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| Owner | Bought | Sold | Boat's Name | Home Port |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather MacPhail | 1993 | Greymalkin | Anacortes, WA | |
| Chris Barker, USN ret. (original owner) | 1988 | 1993 | Elsa B. | Oak Harbor |
Like all LNVT's, Greymalkin is well-built for safe cruising wherever she goes, but this is an extraordinary vessel, especially equipped and professionally maintained for the Northwest and cruising to Alaska. She has logged over 5,000 engine hours on the Washington and British Columbia coasts, gunkholing into almost any inlet your finger can point out on a chart, from Olympia to Prince Rupert, Inside and Outside passages. Every time a part has worn, it has been replaced, the reconditioned one, or a new one, thereafter carried as a spare.
What most newcomers to boating in the Northwest often don't understand is how difficult (expensive!) it is to get parts and/or service specific to your boat once you have crossed the border and pointed North. It's not unheard-of to sit idle at a relatively remote dock for two weeks, waiting for a part to get through the U.S., the Customs, the broker, and floatplane (extra $$) delivery. By design and careful planning, due diligence, grim experience, and considerable expense, we have equipped this vessel with enough spares and back-up systems to get us through almost any eventuality.
And what if nothing goes wrong and we don't need that spare gezornenblit?
We must be boating somewhere else.
Layout
- Galley to starboard
Mechanical and Engine Detail
- Cummins 4BT3.9M turbo diesel, 150 hp (5000+ hours)
- Borg-Warner transmission
- Custom-made new aluminum fuel tanks w transfer bet. #4 & #2 (see below)
- Replumbed all fuel tank vents and lines
- Replaced fuel pump, raw water pump, engine mounts, oil pan, exhaust elbow and system (incl. lift muffler & hose)
- Double Racor primary filters with toggle between
- Fuel-Flo meter w gauge on helm
- Halon automatic fire extinguisher
- PSS Shaft seal, shaft brushes, pillow bearing
- Extra prop, LH 24x20, and Size H prop-nut zincs
Electrical
- Northern Lights 5.5Kw genset (with full spare parts kit)
- Heart Interface 2000w inverter/100 amp batter charger w. remote control
- Todd 30 backup charger
- Torrid 6 gal. water heater
- Shur-Flo freshwater pump w. ITT accumulator tank
- Transfer pump TO fuel tank #2 (supplies both stove & genset) FROM fuel tank #4, as backup
- Vacu-Flush head
Galley
- Galley is to starboard, companionway to port
- Dickinson "Pacific" model diesel stove runs off vessel's regular fuel supply
- Replaced all stove fuel lines and pump
- Deep custom storage drawer below stove holds all cooking pots, pans, etc.
- Custom insulating firewall behind stove
- Fridge-a-Boat refrigerator w. top and galley-side openings, freezer space inside.
- Replaced fridge compressor & evaporator
- Two SS water tanks below sole w. tank measuring meter.
- Double SS sink w. modern single-control faucet, marble countertops
Electronics
- Entire helm rebuilt to hold Raytheon 700 amber sounder/fish-finder; Raytheon R72RC radar/plotter system, interfaced with Autohelm GPS & Tridata, back-up (separate antenna) Standard Horizon CP170C color GPS chart plotter, w. toggle between two systems. WH autopilot w. remote (spares for both); Rudder angle indicator; Heart Interface remote control; Icom M126DSC VHF radio; E-meter battery bank monitor; fuel flow meter gauge.
- Non-electronic wheelhouse features: Hynautic hydraulic steering, Morse single-lever controls w. Teflon Teleflex cables, horn and auto-foghorn, tank tenders on all 4 fuel tanks, overhead fan, new windshield motors/wipers, Richie magnetic compass, leather upholstery, screens aft windows and both doors.
Deck
- R&R'd mast and boom, refitted w. larger blocks, added manual winch
- Belaying pins added, fore & aft, for dockline storage
- SS bollard & saltwater washdown added to foredeck
- Maxwell 1200 electric windlass
- 425 ft. 7/16" (Galv. GR.40 I.S.O. Acco) chain; additional 200 ft. nylon line w. 30 ft. 3/8 BBB chain, 2nd anchor
- Forfjord 40# steel anchor
- 3 small and two large black ball fenders
- SS 1 1/4" rails around transom
- Two size-huge coolers on top deck will hold anything you can catch; we use them as deck lockers.
- Top deck wired for freezer.
- Canvas dodger/turtlehatch cover added to cabintop (removeable)
- Screens for all windows & hatches
- Louvered vents and flat shelf added to lazarette
- Hull has never had blisters because of epoxy barrier coat in molding process.
- SS stem plate
- Bottom paint maintained religiously: Interlux Micron CRC.
Cabins
- Saloon: Custom leather-upholstered (2) teak chairs & L-shape settee w storage under; Teak table (seats 1 - 6); pleated, heat-reflective shades w teak valence at all windows; several added teak shelves & deep drawers.
- Forward cabin: Queen bunk w custom tri-part innerspring mattress & memory-foam topper; extra shelves over hanging locker, extra storage canvas bags along hull.
- Red dot heater under hanging locker extended to copper piping under bunk, to heat/dry under-bunk space when engine is running.
All lockers in both cabins have louvred doors for ventilation.
All windows and hatches have been removed and reseated. Coamings of both overhead hatches were routed before re-seating.
