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Every 'toy' is onboard
| Owner | Bought | Sold | Boat's Name | Home Port |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pam & Dean McChesney | September 2013 | Fun | Old Saybrook, CT | |
| Dick Salter | December 2011 | September 2013 | Messing About | Manchester, MA |
| William and Mimi Sharpe & Richard H. Hutchinson | 1999 | December 2011 | J. Edgar Moser | Jamestown, RI |
| Charles Cutler | 1999 | Hector | ||
| Jonathon Alper1 | 1989 | Tug for Two |
About the Owners (past and present)
The Sharpes: When I was a young boy some 60 years ago, my now wife's father, who was named J. Edgar Moser, had a Comet sailboat which he sailed on the Alton Lake, near St. Louis, where we lived. He took me sailing for the first time which launched perhaps the most pervasive activity in my life. It even accounts for our living in Newport, "the sailing capital of the world" rather than the Midwest. I built a dinghy and later acquired a series of sailboats ending with a forty foot yawl. A couple of years ago I decided the yawl was just too much work for people of our advanced age, and it was time to get a motor vessel. I searched far and wide and concluded that only an LNVT would do. The transition has been a complete success in large part because of the enthusiastic participation of my wife Mimi, old J. Edgar's daughter. So, since it is common for tugs to have male names, it was a natural to remember him as the namesake of the tug. (from an email dated 18 December 2001)
Bill and Mimi Sharpe owned their Cheoy Lee 40' Offshore for 30 years and cruised Maine extensively. In their former lives Bill was an electrical engineer and Mimi a real estate broker.
Charles Cutler took great care of Hector. He cruised with his two nieces until age kept him at the dock.
Layout
- Mehrkens Galley (i.e. galley to starboard)
- Helm to Starboard
- Head and shower both on port
Mechanical and Engine Detail
- Cummins 4BT3.9M turbo diesel (2300hrs)
- Bow Thruster, Vetus BOW4512
- Vacuflush toilet
- Espar D5L diesel hot air heater serves all cabins
- Dual fuel filters to permit filter change under way
- Engine pre-oiler provides oil pressure prior to starting engine
- Centrifugal oil cleaner provides clean engine oil at all times
- Oil Change system to easily drain both engine and generator lube oil
- Murphy Gauge system measures various engine parameters and sends an alarm in case of improper readings.
- Refrigeration units (two): Sea Frost, liquid cooled by Walter keel-cooler.
- Electro-Guard system to prevent electrolytic corrosion
- Positive engine room ventilation
- Portable fuel polishing system
- Fixed Engine room fire suppression system
- Bilge Pumps: Two automatic electric pumps with cycle counters and one manual pump
- Wide variety of spare parts for engine, generator and accessory devices
Electrical
- 5KW Northern Lights Generator in a sound shield (<2000 hours)
- House Batteries: Four T105 440 AHrs
- House Alternator: Balmar 160 Amp, charged by Xantrex 3-step regulator
- Engine Starting Battery: 4D 160 AHrs
- Engine Alternator, Separate Alternator charged by internal regulator
- Inverter and House Battery Charger: Heart Interface 2000 Watt
- Battery Charger, 3-step shore power charger for engine and generator batteries
- Isolation transformer, eliminates hazards of shore power polarity errors, surges and transients
- Two 30 Amp shore power cables
Galley
- 9.5 cu ft refrigerator, top and front opening. Sea Frost condenser, liquid cooled by Walter keel-cooler
- Entirely separate top loading freezer with independent Sea Frost liquid cooled condenser
- General Electric microwave oven
- Magic Chef 3 burner propane range with oven
- Double sink with hot and cold pressure water
- Gas grill to mount on after deck
- Water heater operated by shore power or engine cooling system
- Full set of non-breakable glasses, dishes, and flatware for up to six persons
- Full set of cookware specified by a devoted cook for long term independent living aboard
Electronics
- AM/FM radio
- Hydraulic steering
- Autohelm autopilot
- Battery Monitor: Heart Interface Link 2000
- 6” Ritchie spherical compass in brass binnacle
- Garmin GPS17 interfaced to Dell Latitude 520 computer
- Large flat screen chart display convenient to helmsman
- Garmin GPSMAP220 chart plotter
- Garmin GPS 128 back up GPS.
- Raytheon R11XX Radar with open array antenna, factory reconditioned 2007
- Digital Depth Sounder, Datamarine LX300
- Graphic color depth sounder/fish finder, Sitex CVS106
- Two VHF radios, one with DSC capability, Icom M59,
- Portable VHF Radio (rechargeable) Apelco
- Anemometer
- Tank gauge for fuel and water tanks
- Cycle counters for fore and aft bilge pumps
- Additional remote control for windlass
- Sum Log speed meter
- Radar Reflector
- Search Light
- Pilot lights to show operation of all pumps and other systems
- Holding tank full indicator
- Barometer
- Clock
Deck
- Dinghy, Avon Rover hard bottom inflatable with 3hp Evinrude motor
- Windlass, Muir VE1000
- Spurs line and net cutters
- Mast in tabernacle and cargo boom
- Spreader lights
- Electric Hoist to launch and retrieve dinghy
- Air horn and whistle
- Signal Bell
- Two deck boxes on boat deck
- Towing lines made up and ready for use
- Towing lights proper for towing astern or along side.
- Radar Reflector
- Washdown pump
- Custom Swim Ladder
- Bulwark gate for convenient boarding
- Life Jackets (10)
- Steadying sail
- 2 boat hooks
- docking lines and fenders
- Sunbrella covers for all windows and doors
- Forfjord 65# working anchor with 245 ft. of 3/8” chain
- Danforth 35# alternate anchor with 12 ft of chain and 165 ft. of 3/8” nylon
- Fortress stern anchor with 8 ft of chain and 180 ft ½” nylon