On Offer

 

 

If you're reading this it's safe to assume you either have or want a BCC. For most of us the want cannot be translated to the have because of the cost. But here is a living, working BCC at a really affordable price.

 

MANDY has been lovingly cared for as well as thoroughly used for what she was designed for ... long distance cruising.

 

Number 32 of the 127 exquisitely designed and built BCC's, MANDY has had just three owners and has provided a home for each. Her interior is clad in beautiful raw timber, gleaned from a farm house far older than her.

 

Complete maintenance and trip logs are available along with documentation of almost every facet of MANDY's life.

 

Most recently she has been repowered, wired, plumbed and improved to take her proud owners from Southern California, through the Panama Canal to Columbia, the Central Caribbean and on to the East Coast of the U.S.

 

With her new engine, new solar panels, new electrics and batteries, new water tanks, new refrigerator, new Raymarine Chart plotter and radar and new Lyle Hess designed Montgomery 7' 11' hard dinghy she has truly fit the Pardey mantra of 'make your boat unstoppable'.

 

Where others have spent time looking for parts and mechanics Mandy has been on to the horizon.

 

 

Specifications

 

 

Rig and Sails «

 

All BCC’s are designed to be easy to handle short or single handed. MANDY is no exception and with her loose footed, hollow luffed main on ash hoops a reef can be thrown in easily on any point of sail. Main, staysail and jib halyards are all on blocks, a system from the old gaffers that is now re-appearing on modern racers. The rigging, truly the work of a master, has to be seen. Shrouds and backstay are plough steel, white leaded, wormed parceled and served as per tradition. No chance of crevice failure here, this rig will outlast all of us.

 

Sail Inventory

Mainsail is loose footed, hollow roach tanbark with two reef points
Double Dacron reefable loose footed tanbark staysail
Working Jib – tanbark
Genoa
Huge nylon drifter
Storm sails include double Dacron storm trysail and two storm jibs
Larger staysail
Staysail drifter
Two South Coast sheet winches

 

Rig

Keel-stepped wood mast
Block and tackle halyards
1 x 19 S/S wire headstay and staysail stay
1/2 galvanized shrouds (wormed, parceled and served)
5/16 back stay (wormed, parceled and served) for information on this please see Brion Toss’s fine book “The Riggers Apprentice”
Most running rigging new in 2008
Mid boom and boom end preventers

 

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