SAILS: Main - (North Sails) - 264 sq. ft., fully battened with 2 reefs. Reefing is single-line and led to the cockpit. A very convenient layout with the main halyard also led to the cockpit.
Jib - (North Sails) - 366 sq. ft. on a Harken roller-furling unit. Our primary souce of power, it was originally designed for light-air sailing and is very low cut, therefore it does not play well with the staysail. It also begins to overpower the boat in about 20 knots of wind, requiring 2 reefs in the main. This sail really needs to be cut, raising the foot and clew, making it more of a Yankee design, so it will work properly in conjunction with the staysail.
Staysail - (North Sails) - 110 sq. ft. on a Harken roller-furling unit and flown from a Hoyt- Boom, a great device for sail trim and easy handling but a real nuisance on the foredeck. The Hoy-Boom is a truly love-hate item.
ENGINE: Yanmar - 3JH2E - 3 cylinder, normally aspirated (not turbo-charged), diesel engine. It is a real work horse and very reliable. Many "kudo'd" too Yanmar with the exception of the placement of the raw water pump. The raw water pump, a crital item, requiring regular inspection and should be located on the engine in such a fashion, that should it fail, and it will at the most inopportune time, is readily accessible. Some dim-witted engineer saw fit to locate the pump in a place requiring removal of the starter to access it. Changing the raw water pump impeller is such a pain in the butt that I have gone to the extent of putting together a special set of tools that includes several extensions and wobblies with detailed notes on the removal process.
(Anchors, rode and windlass)
Primary - 35 pound CQR on 250 feet of high-test chain rode.
Seconday - 44 pound BRUCE on 50 feet of high test chain with 250 feet of 5/8" nylon 3-strand rode.
Stern - 24 pound DANFORTH on 40 feet of 5/16" high-test chain with 250 feet of 5/8" nylon 3-strand rode.
Back-up - 24 pound Aluminum FORTRESS breakdown anchor.
Windlass: Simpson Lawrence SL1000 - I cannot say much good about Simpson Lawrence as the motor on the windlass failed very prematurely. Simpson Lawrence failed to return even one of the several emails sent to them. However, Buck Hydraulics, a distributor in the US, did provide outstanding service, with prompt responses, shipping the parts to Mexico very quickly.
ACR Global-Fix E.P.I.R.B.
Horse-shoe bouy with ACR C.O.B. light
LIFESLING MOB recovery system
Ditch Bag (see list of contents)
Jacklines on deck and in the cockpit (nylon webbing)
SOSpenders safety harnesses and tethers
Signaling Kit - mounted in the companionway
Fire Extinguishers - several mounted in every space of the boat
We do not have a life-raft as we mostly coastal cruising with a occasional crossing of a couple of hundred miles. We do, however, keep our dinghy inflated and hanging on davits off the stern should we need to abandon ship. If we decide to undertake any major ocean crossing we will be adding a life-raft to our inventory.