SAILING VESSEL HAPPY JACK

Equipment

The boat is a 1985 Beneteau 1150. It is white in color, with maroon accents, white sails, and sports a rigid davit system on the stern. The Length is 37' and drafts 4.5' The davit contains twin solar panels, a rigid radar mount and suspends an 11' rigid inflatable dinghy. The Dinghy is two tone gray with blue chaps. The dinghy has 3 air chambers atop an aluminum hull, and is powered by a four stroke Mercury gasoline 20hp engine.

The Vessel is powered by a Perkins 4108 Diesel engine at 50hp. We carry 105 gallons of fresh water in three water bladders with an additional 10 on deck in Jerry cans. 21 gallons of fuel are supplied by a hard tank and 20 gallons on deck. The tender contains 3 gallons of gasoline and we carry an additional 10 gallons on board.

The Vessel does not contain a life raft.

The Vessel is equipped with radar, multiple chart plotters, gps, vhf base station and redundant hand helds including DSC and gps integration. We carry a full first aid kit equipped for basic trauma for 24 hours and a 5 day ditch kit with DSC-VHF, GPS, signal devices, flare launcher, and EPIRB. The MMSI and EPIRB registrations can be found on the documents page.

New for Spring 2020. We've added garmin in-reach satelite communicator for texting, weather forecasting, location services, and weather routing through FastSeas.com

An AIS transponder is currently being installed (winter 2021).

Happy Jack is outfitted with a manual pump in the cockpit, two general use 800 gph pumps in dual bilges, a 2000 gph dc bilge pump and alarm. In addition we have an AC operated crash pump at 3000+gph

We carry 600 watts of solar panels feeding 600 amp hours of lithium, lifepo4 batteries that allows over 6 days of reserve power to run navigation and refrigeration if no additional charging is applied. Planned for winter 2021 is the addition of a hard top with an additional 250watts of solar.

We carry an onboard snuba compressor and 4 scuba tanks with full dive equipment for boat maintenance and recreational use, including a high pressure compressor for refills at sea.