Our Sailboat's Specs

Aquila is a 1973 Pearson 30 sailing yacht built in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a masthead sloop made out of fiberglass with a balsa cored deck. There were 1000 of these sailboats manufactured between 1971 and 1981. We are lucky to call one of them our home. Thank you, William Shaw, for designing such a dependable vessel.

THE MEASUREMENTS

LOA (length over all): 29.79 ft / 9.08 m

Beam: 9.5 ft / 2.90 m

Draft: 5 ft / 1.52

Mast hight from the waterline: 42.25 ft / 12.88 m

THE SAILS

North sails came with Aquila upon purchase. They were in great condition, and honestly seemed brand new. We got a main sail and a jib. The jib is a 135%.

THE MOTOR

It's a late 1980s, 2 cylinder Yanmar diesel motor 2GM20F, and it just reached 1k hours. It only had 824 hours when we purchased it. We had the fuel injection pump rebuilt in June 2018 (when we bought it). It was very difficult to get it out because the fuel rack was stuck. We even got some help from an awesome diesel mechanic, Dan, in Winterport, ME. The tank fills up with 19 gallons. We burn about .44 gallons per hour at our cruising speed which is 5 knots (faster or slower depending on current, wind and tide). The motor spins a two blade propeller at about 2400 rpms.

Pearson 30s were originally built with an Atomic 4 gas engine. A previous owner replaced it with the current one, and, in Mike’s and my opinion, that was a good call.

All in all, our Yanmar is an awesome motor!

THE ANCHOR

Aquila came with a Danforth Anchor that we used several times in Maine, it only slipped once, but we think it was lifted by a boat that came really close to us.

We borrowed a 16.5 lb Bruce Anchor from our friend Tod. It held up great when we used it to anchor behind the Statue of Liberty in New York. We have 130ft of anchor rope and chain for one set up, and another with 300ft.

THE WATER TANK

Made out of plastic and it holds 20 gallons. It’s plumbed to a hand pump in the galley.

THE BATTERIES

We have two. One holds 105 amp hours and serves as our house battery. The other is a 800cca (cold cranking amps) which we use as a starter battery.

THE HEATER

We added it right before leaving Maine. It's a no-brand, Chinese made diesel heater for trucks, basically an ESPAR. Mike purchased it on eBay for $200 dls. It came with all the pieces necessary for installation along with its own diesel tank (holds 2.5 gallons). It puts out 8,000 kilowatts of heat and it’s operated by 12 volts of electricity from our house battery bank. It burns a little over a gallon per day if it’s on 24 hours.

THE RADAR

It’s a JRC analog radar also powered by 12 volts from the house battery. It’s nothing fancy, and it came with the sailboat upon purchase; however, Mike had to rewire it because someone had cut the data cable at some point before we got it.

THE GPS

We are using a downloadable program called MacENC (iNavX) on Mike’s apple MacBook Air which pairs with our iPad and iPhone. We also have an older Garmin Colorado Handheld GPS just in case.

THE AUTOPILOT

We don’t have one, yet!

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