82 feet Classic ketch VONA 

 

LOA 25.0 meter, LOD 21.8 meter, LWL 18.7 meter, Beam 6.0 meter, Draft 2.40 meter.
Displacement 65 ton. BRT 69 ton, NZ register

The hull construction is all timber. Designed by GE~TA Naval Architects and Yacht designers of Italy
and built by ABC-Bilgin Yachts. Launched in1992

The yacht is of very solid construction and has good sailing qualities well suited to blue water cruising.
Cruise speed under engine (continuous duty cycle) 10knots x range of 1200miles.

Principle Marine suppliers for Refit 2004-2005

Engine:
F.I.M.S. Grimsby UK:  Brand new Iveco 13lt main diesel engine, only 7 hrs.

Navigation:
R & J Electronics (Poole) UK Ltd: Furuno navigation electronics

Electrical:
Victron, Excide Gel batteries

Sail systems:
Lewmar (Barlows Aus), Antal, Harken: sail and deck hardware
Barient primary powered sheet winches, ARCO Furlers

Mooring:
Maxwell NZ: anchor and mooring winches

Marine hardware:
Aquafax Ltd Luton UK. Halyard UK Ltd

 

Schedule of Works:

Dec 2004:
Vessel hauled out and masts, interior and machinery removed.
Rebuild program commenced.

December 2005
The yacht was hauled for a complete rebuild to a new design that would equip
the vessel for a combination of live aboard comfort with extensive cruising ability.

 

 

Sailing/Rigging and Deck Equipment
Size #3 Lewmar sail hardware.
R/F Genoa 124sq. mts
R/F Jib, high clew 104sq.mts
Inner staysail, self tacking club boom 24sq.mts
3 reef Main 81sq.mts
1 reef Mizzen 33sq.mts
Mizzen staysail 45sq.mts
Storm jib 7.8sq.mts
Try sail 24sq.mts

           

Harken System B cars and headboard on main sail.
Harken System A cars and headboard on mizzen sail.
Antal twin headsail halyard sliders on main mast.
Antal main and mizzen outhaul cars.
All new halyards, control lines and sheets.

All 12mm & 14mm x 19 S/S rigging.
All 12mm and 14 mm Norsman S/S rigging screws  and S/S shroud plates.
4 x Barient 736STE 2 speed 77-1 primary winches, 2 x Barient 28STE 2 speed winches
Lewmar 44ST, 40ST, 30ST, 16ST manual winches.
2 x Arco 4800 furlers.

Anchoring
Maxwell VWC 4000 220V AC anchor winch, with chain counter, remote cable and chain lock.
Maxwell VC 2200 24V capstan, stern mounted.
Anchors 70lb Delta & 85lb CQR with 130mts of galv. chain.

Engine room
Engine room below the salon fully sound proofed with Halyard 45mm thick sound proof mats.

Main engine:
New Iveco 8410M22 13lt. Diesel 160Kw, 260 HP, (220CW) @ 2200 RPM continuous duty,
aspirated with 2.47-1 Twin disk gearbox, 65mm dia 316L shaft with centre shaft bearing and
Aluminium bronze 4 blade, 36" Hi Tech ZF-Australia  propeller. Engine hrs.only 7 hrs.

1 x reconditioned 16KVA diesel generator. 10hrs
Exhaust systems: Halyard’s spun glass fibre mufflers and water separators.

2 x 1000lt 5mm steel epoxy coated fuel tanks.
2 x 1000Lt 5mm steel water tanks, hot dipped galvanized
330Lt Polypro black tank with Johnson macerator pump out.
330Lt Polypro grey tank with Johnson macerator pump out.

60Lt master bathroom poly. shower tank with separate Johnston bilge pump.
Guest bathroom Jabsco shower tank/pump combination.
4 x Johnson L2200 24V bilge pumps- 130ltpm.
1 x 220V AC bilge pump with deck wash/fire fighting stand pipe.
1 x Jabsco manual pump main engine driven with diverter valve for deck wash or fire fighting. 

Aquajet dual 24V 38LPM water pump.
180Lt hot water cylinder with generator heat exchanger link.
24V raw water deck wash pump.
24V raw water tank flushing pump.

 

Steering
Hydraulic steering system with twin cylinders, 2 PUM 50 helm pumps,
continuous running 24V hydraulic pump:
Custom Fluidpower Australia calibrated to the Furuno Autopilot 500 pilot.

 

Domestic
24V fresh water deck shower.
2 x Techna electric toilets on fresh water flush to holding tank.
1 x ¾ bath/shower combination
1 x shower cabinet with curtain enclosure

 

Galley
Danfoss 24V DC/220V AC fresh water cooled refrigeration and freezer.
Asko frontload washing machine.
Melie combination convection stove/microwave and Melie ceramic induction cook top.

 

Electrical 
24V 3000VA 70A Victron Multi Multi Plus and Multi Plus Inverters and Victron Sentinal battery
charger 24V 60AMP, shore imput 95-265VAC 50-65Hz  
Complete vessel wiring system with tinned copper marine grade cable of Lloyds approved standard.
Main 12V and 24V DC, 220V AC switch gear, circuit breakers, control panels, meters, LEDs in salon.

1 x Prestolite Loadmaster 175Amp alternator, main engine driven.
1 x Prestolite Loadmaster 175Amp alternator, generator driven.
Essential ships electrical system circuit breakers, switches and meters at pilot helm.
800Amp/hrs Exide Gel batteries- 12 x 2V cells
2 x 24V main engine start batteries.
1 x 12V generator start battery.
2 x 12V essential ships system support batteries (salon located).

Water maker
AQUA TEC de-salinator 180LPH 220V coupled with a 140 gallon poly. tank for drinking water.

Lighting
Interior lighting: Cantalupi.

Navigation and Communications
The navigation system was designed with primary units at the pilot helm and full repeater units at the cockpit helm.

Complete Furuno navigation package including Navnet system of:
1943C 10.4 colour radar with 64Nm range, 6Kw, 4' open array scanner.
1900C 10.4 colour cockpit repeater,
Fax 30 weather receiver and display, Ethernet hub 10/100.
2 x RD 30 displays,  WAAS GPS receiver, NX300 Navtex display, Nav PG500 Auto pilot, 
Furuno P-G1000 Intergrated Heading censor.

Full set F130 digital (pilot helm) and full set analogue (cockpit helm) sailing instruments
with Multi controller and F130 central server.
NMEA link to PC.
Airmar depth digital sonar.
Airmar sonar, log and water temp. with full colour display of bottom, fish and wreck finding with Network sounder.
ICOM IC M802, ICOM IC AT130, Icom M503 + DSC100.
Echo Gold forward looking sonar with remote display.

Additional equipment
30" Panasonic LCD TV receiver with Furuno navigation video and PC link
Philips DVD recorder
Macquarie CD player
Craft Pre-amp and Power 130amp units
Quad stereo speakers
Suunto 135mm compass - pilot helm.
Lewmar 135mm compass - cockpit.

3.15mt joker boat.
Yamaha 15hp 2 stroke short shaft outboard.
6 person hydrostatic release life raft.
Assorted life saving equipment.
Unused Jabsco spare pumps and pump parts.
Spare Iveco fuel and oil filters.  
Sunbrellar cockpit awning and winch covers.
Sunshade (Australia) salon awning.