Shannon Sea Launch
Specifications
- Length 18′- 4″ (5.6m) with Bowsprit 19′ – 6″
- Beam 7′ – 4 “ (2.23m)
- Draught 1′ – 8″ (0.5m)
- Displacement 700 kg (With Simplex Engine)
- Cruising Speed 6 Knots
Features
- Easily trailerable
- 1/2″ Marine ply planking with epoxy glued, copper nailed and roved lands, will not “Open Up” when kept out of water, or trailered.
- Solid 2″ floor timbers throughout giving immense strength.
- 3/4″ Sacrificial docking keel sandwiching lead sheet.
- Hard wearing 2-pack polyurethane finish on hull exterior.
- 3/8″ Marine ply deck, glassed with hard wearing 2 pack polyurethane non-skid finish.
- Intergrain “Seamaster” Acrylic Varnish on hull interior, means “No Sanding” simply wash down for any future re-coating.
- All other brightwork traditional oil-based marine varnish.
- Seating for up to 7 people, with removable fwd and aft seats for ease of access.
- “Simac” all bronze double acting semi-rotary bilge pump.
- 23ltr. (5 gal.) stainless steel portable fuel tank with bayonet type connections for easy removal or simply fill through the bronze deck plate.
- All hardware, deck and otherwise solid bronze treated with “Glisten P.C” for nil tarnishing.
Construction
- Clinker (Lapstrake).
- Ribs and Stringers – Spotted Gum.
- Most other Timber Flooded Gum (Rose Gum).
- Fastenings – Copper and Silicon Bronze.
- Engines available on request include Simplex, Yanmar, Volvo, Bukh, Kubota, etc.