Originally built for the Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, PSYCHE II was raced extensively early in her career and has a racing trophy named in her honor at the RCYC, before moving on to extended cruising in the Caribbean for a number of years. More recently she has been in Florida and used for cruising, now just completed an extensive refit and is ready to go.
The good-
Boat is in the water and easy to sail today.
Took it for a hundred mile sail last year without problems.
Hull is in good shape, minimal corrosion, has isolation transformer and no zinc use to speak of.
Topsides and bottom just repainted in Feb 2014.
Getting ready to repaint the nonskid this week.
Rig is in great shape, Norseman fittings, mast steps, adjustable backstay, running backs, Furlex furler and spinnaker pole on mast.
Primary winches are self tailing, traveler in cockpit.
Sails are very heavy duty, 11 oz. I believe, main is full batten, sail shape is good, not blown out. Main recently at sailmaker's, patched a couple of mouse holes, nothing else needed to be done. Bimini and dodger (needs windows replaced).
Just rebuilt the Perkins 4-108 diesel,including new cylinders/pistons/rings/bearings, everything gone thru, transmission and V-drive redone with new seals/gaskets (did not need anything else).
Has MaxProp feathering propeller.
Electrical in good condition, new start battery and new house bank of four 6V golf cart batteries.
Has MarineAir 40 amp wind generator and Heart Interface charger/inverter.
Electronics include fixed GPS at chart table, fixed VHF, Raymarine ST60 Tridata with speed/log/depth, ST60 wind (just fixed the transducer but it needs direction calibrated) and autopilot.
2 electric bilge pumps and one manual.
Has propane stove with oven, 12V refrigerator, deep double sink, microwave, television, pressure water and hot water heater.
Head with holding tank and macerator/overboard discharge.
Manual anchor windless, Bruce anchor on roller, stern roller as well.
Classic interior just repainted, cushions are in decent shape, nice green color.
Has V berth fwd, head with shower to port and hanging lockers to stbd, L shaped settee in salon to port and slide out bunk to stbd, aft is nav station and quarter berth to starboard with seamanlike U shaped galley on port.
Cockpit lockers and lazarrette are cavernous.
Ports and forward hatch just regasketed.
The bad- Draft is six feet, makes her unsuitable for my local waters which are quite shallow. I can only get her in and out of the channel to my slip at high tide.
Some of the on deck wood is rotted and needs to be replaced in the near future, none structural, pad under wind gen pole, port sheet cleat block and lazarrette hatch frames especially.
One port on port side is bad, frame cracked, new ones are available. Has a RV style roof air unit (it works) but the hatch cover is missing. I have a line on a used one when the owner replaces his existing hatches this spring. Some rot in the wood inside trim around the companionway.
