FOR SALE HALF TONNER one off - 1982 - aluminium - 9.00 m / 30 ft price 20 000 euros
This french designed and built racing boat named Dira has been totally modified by current owner for cruising in about any region of the globe. Dira sails under the Swiss flag. length : 9.00 meters - 30 feet width : 3.25 meters depth : 1.7 meters weight : 3.5 tonnes sail surface : 55 m2 architecte : Taliciero year built : 1982 The rigging and the mast have been changed. The boat carries a modern Grand Surprise mast built by Archambault. A 200 kg led bulb has been built on the bottem of the keel.
SAILS: light genoa polyprop heavy genoa dacron full batten mainsail dacron (four reefs) solent dacron (with one reef) special heavy weather staysail storm staysail gennaker mainstay on Bartels structural roller two removible stays for smaller sails dynema runners for the third stay LIFERAFT: Plastimo Transocean+, 4 persons last inspection April 2012 ENERGY: 80 watt solar panel two 110 amp batteries 12V - 120V converter
NAVIGATION: Garmin GPS 152 Raymarine echosonder and loch installation for a marine PC or a Mac Mini, fitting behind a plexiglass for a 12v screen barometer VHF All lamps on LED STEERING: windvane NORVANE removible inside steering wheel ANCHORING: Goiot manual windlass with a Bruce and a CQR anchor. 50 meters of 8mm chain. The windlass is at the aft for different reasons, it used to be at the stern, it would be easy to put it there again. INSIDE: Until 2007 the boat was empty inside. We built the inside for cruising with confort, simplicity and open space. It is well insolated, and in 2011 a wood stove was built and installed.
SLEEPING: Double bunk at the stern, the table slides under it for more room. Two large bunks under each side of the cockpit. Plus a fith bunk in the galley, on portside. COOKING: In cold climate you can cook on the wood stove, or on the ENO two fire gas cooker, placed in the center. Sink with fresh and salt water on manual pumps. We carry fresh water (200 to 300 liters) in jerricans that we hook on the pump.
We have sailed and lived on Dira since 2007, and gone half way around the world from France to Brasil, down to Ushuaia through the Patagonian channels, from the Falkland Islands to South Africa across the roaring forties, and from there on to Madagascar, Thailand, Malacca Strait and Borneo. The entire trip with no engin aboard. That s why we really had to think and work on the sailing performances of the machine. The boat can fight it s way upwind in very heavy weather with it s four reefs and specially designed 6 square meter staysail, as it can take off in a tiny breeze with it s 80 square meter gennaker. When there is no wind at all, we can make 1.5 nots pulling on two 3.5 meter aluminium oars.
The boat is has very good sailing capabilities, especially for a cruiser. It is pretty complicated for a round-the-world cruiser. Of course everything could be simplified with a genoa on a furler and an engine, inboard our outboard, easy to install. (the troughholls and the space for the inboard still exist) We are selling her - with regret - because a baby has come along and for a family the boat is getting too small. We just finished scratching off the paint from the deck that was getting old, to prevent corrosion. The boat can be left like this, without paint, or it can be painted. On Staten Island, near Cape Horn, we made a few bumps on one side of the hull, and we damaged the rudder. We replaced the structures that where damadged, and got a new rudder made. The new rudder is a bit dodgy, but we sailed it from Madagascar, with no worries. The boat is currently in Kuching, Borneo (Malaysia) Visit our website (in french) www.carnets-de-mer.ch benjamin@carnets-de-mer.ch