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Steel three-masted Schooner With Accompanying Sail Charter Adventure Expedition Business

Steel three-masted gaff schooner 70ft on deck.

The opportunity to purchase a recently built, well-maintained sailing vessel with a sucessful independent charter (UK Limited Company) trading since 2005 including websites, facebook and other social media accounts, mailing lists etc. The price includes the business. If you wish to purchase without the business get in touch to discuss.

In 2023 Trinovante is sailing for Orkney and Shetland

This schooner is still in the hands of the original owners, a husband and wife team. Trinovante is competently maintained and regularly slipped.

Trinovante is currently UK Marine Coastguard Agency Small Commercial Sailing Vessel Category 2 (recently reduced from category 1 during covid) with a stability book for Category 0 - unlimited operation.

The rig is anually inspected and maintained and in excellent condition. The sails are synthetic canvas lowers (Clipper) with Terylene topsails and jibs.

During the past 15 years, this British schooner has become well known in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as her home on the east coast of the UK. This is a serious sea-going vessel designed for long-distance offshore sailing, with a functional and comfortable fit-out.

This three-masted schooner rig can be handled by two people but can also provide plenty of action for a larger crew.

Off the wind, this rig is a very gentle gyber and very stable goosewinged.
She feels stable and safe in rough weather and will often self steer. Reducing sail is usually done by dropping a sail rather than reefing.
A big spread of light weather canvas means she will ghost along in light airs.

There is a recent video of Trinovante at sea in some wind on Instagram (you will need to login to Instagram to view it) here
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxczRrTnrel/

Registered length (on deck) is 21.88m overall without bowsprit etc.

Specifications

Accommodation

Accommodation includes from forward to aft
two double cabins,
one four-berth cabin,
one single cabin/bunk space,
two toilets,
open workshop,
saloon with gas hob (on deck stowage for five x 19kg propane bottles)
solid fuel stove with oven,
Table to seat 10,
main companionway
chart table, library
owners double cabin (could easily be converted to two single cabins).
large amount of secure underfloor stowage aft.
See the accommodation plan.

Accomodation plan

Starboard Cabin looking forward

Starboard Cabin looking aft

Starboard Cabin looking aft into fourerth area b

Looking Aft from the port cabin to the crew cabin

Crew Cabin Four Berth

Four Berth Crew Cabin

Looking Forward Crew Cabin/ Double

Forward Coach Roof

Midships Single Bunk

Single amidships bunk

Galley Looking Forward

Looking forward towards the toilet doors

Looking aft in the saloon from the forward end of the galley

Lookinf forward in the saloon/galley from the sink

Looking towards the galley from the starboard side

Under floor stowage in the saloon

Looking at the saloon table

chart table 1

chart table 2

library

Construction

Hull plating thicknesses
12mm half round keel bottom, keel sides and bottom plating 10mm, hull sides 7mm, above sheer tube and decks 5mm,
Epoxy coated below the waterline,
Hull portlights 12mm AR polycarbonate
Ballast in keel.
Plans copyright John Shores

Sail Plan

deck view

aft deck 1

aft deck 2

looking aft port side

forward whale back

main mast step

pinrail and bulwark

pinrail port

Bowsprit

prop and rudder

on slipway

on slipway stern view

Mast, hoops, jaws etc

Equipment

Anchoring gear, 300lb CQR, swivel end forerunner, 270 ft/ 3 shackles ¾ “ stud link,
Kedge 150lb CQR, hydraulic/manual winch (via electromagnetic clutch on the main engine). Photo shows winch before hydraulic conversion -recent photos to follow.

Water 330 gallons in four individual welded plastic tanks - Tek Tanks.
Non-pressurised water system, manual whale pumps.
2 x heads, manual whale pumps.

Anchor Winch

Navigation Equipment

Radar - Garmin GPS map 1222 with radar
Echo sounder x 2 – transducers on different sides of the boat.
2 x VHF – Standard Horizon GX2000E, MTech MT500
AIS – Reciever Nasa Marine
Ais – Transmitter Class B Digital Yacht
SSB Icom ICM801E
Wind Speed – Nasa
Garmin GPS
Walker Cherub Log
Furuno Weather Fax/Naxtex
Navigation Lights: LOPO Light LED port, starboard, anchor and stern. Aqua signal filament bulb 20m+ for Port, starboard, steaming and stern and NUC.

Engine(s)

Perkins M130c Engine 5082 hours (March 23), full-service record, annual services plus interval servicing.
PRM 750 gearbox, full service record.
Electrics 24v Batteries, house bank 440ah (new 2019), 8 x Trojan 6v T105 D Charged from dedicated 130A alternator.
Engine start 2 x 12 v
Sterling pro alternator controller, link monitor, Victron 80 amp battery charger, sterling pure sine wave inverter 24v - 240V.

Westerbeke Generator 5.7 kva 184 hours (Nov 19), full service record.

3 x 300 litres steel diesel tanks: 900 litres
3 bladed propeller with stripper rope cutter, conventional stuffing gland and stern greaser.

Cruising speed 7 knots, 8.8 average litres per hour.

Top of engine

Port side of engine

Starboard side of engine

Battery bank

looking aft at generator

Sails & Spars

High-quality traditional hand-spliced and leathered rig, Galvanised wire, 6x7 16mm lowers, 6x7 12mm topmasts, hand spliced, seized, leathered etc
Tan sails in clipper fabric - gaff foresail, mainsail, mizzen, staysail and storm jib.
White sails in polyester - big jib, working jib, 2 x fishermans topsails and large light weather fisherman.
Ropes all synthetic mostly braid on braid.
All sails can be handled from on deck.
For sail areas see rig plan image

Safety Equipment

Spotlight 24v trailing lead.
12 x auto-inflate life-jackets with clip lines,
10 x immersion/survival suits,
Flares to MCA category 1,
MCA Category 1/2 medical kit,
12 x DTI LIfe Jackets,
Fire Extinguishers beyond MCA Category 1,
Gas Alarm,

Location Map