Thornycroft Gentlemans Motor Yacht 1961 - Sold

SEAFIN combines the period elegance of a classic English motor yacht, with all the luxuries and amenities of modern day cruising. At present she is a working charter vessel with a reputation for high standards of seamanship and hospitality. As a very successful charter yacht - indeed she is notably the busiest yacht in the Solent - she has been a serious revenue earner and as such provides the ongoing opportunity of a significant income. Typically she has taken between 70 and 90 charters per year of which in 2008 repeat business was 60%; the balance new clients.

Configured with a high standard of accommodation and facilities, she caters as well for the needs of private charterers as for the corporate hospitality market. She could equally provide a discerning owner with an extremely well equipped and laid out yacht of considerable style and ambience. Indeed as well as the obvious options of totally private use or full charter employment with paid crew and skipper, some middle way part private / part charter could appeal to a “hands on” owner with the clear benefit of reducing the charter running costs.

In 2007 SEAFIN enjoyed a substantial refit with the aim of satisfying the requirements of the MCA and holds the Class 6 certificate for a crew of up to 10 and 30 passengers. To maintain the certification she has received regular scheduled and post voyage maintenance covering all aspects of her seagoing, operational, mechanical and electrical – as well as the accommodation and hospitality aspects. She comes with a comprehensive and detailed operations manual, routinely updated and demonstrating compliance with the MCA rating regulations.

In addition to a fully detailed equipment inventory, the manual covers all operations, of which the principal procedures (and this is not an exhaustive list) are covered under the headings:

- ALARMS & PA SYSTEM
- REGULAR MAINTENANCE
- SAILING OPERATIONS
- ENGINE ROOM OPERATIONS
- DOMESTIC OPERATIONS
- EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
- OPERATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF LIFERAFTS AND BUOYANCY AIDS
- TENDERS
- PLAN FOR CO-OPERATION BETWEEN SEARCH AND RESCUE SERVICES
- AND PASSENGER SHIPS (PRIVATE)

SHOANNE built in 1961 of pitch pine with oak frames and a teak deck, was one of the last wooden vessels built by John J Thornycroft of Southampton. In 1964, she moved to Scotland and was renamed MINALA. In 1967 she became a member of the Profumo family, moved to Eire and was named SEAFIN. From 1971 to 1986 a new owner based her in Jersey, Sark and Cornwall with sojourns into the Baltic. She has sailed as far as Italy, France, the Balearics Paris and London.

SEAFIN is of classic wooden construction with pine planking laid over and clenched with copper nails to the oak steam bent frames that run right over the centre line stem. Most of the decking and floors are of solid timber and also copper clenched to the hull and center line structures. In addition to the frames and floors, the hull is supported by five diagonal plank main bulkheads. There are additional less structural bulkheads forming partitions.

The main, fore, aft and side decks are of caulked teak planking supported by the underlying timber deck beams and beamshelf. Some smaller deck areas are of sheathed marine ply. The fore, side and upper decks have varnished timber rails supported on white painted steel stanchions.

SEAFIN boasts very substantial deck space, not only fore and aft and alongside the main accommodation - but accessed by companionway steps from each side deck, a magnificent upper deck. This open area deck enclosed by stanchion rail affords not only a superb vantage point for viewing but more than enough space for guests to congregate and be entertained.

General
SEAFIN has a well equipped and fully instrumented control bridge for’ard of the main accommodation. The main deck provides the principal public accommodation with a variety of access points including to the side decks. Below decks are to be found the sleeping cabins, five in all with seven berths - and washing etc facilities. Access to accommodation below is generally via a central companionway.

Aft Deck Saloon
This is a light and airy, multi-purpose room leading directly on to the open aft deck.
It serves as a dining area or a meeting room with a multi-media systems and a 72" drop down screen and is an ideal indoor viewing platform for those wanting to watch the world sail by from a position of considerable comfort.

Saloon to Galley
Her fully equipped, open plan galley is set at the forward end of the saloon and would please any professional chef. Counter tops serve as a bar and four very comfortable purpose-made bar stools are just perfect for cocktail hour. With a sofa and easy chair and it all combines to provide a very comfortable and convivial setting.

Saloon to Aft
The after end of the saloon, which leads out via linked sliding timber doors onto the aft viewing deck, is raised to deck level and hosts SEAFIN's library, sound systems, PC and boat deck wine store.
Sleeping accommodation
Located in the aft accommodation section of the vessel, is a large, roomy, twin-bedded cabin with very comfortable beds. Well lit and airy but furnished in style with varnished oak, this is a very fine guest cabin with substantial locker storage. There is access then to the head, shower and wash basin for’ard to port.

Next for’ard are single cabins; one each side with access to heads, shower and wash basin to starboard.

Beyond the engine room is the double-bedded master cabin, with en suite shower and head. It is comfortable and roomy with a settee and plenty of storage space. Resplendent with traditional English oak beams and high gloss varnish it will please the most discerning owner or guest.

A further single cabin in the foc’sle with en suite WC and basin.

Galley
The galley is well equipped with electric double oven, multi hob micro wave, double fridge (additional fridge and freezer storage in the tank room), ice maker, dishwasher and stowage.

- Main bow mounted anchor 65 Kg and 63 fathoms chain lifted by electric windlass
- 40 Kg kedge anchor
- Nautical Structures inc deck crane (for tender, jet skis etc)
- Emergency rudder

- 2 x Gardner 6LXB 140 hp main engines
- Stainless steel propeller shafts
- Onan 11Kva generator
- Vosper Maxi Fin hydraulic water cooled stabilisers
- Electric main bilge pump
- 4 x Electric automatically operated bilge pumps
- 1 lead acid battery
- Onan Internal Charger
- Gunson 12 Volt Automatic Charger 10amp offline spare charger
- 4 x Rolls type 12HHG8DM domestic batteries: connected series parallel to give 550 AH
- Inverter to AC for PC, Sea Tel and entertainment equipment only from domestic batteries.
- 2 x Sterling Marine power battery chargers (Offline spare Studer charger)
- 2 x Lead Acid engine batteries, charged by engine alternators and domestic chargers
- 2 x lead acid emergency batteries
- Newmar HD marine automatic battery charge/converter HDM 220-24-20. 20 A

- 2 x 670 L fresh water tanks in tank room
- 330 L tank at each side cabin
- 2 x 60 litre grey water tanks
- Fuel x 500 L

- 1 x VHF (Main): Standard Horizon
- Model: DX1100E
- Type: Eclipse DSC
- Serial: 91070430

- 1 x VHF (Second): Skanti Leisure DSCall
- Model: TU1000P BSC
- Code: 80480181
- Serial: 3050690008

- 2 x VHF Handheld: Vertex Standard XH270E
- 1 x Radar: Furuno 1800
- 1 x GPS: Garmin GPS 120 XL
- 1 x GPS Handheld: Magellan GPS Colour TRAK
- 1 x Nav:Transas B2-AIS Transponder System Class B
Navigator software
Advanced function – ARPA, playback, Navtex
Tides & Currents
Large TX97 chart folio

- 1 x Nav:Vasari MPC422XR Bridge Computer
- 1 x Compass: Constellation
- 1 x Compass Handheld: Plastimo IRIS 50
- 1 x Hailer: Raytheon Ray 430
- 1 x Hailer Handheld: Noboru TM-103
- 1 x Autopilot: Simrad AP24
- 2 x Horn: Electric
- 1 x Horn Handheld:Gas canister
- 1 x GMS: 07912 600 585

- 3 x Avon 8 person self-inflatable Solas B lift rafts
- Avon 16 person self-inflatable Solas B life raft
- 45 x Crewsaver 150N (plus lights) manual gas inflatable personal life jackets
- 2 x fibreglass man overboard life-buoy ring with Comet Solas 74/96 smoke, lights & lines
- 2 x fibreglass man overboard life-buoy rings with lines and lights
- 2 x Sowester man overboard horseshoes with lights and lines
- Ikaros rocket propelled line-throwing appliance
- 3 x children’s personal buoyancy aid life jackets
- 4 x adult’s personal buoyancy aid life jackets
- Fibreglass man overboard life-buoy ring
- 12 x parachute distress flares
- 2 x smoke signals
- 2 x First aid kits
- Fisted throwing line
- Main torch/lantern
- Pick-axe

- ACR Globalfix 406 EPIRB
- McMurdo SART

- FM200 extinguishing system (new 2004)
- Hand held fire extinguishers as:
- 1 x Amerex powder (Forward Cabin)
- 3 x Amerex water (Saloon, Aft Cabin, Aft Deck)
- 4 x Nimrod CO2 (Tank Room)
- 1 x Nimrod foam (Tank Room)
- 1 x Nimrod powder (Tank Room)
- 1 x Chubb CO2 (Tank Room)
- 2 x Chubb Halon (Tank Room)
- 1 x Nimrod CO2 (Engine Room)
- 1 x Angus Fire Armour fire hose & pump
- 3 x fire & heat sensors (Engine Room)
- 5 x independent fire alarms in accommodation
- 2 x galley fire blanket (plus spare)
- 1 x manual fuel cut-off system (Engines and generator)

- 2 x Jet skis
- Avon Seasport Jet 320 6 person 80hp Jet RIB
- Sea-Tel 28” gyroscopic satellite TV antenna and receiver
- Satellite receiver
- Dell OptiPlex 745 workstation 2.13GHz. WiFi
- Vista, Microsoft office 2007, Acrobat, Shockwave, Realjukebox