ABOUT THIS YACHT

1981 SKYKE 51 I FULL REFIT READY

Specifications:

Hull Type: Encapsulated fin keel with rudder on skeg.

Rigging Type: Masthead Ketch with removable inner stay (cutter rig).

LOA: 16,10 m

LOD: 15,48 m

LWL: 13,08 m

Up Wind Sail Area: 116 m2

Beam: 4,34 m

Draft: 2,20 m

Displacement: 19.000 Kg

Engine: Perkins 4236, 85 hp, Hydraulic Borg Warner gear box, Walter V Drive + shaft transmission. Engine Hours +/- 100.

Construction: Solid GRP and for deck Airex/GRP composite.

Designer: Kaufmann & Ladd.

Commissioner: John Alden Yacht.

Builder: Mao Ta Shipyard Taiwan.

Inventory:

Engine:

-Perkins 4236 85Hp

-Borg Warner Velvet drive 71 C 

-Walter V drive coupled to the Velvet drive.

Sails:

-One Doyle new mainsail, full batten, two reef, never used.

-One Doyle mizzen, full batten, one reef, never used

-One stay sail, on removable forestay, new, never used

-One yankee very good condition and serviced with new UV protection and webbing clew. Harken furler.

-One symmetric spinnaker good condition. New.

Yankee sheets, stay sail sheets, mainsail and mizzen sheets

Deck hardware/Mooring:

• One Quick vertical 1700 W windlass with wired control, as new. Remote control at the helm.
• 140 meters galvanized chain 12mm, as new.
• Main anchor Bügel type galvanized, as new.
• Two S/S custom mooring cleats.
• New Lewmar Genoa and stay sail tracks
• 6 Aluminum Goïot hatches fully serviced with renewed acrylic.
• Main sail Lewmar track new with roller bearing car, control lines blocks and clutch
• Edson steering pedestal and S/S helm plus grab bar, fully renewed with new chain and wires,  below deck new wires distribution box. Providing an extremely light steering in any condition.
• New mizzen track plus new car.
• New blocks for mainsail sheet, Mizzen sheet and runners, all by Lewmar.
• 11 winches self tailing from Lewmar, from primary 65 for the yankee sheets to 40 for the halyards, typically S&S deck layout. All serviced with many new original parts, new custom made S/S base for primaries.
• Two S/S custom made mooring cleats at the back plus fairleads.
• New guard wires S/S plus Spectra lines at the amidship doors.
• Navigation light S/S from Aqua-signal with LED bulbs.
• 12mm teak decking for the cockpit including new built cockpit lockers doors, grey caulking from TDS.
• All around the yacht at the bulwark cap a massive laminate teak cover has been built.
• All hatches teak frames has been rebuilt during refit.
• Teak grating at the cockpit bottom.
• One mooring drum at the push-pit to store aft mooring line (50 meters).
• Fenders
• Aluminium + teak grating foldable gangway.
• Port side swim ladder, new.

Miscellaneous:

The yacht comes with two spare anchors, one galvanized Danforth and one Aluminum Fortress. Also provided with the yacht extensive number of mooring gears and lines including 50 meters rogue line, inflatable fender. 

Navigation/Electronics:

• One Danforth Constellation navigation compass at the top of the helm pedestal, covered by a S/S hood.
• Clock and barometer.
• 2 x Hand held compass.
• Plotter Raymarine C90w at the chart table
• ST 60 Loch/speedo/depth sounder Display on carbon bracket at the mizzen mast.
• ST 60 Speed Display on carbon bracket at the mizzen mast.
• 60 Wind direction/wind sped Display on carbon bracket at the mizzen mast.
• ST 60 Multi instruments Display on carbon bracket at the mizzen mast.
• Raymarine 400G Smart pilot CPU.
• Raymarine ST 7001 autopilot dashboard at the helm station.
• Quick windlass remote control at the helm station.
• Autopilot electric ram type 2+ Lacombe & Schmitt Hydro ram
• VHF Standard horizon matrix GX 3000E at the chart table.
• AIS transpondeur class B.
• Paper charts, ruler, etc.

Miscellaneous:

Extra Raymarine plotter+ Raymarine 400 G Smart pilot CPU+ Helm angle captor+ GPS antenna+ flux gate compass, all as spares.

Tender:

-One Avon 2,85 Hypalon with solid GRP bottom + 9,9 Yamaha four strokes and accessories.

REFIT WORKS ***Personal project of a yacht refit project manager « Sandpiper » undergone a profound refit from 2012 to 2017 including:

-Complete Osmoses treatment including overcoating the hull with 3 X 450 Gr bi-axe cloth/ Epoxy resin plus International fairing and barrier coats.

-Deck over coated with 3 X 250 Gr bi-axe cloth/ Epoxy resin, paint finish with Awlgrip Polyurethane paint system.

• Complete reconstruction of the engine room and the forepeak.
• Complete overhaul of the mechanics, Engine, gearbox, and V drive+ shaft transmission. New dash board and engine commands.
• Replacement of all chain plates
• Rebuilding of the steering transmission.
• Partial replacement of S/S tanks
• Rebuilding of all primary electric systems in accordance with marine standards.
• New standing rigging GDI 2010 (boat almost never been used since.)
• Seacocks serviced or changed.
• Addition of black water tanks on every heads.
• Upgrade of the plumbing system.
• New boiler.
• New upholsteries in saloon.
• New mattresses in cabins.
• Interior as original layout but new ceilings all around the yacht. 
• New Lewmar deck hardware such as tracks, blocks, cleats, winches upgrade and so on
• New windlass.
• New ST 70 Raymarine electronics and autopilot .
• All Acrylic windows, hatches as been changed.