Boat Details

My CAL 34

Here are some of the technical details about my boat

1969 Cal 34 - Symphony

Yes this boat is 37 yrs old!! The good news is that fiberglass seems to last forever. Also boats of this era were built a little more solidly than modern boats as they were still learning about the strength of fiberglass back then. At least that's what they say (whoever "they" are....)

Hull

LOA – 33’6” overall length
LWL – 26’ length on the water
Freeboard – 36” Height the boat sticks up out of the water
Mast Height - 40'
Boom - 14 ft

Hull Thicknesses

Companionway Bulkhead
¼” Fiberglass over ¼” Marine Ply with final 1/8" sandwich fiberglass layer


Keel
5/8” solid Fiberglass on both sides and is an integral part of the Hull (not bolted on)

Deck

Hard Dodger – that windshield like thing
Propane Locker w 20lb Horizontal Aluminum Tank
Propane BBQ w disposable tanks

Engine

Atomic 4 - 4 cylinder 30 hp Gasoline engine
Fixed 3 Blade Prop

25 Gal Fuel Tank + 2nd tank of 25 Gal in Starboard Rear each to separate Racor fuel filters.

The engine uses about a gallon per hour at 5kts. This give me a range of 250 miles of motoring.


New Dripless 2003
V Drive Overhauled 2003

Running Rigging - (Ropes n Things)

All New 2002
Lazy Jacks
Boom Vang

Standing Rigging (Wires that hold up the Mast etc...)

New 2002
Upsized Wire one size and upsized turnbuckles – Also switched to 316 stainless

Sails

New 2006
Furling Genoa – Sail up front
Cruising Spinnaker – Big colorful one
Gale Sail – Storm sail for front

Used
3 reef main

furling 100% jib -spare

spare small spinnaker

Ground Tackle

MAIN ANCHOR SYSTEM
Manual Bronze 2 speed windlass – thing that pulls up anchor
140ft Chain 44lb Claw (also has extra 150ft rope attached)
spare 33 lb Claw in chain locker

Stern Anchor (rear)
20 ft chain 150 ft 7/16 (Nylon 6000lb) on a 30 lb Danforth

Plumbing

New 2002
26 Gal Fresh
44 Gal Fresh
Old 20 Gal Fresh

Shower bilge with 2200 GPH bilge pump
New Inline water heater for shower
New shore water inlet and shore water plumbing

Salt water hand pump at galley sink

New Jabsco Head (toilet) w 13 Gal Holding
Tank can be pumped out to pump station or directly out to sea


12V Electric


New 2006
3 x 95 AH Gel Batteries (Bank 1)
New 2002
1 x 80 AH Standard Marine Reserve (Bank 2)
New 13 breaker panel with all new wiring
New 100 amp circuit breaker from Battery

Charging sysems
90 watt Solar (3 x 30w)
Wind Generator - Air Marine
Balmar 65 Amp High output Alternator

ok I get about half my energy needs from solar. The wind generator will fill in the other half if it's windy but the reality is that it's rarely windy and sunny at the same time. This means that I end up running the engine for an hour or so every other day...


120V Electric

New 1750 Watt Inverter 2006

New 2002
New 3 breaker panel
New Shore power inlet




Electronics
New 2006
Raymarine Radar/Chartplotter
New 2005
Raymarine Autohelm ST4000 Autopilot
New 2003
Raymarine ST40 Speed/Depth
New 2002
Standard Horizon Intrepid DSC VHF Radio
Standard Horizon GPS Chart 400 w C-MAP Super Wide west coast chip
Jensen Stereo Cassette Player



Hummingbird Super 60 depth sounder (still works)

Handheld VHF and GPS as backups

Galley

Hillerange 3 burner propane oven
12V/120V chest Refrigerator – this guy is pretty small (basically a small bar fridge on it’s back)

Misc extra equipment

EPIRB McMurdo 406 GPS - (Satellite Emergency Beacon)

Removeable Garhauer Davit Arm for engine Retreival and lowering.

2200 GPH Bilge pump w float

New 200410ft Inflatable Dingy (zodiac) w Honda 8 HP