1999-2003 REBUILD
Between 1999 and 2003 MALABAR X was rebuilt for Doug Hazlitt by Cayuga Wooden Boat Works at Ithaca, NY. As with all the best such projects, there was a clear post-restoration plan for how she would be used – for day charters on Seneca Lake. The work was supervised by Cayuga's Dennis Montgomery, and by naval architect Niels Helleberg of the Alden design office.
That clear vision meant that early honourable hopes of saving parts of the wood structure were, as is more often than not the case, replaced by a desire to replicate, and improve structurally where time had told that it would be prudent, with as much non structural gear as possible being reused. The result is a yacht that looks and feels just right, and can be sailed just as John G Alden envisaged and experienced.
Working back up from the original iron keel, she was given a new backbone of extremely hard and durable angelique, with planking in silver bali and ceilings of angelique, all fastened with bronze and copper and tied with cast bronze floors and knees.
The interior is an evolution that feels right while offering the modern comforts we expect 90 years on. And on deck the result is remarkably true to the original layout; why not – after all, her designer and first owner had had at least ten personal schooners to work out what makes that most beautiful of rigs tick.
DECK LAYOUT, EQUIPMENT AND GROUND TACKLE
- Teak laid deck
- Bulwarks with scuppers
- Varnished teak cap rail
- Bronze stanchions and bases
- Classic winches, newer and older
- Long "L" trunk cabin
- Bronze fairleads on taffrail port and starboard
- Raw teak and bronze Sampson posts
- Ash and bronze leather covered mainsheet blocks
- Bronze, rubber-buffered mainsheet horse
- Large Merriman winch
Large cockpit
- “Schooner style” wheel
- Yanmar instrumentation inside steering gear box
- Kobelt throttle control
- Constellation steering complass in bronze binnacle
- Navigation and autopilot displays in pedestal box ahead of binnacle
- Teak lockers port and starboard in cockpit double as seating
- Bridge deck, repeater instruments, shore power socket, access to engine
- 2 x Bronze cleats port and starboard
- Bronze Highfield levers for mainmast backstays port and starboard
- Ash and bronze running backstay blocks
- Merriman winches port and starboard
- Meissner 40 winches port and starboard
- Bronze headsail track with cars port and starboard
Mainmast
- Bronze pinrail at shroud base port and starboard
Trunk cabin
- Teak grab rail port and starboard
- Bronze, rubber buffered horse for foresail sheet
- Meissner 40 winch for foresail sheet with cleat
- Butterfly skylight over aft cabin
- Teak storage box for winch handles halyard pins
- Butterfly skylight over main saloon
- 2 x Panama fairlead midships port and starboard with cleats
Foremast
- Pin rail at aft of foremast and at shroud bases port and starboard
- Bronze traveller for staysail boom
- Hardwood and bronze blocks
Raised scuttle hatch over fo'c'sle
- 2 x Panama fairleads port and starboard
- 2 x Bronze mooring bollards with pins
Bronze manual windlass with capstan and warping drum
- 3 x Anchors: Admiralty, Hall and Danforth
Bowsprit
ACCOMMODATION AND DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT
Accommodation for 9 in 4 cabins
- Varnished teak cabin sole and joinery
- Companionway offset to starboard in L-shaped aft of cabin trunk
Down companionway ladder to lobby with full size chart table to starboard, galley to port and aft cabin off galley
Chart table
- Ship's isolator panel
- Navigation electronics
- VHF radio
- 12 V socket
- 24 V socket
Galley
- 2 x Stainless steel sinks with mixer tap
- 4 x Burner Broadwater gimballed marine stove with oven
- Large top loading fridge and freezer
- Lockers
Forward to spacious saloon with 2 x pilot berths outboard, settees, U dining area to port
- Double drop leaf table
- Storage behind and under settees
- Lockers and book shelves to port
- Butterfly skylight over saloon table
- 2 x Bulkhead lights
- 8 x Opening ports
- 4 x Deckhead lights
Fwd to passage offset to starboard
- Large hanging locker to starboard
- Small set of drawers
Double guest cabin to port
- Double bunk
- Set of drawers under
- Vanity desk and mirror
- Small hanging locker
Forward via walk-through head
- Manual WC; ceramic basin with mixer tap
- Shower with teak grating
- Large lockers
- 2 x Opening ports
- Hatch in deckhead
Forward to fo'c'sle cabin
- Berths to port and starboard
- Large hanging locker to starboard
- Ladder access to forehatch
Aft cabin
- Large double bunk to starboard
- Locker under
- Manual WC to port
- Folding basin
- Lockers and set of drawers
- Butterfly skylight in deckhead
- 2 x Opening ports
RIG, SPARS, SAILS AND CANVASWORK
- Gaff schooner rig
- Fir masts
- Stainless Steel 1X19 shrouds
- Backstay levers
- Mainsail
- Top sail
- 2 x Fishermen
- Foresail
- Staysail
- Jib top
- Jib
- Genoa
- Heavy Genoa
- Classic winches, newer and older
- All blocks and hoops are leathered
- Covers for hatches, wheel, binnacle, gas box, instruments and cockpit boxes
- 3 x Overall covers: fore, mid and aft decks
MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL AND TANKAGE
- Yanmar 4LH-HTE 120 kW Diesel engine
- Kobelt 2042 bronze throttle control
- 2 x 170 L Diesel tanks
- 1 x Water tank
- 1 x Grey water tank
- Hot water system
- 3 x Service batteries 100 Ah each
- Engine battery
- Mastervolt Charger Master 12/70-3
- Sinergex Pure Sine 1500 Series II inverter
- All electrical cables up rigging are protected
NAVIGATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS
- Raymarine anemometer ST60 plus wind vane (2011)
- Lewmar/ Simrad autopilot (2011)
- Garmin GPS Map 5012 inside
- Garmin GPS Map 5008 at cockpit
- Anemometer display in cockpit
- Simrad autopilot display in cockpit
- Compass in cockpit
- Navicom VHF radio inside
- 2 x Submersible handheld VHF: Icom and Entel
- Spreader lights
- Steaming light on foremast
- Running lights on shroud boards
- Navigation light on foremast shrouds
- Anchor light top of mainmast
- Stern light
- AM/FM Radio.
SAFETY
- Zodiac liferaft 12 persons
- First aid kit
- Flare kit
- CO2 fire extinguisher 1-10 cil in engine room
- 2 x 2 kg Fire extinguishers
- 2 x 6 kg Fire extinguishers
- EPIRIB
- 12 x Life vests
- Barometer
- Fog horn
- Bell
- Books and nautical charts
- Code flags
- Compass
- Hand bearing compass
- Signaling mirror
- Flashlight
- Radar reflector
RECENT REFIT/ MAINTENANCE
- New deck caulking March 2012
- Varnish on a year basis
- Cleaning and antifouling paint every year
OTHER EQUIPMENT
- 8 x Fenders
- 4 x Mooring lines
- Binoculars
- Ensign
- Toolbox
- Sail mending box
- Electrical spares
- Miscellaneous silicon bronze hardware
- Several spare blocks, stanchions, shackles
PHOTO CREDIT
Sailing images by James Robinson Taylor
