Hi,
We wondered what happened to Arabella, we spoke with her US owner prior to her
sale in QLD.
Steve & I own a 1979 S&S 40 swift
ketch, same as Arabella. We bought her in QLD in 2003 from a guy who sailed her from
San Francisco. We sailed to South
Australia, lived on her for 3 yrs, moved to Western Australia where we are completing a major
refit, she's now Aussie registered as Daisy. She had bad
osmosis, we discovered her
keel was full of
water as well as lead and foam, someone had fitted the bildge pump in the engine room, by screwing straight into the expandable foam inside the keel! So years of water had leaked in. Took a year to dry her properly inside and out. Nasty! If you need any information, we have all original
manuals, etc. Although, we have replaced her
Perkins with a
Yanmar. We've also replaced all the
ports & hatches with stainless, and her chainplates, the original ones had pitting. I'll
email some pics as soon as I
work out how to. Pauline & Steve
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