ADAMS 12
AU $115,000
Length
40' 0" - 12.20m
Location
Sunshine Coast Region Mooloolaba QLD
Launch Year
1991
Hull Material
Fibreglass/GRP
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Description: Adams 12
A fine seagoing Joe Adams design. It was originally designed as a racer-cruiser or fast cruiser, but is also a comfortable live aboard. The yacht has been extensively set up to sail efficiently and safely single-handed. Against All Odds was awarded with a Performance Certificate for "The First Singlehanded Circumnavigation of Australia" which was achieved with one stop, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (International Sailing Federation) in 2006.(Performance Certificate number 23 WSSRC website). It was strengthened and systems significantly beefed up for the Record attempt. It is fast, strong, safe, fun to sail and performs well on all points of sail, and in all conditions.
The interior is comfortable and attractive, white with mahogany trim and mahogany wood panels. There are plenty of cupboards and storage areas. The saloon is spacious, light and airy and a great entertaining area. There is good headroom throughout. The sleeping is comfortable with 3 double cabins.
This Adams 12 has a tall, powerful, fractional rig with fully battened main and is still sailing in light conditions when other yachts are motoring. Reefing the mainsail is simple and doesn't require moving from sitting in the cockpit and is achieved in a couple of minutes with no fuss and low effort. The yacht is usually sailed solo by a woman and often cruises north annually. The keel, being of shallower draft, allows for accessing more anchorages than a deep fin, while the lead wing bulb keeps it stiff in heavy conditions, and was designed to enhance performance going to windward.
This year, Against All Odds has just had the interior repainted and revarnished and has been freshly antifouled. Other recent upgrades include: a new Yanmar fresh water cooled motor (2020); new dodger (2021); new Polycarbonate (Lexan) windows (2022-3); new Highfield Ultralight Hypalon 2.6 m rigid inflatable dinghy (2020); new Plastimo compass (2022); new TMC electric toilet with replaced plumbing (2023); new anchor windlass motor and electrics and remote control (2021); new Lithium Phosphate battery bank, Victron solar controller, and added new 170 watt solar panel (2021); replaced seacocks and some skin fittings 2021 and 2023; new high load Harken ball bearing sheave for main halyard (2021); just had radar mount re powder coated; new cockpit seats (2020).
Against All Odds has also been a very comfortable live aboard for cruising and would be also be suitable for club and offshore fully-crewed or short-handed racing. The yacht has been a special boat and has had one owner for the last 21 years. She is well maintained and in great condition and is ready to untie the lines and just go sailing.
Against All Odds is berthed at Mooloolaba Marina on the Sunshine Coast and her 12m berth will also be available for sale.
The interior is comfortable and attractive, white with mahogany trim and mahogany wood panels. There are plenty of cupboards and storage areas. The saloon is spacious, light and airy and a great entertaining area. There is good headroom throughout. The sleeping is comfortable with 3 double cabins.
This Adams 12 has a tall, powerful, fractional rig with fully battened main and is still sailing in light conditions when other yachts are motoring. Reefing the mainsail is simple and doesn't require moving from sitting in the cockpit and is achieved in a couple of minutes with no fuss and low effort. The yacht is usually sailed solo by a woman and often cruises north annually. The keel, being of shallower draft, allows for accessing more anchorages than a deep fin, while the lead wing bulb keeps it stiff in heavy conditions, and was designed to enhance performance going to windward.
This year, Against All Odds has just had the interior repainted and revarnished and has been freshly antifouled. Other recent upgrades include: a new Yanmar fresh water cooled motor (2020); new dodger (2021); new Polycarbonate (Lexan) windows (2022-3); new Highfield Ultralight Hypalon 2.6 m rigid inflatable dinghy (2020); new Plastimo compass (2022); new TMC electric toilet with replaced plumbing (2023); new anchor windlass motor and electrics and remote control (2021); new Lithium Phosphate battery bank, Victron solar controller, and added new 170 watt solar panel (2021); replaced seacocks and some skin fittings 2021 and 2023; new high load Harken ball bearing sheave for main halyard (2021); just had radar mount re powder coated; new cockpit seats (2020).
Against All Odds has also been a very comfortable live aboard for cruising and would be also be suitable for club and offshore fully-crewed or short-handed racing. The yacht has been a special boat and has had one owner for the last 21 years. She is well maintained and in great condition and is ready to untie the lines and just go sailing.
Against All Odds is berthed at Mooloolaba Marina on the Sunshine Coast and her 12m berth will also be available for sale.
Region
Queensland
Location
Sunshine Coast Region Mooloolaba QLD
Usage
Leisure, Cruising, Racing
Launch Year
1991
Rego
GS402Q
Designer
Adams
Builder
Rob Legg Yachts
Length
40' 0" - 12.20m
Beam
3.71m
Draft
1.8 m
Displacement
7 tonne
Keel / Ballast
Fin with lead wing bulb; steel keel
Hull Material
Fibreglass/GRP
Deck Material
Foam core fiberglass/GRP
Engine Make
Yanmar
Engine
3YM30AE new 2020; very good access from above and on 2 sides
Number Engines
1
Horsepower
30
Fuel Type
Diesel
Engine Hours
366
Fuel Consumption
2.3 l/hr
Max Speed
8 knots
Cruise Speed
6 - 6.5 knots
Propulsion
Yanmar SD20 saildrive with Flexofold 3 blade folding propeller (new 2015), fantastic prop; spare Gori 2 blade folding
Fuel
270 litres
Water
400 litres in 2 tanks
Accommodation
Three comfortable double cabins, one forward and two aft; forward cabin is adjacent to head/shower area to port; saloon is a spacious, attractive, light and airy area with good visibility out; saloon table, three saloon berths; galley to port; nav station to starboard; plenty of cupboards and storage space
Berths
9 (3 doubles and 3 single berths in saloon which are good sea berths with lee sheets)
Galley
Gimballed Gas stove 2 burner/ grill/ oven, fridge/freezer, sink, pressure freshwater with 1 micron silver water filter installed 2022
Refrigeration
Large Danfoss 12 V fridge with freezer compartment
Freezer
On saloon starboard side an insulated area was built in for separate freezer in place but not used
Stove
Plastimo Atlantic Gas stove; 2 burner with grill and oven
Hotwater System
Yes
Shower
In head area; Pressure hot freshwater
Toilet
TMC electric, just installed brand new; holding tank 120 litres; antisyphon loops
Dinghy
Highfield Ultralight 2.6 m hypalon new 2020, cost me over $5000, stored in shed under cover only used a couple of times, looks as new
Outboard
Evinrude 3 hp 2 stroke
Covers
Dodger new 2021
Ground Tackle
Manson plough 45 lb, 30 m of 10 mm short link chain with 70 m 16 mm rode; second anchor 35 lb Manson plough with shorter chain and long rope rode; Muir Atlantic 2200 electric anchor windlass, replaced with new motor and electrics 2021. Operation windlass 3 ways: forward deck switch, helm station up and down and wireless remote control up and down.
Safety Gear
8 Life jackets; Lifebuoy; 2 Fire extinguishers and fire blanket; Flares; EPIRB; Jack lines
Bilge Pumps
2 Electric bilge pumps with float switches; 2 Manual: 1 cockpit operated Whale gusher, 1 internal
Life Raft
RFD Seasaver plus 8 man (out of service)
Epirb
EPIRB GME Accusat 406
Electrics
2 x 100 AH Lithium Phosphate DCS batteries (new in 2021) in well secured battery box with blue tooth monitoring; new Victron BlueSolar MPPT 30 amp solar controller 2021, new 170 watt solar panel 2021,2 x 60 watt solar panels, 125 amp Yanmar alternator, Trimetric battery monitor, series of ammeters for sources charging current and service current, battery isolators, Engine Guard alarm system, 800 watt inverter, LED interior lighting; previous MPPT 250 solar controller, operational, left in place not currently in use.
Electronics
Masthead LED tricolour, anchor light and strobe; new LED spreader light; LED bow and stern steaming lights; Uniden VHF with masthead antenna, backup VHF antenna on pushpit, handheld VHF Standard Horizon submersible; ICOM IC 706 HF/VHF radio with automatic antenna tuner, backstay antenna; Raymarine ST 60 wind, log and depth displays, with Raymarine ST 60 Graphic Display repeater at the inside nav station; CARD (Collision Avoidance Radar Detector); Coursemaster hydraulic arm autopilot with cockpit display, has additional Coursemaster remote handset so can steer and change autopilot setting inside boat or when working at the mast; Backup Raymarine wheel pilot stored inside boat; JRC 1800 colour Radar/ Plotter with C Map cards for Australia; New Plastimo compass 2022, pushpit mounted Scalar Radio Frequency Antenna for mobile phone/ internet
Sail Inventory
Dacron Genoa on Profurl furler, staysail for on inner forestay, heavy dacron fully battened mainsail with 3 reefs on Harken batt car system, storm jib, trisail, 2 spinnakers one with a snuffer/sock, gennaker
Mast / Rigging
Keel stepped mast with fractional rig; Double swept back spreaders with jumpers; 18.9 m mast section, Inner forestay on Highfield lever; Strongly rigged with compact strand (Dyform style); Profurl furler with double luff grooves on furler foil (has double forward headsail halyards set up); fractional and masthead spinnaker halyards; Dynema dux runners with check stays; spinnaker pole and whisker pole; lazy jacks and boom bag; Harken Batten car system on mast; dedicated separate trisail track on mast; New Harken high load ball bearing main halyard mast head sheave 2021, Spectra halyards; Tri-Lens Radar Reflector mounted on mast
Deck Gear
Mast collar Harken ball bearing blocks, Harken deck organizer, Harken genoa cars, Harken traveller and mainsheet system, 10 cockpit Spinlock clutches and an extra clutch for furler; Harken 48ST main halyard winch, second cockpit Harken 40 2 speed ST winch for reefing all Harken/ Spinlock hardware 2005/2006; 6 stainless steel Barient winches in the cockpit; 2 S/S Barient winches at mast with clutches on mast for all halyards etc also. Every winch on the boat is self tailing, and all have been recently serviced; stainless steel wheel (cable steering) with emergency tiller.
Remarks
It has a taller and more powerful rig than most Adam 12s, and is fractional. Earlier Adam 12s were commonly masthead rigs. This selection by the first owner, after discussions with Joe Adams, resulted in a slightly smaller genoa, thus easier to handle, with a bigger mainsail that is simple to reef without moving from the cockpit. So it is faster, especially in light air and very managable in heavy conditions and great for safe and efficient short-handed sailing. The first owner worked closely with the designer, Joe Adams who was excited with this project, on using the bigger fractional rig as well as a more open plan interior with 3 full double cabins with independent doors to the aft cabins. It has no tight access walkways like on the earlier Adams 12s. The addition of the inner forestay on the Highfield lever in 2005 also allows the boat to be sailed as a cutter (2 headsails). It also allows the stay to be detached from the deck and moved aft simply with the Highfield lever if one wishes to have the foredeck clear. She has a comfortable motion at sea and sits well to anchor.
Against All Odds was mostly used by the first and second owners, successfully, for club and some east coast racing. The current owner, since circumnavigating Australia solo, has mostly enjoyed cruising in Against All Odds. This yacht is versatile and has also proven to be a fast cruiser, pleasurable to sail, comfortable to live aboard and easy to manage single-handedly.
Against All Odds was mostly used by the first and second owners, successfully, for club and some east coast racing. The current owner, since circumnavigating Australia solo, has mostly enjoyed cruising in Against All Odds. This yacht is versatile and has also proven to be a fast cruiser, pleasurable to sail, comfortable to live aboard and easy to manage single-handedly.
ABOUT THE SELLER
Margaret Williams
Mooloolaba
QLD 4557 Australia
QLD 4557 Australia