Achilles 840 – Sprinter

Price: £15,500 ono

Description

Sprinter is a GRP fin keeled sloop rigged yacht, designed by Chris Butler and built by Butler Yachts in 1981. She has a skeg hung rudder and skeg supported propellor shaft.

Sprinter is up for sale due to the owner having bought a bigger boat.

Details

Electronics /Navigation

NASA duet (depth and log) 2004

NASA wind 2004

NASA GPS repeater 2005

Standard Horizon CP180 Chartplotter 2006

NASA AIS engine, with separate pushpit mounted VHF aerial 2008

VHF (Non DSC) age unknown

NASA BM-1 battery monitor 2008

2 bulkhead mounted Plastimo compasses

ST1000 tiller pilot

LED Tricolour

Side lights, steaming lights

Echomax 230 radar reflector

Engine

Sole Mini-17 new in Jan 2008 (120 hours)

110AHr domestic and engine starting batteries with individual switches and emergency parallel switch

Charging via VCR (charges engine first then domestic)

Rutland 503 wind generator and regulator (2008)

New prop shaft, two bladed prop and Sureseal stern gland (2007)

Sails and Deck hardware

Jeckells main with 3 slab reef points 2007

Jeckells roller genoa 2007

Harken genoa furling (age unknown)

Z-Spars boom 2007

Selden mast with single spreaders.

Windpilot pacific light windvane steering

Antal 16 self tailing genoa winches (2005)

Lewmar 8 spinnaker winches

Spinnaker with snuffer (good condition, age unknown)

Spinnaker pole

Bilge pump manual

Stainless standing rigging (2001)

CQR type anchor + 20m chain + ?? m of anchorplait

Double stainless guardrails

Stainless pulpit.

Stainless pushpit (2008)

Interior

V- berth forward

Heads Jabsco standard toilet

Retracting washbasin

Saloon

Removable table

two berths

Quarter berth

galley

Cockpit

Large cockpit locker port side

Small locker to starboard

Large stern locker

Miscellaneous

4 man Seago valise life raft (2008)

Camping Gaz storage for two bottles.

Gimballed 2 burner hob with grill and oven.

Fenders, warps.

Horseshoe lifebuoy and light

Comments

I have extensively upgraded pretty much everything on board, including new engine, sails, rewired and new electronics, mostly for my own satisfaction and also to give confidence to do the Jester Challenge (to the Azores single handed). This was completed between May and July 2008 and Sprinter managed all weather conditions without any problems.

Some work is still outstanding in areas like the head linings in the heads, but in general I believe she is a strong extremely well equipped example of this design

Sprinter is currently on a swinging mooring in Chichester Harbour. This is paid for till end of March 2009 and is reserved for the 2009/10 season. If required, I believe this could be transferred to a new owner, as I will no longer be using this mooring.

There is also a Bombard AX2 inflatable and Honda 2.3hp four-stroke, which were both bought in 2003 available on separate negotiation.

I am only selling Sprinter as I have bought a bigger boat with a view to doing some more extended cruising.