Builder/Designer

Builder: Voyage Designer: Alex Simonis
Dimensions

LOA: 50 feet LWL: 44.25 feet Beam: 27.17 feet
Displacement: 19180 pound
Tankage

Fuel: 81 gallon Water: 270 gallon

Accommodations & Layout:

Port hull from forward:

Access to storage locker followed aft by head compartment with New Jabsco Quiet Electric Heads (overboard and holding tank) and shower. The entire surface is pastel white gelcoat with rounded comers.

Aft of the head is the forward stateroom with queen-sized berth inboard with lockers forward and underneath.

Next aft is the passageway, which is where the wine refrigerator with dual temp control for red and white wines. Aft of this an ice machine and a top-loading freezer. Above the freezer is a custom, enclosed, bottle storage cabinet.

Aft cabin has inboard queen sized berth with shelves and lockers. Included in the passageway are more storage spaces. Aft head has New Jabsco Quiet Electric Heads with deluxe bowl and shower. The sole has been carpeted with blue fitted carpets.

 Up 3 steps from the port hull is the bridge deck with huge U shaped galley to port, all finished off-white Corian and featuring all rounded corners. To starboard is the U shaped dinette, which is covered in brick colored upholstery. This settee converts into a super king-sized bed (33% larger than a normal king).

Down three steps to the starboard hull, which is identical to port hull with the exception of an additional private single cabin in the passageway.

 There are additional ports in each cabin to increase ventilation and 10 Lewmar hatches. White removable vinyl headliners, line the entire inside of the yacht. Aft to starboard and next to the sliding companionway door is the sit down nav station. There is easy access to the back of the electric panel and instrumentation. The entire interior is very bright and airy, with pastel white surfaces, white headliners and beech trim. The dining table is a custom maple table.

The yacht has been fitted with independent Dometic air conditioners in each cabin, independently controlled 6000 BTU units and a 12000BTU unit in the galley, which also cools the salon

Galley
Cruise RO 6-Gallon- Per-Minute watermaker

DeLongi commercial S/S LPG stove/oven w/elec starters, individual solenoids on each burner & gas grill for safety

SeaFrost 12-volt custom front-loading refrigerator

GE microwave oven

Garbage disposal

Stainless steel sink

Crockery, cutlery, pots & pans

Miscellaneous galley appliances including food processor, mixers, blender, vacuum cleaners, etc

Weber LPG BBQ grill

Swish has been fitted with one chest deep freezer and one chest refrigerator – both 12volt. The refrigerator & freezer are operated independently.

The volume of the freezer in the port passageway is 210-L. The volume of the refrigerator in the galley is 105-L. It has controls which allows it to be switched off, used as a refrigerator or as a freezer

Electronics:
Raymarine C90W radar

Raymarine C90W GPS

Autohelm ST7000 autopilot control unit, core pack & type 1 rotary drive

Autohelm ST50 knotmeter/log

Autohelm ST50 wind speed & direction

Autohelm ST50 multi display

Icom IC-M58 VHF radio

Poly Planar AM/FM marine stereo with iPod docking

Pioneer speakers x 8

Marine speakers x 2

26” Sharp Sylvania flat screen LCD TV

Panasonic DVD surround sound

Plastimo 105 Offshore compass

HP Deskjet 3510 color printer/scanner/copier

Deck Equipment:

2015 AB 12' aluminum dinghy with 30hp Yamaha 4 stroke outboard 

Custom aluminum boom extension dinghy davit system

Custom extended Fiberglass aft platform in lieu of the aluminum aft deck

Rigid epoxy/foam composite bimini, which houses the solar panels & facilitates reefing

Sunbrella roll up awnings on all sides with roll up clear windshield aft & forward

Custom Sunbrella cockpit cushions – 

 Port & starboard transom gates

Double stainless steel lifelines with boarding gates to port & starboard

Transom showers

Stainless steel swim ladder

Tri color masthead light, anchor light, nav lights, steaming lights and spreader lights

Ground Tackle:

Lewmar 12V 1000 windlass w/up & down switches

60# Bruce primary anchor w/240’ of 3/8” chain

60# CQR secondary anchor w/30’ of 3/8” chain & 300’ of rode

Double bow roller

Anchor bridle with spliced eyes, connecting ring & chain hook

7 x fire extinguishers

2 x horseshoe buoys

MOB Pole

Electrical System:
12KW Beta Marine generator 

4 x Siemens (Procharger 4JF M75S) 75-watt solar panels with system regulator

Heart Interface Link 2000 

6 x 100A lead acid batteries -2014

3KW 110v to 220v transformer

220-volt to 110-volt transformer – new ‘05

Mastervolt fully automatic battery charger

55A alternator

Vessel rewired and converted to 110-volt with 220-volt for major appliances and air conditioning in ‘05

Sails & Rigging:
Equipped for cruising with an aluminum deck-stepped 7/8 fractional Sparcraft spar – Awlgrip white

Facnor roller furling gear on headstay – new drum 

Frederickson intermediate batt car system & track for main (16-cars)

Custom 3’ bowsprit set up for additional foresail – (currently removed and in storage)

Sails:

Full battened mainsail w/3-reefs – new ’01

Doyle 110% Spectra/cruiselam/Dacron RF genoa w/Cruiselam & Sunbrella UV strip – new ’06

Doyle Stack-Pack mainsail storage system

Winches:

1 x Lewmar 56ST 2-speed mainsheet

2 x Lewmar 56ST 2-speed secondary

2 x Harken 48ST 2-speed primary

1 x Lewmar 44ST 2-speed, 12-volt main halyard & reefing

1 x Barlow 25CST jib halyard

Norseman and swage end fittings

Diamond stayed rigging

Babystay

Running backstays

Spinnaker halyard

Lewmar sheet & halyard stoppers

Lewmar blocks & traveler for main

Mechanical Equipment:
1 x 1996 Yanmar 38 HP 3JH2 engine in starboard hull – 

1 x 2013 Yanmar 38 HP 3JH5E engine in port hull – 

Yanmar SD31 sail drives w/2.14:1 reduction gears – rebuilt ‘13

3 x Racor fuel/water separators

Dual Morse single lever controls – new ‘13

2 x 3-blade props

Engines are accessed via large Lewmar overhead hatches on the deck

2 x automatic bilge pumps – one in each hull

2 x automatic bilge pumps – one in each engine room

2 x Raritan raw water strainers

2 x Whale Gusher Titan manual pumps

2 x Whale Gusher Titan bilge/holding tank pumps

4 x bilge alarms – engine rooms and main hulls w/alarms in salon – new ’05

4 x Jabsco Quiet electric heads

2 x Rule electronic bilge pump switches

All freshwater outlets in the cabins & galley are single lever mixers

2 x 6-gallon water heaters (22v/heat exchanger)

Sight gauges for all tanks

There are independent steering systems to each rudder – if one system shuts down, the other still performs. In addition there is an emergency tiller

Construction Notes:
The Hull and keel are hand laid CSM & quadraxial roving with vinylester resin cored with Tomanto PVC foam for stiffness, strength and insulation. Her keels are low aspect ratio, fin design for lift and enhanced windward performance. There are full-length skegs with elliptical rudders.

 Deck and superstructure is hand laid multi?directional glass roving molded in one piece and cored with end grain balsa. Deck to hull joint is chemically bonded.

 Cockpit has U-shaped seating with 2 full width and depth, lazarette locker, 2 shallow lockers, helm station is forward to starboard with swivel helm seat. There is a custom fiberglass dining table,  

Remarks:
This is the last Fred Scholtz Marine hull. Scholtz had been recognized as the largest boat builder in South Africa. He then sold the molds to Voyage Yachts who changed the yacht to be a charter boat with many of the customized features eliminated. The outboard cockpit lockers were altered so as not to intrude on the aft berths.

SWISH has the interior space of most 55' cats in a more manageable size. She has sailed over 60,000 ocean miles in her 18 years including 6500 miles from S. Africa to the Caribbean and over 5 round trips to New England. As a luxury crewed charter yacht, any fixture is replaced at the first sign of wear. She was built as a Mayotte 47 but later had a 3’ bowsprit added.