This is it folks. I will have to part her out if some one is not going to buy her this time.Please call me to discuss the boat before bidding. We will not finance you. We know you will want lots more info than what is here as well as inspections or surveys. I do not text well (arthritis) so a phone call is the best way. phone, It is forwarded to my cell when I am out, but does not forward texts. Email is good also. I am also soon going to include the PassageMaker article about this boat in the links.Live aboard or work with tons of room.Great Fish camp. Start a new B&B. Take the Ferry to
work or BART, No lawn, No worries, No property tax. Ok, life is not that perfect but you
get the idea. We bought the boat to become "loopers".
Sadly we can not retire this way. ex US NAVYYP668 (ex CT2) Ex Boston Harbor PoliceIf you want to take her to the down to the islands or up to Newfoundland, I have a very seasoned and reasonable captain at hand.This is an 80' NAVY YP, one of the last of 654 Class. If you google this you will find more information than can be posted here. Will make a great passage maker ("great loop") boat, club dive boat, training or work boat even a fish camp. Currently in Tarpon Springs, FL. Would be great in the islands, Puerto Rico, Cuba bound or anything else you can dream of. Use at as your mothership base for all your overnight fishing.We have over 1 gb of photos (listed below) of all the work since we purchased the boat.
Everything we did is photo documented in the slideshow and PDFs links below.All work photos, original Navy manuals, Navy drawings and documents are to the right. CLICK HERE for Slideshows and Pdfs. We can finish the boat to your specification at a reasonable price here in Tarpon
Springs FL. Call me to discuss it. Two, brand new 4 valve mil 12-71s (330hp) motors were installed (as part of a 1.2 million dollar refit) in 1994 while in "special" duty at the NAVY sub base in Groton, CT. These are far more robust than the later 12V-71s and they have the Allison gears which are failsafe. You can run 1,2,3 or all 4 engines depending on your needs. 2000 gallon fuel capacity in three tanks. At 10 knots on all 4 four engines and the genset the fuel burn is about 10 GPH. Just dropping speed to 9 Knots cuts the fuel use by 30%. We purchased the boat from the city of Boston and brought her down (outside the gulfstream) in 2006. The two engines outboard
are at about 1400+ hrs and the two inboard ones 1100+. Feb 2008 we
hauled her and spent the next 7 months working on her bottom for warm water. The boat
is double planked with VG Alaskan Yellow Cedar (one of the worlds most durable wood) about 2 inches thick, with the exception of the
Garboard, Broad and Shear planks which are VG white Oak. Frames are also 3" white oak on 12 inch centers. We wooded the
boat and reefed all the seams. Then proceeded to replace a few thousand
fasteners. We splined the keel to the garboard and the garboard to the
broad with VG fir and SMITHS "all-wood" epoxy. The hull was allowed to dry out
for months and then about 40 gallons of SMITHS "CPES" epoxy applied. All seams
and fastener countersinks were then payed with 3m 5200. Then 30 gallons
Sherwin Williams Corothane Mio Aluminum Polyurethane. Then, 30 gallons
Sherwin Williams Corothane Coal Tar Polyurethane on top of that. And finally, 20 Gallons Sherwin Williams Seaguard ablative bottom paint. The
worm-shoe was replaced with a 1" thick plate of HPPE Starboard which was
bonded to sheets of micarta and then bed in 3m 5200. The keel is a 17
layer (1 inch each) white oak laminate. We lifted the boat off of the marine rail with
a single 50 ton jack to install the worm-shoe. Now, with the boat only
being supported at two points 60 feet apart, we checked every door and
hatch and there was no binding anywhere. This boat is built like a tank. At 67 tons, she was designed to be lifted with only two straps.
We R&R'd every valve and sea-cock as well as installing new monel grease
zirks in the sea-cocks. We went into the fuel tanks and cleaned spotless
while installing ports for a fuel polishing system. The tanks were and
are like new inside with the original beautiful hard epoxy finish. The
freshwater tank is Monel as is the black tank. She is copper clad (.0625") for
light ice along the waterline and wrapped under the counter at the
stern. This also takes the abuse of floating debris. This boat can be finished into a trawler type yacht or
minimally, put her straight to work. The shipyard the boat is in builds two to three 300+ ton commercial fishing vessels a year and has done so for
more than 30 years. Any work we can not personally do can be had from the
yard at a lower rate than almost anywhere on the eastern seaboard. We
have all the original blueprints and manuals. There were about 25 of this class boat
built for training the midshipman at Annapolis how to run a ship. Then, when women came
into the school and they had to build larger boats and the 108 series begin. The batteries by the way are C&D telco grade AGMs with about 90% life remaining. 30KW DELCO Gen-set. 3 phase, 120 volt DELTA, coupled to a 2-71HV prime
mover. Comes with installed switchboard, spare head and parts. There is air conditioning, etc,etc. The 3/4" mahogany marine plywood decks are stripped of their anti skid rubber and are ready to be recovered. Lets get to work.
Give me a call if you want to talk further. We bought the boat to become "loopers". Sadly we can not retire this way.
Billphone yp668 (at) verizon.net We do have a couple of other interesting things in our classifieds board store. Never boring normal stuff. I mean really, who has a nuclear fuel rod grapple, new in the box? Or an ORIS BC Aviator? Or a Lancia Flaminia Zagato SuperSport? HP network analyzer, etc. The Castro Convertible has nothing to do with CUBA. Ok, we sold the Flaminia, the ORIS and the fuel rod grapple, but tons more stuff to go.
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