- Builder:
- BELLIURE
- Category:
- Cruising Sailboat
- Sub Category:
- Cruising Ketch
- Model Year:
- 1986
- Year Built:
- 1986
- Refit Year:
- 2011
- Refit Type:
- Cosmetic
- Country:
- Tunisia
Unfortunately, this boat is not available for sale. It will be removed from the website soon.
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Starting aft there is a full width master stateroom. There is a double bed to port and an oversized single berth to starboard plus two bathrooms, one with bidet and separate large stall shower. Also accessed from a wide, aft centreline passageway are the two guest cabins. Each cabin contains two single berths and en suite shower room. The owner/guest areas are beautifully done in lacquer finish with teak trim. All of the flooring on “ORION” is teak and the headliners are Magalite (renewed 2010-2012). The aft corridor in the owner/guest area leads either up four steps to the pilothouse, or through a door into the stand-up engine room. The pilothouse is finished in teak with a seating area and coffee table to port and a navigation helm station to starboard. This full width area provides multiple benefits; inside steering station, separation between living and sleeping areas, alternative lounging/dining area above the lower saloon, convenient access to the cockpit with a minimum number of steps and improved headroom in the engine room. The low profile pilothouse is also designed with excellent forward visibility from the cockpit.
Down three steps, one enters the full width main saloon. This area is finished in ash and has large port holes in the hull for excellent viewing while seated. There is a couch and seat to port and a large circular dining area to starboard. An LCD Television, DVD and stereo surround sound, and china locker are also located in the saloon making it very comfortable for entertaining or lounging.
Forward from the lower saloon one enters the galley. Opposite the galley is a dinette and built-in washer and dryer. Forward of the galley and dinette are two matching crew cabins with private heads.
“ORION” contains numerous large opening ports in the hull plus opening ports in the trunk to provide an abundance of natural light and fresh air. There are also deck prisms and six dorades.
37” Sony BRAVIA LCD TV
LG DVD surround sound
12v car stereos in all guest cabins, crew area and pilot house
Pilot house stereo providing sound switching between deck and house
2 x 200w waterproof deck speakers in cockpit
Inner forestay and foil
Staysail stay and Profurl furler
2 x Lewmar 65 Ocean winches
2 x Spinnaker Guy clocks with 2 x sheet blocks (Antal)
2 x Rondal genoa cars
8 x Rondal deck pad rubber bases
Air buttons for all winches
7 x inflatable fenders
12v Cockpit drink refrigerator
Navy cockpit sailing sun awning
2 x Fender cloths and dock lines
Galley hatch dodger
Lofrans hydraulic windlass
180lb and 140lb CQR anchor
Chain and line rode
Goiot hatches
6 x Dorades
Cockpit shower
Passarelle
FB150 satlink sat phone
Raymarine radar
Raymarine c170 display in pilot house and cockpit
Furono Gps linked to C170 display in pilot house
Icom DSC Vhf
ACR URC-100 remote search light on starboard spreader with controls at helm
B&G Hydra 330 systems with one MFD’s at nav station, two MFD’s at helm and two 20/20 displays in cockpit
Epson stylus DX4050 colour printer / scanner used with Compaq 615 laptop
EPIRB
TV antenna
12v battery bank for navigation
24v emergency bank
3 Mastervolt Inverters for sockets galley equipment and stereo/TV systems
Dolphin 120A charger for 24v service battery pack
Chargemaster charger for emergency battery pack
dolphin 12v charger for navigation batterry pack
Main engine: Cummins 350hp C6TA 8.32
Bowthruster: Richfield 16hp bowthruster
Generators: 20kw Northern Lights
13kw Mass power
Generator start batteries replaced August 2002
Bilge Pumps: 24v bilge pump using a sea water primming manifold system
24v automatic bilge pumps fitted in engine bay and saloon with alarms
Air Conditioning: Marine Air
Watermaker: Dessilator 160lph maximum
Sanitary System: Saniflow
Siemens Electric oven
Tricity Bendix 4-burner gas stove
Bosch clothes dryer
AEG washing machine
Proline Carousel microwave
Dishwasher
Freezer
2 Large refrigerators
ORION (the former “SAPPHIRE” and before “JUBILEE VII”) was built in 1986 at the Belliure Shipyard to the design of the highly regarded Ron Holland. Both hull and deck were hand laid fibreglass on female moulds. The laminate coring is Divicell and there is Kevlar used in the hull for added strength. Large aluminium ring frames were used in the way of the mast and mizzen mast. The decks and cabin trunk top are laid in teak. The superstructure has recently been painted white. She is MCA Compliant – Commercial Registration
Since the current Owner purchased “SAPPHIRE” since February 2001, a sum close to $300,000 has been spent in addition to normal running costs. The improvements include:-
June 2001 – complete refit of main saloon
September to November 2001 – complete rigging replacement, exterior Awlgrip application (except hull), new air conditioning system installed, new Satellite phone and all requirements for MCA Code of Practice Compliance.
June 2002 – Owners and guest cabins completely repainted and refurbished including new headlinings, new bedding, new bathroom fittings, new lights and new carpet. New deck lounging mats, new main and mizzen (new 2nd headsail October 2002), new boom attaching sun awning, new cockpit stereo system.
6 man Zodiac liferaft
6 man Avon liferaft
12 pilot 150n lifejackets
1 x Offshore flare pack
Morbi S3 radar reflector on port spreader
8 x Fire extinguishers
1 x engine bay FM200 automatic fire extinguisher
Rondal main and mizzen spars
Rondal hydraulic furling on the head sail
Vela main sail (replaced 2002)
Vela mizzen sail (replaced 2002)
Doyle 120% headsail
Original storm trisail
2 x Lewmar #90 hydraulic primary winches
3 x #65 hydraulic cockpit secondary winches
2 x #90 Lewmar hydraulic primary winches
Lewmar 55 halyard winch
Lewmar 65 halyard winch
Lewmar 45 halyard winch
#55 Lewmar hydraulic main outhaul
#70 Lewmar hydraulic mainsheet
2 x Lewmar #48 hydraulic mizzen outhaul and mizzen sheet
Windex
Main sheet, mizzen sheet and spinnaker sheets
Spinnaker guys and staysail sheets
Main preventer and mizzen preventer
Main and genoa halyards
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