Quantum Leap is a very special St. Francis 48. She is a single owner boat that has been used exclusively for family cruising throughout her entire life. She has completed almost 1.5 circumnavigations and is ready to go around again! Her owners have meticulously cared for her and done many updates and modifications over the years. She is just coming off a yard period in which they addressed the usual upkeep and maintenance while she was hauled out for hurricane season.
In 2008, Quantum Leap was modified to a 51ft catamaran by adding extensions to the sugar scoops. Angelo Lavranos, the naval architect who designed the St. Francis line of catamarans, also took great care to design transom extensions specifically for Quantum Leap. The extensions were professionally fabricated and installed at a yard in New Zealand. The quality of the installation is evident in the fact that the average observer will never know the boat has been modified. These modifications add waterline length for increased handling and speed when sailing offshore. They also create a larger platform on the stern scoops.
In 2014, after completing their first circumnavigation, the owners returned to the St. Francis factory in South Africa where the boat was built. The factory did a full professional refit of the boat - added an armored glass cockpit windshield, new Lewmar ocean series hatches, new electronics, replaced the standing rigging, installed a new stove, and went over the boat with a fine tooth comb. Quantum Leap was brought back to "like new" condition. They then continued across the Atlantic and back to the Caribbean, ultimately returning to her home port in Mobile, Alabama.
Quantum Leap is a tried and true bluewater cruiser fully equipped for family live aboard. Don't settle for an average production boat when you can have a high quality catamaran that's more fun to sail!
Andrew Hodgdon - Broker at The Multihull Company
Email: AMHodgdon@multihullcompany.com
Cell: 910-477-2508
Please contact Andrew Hodgdon at 215-508-2704 Fax: 215-508-2706
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Boat Name
Quantum Leap
Specs
Flag of Registry: United States
Keel: Fin
Dimensions
LOA: 51 ft 0 in
Beam: 26 ft 0 in
Maximum Draft: 4 ft 2 in
Displacement: 24250 lbs
Bridge Clearance: 71 ft 0 in
Icom 802 SSB and Ham radio transceiver with sailmail installed
Icom 422 VHF radio
Ritchie compass
Several handheld VHF radios
MOB alarm system
Radar System
AM/FM Stereo and CD player
Sat phone
DVD player
Flat screen TV
12 volt fans in all spaces .
Sails and Rigging
All new standing rigging factory installed in 2014
Mainsail - Shurr Sails Pensacola - new in 2017
110 %. Roller furling Genoa
Staysail on a Roller furler - installed in Australia
3 Spinnakers
Spinnaker pole set up on main mast
2 x Anderson 58 ST main sheet power winches
Andersson 46 ST. Power winch Genoa winch + Anderson 46 ST manual Genoa Winch
Stack pack installed 2014
Electrical
110v AC power supply
7 x 75 watt Solar Panels mounted on hardtop
Multi Voltage Charging - Both 110 Volt and 220 volt shore power connectors. Plug in anywhere in the world!
3000 W pure sine wave inverter
9 x T-105 batteries in two banks - 945 AH
2 x Marine Air AH Passport Compact 16000 BTU air conditioners
Spectra 380-C watermaker - 15 GPH
Isotemp 20gal water heater
Galley
4 burner Italian cooktop with oven and gimbals - installed 2014
Corian counter tops with double sink
Complete cookware and complete table ware
110/12 Volt refrigerator in galley
12 volt South African freezer -this will keep your ice cream frozen!
12 volt portable refrigerator for cockpit
Microwave - Dulonghi
2 x aluminum propane tanks with solenoid
Adjustable cockpit table with extensions allowing seating for 8
Salt water faucet at galley sink
Fresh water filtered water at galley sink.
On Deck
Armored Glass Cockpit screen installed 2014
AB aluminum dinghy with 15 HP Yamaha 2 cycle outboard
Dinghy Davits - stainless steel - can be operated with power winches
New Lewmar Ocean hatch lenses - factory installed 2014.
Wonderful N. Z. Mesh flooring for cockpit and under cushions - Can be rolled and stored when not needed.
100lbs Buegle anchor with 300’ of 3/8” chain and 300’ of nylon rode
60lbs Fortress anchor with 100’ of chain and 300’ of rode
25lbs Danforth "lunch hook"
18’ Para Anchor with 600’ of 3/4” nylon rode
Drogue
Safety
Fire suppression system
6 person Lazarri Life Raft
Several inflatable life preservers with harnesses
Hand pump water maker
2 x Ditch Bags
Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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