Legendary design by Steve Dashew : Built by TPI Rhode Island 1994

British Registry : Home port - Road Harbour, British Virgin Islands

Fractional sloop, with inner forestay for optional cutter rig

Length 56’10” : Length water line 56’ : Width 13’9” : Draft 6’6”

Displacement c. 35000 lbs

Large roached and battened mainsail drives fast cruising as standard.

Single 88hp Yanmar engine, 250 gallons of fuel giving a 1000 mile auxiliary motoring range

360 gallons of fresh water, simple deck collection gives unlimited range. High spec filter for drinking use. Space for watermaker, but never felt necessary.

Very large refrigeration and food storage

High electrical battery storage and generation from solar and engines.

Spacious, comfortable crew space for couple or family.

Seventeen 56’ / 60’ Sundeers were built in 1994/1995 with 7 being the shorter 56” version. The difference being the length of the rear lazarette. Scraatch is hull no #6.

Sundeers were totally designed for fast long distance cruising with a small crew.

Scraatch comes in use and fully equipped. All equipment, spares and tools are included with sale. Original Manuals available and most gear on board has original documentation and instructions.

Full spares and equipment inventory is huge, and it is impossible to list all. It is totally a home from home.

DESIGN RATIOS

Sail area / displacement of close to 16 suggests a fast boat that in right conditions may approach hull speed of 10 knots and provide a fast cruising performance.

Ballast / Displacement ratio of 28.9 with lead keel but no deep bulb indicates a some tendency to heel and the benefit from early reefing to keep sailing upright and fast, in a moderate breeze.

A Displacement / Length ratio of 88 indicates light to ultra light category.

A Capsize Screening Formula of 1.7 indicates that a Sundeer 56 is a safer ocean cruising choice than a boat with a CSF of more than 2.0

HULL

Built by Tillot Pearson of Rhode Island, the hull features a fully designed multi axial glass fibre lay up with balsa core in less stressed areas. This is then fully high vacuum impregnated with vinyl ester resin. Ribs and stringers are fully glassed in and further strengthening comes from the glassed plywood bulkheads that divide the boat into three watertight compartments, Forepeak / Crew space / Engine room.

Scraatch remains in original gel coat and has not been painted above waterline.

The DECK is of similar construction and is bonded to the hull under an aluminium toe rail bolted at 3” centres.

The result is a very firm construction with no twist or movement in a seaway.

The Dashew design of a vertical bow with a very narrow entrance angle encourages a wave piercing action making for smooth passage.

The sugar scoop stern completes the very long waterline for fast sailing.

The hull moulding includes a stub keel used internally for the main battery bank with the lower half of the keel being in solid uncased lead attached by 11 x 1” bolts. No problems with this have been met in the fleet.

UNDER THE BOAT

The Dashew design continues with the simplicity under the boat

The hull is almost a canoe shape with the flat bottomed fin keel matched by a large flat bottomed balanced rudder without skeg. The rudder has a huge 10” thorlon bearing and has a substantial glass fibre shaft up to deck level where it is hung from a cross shaft and 2 ball bearings rotating on a steel plate.

Ahead of the rudder is the 24” fully reversible Maxprop propeller supported by a small bronze skeg supporting a cutlass bearing and a spurs rope cutter.

DECK

White deck with original light grey antislip paint as needed.

Mud dam and rail drains behind anchor capstan.

Dorade boxes and Grab rails  located … midships ahead of inner forestay … one either side of mast … one each side between mast and deckhouse … one each side of front of deckhouse.

Low level grab rails both sides aft of mast.

Foresail deck tracks port and starboard in Lewmar T track. 2 x ocean size 3 Genoa cars on each track.

Mainsheet track, Lewmar beam, with traveller and 4x rigged to cockpit port.

Full pipe welded pulpit at bow. Full pipe welded pushpit round stern and cockpit. Access gates to stern and both sides of deckhouse.

30” deck lifeline supports from bow to push pit, rigged with 6mm and 8mm grey 8 plait dyneema (2023).

24” Bomar cast series hatch to forepeak/sail locker.

24” Bomar cast series hatch to fore cabin with raised surround, ahead of mast.

2 x 32” Bomar cast series hatches to main cabin with raised surrounds between mast and deckhouse.

2 x small hatches over galley and nav station.

All hatch glazing newly replaced (2023) in tinted 6mm plexiglass and with suncovers for use when yacht is in storage.

ANCHORS

Main anchor, 180 lb Bruce, and Maxwell winch are oversize and were chosen by 1st owner from specification for the larger 64 ft Sundeers.

80m of ⅜” chain in drum shaped store in forepeak.

Anchor launches on two substantial rails ahead of bow. Side cleat welded on to rail, starboard, for nylon chain snubber line.

Secondary Anchor, Fortress 55, hung on rear arch. 10m chain and 80m rope rode.

Also used for fore and aft anchoring.

Spare Anchors. Fortress 45 (small) and Fortress 95 (large) disassembled in forepeak bilges. 100m and 200m ¾” hawser laid kedge lines.

DECK HOUSE

‘Marine Metal’ deckhouse in substantial aluminium hollow section constrution.

Designed by Dashew as optional but most Sundeers have fitted them.

Glazed in 8mm toughened glass.( replaced earlier lexan ).

Central display of B&G mfd instruments and wind synchro.

Shelf for navigation, radar  and other instruments. See instruments.

Opening Bomar 24” front hatch, plexiglass glazed.

4 x small top hatches.

Grab rails on top, port and starboard.

Boom crutch on top, front roof.

Rear of deckhouse (open) has facility for roll up weather or fly screens.

Side shelves with rope runs under

Upholstery seats and backs on side benches.

  (Two of us sleep in deckhouse when on passage.)

Reading lights and speakers.

Sliding hatch over companion way.

Secure lockable gate to companion way.

Drop in weather (wash) boards to close companion way.

Main hatch to Engine room, Lockable.

Strong point for life harness.

12v outlets.

Roof has supports for fixed Bimini/cockpit cover

Marinco AC cable entry for shore power.

COCKPIT

Combined with deck house this is the living and control centre for the boat.

Central Edson steering column with wheel for chain and cable steering.

Ritchie Compass with light. 2 x winch handle holders.

Instrument console for B&G mfd display and Simrad AP24 pilot control.

Starboard Lewmar size 54 Electric winch for halyards and mainsheet.

6 Lewmar rope clutches for

        Main sheet

        Clew reef 1

        Clew reef 2

        Main Halyard

        Spinnaker halyard

        Clew reef 3

        Camcleat  for lazyjack tension

Port Lewmar size 54 winch

6 Lewmar rope clutches for

        Main Traveller direction

        Main Traveller direction

        Vang tension

        Tack reef 1

        Tack reef 2

        Tack reef 3

Starboard deck

Lewmar rope clutch for running backstay + camcleat for retrieval line.

Diesel and water fillers, Black water suction point.

Turning blocks for foresheet, spinnaker sheet, preventer, running backstay

Lewmar size 58 sheet winch

Diesel and water tank fillers. Black water drain cover

Lewmar size 42 ancillary winch

Hatch to Lazarette, lockable.

Central cover to top of rudder shaft and support bearing.

Port Deck

Lewmar rope clutch for running backstay + camcleat for retrieval line

Diesel and water fillers.

Lewmar rope clutch for foresail furling line

Lewmar size 58 sheet winch

Turning blocks for foresheet, spinnaker sheet, preventer, running backstay

Turning blocks for foresail furling line and facnor 1500 furler line.

Diesel and water tank fillers

Lewmar size 42 ancillary winch.

Hatch to gas/inflamables storage locker, lockable

REAR PUSHPIT

Rigid pipe construction from starboard round to port.

Starboard access gate.

Side hinged solar panel, redundant. Good for fish cleaning.

Iridium phone aerial.

Fishing rod support for trolling.

Light Outboard motor mount, and crane.

Liferaft support and launch frame.

Life rings and rapid response throw items.

Diesel tank vents.

Aft access gate with ladder down to sugarscoop stern.

Fishing rod support for trolling.

Large Outboard motor mount.

Side hinged solar panel, redundant,good for cleaning fish

Port access gate.

STERN ARCH

Rising from stern of boat over pushpit is superbly engineered equipment arch.

Cables run within pipe work to below deck access.

Radar head

3 x 80W solar panels

CARD radar detector aerial

Furuno GP31 GPS aerial

Furuno GP32 GPS aerial

Furuno Navnet GPS aerial

Stern navigation light

Stern access flood light.

Lift crane for 15HP outboard motor.

Support brackets for reserve anchor.

Support pole for wind generator,(not installed) Would be good for Starlink

‘BIMINI’

Bridging from above the rear of the deckhouse is the rigid sun shade ‘Bimini’.

Supported on vertical 1 ½’ poles at front and the Arch at rear a rigid s/steel frame is stabilised with 5 angled braces. A lace in cover shields the cockpit from the sun. Above the cover are solar panels on a plastic pipe frame.

This cover has successfully withstood sustained winds of 50-60 knots

A zip in ‘windscreen’ is available between the top of the deckhouse and the underside of the cover.

STERN SUGAR SCOOP

Ladder down from rear of cockpit.

Swim ladder.

Stern grab rail.

Swim shower behind cover.

Engine room air intakes (currently not used and covered)

Diesel heater exhaust

Black water tank vent.

Below scoop but above waterline are stern outlets.

Port combined scuppers.

Gas locker drain.

Exhaust from generator. Rubber flap cover.

Exhaust from main engine. Rubber flap cover.

Air intake drain.

Starboard combined scuppers.

GAS LOCKER

Hatch in rear deck at head of stern ladder

Secure, vented, storage for 2 x cooking gas cylinders.

Gas controller, switch off solenoid, switch over valves.

Vented with drain pipe to stern.

Also used for solvent, resin, paint storage.

Steve Dashew disliked any through hull hole of any sort and held them to the minimum.

The interior is divided into three separate sections by watertight bulkheads. All  services passing through bulkhead do so in water resistant fittings.

FOREPEAK

Isolated from the crew space and accessible only by a 24” deck hatch lockable from above.

Through hull fixtures are for instrumentation; paddle wheel speed log, depth transducer and 2 x sensors for Interphase sonar. Also a sealed and glassed in stand pipe acts as drain to foredeck dorado box.

A bilge pump at high level pumps out to above deck to an outlet on the pushpit visible from cockpit.

CREW SPACE

Has no through hull fittings at all.

 All electrical, water and waste services are sent to engine room through watertight fittings.

Kitchen, basin and shower wastes run to a common macerating waste pump below the floor and are directed together to a sealed stand pipe in the engine room.

A bilge pick up in the keel stub runs to a suction pump in the engine room.

ENGINE ROOM

Has a single salt water intake for the whole boat, moulded in to hull at build it may be closed off by a Forespar Marlon valve. This leads to a common manifold feeding the engines, toilet, refrigeration cooling and salt water service to boat.

There is a single glassed in standpipe for black water waste and outlet from the macerator pump.

Otherwise all waste streams run to the port and starboard common scuppers which exit the hull above the waterline at stern of boat.

ACCOMODATION

Open and spacious are best descriptions of the Sundeers interior.

Designed for short handing or for a family, normal bunkage is for 6.

MASTER CABIN FORWARD

Central or ‘island’ double bed with drawers and large storage under.

Multiple side cabinets and shelving, wardrobes each side.

Wash basin with mirror and light, Storage under.

Main and reading lights, 2 x cafrano fans. 4 x dorade vents, 24” hatch over.

MAIN CABIN

Huge and arranged for family living.

High headroom of more than 6’3”

2 x very large 32” hatches with fly screens, 4 x dorade vents, 6 x fans,

Strip lights converted to led, dimmable table lighting

TV, dvd, speakers etc.

8 ft long side couches convertible to bunks with lee cloths.

Table to seat 8 , removable

Storage over, under and around.

Teak trim throughout.

Floor panels with antislip bands in crushed walnut shell

Floor panel access to main battery bank in top of keel.

Deck head in padded fabric, Velcro installation to allow removal and access to wiring and underside of deck.

Window style air conditioners available for use in hatches when on shore power.

GALLEY AREA

Within main space a U shaped kitchen is  useable in all sea conditions.

Gimballed stove, microwave, double sink, tank and filtered water.

On off switch to solenoid in gas locker.

Small deck hatch over cooker.

All normal kitchen crockery and equipment included.

Large tall larder cupboard. Spice racks etc.

Fan

Large and deep freezer with c. 40kg capacity.

Very Large fridge with shelf and top access as well as side access to lower part.

I calculate capacity of 250+ beer cans…..

NAV STATION AREA

Below deck nav station and chart table with instrument read outs, radios, etc.

Furuno GP32

WH autopilot

Hydra multi function display

ICOM VHF Radio

AIS

SSB Kenwood radio

Iridium phone

Central WiFi receiver and modem.

Chart storage under table, storage locker.

Sextant and plotting tools.

Main electrical board for 12V and 110V.

Mini inverters for charging at 110V and 240V.

Instrumentation central under Seat.

Fan, flex stalk light.

IMPORTANT, under nav desk is the drinks locker…...

LOCKER

Behind nav station is skinny locker for weather clothing, life jackets etc.

CREW CABIN AFT PORT

2 bunk cabin aft of galley for use by crew or sea cabin for watch keepers.

Lights, fans, storage under, bookshelves.

Storage cupboards to under companion way.

HEADS AFT STARBOARD

Toilet and shower room aft of nav station.

PH11 toilet, hand pumped by choice, electrical operation available.

Moulded basin/shelf/storage unit with mirror. Shower tap.

Standing shower area, screen/curtain track, shower mixer valve.

Space for washing machine.

COMPANION WAY

Well designed central steps to cockpit, useable in ALL sea conditions.

Locker, used for navigation essentials.

UP TO

COCKPIT NAV STATION

Front half of cockpit is principle operating and nav station.

Across centre are two Hydra multifunction displays and wind synchro for speed, depth, wind speed, direction etc.

Fore port shelf carries all odds and materials for handy use

Fore Starboard shelf features:

Furuno GP32 stand by GPS

Furuno 2008 Navnet main 10” radar display and GPS plotter, CMap charts.

Furuno Radar 2008, fully operational. New screen 2018.

AIS Included.

Simrad AP28 autopilot controller ( AP24 controller at wheel) 2015

Interphase forward scanning sonar 2008

ICOM VHF radio link, off set below.

Large side shelves in cockpit, rope runs under.

Boat hooks, tank dipper, fishing gaff etc etc.

SAFETY GEAR

While currently adequate I would expect any new owner to fully revue safety gear and update it to suit their needs.

Givens Lifebuoy 6 person life raft. Now elderly but serviced and repacked every 3 years or so. Last, Panama 2020.

Large well sorted grab bag checked annually, immediately accessed below lazarette hatch.

Grab box of flares at same location, mostly out of date.

6 x Crewsaver life jackets, 2006, inflator spare.

EPIRB 2014 correctly registered. Located in cockpit

 4 x Halon fire extinguishers. Functional but out of date

Fire blanket in galley.

 Miscellaneous ready access lights, knives, air horn, etc.

THE TOYS

 ZODIAC 3.1m inflatable

Wooden floor, collapsible for stowage in forepeak on ocean passages.

Stored normally on foredeck between the baby stay and the mast.

Oars, paddles, inflator pumps, seat, anchor, standard spares bag.

Sun cover, tie downs

2 x 5 gallon fuel tanks in sun covers stored on deck ahead of deckhouse.

Evinrude 15hp 2s outboard on port pushpit aft with lift down crane on arch.

Mercury 8hp 2s outboard on starboard pushpit aft.

KAYAKS

Moulded poly? Frenzy single sit on kayak, seat, paddles etc. On deck.

Inflatable single sit on kayak, seat, paddle, stored in sail locker.

DIVE GEAR. No compressor ! Never found room for it.

2 x 60ft3 luxfer cylinders in date, 1 US divers vest/demand valve/set aging.

Special storage location for cylinders under stern scoop starboard.

2 x shortie 4mm wetsuits, large selection of masks fins etc.for snorkelling

1 x 100ft3 base cylinder with 50ft of hose to demand valve….

 …. This is for use underwater on cleaning or working on boat.

FISHING GEAR

Full set up for 2x trolling rigs on passage IGFA 80lb and 50 lb.

3 rods, several reels, line, lures etc ( 1 rod, 1 reel totally unused)

Hand lines and a lot of kit for fishing at anchor.

MAST and RIGGING

Forespar, keel stepped, aluminium section mast, tapered near top,  with modest rake and some pre- bend. 2 sets of swept-back spreaders.

Rigging in 7/16”, ⅜” and 5/16” wire. Swaged top fittings with Norseman lower fittings. Signature Dashew designed chain plates in very substantial ½” Steel.

Detachable inner forestay for hank on cutter jib and storm jib.

Aft stay has Sailtec hydraulic backstay tensioner and with insulators is also the SSB aerial.

Forespar Boom with vang/yacht rod and rigged gybe preventers.

Lazy jack system with tensioning from cockpit.

Internally fitted for mainsail foot tensioning and 3 x clew reef lines.

Mainsail runs on Antal track with Battslides

Separate track for storm trysail

Carbon fibre spinnaker pole at front of mast on own track

Mast was lifted out for Awlgrip repaint and full replacement rigging wire 2020, Sailtech rebuild 2023.

Additional foresail foot attachment bracket is welded on at front of anchor launch rails, port side,  for code zero, asymmetric spinnaker etc. Facnor 1500 endless furler system to masthead with operating lines to cockpit, port.

Running backstays available from top spreader level to deck holdfast aft 2xrigged, back to cockpit for tensioning. Retrieval lines for stowing close to main stays.

Mast base with support plate and turning blocks size 3 x 2 for halyards to cockpit and size 2 for 6 x reefing lines (3 tack, 3 clew) to cockpit.

Main halyard and spare in Dyneema. Spinnaker halyard in Dyneema and spare. Total 8 Halyards at mast with Lewmar clutches.

2 x Lewmar size 40 winches at mast.

Winch handle holder

Deck floodlights on spreaders

Foredeck light and steaming light on mast.

Flag halyards port and starboard to spreaders.

Radar reflector, 2023, on mast ahead of upper spreaders.

Mast head has windex, B&G wind instruments, Anchor light, Tricolour nav light. VHF aerial

SAILS

Normally sailed as sloop rig.

Very substantial Dacron MAIN, roached at top, 7 x pulltruded rod battens, on Antal track and Battslides.

Extra reinforced pockets, cringles and Cunningham, Telltales.

Made in UK at Sanders Lymington loft and with only 1 seasons use.

Can be reefed without leaving cockpit.

3 x slab reefing with tack and clew lines to cockpit.

Lazy jack system for furling including tensioning line for when reefing.

3rd reef lowers main sufficiently to act as storm sail in all but worst conditions.

Yacht rod acts as topping lift, Boom crutch on roof of deckhouse, Sail cover.

Main sheet on Lewmar traveler and Ocean size 3 track, 2xrigged and turning block to cockpit winch.

Traveler lines 4xrigged and back to cockpit.

Preventer system 2xrigged on size 3 turning blocks to cockpit port and starboard.

Fractional FORESAIL, 90%, Dacron with leech battens. Fully furling on profurl 41.

INNER JIB and STORM JIB (never used !) hank on on inner forestay

TRYSAIL (never used !) with own track on mast.

TRIRADIAL nylon spinnaker with carbon fibre pole and snuffer. ( not used recently as boat is usually single handed or short crew).

CODE ZERO light mast head Genoa on Facnor 1500 endless furler, deck attachment.

Replacement with asymmetric spinnaker planned.

ENGINE ROOM

Separated from crew space by watertight bulkhead the engine room includes main engine, generator, refrigeration units, hot water tank, diesel tanks, steering and autopilot.

Services through bulkhead are by watertight couplings and connections.

MAIN ENGINE

Yanmar 4JH2 DTE turbocharged diesel rated at 88hp.

Usual cruising is 6kn with 8.5kn available for short bursts.

Engine is original but removed in 2022/2023 for full professional rebuild including turbocharger, cylinder liners, valves,  bearings, rings, thrust components, engine mounts etc. 200 hours since rebuild.

Close coupled to Yanmar reversing transmission.

Short direct prop shaft through PSS bellows seal, 2023.

Engine service Alternator and 2 x Balmar 175Amp alternators running at reduced speed for longevity and controlled by a single Balmar 612 smart controller with Lestec backup.

Engine control panel in cockpit with rpm, oil, temp, hour gauges.

GENERATOR

2 cylinder Izuzu diesel (2012)  direct shaft drive to Balmar 250A alternator

controlled by Balmar 612 Smart controller.

Control panel in engine room with oil, temp and hour gauges.

REFRIGERATION

2 x Frigoboat W50 ( Danfoss ) water cooled units running separate freezer and refrigerator boxes in galley.

WATER MANIFOLD, and drainage

It is a design feature of Dashew boats that there are an absolute minimum number of through hull fittings. Those that exist were designed and built in to hull at original build.

A single sea water inlet with Forespar marlon valve feeds a manifold to all services… Main Engine, Generator, Fridge cooling, Toilet, Seawater washdown ( forepeak )

Blackwater and all greywater are pumped separately to the engine room and drain by a fully built in through hull stand pipe.

Engine cooling water leaves by wet exhaust, other water + bilge pumps and cockpit drainage combine to common scuppers with above waterline exits at the stern.

ENGINE ROOM GENERAL

Forward bulkhead houses…

Engine room bus bars

Isolation transformer taking external AC shore power at different voltages to 110V boat input.

Engine room control panel for lights, pumps and auto pilot.

Separate mppt controllers for each set of solar panels

Cross over system to start engine from main batteries

Domestic hot water cylinder with either direct engine or 110V heating.

2 x 125 gallon diesel tanks with engine priming pump and cross transfer pump

Main engine oil drain sump pump.

Cooling water pump for refrigeration, seawater afloat or to freshwater reservoir when ashore.

2 x high level Jabsco diaphragm bilge pumps for engine room and for crew cabin.

Optional use Black water tank with discharge pump to sea or suction removal access.

Webasto diesel fired water heater for domestic main cabin heating.

Workbench with vice over starboard diesel tank, tool lockers.

Deep storage over port diesel tank

Deep bilge storage including spare hose and fuel jerrycans.

Large automatic powder fire extinguisher by engine.

Halon hand extinguisher.

STEERING

Edson binnacle with chain and wire to large bronze quadrant at rudder.

Choice of WH or Simrad AC40 autopilots with cross over switch.

2 x electric drive to 2 x commercial hydraulic pumps to single Hynautic ⅝” hydraulic ram direct to quadrant.

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.