Sea Muffin

The Voyage of the Sea Muffin

The Vessel

SPECIFICATIONS

Rig- Double headsail sloop

Designer- Joubert-Nivelt

Builder- Form Ocean, La Jaille, France

Year- 1985

Engine- MWM 35 HP diesel

Flag- USA/USCG

LOA- 41′

LWL- 35′6″

Beam- 13′2″

Draft- 3′3″ to 7′9″

Displacement- 18,500 lbs.

Ballast- 8,000 lbs.

Fuel- 95 U.S. gallons

Water- 190 U.S. gallons

ACCOMODATIONS AND LAYOUT (6)

Sail storage area in forepeak. Master stateroom forward. Has double bed to port, hanging locker to starboard. Salon has dinette to port, large settee to starboard (sleeps 2). Galley to port has 2 s/s sinks.elec.and foot pump water, refridgerator/freezer, 3 burner propane stove and oven. Double bed in aft cabin to starboard has privacy door,Nav. station stbrd., Head port side.

“773d_1.JPG”SAILS AND RIGGING

Double headsail sloop rig. Silver anodized double spreader Isomat mast, stepped on deck. Isomat silver anodized boom with slab reefing. Profurl roller furling headstay. Removable inner forestay with hyfield lever. Twin backstays, safety bars/pulpit at mast. Walder boom brake, seperate storm tri-sail track. 1×19 stainless steel wire standing rigging with Norseman end fittings. Winches are all by Lewmarand include 2-52 self tailing primaries, 2-40 self tailing secondaries, and 3-40 utility winches. Sails include a newer main,new roller furl jib,135% high clew hank on jib, hank on yankee, storm jib, storm tri-sail, and a spinnaker.

EQUIPMENT

Double bow rollers, 2 anchors with chain, Goiot electric windlass, 6 man Viking life raft, cable and quadrant steering system with a binnacle mounted destroyer type steering wheel, emergency tiller, 3 8-D battery bank, 2 Henderson MKlll bilge pumps, 2 78-watt solar panels to run refrig., 5 deck hatches, 10 opening ports, Suunto steering compass, Standard Horizon VHF,Icom 735 SSB/HAM radio, Icom AH2 auto antennae tuner, Autohelm 3000 autopilot, Garmin 75 GPS, MWM/Deutz Marine diesel (5200 hours) runs great,Z.F.marine reduction gearbox,2.07:1 ratio, spare reconditioned transmission, 3 blade s/s prop, new rudder bushings. There is more.

CONSTRUCTION

Round bilge steel hull with flush monel decks and raised deckhouse. Ballast is internal lead ingots with bolted down securing covers of steel. There are four 3/4″ thick steel grounding skids welded port and starboard on the bottom of the hull. Metal thickness of the hull is 5mm below waterline,4mm above waterline, 3mm at the sheer and on the deck. The hull is a performance orientated cruising design with a centerboard and twin grounding skids on each side of the centerboard. The rudder is on a very substancial stub keel/skeg assembly. The deck is an aft cockpit arrangement with a sugar scoop bathing/boarding platform. There is a raised deckhouse over the saloon with large ports. The side and fore decks are flush yet slightly crowned.

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