1978 Murray Peterson Schooner

Absolutely gorgeous schooner with an overall length of 38 feet (30 feet on deck), built in Oakland in 1978 A replica of the famous Murray Peterson schooner "Coaster III", this boat is also fully functional and capable of going anywhere. She has been written up with a full photo spread and chosen as boat of the month in "Latitudes and Attitudes" magazine. ("Cruising the World under Sail", November 1998) Beautiful wood and appointments throughout with a strong monocoque hull.

There is a spacious aft cockpit with seating for five people and full reclining for and aft deck length port and starboard. Deck is Teak and surrounding taffrail is varnished Mahogany.

Bright Star has three compartments below, the galley aft, salon amidships, and sleeping cabin forward. All are finished in white paint and interior varnished Mahogany. Galley sole is Teak. She normally sleeps two persons up forward in two 6 Ft- 1 in. x 28 in. Vee berths. Two guests can sleep in convertible settee-berths amidships which make up to 6 Ft. 3 in. x 29 in.

The galley has a 3-burner propane stove with an oven, a sink, fresh water pump, icebox, and storage lockers. Propane lockers for two 2-1/2 gallon propane tanks are on deck, and propane is supplied to the galley by an electric operated external control valve. The salon has a gimbaled drop-leaf table, storage shelves and lockers. The sleeping compartment forward has a manual Wilcox-Crittenden marine head and foldout wash basin with a manual fresh water pump. Galley sink and wash basin drain to the bilge sump.

There is a VHF radio, depth sounder, and a 3 in. Richie compass, electric horn, and a complete set of code flags.

There is a 110-Volt AC shore power cord, marine bulkhead connector, and single distribution outlet in the galley. The vessel lighting and accessory power is 12 volt DC supplied by two 90 Ah batteries, a 110 Volt battery charger, and main engine alternator. Interior lights are 12-volt fluorescent fixtures in each compartment. There are two sets of deck lights at the spreaders, and ship's navigation lights, all 12 volts. Sidelights are dual kerosene and 12 volt fixtures.

Bright Star is a traditional gaff rigged schooner which is patterned after the Maine coastal fishing schooner "Coaster 3" yacht designed by Murray Peterson. She has two masts, a mainmast with a gaff-rigged mainsail and main topmast, a foremast with a gaff-rigged foresail and topmast, a club footed forestay-sail, and jib. There are provisions for main and jib top sails, and a jib topsail. Total working sail area is 505 sq ft.

Masts, booms, gaffs, bowsprit and jib-boom are clear air dried fir. Goosenecks, gaff jaws, standing rigging and most hardware is in stainless steel or bronze. The solid fir foremast (4 = in dia,) and solid fir mainmast (5 in dia) are stayed with traditional cross-trees and shrouds terminated in rock maple deadeyes and lanyards fastened to the hull with iron chain-plates. Running rigging is polyester yacht braid. Sails are by Pineapple Sails of Oakland CA. Mainsail and foresail are secured by mast hoops and headsails are hanked-on to stays. She has a clipper bow with bow sprit and jib-boom. There are chain bob stays, jib-boom shrouds, foot-ropes, martingale stays, and dolphin striker.

Length overall is 38 feet, length on deck is 30 feet. A strong monocoque hull is formed by strip-planked cedar, monel fastened to 1 3/4 in oak frames on 10 in. centers, which is then laminated with two layers of West System epoxy fiberglass from the keel shoe to topsides toe-rail. The continuous full length 1 in x 1 in Port Orford cedar hull planks are milled crown and curve, glued and screwed vertically and horizontally into the oak frames. There are no plank scarf joints below the water line. This laminated fiberglass over wood system provides a hull structure with uncommon strength and rigidity, and the wood is kept dry. The fiberglass hull has 5 layers of International epoxy barrier coat below the waterline, then bottom paint, and topsides are finish in Sterling linear polyurethane. Any bilge water goes to a fiberglass lined internal sump to assure that the wood hull interior is always dry. Decks and galley sole are 3/4 in thick Teakwood. Coach roof, taffrails, toerails, and interior joinery are in Honduras and Phillipine Mahogany.

The main engine (only engine) is a 1984 3-cylinder Universal 25 diesel engine, which powers the propeller shaft through a Hurt transmission and gear-belt drive. The propeller is a bronze three blade 13 x 8. Fuel is supplied from three tanks (totaling 60 Gal.) through a single Racor fuel filter and electric auxiliary fuel pump. The engine has a 30 Amp. Alternator to supply 12 VDC power and charge batteries. The engine instruments are located on a panel in the cockpit. Steering is by a wheel and Edson worm gear drive to the rudderpost. There is one manual and one electric bilge pump.

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.