Ted Brewer Custom 50

Hydraulic Steering.
The Perkins M90 installed in year 2000, has had the oil and oil filter changed every 150 hours running, the racor filter changed every 75 hours and the pre-pump filter each 300 hours, the injectors have been serviced every two years. She has had new engine mounts and extra sound insulation installed . The engine has easy access from both sides and from behind and there is a light in the engine room.
The fixed 3 blade prop is driven through a Borg Warner velvet drive gearbox.
New prop shaft, cutlass bearing fitted and anti-foul applied when hauled out in May 2013 in New Zealand
Honda deck mounted 3KW genset with 100 Hrs as of 26/12/2013
1 x Starter battery (Gel) 2 x separate house banks (all Gel)
The battery banks are switched so that all combinations of charging from the alternator can be achieved. The house banks are switched so that they can be drawn on separately or together.
1.5 KW Trace Inverter / Charger
2 x 95 watt solar panels with new controller as of June 2013

Ketch rigged Green Ltd Aluminium spars (1980) with stainless steel standing rigging ()

Some standing rigging has been replaces by the current owner but the age of the rest is unknown.
Working Jib rigged to a detachable inner fore-stay, as in a cutter rig, 2 poles to goose wing genoa and stay sail for down wind work

110 volt battery, 5 batteries charged by: engine, solar panels, generator

The hull is triple diagonal planked strips of cold molded mahogany, 3/8” thick by 5 ¾” wide boards bonded together with epoxy. The final hull thickness is 1 1/4′” thick; extremely strong, painted white above waterline, fresh anti-foul below as of May 2013. The cap-rail restoration was completed with Colombian straight grained mahogany, 21 pieces in all, all glued with West Epoxy.
She has a modified long keel and a skeg hung rudder.

The forward cabin has a padded insert to fill between the bunks making a double bunk. There is a hanging closet on the port-side, the door for this closes the forward cabin from the rest of the boat. The opening hatch furthest forward gives access the chain locker. There is storage below the bunks with drawers and lockers. Stored in the forward cabin starboard side locker are the bow to stern awnings. She has hanging closets and a surplus of storage space.
The forward head, on the starboard side houses the head, basin and shower cubicle. There is full standing headroom in the shower. Showers and taps are supplied with pressurized fresh water.
Opposite the shower, on the port-side, is another hanging closet. with a drinks cupboard below.
The saloon has ‘pilot’ berths on both sides behind and above the main seating area and a small teak table which has a larger fold-out table which clips over and provides a larger dining area, seating many all around the table.
Movies or the navigation plotter program can be displayed on either the monitor in the cockpit or the one in the saloon on the port-side.
The navigation station houses the radar, (viewable from the cockpit), the second DSC radio, the sound system (remotely controllable from the cockpit), the SSB radio and the navigation laptop. Charts are stored below the desktop.
There is 8 feet 6 inches headroom in the saloon with more than 6 feet elsewhere.
The bunk bed cabin on the port-side midships has a privacy door. Opposite the bunks is a door to the engine room from the port side. There is also a door to the engine room on the starboard side, in the passageway to the aft cabin.
The galley has a stainless steel cooker with 3 burners and an oven and 1.5 bowl domestic sink with drainer..
In the passageway to the aft cabin are two large insulated cooler boxes. Above these is the 110 volt (stand-alone) fridge and above the chests is a food storage cupboard.
The aft double cabin has a padded insert to fill between the bunks making a large double bunk. Below the berths are drawers and lockers. On the starboard side, opposite the aft bathroom, is another hanging closet a seat and drawer storage below.
The aft bathroom really is a bathroom since it has a tub a second head and a wash basin. Behind the bath is a storage cupboard. An Aft entrance hatch provides separate access to the cabin below. The aft cabin can be separated from the rest of the boat by a door. Thus providing privacy and enclosing the aft cabin and en-suite.

The inside is predominantly solid teak which is varnished

3 burner gas cooker/stove