Description

Snark is the only cat 2 coded muley rigged Thames barge available for coastal and continental commercial and private cruising. Launched at Turks Chatham in 2018, she has sailed commercially around the UK and near continent for seven years as well as operated as a winter restaurant in Exeter for the past three. The owners have lived aboard and crewed her throughout. They are retiring from active sailing and are looking for a new owner for this unique sailing barge.

Specifications

Accommodation

from: bow focsal, workshop and tanks; watertight bulkhead: owners cabin, double bed and settee berths, storage, woodburner: bathroom : utility / laundry room: open galley, main salon, demountable cabin partitions creating 4 single cabins or open dining room for winter restaurant: wet room heads with shower: main companionway: engine rooms: aft crew cabin with nav station.

Construction

Shop epoxied welded steel frames and hull and deck plating

Equipment

From bow: on-board biodigester: 100ltr/hr rainman water maker: fresh water tanks with Grunfos pump: stores and spares: single and double sprung mattresses and linen: two standard bathrooms with wc's showers basins to macerators to biodigester or holding tank to sea: fully equipped kitchen catering up to 24 covers: various tables and chairs and benches: 230 and 24 v power from 32A shore connections, 15kw gen set, 4kw max solar panels on top deck to 120Ahr LiFePo battery bank to Victron Quattro to fused distribution boards. LED lighting: Heating and hot water from any of; 5kw water source heat pump, wood fired stove with back boiler, 4kw diesel boiler, heat exchangers of gen set. wet underfloor heating in main cabins. all domestic and kitchen equipment included.

Navigation Equipment

B&G V9 chart plotter and electronic charts fed by deck with wind, log, depth, fluxgate compass, Lowrance VHF, Garmin GPS, separate AIS receiver, hand held compasses, 100 plus paper charts, pilots etc. Starlink satellite receiver,

Engine(s)

2 x N4.115 Nanni with PRM hydraulic gear boxes and Autoprop shafts and propellers, 15kw auxilliary generator with hydraulic supply to bow thruster and anchor windlass.

Sails & Spars

solid pressure treated pine main, top and missen masts, bow sprit, boom and gaff, hollow douglas fir spreet. Main, topsail, missen, headsail, jib and jib top all James Lawrence sails 2018, 230m2 total area. four Lewmar 65 electric winches, English Braid dynema standing and dacron running rigging, Cousin constrictor rope locks: oak leeboards with lead ballast raised via 3:1 purchase to electric winches: lifting rudder to opposing screw steering to caste iron wheel.

Safety Equipment

Full, in date, safety equipment to comply with MGN 280 for 12 passengers plus 3 crew, including life rafts and jackets. Self launching 70kg Rocna main anchor on 90m 15 mm chain, 40 kg Lewmar kedge on chain/anchor braid. safety and other manuals, spares etc. many warps and fenders. Automatic bilge pumps and emergency pump, flags, shapes, navigation lights, etc.

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