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  • 05 May 2011 11:44
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    kingfisher 26 "Antares", converted to junk rig, afloat in Chichester Harbour.

    A dear friend has fallen seriously ill. No longer able to sail his 32ft junk schooner, he has passed her on to me. She is fully equipped down to the last teaspoon, so I'll be able to sell Antares with all the spares, tools and equipment needed for serious offshore cruising. (Under her old bmu. rig, she has taken me to the West Indies, to West Africa and Brazil.)

    She has a carbon mast, 380sq ft sail built of Odyssey 3, with cambered panels closely following Arne Kverneland's inspiring ideas. She is fast, well balanced and close winded - a a joy to sail.

    The engine, a Volvo MD6a 10HP, twin cylinder diesel, is old but in good heart and well provided with spares. A PSS shaft seal is fitted, and the 2 bladed propellor can be locked in position abaft the skeg to reduce drag under sail.

    My home designed and built servo pendulum self steering gear keeps a good course and there is an Autohelm 1000 for motoring in calms. The large chart table is equipped with a depth sounder, GPS and AIS Radar. The galley is fitted with a 2 burner paraffin stove and a paraffin heater is fitted. Ground tackle consists of 4 anchors, and she carries a 2.4m, German "Banana Boot" folding dinghy that is a pleasure to row and has a sailing rig.

    The hull is epoxied, shows no sign of osmosis and is looking smart after a recent repaint. She looks good for her age, is strongly built and inspires confidence when things get nasty. The cockpit has been partially decked over to reduce its volume and provide a cavernous stowage space.

    2 boats is one too many; I am keen to sell and will consider offers based on £7,000. Come for a sail.

    Asmat;  captainasmat@gmx.net  Or ring +44 (0)7948 487312

     

     
  • 05 May 2011 16:14
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    Asmat Khan wrote:

    kingfisher 26 "Antares", converted to junk rig, afloat in Chichester Harbour.

    A dear friend has fallen seriously ill. No longer able to sail his 32ft junk schooner, he has passed her on to me. She is fully equipped down to the last teaspoon, so I'll be able to sell Antares with all the spares, tools and equipment needed for serious offshore cruising. (Under her old bmu. rig, she has taken me to the West Indies, to West Africa and Brazil.)

    She has a carbon mast, 380sq ft sail built of Odyssey 3, with cambered panels closely following Arne Kverneland's inspiring ideas. She is fast, well balanced and close winded - a a joy to sail.

    The engine, a Volvo MD6a 10HP, twin cylinder diesel, is old but in good heart and well provided with spares. A PSS shaft seal is fitted, and the 2 bladed propellor can be locked in position abaft the skeg to reduce drag under sail.

    My home designed and built servo pendulum self steering gear keeps a good course and there is an Autohelm 1000 for motoring in calms. The large chart table is equipped with a depth sounder, GPS and AIS Radar. The galley is fitted with a 2 burner paraffin stove and a paraffin heater is fitted. Ground tackle consists of 4 anchors, and she carries a 2.4m, German "Banana Boot" folding dinghy that is a pleasure to row and has a sailing rig.

    The hull is epoxied, shows no sign of osmosis and is looking smart after a recent repaint. She looks good for her age, is strongly built and inspires confidence when things get nasty. The cockpit has been partially decked over to reduce its volume and provide a cavernous stowage space.

    2 boats is one too many; I am keen to sell and will consider offers based on £7,000. Come for a sail.

    Asmat;  captainasmat@gmx.net  Or ring +44 (0)7948 487312

     

     


    So... how long might it take to sail from Chichester Harbor to, say, Baltimore, Maryland US?  (Hmmm... I looked at a map and I'm thinking Miami might be a better port of call.)  If, that is, a man could find somebody who'd crew for a plane ticket home.
    That's not to say I'd automatically kill myself if I tried to single hand it, but I've never sailed a boat that big or sailed anything on blue water. It doesn't seem like the best plan to take on "firsts" of both things at once.

    === further thoughts ===

    I asked Gloria if she'd be interested in trying it together.  She loves her little farm, but she's a gutsy thing and might brave it.  Go south til the butter melts and turn right, correct?  Everybody has to do it for the first time someday.  We're both downwind of 60 and don't have forever to start doing stuff.

    Jeff
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  • 05 May 2011 23:27
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    So... how long might it take to sail from Chichester Harbor to, say, Baltimore, Maryland US? If, that is, a man could find somebody who'd crew for a plane ticket home.
    That's not to say I'd automatically kill myself if I tried to single hand it, but I've never sailed a boat that big or sailed anything on blue water. It doesn't seem like the best plan to take on "firsts" of both things at once.
    Jeff
    You'd do the first half of a standard North Atlantic circuit, Jeff. Leave the UK in August, go slowly down the European coast to reach the Canaries by November, cross to the Caribbean to spend Christmas, work your way up the Intracoastal waterway in the spring. That's the easy way, learning the skills as you go. The hard way is to set out to cross directly, against the wind and current, the way the singlehanded racers go. Not for me. But Jester takes from around 40 to 60 days for the crossing.
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  • 06 May 2011 00:56
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    Jeff McFadden wrote:So... how long might it take to sail from Chichester Harbor to, say, Baltimore, Maryland US?  (Hmmm... I looked at a map and I'm thinking Miami might be a better port of call.)  If, that is, a man could find somebody who'd crew for a plane ticket home. That's not to say I'd automatically kill myself if I tried to single hand it, but I've never sailed a boat that big or sailed anything on blue water. It doesn't seem like the best plan to take on "firsts" of both things at once.

    === further thoughts ===

    I asked Gloria if she'd be interested in trying it together.  She loves her little farm, but she's a gutsy thing and might brave it.  Go south til the butter melts and turn right, correct?  Everybody has to do it for the first time someday.  We're both downwind of 60 and don't have forever to start doing stuff.

    Jeff
    Confucius, he say "A journey of a thousand miles starts with but a single step". First you take one step, and then another and another - and pretty soon you find that you've sailed across an ocean.
    Francis Chichester was 60 when he won the first solo transatlantic race, after starting sailing only two years before. He was, of course, already an ace astro navigator - but that has come to be of lesser importance to sailors nowadays, since the advent of GPS.
  • 06 May 2011 15:29
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    David Tyler wrote:
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    ... But Jester takes from around 40 to 60 days for the crossing.
    Is that 40 to 60 days for the open water crossing, Canaries to Caribbean?
    (It's obvious that I'm not even up to ignorant here..)
  • 06 May 2011 18:02
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    Jeff McFadden wrote:
    David Tyler wrote:
    snip---
    ... But Jester takes from around 40 to 60 days for the crossing.
    Is that 40 to 60 days for the open water crossing, Canaries to Caribbean?
    (It's obvious that I'm not even up to ignorant here..)

    Antares took 21 days from El Hierro, Canary Islands, to Barbados, around 2600M. That was under her old Bermudan rig. If I were to do it again under her new junk rig, I'd expect the passage to be so fast I'd arrive suffering from boat lag.
  • 06 May 2011 22:37
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    Jeff McFadden wrote:
    David Tyler wrote:
    snip---
    ... But Jester takes from around 40 to 60 days for the crossing.
    Is that 40 to 60 days for the open water crossing, Canaries to Caribbean?
    (It's obvious that I'm not even up to ignorant here..)
    That's by the northern route. 20-odd days Canaries to Caribbean is usual. And by that time, you've had some practice with a few days across the Bay of Biscay, 5 days Portugal to Madeira, a few days Madeira to Canaries.
  • 07 May 2011 16:31
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    Go for it, Jeff!

    If I weren't shipping out this summer, I'd offer myself as crew.
  • 07 May 2011 23:08
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    Attaboy Jeff.  Life isn't a rehearsal as you obviously realise. 

    It's interesting: one of the Yahoo posters was agonising over whether changing (a relatively inexpensive) boat to junk rig would damage its resale value.  I pointed out that there are very few JR boats about and that when good boats have been honestly converted and are put up for sale, there are squads of people interested in buying them, rather than going through the grief of converting for themselves.

    If ever I come to sell 'Fantail', perish the thought, I know where to post it!
  • 09 May 2011 15:20
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    Asmat Khan wrote:

    kingfisher 26 "Antares", converted to junk rig, afloat in Chichester Harbour.

    2 boats is one too many; I am keen to sell and will consider offers based on £7,000. Come for a sail.

    Asmat;  captainasmat@gmx.net  Or ring +44 (0)7948 487312


    When is a good time to reach you by phone? Do you have alternate phone numbers?
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