Build Year: 2002

Used For: long range livaboard cruising/ woking

Hull: Steel

Length: 14.63m

Beam: 4.42m

Draft: 1.37m

Licence:

Engine:

John Deere 4045TFM

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Electronics:

Additional Information:

Design
The Hero is a long-range, seaworthy, economical motor vessel based on the lines of the very successful American trawler the Estrellita.
 
She was conceived as a compact liveaboard vessel for two people with maximum deck and hold space to allow her owners to carry tools and equipment to earn a living while cruising.
 
She was first launched in May 2002.
 
She has many features which would also suit her to a variety of work roles and although she is not currently coded she could be with the addition of some safety equipment.
 
Construction
HULL AND DECKS: Steel. Heavyweight framing on 2-foot centres with intercostal bars. Bar keel. Centreline deck girder. Fore bitt and towing bitts amidship (keel stepped).
 
PLATE: Bottom 6mm, topsides 5mm, deck and raised deck 4mm.
 
INSULATION: Hull insulated with closed-cell polyurethane foam which is painted with fire-proof paint.
 
NOTE: This boat was built undercover from pre blasted and primed steel. All plate welded inside and out and then coated with anticorrosive paint which has held up very well especially inside.
 
NOTE: There is no filler, epoxy or otherwise anywhere on the steel parts of this boat. It is all steel with paint on it. Please get your surveyor to ultrasound any part of the steel hull, I am confident you will get acceptable readings everywhere. The steel is in very good condition inside and out considering the boat's age.
 
SUPERSTRUCTURE: cabin, wheelhouse 25mm marine ply on iroko framing, stainless screws, galvanised bolts, epoxy coated, no rot.
 
WINDOWS: Wheelhouse, 12 mm toughened glass, cabin 6mm laminated glass with stainless steel storm shutters.
 
Propulsion
ENGINE: John Deere 4045 TFM heavy duty 4-cylinder marine diesel engine, M1 rating (continuous service) 102 horsepower @2400rpm. 2946 hours.
Gearbox: PRM 500D 3:1 reduction.
Propeller: 28x30 inch 4-blade equipoise type, nickel aluminium bronze,
2.5inch stainless steel shaft, cutlass bearing, R+D coupling.
FUEL: 500 gallons (2275 litres) in two steel tanks. Tanks are made of 4mm steel and are fitted with baffles and clean outdoors. Very good condition.
Filtration: CAV sedimenter, filter agglomerator, John Deere final.
 
Walk around engine room.
 
STEERING: by wheel/drum/ wire, 3 turns lock to lock.
 
Deck equipment
ANCHOR: 40lb danforth type, about 150 feet of 13mm chain
Anchor winch: Muir Thor 3500 24v 1.5kw wheelhouse and deck controls.
Towing winch CJ industries 24v 1.5 kw
Deck lights: tractor type 12v
Derrick mast
 
HOLD: underneath the spacious afterdeck is a large hold/lazarette area. Insulated and lined, it is fitted with lights and storage chests. Access is through a large hatch fitted with traditional style hatch boards and tarpaulin, or through the large rudder emergency steering hatch.
 
OTHER EQUIPMENT: Inflatable dinghy with oars – very good condition, mooring and other lines, liferings, fenders, shore power line, specialist tools and some spares.
 
Safety equipment
BILGE PUMPING: Engine driven 1.5inch clutch pump, can also function as a wash down/fire pump. Electric pump in forecabin, small manual pump (to check if there is any water in the engine room) in wheelhouse, Jabsco electric impeller pump in the engine room.
 
Fire extinguishers, gas, monoxide and smoke detectors, engine room extinguisher.
 
Electrical
Engine has 12 volt 90amp and 24volt 50 amp alternators.
2 x 100 amp starting batteries in wheelhouse, 4 x 100amp domestic batteries in hold.
 
INVERTER: 2kw semi-sinewave
 
Instruments
Sestral reference compass, NASA flux gate steering compass. Raytheon 24 Mile radar, NASA depth sounder, log, wind guage, navtex and electronic barometer.  Simrad RD68 vhf radio
 
Domestic
WATER CAPACITY: 220 gallons in two stainless steel tanks fitted with baffles.
Gas cooker, house type full size. Instantaneous gas water heater.
2 x 13kg Calor gas bottles (secured on deck)
Beko house-type fridge with freezer compartment.
Refleks diesel heater
Jabsco marine toilet, hand basin and foot pump, basic shower in heads compartment.
Johnson fresh water pressure pump
Large galley sink and drainer, filtered foot pump water and pressurised water hot and cold.
Storage for crockery, kitchen utensils.
Double berth (large) forward, seating area/seaberth, nice large table, cupboards, chest of drawers, all clean.
Basic soft furnishings, all clean
 
Best if you come and see for yourself. She is ready to go.
 
Performance
The Hero is a full displacement hull form. The maximum speed of this boat is about nine knots. The most economical speed for range is about 6.5 to 7 knots at 1600 rpm. This gives a fuel consumption of about 1.4 gallons per hour and a range of over 2000 miles, more if you go a bit slower.
 
The boat displaces 25tons of which 1.5tons is inside ballast. She is very able, excellent in head and following seas, rolls in a beam sea (of course) but not as severely as some round bilge displacement boats.
 
Uses
The Hero makes a great liveaboard, long-range cruising boat for two people with ample storage for whatever you want.
 
She could be coded and is rugged enough for commercial use as a dive boat, sea angler or light-duty tug/towing boat or a combination of the above.
 
As the basics are sound: she has scope for whatever modifications you want to make.
 
VOYAGES: The Hero has done a lot of miles, based out of Ipswich. She has travelled to the Scilly Isles, Ostend, Calais a number of times, Cherbourg, Ithaca in the Greek Ionian by way of Biscay, Gibraltar, Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily. Returned via rivers Rhône and Saône and French canals. Next year she went to Antibes for work by French canals and rivers (late November) and returned via Spain and Portugal and Biscay again.