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The Travels of Spellbinder

The Voyages of a 2006 Hallberg Rassy 40

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  • Belfast – Portpatrick – Strangford – Glenarm – Clyde
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  • Around Cape Wrath to Orkney
  • To and from the Outer Hebrides
  • The Small Isles
  • Mulling It Over
  • Heading North – May 21
  • Break out of lockdown: plans for summer 2021
  • Autumn 2020 and winter refit plans
  • Back from the West Country – September 20
  • Windy West Country – August 2020
  • Daphne du Maurier Country
  • Scilly July 2020
  • End of Lockdown
  • Out at last
  • Late autumn in the Solent
  • North Atlantic Circuit – Booklet
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  • A thank you to my crew
  • Reflections on a North Atlantic circuit
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  • A taste of the Azores
  • Bermuda to the Azores
  • Bermuda to Azores – mid Atlantic report
  • Bermuda
  • Passage to Bermuda
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  • The British Virgin Islands
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  • The Leeward Islands – Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Antigua and Barbuda
  • The Windward Islands – South to North
  • The Windward Islands – North to South
  • Martinique – 11 – 16 December 2018
  • Video of Spellbinder’s Atlantic crossing
  • Mindelo to Martinique (25 Nov 18 – 8 Dec 18) – the Atlantic Crossing
  • Mid-Atlantic report – Sunday 2nd December 2018
  • Exploring the northern Cape Verde islands
  • Tenerife to Cape Verde: flying fish, dorado, squalls and repairs
  • All set for Cape Verde
  • Gran Canaria – Puerto Mogan and Puerto Rico
  • Tenerife: volcanoes, cacti and snorkeling
  • Cruising the western Canaries: Tenerife, La Gomera and La Palma
  • Escaping Hurricane Leslie – Madeira to Tenerife 11-13 Oct 18
  • Spellbinder in Yachting Monthly
  • Madeira: Porto Santo, Ilhas Desertas, Funchal, Levadas and wine…
  • Video of Gosport to Madeira passage
  • Arrival in Porto Santo, Madeira
  • Passage to Madeira – first report
  • Final preparations – departure tomorrow (16 July 18)
  • Final sea trials – and the Solent at its best
  • Long Range Radio Certificate & Wykehamist Sailing
  • Cherbourg and St Vaast-la-Hougue – offshore sea trials
  • The Jolly Sailor, his furling gennaker and removable forestay
  • Sea trials, boat jobs, and dressing overall
  • On Tuna, Dorado and Wahoo lures
  • Atlantic Circuit Plans
  • De-humidified dreams in bleak mid-winter
  • Major refit complete – November 2017
  • Spellbinder refit update – 8 Oct 17
  • Epoxy layers and electrical re-fit
  • Video of return from Guernsey
  • Hydrovane, Herm and Homeward Bound
  • Herring bones, mackerel, dolphins and a Kobra (sic)
  • Westward Bound
  • Video of the June Channel Crossings
  • On sewing and boat jobs at home
  • Balmy Solent
  • Windward return from France
  • A floating HQ
  • First Channel crossing
  • Torqueedo, 3D tender, Parasailor and Boracol
  • Maintenance, repairs and planned upgrades
  • First forays
  • Purchase and delivery trip
  • The search for Spellbinder

Original sales video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXTxYIEc-M

Contact me

nfc.nottingham@gmail.com

Technical details

Spellbinder is a Hallberg Rassy 40, designed by Argentinian German Frers. She is hull number 66, and was built in 2005 and commissioned in 2006.

Layout. She has a centre cockpit layout and has 3 cabins – the main saloon, an aft cabin with a single and double berth, and a traditional forepeak with two singles which can me made into a double – in theory sleeping 7.  She has a heads to port at the base of the companionway ladder, and to starboard a linear galley.

Stats:

  • Length Over All (LOA): 12.4m / 40’8 »
  • Waterline length 10.6m / 34’9 »
  • Draft (unladen): 1.99m  / 6’6 »
  • Beam: 3.82m / 12’6 »
  • Displacement 10.00 tonnes
  • Gross tonnage 14.79
  • Fuel capacity 445l
  • Water capacity 460l

Engine and Drivetrain. She is equipped with a Yanmar 4JH 4E 54HP engine, which has an additional 120A alternator for fast battery charging.  She has a 3 blade Gori folding prop.

Bluewater fit-out. Spellbinder was upgraded by her first owner to make her bluewater (extended offshore sailing) capable, and I have since added various bits and pieces. She has a Spectra Newport 400 12v water maker and satellite communications (Iridium, Sat C and Icom 802 SSB linked to a Pactor 4 modem) as well as a number of other modifications appropriate to offshore passage making. These include fresh and salt water manual foot pumps, LED lights throughout, 6 12v Hella fans for ventilation, 5 x solar panels totalling 310W, and a water towed generator (Aqua4gen). She has a WiFi booster and MailaSail Red Box system. She has two diesel tanks which give her some 900nm of range, and two water tanks, and addition to her normal fridge she has a separate fridge / freezer.

Rig and Sails: She has a Selden rig with 3 spreaders and a removal forestay for a storm gib. All reefing is done at the mast, which has ‘granny bars’ for support. She has a double bow roller, to support a removal bowsprit for a furling gennaker (116m²) with furling mechanism and a Kobra 2 anchor with 60m of 8mm chain on an electric windlass. She also has a Breeze kedge anchor on chain and rope. Other sails are a  125m² Parasailor, a fully battened slab reefed main (49.1m²) by Jeckells with 3 reefs enclosed in a stack pack, a genoa (51.6m²), a working jib (38.9m²) and storm gib (13.1m²) which hanks on to a removable forestay.  She has a spinnaker boom stowed on the mast (Selden MDS batten system), adjustable genoa cars, running back stays, a backstay tensioner and Selden Rodstay vang.

Navigation.  She has a Furuno Black Box system 14 » TFT Chartplotter, interlinked to AIS and Weatherfax. She also has Raymarine AIS B linked to an Axiom 7 Multifunction Display at the helm, which is linked to an AIS transponder and a Raymarine Quantum radar. There is a Raymarine ST7001G+ quadrant-mounted autopilot with giro rate processor Type II, along with Raymarine ST60  wind, speed and depth gauges. She has a Hydrovane self steering system which also acts as an emergency rudder.

Electrical. She is powered by 6 x Rolls FS250 domestic 6v batteries giving a total of 720 aH, and a single separate 12v engine start battery. There is a galvanic isolator, Mastervolt MASS 12v/60A 230v charge controller and a Mastervolt battery manager. The modifications outlined above allow her batteries to be charged by engine, solar, or towed generator. The solar and towed generators are each linked to separate charging mechanisms, giving redundancy.

Spellbinder's current location

Ardrossan

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Atlantic Crossing Dec 18

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Passage to Madeira Jul 18

https://youtu.be/dqL8VxvR9GE

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