Cape George Pilothouse Cutter

Built by Cecil M. Lang & Sons of Port Townsend, Washington, for the purpose of sailing earth's higher latitudes. Strength, safety and maintainability are evident throughout.

The vessel was painstakenly crafted over a ten year period. The attention to detail is evident in all aspects of the ship's systems and finish. The use of stainless steel for trim, titanium for strength, select hard woods for accent is extraordinary.

BIG BIRD is a quality custom yacht built to highest standards, as relative today as when she was launched.       

36' Cape George Pilothouse Cutter

Year: 1985/1995

Builder: Cecil M. Lange Boatbuilders

Designer: William Atkin

Dimensions

LOD: 36’

LOA: 40'

LWL: 32'

Beam: 10'6"

Draft: 5'0"

Displacement: 27,000 lbs

Ballast: 12,000 lbs

Tankage

Fuel: 150 gals.

Water: 140 gals.

Holding: 20 gals.

Accommodations

Pilothouse

360 degree visibility

Western style reverse angle windshield with visor

Settee with upholstered seating

Work shop stairway under settee

Nav station with chart table

Port and starboard side deck access

Dorade vent on roof

Teak hand rails

Stainless steel trim on companionway

Windshield wipers

Air horn with compressed air tank

Work Shop

Stairway access from pilot house settee

Teak sole with gloss finish

Ship’s systems access

Ship’s storage

Main Salon

Settees port and starboard

Book shelves with gloss finish fiddles

Bronze opening ports 12” X 5” (6), round 5” (2)

Teak table with gloss finish

Wood paneling around ports with gloss finish

Wood wainscoting on overhead with gloss finish

Gloss finish deck beams

Stainless steel hand rails

Kerosene lamps (2)

Engine room provided by mechanical lifting box

Salon table with large chart drawer

Master Stateroom

Double berth

Mattress 5”

Opening ports

Shelf storage with fiddles

Drawer storage below berth

Settee to starboard

Drawer storage over & under settee

Stainless steel trim

Head

Stainless steel sink

Stainless steel trim

Stainless steel fiddles

Stall shower with overhead deck hatch

Opening port

Galley

Seaward propane stove and oven

Self contained refrigerator, 12 volt

Stainless Steel sink

Pressure hot and cold water

Stainless steel bows sprit is plumbed as pressure tank

Stainless steel hot water heater 110v heating element, or by engine

Fresh Water pump: Foot

Storage is enormous

Counter Space with stainless steel fiddles

Built-in dish racks, bottle storage, glassware storage

Electronics

Garmin 740 S touch screen GPS plotter 2012

Garmin 400 color moving chart 2010

Garmin 40 depth sounder 2010

Compass (2) Ritchie one each pilot house and cockpit

VHF radio Shakespeare SE 2510

Autopilot; Woods Freeman model 420

Saye’s Rig Self wind vane, with custom wide vane which operates a trim tab on the rudder

Mechanical

MWM Mannheim Diesel

HP: 75 hp

Model: D208

Hours: 1500

Tachometer

Hour meter

Engine temperature & oil pressure gauges  

Vacuum guage

Borg Warner transmission

Prop shaft log water cooled

4 bladed 20” prop

Engine manuals

Electrical System

12 Volt DC System with breaker panel

Batteries: (4) 6-volt 2013 & (2) 12 volt 2014

Total Amp hours 400

Freedom 10 inverter 1000W

Link battery Monitoring Systems

120 volt AC Blue Seas panel

AC receptacles Hubbell GFCI outlets

Newmar Galvanic Isolator

Honda 2KW generator 2010

Sails & Rigging

Harken Genoa furler 2010

Harken staysail furler 2010

Standing rigging new in 2002

Barient Genoa winches (2)

Mast halyard winches (3)

UK Yankee 2002

UK Staysail 2002

UK Mainsail 2002

Sail covers 2012

Double spreader rig with mast head jumpers

Mast is a tapered spun aluminum extrusion

Stainless steel bow sprit with teak cat walks

Stainless steel mast brace

Stainless steel spreaders

Stainless steel halyard guides

Standing rigging, running rigging, upgraded 2000

Main sail track is a stainless steel grid allowing for a 10” mast separation for the main sail, creating added main sail lift

Stainless steel bow sprit

Spun aluminum main boom

Spun aluminum staysail boom

Stainless steel spreaders fitted with vertical tubes for shrouds

Titanium chain plates (6)

Mast crows nest

Aft Cockpit

Bench seating with gloss finish

Tiller steering

Main sheet traveler

Main sheet winch

Stainless steel stern pulpit

Mounted stern anchor with rode

FBG deck box with teak top finished in gloss

Compass

View of nav instruments thru PH window

Hull & Deck

Raised teak deck hatch on foredeck with gloss finish

High bulwarks for safety at sea

Hull hand laid in 1985 boat completed 1995

Hull build by Cecil Lange

Solid fiberglass hull utilizing vinylester resin

Deck of Sapele, Jequitiba and Douglas fir plywood glassed over

Port Orford cedar beams

Vessel finished by Leonard Skoog,

Built by Skoog as personal boat

1995 until 2000 the boat was barely sailed

Bought in 2000 by Mark Gustafson, additional upgrades

Stainless steel bow pulpit

Stainless steel life line stanchions

Stainless steel bow sprit

Stainless steel mast security bar

Stainless steel hand rails on coach roof

Teak rub rails with SS striker plate

Titanium rudder post

Additional Specifications & Items

Seahook 70 pound anchor

Chain storage in the forepeak 300’ 0f chain

Anchor and chain mount on hull SS striker

Kolstrand Forfjoird stren anchor 40# with rode

Anchor wash down pump

Lofrans electric Windlass rebuild 2011

Anchor 70# Seahook on 150 of 3/8 chain

Storm anchor 40# Danforth 3/8 in chain

Whale Titan gusher pump

Man Overboard Equipment: life ring, jack lines

Teak dorade boxes with stainless cowls (2)

Comments

Big Bird is built to a William Atkins design, hull and deck built by Cecil M. Lang, shipwrights of Port Townsend, Washington. Built for the purpose of cruising the higher latitudes of the world, strength is evident throughout.

The interior was painstakenly crafted over a ten year period. The attention to detail is extraordinary, stainless steel used throughout as trim, titanium used for chain plates and rudder post, select woods beautifully finished to accent the interior, all combine to create an extraordinary custom yacht.

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