Joubert-Nivelt Sauvage 41
Ah, yes the boat. After sailing aboard our Doug Peterson 37 for a number of years and many miles our cruising goals developed as our experience did. We have been very fortunate enough to have met a number of inspiring cruisers which have lead us to be both more knowledgeable and informed about what we want to do as far as sailing goes moving forwards.
That’s all to say, we have wiggled our way into literally our perfect dream boat. Not something most people can say but as far as we can tell this suits both us and our goals perfectly in every way. Designed and built in the 80s in France, this came during the earlier era of French center-boarder designed yachts to be tools to go anywhere.
Here are some of the general specs on the boat:
- 42 feet overall
- Steel hull and all Stainless Steel deck and coach roof
- Centerboard with internal ballast 3 to 9 foot draft
- 60 foot air-draft
- Tiller and wheel
- Short rudder on a strut allowing for the boat to be beached
- Roughly 9000kgs as far as we can tell
- Beta Marine 60hp naturally aspirated diesel auxiliary power
- 3 blade fixed prop
- 1000 liters of water storage
- 450 liters of diesel storage
- Quik electric windlass
- 410 Watts of solar atop a custom ss arch, 560 Ah of LiFePo4 Batteries
- Double spreader IsoMat spar, wire rope rigging Pro-Furl Furler
- HRO 7gph 12v Watermaker
- Dickinson Newport drip diesel heater
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