Description

"Circe" is a Classic Sparkman and Stephens 65 Center cockpit ketch, built by the Derecktor Shipyard in Mamaroneck, NY. Designed for offshore racing and family cruising. The last 25 + years has seen her in fresh water on the Great Lakes and it shows. Well kept by her knowledgeable owners.

Her ketch rig, furling sails and power primaries make her easily sailed and well balanced in most conditions. Her long keel with centerboards, give her a boards up draft of (6') and (14'2") boards down draft. This enables her to cruise the Bahamas and intercoastal waterways and still have excellent tracking characteristics. Her bow thruster assists in maneuvering dockside. 

The interior layout is three stateroom, three head with an open airy raised saloon. Large L shaped galley with good storage

Recently upgraded electronics for safe navigation.

Construction

• Aluminum hull with round bilge design of welded construction with a traditional overhanging transom and spoon bow stern
• Aluminum deck with teak planking (New 2006)
• Fiberglassed marine plywood cabin trunk
• Shallow full keel with an amidship centerboard and an aft centerboard
• Aluminum rudder filler with vegetable oil
• Teak veneer plywood bulkheads
• Masts stepped to bilge for main and stepped to aft cabin top for the mizzen
• Aluminum chainplates welded to the inside of the hull frames

Mechanical

• Working "walk around" engine room located amidships bilge (under cockpit), entered via aft stateroom
• Full standing headroom walk-in engine room
• 1990 Cummins 6BT-5.9 Turbo charged diesel 210 HP (2023 new hoses, starter, pumps and heat exchanger with working spares on hand for each_
• Three blade feathering bronze Max Prop Propeller 
• 2" diameter solid stainless steel drive shaft with pillow block bearing
• Shaft brake that is operational in the engine room 
• Twin disc MG5050 2:1 reduction gear box 
• Bow thruster 10" 32v
• Wagner hydraulic wheel system steering
• Raymarine rudder angle indicator (2023)
• Racor water separator (two)
• Water cooled exhaust and heat exchanger (2023)
• Neoprene & copper fuel line
• Mechanical fuel pumps
• Overboard overflow
• Fuel tank grounded and vented to atmosphere
• Fuel manifold with shut off valves
• Two fuel fill intakes in the cockpit floor, on each side of the steering pedestal (twinned)
• Twin Racor filters for main engine, one Racor for the generator 
• One electric fuel transfer pump
• One electric fuel priming pump
• Natural intake and exhaust engine room ventilation
• Aluminum engine bed 
• Fuel, water, temperature, tachometer, voltmeter, hour meter, & oil pressure gauges
• Groco electric engine oil change system

Electrical

• Vapor Lock Master battery switch in engine room 
• 12v and 120v switch panel at port side of main salon aft bulkhead
• 32v DC dedicated bow thruster battery bank with Victron charger (2024)
• Batteries secured in aluminum boxes, that are lined in fiberglass
• 32v blower in heads and galley
• One 12v alternator
• One 32v 80 Amp alternator on main engine
• 30amp 120v AC shore power 
• AC panel polarity indicator
• Newmar 32-+12 35amp converter
• Lewco 3240A 32v 40amp battery charger
• Victron 24v DC for bow thruster

Sails & Rigging

• Double spreader extruded aluminum main mast 
• Single spreader aluminum mizzen mast
• Stainless rod standing rigid with open turnbuckles
• Mizzen mast overhauled (2023)
• Dyneema running rigid (2023/24)
• Aluminum spinnaker pole and a reaching strut
• Stearns boom vang
• Two Barient #36 electric two speed ST primary winches
• Barient #28 two speed ST
• Three Barient #10 
• Barient wire reel
• Harken 44 ST
• Two Barient #22
• Three Barient #28
• Furling mainsail (new 2024)
• Quantum sails Genoa (2019)
• Spinnaker 
• Mizzensail
• Staysail
• New Harken Drum-type mainsail furling on a jackstay, aft of the mast (2024)
• Schaeffer 4100 headsail roller furling system (2006)
• Dutchman flaking system on Mizzen
• Turnbuckle backstay adjuster

Electronics & Navigation

• Danforth/White 11" binnacle compass
• Icom IC-M602 VHF Radio
• Raymarine i70 Depth (2023)
• Raymarine i70 Knotmeter (2023)
• Raymarine Chartplotter (2023) + helm repeater (2024)
• Raymarine Autopilot (2023)
• Raymarine wind, speed & direction (2024)
• Raymarine radar (2023)
• 12v DC navigation lights (main & mizzen lights new 2023/4)

Cockpit

• Raised cockpit with seating port & starboard
• Cockpit table
• Wheel
• Raymarine navigation instrumentation and compass
• Engine instrumentation 
• Centerboard controls

Deck

• Teak decking over aluminum deck
• Dockline cleats - Two forward, Two aft, Three on the cabin top, One each amidships
• Keefe vertical mount 32v windlass with fore deck control
• Hard dodger over the cockpit with a canvas Bimini (2023) rolled up on top of the dodger
• Double 7 x 19 stainless steel wire rope lifelines
• Complete stainless steel double bow pulpit
• Complete stainless steel double stern rail 

Interior

FORWARD CABIN

• Galley walkthrough to forward cabin 
• Twin berths
• Ample storage above & below berths
• Hanging locker
• Ladder access to overhead hatch
• Private head with marine toilet, shower & storage

MIDSHIPS CABIN

• Bunk berths
• Ample storage in drawers under & beside berths

AFT STATEROOM

• Twin double berths
• Storage cabinetry 
• Large stainless opening ports
• Private head with marine toilet, sink, shower & storage

SALON

• Raised salon with seating port & starboard
• Salon table
• Library
• Additional instrumentation
• 12v and 120v control panels
• Roll down large side center windows
• Stainless opening ports

GALLEY

• Galley down configuration
• CHG gas system - Three burner stove with oven with solenoid shutoff
• CHG (4) Cannisters in lazarets (rectified 2024) with shutoff valves on front of stove & tank
• Litten 120v AC microwave
• Holding plate refrigeration system in galley
• Freezer in galley and below the salon cabin sole
• Ice make in freezer compartment below the starboard settee
• Stainless steel galley sink mounted in the countertop

HEADS

• One head in forward cabin, One adjacent to galley, One in aft stateroom
• Showers in head compartments
• Two Mansfield (Domestic) Vacuflush head systems
• Holding tank capacity: 40 gallons in engine room (polypropylene)
• Vented to atmosphere

Additional

• 12v DC cabin lights (mostly LED) and 120v AC
• Sacrificial Zinc anodes on the hull and propeller shaft
• ElectroGuard corrosion monitor gauge
• Wabasto DBW2020 diesel fired heating system for hot water and forced air Northern Lights 8kw diesel auxiliary generator (3000 hrs)
• 12v fresh water deck wash down on the foredeck (2023)
• Chelsea 6" clock, Salem barometer
• Forfjord 80lb anchor, Danforth D2500 anchor, Danforth 12H anchor, Stainless steel plow, Wilcox-Crittenden
• Ground tackle - 3/8" chain x 300', 25' 5/16" chain and 300' 3/4" rode
• 3/4" three strand & braided nylon dock lines
• Pneumatic fenders (8), fender boards (2)
• Canvas sail covers (2024), forward hatch, winches, windlass, cockpit cover to lifelines
• Pressure hot water heated by 120v or engine heat exchanger (new element 2024)
• Two water tanks, 400 gallons total
• Aluminum water tank under the main salon
• Plastic reinforced & copper water lines

Disclaimer

The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.