For Sale: Phoenix Sold on 2/20/2018
Phoenix was sold to the wonderful folks that sailed her all over the Atlantic and into the Pacific in the 1980s. They are beginning to retire and have decided to take another turn at cruising. Our greatest hope? To sail into some anchorage and see her there in all her classic beauty. We are sad it won’t be us at her helm, but no one could deserve her more than the folks that rebuilt her the first time!
Here is the original for-sale posting:
We are getting older and have moved to a larger boat that was offered to us by good friends at an attractive price. We are interested in passing on some of our savings to make serious offshore cruising possible for a young sailor or sailing couple who otherwise might not be able to go now. If you have been busy acquiring the skills and knowledge to go cruising, want to go offshore cruising soon, and are ready to take on a fully re-done gorgeous classic steel boat that has sailed tens of thousands of miles but doesn’t have the beam-busting volume of newer boats, Phoenix may be the boat for you. We love her and want to make sure she doesn’t linger in some marina but is actively used for cruising.
Phoenix is a 1967 Ohlson 41, one of five built by Einar Ohlson in Goteberg, Sweden. The beautifully elegant rolled steel hull was made in the Hitter yard in Amsterdam. She is a late CCA racing boat 40’9″ on deck, a cutter-rigged sloop – quite similar in design to the better-known Rhodes Reliant (but with a more modern cutaway forefront, fin keel, and skeg-hung rudder). She draws 6′ 6″, has a beam of 11’3″, and displaces approximately 13 tons. She has raced twice in the Bermuda cup, in 1968 and again in 1971. She voyaged from Florida to Northern Europe and back to San Francisco by way of Brazil with Seven Seas Sailing Association Commodores in the 1980s, has been through the Panama canal, and then lived in California for many years. In 2008 she took us from Seattle to Hawaii.
Her steel hull and plywood decks were completely rebuilt for her 2017 departure for Mexico. She is currently a few months into an extended Pacific tour so she is completely ready to go, lying in San Francisco. Phoenix is a US Coast Guard registered boat.
Boat Inventory and Description
Basic Description
- 1967 Ohlson 41’ steel cutter-rigged sloop
- Coast Guard Registered Vessel #510182
- Solent stay and staysail stay are installed and can be set up as required to fly either twin running sails or a staysail
- Underbody is cutaway forefoot with skeg-hung rudder / brewer bite
- Keel is integral with poured lead ballast
- 45 hp Perkins 4-108 engine
- 120 gallons water in two integral tanks, 110 gallons of fuel in two keel tanks and a monel day tank
Sails
- Fully battened mainsail in stackpack with integral adjustable lazy jacks runs on low-friction Tides Marine SailTrack – like new condition
- 130% Genoa – like new condition
- Working staysail
- Storm trysail in deck bag on separate Tides Marine SailTrack
- Storm staysail
- Lazy Jacks and Stackpack on boom
Winches
- (2) Barlow 40 chromed bronze primary two-speed sheet winches
- (2) Barient 24 secondary two-speed sheet winches
- On mast – (4) mast-mounted halyard winches
- Reefing winch on boom
Layout (from bow back)
- Foc’sle forward with anchor locker and lots of tool storage
- Head to port and hanging locker to starboard
- Salon with table and two straight settees either side – both are sea berths
- Pilot Berth (no mattress) outboard on starboard side, storage outboard of port settee
- Galley with fridge/freezer to port and stove/sink to starboard
- Nav Desk to port
- Two quarterberths either side, starboard berth is extra wide – nearly a double bed
On Deck
- Separate Tides marine SailTrack for main and Trysail
- 65# Bruce anchor
- 250’+ 3/8″ G3 chain and 300′ 1″ three-strand nylon rode
- 30# Danforth stern anchor
- Bronze dual-lead manual windlass which allows one to run two complete anchors and rodes through the dual anchor pulpit.
- Boom crutch and topping lift
- New hard dodger (topped with two 80 watt solar panels wired in parallel with a third 80 watt on the aft port rail )
- 40# propane on deck in 2 new fiberglass tanks
- New 3-blade feathering prop
- Aries wind vane and spares
- Salt-water wash-down pump
- Lots of large dorades – great ventilation
- 4 large bronze opening portlights, new in last 10 years plus smaller and older non-opening ports
- All new phifertex cockpit cushions
- Kiwi-grip non-skid on decks
- New topsides paint job 2016
- Bottom paint new 2017
- Solid 1” stainless lifelines with safety netting are tall at about 32”
- Bimini (with a 230 watt solar panel)
- Weather cloths around cockpit
- All new stainless standing rigging 2017 with new re-usable Sta-Lok terminals
- Insulated back stay with re-usable Sta-Lok insulators for HF radio
- Mast steps
Electrical
- 400 watts solar panels and MPPT controllers
- 4 new 235 amp hour 6 volt flooded lead acid house batteries with self-watering system
- 1 new lead acid starting battery with Blue Sea Systems Automatic Charging Relay
- New LED nav lights and spreader lights
- New LED light fixtures throughout interior – all with blue / white light and fully dimmable
- New Freedom 15 inverter/charger
- Dock cord is 30 amp with Smart Plug
Instruments
- Richie Compass in helm binnacle
- Depth Sounder
- Raymarine 16nm Radar on stern spar
- Milltech AIS receiver (needs laptop to view, not provided)
- Kenwood TKM707 SSB radio, matching tuner, ground plane (radio and tuner need re-installation)
- Engine instruments
- Garmin GPS
- DSC VHF
Galley
- 2-burner propane gimbled stove / oven
- New Sigmar Diesel heater (needs installation)
- New 60L Engel fridge / freezer in custom cabinet (see image at right)
- Basic galley equipment (silverware, cookware, plates, etc)
- Salt water foot pump at sink
- Fresh water foot pump at sink
Head
- Nature’s Head composting toilet (and coir for a year!)
- Propane water heater (unknown condition)
- Pressure water system (unknown condition)
- Fresh water foot pump at sink
- Shower head at sink
Berths
- Two quarterberths, two settees ready to go with foam cushions, leecloths, and sheets
- Additional Pilot Berth without foam cushion (we used for storage but easily convertable back to berth)
- Cockpit fills in for additional 6’2 x 6′ berth while in marina or at anchor
- All provided cushions are 4-5” high-quality foam replaced in last 10 years, with ultra suede washable zippered covers
Spares
- 3/8” fuel hose
- 4 fuel injectors
- alternator controller
- Bucket of engine spares
- Bucket of raw water pump spares
- Engine Mounts
- Engine Spares
- Fuel Injector Pump
- Gasket material
- Gasket set
- Heat Exchanger
- hose Clamps, various
- Injectors
- main Bearings
- Neoprene Sheet goods
- Oil cooler
- oil filter wrench
- Oil filters
- perkins spares
- Push rods
- Raw water pumps (2)
- Set of main bearings
- Set of oil lines
- set of push rods
- Spare alternator
- Valve train
- Zincs
Conclusion
Phoenix is in San Francisco and ready to world cruising. Contact us by email at phoenixjon at gmail and we’ll set up a visit starting in February.
