Respite's History
Every boat has a story. And it is that story which differentiates one boat from another as it reveals the character and quality of the vessel and its owners. The story of this boat begins with a well thought out and innovative design by Ted Hood and Dieter Empacher. They set out to design and build a well built safe versatile cruising sailboat that had generous accommodation, was easily handled, and with a turn of speed not usually found on a heavy displacement boat. And they did this so successfully that their Bristol's set a standard that spawned many imitators.
The story of Respite begins with its original owner who ordered the boat to be highly upgraded and customized for extensive cruising in a variety of climates and places. He added to the standard boat a long list of extras to ready the boat for his use. Among them a larger engine, larger primary and secondary winches, outboard Genoa track, higher and wider toe rails, push pit boarding ladder, electric stove, extra cleats, teak rub rail, a washer and dryer, Hood main electric furling, additional dorades and extra sails. The entire list included over forty items. The electronics that were then added were the state of the art in the pre-digital world. Bountifully equipped, it took its owners in speed and comfort anywhere they wished. That they did for twelve years until a new owner appeared.
The new owner came with a new agenda ââ?¬â?? to improve and update all of the boats systems and bring it to up to date while improving its level of quality. For this he chose the Burr Brothers yard in Marion MA. So the work began ââ?¬â?? among it was stainless steel Hood ports and hatches that replaced the older aluminum ones ââ?¬â?? a bow thruster was added ââ?¬â?? fuel and water tanks were replaced as needed ââ?¬â?? a holding tank system was installed ââ?¬â?? all the head fixtures were replaced ââ?¬â?? new cushion covers ââ?¬â?? new sails ââ?¬â?? new dorades ââ?¬â?? new traveler ââ?¬â??new stove ââ?¬â?? washer and dryer eliminated -a fantastic awlgrip job ââ?¬â?? new electronics ââ?¬â?? a built in PC ââ?¬â?? rebuilding of furling and windlass motors and a new anchor chain, among others. The yacht was elevated to a condition that far surpassed its peers and other high end boats of a similar vintage. After a few years of low usage the owner, not an experienced sailor, decided that he preferred a power boat and put the boat up for sale.
In 1996 the current owners, an architect couple with boating and marine design experience, began a search for a boat to meet their cruising aspirations for their forthcoming retirement. They were prior owners of a Hinckley and a LeComte and began searching for a new boat to be based in Camden Maine. They scrutinized Hinckley's, Little Harbors, Alden's, and Sequins. They saw both the good and bad in each but none that balanced accommodation, ease of handling, simplicity of maintenance, and sailing ability as well as the Bristol. After looking at numerous 45.5�s and 47�s they found what now is Respite. The boat was priced at the top of its market but its genuine value well exceeded those of the competing Bristol's. It was not a difficult decision.
And so began 22 years of joyful and rewarding voyaging, occasionally going south, but mostly on the Maine coast, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Destinations as St Andrews, the St John River, and Halifax were common. The trips were easily handled by two people but often taken with friends and family. With company on board, the benefits of two private staterooms cannot be overstated. Be it the joy of on a sunny day reaching through Mt Desert Island to Roque, or cutting through days of pea soup fogs armed with the best equipment, Respite has proven it can do it all.
There is an important reason that the boat consistently does so well. Each season the boat is stored, usually indoors, only at quality boatyards as Wayfarer Marine or Johanson Boatworks. Each year it is inspected and whatever has to be done to keep the boat in fine condition is done. At the same time Respite has been continuously upgraded and improved, as can be seen in the detailed listing and the comments from a recent survey. For those seriously interested in this boat, available is the two year old survey, recent yard bills, and access to talk with the maintaining yard and its knowledgeable mechanics.
Deck and Deck Hardware ââ?¬Å?Molded, laminated decks fiberglass with Balsa coring. There are deck drains teed to (2) 1 1/2ââ?¬ï¿½ bronze sea cocks. The cockpit is integral with the deck and has (2) 1 ½Ã¢â?¬ï¿½ bronze sea cocks for scuppers.ââ?¬ï¿½ Survey for owner by Joseph Lobley, AMS October 2016
Respites two-tone decks with jack-lines are clean and open allowing movement around the boat to be easy and safe. Starting from the bow and moving aft the deck hardware includes:
Fore Deck
- Stainless steel bow pulpit
- Stainless steel stem fitting with single anchor roller and port and starboard bow chocks
- Bright teak high toe-rail
- Bow cleats port and starboard
- Stainless steel deck striker plate
- Stainless steel chain lock
- Anchor chain hawse pipe
- Pressurized salt-water deck wash down
- Spare anchor chain hawse pipe
- Vertically mounted Ideal windlass with up/down foot-switches
- Stainless steel stanchions with upper/lower coated twisted stainless steel life-lines
Weather-Decks
- Teak Spinnaker pole deck fittings on port weather deck
- Twin midships cleats port and starboard
- Stainless steel mid-ships chocks port and starboard
- Inboard sail sheet track port and starboard
- Outboard sail sheet track mounted on toe-rails port and starboard
- Mid-ships lifeline gates port and starboard
- Fresh water and diesel in fills
Coach-Roof
- (6) Hood stainless steel opening port-lights port and starboard
- (2) Fixed port lights port and starboard
- Bright teak brow port a and starboard coach-roof sides
- Bright teak hand rails port and starboard
- (3) Hood stainless-steel framed forward opening deck hatches
- Bright teak dorade boxes with chrome cowls port and starboard
- Stainless steel line guards over dorade boxes port and starboard
- Life-raft cradle
Cockpit
- Molded integral cockpit coaming with bright teak cap-rail
- Stainless steel dodger frame with dodger (see Soft Goods)
- Custom dodger extension with extended side curtains
- Outlet for autopilot slave control
- Outlet for VHF slave control
- Stainless steel cockpit bimini frame with bimini and storage boot(see Soft Goods)
- Cockpit storage cubbies port and starboard with bright teak trim
- Cockpit cushions (see Soft Goods)
- Winches on coaming and coach-roof (see Rigging)
- Suite of electronics above companionway and on binnacle (see Electronics)
- Edson binnacle with built-in compass
- Stainless steel hand-rail on binnacle
- Stainless steel helm with elk-skin cover
- Custom bright teak electronics pods on binnacle
- Dual control throttle on binnacle
- Electric jib furling hand held control
- Electric main furling controls
- Custom bright teak fold-down cockpit table
- Raw teak cock pit grate sole
Aft Cockpit
- (3) Hood stainless steel forward opening deck hatches, (2)aft deck hatches access aft lazarettes
- Main sheet traveler aft of cockpit coaming
- Bright teak dorade boxes with chrome cowls port and starboard
- Stainless steel push pit
- Twin fender holders port and starboard
- Life sling mounted on push pit
- Horseshoe throw on push pit
- Man-overboard pole
- Outboard motor lift mounted on push pit
- Bright teak outboard motor mount
- Stern cleats port and starboard
- Stainless steel chocks port and starboard
- Emergency tiller through-deck fitting
Hull Respite was constructed with hand layup process with alternating layers of fiberglass mat and woven roving for her hull. The ballast is lead, internally cast. The centerboard is molded fiberglass and not integral to the ships ballast. The centerboard to is secured by a bronze pin through a fiberglass pipe. The centerboard is deployed/retrieved with a stainless-steel twisted wire that is controlled with a Merriman deck-mounted winch on the coach-roof. The rudder is of molded fiberglass construction molded around a bronze stock with welded plates bearing on the hull, the top of the stock itself and an ample skeg that provides protection for the rudder and the propeller.
Respite also features:
Topsides
- Awlgripped flag blue topsides
- Awlgripped double white boot stripe
- Gold cove stripe
- Stainless rub-rail below toe-rail
- Folding stainless steel swim/boarding ladder with teak treads on transom
Below Waterline
- Black Interlux Micron 66 ablative bottom paint
- Vetus bow thruster in molded tunnel
- 3-Blade feathering Maxiprop bronze prop with cone zinc
- Stainless steel rope cutter
- Zinc bonding plate
Sails - Thurston main-sail
- Harding main-sail
- (2) Harding 135% Genoa
- Thurston 100% jib
- Hood MPS with ATM dousing system
- Thurston storm jib
Rigging Standing
- Hood Stow-Away painted aluminum mast with built in electric mainsail furler
- Hood painted aluminum boom
- Stainless steel wire standing rigging with Navtec turnbuckles and covers
Running
- Braided halyards
- Braided sheets
- Soft boom vang
- Main sheet traveler
- Gear driven telescoping whisker-pole with on mast stowage
- (2) Spinlocks on mast
Winches
- (2) Lewmar 65 2-speed self tailing primary winches
- (2) Lewmar 55 2-speed self tailing secondary winches
- Lewmar 45 2-speed self tailing topping lift winch
- Lewmar 45 2-speed self tailing out-haul winch
- Merriam centerboard winch
- Lewmar 44 3-speed main halyard winch on mast
- Lewmar 44 2-speed jib halyard winch on mast
Propulsion - Westerbeke W-70 70 hp diesel engine
- 1955 hours on the engine (09 Oct 18)
- Hurth HBW 250, 2.5:1 ratio transmission ~ rebuilt 2015
- Fresh water cooled with raw water heat exchanger
- Perko sea strainer
- Racor filter with pressure gauge
- Wet exhaust system with Westerbeke mixer elbow
- Direct drive
- Flex mounts
- Stainless steel shaft
- 3 Blade Max Prop (see Hull)
Electronics Cockpit
- (2) Garmin 4210 chart plotters/multi displays connected to radar
- (3) Garmin GM20 multi displays connected to depth, speed, and water temp transducers and wind anemometer
- Raymarine ST 7002 autopilot connected to SPX 30 control unit
- Raymarine handheld autopilot remote
- Standard Horizon Comand Mic remote
- Garmin 1800 HD radar
- Garmin wind instruments
- VHF antenna
- Wind direction indicator on masthead
Navigation Station
- IBM computer interfaced with chartplotter and HP printer
- Standard Horizon Matrix AIS+ GX2150 marine VHF
- Kenwood SSB RadioTelephone TKM-708 (not connected at rigging)
Electrical System 12-Volt DC System
- Bass DC panel with 30 breakers, DC ampmeter and DV volt meter
- Blue Sea System electronic DC meter
- Guest parallel switch in forward cabin
- (3) Guest battery switches
- Jib furler breaker forward
- Bow thruster breaker forward
- Windlass breaker under companionway
- (2) 4D AGM house batteries located below aft bunk
- 4D AGM cranking battery located below aft bunk
- Group 37 AGM batteries for bow thruster and jib furler located under forward bunk
- Group 37 AGM battery for genset
- Balmar 120-Amp alternator
- ProWatt battery charger
- Heart Interface PathMaker automatic battery switch
110-Volt AC System
- Bass AC panel for generator with AC amp meter
- 110-Volt source switch
- (2) 30 Amp receptacles
- 50 Amp receptacle
- 50 Foot 30 amp shore power cable
- Fischer Panda 6 kilowatt genset with sound shield and 800 hours estimated
- Xantrex 2000-watt inverter/charger
- 1000-Watt inverter
Galley - Overhead florescent lighting
- Opening port light with curtain
- Locker storage aft and outboard above work surfaces
- Propane solenoid
- Engine driven refrigeration timer
- Florescent lighting under soffits
- Florescent lighting below aft locker
- Built in spice rack
- (3) 110-Volt outlets
- Cutlery drawer above work surface
- White laminated Formica counter-tops with varnished teak trim
- Counter loading refrigeration box with thermostat
- Grunert engine driven refrigeration
- Tasco 3-burner propane stove with oven and broiler
- Stainless steel handrail inboard of stove
- Sunbeam microwave oven
- Under counter storage through counter locker lid
- Double basin stainless steel sink
- Single control pressurized fresh water hot/cold mixer head
- Pressurized fresh water hot/cold mixer spray wand with flexible hose
- Manual cold freshwater tap with foot pump
- Stainless steel vertical handrail
- Locker storage below work surface forward
Salon - (2) Overhead opening deck hatches
- Overhead dome lighting
- Bright teak hand-rails overhead port and starboard
- Fixed and opening port-lights port and starboard
- 12-Volt Hallo fan
- Weems and Plath clock/tide
- Weems and Plath barometer
- Kerosene ships lamp with globe
- Florescent lights under soffits
- Reading lights port and starboard
- Vizio flat screen TV with pullout swivel
- DVD player
- Kenwood CD/Stereo
- Tenvox marine speakers with individual volume controls port and starboard
- AC with reverse heat in salon
- (4) 110-Volt outlets
- 12-Volt outlet
- Shelf and locker storage outboard above settees port and starboard
- Storage locker with wine rack and glass holders to port and aft of settee
- Storage unit forward of settee to starboard across from head
- Bright teak two leaf fold out dining table with silverware and bottle storage locker below center section
- L-shaped settee to port with pull out twin berth
- Bench settee to starboard with pull out twin berth
- Locker storage under port and starboard settee
Forward Stateroom - Opening overhead deck hatch
- Opening port-lights port and starboard
- Locker storage outboard and forward above bunk
- Opening port cadenza with hanging locker and drawer storage aft of bunk to port and starboard
- Reading lights port and starboard
- Tenvox marine speakers with individual volume controls port and starboard
- Chain-locker access
- AC with reverse cycle heat
- V-berth with infill, infill stored above bunk
- Single settee in V
- Access to forward head
- Electric 12-volt fan
Forward Head - Opening Port
- Overhead Dome Lighting
- Storage Lockers above sink
- Shower head and curtain
- Large Mirror
- SS Towel Bar
- Porcelain Sink
- Electric head
- Private Access from Either Salon or Fwd Cabin
- Teak Floor Grate
Navigation Station - Large chart table with chart storage underneath
- Suite of electronics (see Electronics)
- Shelf storage
- Bookshelf
- Drawer with storage under
- Storage under seat
- Main electric control panel
Aft Stateroom - Opening overhead deck hatch
- Opening port-lights port and starboard
- Reading lights port and starboard
- Electric Fan
- Tenvox marine speakers with individual volume controls port and starboard
- Locker storage outboard and forward above bunk
- Cadenza with hanging locker and drawer storage aft of bunk to port and starboard
- Cadenza with drawers, shelves, and hanging locker port side
- One double and one single berth
- Battery and electrical access under berth
- Air conditioning with reverse cycle heat
- Private access to head
- Wardrobe mirror on door
Aft Head - Overhead dome lighting
- Opening ports
- Bulkhead mounted lighting
- Storage lockers above sink
- Stainless steel towel bars
- Porcelain sink
- Groco Skipper HD head
- Large mirror
- Separate shower stall
- Teak floor grate
- Private access from aft cabin
Tankage Diesel
- (4) Aluminium tanks located under salon sole
- Gauges on each tank
- 135-Gallons total
Fresh Water
- (3) Stainless steel tanks, (2) located below salon sole and (1) located below forward berth
- 140-Gallons total
- Fresh water pump manifold for tank selection
- 12-Gallon hot water tank
Black Water
- (2) Polyethylene holding tanks (1) located under forward berth and (1) located under aft berth
- Deck pump-out fittings for both tanks
Propane
- (2) Aluminium 10-pound tanks
- Vented propane locker in aft lazarette
Soft Goods - Bimini with boot
- Dodger
- Custom dodger extension
- Upholstered cockpit cushions
- Helm pedestal cover
- Winch covers
- Interior curtains
- Upgraded interior upholstery
- Wind scoops
Upgrades and Maintenance History Each year Respite has undergone a rigorous maintenance and inspection schedule that includes annual oil changes, new fuel and oil filters, varnish maintenance coats, and servicing or replacement of any needed items such as winch rebuilding, heat exchanger cleaning, impellers, hoses, and seacocks, and inspection and cleaning of working sails.
Significant Replacements and Additions:
2016-2018
- Thruster motor and propeller
- Refrigeration water pump
- AGM thruster and furling batteries
- Bootstripe stripped and repainted
2010-2015
- AGM house (2) and starting batteries
- Added 120-amp Balmar alternator
- Groco C60 wash down pump
- Hood main furling motor rebuilt
- Garmin HD 18 radar
- Garmin GM10 wind speed instrument
- (3) Garmin GM20 display units
- (2) Garmin 4210 chart plotters
- Garmin speed/temp and depth transducers
- Cabin sole refinished
- Hurth transmission rebuilt
- Standard Horizon GX 2150 VHF with AIS and remote
- Cutlass bearing
- Exterior teak wooded and varnished with 6 coats
- Fresh water pump
- Raritan electric head
2001-2009
- Bottom soda blasted and barrier coated
- New engine Flexmounts
- Teak sole grates in heads
2000-2008
- New Profurl NDE 42 electric jib furling unit
- Added gear driven mast mounted whisker pole
- Added Raymarine ST 7002 autopilot with SPX 30 computer controller
- Added Xntrex 2000-watt inverter/charger
- Xantrex Freedom Remote panel
- Heart Echo charger
- New standing rigging
- All grey water hoses replaced
- Sound insulation added to engine compartment
1995-1999
- Hood stainless steel ports and hatches replaced aluminum
- Dodger
- Bow thruster
- Holding tanks installed
- New fuel tanks
- Wash down pump
- New electric
- Hull Awlgripped and clear coated
- IBM computer and 1000-watt inverter
- New electronics
- Upholstered settees
- Tasco 12 hot water tank
- Feathering 3-blade Maxiprop
- Rebuilt windlass
Surveyor's Comments "The value of this vessel was determined using a market comparison approach. At the time of survey, the following sister ships were found for sale with reputable brokerages: a 1982 model for $169,000, 1984 model for $149,900, 1989 model for $170,000, and a 1990 model for $225,000. In addition, there are several other vessels on the market that are similar in age, size, and equipment: 1985 Cambria 46 for $195,000, a 1983 Sequin 44� for $215,000 and a 1985 Swan 46 for $199,000.
RESPITE shows very good maintenance and recent upgrades. The interior is in very good condition. This vessel is likely in better condition that any of the sister ships or comparable vessels listed above." ~ October 2016 Comments from survey made by Joseph Lobley, AMS
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