After an enjoyable couple of years with Tystie, the opportunity to purchase Shoestring arose and I couldn’t resist. So, it’s time for Tystie to find a new skipper. She’s had a birthday over the past two years with new paint inside and on the decks. New sails, too. She’s ready for the southern summer and to voyage north next winter.
Design: Junk-rig ketch with bilge boards. Glass over ply construction. Launched 2000.
Designer: David Thomas
Length: 10.5m
Beam 3.25m
Draft: 1.0m (slightly more with the boards down)
Headroom: 1.75m
Main mast: 13m above deck, alloy
Mizzen: 7m above deck, alloy / timber hybrid
Sails: Weathermax80 cloth, 7.5% camber, alloy yards, battens and booms. All new 2021
Engine: Beta BD722 (Kubota) 19hp with Kiwiprop
Tankage: 150L diesel and 150L water in internal glassed-in tanks. External lockers for extra jerry cans
Electronics: Furuno GP-33 GPS, Furuno FI-503 sounder/log, RayMarine ST6000 autopilot, Maretec AIS transponder, Icom IC-M422 VHF, Iridium Go, EPIRB, 1500W and 600W inverters
Batteries: 100A engine, 100A windlass, new house batteries to be purchased
Charging: ZM4 smart charger on alternator, 200W and 100W solar panels
Anchoring: Lofrans Tigress windlass (corroded housing but working well), Primary 20kg Rocna + 35m 8mm chain + 50m 16mm rode; Secondary 17kg Manson CQR + 20m 8mm chain + 80m 16mm rode; Third 10kg Rocna
Galley: Maxie 2-burner meths stove, foot pumped fresh and salt water, Isotherm BI29 fridge
Head: Composting style head, hot pressured shower in cockpit (engine heated)
Other: Parachute anchor, drogue, self-steering windvane, davits, Bolger Nymph dinghy, Pfaff sewing machine, Dickinson diesel heater
She is moored in Opua, New Zealand. Asking NZ$50,000 (reduced).