Ed Burnett 58 ft Schooner 2007

The opportunity to follow through - from sketches (perhaps grounded in childhood), to drawings, to reality - the design of that somehow most romantic of pleasure vessels, a traditionally inspired schooner yacht, must have been a great thrill for her designer, working with a commissioning owner up for some adventure. The idea was to carry her owning family to warmer waters in some style, without fuss and anxiety.

Despite what Ed Burnett might have said below, perhaps when pressed about influences, AMELIA’s hull design is clearly a gentle evolution from the highly successful late 1990s 30 ft ZINNIA design created in partnership with Nigel Irens: a very good idea indeed. Great attention would, of course, have been applied to the special requirements of a schooner’s sail area distribution - to get the ‘drag’ in the keel profile just right. But in many ways, she’s simply a double size ZINNIA, which means that she feels much bigger than she is, sails like a dream, and rewards great pride in ownership.

AMELIA has now ticked all the boxes for two owners. The first did indeed sail her down the Portuguese Trades to the warm waters of the Mediterranean where she was lightly used there until entering present ownership in 2010 when her home port moved north to Belgium.

In current ownership, through much experience by use, AMELIA’s rig has been gradually and relatively subtly modernised/ optimsed for both performance and ease of short-handed sailing by a couple. While down below her accommodation has been delightfully transformed from New England style simplicity to the feel of a cosy Edwardian gentleman’s club. One can imagine spending a lot of time down there while reeling off the sea miles with aplomb.

ED BURNETT DESIGN NO. 125
There are many influences in the design of AMELIA. It is not unusual for schooners to be viewed as primarily an American fashion, although this isn’t actually true: over the years there have been many fine British and European schooners. That said, having passed countless hours in my youth absorbing lines from the likes of John Alden, Philip Rhodes, Starling Burgess, and also having spent time in yards in the States, it is likely that a fair bit of American influence has crept into this boat. She remains perhaps mid-Atlantic, with characteristics and features that could be attributed to either side of the ocean.

AMELIA’s hull form treads the usual fine line, searching for interior volume whilst striving to retain the subtlety that lends performance and grace. Longer ends and less beam might have enhanced the latter, but as a family cruising boat she provides comfortable accommodation in a hull that, whilst powerful, is not overbearing.

In a boat of this sort there is plenty of fun to be had in determining rigging and gear arrangements. AMELIA’s hardware was source from Europe and the US, notably Freeland Yacht Spars (Collars), Colin Frake, Daveys and Totnes Foundry & Fabrication, with bespoke items by Port Townsend Foundry.

Many would view a rig such as this as being complicated and perhaps even a little intimidating, although I prefer to see it as an accumulation of simple principles. Considered in this way it is not nearly so daunting to piece together the arrangements, nor to figure out how it all works if stepping aboard for the first time. The benefits to a light crew are realised in the modest area of individual sails, and the many options available for the overall management of the vessel.

The rig was redesigned for much more power, better pointing and simplicity. These changes were made after years of trial and error:
- A powerful main with a bigger roach
- A powerful fore - a bit higher/larger than before
- A furling topsail which adds another knot and is simple to use
- A staysail, as usual
- An “enormous”, electric furling genoa which is now the workhorse
More
- New Awl Grip hull paint and varnish of masts and superstructure
- Deck sanded
- All deck winches replaced by electric Andersens
- Travellers with line drivers on all three boomed sails
- New sails in 3DL by Ratsey & Lapthorn
- New ball-bearing luff cars for main and fore
- New polished stainless steel bowsprit whiskers and dolphin striker
- Hydraulic vangs and backstay tensioner
- All wood blocks re-leathered
- Dyneema backstays
- New Reckmann furler for the jib
- Fishermans sail replaced by a topsail on a Karver furler
- New covers for hatches
- New sail covers
- 2 x new companionway sprayhoods
- Fully revised engine with new turbo
- New MaxProp 5-blade Whisper
- New, bigger Python bearing
Accommodation
- Saloon and galley reworked in a cosy 'gentleman's club' style
- All upholstery in deep buttoned Chesterfield – natural leather
- New Brights of Nettlebed (UK) inlayed top saloon table
- Luke wood burning stove
- New carpentry incl leaded glass doors
- New hull portholes (also aft), curtains all over ,
- Art-deco lighting; old paintings
- Galley rebuilt
- New ENO hob
- Black marble tops
- New Kabola heater; radiators in every cabin
- New taps and toilet systems in the 2 x bathrooms

- Wood epoxy construction
- Douglas fir 32 mm strip-planks
- laid over laminated sapele and mahogany frames
- and laminated sapele & mahogany centreline
- all bonded with epoxy resin
- Substantial beam shelf/ clamp
- Laminated timber structural floors
- c.6.25 tonnes lead ballast keel epoxy sheathed
- Hull coated externally with tri-axial epoxied glass laminate
- Total over the 3 layers of 3,500 gsm
- Teak laid 12 mm deck
- over light epoxy glass cloth
- over 3 x Marine plywood substrate
- Laminated mahogany deck beams
- Mahogany deck superstructure uprights
- T & G mahogany roof, epoxy sheathed
- Teak capping to bulwarks and coaming
- T&G mahogany bulkheads

GENERAL
- Teak laid deck
- Raw teak caprails
- Chromed bronze lifeline stanchions
- Varnished mahogany superstructures
- All deck hardware bronze

FROM AFT
- Mooring fairleads port & starboard at taffrail
- Ensign staff socket
- Stern light
- Panama fairleads port & starboard
- Chromed mushroom vent on flush access hatch
- Mainsheet traveller with Antal clutch winch
- Leathered mainsheet purchase blocks
- 1 x Lewmar 48 chromed bronze self-tailing winch for foresail
- 1 x Andersen 46 stainless steel self-tailing winch for mainsail
- Chromed and teak main boom gallows

COCKPIT
- Varnished coaming; raw teak cap
- Laid teak seating
- Deep cockpit lockers port & starboard
- Schooner style ship's wheel
- Sliding locker aft of wheel reveals:
- B&G Rudder angle display
- engine panel and Morse type throttle
- Simrad RS 82 VHF handset
- Cockpit speakers port & starboard
- Hydraulics controls
- Companionway offset forward to starboard
- Owner cabin trunk to port
- 3 x B&G repeaters at aft trunk bulkhead
- Inclinometer
- Cassens & Plath Sigma bracket mount steering compass
- Raised varnished hatch over owner cabin
- Raw teak handrails port and starboard

SIDE DECKS
- 2 x Andersen 46 stainless steel electric s-t winches port & starboard (jib furler)
- 2 x Andersen 52 stainless steel s-t winches port & starboard (jib sheet)
- Chromed Highfield levers port & starboard at side decks (main runners)
- Jib sheet tracks port & starboard
- Deck prisms port & starboard

MAIN MAST POSITION
- Lewmar 40 ST chromed halyard winch at mast
- 2 x Rope jammers
- SailTec main boom vang
- 1 x Lewmar 48 ST chromed manual winch on deck to starboard
- 1 x Lewmar 48 ST chromed electric winch on deck to port

MID DECK
- Foresail traveller with Antal clutch winch
- Leathered foresail sheet purchase blocks
- Panama fairleads port & starboard
- Associated mooring cleats
- Butterfly skylight over saloon
- Larger butterfly skylight over forward accommodation
- Incorporated dorade vents; 2 x chromed cowls
- 2 x Deck prisms port & starboard
- Outboard sheeting tracks for jib at rail port & starboard

FOREMAST POSITION
- Lewmar 46 ST chromed halyard winch at mast
- 2 x Rope jammers
- SailTec main boom vang
- 1 x Lewmar 46 ST chromed manual winch on deck to starboard
- 'Lemon squeezer' deck prism
- Pin rails port & starboard
- Inboard sheeting tracks for jib port & starboard

FOREDECK
- Staysail boom traveller with Antal clutch winch
- Leathered foresail sheet purchase blocks
- Raised forehatch with inlay and large portlight
- Incorporated dorade vent system with chromed cowl
- Panama fairleads port & starboard
- Associated mooring cleats port & starboard
- Deck prisms port & starboard
- Bowsprit bits incorporating double bollard cleat

GROUND TACKLE
- Muir vertical windlass with chain gipsy and warping drum
- Stainless steel CPR bower anchor stowed to port of stemhead
- 60 m Galvanised anchor chain

[Additional ground tackle - to be confirmed]
- 1 x Fortress Danforth anchor
- 1 x Fisherman 100 lb anchor and 50 m rope
- 1 x CQR 75 lb anchor
- 6 x 20 m warps
- 2 x 40 m 10 mm mooring warps

GENERAL
- Sleeps 7 in 4 cabins
- Down 6 x steps from offset companionway
- New double leaf companionway doors in 2023

UPPER LOBBY AREA
- Stowage bin/ wet hanging locker to starboard
- Access to owner's cabin aft to port
- Sideboard and lockers forward to port
- Chart table to starboard
- Ship's breaker panel
- Simrad plotter display
- Mastervolt generator controls
- Simrad VHF Radio
- Simrad Autopilot

DOWN TWO MORE STEPS TO SOLE
- Refrigeration, stowage, bookshelves varnished counter to starboard

U-GALLEY TO PORT - WITHIN TRUNK
- Real marble counters and sink
- Mixer tap
- ENO gimballed 3 x burner hob with oven
- Many food and pot lockers
- 2 x Athwartships skylights in deckhead
- Bar type glasses stowage above servery to saloon

FORWARD TO SALOON
- Cosy 'gentleman's club' style of fixed and soft furnishing (2023)
- U-Dinette to port
- Natural leather Chesterfield upholstery
- Brights of Nettlebed (UK) inlayed top saloon table
- folds out to seat 8
- Luke wood burning stove; marble at bulkhead
- New carpentry incl leaded glass doors
- Art-deco lighting; old paintings
- Samsung 43 in QLED TV and wifi behind port forward painting
- (Windjammer under tow at Antwerp)
- Hull opening ports port & starboard; curtains all over
- Butterfly skylight in deckhead
- Part of forward butterfly skylight in deckhead

FORWARD TO GUEST CABINS

PORT GUEST CABIN
- 2 x Bunk berths
- En-suite access to forward WC/ Shower compartment
- Hanging locker
- Locker
- Half of forward butterfly skylight in deckhead
- 2 x Deckhead lights
- 1 Deck prism

FORWARD WC SHOWER COMPARTMENT
- Electric fresh/ salt water flush toilet
- Washbasin with mixer tap
- Radiator
- Shower with teak sole grating
- 2 x Lockers
- 1 x Deckhead light
- Deck prism

STARBOARD PASSAGE GUEST CABIN
- 2 x Bunk berths
- Part of forward butterfly skylight in deckhead
- 2 x Deckhead lights
- 1 Deck prism

FO'C'SLE
- Berth to port
- Benches and stowage to starboard
- Sail bin forward
- Forehatch with large deadlight in deckhead
- Deck prisms port and starboard
- 2 x Deckhead lights
- 1 x Reading light

RETURNING AFT

AFT EN-SUITE OWNER CABIN OFF UPPER AFT LOBBY
- Half leaded glazed entrance door
- Very large double berth to starboard
- Settee to port; Chesterfield upholstery
- Sideboard, lockers and hanging locker
- Opening ports in hull to port and starboard; curtains
- Bulkhead clock
- 12 V Fan
- 2 x Opening ports and deckhead hatch in cabin trunk; curtains
- 1 x Deckhead light
- 2 x Bulkhead/ reading lights

ENSUITE WC SHOWER COMPARTMENT
- Also 'Day Head' access from lobby
- Electric fresh/ salt water flush toilet
- Washbasin with mixer tap
- Radiator
- Shower with teak sole grating
- Lockers
- 1 x Deckhead light
- 1 x Opening port in cabin trunk

RIG
- Two masted schooner rig
- All standing and running rigging new in 2023
- Bermudan main and gaff fore
- Hollow Douglas fir keel stepped masts by Collars (2007)
- Fixed Douglas fir bowsprit
- Wood effect painted carbon fibre foresail gaff
- Douglas fir staysail boom
- Stainless steel standing rigging
- Bronze bottle screws
- Bronze chainplates
- Bronze gallows for main boom
- Colin Frake ash and bronze blocks, recently re-leathered
- Fore and main masts with pin racks
- 2 x Lewmar 46 halyard winches at fore mast
- 1 x Lewmar 40 and 1 x Lewmar 48 electric winch at mainmast for main halyard
- Spectra halyards

SAILS
Ratsey & Lapthorn 3DL (2023)
- Mainsail
- Foresail
- Boom staysail
- Large furling genoa jib
- Furling fisherman
Sanders 2007
- Asymmetric spinnaker (in snuffer)
- Storm staysail
- Storm trysail

CANVASWORK
- 2 x Spray hoods
- Sail covers
- Covers for all deck hatches/ skylights
- Full set cockpit cushions and covers
- Awnings for cockpit and over fore deck table

MECHANICAL
- Nanni 4.330 TDI 115 hp diesel engine (2007)
- Major engine overhaul with new turbo (2023)
- ZF Hydraulic 2.20:1 gearbox
- Pythondrive thrust bearing (2023)
- Flexible couplings
- MaxProp Whisper 5-blade propeller (2023)
- 6 KW Mastervolt Generator
- Edson Meteor worm gear steering

ELECTRICAL
- Whitlock Mamba Drive 8 HP auto helm
- Lewmar bow thruster
- Mastervolt lithium ion batteries, housed on deck
- 12 V lighting system
- 240 V system with 5 x sockets
- 2 x Shore power cables (1 main circuit 1 for aircon / heating)

TANKAGE
- 1,000 litre / 220 gallon diesel tank under cockpit sole
- 1,000 litre / 200 gallons water (3 x stainless steel tanks under saloon sole)
- Calorifier/ emersion fed hot water tank
- 2 x black water tanks
- Gas in locker beside cockpit

OTHER
- Kabola heater; radiators in every cabin (2023)
- Fitted dehumidifier

NAVIGATION
- Simrad plotter at chart table
- Simrad AP 24 Autopilot control
- Simrad radar
- B&G

COMMUNICATIONS
- Simrad RS 82 VHF fixed at chart table
- Simrad RS 82 VHF handset at helm

- 1 x 8-person life raft
- EPIRB
- 1 x Automatic electric with manual over ride bilge pump
- 2 x Manual bilge pumps
- Fire extinguishers
- First aid kit
- Flares
- Anchor light
- Spreader lights
- Navigation lights (port and starboard on classic light boards)
- Eyes at top of rudder blade for emergency steering

- Zodiac 4 m 5-person tender with 6 hp outboard
- Passerelle
- Boarding ladder
- Solid teak deck table – designed to stow in fore peak – and 6 teak chairs
- Foredeck deck wash hose connection
- Side deck shower hose connection
- Fenders
- Mooring lines