This Bruce Roberts 45 sloop is a Blue water sailor that was custom built for and by a knowledgeable boater. Economical and reliable Perkins diesel engine. It is simple yet rugged and safe and economical to operate.
Open to reasonable offers!
May trade for a smaller boat!
Accommodations
The interior arrangement is a forepeak rope locker followed by a bow cabin with two bunks to port and a sink and storage to starboard a 24? square hatch. Next is the salon with large settee berths port and starboard. The galley starboard and dinette to port are amidships. The navigation station is to port after the dinette. The private head with a manual toilet and a hand held shower is to starboard. There are two aft cabins, each has a double bed, hanging locker and seat and a 16? square vent hatch. The starboard aft cabin has a single bunk over the bed. There is generous storage behind and under the settees and under the beds. 7 foot headroom. 24? hatches over the salon, dinette, and bow cabin.
The sole is redwood. Cabinets are redwood. Paneling is redwood with mahogany trim.
The paneling needs some finish trim.
Galley
Force 10 LPG Stove with 3 burners and oven and broiler. Gimbaled.
Single stainless steel sink with pressure water and manual pump through a filter.
Large icebox and a portable Igloo AC/DC Chest.
New 6 gallon water heater is not installed.
Electronics
VHF Marine radios: Uniden model MC535 and a Standard Horizon Eclipse spare and a hand held Standard Horizon HX150S VHF.
GPS: Icom model GP-270ML
Fish Finder depth meter: Humminbird model 100SX
Autopilot: CPT primary and spare Autohelm ST3000.
Stereo: AIWA AM/FM/CD
Toshiba 13? TV/DVD
Compass needs fluid.
Weems and Plath quartz clock and a barometer.
Electrical
12 volt system with four group 27 deep cycle batteries for ships service and the inverter.
One group 27 starting battery.
Battery selector switch.
Force 1500 watt inverter for 120 volt power.
Three solar panels for battery charging.
Sails
All stainless steel wire standing rigging with Norseman swageless fittings top and bottom.
Heavy duty stainless steel chain plates.
Aluminum mast by Hinckley Yachts steps on the keel.
Excellent Hood mainsail with 3 reef points.
2 Barlow #32 self tailing primary winches.
2 Barient #12 halyard winches on the mast.
2 winch handles.
Headsails: All hank on: 105%, 130%, and 150% all in good condition.
Hull & Deck
How do you get to build the strongest hull without disturbing the important ballast/displacement ratio? We found that the only suitable material for high impact strength to relative weight is Airex cored fiberglass. It provides very high impact resistance as compared to other materials such as solid glass, wood, steel or aluminum. In the event of an impact, Airex will not delaminate from its inner and outer skin. It will recover its original shape after impact and should both fiberglass skins break, the hull remains watertight. It has a secondary beneficial effect; it insulates the hull against cold, heat and noise and also cuts condensation which is the main cause of uncomfortable dampness in a boat. The hull is about 1.25? thick vinylester resin and fiberglass with a Airex foam core vacuum bagged. The deck is fiberglass sandwich Baltek resin impregnated vinylester topsides with a non slip surface. There are no soft spots. This is his third build. Modified long fin keel with skeg hung rudder. 3 blade 16 X 18 RH propeller and 1.25? bronze shaft. New anti fouling coating as of April 2007.
Dyer rowing dinghy. 35 lb SL Delta Plow anchor with about 50? of 3/8? chain plus about 150? of 5/8? nylon rode. 50 lb CQR Plow anchor with about 50? of 1/2? chain 40 lb CQR Plow anchor Simpson Lawrence 555 manual anchor windlass. Exceptions: kayak, portable generator set, tools.
Engines.
Engine: about 1990 Perkins model 4-108 diesel fresh water cooled. Overhauled about 1995.
No hour meter.
Borg Warner Velvet Drive transmission. Steering system is a Whitlock mechanical system with no cables. 3 blade 16 X 18 RH propeller and 1.25? bronze shaft.
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.
Details and information regarding this vessel are offered in good faith but we cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy
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agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This
vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, inventory change, or withdrawal
without notice.
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