Al Hoceima has Been SOLD

The boat has been sold, but I thought I'd leave the 'for sale' page up so that folks returning to the page for another look would see the update and still be able to look at the photos and video below, if desired.

After having living aboard for five and sailing her for nearly ten years, I've decided to see if I can find her next owner. We are no longer living aboard, and with my current, very busy job, my free time to maintain and enjoy her is severely limited and it doesn't make sense any more for me to have such a large, ocean-capable, boat.

Below is basic information about the boat and what equipment will be included in the sale.

I thought I'd also provide a video log of my outbound solo trip from Hamilton, Ontario, to Main Duck Island and then onto Waupoos Island in the summer of 2013. While very raw, it will give an idea of the size of the boat, motion, sail configuration, etc.

There is also a lot of information on this website about her, including some photos of the interior (I've just updated this page with some fresh photos of the interior below), design drawings, etc. Please take a look around.

SOLD:

1980 Petit Prince Ketch "Al Hoceima" - Laying Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Description:
Steel ketch - heavily built by a professional shipyard in France for extended offshore ocean cruising. The hull is hard-chined with a long fin keel and a stout skeg-mounted rudder. I used it for living aboard full-time with two other adults and a cockatoo (a full house!) in Port Credit, Ontario. I've owned her since 2004 and lived aboard for five years.

Dimensions:
41' on deck
44' LOA
13.5' Beam
6' 1" draft when unloaded (was about 6' 6" when fully loaded and we were living aboard full-time)

Sails:

Main	Older but serviceable - some minor repairs/re-stitching
Mizzen	Older but serviceable - some minor repairs/re-stitching
Genoa	Older but serviceable - some major repairs, new panels, stitching, etc.
Working jib	Older but serviceable - some major repairs, new panels, stitching, etc.
Jib	Older but serviceable - some major repairs, new panels, stitching, etc.
3x storm jibs	One is older but in perfect shape, two are as new (unused)
Storm trysail	As new (unused) (the mast has a second track for flying the trysail)
Spinnaker	Perfect condition - I only flew it once.

Equipment:

1980 Perkins 4.108 diesel (50 hp, raw water cooled)
400 liter water capacity (2x 200 liter tanks)
Approximately 800 liter diesel fuel capacity
Ketch rig with removable inner forestay
45lb CQR anchor with 230' BBB chain and 200' 5/8 nylon double-braid
35lb Danforth high-tensile with 150' 5/8 nylon three-strand twisted
Two 45' lengths of spare chain and shackles
Bronze anchor windlass with a gypsy to fit the main anchor's BBB chain plus a drum to handle rope
Drogue (cone-shaped and heavily built)
Autohelm 4000
Depth Sounder
Knotmeter
Water system is via manual foot pumps - two in the galley, one in each of the two heads
12 Volt system via house (3x large AGM batteries originally from cellular tower UPS system) and starter (single automotive battery).
AC system works on standard 120vac shore power or 240vac shore power via a converter (spits it into 2x 15A 120vac circuits)
Gimballed propane 3-burner stove + oven in good working order.
Two heads -forward head is a Lavac manually operated head (Love the Lavac system!) . The aft head is a Jabsco manual head.
VHF radio
Insulated back stay antenna for use with a marine SSB or HAM radio (currently just use it for shortwave listening).
Achilles 8.5' dinghy (made from hypalon) - older but serviceable and planes nicely with the 8hp Johnson 2-stroke outboard
Mast steps to the first spreaders on the main mast
One manual and two electric bilge pumps.
4 lifejackets and an assortment of PFDs
Flares, fire extinguishers, fire axe, heaving lines, harnesses/tethers, and other safety equipment
Charcoal BBQ on the stern rail
Large assortment of spare lines of all types
Medium sized AC generator that lives in a deck-box at the stern – it has seldom been used and not at all in the last few years. It ran fine the last time it fired up but I’ve no idea how it is now.
An assortment of mast, boom, and deck winches including two large, high quality, Lewmar self-tailing winches for the jib sheets. 11 different winches in total, I believe.
A wide assortment of spare parts, manuals for the engine, winches, and other equipment, etc.

Accommodations (from bow to stern):

V-berth is fairly small but would be fine for housing a kid or two
Forward head with small sink and decent-sized hanging locker
Main saloon has a good sea berth to starboard with lee-cloth; to port is the table and couch
Galley to port, spare room (used for storage of tools, spares, etc) and chart table to starboard
Aft cabin has lots of room for two adults, a hanging closet, and a small head with sink
On deck, the cockpit is small and secure with a small table at the helm that opens up. The cockpit is partially protected by a hard dodger with good visibility in all directions. The aft deck is large and great for table/chairs when at anchor.

Sailing Video:
Summer , 2013 - Sailing from Hamilton, Ontario to Main Duck and then onto Waupoos Islands.

Notes:
I was sailing solo, and by the end of the trip to Main Duck Island, had been on watch for 33 hours (about 29.5 hours sailing time).

On the first day, I mentioned riding out a thunder squall with too much sail area up - I didn't mention that that was mostly intentional with the idea being to get out from under the worst of the storm (although it would have been nice to have gotten the genny on deck during the worst of it). We were heading nearly due East while the storm cell was travelling North, and by keeping up max sail area up, we were able to miss the worst part of the cell, including a few lightning strikes that hit well astern and probably near where we would have been had I shortened sail.

After that, the winds stayed pretty steady for us in the 15 - 20 knots range for most of the trip out to Main Duck except during the half dozen or more other cells that I dodged by either heading up/down or speeding up/down to avoid.

I eventually anchored in about 50' of water on the leeward side at about 4:00pm and went immediately below for a few hours nap! Distance covered was something like 170 nautical miles or so (water under the hull - not necessarily point-point).

I enjoyed Main Duck for a few days and then sailed the 20 nautical miles or so to Waupoos under sunny skies and 20 - 25 knot winds, and met up with Angi and my friends Scott and Mike, who drove up. They eventually departed and I made the trip back to Hamilton solo again with a night's stopover in Toronto along the way.

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