Seajade Specifications and equipment list

SEAJADE SPECIFICATION SHEET

Designer: Bruce Roberts                                                           Design: Roberts 53'Sloop cutter
Material: Hull and deck steel                                                    Launched: 1984
Displacement: 23 Tons                                                              Length overall: 16.15m (53 feet)
Beam: 4.9m                                                                               Draft: 2.2m

RIG: 

Sloop cutter, aluminium mast and boom, stainless steel standing rigging. A relatively low aspect mast that makes for safe and comfortable cruising. Self tacking staysail for easy sail handling especially when single handed.


SAILS: 

Mainsail: Fully battened main sail with lazyjacks for short handed/single handed sailing. Main sail is equipped with Harken Battcar system and 2-1 purchase that enables easy and safe raising, reefing and lowering.

Foresails: 100% Heavy Cruising Genoa. High clewed yankee. Staysail. N0.4 Yankee. Storm jib. Cruising spinanker. All sails are in good condition.


WINCHES: Total: 9 - Make: Lewmar. 2 Primaries, 2 Secondaries, 3 Mast, 2 Deck. 5 Winch handles.


ENGINE:
80hp Ford Lehman engine, Significant preventative maintenance since 2010 in preparation for and during long distance cruising. Extensive tools, filters, spares, etc inventory on board. Well designed engine room allows good access to engine. 3-bladed fixed prop.

Separate workshop with workbench and tool and spares storage adjoins the engine room and houses the generator.

TANKS:
Approximately 600 liters diesel storage in 5 steel tanks, including a stainless steel day tank above the engine supplying both the engine and generator,

Approximately 1000 liters water stored in 7 separate stainless steel tanks.

Grey water tank for all sinks, shower and bath except for galley sink which discharges overboard.

Black water tank, not connected.


STEERING: 

Commercial grade US manufactured hydraulic pedestal wheel steering, total system overhauled in 2011 before long distance cruising. Entire steering system easily accessible. Emergency tiller, Raymarine Smartpilot with remote control.





ELECTRICS:
500Ah Batteries in two banks, plus stand alone 100Ah starting battery isolated for the generator. All wiring labelled and diagrammed.

2x 70W solar panels, with space for several more

Fischer Panda 7.5KVa generator

Icom VHF, Raymarine C80 GPS chart plotter & Radar, Raymarine depth and speed Mastervolt battery management system, AIS system. Excellent music system. Mounted monitor in aft cabin for viewing DVDs from laptop.

Satphone, handheld GPS, 2 handheld VHF's and assorted other small electronics.

New Lewmar Windlass

Watermaker + spares and filters.





ACCOMMODATIONS: 

3 cabins, Aft cabin - true double bed, en suite head (electric) with shower and sitz bath. Forward - port and starboard cabins each with two bunks that share the forward head (manual), shower and sink. 

In the main saloon, the port side table lowers to become a double bunk, and the starboard side settee is also a bunk located directly in front of the navigation station, very useful on passages.

Mahogany and Holly floor, very spacious interior with huge saloon area, opening portlights and deck hatches. Spacious cabins with plenty of stowage.


GALLEY:
3-Burner stove and oven, 220V fridge/freezer (runs off generator),small 12v cold box, gas solenoid and leak detection system, twin sink, pressurized hot and cold fresh water system.


SAFETY:

4 Anchors. 100m chain and electric windlass for primary, 40m spare chain, plus each spare anchor has a minmum 5m chain. 2 x 200m emergency nylon anchoe warps. Spare halyards, stays, blocks, etc. 8 life jackets, 4 harnesses, 2 life rings, danbuoy, 6 fire extinguishers, first-aid-kit, 8-person life raft (out of date), 6 person liferaft (out of date), GME Epirb. 5 bilge pumps - 2 electric and 3 manual.

EXTRA'S:
5Hp outboard, dinghy, spray dodger, awnings, Junior Bauer II dive compressor, fenders, mooring lines.

REMARKS: 

Very seaworthy blue water cruiser which has been very well constructed and well maintained condition. Very spacious interior which has been finished in Teak. Deck space on the vessel is fantastic with a huge sail locker in the bow and storage locker in stern.

Scottish Summer - Lamlash, Holy Isle, Inverary, Minard and Loch Gair

 

 

In Lamlash we carried on trying to catch mackerel

 

 

With some success...

 

and then some more success...

 

We also visited the Holy Isle, and saw some great rock paintings.

 

Evening fishing in Lamlash.

 

We then left Isle of Arran bound for Lough Fyne, first stop St Ninians Bay

 

And then up to Inverary

 

After my birthday we motored back down Loch Fyne to Minard

 

And then on to Loch Gair a few days later

Isle of Man, Castle Ward and onwards...

Isle Of Man

 

Port St Mary with John and Elisabeth outside us on the pier

 

Henda works a miracle with our new cockpit bimini

 

Chicken Rock

 

 

Peel Castle at Castle Ward in Northern Ireland

 

Amazing cycle trails and playpark for the girls at Castle Ward

 

Sailing up to Lamlash, Isle of Arran in Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lamlash Bay

Somewhere in the SW of Ireland, lost in summer

The summer has been wonderful. We spent quite a while painting and preparing the boat and then took of to see more of SW Cork.

John and Elisabeth from Canada - the Hobbits

 

 

 

Henda and the Baltimore singers opening for The Hothouse Flowers at the Glebe in Baltimore

Kinsale for the Sovereign's Cup regatta with Ailbhe and Leslie et al.


Then back to Oldcourt.

 

 

With a stop at various points, but best of all was Barlogue Creek at Loch Ine (our favorite place in Ireland I think)

Long African summer

October 2012

The 6 little cousins from left to right: Mari, Lien, Taryn, Betty, Henda, Maria and Hanlie.

When we were in Pretoria we stayed with Wikus and Dons. We went to school with our cousins.
We dressed up in uniforms and Betty walked us to school. When it was break time every one ate.
We went to many classrooms but they were all noisy.
That is the story of our day in school in menlopark.

Mari

Cork to Kerry and back

 

 

At the end of the summer we still hadn't made it up to County Kerry to visit our friends, Helen and Eoin and their kids. Helen and Eoin were friends from Dublin when we lived there 10 years ago. Helen was pregnant with their first child at the same time as Henda. After the babies were born, Mari made her first friend ever - Tommy. All through the summer, and before even in the Azores, we had been talking about visiting. For one reason or another we still hadn't got up to them and with only a few weeks left before Henda and the kids were to fly to South Africa we finally did that.

 

 

 

When we arrived, Helen and the kids were waiting for us on the dock. But we were going on anchor, so we arranged to meet them in a little while at their house. A long while later we finally got there and Tommy told us we were late. "When did you expect us?" we asked - "In May!!" he said...

 

 

We had a great time with them, even going for a sail and a scenic trip into the Kerry countryside. The girls got along so well with Helen and Eoin's boys. Especially Mari and Tommy were like two peas in a pod. Rauri and Killian also played nicely with Hanlie and the little baby, Liam was unbelievably cute (almost made me broody!). The boys were also Lego fanatics and had the most amazing collection. Mari and Hanlie were in Lego paradise. It was so nice to be there that we decided to stay an extra week. Since this didn't give us time to get back to Oldcourt before the flight to SA, we all caught the train to Dublin instead.

 

 

Summer in West Cork

A photo album of our summer in West Cork