to bare metal and recoated.

- Part-riveted and part-welded steel construction - Hull design features one continuous deck
- Raked, soft-nosed stem
- Cruiser stern
- Rounded bilges with bar keel
- The shell plating is 5 mm, except for the garboard strake of 7mm
- Siemens Martin steel with joggled and riveted seams and welded butts
- Transverse angle bar shell frames are riveted to the shell plating
- 16 x Sacrificial anodes by MG Duff bolted to welded studs on the shell plating (2023)
- Vessel subdivided by transverse steel bulkheads into a total of seven compartments

4 burner propane Stove