1999 Pacific Seacraft

"Nada" is Nigel Calder's personal boat. When he and his family decided to build a new cruising boat, he went to Pacific Seacraft with a plan: they would let him customize a Pacific Seacraft 40 and in return, they would benefit from some of his thinking about systems. As a matter of fact, Pacific Seacraft did change some of their systems as a result of their work together.

Nigel loved the boat. The first time he went sailing, he thought the knotmeter was broken. It turned out to be accurate. Nigel couldn't believe how fast the boat went and how little "troubled water" she left behind.

Nigel literally "wrote the book(s)!" His books "Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual", "Marine Diesel Engines", "Cruising Guide to Northwest Caribbean" and "Cuba: A Crusing Guide" are all generally accepted as the best on their subjects.

Nigel used his experiences building and using Nada to help him write his latest book: Calder's Cruising Handbook. This new 608-page book is mostly about Nada, and appropriately, Nada is on the front cover.

So, Nada is a famous boat in her own right. What a pleasure to own a boat that has had so much loving and knowledgeable care put into her construction and maintenance. She is basically the textbook example of construction and systems on a modern cruising boat!

Why is Nigel selling? Always the tinkerer, he has plans to build the next generation Pacific Seacraft in conjunction with the manufacturer.

Dimensions
Ballast: 8,880
Displacement: 24,000

Engines
Total Power: 50
Cruising Speed: 7.0K
Max Speed: 7.5K

Accommodations
The interior layout is spacious yet sensible, with excellent lighting, ventilation, and storage. The engine room is located aft of the companionway ladder or can be accessed from the cockpit as well. It is well insulated with a removable aft sound bulkhead. The aft stateroom to starboard features a bunk section with full standing & sitting headroom for easy dressing and maneuverability. A large hanging locker adjoins the mirrored forward bulkhead. The head/shower is immediately to port of the companionway with a full size shower compartment. A shelf has been added to the standard wet locker in the head compartment. The lip on the shower stall was raised to enable the stall to be used for washing clothes. The navigation station, forward of the head and in close proximity to the cockpit, has a customized stand-up chart table for spreading out charts and drawers beneath for storing material. By eliminating the navigators seat, this allowed room for a full-size wet locker (with room enough for 4 sets of foul weather gear, 6 life jackets and an abandon ship bag) to be added. The outstanding galley, just opposite the nav station, is designed for easy food preparation while underway. The main salon settee dinette table has a detachable folding leaf for group dining. The solid teak table can be lowered for use as a double bunk. Elegant varnish joinery, louvered locker doors & solid drop doors with hidden hinges create warmth & harmony. Chrome bronze push button locks have been installed on all locker doors and drawers. A "grab" rail was installed all around the cabin sides below the portholes (which also catches stray drips when the portholes are opened). Lee cloths were installed on the salon berths as well as positive locks on cabin sole boards. Alpineglow low energy flourescent lights are used for primary cabin lighting and 5 Hella fans were installed for added comfort. An overhead hatch, put into the quarterberth, vastly improves ventilation, and the addition of an overhead locker provides extra storage. The forward stateroom provides a quiet place to sleep and plenty of room to stow personal items. Kenwood CD / stereo system w/additional cockpit speakers.

Galley
Gimballed stainless steel three burner stove w/oven & broiler. Polished stainless steel double sink with electric pump pressure hot & cold fresh water & foot operated manual pump. The salt water pump was eliminated from the galley. A 'spice' locker is located in the aft galley bulkhead, with a microwave above this. A shelf was added to this cupboard. Corian countertop. Separate refrigerator and freezer ice boxes with independantly controlled Glacier Bay cold plates (considered the best on the market.) 'Super' insulation has been added to the sides and bottom of the box, and extra foam insulation (blueboard) under the top. A front opening door was added to the lower half of the refrigeration icebox. The DC refrigeration system has been configured to run whenever the engine is running so as to minimize the energy draw at other times. This has proved to be exceptionally efficient. Instead of putting the DC refrigeration unit inside the helmsman's seat locker (the standard location) a locker was built for it in the aft end of the quarterberth (coming out over the top of your feet when in the berth). This locker is more-or-less sealed to the helmsman's seat locker. It does not in any way obstruct the use of the berth.

Hull
Hand laminated biaxial fiberglass hull and deck. First hull laminate uses vinylester resin for superior blister resistance. Rudder supported by high strength manganese bronze gudgeon and closely coupled to steel reinforced integral skeg. Ballast - solid lead casting with stainless steel keel bolts bedded in epoxy. Double thick rub rails. Shallow draft bulb keel. Hull finished with three coats epoxy below the waterline. Trinidad high copper content bottom paint applied Feb. 2001. Wherever through-hulls or fasteners penetrated the core in the hull, the core was cut away and a solid fiberglass plug bonded in place so that there would be no possibility of water migration into the core.

Deck
Deck balsa cored, plywood core in hardware mount areas. Two-tone deck with molded-in non-skid pattern. 30" high s.s. double railbow & stern rails with running lights & 30" high double lifeline stanchions. Chrome plated bronze deck hardware. The stern pulpit is closed with an offset ladder. Additional bracing installed on the pulpit to take the added weight of two outboard motors and a crane for hoisting the larger one on board, plus an anchor and a wind generator support pipe. The wind generator pole was used as the basis for the outboard motor hoist. There is also a second (small) outboard motor on the stern pulpit and a barbecue pit (Force 10). Padeyes are in the cockpit and on deck for safety harnesses and jack lines. Room to store 1 inflatable (inflated) over the forehatch when at sea, and a second (a folding RIB made by Tinker in the UK) installed (folded up) in custom chocks on the cabin top. (Inflatible & Tinker are excluded.) Full-height dodger and bimini, with a removable connecting piece between the two, that provides protection for the whole cockpit without impeding cabin access, or interfering with winch 'grinding', or unduly obstructing visibility. A teak bug screen fits into the hatch in place of the drop boards.

Cockpit
7' long seats with contoured seat backs & seat drains. Additional coaming boxes have been installed in the cockpit (four in all). Speakers for the stereo are installed in a couple of them. Cockpit table. Cockpit instruments and radar are installed on the aft bulkhead rather than the wheel. Hot/cold fresh water cockpit shower. Whitlock Cobra pedestal wheel steering with brake and offset stainless steel pedestal guard, single lever engine control and emergency tiller. Deep gutters and two 1 1/2" cockpit drains for fast self-bailing. A floor has been installed in the (huge) cockpit locker, and a shelf on its outboard edge. Double rode rollers on stern.

Engine Area
Yanmar, four cylinder, 50 hp diesel with fresh water cooling, 3" exhaust. The standard engine-driven alternator (upgraded to 80-amps) charges the cranking battery; an additional 200-amp Balmar alternator, mounted on a custom bracket bolted to the front of the engine, charges the house bank. 3 blade solid bronze propeller. PSS shaft seal. Drivesaver in coupling. Electric oil change pump. The 'dead' space forward of the forward end of the cockpit well (between the cockpit well and the companionway ladder) has been used to create the filter service station. It is accessed via a hinged hatch aft of the companionway ladder. Inside this filter service station are the primary fuel filter, the fuel sampling pump, and the vent to the main fuel tank.

Electrical System
Heart Freedom 20 inverter/battery charger. Lightning ground system to keel. A solar panel on the hatch 'turtle' keeps the batteries topped up when the boat is left unused and not plugged in to shorepower. The standard DC system was replaced with a single large house bank (600 amp-hours) and an isolated cranking battery (100 amp-hours). a special 'high-current panel' and fused bus bar to replace the standard battery switches and ensure that all high-current circuits are properly overcurrent protected. The standard AC/DC panel was replaced with a 'modular' one which allowed the panel to be customized. There is an AC volts/amps/frequency meter and for the DC side, there is a Link 2000R DC systems monitor and voltage regulator. A NewMar galvanic isolator was installed on the shorepower grounding wire. 300-amp breakers were added for the inverter and windlass.

Sails & Rigging
'Blue water upgrade' for all sails. Conventional main with slab reefing. Two sets of reef points. Cleets have been added to tie off the roller reefing lines. All the halyards and the reefing lines are tied off on the main mast and boom. Twin down wind poles are mounted on the forward face of the mast. There is an independent trysail track on the mast. Norseman terminals throughout.

• Ullman 8 oz. 120% high clew RF genoa with UV cover
• Ullman 9 oz. main sail
• Ullman 9 oz. roller furling staysail with UV cover
• Harken roller furling unit 1.0 on staysail
• Harken roller furling unit 2.0 on headsail
• solid boom vang

Other Features
The added 25 gal. lazarette fuel tank has a (valved) drain into the main fuel tank so that both tanks can be filled via a single fill fitting, which is in the cockpit. Because the main fuel tank is now next to (and below) the engine, there is a single short fuel suction line to the engine with no need for any valving in this line, and no need for an auxiliary fuel pump. A second suction line was installed to the lowest point of the main (40-gallon) fuel tank, and plumbed to an auxiliary fuel pump, with a short (valved) discharge line coming from it, so as to be able to check for contaminated fuel & remove if necessary. The propane locker bulkhead has been moved forward approximately 7", and the aft chain locker eliminated. This allows the two 5-gallon propane bottles to be pushed under the side deck on both sides, leaving the center portion of the locker free for stowage of outboard motor fuel, oil, and other flammables, so that these are now all housed in a locker that is sealed to the boat's interior and vented overboard. The dead space under the floor of this new locker was converted into an integral fuel tank. It holds 25 gallons. A second rode roller on the caprail has been added to increase anchoring flexibility. The standard bilge pump was replaced with a high capacity (nominal 3,000 gph) centrifugal pump which is down in the bilge itself. Hart Tank Tender level guages. Air Marine wind generator. Monitor wind vane. In addition to the fiberglass water tanks there is also a stainless steel water tank; total storage capacity is approx. 170 gallons.

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.