Sunday, July 6, 2008

Descriptions

The Autumn Borne is a cruising sailboat and our home.
The vessel is a CSY-44-Antigua; cutter rigged sloop.

Sails: Three reefs available in the full batten mains'l, one hanked on Stays'l (very strong - almost a storms'l); and one roller furling Yankee (high cut fores'l); Asymetrical Spinaker.

Engine: 85 HP Perkins 4236 with 71-C BorgWarner transmission - pushing 24 inch fixed blade prop. (like a tug boat).

Fuel: 195 gallons (Diesel) - in two tanks with dual Racor secondary filters, separate transfer and filtering systems (polishing);

Water: 240+ Gallons of fresh water for pressure potable water system; Salt water or deck (anchor) washdown pump system.

1 comment:

  1. Dean and Sue
    Looks great. Be sure to put in lots of pics as you get the chance. Will this take the place of emails? or just another source of info?
    Marty

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