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Exceptional Cruising Boat For Sale By Owner
Contact: Howard and Lynda Berger (201)626-5260 email:
svresolute@hotmail.com
Just returned from a two year trip to the Caribbean and Europe, RESOLUTE
is in top condition and fitted out for true long distance cruising.
Dimensions:
LOA
40'11"
LOH
39'1"
LWL
32'6"
Beam
12'8"
Draft
5'1"
Headroom
6'4"
Displacement
21,600 Lbs.
Ballast
9,500 Lbs.
Sail Area
739 S.F.
Water
195 Gallons
(2 tanks)
Fuel
230
Gallons (2 tanks)
Engine
Yanmar 4JH2-BE 50
H.P.
Engine Hours
1,450
Hull Color
Awlgrip Flag Blue (May 2001)
Description:
We bought Resolute new in '97 with the intention of living aboard and leaving
for extended cruising and fitted her out carefully with that in mind.
It took two years to get the boat where wanted before heading out in Oct. 1999. By
the time we returned June end 2001, we'd sailed
13,000 miles.
Being "electrically self-sufficient" was a
high priority, so we gave her 3 8D Gel batteries for the house bank and a separate
dedicated engine
starting battery. To keep things charged up, we had a strong - but light - aluminum
arch built and mounted 2 AirMarine wind generators
and two 75 Watt solar panels, along with the appropriate voltage regulators, and fitted a
high-output alternator on the engine. Cruising in the trades,
we seldom ran the engine to charge batteries.
For livability, we had quite a bit of custom joinery done. We raised most of the
fiddles down below (and were glad we did on the tough sail from
Horta to Portugal), added three bookshelves (one in the saloon and two in the forward
cabin), and replaced the vanity in the forward cabin with
a full-height hanging locker. The locker is cedar-lined and fluorescent lighted and
features a clever false bottom for hiding valuables. We added
a removable shelf to the built in forward hanging locker, enhancing its usefulness.
For chart storage we added a cabinet beneath the table on
the main bulkhead and had a teak rack built in the aft head to hold two 80lb scuba tanks.
Lynda had the excellent idea to build a box on the aft
port bulkhead next to the companionway to contain all the stuff you need on watch and it
got plenty of use.
For instrumentation, we went with Autohelm ST50 (Tri-Data,
Wind, GPS, and Radar) and mounted everything on the binnacle with repeaters
below at the nav station. The below-decks autopilot is Autohelm 7000, with the
control panel also at the binnacle. All instrumentation data is
available via RS-232 9 pin cable at the nav station for plugging into computer navigation
software. The starboard backstay is insulated and contains
the antenna for the ICOM 710 SSB. Mounted on the port taffrail is a helix antenna
for receiving real-time satellite imagery from NOAA using
OCEN's software and PC card. An INMARSAT-C receiver is mounted on the aluminum arch
with the control unit and computer interface at
the nav station.
The wind vane is a Monitor servo-pendulum type. It's rugged and proved itself to be
indispensable when our autopilot broke the first night out
of Bermuda (bad mounting, as it turned out) and the vane steered us 2,000 miles to the
Azores in winds sometimes as light as 5 kts. It's a great
piece of gear and we wouldn't go offshore without one.
All sails are in very good to excellent shape. These
include a full batten main with 3 reefs, 135% genoa, staysail, gennaker with snuffer,
storm
staysail and storm trisail. There's a separate track on the mast for the trisail and
mast steps all the way to the top. A telescoping whisker pole
is mounted forward on the mast.
The ground tackle is all top shelf. The main anchor
is a 60lb CQR with 400' of 5/16 HT chain. To haul it up, there's 1500 Watt
Lewmar
Concept 2 windlass with deck and cockpit control switches. In two years of cruising,
we NEVER dragged anchor, including a freak storm
in Bermuda with winds exceeding 57 knots.
For getting around the harbor, the dinghy is an AVON 280 RIB (9.5') powered by a 15 HP
Johnson outboard, both purchased new in
Jan. 2000. The RIB stows on the deck between the mast and inner forestay in a
heavy-duty bag we had made for it in the Canaries. To launch
and retrieve it we used the spinnaker halyard and the mast winch. The outboard is
easily raised and lowered using a block and tackle attached
to the arch.
Livability-wise, it's hard to beat a Caliber for what you
can do in 40 feet. The tankage is practically unheard of in a boat this size and
there's
great storage below. For us, and most other cruisers we met, the aft cabin was used
as the garage. The enclosed shower in the forward
head also affords lots of usable stowage space when at sea and there's plenty of room
below and behind the settees. At anchor, the forward
cabin with pullman berth is roomy and comfortable. We mounted a fluorescent light
below the bookshelf we had built over the bed to give
us improved reading light.
So how does she sail? Pretty darn good for a moderately heavy cruising boat.
It took us 5.5 days to Bermuda from NY; 6 days from Bermuda
to the Virgins; 15 days from Bermuda to Horta; 9.5 days from Horta to Capo de Sao
Vincente, Portugal; and 20.5 days from Lanzarotte in
the Canary Islands to St. Lucia in the Caribbean. She's easy to handle short-handed
and it was just the two of us. We found at sea the best
combination to be the genny rolled to a single or double reef, staysail, and single or
double reefed main, depending upon conditions. She goes
45 degrees to weather and reaches like a champ. On the trip back from Europe, we
sailed wing-and-wing nearly the whole way with a single
reef in the main and the reefed genny poled out. We were making 3 degrees of
longitude a day and keeping in Herb's good graces ("you're
in the groove; you're doing great"). She tracks well and has a sea kindly
motion and is quite stiff.
All in all, she's looks great (we had her topsides awlgripped this spring) and is in
great shape and ready to go to sea again. If you think this
might be the boat for you, give us a call or send an email and we'd be happy to talk to
you.
Fair Winds,
Howard and Lynda
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