
Just Listed in a class of her own, 1985 Broadwater 56 Passage Maker is now on the market.
The interior was designed for the perfect blend of aesthetics and functionality, the practical interior invites perfect comfortable living at sea.
Credit to her past and current owner, he has lived on and maintained Seabiscuit IV for five years. He has adoringly kept her modern by upgrading systems, and electrical devices while keeping her authentic charm.
Seabiscuit IV was designed by Robert Beebe a renowned naval architect who designed over 150 vessels one of which was the Passage Maker 56, the original Seabiscuit.
Built in 1985 in Ballina NSW, Seabiscuit IV construction took 36months, 18 months to procure the timber and 18 months to build. At a then cost of $1 million, Seabiscuit IV was built to survey and worked for many years in Sydney harbour as a charter boat and was honoured to be the Sydney to Hobart yacht race start boat. Since her charter boat days, she has been privately owned travelling the ocean throughout Asia Pacific regions.
The design of the Passage Maker vessels was so successful that he wrote a book based on it called, Voyaging Under Power.
For more information or a inspection feel free to contact Romana Zappia on
0416 704 493 anytime.
Happy to do a video call if interstate or overseas.
Features:
* Air Conditioning 2 x Marine Cruise Air
* Engine Fully Serviced - Mar 2022
* Antifouled - Mar 2022
* Propspeed Mar 2022
* Bridge Clearance 4m
* Air Conditioning 2 x Marine Cruise Air
* With her generous fuel capacity, well over 3000nm is achievable on motor alone. Also on board, there are an additional 2x 400L stainless steel fuel tanks that are currently not in use, which could be used for extra fuel or as a grey water tank.
* Bow ThrusterSide Power SP125 recon April 2022
* For optimum efficiency, her huge 36inch variable pitch propeller can be adjusted either by being completely feathered while sailing or by increasing the pitch and lowering the revs while motor sailing. Under motor alone, she is more than capable of bettering 1L per nm and less so with the assistance of some wind. She will cruise under sail alone comfortably at 6 1/2 to 7kn in 17 kn winds.
* Spares include for her next owners - starter motors, alternators, water pumps, freshwater pumps, inverter, charges, and many consumables belts pulleys filters including for the 9KVA Westerbeke generator plus more.
* Fitted with a massive 1800 amp hours of gel hybrid AGM batteries (1 year old), 400ah in 12v, a 5000W Victron inverter charger and 3x Victron solar controllers that are powered by 2700W of solar, allowing you to live off-grid with ease.
* 240v Watermaker with all new membranes still in their packets, that will produce 160 per hour when required. With her 2000L stainless steel water tank, the watermaker has not yet been utilised.
* Freshwater filter system uses three filters and provides excellent clean water to the galley, to the new owner surplus spare filters will be provided.
* Seabiscuit IV has recently been painted with 2pac deck paint and a fresh antifouling hull including Propspeed, new varnishing on her exposed timber including her beautiful stern. All these areas have been sanded back to bare wood and coated with nine layers of International Perfection plus 2pac varnish.
Disclaimer
Romana's Boat Brokerage 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.