MAINTENANCE

• WANDA is an average size boat, comfortable and yet very easy to maintain by one person. If you live aboard permanently just keep things in working order, if no, a couple of weeks per year should be enough to keep the WANDA beautiful.

• As everything is kept as simple as possible she is easy to maintain.

• Wood, rope, paint, and basic tool, is all you need to maintain her

• New paint and varnish in 2009

• Electricity refit in 2010

THE ORIGIN and GENERAL INFORMATION’S

Her inspiration comes from the boats that were used during the past centuries for fishing and for cargo from northern coast of Europe to the coast of south Brittany. They had to be powerful and fast to withstand any kind of weather. The shallow draft was a must to negotiate rivers and other waters. The boats had to be very easy to handle by a small crew. Ship owners had to cut down the increasing costs of labor. It is surprising to see that those criteria’s correspond to an ideal cruising boat. So this way I have Wanda of TW built.

She is a good sailing cruising boat, that a couple will handle with no problem, on a transatlantic crossing she is as fast of a modern 45 feet cruising boat (average 19 days from canary islands to the west indies’) but in style and comfort. (thanks to the heavy displacement)

She is self-sufficient in fuel and water, so you can avoid expensive marinas if you like it.

The general look of WANDA, is well accepted along the people of the sea (fishermen and other working people of the sea) which is a big advantage when you sail further than the European water.

Wanda of TW will be at home, cruising and exploring the world, attending old gaffer meetings, or pottering along the European or American water coast.

The owner has full documentation of the construction, and all the sailing she has done.

 “WANDA OF TW” is ready for some new adventures, sadly due to family and personal reasons the owner has to sell.

MAINTENANCE

• WANDA is an average size boat, comfortable and yet very easy to maintain by one person. If you live aboard permanently just keep things in working order, if no, a couple of weeks per year should be enough to keep the WANDA beautiful.

• As everything is kept as simple as possible she is easy to maintain.

• Wood, rope, paint, and basic tool, is all you need to maintain her

• New paint and varnish in 2009

• Electricity refit in 2010

THE ORIGIN and GENERAL INFORMATION’S

Her inspiration comes from the boats that were used during the past centuries for fishing and for cargo from northern coast of Europe to the coast of south Brittany. They had to be powerful and fast to withstand any kind of weather. The shallow draft was a must to negotiate rivers and other waters. The boats had to be very easy to handle by a small crew. Ship owners had to cut down the increasing costs of labor. It is surprising to see that those criteria’s correspond to an ideal cruising boat. So this way I have Wanda of TW built.

She is a good sailing cruising boat, that a couple will handle with no problem, on a transatlantic crossing she is as fast of a modern 45 feet cruising boat (average 19 days from canary islands to the west indies’) but in style and comfort. (thanks to the heavy displacement)

She is self-sufficient in fuel and water, so you can avoid expensive marinas if you like it.

The general look of WANDA, is well accepted along the people of the sea (fishermen and other working people of the sea) which is a big advantage when you sail further than the European water.

Wanda of TW will be at home, cruising and exploring the world, attending old gaffer meetings, or pottering along the European or American water coast.

The owner has full documentation of the construction, and all the sailing she has done.

 “WANDA OF TW” is ready for some new adventures, sadly due to family and personal reasons the owner has to sell.

INTERIOR LAYOUT

To offer some privacy to the guests as well as to the master and his family, the front cabin has three bunks to accommodate five persons and an independent shower and head. The aft cabin has two double bunks and access to the engine. The galley and the common table are located in the center of the boat. The oven and the stove are installed with the appropriate ventilation located in a large chimney opened to the air. The sink is in a cabinet centrally located so that all can use it without disturbing the cook in his cooking area. The boat is equipped with a central heating system "reflex oil heater with boiler" located next to the sink. A copper piping circling through the interior of the boat's accommodation provides heating.

• berths for Up to 9 pers.,

• 2 heads,

• 2 showers.

• Heating: "Reflex" oil heater with a copper piping circling through the interior of the boat. + electrical heating when at harbor or marina

• petrol cooker "SEY" with grill and oven.
• large stainless steel sink.
• pressure water system.
• large working surface.
• refrigeration unit

The lugger rig gives us a divided sail plan easy to handle by one person and very efficient in all kind of weather, and lets not forget that luggers like beating windward.

If a new owner does not like the lugger rig, it can be easily change her to a gaff ketch, or even as a junk rig.

• Total Sail area: 1433.75 sq.ft.

• jib: 218.51 sq.ft.

• main sail: 495.14 sq.ft.

• mizzen: 375.66 sq.ft.

• yawl sail: 151.77 sq.ft.

• square top sail: 192.67 sq.ft.

• Loch, Gps, Vhf (fix an handheld), Compass inside and outside, deep sounder.

• The rudder works hydraulically from Marsilli with Two wheels, one outside and the other in the wheelhouse where a full chart table and navigation instruments and electronics is well protected in it.

• 12 V battery 6 x 180ha in 2 bank (domestic and motor start)

• 220V/110V with automatic charger, plug in the all boat.

CONSTRUCTION

The massive and very strong wooden construction is classical, planking 2-inch thick, frame ribs every foot, copper riveted, with superior specification and under the control of an official navigation register. The choices of the best timber available assure long life and a minimum care. (teak, wild jack, rose wood, etc..)

Professionals from fishing boat yards did the construction and all installation aboard.

• Rib tender and 16hp HB motor

• Legs for beaching

• Liferaft : canister 8 persons Plasimo as to be service (if coastal navigation) or change if the boat is going round the world