Main Specifications:

Type:  Cruising Sailboat
Rig:  Sloop
Builder:  Merrifield Roberts
Hull Designer:  Britton Chance
Year:  1990/2016
Construction:  Composite
Flag:  USA
Engine:  1 x 127 hp Yanmar, 5056 hours as of 3/18
Displacement:  17 tons
Ballast Weight:  6.8 tons

Dimensions

LOA:  55'1"
LWL:  47'11"
LOD:  55"10"
Beam:  15'

Draft:  7'



Speed & Range Under Power

Maximum Speed:  Up to 11 knots
Cruising Speed:  9 knots @ 1,800 rpm
Fuel Consumption:  3.2 US gallons per hour @ 9 knots
Generator Consumption:  10 US gallons per day
Range:  620 nm under power with 10% remaining fuel

Capacities

Accommodations:  6 guests in 3 cabins
Fuel:  160 US gallons
Fresh Water:  270 US gallons
Watermaker:  400 US gallons per day or 17 US gallons per hour
Holding Tanks:  80 US gallons

ARCHER is ideally set up with her center cockpit, so that the helmsman and guests are both safe and secure and all of the necessary lines and winches are easily accessed without leaving the cockpit.  The primary sails are entirely self tending as well.  The reacher has to be tacked manually.

There is a separate private access from the master cabin to the private aft cockpit.  Here there is access to the opening transom with access to the water with matching cockpit hardtop.

Forward are two cabins which share a spacious head with a generously sized stall shower.

Aft of the galley is the new navigation station outboard of the electrical panel.  All the way aft is the master cabin with a second large stall shower to starboard with access to the aft cockpit on the centerline and large berths to starboard and port.

Newly installed in the 2015/2016 refit with all new equipment, refrigeration and centerline custom sink and counter space.  Note:  The television is raised as needed on the starboard side of the centerline from this area.

Engine:  1 X 127 hp Yanmar diesel 4H-HTE
Engine Hours:  5,056 as of 3/18
Propellers:  Autoprop folding Gori propeller (new, 2016)
Air Conditioning:  2 reverse cycle air condition heat/pumps, one forward and one aft - each 8,000 Btus
Watermaker:  Spectra Newport 400 (DC)
Toilet System:  Vacuum flush toilets (two systems) forward head and aft and holding/black water tanks for each system, new as of 2016
Bow Thruster: 2016, 3 kW
Steering:  Wheel, connected to the rudder via hydraulics
Water Pump:  Groco high pressure salt water pump
Bilge Pumps:  (4) - The main pump is a "Rule" pump located in the bilge at the bottom of the ladder in the main salon.  The control switch is on the nav station panel.  A small pump is located at the stuffing box area, manually operated.  The third pump is a Par pump mounted in the engine room that has 2 functions.  There is a "Y" valve and a manual switch.  The fourth bilge pump is manually operated by a handle in the cockpit.
Horn:  Self contained electrical unit.  Transom doors have electrical actuators.
Transom Doors:  Have electrical actuators

The vessel's electrical system is complete.  The vessel's electrical system is divided into 120 VAC and 12V DC services.  The AC system is energized from either of the 30 ampere shore power or single 50A shore power connections located on the main deck starboard aft  in the base of the radar antenna mast, the diesel generator, or the battery powered inverter.  The 12V system is divided into house banks and engine starting batteries.  The starting batteries for the main engine and the generator are charged by their respective alternators or the battery charger.  The house battery bank is charged from AC powered charger/inverter.  The electrical system is centrally distributed from the main panel, inboard of the navigation station, and is fitted with suitably sized wiring, connections and disconnects.  Wiring has been renewed and is in good order.  House bank is new as of 3/16.

Generator:   (1) 8 kW Westerbeke @1800 rpm
Generator Hours:  3,103 as of 3/18

ARCHER is sloop rigged with new aluminum mast and boom by Sparcraft in 2015.  The main mast is fitted with four aft raked spreaders, connected to the deck through chainplates connected to the large aluminum frames in the salon.  The mast, rod standing rigging, running rigging, boom, running backstays and sails are all new as of 2015.  The forestay is tensioned through a large sheave under the forward berths connected to a hydraulic tensioner.  The forestay is fitted with a Facnor manual roller furling system.  Running rigging on the main mast includes a spinnaker halyard, spare jib halyard and main halyard, new 2016.  Running backstays are new and are composite cored with UMHW PE jacketing, new blocks and tensioning lines.  All blocks were new as of the refit.

The sail handling gear is extensive and includes the following:
     (2) Barient 36 electric/manual primary winches
     (2) Barient 27 electric/manual winches
     (2) Barient 28+ manual winches
     (1) Barient 27 manual winch

Halyards are lead through Spinlock clutches.  The jib is self tacking.  The main sheet is adjusted on the aft edge of the center cockpit.

ARCHER's sails were  fitted in 2016, adjusted and made ready for service by Doyle Sails.  Sail inventory includes a new Doyle Stack Pack main, new jib and new "Code Zero" furling genoa.     

Brookes & Gatehouse system has four displays in the cockpit (one at the helm, three above the companionway) - displays VMG, apparent and true wind speed, heading, wind direction, and controls autopilot (with remote).

VHF:  1 x COM 1C-M126DSC; 1 x Shipmate RS 8300 with 2 handsets
TV Dish:  KVH D3 Satellite Direct

Nav Station Below
Icom VHF Marine IC-M506 unit with distress
B&G panel (same as cockpit)
Furuno NAVNET 3D Model MFD12

Helm
Furuno NAVNET 3D Model MFD8
B&G panel for wind
B&G autopilot controller for Simrad autopilot system
Icom handheld/wired model HM-195B

On Board
Icom floating IC-M36 radio

ARCHER is fitted with a single bow roller.  A single 45# Suncor stainless steel plow style anchor was fitted with an electric windlass.  This anchor is fitted with an all chain rode.  The vessel is fitted with a complete complement of mooring lines and fenders.

ARCHER is fitted with fiberglass hardtops with canvas dodgers for the after cockpit and the center cockpit.  The canvas work is new as of 2016 and in excellent condition.

Deck hot/cold shower is on starboard side of swim platform.

Three underwater lights at transom and  4 multi colors.

Other gear fitted aboard includes the following:
     Fixed Fireboy extinguishing system in machinery space
     Fireboy main engine/engine room ventilation generator shut down connected to the extinguishing   system
     Bose surround sound system in salon
     Underwater lighting
     Portable fire extinguishers in every space
     Deck shower port side of swim platform
     New emergency signal kit aboard at survey
     New aramid cored lifelines
     "Barn Door" transom doors enclosing the swim platform
     12V air cooled refrigeration - 2 on deck starboard, starboard and port aft; 1 in salon forward under settee

At the time of her construction, WINDSTAR V (now ARCHER) was designed by one of the consummate designers of 12 meter yachts, Britton Chance.  Chance, with his intimate involvement with the America's Cup, had tremendous experience with all aspects of design and construction, including all appendages.

ARCHER is fitted with electric doors and storage for the life raft under the cockpit, and hot/cold shower.  The doors open, exposing a ladder to the aft deck, with a remote that can be opened and closed from the tender as you approach the yacht. 

All accessory lines come back to the cockpit from the mast for ease of handling.  ARCHER's keel, when built, was the latest in technology and design.  This is one of the key reasons that ARCHER's performance is so exceptional.  Additionally, her performance is directly related to displacement and in this regard, ARCHER'S divinycell cored hull, with its S-glass, kevlar skins and carbon, make for an extremely strong hull, though light enough to keep the performance character that Britton Chance had conceived and designed for her.

In addition, during a MASSIVE REFIT/REDESIGN in North Carolina in 2015-2016, ARCHER underwent enhanced performance because of weight reduction and the following major modifications.

1.  New aluminum mast and boom from Sparcraft
2.  New standing rigging and running rigging
3.  New Doyle sails
4.  Redesigned aft area with an aft cockpit, dodger and hardtop to match the existing forward hardtop
5.  New veneered interior in lieu of the existing Ultrasuede
6.  New salon interior and equipment
7.  New galley including island with custom sink and equipment
8.  New headliner
9.  Engine room redone with new wiring as required
10. Navigation station physically moved and all new equipment installed.
11. New head arrangement in the aft/owner's cabin
12. Bow thruster added

ARCHER is now the consummate yacht with performance like the TP 52's but without the crew requirement or the work and with luxurious accommodations.

Currently owned by a prominent East Coast NON-PROFIT organization, ARCHER is available with built-in financing on a three year, lease purchase.