"FLYING FREE" is a 53'' AMEL powered with a single diesel auxiliary engine. She is a ketch rig bluewater cruising yacht bulit in 1991. The hull shape is of raked stem, round bilge hull with a modified fin keel with winglets. A skeg protected rudder & transom stern. The decks are flush with a cabin trunk. She is a center cockpit with an offset helm wheel station to portside. The storage on this cruising yacht is unbelievable till you see how much and completely amazing throughout the vessel. Amel''s quality is suberb. Known for its stability and seaworthiness in any conditions. This is a rare find in our country to buy an AMEL right here in Southern California. Destinations await. The Amel was built for easy handling with amazing amounts of storage built in on deck so nothing is left outside. She is truly one of a kind.
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Look no further then right here for one of the best built cruising yachts on the market. Years of experience brought to you by the builder and designers of AMEL are shown in this listing with its inviting salon & beautiful galley. The forward and rear cabins offer luxurious comforts and plenty of storage, two full heads and showers everything built in with clothes line and privacy curtain. To start in the fore peak and working aft there is a large chain locker that is isolated from the accommodation and a full height water tight collision bulkhead with a water tight door for access into the chain locker. The guest stateroom is just aft and has a large V-berth or can be used as 2 single berths. A work desk is located to port side hung on bulkhead for easy use. A huge hanging locker to starboard across from head and shower is deep with lots of room for clothing and shelves behind for even more storage. Moving in to the salon area with a great U-shaped dinette table to port has liquor built in bottle storage in table and freezer under bench cushions. The smaller settee to starboard has a pilot-berth atop and coverts to a single berth. The navigation center is across the galley to starboard. The galley is U shaped and plenty of counter-top space and lots of above and under cabinet storage. Moving aft through doorway is the third cabin and battery storage under bunk. Located aft of the third cabin is the master cabin with dressing table or work area and large double berth full sit up headroom throughout the cabin and adjoining head and shower stall to port. Another large deep hanging locker is to starboard side of vessel. She seems to go on and on with storage that would make any woman cruising so happy and proud to have all her cookware, clothes, china, linens. And for the captain storage for all the spares you will ever need. AMEL got it right on the seaworthiness and stability and comforts of cruising at home in style with the SUPER MARAMU model.
The galley is U-shaped and located aft of the dining area and is equipped with a stove, double sinks & microwave oven also across from built in fridge is the washer/spin unit front loading. The double deep sinks are a mat finish. Filtered drinking water sprocket and foot pump option is available. There are storage lockers available above and under the counters. The controls for water maker are on wall in the galley area. For a gourmet chef she is sure to delight with loads of counter-top space plus enough storage for dry goods for years.
The masthead ketch rig is designed with a furling jib, main and mizzen. The sails can be adjusted electrically or manually. The mainsheet traveler is located in front of the cockpit area. The exclusive downwind balooner system with poles and double headsails that will furl together when mounted on the headstay. The standing rigging is 1x 19 stainless steel wire with swagged end fittings and open barrel chromed bronze turnbuckles. Winches are all Lewmar and all are self tailing. The primary winches in the cockpit are electric or manual.
- Antal traveller adjustor
- (2) Amel genoa sheet car adjusters
- (3) Lewmar aluminum winch handles
- (1) Titan plastic winch handle
- (1) Aluminum no brand winch handle
- Both masts are deck stepped
- All running rigging,sheets, lines are intact for single handed sailing
- Voltage: 12 VDC/24VDC; 110VAC/220VAC
- Batteries: (8) 6 VDC AGMs in series and parallel under pilot berth, (4) 6 VDC AGMs in series in engine room, (1) 12 VDC in engine room
- Disconnect: (2) vapor tight two pole DC switches
- Shorepower: 220 VAC via 110 VAC transformer routed through a dual pole circuit breaker, (1) 110VAC outlet protected by a type A ground fault circuit interrupt switched outlet.
- Generator: 220 VAC routed through a dual circuit breaker in engine room.
- Alternator: (1) 12VDC 55 amp engine belt driven (1) 24 VDC 40 amp engine belt driven (1) 24 VDC 30 amp jackshaft belt driven (1) 12 VDC 55 amp generator belt driven (1) 24 VDC 70 amp generator belt driven.
- Charger: Inverter/ Heart Freedom Model 25
- Wiring: All wiring is non metallic shesathed tinned copper, routed through molded F.R.P. channels
- Other: (3) Sailor N420 24 VDC to 12 VDC converters, Furuno 24VDC to 13.6 VDC converter. Mobitronic voltage and amp monitor. Heart Interface Link 1000. Battery monitor MPPT 500 Solar charge controller (1) Auto- Transformer
- Shore power inlet - 30 amp 45'' cord
- Generator - 5.5Kw Sole Diesel Mini 17 with 1355 hrs
Depthsounder - Brooks & Gatehouse Hydra
Log-speedometer - (1) Brookes & Gatehouse Hydra 2 integrated package with sonic sender
Wind speed and direction - B & G
Navigation center - Complete Navigation Center to starboard
Plotter - Furuno 1720C/NT Chartplotter & Fish Finder
Autopilot - (1) Autohelm ST 7000 with 24 VDC gear drive to chain & sprocket
Compass - (1) Plastimo Olympic 135 magnetic (1) Fluxgate sensor for autohelm
GPS - (1) Furuno
VHF - (1) Icom AD-58 (1) Handheld VHF (1) Shipmate VHF radio telephone (1) Furuno FS-1500 S.S.B. with Furuno Antenna tuner
Radar - (1) 24 mile Furuno 1830 with daylight display
Radar Detector - Firdell Blipper - Mounted to mizzen mast
TV set
Radio - Alpine am/fm cassette player with CD Changer
Cockpit speakers
The engine room is located under the cockpit sole and extends outboard to port. It is accessed via a lifting hatch in the cockpit sole it is stand up and very spacious. The hatch is watertight and sound insulated very quiet.All generator units, bilge pump unit, central salt water intake filter, automatic extinguisher, automatic self-emptying bilge, fresh water pump unit, air conditioning compressors & battery charger plus racor dual fuel filters all distributed in a large engine room for your easy access.The Perkins Prima 1990 M80T is freshwater cooled, four cylinder, four cycle, turbocharged diesel. The reduction gear hurth HBW250-3R mechanical gear coupled to gear drive. Horsepower is 80hp. She is estimated at 8 knots max & 7 knots cruising.
- The Auxiliary Engine: Sole diesel mini 17- two cylinder, four cycle naturally aspirated fresh water cooled diesel coupled to 5.5 kw single phase generator. Hours 1355
- Fuel Lines: USCG approved Type A-1 hose copper tubing
- Fuel Filters: Double mounted Racor filters with immediate change valve, (1) perkins water separator, (1) spin on cartridge at engine.
- Fuel shutoff: At tank bottom with remote arm in pilot cabin
- Exhaust: Wet discharging through water lift canister reinforced rubber hoses to port hull side.
- Steering System: Mechanical wheel operated dual racks to cables to tiller control arm.
- Controls: Single lever Morse to cables to engine
- Propellers: Three blade bronze 20x16. (1) spare maxi-prop geared feathering
- Tail Shaft: Bronze 117/16 diameter
- Rudder: Hollow F.R.P. skeg hung
- Bearings: Dual "0" ring with bronze sleeve
- Pumps: (1) SerieMarina PAM 24 VDC diaphragm bilge, (1) Henderson maul diaphragm bilge,(1) 24 VDC anchor washdown pump, (1) 24 VDC freshwater pump with attached accumulator tank, (1) 24 VDC Cat power high pressure pump water maker.
- Engine room ventilation: Forced through 12 VDC blowers to ducts and cowls.
- (4) Ferris Solar Panels 480 watts total
- (1) Honda 15 HP outboard
- Rail mounted BBQ
- (1) Marine air wind powered generator
- Cockpit cushions
- (2) Cockpit tables
- (3) Five gallon jerry cans
- (2) Temp portable gasoline fuel tanks
- (1) Aluminum gangway
- Plenty of fenders, lines, sheets, docklines
- (1) Portable piston bilge pump
- (1) 75 lb CQR plow with 250'' triple B Hightensil chain and 200'' 1/2 " rode
- (1) 60 lb CQR plow mounted on bowroller no rode attached
- (1) EST 44 lb Danforth style with chain and line rode - Undetermined length of spare chain rode under saloon sole, undetermined length of nylon rode in port bow locker
- Windless: (1) Lofrans 24 VDC dual direction
- Winches: (2) Lewmar 56 S.T. manual and 24 VDC (4) Lewmar 40 S.T.
- (2) Lewmar 16 S.T. (3) 24 VDC winches for furling sails
- Standing rigging: 1x19 S.S. wire
- Fittings: Stainless steel alloy studs and chromed bronze turnbuckles
- Running Rigging: All Dacron line
- Sail Inventory: (1) roller furling headsail (1) Jib (2) roller furling mainsails original and one new in 1995. (1) roller furling mizzen (1) Mizzen staysail
- (1) Nylon cruising spinnaker with ATN spinnaker sock
- Spars: (2) Extruded aluminum masts with in mast furling gear (2) Aluminum booms (2) Aluminum downwind poles (2) Aluminum compression struts
All stainless steel alloy pulpit all stanchions upper liferails are stainless steel alloy two part push pit.
- Lower Lifelines are stainless steel alloy 1x 19 wire
- Fire Extingushers: (1) 1.13 Kg Dry Chemical (1) 2 Kg Dry Chemical (1) Halon 1301 in engine compartment (1) Halon at nav station (1) fire blanket in galley
- Service tags: Expired needs to be completed
- PFD''S: Quanitity of type III (2) Harness auto inflate models
- Ring/Horseshoe Buoys: (1) Horseshoe buoy (1) M.O.B. Pole with strobe light (1) Lifesling in bag
- Signal Kit: Expired needs to be completed
- Epirb: (1) McMurdo 406/120/GPS mounted at companionway
- Life Raft: (1) Plastimo 6 person
- Radar Reflector: Firdell Blipper mounted to Mizzen mast
- Horn: (1) Compressed gas canister type
- Fogbell: Mounted at compainway
- Navigational Lights: 24 VDC LED Lopolight tricolor and anchor light displayed from masthead
- Steaming light mounted on mast, Deck level Aquasignal 40 Series running lights
- Furuno D Fax weather fax with Maxsea navigation software for PC.
- SCS-PTC IIE Pactor modem for SSB
- TV antennae mounted top of mizzen mast
- ITT Night scope with (1) pair binoculars
- Vessel was last hauled and painted 2006
- Long Beach Shipyard - New West System Barrier coat bottom 2005
- All new chain for anchoring in 2002
- Liferaft recertified 2005
- 2005 Furuno Chartplotter replaced
- Forestay replaced 2005
- Rigging original
- 3 Owners since built
- Construction : molded fiberglass reinforced plastic F.R.P
- Hull Material: Woven fiberglass cloth and stitched biaxal fiberglass cloth. polyester resin, wood core at deck.
- Frames: Plywood bulkheads molded F.R.P stringers & frames
- Stainless Steel railings for security.
- Push button controls ease with bow thruster
- Mahogany beautiful wood interior
- Built in passerelle for boarding anywhere
- Great short handed sailing ease a true passagemaker.
The seller''s personal items are not included in the sale of vessel all items stated on spec sheet will be for sale with vessel all other items will be taken off vessel when vessel is sold.
Inside Equipment
Air conditioning - (2) Frigoboat 6,000 btu air conditioner compressors
Heating - (3) Fakir 220 VAC cabin heaters
Hot water - Isotemp 220 VAC engine heat transfer
Fresh water maker - 900 gallon serviced in 2010 only 50 hrs
Washing machine - Kenwood EU 350 Washer/Spin
Microwave oven - Thomson 220 VAC microwave plus grill
Deep freezer - Under salon bench seat can double as extra fridge when at sea
Outside Equipment/Extras Cockpit cushions - Bright cushions for cockpit entertaining
Swimming ladder - Doubles as gangway ladder locks in on deck
Cockpit shower
Tender - 1996 Caribe 11'' RIB
Total Liferaft Capacity: 6
Electric windlass
