1930 Custom Gloucester Fishing Schooner

Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:

HULL

• Planking: Carvel planked, 2” thick oak
• Frames: Double sawn oak & black locust frames
• Fastenings: Ferrous square cut spikes, galvanized
• Bolting: Ferrous
• Shelf & Clamp: Oak
• Ceiling: Estimated thickness 1.75 inches
• Stem: Oak
• Stern post: Oak
• Transom: Short counter stern, Oak planked
• Structural keel: Oak
• Ballast: Internal ballast, all lead or lead encased in concrete.

Bulkheads

        Five compartments: Forepeak, forecastle & galley, midships,

main+engine,

• Structural: All watertight bulkheads
• Construction: Planked on stanchions
• Watertight doors: There is a single steel watertight door with dogs in the bulkhead between galley and midships compartments. All other bulkheads are solid

Deck

• Decking: laid White pine, caulked and paid seams.
• Fastenings: Ferrous
• Bulwarks Oak planking over black locust
• Lifelines: single rope lifeline set up on short stanchions bolted to stanchion cap rail.
• Pulpits: Bowsprit is fitted with a pulpit rail with lifelines.
• Hatches: Various, all with approved hatches.

Cabin Trunk

• Carlin: Oak
• Sides: White pine
• Ends: White pine
• Hatches: Various
• Companionway: 
• Windows: Various
• Cabin truncks have drop boards.

STEERING:

• Rudder Blade: Wooden blade, logged up construction
• Rudder Shaft: oak,solid shaft
• Steering: Lunenberg worm-gear steering
• Rudder stops: Integral to steerer. Rudder is not fitted with check chains
• Autopilot: None

Main Engine:

• Description: Single diesel engine, driving a feathering propeller through a hydraulic
• reverse gear
• Make & Model: Detroit Diesel V6-71, natural aspirated
• Year 1985
• Serial Number: 6VAL 136541
• Horsepower:  193 HP & shaft is fitted with a hobco shaft brake
• Indicated Hours: 7,000
• Fuel: Diesel
• Cooling system: Freshwater cooled by heat exchanger
• Controls: Kobelt control head, Morse cable linkage
• Reverse Gear: Twin Disc
• Engine exhaust renewed in 2012, now made of type 316 L stainless steel

Stern Gear:

• Shaft: 2” stainless
• Stuffing box: Internal, fixed
• Propeller: 32 X 20 Luke feathering

Fuel System:

• Tank: Single 210 gallon tank
• Location: Engine compartment
• Construction: Welded aluminum
• Feed lines: Approved neoprene
• Fuel filters: Engine mount
• Water separator: Racor

Exhaust:

• Type: Wet exhaust
• Material: Engine exhaust renewed in 2012, now made of type 316 L stainless steel. Iron water cooled manifold, water-jacketed steel dry riser with water injection at steel waterlift muffler. Exhaust port is on starboard side of hull, above waterline.

Ventilation:

• Type: Forced draft. DC axial vane blower, draws from battery banks.
• Type: Natural draft to engine compartment

Through Hulls & Seacocks:

• Type & Number: Bronze marine Tapered Plug, and ball valves.
• Location: Various: Engine compartment, galley, head.
• Operable As required and inspected by USCG

Piping:

• Type: Neoprene, PVC,
• Double clamped

Bilge Pumping:

• Type: DC electric centrifugal submersible in each compartment
• Type: Centrifugal pump, hydraulic powered off main engine pto pump.
• Operates through bilge suction manifold
• Type: Gasoline-powered portable pump, can be connected to bilge manifold.
• Auto switch: "Rule"
• Discharge: direct
• Manual pump: Edson diaphragm type
• Engine driven pump: As required and inspected by USCG
• Bilge lines are 1 ½” copper with unions

Head:

• Type: (2) heads discharging directly into 2 holding tanks.
• 2 holding tanks. Manual discharge pump
• Siphon break
• USCG approved

Domestic Water System:

• Tank size and type: Stainless steel tanks, reported capacity 1,100 gallons
• Pressure pump: 12 V electric
• Waste discharge: Direct
• Uses a stainless steel tank for gray water and pump it out when in open water.
• Piping: PVC

Cookstove:

• Type: Wood-fired range

Heating stove:

• Type: Oil fired parlor stove with heat exchanger to a water jacket. Hot water is circulated to radiators in each compartment.
• Fuel: #2 oil

DC ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:

Generator:

• Dual belt-driven generators on main engine. One charges house batteries, the other charges engine start battery.
• Voltage: 12V DC

Batteries:

• General: “House” battery banks power lights and service pumps. 8, 6v deep cycle batteries each.
• Engine start battery is a single size 8d gelcell type, isolated from house system, and charged by a separate alternator.

AC Circuit Battery Charger:

• Type: 1) Marine Xantrex Truecharge 20 amp (engine start)
• Marine Xantrex Truecharge 40 amp (House Batteries)

Circuit Protection:

• Main disconnect: Explosion proof selector type
• Branch circuits: Circuit breaker

Wiring:

• Stranded wire with approved insulation, crimped butt connectors.

AC ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:

System Description:

• Voltage: 110v AC
• Configuration: Single phase
• Generators: Gasoline fueled 2.2 kw portable, stowed in deck locker
• Inverter: Less than 1 kw

Shore Power:

• Entry Type: NEMA plugs.
• Switching: DPST
• Ampacity: 30
• Cable: OK size.
• Grounded: Through Guest model 2433 galvanic isolator

Circuit Protection:

• Main disconnect: DPST with reverse polarity warning light
• Branch circuits: SPST

Wiring:

• Wire type: PVC coated multi strand copper
• Mount adequate: 
• Adequate gauge
• Splices: Crimped

Terminals: Crimped

ELECTRONICS INVENTORY:

• VHF Radio Radio with loud hailer PA system, as required by USCG
• Fathometer 
• G.P.S. Two units, with chart plotter
• Radar Sitex-Koden

LIGHTNING GROUND SYSTEM:

• Type: Upper rigging goes to ground through the headrig and bobstay, where

there’s a one square foot grounding plate.

RI G G I NG AN D DE C K GE A R

Mast:

• Type: (2) solid Douglas Fir spars, oiled finish

Boom:

• Type: Main boom is laminated solid Douglas Fir. Fore is solid
• Finish: Varnish

Other spars:

• Type: Bowsprit
• Construction: Solid spar, spike bowsprit with simple headrig
• Finish: Varnish

Standing Rigging:

• Shroud construction: 7X7 galvanized wire rope, looped around mast at mast tops
• Turnbuckles: Vessel is rigged with deadeyes and lanyards, except for the bowsprit
• whisker shrouds
• Chain Plates: Steel bar stock, bolted to planking
• Head rig: Staysail is tacked at a gammon iron that attaches to the stem. Jib is tacked at a cranse iron at the end of the bowsprit.

Running rigging and deck hardware

• Sheets: Three-strand construction
• Sheet winches: None. Vessel is rigged with sheet purchases
• Halyards: Three strand construction, conventional schooner rig
• Halyard winch: None
• Blocks: Wood shell

Sails:

• Main, fore, staysail, and jib, all sails synthetic “Oceanus” cloth,  new in 2013.
• Made by Nat Wilson
• New awning 2013

GROUND TACKLE

Anchors:

• #1 Size and Type: #1 is now 500#, new in 2013
• #1 Rode: 3/4" X 300' chain rode, reported new in spring 2010
• #2 Size and Type: 600+ Lbs Fisherman
• #2 Rode: 5/8" X 35' chain leader + 2” dacron anchor rode

Deck Gear:

• Winch: Schooner style “teeter-totter” winch with operating levers. Winch is also operated by a hydraulic motor that runs off the main engine. Winch is mounted on two frame timbers, with the pawls and actuator mounted ona center pawl post.

• Chocks: Steel hawse pipes fitted into the bow noble timbers
• Cleats & Bitts: Bitt posts
• Rode storage: Chain rode is flaked down in a deck box.
• Anchor stowage: Anchors are stowed on the bulwark cap, with a manual anchor burton to hang the anchor.

Small boats: Vessel is equipped with three boats that are carried in davits along the rail, as follows:

• 17’ rowing “seine skiff” equipped for 11 persons
• 14’ “North Haven” sailboat
• 12’ rowing boat

FIRE EQUIPMENT:

Portable Fire Extinguishers

• As required in USCG certificate. All extinguishers are tagged annually.

Fixed System:

• Type: Fireboy FE 241 fixed system in engine compartment with current inspection, remote actuator

Firepump:

• Pump type: Centrifugal, operated off hydraulic motor
• Pump type: Gasoline power portable
• Hoses: Service hoses

SAFETY EQUIPMENT:

Emergency Flotation devices

Type Number Stowage Condition

• ADULT 1 52 Deck boxes OK
• CHILD'S 1 6 Deck boxes OK
• Life Raft: 50 person IBA new in 2012
• Survival Suits: None seen
• Overboard Gear: As required by USCG, throwable ring with approved line. Vessel is able to maneuver under power, and carries small boats that can be launched while underway, and crew qualified to man a small boat.

Broker's comment:

           Remarkably well kept vessel by her very knowledgeable owner/captain.