Mechanical
Beta B-20 20hp inboard diesel engine installed in 2019, current engine hours approx 80. Shaft drive with 2 blade propeller. 10 gallon fuel tank.
Electrical
Alternator charging to 2 x 12v batteries. Inverter. 240v shore power.
Navigation
2 bulkhead compasses, Seafarer 3 depth, Cobra DSC VHF radio (2021), windvane at masthead, Raymarine ST2000 tillerpilot (2025), chart plotter, Furuno GP-31 GPS, radar reflector, tricolour masthead light.
Safety
Liferaft (requires service), 3 Crewsaver lifejackets, jackstay lifelines, horseshoe lifebuoy with new line, 2 fire extinguishers, manual bilge pump.
Deck Gear
Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit and guardwires, sprayhood (2017/8), cockpit cushions (2018), tiller steering, boarding ladder, spinnaker pole (2018), 2 x Meissner 22 self tailing sheet winches, Meissner 18 & 10 halyard winches, reefing winch, outboard bracket, 25lb CQR main anchor with 25m of 8mm chain and 40 m 14mm 3 strand warp, 7kg Bruce kedge anchor with chain, mooring warps and 6 fenders.
Sails
Slab reefing mainsail (ADM Sails 2018) with mainsail cover (2018). Genoa roller reefing system (2018) with furling genoa (ADM Sails 2018). Alloy mast and boom. Stainless steel standing rigging replaced 2015.
Domestic
Her galley has a gas cooker with 2 burners, oven and grill, water supply to sink from 30 gallon water tank. Hot and cold water via engine calorifier. Marine toilet in separate heads compartment. Recent waterproof upholstery, new curtains.
ACCOMMODATION
5/6 berths.
Owners Comments
I purchased Globetrotter in Holland in 2004, together with my friend. We sailed her from Holland to Walton on the Naze in October 2004. The running and standing rigging were all replaced in 2005. In 2005 I sailed to the boat around Lands End to Glasgow. I bought my fiend out of his share in 2006. In 2006 I sailed to the Western Isles and through the Caledonian
Canal to Inverness on the Moray Firth. In 2008 I sailed the boat to Cuxhaven on the river Elbe, then through the Kiel canal, and then around the Danish Islands and then back to Cuxhaven. I tried to bring the boat back to Walton that year, but due to persistent winds above force five from the west, the Elbe exit was not navigable. The boat therefore came back from Cuxhaven in 2009 in a single leg of 110 hours.
Between 2010 and 2017, the boat was sailed for about 2 to 3 weeks a year on the Thames estuary Rivers. In 2017/18 Richard Wyatt of Bedwell and I decided the engine needed replacing and other parts were also replaced then. From 2018 till currently, the Boat has continued to do brief trips around the Thames estuary rivers . The engine (new engine) has been used less than 80 hours, and has been properly winterised and serviced every year.
It is hard to let such a dear old friend go, but I am not steady on a foredeck in a blow anymore. I have sailed her in full gales in the Irish sea and the Baltic. She is still fully seaworthy, and the work she would need to bring her to perfection (as far as that is possible in a boat of her age) is largely cosmetic. I hope somebody will find the pleasure in skippering her and/or using her for family cruising that I have.