2016 Offshore Racing Van Munster Boats FB 35

4 x carbon fiber pipe berths aft of companionway – stow bins below 2 x hard bunks with lee cloths forward of companionway – stow bins below  Carbon fiber head Carbon fiber sink with hand pump "Jet Boil" like Butane/Propane gimbled cooking burner

• BG500 instruments
• Zeus 2 9” plotter
• Hercules Processor
• Motion sensor
• Gyro compass
• Load cell on forestay
• 3 x 20/20 displays and 1 x GFD display on mast bracket
• 1 x MFD display back of coach roof
• 2 x 10/10 displays at runner winches
• Panasonic tough book running expedition mounted in cradle at navigation station
• iPad Wi-Fi to tough book and / or chartplotter
• 4G mobile connectivity and boat WiFi
• iCom VHF Radio with secondary handset at companionway
• Fusion radio (Bluetooth to iPhone)
• Deck speakers

Yanmar 20HP sail drive

Lithium ion engine and house batteries

Deck - Hardware  

• All Harken winches
• 1 x 40.2 Performa pit winch
• 2 x 50.3STP UD primaries driven by Harken Pedestal
• 2 x 40.2 Performa mainsheet winches
• 2 x 40.2 Performa runner winches
• Winches positioned so that main sheet can be directed to primary winches while 2 sail reaching Harken Pedestal 8:1 jib car adjusters Soft pad eyes along gunnels for spinnaker, tweaker and outboard jib sheet attachments points
• Wichard hard pad eyes for GS and SS attachment points and for all clipping points 
• Ronstan Main Traveller with 2 x cars for high load travel – with flip flop jammer blocks at either end to free up mainsheet winch for alternative use  

Deck - Under Systems  

• Un-Reel take up drums below deck for kite sheets and starboard kite halyard
• Carbon roller under front hatch for spinnaker take down 1 of the 2 kite sets of sheets run below deck Mainsail 
• Traveller purchase below deck Jib in haulers below deck in coach roof “garage”  
• Hull  FB35 designed by Fred Barret Yacht Design and built by Van Munster Boats in 2016 in Morisset on Lake  / Lake Macquarie
• Full pre-preg carbon skins over foam core Antifoulant over epoxy primer below the water line Built to ISO
• Category A – comes with ISO and Stability documentation
• Category 2 safety compliance when life raft carried in cockpit recess (life raft supplied with boat)  

Appendages

• Hollow rolled steel fin keel spar with carbon and foam fairings
• Lead / antimony high lift bulb Fin attached to hull in a wedge and socket arrangement similar to the Open 40 class including 2 x 30mm SAF bolts – very simple to remove and refit for trucking
• Carbon fiber rudder with Jefa rudder bearings (new May 2021) installed in watertight wety tube built into hull

Sails  

• New Quantum Sails JO (2023)
• Full inventory of Norths 3DI endurance working sails including square top
• Mainsail mounted on cars (2 reef), J1.5, J2.5, J4 Norths laminate Helix MH0 , BR0, GS(RAW), A1, A2, A3, A4 and A6 plus a Quantum FR0 and Spinnaker Staysail  2 x Pro Furl 2.5t furling drums with furling lines fitted to use primary winches Older Quantum sails, good for training – single reef square top mainsail (bolt rope), J1, J2, J3, J4, A1, A2, A3, A4 Orange Dacron storm jib and trisail  Rigging - Standing Re rigged in 2018 with a stiffer double spreader NZ Rigging high modulus carbon mast, carbon spreaders, rod rigging working stays (dye tested in 2021) and carbon backstays, spare Aramid back stays, exit points just  below hounds for deflectors run to pit winch (currently not in use with 2018 mast set up)
• Mast has external aluminium track to accept mainsail with either “cars” or “bolt rope”
• Deep Rectangular section carbon boom with locks for 2 x reefs Carbon boom vang with gas strut Mast shoe on worm drive for forward and aft tuning,
• Rig tension by Enerpac jack in mast ram and below deck hand pump and shims
• Mast position at “partners” located with semi rigid “Spar Tite” packing – sealed to deck with “Dek-Tite” rubber collar  

Rigging - Running  

• 1:1 main halyard (exit below deck)
• 2 x MH kite halyards
• 1 x FRA halyard (exit below deck)
• 1 x Jib halyard – all on flipper style locks
• 1 x GS halyard on a constrictor (hoisted on dynex stay) 2.3m long fixed carbon bowsprit (DUX bobstay) with 1 x 1:1 tack line and 1 x 2:1 tack line for furling sails – both on bulls-eye style constrictors Main and FRA halyards exit mast below deck – all other halyards exist mast above deck Jib in haulers purchase system run in below deck “garage” 2 x Pro Furl 2.5t furling drums with furling lines fitted to use primary winches Multiple jib sheets, multiple blended cover kite sheets for durability

• Carbon emergency rudder blade in transom hung cassette for easy mounting in emergency situations
• 8 person Survive Tec life raft in valise – fits in recessed cockpit compartment for easy and quick deployment when required (Not Current!)
• 2 x lightweight aluminum racing anchors with chain and poly anchor ropes
• Drogues and sea anchor Magnetic compass rear of coach roof
• High/Low Boat Cradle