This Spindrift 43 is ideal for the experienced cruising couple wishing to step up to a fully equipped double-ender offshore cruiser. This classic, very seaworthy vessel has many proven features. This vessel is very well equipped to cruise the world with all the gear and spare equipment you could need for a world voyage. This single owner vessel has been well cared for it's entire life completing cruises from Alaska to New Zealand and most islands within the Pacific Ocean- California, Mexico, Hawaii, Canada the West Coast USA and Mexico again, Central America, Panama, and Las Perlas islands. Then offshore passages westward to Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora, Cooks, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, then northward to Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, NZ and back to Hawaii. The original owner worked as a NASA scientist and no details were spared during her refits and upgrades over the years.

This center cockpit cutter rig is great for cruising with the aft stateroom and great sea berths in the V up forward. The entire interior is teak and has a rich character many of today's yachts lack. Although some of the electronics may be modernized, everything is properly working and can be relied upon. Help give this boat a second life today and get off the grid and go cruising in a sturdy safe offshore capable vessel.

DETAILS

Broker:

Sean Doyle

Make:

Spindrift

Model:

Year:

1980

Location:

Keehi Marine Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Price:

$ 49,000

MEASUREMENTS

LOA:

43'

LWL:

37'

Draft:

6' 10"

Headroom:

6'+

Beam:

12' 6"

Ballast:

11,000 lbs

Displacement:

46,000 lbs

ENGINE

Make:

Ford

Engine Type:

Inboard

Engine Is Dual

Hours:

Model:

Lehman

Fuel:

Diesel

Year:

Horse Power:

Cruising Speed:

5 knts

Max Speed:

8 kts

Range:

miles

Blades:

Prop Type:

Fixed

Prop Material:

Bronze

Bow Thruster

Stern Thruster

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ELECTRICAL AND NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

12V DC and 120V AC Electrical systems
Analog DC voltage gauges
Analog AC voltage gauges
30 Gang 120V AC breaker panel
24 Gang 12V DC breaker panel
Raymarine chartplotter
Raymarine autopilot
VHF radio
Ritchie magnetic compass
Two battery banks total 1200 amp-hrs (ten 6-v deep-cycle lead acid)
One 12-volt AGM startingInverter/charger
12vdc/120vac (2000 watt, 100 amp charge
Heart-Interface Freedom 20)Link 2000 Inverter/Charger control and monitor system
Solar panels: 3, total 200 watts
Alternator: 140-amp large frame Leece-Nevelle

INTERIOR

Living spaces with 6'-8" (2 m.) headroom in main salon and aft stateroom; 6 ft elsewhere
Extensive stowage space (lockers, cabinets, drawers)
"Butterfly" hatches above salon table, with Lexan windows, open from below for ventilation
Berths: 1 double in aft stateroom, 1 single forward: 1 sea berth on settee, 2 in cockpit (in port)
Opening portlights, bronze, with dogs; in hull and cabin top sides throughout boat
Floor panels in cabin and passageway soles for tank inspection, pump access, stowage, etc.
Large Refrigerator reefer (cooled by engine-driven compressor or compact 120 vac compressor)
Large Freezer (~4 cu ft) with dual cold plates, and spill-over air flow to adjacent 3-cu/ft reefer
Propane stove, 4-burner, with oven and broiler (Brown Stove Works, Inc.)
Double deep stainless steel sink
Freshwater and saltwater spigots at galley sink, pressure flow by automatic 12-volt
Hot freshwater heater: 10 gallon

RIGGING AND SAILS

Cutter Rig
Double spreader aluminum rig built and installed by Sparcraft in California

2-Speed self tailing halyard winches mounted on mast at deck level
18-ft slotted-foot boom, with 4:1-tackle rope vang and rigid support strut (Forespar)
Whisker pole 18-ft ,telescoping (Forespar); mounted on track on forward edge of mast
Spinnaker halyard
Jib (100%): on Profurl furler; UV shield on leech and foot
Mainsail w/ triple reef points, full-length battens
Staysail: hanked on, reefable with foot ties

DECK HARDWARE

Stainless Steel Bow pulpit with heavy wooden (teak) platform
Stern pulpit integrated with rugged stainless steel dinghy davits with 2 lifting-wire winches
Outboard engine lifting crane
Double lifelines, 32 inches high all around, with pelican hook gates adjacent of cockpit
Mooring ballards at bow and stern for securing dock, mooring, or tow lines
Permanent handles/steps on hull aft
Windlass, electric (12 v) at bow, for managing primary anchor chain, 3/8-inch, 300 feet
Hawse hole in deck beneath windlass for chain fall to locker below in forepeak
Hawse pipe with cover for chain (20 ft) from 2nd bow anchor to fall into locker shelf below
Deck bales (flush) in aft-quarter side decks; to secure boom preventer blocks, port and starboard
9 self-tailing stainless steel 2-speed: 4 on mast, at waist/shoulder height, 5 on cockpit combings
60-lb CQR anchor w/300 ft of 3/8 inch galvanized chain
45-lb CQR anchor w/20 ft 3/8 chain, with 300 ft 5/8” nylon rode
35-lb Danforth anchor w/15 feet 3/8 chain, 300 ft ½” nylon rode

SAFETY EQUIPMENT

USCG approved running lights
USCG approved adult PFDs
Handheld day/night USCG approved signals
Three (3) USCG approved portable fire extinguishers
406 Category 1 EPIRB
First aid kits, extensive: dressings & emergency med gear

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