Winning list too long to publish
Vessel Name: AFRICA
Builder: TRIPP
Model Year: 1994
Year Built: 1994
Category: Cruising or Racing Sailboat
Country: United States
MLS #: 405803
Heads: 1
Length: 40 (12.19m)
Draft: 7' 9" (2.36m)
Beam: 12' 8" (3.86m)
Manufacturer: Yanmar
Model: 3JH40
Engine Hours: 250
Engine Type: Sail Drive
Fuel Type: Diesel
Engines:
- Yanmar 3JH40 diesel
- Hours: Approx 250
- Sail drive
- 2-blade folding prop
- Engine replaced new in 2019
Accommodations:
- Forward area open for sail storage and spinnaker launching
- Enclosed head forward to starboard
- Ice chest forward to starboard
- No pressurized alcohol stove, 2 burners to starboard
- Fixed berths port and starboard in the main cabin
- Pipe berths above fixed berths
- Aft port and starboard pipe berths
- Sit-down nav station behind the companionway
Dimensions:
- LOA: 41'
- LWL: 34.67'
- Beam Max: 12.59'
- Draft: 7.81'
- Displacement: 11204
- I: 56.71'
- ISP: 64.07'
- J: 16.24'
- P: 58.92'
- E: 19.84'
- Sprit length: 7'
Sails:
- Doyle (2020 & 2021)
- Square-headed mainsail carbon
- New square-headed main 2023 carbon 2023
- J1 Doyle 2021 carbon
- J2 Doyle 2021 Doyle
- J3 Doyle 2022
- J4 older North
- A1 Doyle 2020
- A2 North older
- A3 Doyle 2022 frac rigged
- North sails older
- Staysail
- Code 0
- Drifter
- Many older sails North
Rigging:
- Custom Carbon mast 2004
- Rod rigging
- Composite boom
- Hall solid vang
- Main Halyard 2 to 1, 2001
- New spin and jib halyard 2021
- New jib sheets 2021
Electronics:
- Raytheon GPS 12" at nav station
- B&G GPS in cockpit
- B&G displays on mast
- B&G displays in cockpit
- VHF Marine radio
- AIS
- B&G carbon mast wand
Additional Information:
- Built by Eric Geotz as a Tripp 41
- Kevlar with balsa coring.
- All vacuum-bagged heat-cured epoxy
- Painted hull and deck.
- In 1994 standard keel was replaced with a modern bulb keel
- The boat was originally in line shrouds with a genoa.
- The mast was moved aft 18 inches and sweep back 15-degree spreaders
- Now non-overlapping headsails
- 7-foot carbon sprit added
- Rig height increased by about 6 feet.
- Carbon stringers were added for additional hull strength
