For Sale

For Sale

The Stevens 40 designed by Sparkman and Stephens is the little sister to the popular Stevens 47. She has very good sailing qualities and is built to a high standard by Queen Long. The cutter rig provides a powerful but manageable sail plan, and is perfectly suited for short handed sailing.
The interior arrangement has two staterooms. The solid fiberglass hull has molded non-skid, Airex-cored decks. The interior features a solid teak sole.

It is a proven design well suited for coastal and blue water cruising and has been equipped with two self-steering systems and completed and Atlantic crossing from New York in 2008.
All standing rigging replaced in 2007 and in mast furling unit rebuilt.

It is well suited for extended cruising. The interior is exceptionally spacious for a vessel of this size.

Dandelion is laying in Helsinki VAT paid. 

60,000 Euro.
Contact: andrew.smith@leaddesk.com

Principal Dimensions
LOA             40’-7"     12.37 meters
LWL             31’-4"      9.55 meters
Beam         12'-7"     3.83 meters
Draft             6'-0"         2.00 meters
Displacement     24,000 lbs 10886 kilo
Ballast         7,532 lbs    3416.4577 kilo
Sail Area         767 sq ft    71.2566 sq meters

Propulsion:
2000 Yanmar 47h20
Three blade auto prop

Fuel Tanks:
35 gallon     132.5 litre
55 gallon    208.0 litre

Water tanks:
Three total capacity 200 gallons  501 litres

Stove/Oven:
Shipmate three burner with solenoid shutoff valve

Ground Tackle:
Simpson Lawrence V3 Windless with wildcat and capstan
CQR 20.4 kilo/45lbs.
Bruce 23 kilo/51lbs
84meters/275 feet G4 high test chain.
91meters/300 feet rode spliced to chain. 
secondary rode and chain 

Electronics:
Furuno gp-37 (GPS)
Furuno 1715 radar 

Raymarine  st-290 series. 
CPU:
2 Graphic displays.
1 Segmented character 
1 wind
1 autopilot control

Radio equipment:
Icom-m802 HF Radio 
Icom AT-140 HF antenna tuner
Pactor ptc-11usb Packet Radio modem
Icom Ic-m402 VHF Radio

Autopilot:
Raymarine type 2 hydraulic linear drive
Hydrovane.



Electrical: 
Link 10  Battery monitor.
Alpine CDA-9815 Stereo.
Next Step 2 Alternator Regulator
Link 10
150 amp alternator
Mastervolt battery charger
4 mastervolt g27 AGM batteries. 
2 marine g24 starting batteries 
1 lifeline g27 AGM windless battery
Rutland 913 windgenerator. 

Safety:
6man liferaft
Storm tri-sail
Jorden series drogue.
Epirb
Jacklines

Heating:
Dickinson Alaska Cabin Heater (diesel stove)

Head:
Blakes Lavac Zenith


Images

Breakfast of Champions.

Liam and Sylvain found my breakfast of choice after the Weetabix and Grape nuts ran out to be hilarious. If you can't see, that's a can of chile, corn chips, salsa and a pilsner urquell . Maybe it had something to do with the place mat? Who knows. I kinda miss it. The dutch aren't to into chili from what I have seen so if you come visit, bring a can of Dennison's extra hot with beans.

Simpler Times...

So, this picture was taken just south of Georges Bank after a handful of warm beautiful sunny days. We thought we were about one or two days shy of being able to start adding north to our course to make a quick run to the English Channel.

I used Herb Hilgenberg for weather routing. What an amazing fellow. If I had money I would love to set up a foundation to ensure that a service such as his will be around for many many years. For those of you not familiar with him check out his web site. http://www3.sympatico.ca/hehilgen/vax498.htm. He is an amazingly dedicated fellow, and fun to chat with too.

It was about the time this was taken that we first heard the term "Hurricane Bertha" in relation to us. It was just a passing comment about how we might need to talk about it some the following day. The word hurricane sure can take the shine off of a beautiful day like the one above. The next day chatting with Herb it was not going to be a problem for us, but.. then again... it might.

This uncertainty went on for about 5 days until an extra-topical depression formed above us and started tracking south. Eeeks....

Next thing we knew we were being advised to head due south for the next 24 hours. ouch. We found our selves about 200 miles from Flores in the Azores before the discussion about heading north again came up. At this time the wind was light and from the north east. Ouch again.

All the while we were thinking that we were just a day or two from getting to add north to our course. This went on for about a week.

Then we sat. Once that system passed we were left in a vacuum. No wind. Flat seas. We did see an amazing astronomical event though. As the sun set, the moon rose at the exact same time. So we had both a full moon and an full sun in the sky just above the horizon for a good amount of time. I started to think about Andrei Tarkovsky's movie Solaris. Anyway, we ended up doing the only real motoring in the crossing, about 24 hours NE to get into some wind.

The Crew for the Crossing

From left to right: Liam Doyle, Andrew Smith, Rusty, Sylvain Allard.
The original plan was that Kerry (my wife) and Zelma (my daughter) were to come along as crew. This didn't work out for a handful of reasons, the prime being havening trouble figuring out what to do with the house we were leaving.

So with a month to go before departure I had to scramble to kept it from being just Rusty and I.

Rusty it turns out can keep a pretty good watch for being a dog. He'll bark at freighters and fishing boats and if they happen to be up wind, you'll get plenty of notice. He also wont drink the good scotch.

I found Liam via Crewseekers International. He has his YRA Yacht Masters and was looking for miles to obtain is Ocean Yacht Masters. I sure lucked out with him. Not only can he easily handle the day today of delivery work, he is a good cook and great company. He is looking to make a living doing this kind of work. If your looking for crew, I highly recommend him. His long term dream is to have a charter boat in Hebrides and provide tours of Single Malt Scotch distilleries( no, he wont drink your good scotch with out it being offered).

Silvan came to us via a crew wanted add posted on Sailing Anarchy. In the end I wasn't clear what Silvain was hoping to gain from the experience though he was fond of a pirate head scarf. I was certainly glad for the additional sleep having two other humans provided.

On your mark...

This is a shot of dandelion on the launch from CIYC with our last load of gear before heading off to France. She has not been this clean since... A lot has happened this summer and I had every notion to keep up with this blog thing but what I learned is something I already knew (I have been doing a lot of that type of leaning this fall), I don't really like writing. But, as I started to dig through the summer’s pictures I realized that I am going to forget the details. S0, I'll try and back step through the trip so far. Oh, Another re-learned bit is that living on a boat is a lot of work. What I didn’t understand is how much work adding a 1 year old to the mix would be.

Rusty and Zelma?

Hey Andrew,

You need to set up a profile for Rusty and Zelma too! After all you have Rusty's photo on the screen that comes up. On another note, I am at Cynthia Widener's. If you have an idea of a design for boat cards let me know and I can get her to set us up with a bunch.

Love, Kerry and Zelma

Haven't had much time for this lately. We are the in water and things a looking pretty good.

I'll have more once we get out of the house...