Some information about Erica

Several people have asked me for some information about Erica so, for anyone who is interested, here goes:

Name: Erica (was originally called Sensation II - but who wants a boat with a name that sounds like a sixties porn film?)

Designer: Namarco Inc

Class: Selestra 35

Builder: Hull - Metalu (France)

Fitted out: Whisstocks, Woodbridge, Suffolk

Year: 1981

LOA: 35’ (10.65m)

LWL: 26' 11" (8.2m)

Beam: 11’2” (3.4m)

Draft: 5'3'' (1.6m) 

Sail area: 735ft² (70m²)

Displacement: 5.3 tons (5,400kg) Empty

Ballast: 2.26 tons (2,300kg)

Water tanks 100 Gal

Engine: Thornycroft 90. (British Layland Sherper Van engine) 36 hp

Diesel tank: 30Gal (135 Ltr) + 24Gal (110Ltr) in can

Average consumption:

1500rpm = 0.45 Gal/Hr =120 hours x 4M = 480NM

1800rpm = 0.50 Gal/Hr =108 hours x 4.2M = 450NM

2000rpm = 0.60 Gal/Hr =90 hours x 4.5M =405 NM

Registration No.: 389016

Port of Registration: Ipswich

Sail No.: 6559Y

Call sign: MAAK5

Erica is a bermudan cutter (flies a main sail and 2 headsails at the same time). She is made out of aluminium with teak over aluminium side decks. She has only had two owners in her 35 years and Scruffbag and I have owned her jointly for the last 11. She has one Atlantic crossing to her credit east to west and has crossed west to east on a container ship. Our  (Scruffbag's) longest passage so far was about 1350 NM which took 16 days - due to very light winds in the middle. 

Facts 1 to 10

1 mast

2 spinnaker poles

3 anchors

4 dorado vents (air vents)

5 berths

6 halyards (Ropes for pulling sails up mast)

7 ariels

8 windows each side

9 winches

10 sails