Sparkman & Stephens, 40ft, centreboard yawl
SAI SEE
Lying Penarth, Cardiff. Offers around £39,500
Design and history:
Sai See is based on the legendary and revolutionary Finisterre designed by Sparkman & Stephens and raced with great success by Carleton Mitchell. She is a very strongly built cruising version of the original, constructed of Burma teak in Hong Kong for Group Captain Ingle, Royal Cruising Club. She changed hands in 1966 and again in 1975. She was bought by Christopher Thornhill, Royal Cruising Club, in 1981 and has been sailed, as a family cruising yacht ever since, mostly in NW Europe and the N Atlantic. ‘Mod Cons’ are conspicuously absent.
Build & Construction
40ft centreboard yawl
Construction
- Wing-on-Shing, Hong Kong 1960
- Burma teak on Yacal frames
- Teak strip deck on marine ply
- Masts stepped in tabernacles supported by massive steel structure
- Manually operated Centerboard is made of lignum vitae and falls with its own weight. It is housed within the keel and beneath the cabin sole.
Dimensions
- LOA – 40ft (12.2m)
- LWL – 27ft 6ins (8.23m)
- Beam – 11ft 3ins (3.43m)
- Draft – 4ft 3 ins (c/b up) (1.2m) – approx 8ft (c/b/ down) (2.4m)
- Tonnage – Gross and net 11.55 tons – Thames 14 tons
Rig
- Bermudan yawl
- Varnished hollow wooden spars
- (Main 1998 Noble Masts, Bristol)
- (Mizzen mast and boom original)
- In the early 1970s the main boom was shortened and the rudder altered
- Stainless steel standing rigging
- (Main rigging renewed 2016)
- Jib furling gear (Schaefer 1998)
- Main halyard (2016), jib and mizzen halyards (2017)
- Twin aluminium spinnaker poles (14’6” 4.4m)
- Inner forestay (seldom used: stows at main shrouds)
- Running rigging is all in good condition (main, jib and mizzen halyards recently renewed)
Accommodation
- Very little has been altered or added below since she was built
- Teak with white bulkheads
- 5/6 berths (focsle 2, saloon 2, quarter-berth)
- There is provision to turn one of the saloon berths to a double
- Quarter galley
- Neptune 4500 butane gas cooker (2 rings, grill and oven)
- S/s sink
- There is no pressurised water, hot water, fridge or freezer
- Gas supply: 4 x 4.5kg cylinders stored in two lockers in the cockpit
- Chart table (width 900mm: depth 810mm approx.)
- WC Simpson Lawrence ‘Kentigern’ (a luxury model)
- Hanging locker, sundry drawers and bookshelves and lockers
- ‘Trawler’ paraffin lamp with stowage
On Deck
- Much varnished teak bright-work
- Wheel steering: brass binnacle and steering compass
- Aires Vane Steering gear (very little used; at present not installed)
- Lacquered brass dorade ventilators
- Electric powered primary winches (Anderson 46) (2010)
- Secondary winches (Lewmar 44)
- Various mast winches
- Electric anchor windlass (Simpson Lawrence Horizon 1500), with approx. 70 metres three-eighth inch galvanized chain
- Bower anchor: 25kg Rocna
- Spare anchor: 45lb CQR
- Light anchor: 10kg Bruce
- 4 man liferaft (2016)
- Electric deck-wash pump
- Main manual bilge pump in cockpit sole (2015)
- ‘Shaft-Lok’ propeller shaft locking device (2015)
Sails
- Mainsail Sanders Sails (2015)
- Furling jib (yankee) Sanders Sails (2015)
- Mizzen Sanders Sails (2014)
- Mizzen riding sail Sanders Sails (2017)
- Spinnaker elderly
- Reaching foresail Dart Sails (19??)
- Mizzen Stays’l elderly
- Trysail elderly
- Storm jib elderly
- Spare furling jib elderly
Sail stowage in fore-peak and cockpit locker
Engine
- Merceds-Benz OM636 42 hp (1970 still performing well)
- Meadows reversing gearbox
Electrics
- 5 batteries powering separately:
- Domestic circuits (2 batts)
- Engine start
- Anchor windlass
- Navigation instruments
- Battery monitor
- Automatic/manual bilge pump
- Galley sink outlet pump
- Domestic lighting has been mostly converted to LED
Instruments
- Raymarine ST60+ wind, depth, speed, autopilot (2010)
- VHF (Icom IC-M423 (2015)
- GPS (Furuno GP32)
- There is no chart-plotter, AIS or radar
Lying Penarth, Cardiff. Offers around £39,500
Contact Christopher Thornhill
Tel: +44 (0)1225 862552 – Mob: +44 (0)7715 240276