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(updated 24/10/07) modifications, repairs & installations
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About Jockslodge
updated 24th October 2007 Jockslodge is a CS 33
sailboat, built in Brampton, Ontario, in 1981. It is 32 ft 8in, long with a beam
of 10ft 8in wide and a draught of 4ft 8in. Although designed to sleep five, it is really a bit cramped and you have to be "very good friends". We consider sleep 2, 6 for dinner and 8 for cocktails comfortable. The "head" (toilet area) is fiber glass lined and contains a hand held shower with a sump and a pump to empty it. The toilet holding tank is a 70 litre Vetus soft tank and we have the ability to empty it and pump straight overboard when sailing offshore. We have a 3 burner Force 10 stove, a fridge with a small freezer section, a sink in the galley and a gas bbq on the stern rail so we can prepare our "gourmet" meals. Two 11lb propane tanks supply the stove and an 8lb tank feeds the bbq. we carry 40 U.S.. gallons of potable water in 2 storage tanks. Our engine was a 20hp Bukh diesel with a 100 amp alternator for battery charging. We changed this in November 2005 in St Augustine to a 3YM30 Yanmar. We have a 21 gallon diesel storage tank. We will carry 4 x 5gal. jerry cans of diesel on deck along with 2 of fresh water and 1 of gasoline for the outboard motor and the 1000 watt Yamaha gas generator. To charge the 5 batteries we now have an 80 amp engine driven alternator, a Xantrex Trucharge 40+ shore power charger and a 1000 watt Honda gas generator in reserve. We replaced our Yamaha generator with the Honda at the Annapolis Boat Show in October 2007. For instrumentation and communication we installed a Raymarine ST60 Tri-Data system to replace our Data Marine Depth and knot logs in October 2007, a Standard Horizon WS45 wind speed/direction meter, a Ritchie magnetic compass installed Oct 2007, a Garmin 3006C Chart Plotter, a Garmin Legend GPS as reserve, a Raytheon 4000+ autohelm. We had a Dell latitude Laptop computer on board for electronic navigation and email but it didn't like red wine so it was replaced with an Acer Aspire in August 2006 complete with an ENGENIOUS 386 (ext) Wi-Fi extender with a 15 dbi antenna which gets us into free internet most places we go. (In fact we have only paid for internet access once since leaving the Erie barge canal in '05) We also downloaded and use SKYPE for most of our phone communication. A Uniden Oceanus VHF complete with DSC and a WHAM mike for cockpit use and a Icom 706 mk 11 G ham radio clipped to open up Marine single sideband. We also have 2 handheld VHF's aboard as well as 2 Motorola FRS units. We have also a flat screen T.V. mounted on the bulkhead with an antenna that we hoist up to the spreaders and a Sony DVD player, a Sony car stereo on which we can play our CD's The mast is approx. 48ft above the waterline with an eleven foot long boom. She is equipped with a full baton main sail, a 155% genoa on a roller furling system was replaced by a new Doyle 135% in October 2007and a full 3/4 oz symmetrical spinnaker in a sock. A whisker pole sail handling downwind is clipped to the foredeck. All lines are led aft to the cockpit for easier short handed control. Our ground tackle consists of a 35 lb Delta anchor, a 32lb Simpson Lawrence Bruce type anchor and an 18 lb Danforth. There is 150ft of 5/16" G4 chain on the primary anchor,( the Bruce) 75 ft of 5/16" g4 with 200ft of 1/2" double braid nylon on the secondary ( the Delta ) and 15ft of 5/16" bbb spliced to 125ft of 1/2 " three strand twist on the Danforth. The primary is controlled by a horizon 900 electric windlass equipped with a chain gypsy and a cable drum.
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