Yacht Agile Wings

Basic specifications

Design

Agile Wings is a custom built equal-masted staysail schooner. She was built in Viareggio, Italy, for an Italian noble. The smooth hull is beautifully radiused with no chines. The staysail schooner rig is a modern high-performance rig. The masts are equal in height, each with a large roller-furling genoa-type sail in front of it. The aft mast has an in-mast roller-furled mail sail on a typical boom. The interior is exquisite. Agile Wings was built for sailing, with a lead fin keel, fine entry, slight tumblehome, low freeboard, and flush deck.

Interior

Layout: Link to Interior Layout Diagram . V-berth forward with door. Followed by deep freeze and fridge to starboard, pantry to port. Followed by forward stateroom with double bunk to starboard, hanging locker and enclosed head with door to port. Separated from saloon with door. Followed by saloon, with two easy chairs and commodious book shelves to port, galley and dinette to starboard. Followed by 12-foot passageway (with door) back to the navigation station, with main stateroom to starboard with enclosed head aft through door. To port is a stateroom with upper and lower bunks and hanging locker, followed by head, followed by a utility closet, followed by aft stateroom with upper and lower bunks. Navigation station to port across from aft stateroom. Door to engine room aft of nav station. Ladder up to cockpit in the navigation station. Separate lazarette with steering gear accessed from deck.

Bulkheads and carpentry is teak throughout. Sole is teak and holly. Insulation is provided throughout, with 3" of fiberglass insulation for the deck and the hull side down to the water line.

Condition: Following refit in three of the staterooms, most of the interior joinery has been re-installed. A few pieces remain, notably two heads. All pieces are systematically marked, both for location and for orientation.

Electrical

The AC electrical system has both a 240 VAC and 120-volt AC distribution panels and systems. 240 VAC is used for the large loads: the air conditioning, deep freeze, water heater, reverse-osmosis water maker, and battery charger. The diesel generator is a reliable 8 kw Northern Lights that produces 240 volts.

The 120 VAC system is supplied by a 5 KW isolation transformer. All the 120 circuits (Bow, Port, Starboard, Microwave, Galley, Aft) are on double-pole breakers that isolate both phases. A grounded neutral (white) wire would be dangerous in the marine environment, particularly on a metal boat. All receptacles are obviously grounded. The wiring is AWG 10 and AWG 12, substantially oversized, and is top-of-the-line material: Ancor tinned multi-stranded wire with Ancor connectors.

The DC electrical system is 24 VDC for the house. The lights, pumps, radar, autopilot, primary winches, anchor windlass etc. all run on 24 VDC. For the radios which only take 12 VDC, DC-DC converters are used to supply these loads with 12 VDC. This also ensures that they get full rated voltage regardless of the house bank's state of charge.

There are four 24 VDC lighting circuits: forward, port, starboard, and aft. There is a separate breaker for each of these circuits.

There are sub-panels for the bilge pumps, radios, and the navigation lights. The navigation lights panel also supplies the binnacle light, horn, and instruments.

Electronics

Instruments are Raytheon STS 50, including depth, speed, rudder angle, and wind direction + speed.

The autopilot is a Robertson AP200DL. The hydraulic steering system has been completely renewed and re-designed with two independent systems: two cylinders, manifolds, accumulator tanks, steering wheel pumps, etc. Normally, the port and starboard systems are cross-connected, but they can be separated by throwing two 90-degree ball valves. The cockpit wheel operates on the starboard side, the inside wheel operates on the port side. The autopilot is hooked up to the port side, and can be operated from the cockpit with the remote. The starboard side is designed and laid out for a second redundant autopilot.

The radar is a Furuno 7100D 10 kw 72 nm (?96 nm?) four-foot open-array 24-volt unit.

Propulsion

The propulsion diesels are Volvo TMD-40A six-cylinder in-line diesels, which each produce 128 hp. Each Volvo propulsion diesel has its own 12-volt starting battery, and these two banks can be cross-connected. The generator uses the starboard bank for starting. The Volvos have two alternators: 12-volt and 24-volt for the starting bank and the house bank. The diesels are supplied via a 50-gallon day tank which has a Racor F1000 filter. There are also filters between the primary fuel tank and the day tank, and spin-on filters on the engines. The boat comes with numerous spares for the engines, including injector, heat exchanger, water pump, impellers, etc. The primary diesel tank is integral to the hull, and is 400 gallons.

Plumbing

Salt water systems on board include cooling for the diesels, and salt water for the watermaker, air conditioner, and deep freeze, and deck wash-down. Freshwater includes hot and cold and is plumbed to the engine room, three heads, galley, and topside. The gray water collects all water in a common tank and pumps it overboard, including water drains from the ice boxes and rainwater from the masts. No water is directed to the bilge. Black water system for two heads aft.

Pumps on board include 3 electric bilge pumps, electric emergency bilge pump, freshwater pump, gray water pump, washdown pump, head macerator pump, fuel transfer pump, 2 circulating saltwater pumps for the deep freeze and air conditioner, the water maker pumps, and then the diesels have attached pumps. Larger pumps are operated using sealed solenoids, so that starting and running current isn't drawn through float switches or toggle switches. Instead, the switch operates the solenoid which delivers power to the pump. All the critical hoses on board have just been renewed with new Shields hard white PVC with helix.

Other Systems

Galleymaid stainless steel propane stove with three burners + oven. The top-opening deep freeze is huge: with the shelves removed, I can readily climb into it and close the lid. There is also a reefer of course. Magma XL kettle grill, with rail mounting.

Air conditioning is via 17,000 BTU Rotary Aire with electronic control module.

Hatches are all Goiot ocean-going cast-frame models. That is, the handles do not penetrate the lenses, so there is no path for leakage.

Portholes are likewise all Goiot ocean-going cast models, and additionally have metal backing plates which seal to the frame. The backing plates also provide a simple mechanism for privacy.

Rigging swages are all double-toggled, both at the deck and aloft. Rigging is oversized 316 grade.

Sails include roller-furled genoas on each mast, in-mast mainsail on aft mast, and two spinnakers.

Winches: six primaries, five are 24vdc electric Barbarrossa 92 three-speed, one 24vdc electric Lewmar. Mast and mainsheet winches are four Barbarossa 62 and four 52 winches. Barbarossa was purchased by Harken, and consumable parts are the same as on current Harken winches. Genoa fairlead cars also map directly to current Harken items.

Ground tackle includes 50 kg genuine Bruce, 245 feet of 1/2-inch chain.

Obviously I haven't covered everything, so feel free to ask any other questions.