Moonshadow in Fiji in 2000
Moonshadow is a Steve Dashew designed Deerfoot 2-62 cutter. She was built in Finland by Scandi Yachts and launched in 1986. She is a purpose designed short-handed blue water cruiser and has logged approximately 100,000 nautical miles to date. Dimensions are: LOA 62 feet/19 meters, beam 14.5 feet/4.4 meters and draft 6 feet/1.8 meters. Her “Intracoastal Waterway friendly” rigs stands 64.5 feet/19.6 meters off the water.
Moonshadow’s accomodation consists of a master sateroom with ensuite forward of the mast. Aft of the mast are a main salon with dinette and the nav station/office.
Main salon
Nav station/office
Amidships to starboard is a stand-up engine room/workshop enclosing a Yanmar 140 hp intercooled turbodiesel engine, 8 kw Northern lights genset, 600 gallon/day watermaker, two aircon units, fridge compressor, pressure water pumps, and a 15 gallon water heater. To port is a long galley with seperate fridge and freezer boxes, stove/oven, microwave oven, double sink, pantry, washer and dryer. Aft of the galley are two guest staterooms with double lower and single upper berths and a shared guest head.
The long, narrow galley works well on both tacks
A watertight forepeak encompasses the first 12 feet of the boat and a watertight lazarette the last 7 feet. Tthe rudder stock and autopilot motors/ram are enclosed in the lazarette. Moonshadow is a dual cockpit model with a steering/sailing cockpit aft containing the helm, engine controls, main, genoa and staysail sheet winches. The forward cockpit seats eight persons under the cover of a soft dodger.
The forward cockpit
We can stand watch in the forward cockpit with an autopilot remote, second engine panel, GPS, VHS and in view of the chart plotter and radar positioned in the nav station below.
The watch station in the forward cockpit
Sail handling consists of roller furling genoa and staysail wth sheets and furling lines led the the aft cockpit, and a fully battened main with lazy jacks and a boom cradle. Electric primary winches ease workload on headsail and spinnaker trim. She is easily handled by two persons and George has single handed her for approximately 5000 miles.
The business of sailing is handled in the aft cockpit
George purchased Moonshadow in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1994 and has since logged more than 70,000 ocean miles and visited 33 countries with her during a west-about circumnavigation.
Moonshadow’s Layout
1. Port aft stateroom
2. Starboard aft stateroom
3. Aft head
4. Galley
5. Nav station/office
6. Engine room/workshop
7. Main salon/dinette
8. Master stateroom
9. Forward head
Moonshadow’s Equipment List:
Sail Inventory
140% Genoa
100% Working Jib
Staysail
1.5 oz MPS spinnaker in ATN sock
2.2 oz. spinnaker in ATN sock
Main sail with full-length battens
Storm Trysail
Storm Jib
Hurricane Staysail
ATN “Tacker” for shorthanded spinnaker sailing
Ground Tackle
110# Bruce anchor with 300’ 10mm chain rode
2X 35# Viking aluminum Danforth style anchor with chain/nylon rode
Folding fisherman storm anchor
Fortress dinghy anchor with stainless/nylon rode
Safety
Emergency Rudder Blade, transom mounted w/tiller
Emergency tiller
Paratech Sea Anchor
600’ 1” nylon warp for sea anchor/Panama Canal transit/anchoring
Givens 8 person life raft, stern rail mounted with quick release system
MOM-8 Overboard recovery system
Lifesling overboard recovery device
Attachable crash bulkhead for salon/forward cabin
High volume crash pump system belted to genset
5 automatic bilge pumps with high-water alarms
2 Whale Gusher 30 manual bilge pumps, engine room and salon (keel sump)
1 portable hand operated bilge pump
Oxygen cylinder
First aid kit exceeding Category I specifications
Jackstays
406 EPIRB
Abandon ship bag
15mm tempered glass hull lights
Masthead strobe light
Hidden safe for valuables
Complete Category 1 flare kit
Electronics
2X Furuno GPS 35 Navigator (1 in nav station, 1 in cockpit)
1 Garmin Gecko hand-held GPS
2X W-H Autopilot systems with 3 remotes
Furuno 36 mile radar
Icom M710 SSB radio with backstay antenna
2X Icom VHF (nav and cockpit)
B&G H-1000 depth sounder
B&G Hecta wind/speed instruments with 2x repeaters
Interphase forward looking sonar
Furuno weather fax
Xaxero Sky Eye
Motorola Iridium Satellite Phone with data connection
2x Sony AM/FM Compact Disc stereo system with salon subwoofer and 12 speakers, including 4 water proof outside speakers.
Apple iPod
World Space Satellite Radio
Tank Tender fuel/water level monitor
Panasonic Flat Screen TV
Philips DVD player
2X Kenwood walkie-talkie
Link Battery monitor
Heart Interface 2500 inverter/charger (110 volt)
240v to 110v step-down transformer
240v battery charger
14X Alpenglow low interference cabin lights
MaxSea chart plotting program
4x magnetic compass (master stateroom, nav station, center cockpit, binnacle)
880 amp hour deep cycle house battery bank
140 amp-hour cruising alternator belted to main engine
2X Gel cell batteries for engine and genset starting
Perko battery switches facilitating battery crossover
Alarm system with infrared motion detection sensors
Carbon monoxide detector
Smoke detector
Gas detector/shutoff valve for LPG system
Hamilton Ferris drag generator system
Masthead lightning diffuser
2X Dell Laptop Computer
3X Nokia Cellular Phone
Panasonic Digital Camera
Sony Digital Camera
Tender
Aquapro 1101 11.5’ aluminum bottom Hypalon RIB
Yamaha 15hp outboard (new 2003)
Yamaha 3hp outboard
Canvas dingy cover
Beach landing wheels
Comfort
12v Crosby thermostatically controlled fridge/freezer system
Stainless Force 10 LPG 3 burner stove/oven
Maytag washer and dryer
2x air conditioner
600 gallon per day Sea Recovery water maker
Microwave oven
Skyscreens on all hatches
Skyshades on all hull lights
Stainless 15 gallon water heater
Med-mooring boarding gangway
SCUBA diving compressor
Canvas dodger with attachable shade screens
Rear enclosure for dodger
8 cockpit cushions
Cockpit slat bed system
Rear cockpit bimini top
Attachable bridge deck bimini top/water catchment system
Full canvas awning
Fleece salon settee and nav station passage covers
Custom sheets for all berths
Saltwater wash down system
Two deck shower systems
Attachable side boarding ladder system
Folding stern boarding ladder system
Deck and cockpit lighting
Forepeak and lazarette lighting
Forepeak and lazarette solar ventilation systems
Engines
Yanmar 4LH-HTE 140hp intercooled turbodiesel main engine with Hurth gear with two engine panels, one in each cockpit
Northern Lights 8kw genset
Rigging and Deck
Main mast with Antal batten car system and trysail track.
Boom with stainless “Park Avenue” type rack, lazy jack system and single line reefing
Navtec hydraulic backstay adjuster, boom vang and baby stay tension adjustment
Reckman headsail furler
Harken baby stay furler
Spinnaker pole
Reaching strut
4 mast mounted halyard winches
Boom mounted outhaul winch
2 Electric primary winches
2 secondary winches
Mainsheet winch
8 Lewmar genoa cars
Genoa track outboard of stanchions
4 Lewmar snatch blocks
Twin Bow rollers with self-launcher for main anchor
Maxwell V3500 reversible anchor windlass with remote control forward and automatic remote/chain counter in aft cockpit.
2 main halyards
2 genoa halyards
1 staysail halyard
2 articulating spinnaker halyards
Spinnaker pole topping lift
Boom preventer system
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