- S&S 39
- Designed for ocean racing to IOR specifications
- Launched Nov 1983
- Built in
- 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
- 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)
This blog began in late 2006 with the planning and preparation for a circumnavigation of the world in my 39-foot sail boat Pachuca. It then covered a successful 5-year circumnavigation that ended in April 2013. The blog now covers life with Pachuca back home in Australia.