1973 Hallberg-Rassy Rasmus 35

"Dragonfly"

 

 

 

2601 West Marina Place  Suite D

Seattle, WA  98199

206-285-9563

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Accommodations

Forward is a vee-berth stateroom followed by a head to port and hanging locker to starboard.  Moving aft into the salon is a U-shaped settee with dinette (converts to a large double berth) to port with the galley flush to starboard.  Aft to starboard is the navigation station..  Centerline steps lead up and aft through a companionway hatch to the cockpit.  A companionway hatch aft in the cockpit leads down to the aft stateroom with a two single berths.

The interior is finished in varnished mahogany and teak.

Galley
  • Koolmatic refrigeration
  • Seaward 3-burner LPG stove with oven and broiler.  Weems & Plath propane control system w/mechanical backup
  • Pressure hot and cold water system
  • 6 gallon hot water heater
  • High output manual pump
  • Saltwater foot pump

Electronics and Navigational Equipment
  • Garmin 182 C chartplotter
  • Garmin 160 depth sounder
  • ICOM ICS VHF radio
  • Furuno 1622 radar
  • WH autopilot
  • Auto deployed 406 MHZ EPIRB w/GPS interface
  • Danforth Constellation compass
  • Swoffer wind instruments
  • CD player w/exterior speakers

Electrical System
  • (4) Trojan 6V batteries and (2) 4-D storage batteries/separate 110AH cranking battery
  • Automatic battery charger
  • Updated AC panel
  • E-Meter
  • High output 100A Leese Neville alternator w/isolator diodes
  • Aerogen Towing generator/wind generator combo

Deck Equipment
  • Bruce 65lb anchor w/240' chain and 600' rode
  • Delta 40lb Plow anchor
  • Danforth 18lb anchor w/60' chain and 300' rode
  • Lofrans electric windlass
  • Center cockpit
  • Non-skid deck
  • Bow pulpit with rails
  • Side stanchions with lifelines
  • Hard dodger and coaming protection
  • New bimini and full canvas enclosure
  • Fenders and lines
  • AB 10' RIB
  • Boarding ladder
  • Aries windvane

Engine /Mechanical Equipment
  • Emergency engine stop
  • Fresh water cooling system
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Vetus hydraulic wheel steering
  • Emergency tiller
  • (3) Bilge pumps - (2) manual and (1) electric RULE 5000 w/auto switch and bilge alarm
  • Webasto 2010 diesel hot water furnace

Sails and Rigging
  • Newer main sail
  • Newer 130% tri-radial genoa (composite ACL 6D)
  • Newer mizzen
  • Tri-radial spinnaker
  • Drifter
  • Profurl roller furling
  • In-mast furling main with spare hank-on main, spare mizzen and 120% genoa
  • Spinnaker pole
  • Whisker pole

Remarks

"Dragonfly's" voyage across the Pacific has been chronicled in anthologies and magazine articles, and will be published as a book summer 2009 by Touchstone Fireside (a division of Simon & Schuster).


An article from Cruising World Magazine:

Dragonfly
On last summer's solstice, Janna Cawrse and Graeme Esarey sailed away from their Whidbey Island wedding aboard their 1973 Hallberg-Rassy 35 ketch, Dragonfly, on a cruise around Vancouver Island, the shakedown for their extended honeymoon: a circumnavigation of the Pacific. They are now well into the dream itinerary, which started in Seattle and includes Central America, the South Pacific, Japan, Russia, and Alaska. "It's an audacious goal," Janna says, "so we keep reminding ourselves of the ancient cruisers' maxim: All plans are made in Jell-O."

Dragonfly is an old girl, but she's sturdy, and her comfortable motion inspired confidence in the high winds and rough seas Janna and Graeme encountered off the Pacific Northwest coast and while crossing southern Mexico's Golfo de Tehuantepec.

"So far, cruising has exceeded our expectations," says Janna. "We love life aboard, and we've enjoyed the fascinating people we've met and the adventures we've had."

While holed up in Noyo River, California, they made fast friends with other cruisers and traveled south with them. In Bahía Santa Maria, Baja, they dinghied up a mangrove estuary, climbed up an arroyo, hunted (successfully) for whale bones, and wandered through sand dunes "à la Lawrence of Arabia." In Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in El Salvador and Nicaragua, they made trips inland so they could explore more than just beach towns. And although numerous visits from family and friends significantly affected their cruising schedule, they feel having them aboard has been worth the effort.

Graeme has had the cruising bug since the age of 5, when his family moved aboard their fishing boat, Ingrid, for a year. Thus began his long career of commercial fishing with his father in waters from northern California to Alaska.

Janna, too, grew up in a boating family, exploring Washington's San Juan Islands and B.C.'s Gulf Islands in Captain Teach, a Bill Garden-designed powerboat.

Before they became full-time cruisers, Graeme headed international operations for a Seattle company that imports stone building products, and Janna was a high-school English teacher.

Graeme and Janna are in their early 30s, much younger than many of the cruisers they meet. When older cruisers say they wish they'd set sail when younger, Dragonfly's crew counter by saying that they envy the retirees' ability to cruise into the sunset and not have to return to work to restock the cruising kitty.

On March 30, Dragonfly set sail from Costa Rica for the Galápagos, and if the Jell-O plans remain fairly firm, Janna and Graeme expect her to be chugging down the Inside Passage, homeward bound, in about a year and a half. They post news of their travels on a website (www.svdragonfly.blog spot.com).
 

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

 

 

Asking: $ 49,500.00                                                                 Located:  Seattle, WA