FARR 1104 RACER / CRUISER  

AU $75,000 Negotiable
Finance
Length
36' 3" - 11.04m
Location
Perth WA
Launch Year
1977 approximate
Hull Material
Fibreglass/GRP Closed cell foam core

Description: Farr 1104 Racer / Cruiser
FARR 1104 (Built by Compass Yacht, NZ in 1977)

Cannonball has been my pride and joy for the last 5 years. I have put hundreds of hours of labour and love into her, transforming her into a modern, safe and fast racing yacht. I am now a proud father of two girls so priorities have changed.

This boat was built way ahead of it's time with design technology that is still used today. It was built by compass yachts in New Zealand and it's sister ship 'Piccolo' won the 1976 Sydeny to Hobart yacht race.

Cannonball (formerly known as Golden Eagle) is a well known boat in WA, with a long and rich history of offshore and inshore racing. It has won many races including the 1988 Fremantle to Bali and the Fremantle to Cocos Islands yacht races. More recently, she has had many wins on IRC, in blue water races such as the Bunbury and Return yacht race and the Cape Naturalist yacht race between 2020 and 2023. She was also the Blue water state champion for Division 2 PHS in 2021.

Cannonball is capable of both inshore and offshore racing with all equipment (minus life raft and SAT-phone) required to race in CAT 2 races. She is well equipped with comfortable beds, kitchen and toilet, making it also a great boat for cruising.

This boat offers a unique and affordable option to race offshore competitively, against boats that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase and maintain.

She has been optimised for short handed racing with a long carbon-fibre bow sprit and an asymetrical spinnaker wardrobe. All sheets and hazards run to the cockpit. It has a state of the art B&G autoplilot that uses machine learning to accurately hold true or apparent wind angles. And a remote control so you can steer the boat from anywhere on board. These upgrade have been pricless for double-handed racing and single handed family cruising.

Recent upgrades include:

2015
- New Nanni 21hp diesel engine
- 2 x new Harken ST-40.2 radial winches
- 2 x new cockpit/cabin hatches

2018
- New mast lowering system installed

2019
- Aluminiminum toe rail removed and deck/hull rejoined with fibreglass
- Steering converted from tiller to wheel.
- New engine morse
- New 2-pack deck paint and non-skid
- New stanchions, bases and lifelines
- New B&G VHF (AIS/DSC) radio
- New masthead antenna and coax
- 4 x new Harken ST-40.2 radial winches
- New Spinlock clutches for all halyards
- New electric and manual bilge pumps
- New through hull fittings for bilge pumps and engine exhaust
- 2 x new top hatches
Furling forestay replaced with new harken carbon-foil twin luff track
- New dyneema backstay and control blocks
- New stainless cabin top handles
- New stainless mooring cleats
- New teak toe rails
- New stainless folding propellor
- New dripless propellor shaft seal
- Electric water pumps installed for both fresh and salt water
- 2 x new lightweight water bladders (110L)
- 6 x new spinlock life jackets
- 4 x new 3 clip tethers
- New jackstays
- New Mainsail and cabin-hatch covers

2020
- New B&G electronics installed:
- Vulcan 9 MFD
- NAC 3 Autopilot contoller
- Hydraulic autopilot ram
- rudder position sensor
- 9 Axis compass
- Wireless wind sensor
- Bluetooth Autopilot remote
- Triton 2 instrument diplay
- Fusion Bluetooth sound system
- New external speakers
- External antenna for Iridium Go sat-comms
- Seatalk-NMEA converter for raymarine log integration
- NMEA 2000 - USB adapter for computer/ instruments integration
New Toughbook laptop for offshore navigation
- New 100ah lithium deep cycle house battery
- New inflatable tender and electric motor (uses lithium house battery)

2021
- All new sheets and hazards replaced with race spec rope with dyneema core, kevlar blend sheath and dyneema chafe resistant spliced tips
- 7 x new Tylaska T8 snap-shackles for hazards and spinnaker sheets
- New Tylaska main halyard screw shackle
- New custom gooseneck fitting, rod kicker and vang assembly.
- New custom 1.5m carbon- fibre Bowsprit.
- Carbon-fibre bow reinforcement and bob-stay installed
- Diamonds installed on mast to support Masthead spinnaker.
Both masthead and fractionioal spinnaker sheeves replaced with Harken racing sheeves.
New masthead spinnakers recut to fit boat
- All standing rigging and turnbuckles replaced with Dyform wire
- New Onesails forte 4T No. 2 Jib

2022
- New AIS transponder and antenna splitter installed
- 2 x New Racing lightweight danforth anchors
- Keel removed and bolts inspected
- Hull sandblasted and osmosis reglassed
- Hull Faired and long-board sanded
- Hull painted with 3 coats of epoxy primer and Ultra 2 anti-foul
- Rudder re-shaped for hydrodynamics
- Keel re-sealed with thickened epoxy for 'perfect fit'

2023
- New interior and bilge paint
- New bilge pump float switch

Region
Western Australia
Location
Perth WA
Usage
Leisure, Cruising, Racing
Launch Year
1977 approximate
HIN
AU-TWA033946CO6
Rego
71325
Rego Expiry
11/03/2024
Designer
Bruce Farr
Builder
Compass yachts NZ
Length
36' 3" - 11.04m
Beam
3.68m
Draft
1.88
Displacement
4530
Keel / Ballast
Lead fin keel
Hull Material
Fibreglass/GRP Closed cell foam core
Deck Material
Fibreglass/ ply sandwich
Engine Make
Nanni
Engine
Nanni N3.21 with shaft drive and folding prop
Number Engines
1
Horsepower
21
Fuel Type
Diesel
Engine Hours
Unknown
Fuel Consumption
3lp/h @ 3000rpm
Max Speed
7 knots
Cruise Speed
6 knots
Propulsion
Slipstream stainless folding propelled (2 blade)
Fuel
75
Water
100l
Accommodation
A double V berth at the bow
2 stern quarter doubles
2 mid ship singles
Cabins
3
Berths
6
Galley
Single sink with pumped fresh and salt water. 2 burner gimbled metho stove. Ice box, and drawers and cupboards for cutlery, plates etc.
Refrigeration
Large ice box
Freezer
No
Stove
Double metho burner
Water Maker
No
Hotwater System
No
Shower
No
Toilet
Standard band pump toilet (no holding tank)
Entertainment
Fusion bluetooth sound system, 2 outdoor & 2 indoor speakers
Air Conditioning
No
Dinghy
Small inflatable tender
Outboard
Sea snake electric outboard
Covers
Mainsail cover, hatch covers, instrument covers
Ground Tackle
2 racing danforth anchors
1 spade
1 oversized rockna
Chain & warp
Safety Gear
CAT 2 offshore certification (minus life raft, plb's and satcomms.
Bilge Pumps
1 electric, 2 manual
Life Raft
No
Epirb
1
Life Jackets
6
Flares
All
Fire Protection
3 x fire extinguisher and fire blanket
Electrics
12v, 1 x starter battery, 100ah lithium, 2x 100ah deep cycle batteries.
Electronics
All new B&G, Vulcan 9 MFD, Triton 2 display, wireless wind sensor, autopilot, autopilot remote control, VHF radio, AIS transceiver. All plugs into laptop for connection to predict wind / expedition.
Sail Inventory
Dacron J1
New Onesails J2 forte 4T
Kevlar J3
Dacron J4
Dacron storm jib

2 dacron mainsails
1 Tri-sail

A1 masthead spinnaker
A2 mast head spinnaker
A3 fractional spinnaker
Mast / Rigging
Aluminium fractional sloop. Single spreaders with set of diamonds for masthead kite. New standing Rigging 2020. Dyneema backstage. Harken Tuff luff.
Deck Gear
6 Harken 40 ST radial winches
11 spinlock clutches


ABOUT THE SELLER

Dan
Perth
WA 6009 Australia


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