2000 Roger Hill World Cruiser

Year 2000 (Launched 2003)
Roger Hill - Custom Design
48 ft - Cruising Sailboat
Cutter Rig - Pilothouse Salon
100hp Diesel Engine; Generator; Watermaker
Hull Material Galvanised Steel


Located in the world-renowned cruising grounds of the Pacific NW is one of the world's best cruising sailboats. RAYNAD is not only an amazing sailboat but also a phenomenal passage-maker for those that long to cross oceans and superlative home for those who want to be off the grid or linger in those lovely anchorages in tropical lagoons.
Custom designed by Roger Hill and built in New Zealand, the design specification was for an ultimate Go Anywhere yacht with the emphasis on safety and comfort. There was one other requirement and that was that the owners should be able to see out of the yacht when at
anchor.

As a result, RAYNAD is a unique yacht with panoramic views of the surroundings ,perfect for watching the bears, moose, whales and birds that surround you here in the Inside Passage, or the sunsets and turquoise blue waters of a remote tropical lagoon giving a sailboat
all the advantages of a power boat at anchor but the economy and range of a true expedition voyager when under way
The choice of Galvanised Steel makes possible the four watertight compartments and the bulb keel that gives this yacht a Limit of Positive Stability of 146 as tested and certified at commissioning. This means the boat is amazingly stable when pressed hard under sail or crossing beam seas. The also hull incorporates integral tanks within the keel and the bilges allowing for a phenomenal 550gals diesel and 350 gallons of water which translates into the ability to remain off-grid in beautiful places for several months. Alternatively you could cross oceans under power with enough diesel to also run the 8kva generator and some of the diesel heating system or perhaps the Cruisaire Heat Pump or Hydronic Webasto circulated hot water system. You have enough fresh water from the huge 40 gallon per hour Sea... watermaker to use
the washing machine liberally underway and to flush to two heads with fresh water , chosen to avoid that salt water smell from the inside of the boat. If the wind picks up you can shut all that machinery down, raise the sails and enter a world of calm. Raynad is powered while sailing by
the 120w 24volt solar panel solar panel and excellent 5 blade 400watt D400 wind generator. You can sail for days and never hear an engine while the Furuno satellite compass steers the boat with laser accuracy and the AIS transponder works to keep you clear of traffic. The hard dodger makes for comfortable dry watches out of the wind and shaded from the sun.

The best reason to have a vessel like RAYNAD is that whatever the wind and whatever the weather, you can go from point to point to suit yourself because RAYNAD has what it takes to get you there under sail or under power. Now thats a passage maker ! Unlike most boats, RAYNAD has actually covered the miles. Sailed only by a retired couple, this boats log book shows 65,000 open ocean miles in the last ten years. The last trip was 9,500 nautical miles from Valdivia in Chile to Juneau Alaska - 7,500 of those miles were non stop from Valdivia to Hawaii. VERY few boats can make that kind of a trip.

RAYNAD is now ready for the next safari - perhaps a trip through the
North West Passage ? For those that want to explore the wonders of the oceans they sail over, the boat currently has a dive compressor and full dive gear for two adults. This equipment is new and lightly used. All of
this is available with the boat as an optional extra. Raynad was fully imported into the US and is tax paid and now a USCG Documented US vessel. By choice, the owners did not export the boat from NZ and so it remains tax paid there and could return free of import duty.

Interior Design

• Open Salon/Galley/Pilothouse layout with 2 heads plus rear queen size private with
  ensuite and full stand up shower. Forward Vberth with two 6'6" berths. Additional sea
  berth in companionway. With the saloon sofa, the yacht can comfortably sleep six adults

• U-Shaped Galley for convenience and easy chef access, safe and secure while at sea;
  multiple storage cupboards, drawers and additional large underfloor storage. Corrianne
  counters, double stainless sink.

• Forward head with cabinets, electric freshwater flush toilet, stand up shower and night
  lighting.

• Navigation station with full remote monitoring, controls and navigation. Full sized chart
  table with lift up storage for additional full sized navigation charts and instruments.

• Private Rear Master Suite: dual access queen bed, individual reading lights, overhead
  hatch and four portholes, two vented closets and multiple storage drawers cupboards.
  TV. Fan. Private ensuite with fresh water toilet, sink with cabinets. Washing Machine.
  Fully private, spacious walk-In shower with fibreglass enclosure.

• Light colored maple interior and rich mahogany with inlaid maple cabin sole throughout

• Green leather seating, all with ample easy to access dry storage spaces behind and
  beneath

• Matt Awlgrip finish on interior panels

• Generous and thoughtfully designed amounts of storage throughout the boat

• Entire floor of living area hinges up to allow superb access to all machinery

• Easy to view electrical panel and battery closet in companionway, safely away from all
  water and engines.

• Hurricane rated glass with reflective coating in saloon windows with acrylic panels to
  attach as storm protection or additional insulation.

• All corners within are rounded to avoid bodily injury while at sea. All floorboards are
  screwed down and all cabinets can be screwed shut to prevent accidents at sea.

• Exceptionally large refrigerator and separate huge freezer big enough for months of
  provisions and still with room for those fish you will catch !

Propulsion and Auxiliary Systems

• VM 494HT-10 136 Hp turbocharged diesel main engine with 3800 hours

• Side Power Sleipner 7 Hp 24V Bow Thruster. Control on steering pedestal

• 1.5" Stainless steel shaft

• Dripless shaft seal

• Thorndon custom composite shaft bearings

• Polyflex Shaft Coupler

• Hydraulic Shaft Brake for autofeathering propeller

• MaxProp 610.83 bronze self feathering propeller

• Dual Racor fuel filters for main engine. Third Racor for the Generator

• Aqualift muffler and exhaust system

• Oil change pump

• 500 gallon fuel capacity in 2 keel tanks and two bilge tanks and 50 gallon day tank
  Sails and Rigging

• Custom Aluminum Mast with double spreaders

• Dyform 1 x 19 Standing Rigging with additional fore and aft baby stays

• LeisureFurl In-Boom roller furling mainsail system

• Full battened (5) mainsail with reefing control led to cockpit

• 135% Roller Furling Genoa on Furlex Roller Furler

• 80% Roller Furling Staysail on Furlex Roller Furler

• 1800 Sq Ft 1.5 oz multi colored cruising spinnaker

• Two Spectra Spinnaker halyards external to the mast using masthead turning blocks.

• Spectra running backstays with 2 to 1 tensioning blocks

• Rigid Boom Vang with downhaul system led to cockpit

• 2 Lewmar # 64 self-tailing primary winches in cockpit

• 2 Lewmar # 48 self-tailing cockpit winches in cockpit

• 1 Lewmar # 48 electric power self-tailing in cockpit for all sail controls

• 2 Lewmar # 48 self-tailing winches on mast

Steering System

• Hydraulic steering with 48" wheel

• Raymarine 100 Autopilot computer driving dual electric hydraulic pumps and dual rams,
  Systems are duplicated and can be swapped underway using valves in the event of
  autopilot hydraulic or electrical failure. Controls for autopilot in cockpit and nav station in
  saloon

• Skeg hung stainless steel rudder blade with sacrificial lower 30% in case of impact

• Custom tiller emergency steering
  Communications Systems

• ICOM M602 25watt VHF at nav station with Remote Mic for cockpit and masthead/arch
  antenna

• ICOM IC M710 SSB/ Ham radio with automatic tuner .

• PTC lle Modem with PC-lll software upgrade for weather fax and email

• ICOM MA-500TR AIS transponder with masthead/arch antenna

• Standard Horizon submersible VHF Radio

• Computer aided communication via AirMail, SailMail and RMSExpress.
  Electrical System

• 8 KW Nothern Lights Generator w/ 2795 hours

• 125W 24v solar panel mounted on arch with PWM regulator

• EclecticEnergy D400 5 blade 400w wind generator with Flexcharge 25aNCHC controller
  driving ultra high amp mercury switched contactors for overspeed protection

• Heart Freedom 20 24v/250v Modified Sine Wave Inverter/Charger

• Heart 2500W 24v/250v Sine Wave Inverter

• Mastervolt IVC 8772 12v/12v converter for stabilised instrument supply

• Mastervolt IVC 8772 24v/24v converter for stabilised autopilot supply

• 8Group 31 AGM House Batteries

• 2 Group 31 AGM main engine starting batteries

• Heart Link 1000 battery monitor / charge controller

• Hart EVI AC & DC Circuit breaker panels with meters

• 250v, 24v 12v systems. 115V via portable power transformer

• Victron 3.6KW Isolation Transformer

• Ample Technologies NextStep regulators for engine and generator alternators.

• Stator RMC-142D Earth Fault Relay for Generator<>A/C bus protection

• 30A Shore power receptacle w/ 50' power cord

• 3 12V DC Outlets

• 10 250V AC outlets including 6 GFCI

• Tank Sentry TS1501 monitor for diesel day tank with capacitance level probe (Princeton
  Technologies) and Jabsco lift pump giving automatic level control

• Hart Systems Tank Tender pneumatic level monitoring of main diesel and water tanks

• Vacuum Cleaner, blender

• All batteries, electrics and electronics are in a dry closet separate from the machinery
  space and protected from all fresh water and salt water mishaps. An amazingly important
  issue in a sailboat where equipment is typically jammed together
  Navigation Electronics

• Raytheon R40XX 4KW radar with alarm - mast mounted

• Furuno GPS-32 GPS at nav station

• Furuno SC30 Satellite GPS and Heading Indicator

• ICOM MA-500TR AIS Transponder with independent GPS, display and chart overlay

• Raytheon ST60 Depth Sounder in cockpit

• Raytheon ST60 Wind Indicator in cockpit

• Raytheon ST60 Seed Indicator in cockpit

• Raytheon ST60 Course compass in cockpit

• Probe Interphase Twin Scope forward looking sonar

• Raytheon ST 7000+ Autopilot in cockpit with additional control at nav station

• Raytheon ST60 Multifunction display at nav station

• Sunnto Compass on Steering Pedestal in cockpit

• OpenCPN, Maxsea, SAS Planet charting software with massive digital chart library

• Custom Satellite navigation chart images of all South Pacific Atholl passes

• Custom Satellite navigation chart images of anchorages in Chilean Archipeligo and Beagle
  Chanel

• Paper navigation charts of all of the Pacific, Aust, NZ

• Library of cruising guides and books related to South America, South Pacific, Alaska

• Prosser Weathertrend Digital Barometer
  Ground Tackle

• Rocna 55 Lb anchor with 300' of 3/8" HT galvanized chain

• Spare Fortress anchor with 30' of HT galvanized chain and 300' of 3/4" rode

• Muir VRC2500 Electric Windlasses with controls at bow, cockpit and forward berth

• Articulated stainless steel bow roller fittings

• Foredeck Bollard and chain harnass

• Chain deck rings and chain hooks

• Snubber

• Salt Water anchor / deck wash down system
  Docking Gear

• 6 Polyform fenders

• Assorted dock lines

• 6 Stainless steel deck cleats

• Custom stainless steel rollers on stern deck mooring

• Bollard on foredeck

Climate / Environmental Control

• Webasto ST90 Hydronic Diesel Heating System with 3 Air Handling Units / zones. Winter
  and summer control valves.

• Hot water and engine block heater via Webasto heater with zone valves for each

• CruiseAir Heat Pump for air conditioning (heating and cooling)

• Engine heat exchanger for saloon while motoring

• Eberspacher diesel hot air heating

• 7 Opening ports with screens

• 4 opening hatches with screens

• 5 removable dorade vents.

• Full boat shade cover

• Hull, deck and superstructure interior insulated with fire retardant insulating foam sprayed
  throughout
  Galley, Heads and Plumbing

• SeaRecovery 40 gallon/hour reverse osmosis water maker with dual 40" membranes,
  2.5hp electric high pressure pump and 0.5hp feed pump. Two large separate 5 micron oil
  and sedement pre-filters

• Exceptionally large refrigerator and freezer with custom refrigeration unit, two expansion
  valves and three refrigeration evaporator plates.

• Force10 3 burner propane stove with oven and broiler

• 2 20 Lb Propane tanks

• Mademsa inverting microwave - built in

• Solid Surface Corian Countertops in galley and heads with sculpted fiddles

• 350 Gallon fresh water capacity in 2 stainless steel tanks

• Jabsco hot/cold pressurized water system throughout

• Hot/cold fresh water shower on aft swim platform

• 1 Electric head, one manual head - both flush with fresh water, not sea water

• Separate fiberglass stall shower in rear owners head

• Midea Ultracube Washing machine with digital controls built into master ensuite

• Black water holding tank with macerator pump - 50 gallons

• Gray water tank - 50 gallons

• 4 below waterline thru hull fittings with marelon seacocks

• Tank-Tender fuel/water/holding tanks level; gauge
  Entertainment

• Kenwood AM/FM Radio / CD player with 3 Bose Speakers

• TV with CD Player and external hard drives. Extensive movie library.
  Safety

• 4 Watertight Compartments built into hull

• Deck stepped mast with compression post and ring frames to pick up all mast, stanchion
  and keel loads

• Crash frames within hull circumferentially at the waterline and half frame at bow.

• Schedule 80 steel pipe at keel leading edge for collision protection

• Stainless steel partial rudder skeg with sacrificial lower half of rudder blade

• GME Aquastat 406MHz EPIRB w/ GPS

• 3 Fire extinguishers

• Tri-Color sailing light / anchor light / strobe light

• Double Lifelines on 32" high stainless steel stanchions with stainless steel bow and stern
  pulpits

• Stainless steels hand holds in/out of companionway door, along top of pilothouse and
  along cabin top

• 4 automatic bilge pumps with alarms

• 1 Whale manual bilge pump

• XINTEX S-2A Propane detector with 2 sensors

• Sunspot 2 million candlepower 12v hand held spot light

• Carbon monoxide detector/alarm

• 3 battery powered smoke alarms

• Air Horn

• Red courtesy Night Lights throughout the yacht

• Night lighting in galley and forward head
  Additional

• Design plans, build photos

• US Customs importation documents

• USCG documentation

• AK registration

• Complete set of paper manuals for all systems - organized by category in a dedicated
  filing cabinet between saloon captains chairs. This is duplicated digitally on boat
  computer

• Wiring schematic for the boats electrical system

• Comprehensive library of cruising reference books.

• Spares and tools for onboard systems

• Integrated Cockpit Bimini with fold-down frame.
  OptionalGear

• Highfield 12' RIB dinghy with launching wheels

• Mercury 15 hp outboard engine

• Alkin 2.5hp electric SCUBA air compressor continuously rated for multiple fills to 3500psi