Description of Pachuca

Pachuca currently has the following specifications and inventory:

• S&S 39
• Designed for ocean racing to IOR specifications
  
• Launched Nov 1983
• Built in Bassendean, WA by Prestige yachts
• Round bilge, GRP construction
• Bolted on lead keel
• LOA: 11.89 m
• Max beam: 3.50 m
• Draft: 2.3m (7.5 ft)
• Weight: 8.5 tons
  
• Mast clearance: 16 m
  
• WA Registration No. 33990
• Australia Registry of Ships number AUTWA033063CJ5
• Call sign VNW5280
• 6 x Maxwell winches (4 in cockpit, 2 on cabin)
• All halyards to cockpit
  
• Plastimo “Olympic 135” or “Horizon 135” binnacle compass
• Trimble NT200D GPS with repeater at binnacle
  
• Lowrance “Globalnav” GPS
• Navman depth sounder
  
• Brooks and Gatehouse “Hornet 4” instrumentation:
• Boat speed
• Log
• Wind speed
• Wind direction
• Reset log (whatever that is)
• Timer
• Battery voltage
• Alarms
• Kenwood HF (SSB) marine transceiver
• Kenwood “MAT-100” antenna tuner
• GME 16Mhz marine transceiver
• GME EPIRB
• 4-burner gas stove with oven (Italian, no more details)
• Danfoss refrigeration system
  
• Sentinel GM23 gas sniffer (solenoid gas cutoff)
• 5 batteries in two banks:
• 2 for engine starting (Bank 1)
  
• 1 for electric anchor winch (Bank 1)
• 2 for the house (Bank 2)
  
• SABB “2G” marine diesel auxiliary engine
• 2 cylinders
• 22 HP
• Salt water cooling
• 2 x alternators (one for starting batteries, one for house & winch batteries)
• Bosch starter and fuel injection system
• Autohelm “ST6000” self-steering (installed 1999)
• PAR marine toilet (manual)
• Jabsco “31750/31755”drain pump
• JABSCO 37202-2 drain pump (for shower)
• RULE 1500/2000 electric bilge pump
• 2 x WhaleGusher manual bilge pumps
  
• BOMBARD inflatable tender (French)
• Mercury 3.3 HP outboard
• 3 anchors: 1 x plow (35 lb), 1 x Fisherman's/Admiralty (about 35lb), 1 x Danforth
  
• 40 meters of 3/8” (10mm) chain: 205.6lb/93.5Kg, 131.23ft/21.87fathoms
• Spare rode has 7 meters of 3/8” (10mm) chain: 16.3 Kg.
  
• 1 x electric anchor winch
  
• 2 x S/S diesel tanks, each D=350mm H=740mm; 71 litres per tank, 142 litres total
• 2 x S/S water tanks, each h=300mm, w=450mm, l=1070mm minus 70mm x 150mm wedge along outboard length. Yields 139 litres per tank, 278 litres total.
• Full-batten mainsail in stack pack
  
• Roller-furler jib (Hood roller)
  

The installation of a wind generator is planned. Radar is being considered.