Escapade Description

For those who have not already seen pictures, let me describe ESCAPADE.  She was built in 1996 by Oyster Marine in Ipswich, England.  She is 55’ long, has a 15’9” beam, draws 6’8”, and has a displacement of 50,000 pounds.  She has a center cockpit and is cutter rigged.  This means she has one mast (71’ tall), and two foresails.  She is designed for shorthanded sailing with all lines leading to the cockpit.  The primary winches are powered, as well as the mainsheet winch.  All sails are roller furling, with the main powered into the mast.  There is also a cruising chute and spinnaker pole.  An inflatable dingy is carried on davits at the stern.  There is a stern boarding platform and a dodger as well as a bimini to provide protection from the sun and weather.  For maneuverability, there is a bow thruster.  She is white and all decks are teak.  In total, she is stunning and unique in appearance, and exudes class.

ESCAPADE has a “raised deck saloon”.  This means that the saloon is higher than on most boats, and is very light and airy inside with seven very large windows.  The whole interior is done in light oak.  There are three sleeping cabins:  the captain’s aft, a guest cabin forward with a double “V” berth, and a starboard guest cabin with two single berths.  All berths can be converted to sea berths with lee cloths.  There are two bathrooms, both with separate shower areas.  A fourth cabin is a work room/utility room.  The galley, aft of the companionway, has a four burner stove, microwave oven and a large refrigerator and separate freezer.  The navigation station is to port along with two individual chairs.

In terms of amenities, ESCAPADE has central air conditioning (3 separate units with reverse heating), a diesel heater with outlets in the salon and aft cabin, a washer/dryer, an LVR (Line Voltage Regulator), universal TV, VCR, CD stereo system, Microwave oven, and a water maker.  She has a Perkins diesel 82 HP engine, and a 9 kW Onan diesel generator.  There is a very large capacity battery bank.  There are tanks for 204 gallons of water and 228 gallons of diesel fuel.

In terms of safety and navigation equipment, ESCAPADE is fully equipped.  She has three VHF radios, three GPS units, radar, SSB radio, Weatherfax, Navtex, Inmarsat-C satellite E-mail, Iridium satellite telephone, GSM cellular telephone, loudhailer, AIS, and a computer/electronic chart navigation system. There is an integrated instrument system, and an autopilot.  The hull construction is solid FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic), with Kevlar added in the bow area and an external lead keel. There are large full-length stringers, and thick bulkheads.  There are two separate watertight compartments forward and she has a superior range of stability.  All recommended safety equipment is aboard including life raft, 406 EPIRB, inflatable life vests, tethers and personal EPIRBs for crew, man over-board recovery gear, and storm weather equipment.

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Escapade Safety Equipment

Basic Hull and Deck Construction

•  Medium Displacement  (50,000 pounds)

•  Fiberglass construction with no coring in the hull  (solid FRP), Lloyd’s approved design

•  Kevlar reinforcement below waterline from bow to keel

•  Bulkheads and stringers fiber glassed to hull, heavily reinforced

•  All fiberglass and Kevlar hand laid matting

•  Internal hull flange with bolted hull-to-deck joint

•  Fuel and water tanks are integral FRP which form a “double bottom”, 200 gal each

•  No screws or fasteners through a cored area of the deck

•  Isophthalic resin in gel coat

•  Bow chain locker is a self-contained watertight compartment, self-draining

•  Forward cabin is constructed to be watertight with a sealed door

•  Aft lazerette is isolated from the aft cabin

•  The keel is external lead, 14,000 pounds

•  The rudder has a full skeg with bronze bottom shoe

•  The positive stability range is up to 126°

•  Small center cockpit with large drains and no cockpit hatches

•  Large and easy access to the engine

•  Bow thruster, 10HP Sleipner tunnel type

•  Stern entry with platform and boarding ladder

•  Perkins Range 4M.90 diesel engine, 82 HP

Rigging

•  Capable of complete sailing from the cockpit

•  Cutter rig with roller furling on both yankee and staysail

•  Three forestays-- forestay, cutter stay, and baby stay

•  Two backstays-- permanent backstay and running backstays for storm operation

•  Continuous rigging

•  Electric in-mast furling for the main sail

•  Mast stepped on keel

•  Lightning protection- “No-strike” dissipater; the mast and stays are grounded to the keel

•  Rigid boom vang

•  Preventer to prevent accidental jibes

•  Powered yankee and main sheet winches

•  Electric anchor windlass with controls in cockpit

•  Granny bars at mast

Other Equipment

•  Primary anchor is 75# CQR with 300’ of 7/16” chain

•  Two other anchors carried-  44# Bruce and 33# Fortress (500’ and 300’ rodes)

•  Companionway washboards that can be fastened in place

•  Safety harness attachments in cockpit (4) and Safety jack lines from bow to stern

•  Automatic fire extinguisher in engine compartment

•  Seafresh Water Maker, 25 gallons per hour

•  Rope-cutter on prop shaft, Ambassador AM 15 “stripper”

•  Loudhailer and foghorn, Raytheon 430

•  Guardrail- double SS wires, 28” high

•  Red interior lighting for night sailing

•  Inflatable Avon dingy, 10’, mounted on dinghy davits at stern (15 HP Honda outboard)

•  Forward Facing Sonar

Redundant Systems

•  Five bilge pumps- 2 electric, 2 manual, and emergency engine driven, Jabsco 3,000 gal/hr

•  Three sets of batteries--  engine, house, and generator

•  Battery charging from engine alternator, generator, or shore power

•  Manual foot pump for fresh water in addition to the electric pump

•  Two see-thru Racor fuel filters with change over valve on engine

•  Two see-thru engine cooling water strainers with cross over emergency valve

•  Three VHF radios  (one integrated, and two handheld- ICOM  IC-M1)

•  Three GPS units  (one integrated, one handheld, and MaxSea)

•  Four hand fire extinguishers

Navigation & Communication Equipment

•  Icom IC-M504 VHF radio with DSC

•  Phillips AP Mark 9 GPS

•  Raytheon R40XX Radar, with antenna mounted on Questus leveling mount

•  Furuno 207N Weather Fax with Navtex

•  Icom IC-M710-05 SSB Radio

           •  Autohelm ST-50/ST-80 integrated instrument system

           •  Autohelm ST 7000 Autopilot

           •  Computer (IBM laptop) with electronic charting program, MaxSea Yacht

           •  AIS System- Digital Yacht AIT250 Class B Transponder

•  Inmarsat-C/GPS System- Worldwide E-mail & safety-at-sea system

•  Iridium satellite telephone

Safety Gear

•  Safety harnesses with inflatable vests and strobe/flash lights, Crewsaver-  6

           •  Life vests, Class I-  4

           •  EPIRB- ACR GlobalFix Pro 406 MHz with GPS, Category 2

•  Personal EPIRB’s (3) and receiver

•  Two low light binoculars- Steiner Commander III with compass

•  Night scope- ITT generation 3

•  Digital Barometer- (plus standard barometer)

•  Scuba gear, including dry suit, for checking the hull

•  Horseshoe Buoy, with strobe light

•  Man overboard module, MOM-8

•  Life sling, with strobe light and hoisting tackle

•  Radar reflector on mast, Firdell Blipper #210-7

•  Emergency distress radio--  EPIRB 406 MH, ARC Category II, model RB-36, with GPS

•  Emergency distress radio--  EPIRB Class B, 125.5 MH

•  Givens 6 person Deluxe Life Raft with dual stabilization chambers and double floor

•  Medical kit, Coastal Cruising Pack, CCP-1; inflatable splints

•  International Medical Guide for Ships- WHO Geneva

•  Engine spares and tools including heavy duty wire cutter (up to 5/8”)

•  Cooking gas remote shutoff and “sniffer” alarms

•  High bilge water alarm

•  Loss of engine cooling water alarm

•  Bosuns chair

•  Sea anchor, Para-Tech 24’; and Drogue, Delta 114”

•  Searchlight, handheld

•  Air Horn, hand held and Brass Bell

•  SOLAS flares, parachute and meteor

•  Smoke signals, dye markers, and signaling mirror

•  Hull repair kit, sail repair kit, wood thru hull plugs

•  Emergency tiller

•  Emergency VHF antenna

•  Abandon Ship Bag

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