Lyman-Morse Fontaine 65

SARAH JANE is a Ted Fontaine designed world cruiser built by Lyman-Morse and superbly finished by the craftsman at Dana Robes boatbuilder. She features a relatively heavy displacement and shoal draft centerboard configuration for exceptional sea kindliness and rare access to shallower cruising grounds given her board up draft of only 6'. Her powerful sail plan and deep centerboard enhance performance in all conditions. Commissioned to bring her owners and family around the world in safety and comfort, everything about the yacht is first class. Once aboard you quickly notice SARAH JANE is fit with equipment often found on much larger yachts. After spending many winters stored indoors, she is in excellent condition and has always been cared for by her Captain and Owner. SARAH JANE features a 3-cabin layout with mahogany joinery, walk-in engine and machinery area, and a spacious enclosed pilothouse area with comfortable seating for dining and great views all around. SARAH JANE is a proven bluewater yacht ready to go on her next adventure. Thorough list of mini refit items from 2022-2024 available upon request.

The hull is molded fiberglass laid-up by hand and vacuum bagged with a 30mm thick, non-scored, Core-Cell foam core and solid fiberglass at the sheer, centerline and in the area of all thru-hulls. Balsa core used behind the rub rail in the hull. The deck and superstructure is molded fiberglass laid up by hand with a core of Core-Cell and additional reinforcement at the deck/hull area. West ProSet epoxy laminating resin used.

Bulwark covered with a varnished teak caprail. Custom folding cockpit table with base constructed using stainless steel and varnished teak tabletop. Grabrails on the top of the pilothouse roof around perimeter of brow, cockpit coaming backrests have a rebated inboard grabrail in combination with the teak caprail. Engine room with a closed bilge and watertight door. FRP constructed rudder with FRP rudder stock and internal reinforcements. Split trailing edge with a kick up blade. All thru-hull fittings of bronze, screwed and bolted in place and fitted with a seacock. Ballast 27,000 lbs. Internal lead poured into keel. FRP constructed main centerboard with pin bearing, internal ballast, and pennant sheave. Draft measurement with centerboard up is 5'-11", with centerboard down is 15'. Edson 54" SS steering wheel with standard sprocket and chain. Emergency steering by means of a separate stainless steel emergency tiller.

Accommodations include a forepeak containing the anchor handling gear and chain locker with a short watertight door between the owner’s stateroom and forepeak. Owner’s stateroom spans the width of the boat with wide port and starboard bunks forward, lockers, bookshelves, hanging locker, owner’s desk, teak and holly sole, and owner’s head with stall shower. Main saloon has a U-shaped settee with an oval teak dining table and bookshelves, lockers for crockery and glasses, pop-up TV, and teak sole. Galley with U-shaped counter, twin basin sink, Bradwater 4-burner stove/oven, microwave, freezer box, refrigeration box, Sea Frost DC compressor and holding plates. Guest stateroom contains a twin single, hanging locker, small bureau, teak and holly sole, and head with separate stall shower. Utility room/starboard state room is a combination utility room and captain’s cabin with twin bunk berths and insulated watertight door into the engine room. Pilot house has a U-shaped settee to port with teak table, navigation station on starboard side facing forward, pilot berth, chart and navigation tool storage, large hatch in sole for engine room access, and wipers on forward windows.

Engine room contains the main engine, generator, steering, water maker, air conditioning, heating, hydraulics, spare parts and tools, and other miscellaneous pumps and equipment. Proper guards and handholds protect machinery and occupants. Sound insulation finished in perforated aluminum panels. Sole is FRP pultruded grating installed in easily removable sections. Interior styling in traditional raised-panel mahogany with solid mahogany molding, painted V-groove hull ceilings, fabric-covered overhead panels, teak soles, deck hatches with mosquito screens and blinds, sliding hatch in pilothouse with sliding screen and blind, deck prisms, lee cloths with eyebolts, watertight doors for engine room, handrails, teak grabrails hung from overhead, and Hans Grohe plumbing fixtures.

Electrical system includes 120/240 VAC 60 Hz single-phase and 12/24V DC systems with complete bonding and grounding, lightning protection, cathodic protection with zinc anodes, battery banks for main engine and generator starting, service batteries, solar panels on pilothouse roof and bimini, wind generator mounted on stainless steel mast at transom, shore cable with fittings, Heart Interface Freedom 25 inverter, battery chargers, alternators on main engine and generator, Mastervolt regulator, interior lighting with overhead lamps, down lights, berth lamps, red footlights, AC power sockets, GFI type receptacles, dimmer switching, navigation lighting, and exterior lighting on mid boom and boom for aft deck.

Navigation equipment includes B&G sailing instruments for speed, wind, depth with Hydra 2000 displays in cockpit and pilot house, B&G autopilot display at helm and pilot house, Raymarine radar on mast on aft deck, GPS/Plotter/Radar Raymarine Hybrid-Touch in pod at pedestal, and Ritchie compass at cockpit steering station. Communication equipment includes ICOM VHF at nav station with remote in cockpit, handheld VHF, and ICOM IC-M710 SSB in pilothouse utilizing backstay as antenna. Entertainment equipment includes stereos in owner’s cabin, saloon, and guest cabin.

Main engine is Cummins 6BT5.9M, 6 cylinder turbo charged with 2000 hours, 210 hp, variable pitch Hundested VP-3 FR-EL propeller, alternator for charging service/start batteries, combined raw water/bilge pump, ZF IRM 220A 2.04:1 gearbox, single lever control at helmsman position in sailing cockpit with second station in pilot house, variable pitch propeller controlled with push-button electric relay system, and Halyard water drop exhaust system with water exiting hull below water line. Bow and stern thrusters are Lewmar hydraulic bow thruster and Max stern thruster.

Generator is Northern Lights 13 kW with 6711 hours, 120/240 VAC 50 amps single phase 60 Hz, controlled at main electrical control panel with push buttons, gauges, alarms, and remote mount S-3C panels. Generator exhaust is Halyard water drop system with exit below waterline. GROCO lube oil pump in engine room with hose and container for filling and draining engines.

Anchoring equipment includes Lewmar 24v hydraulic windlass, primary anchor 110 lb Bruce, secondary anchor 75 lb CQR, storm anchor Fortress FX-85 (44 lbs), primary anchor rode with 7/16" hi-tensile link galvanized chain 275 feet, secondary anchor rode nylon anchor-rope 3/4" diameter 250 feet with 50 feet 7/16" H.T. chain, storm anchor rode nylon anchor-rope 1" diameter 250 feet with 40 feet 7/16" H.T. chain.

Mechanical systems include 50 feet deck wash hose with adjustable spray nozzle, Edson bilge pumps including 120ELA-40-200 24vdc 40 GPM 1 1/2" aluminum bilge pump in engine room, manual Edson 258AL seat riser 18 GPM 1 1/2" aluminum bilge pump in cockpit, Edson 165AL-30-150 portable manual pump kit 30 GPM 1 1/2" aluminum, Jabsco engine driven 62 GPM 1 1/4" manual clutch flexible impeller bilge pump on main engine connected to wash outlet on deck with 3-way valve to thru-hull with strainer.

Fuel system includes fuel supply and return manifold in engine room, duplex fuel filters with water alarm and pressure differential gauge for main engine Racor 75-900 MAX-P, single fuel filter with water alarm for generator Racor 500 MA-P, and fuel transfer pump.

Freshwater system includes two non-integral composite freshwater tanks with level indicator, inspection ports, vent pipes, deck fill, water maker fill, freshwater manifold, two bronze freshwater pumps 24 Volt in series with 6.4 gallon pressure tank with different pressure settings for primary and secondary pumps, Sea Recovery SRC600AM water maker with 600 gal/day capacity, 230V 60Hz power, and 20 gallon 230 volt water heater connected to main engine heat exchange lines.

Tanks include four vapor-proof composite non-integral fuel tanks with total capacity of 1,430 US gallons (5,420 L), two epoxy-coated non-integral composite freshwater tanks with total capacity of 400 US gallons (1,500 L), two grey water holding tanks with total capacity approx. 75 US gallons (280 L) with inspection hatch, tank connections, and vent topside with odor filters, and two holding tanks for toilets with approx. 75 US gallons (280 L) capacity with inspection hatch, tank connections, and vent topside with odor filters.

Firefighting system includes fixed system in engine room, portable extinguishers in forepeak, owner’s stateroom, main salon, galley, aft stateroom, engine room, lazarette, remote fire alarm system, and fire alarm system.

Grey water system includes sump system with Whale Gulper 220 shower sump pump, grey water tanks for storage of water from showers, sinks, and washer, and Sealand T-24 VDC pump.

Toilet and holding tank system includes two Vacuflush toilets with outlets into holding tank flushed with fresh water, one holding tank for toilets, and holding tank emptied by overboard discharge pump.

Ventilation system includes 24v fan blowers for engine room ventilation, air duct from deck into lazarette, extraction fans ducted to exterior for head/showers, nine Hella fans total for cabins, and fan ducted to exterior for galley ventilation.

Domestic equipment includes Broadwater 4-burner gimbaled stove with oven, microwave powered by inverter, Meile washer and dryer in engine room.

Refrigeration and freezer systems include Sea Frost DC compressors with holdover plates, two custom-built FRP refrigerator and freezer boxes in galley insulated with 4" foam.

Air conditioning and heating include Marine Air units throughout main saloon, pilot house, forward cabin, aft guest cabin, aft crew cabin, and Espar D-24W heating.

Deck equipment includes Lewmar winches: main sheet 64 HST SS in cockpit forward starboard, outhaul/centerboard 64 HST SS in cockpit forward port, two jib sheets 77 HST SS in cockpit coaming, two staysail sheets 64 HST SS in cockpit coaming, main/genoa halyard 48 HST SS on cabin top, staysail halyard 48 ST SS on main mast, pole lift 48 ST SS on main mast. Lewmar winches are self-tailing, highly polished stainless steel with control positions close to each winch, all powered winches are 24 VDC, and 14 Lewmar Safety Electric Deck switches #69000018.

Hatches include 10 Rondal flush hatches: forepeak 32" x 32", foredeck 24" x 24", two forward head stateroom 16" x 18", three main saloon 24" x 24", two pilot house top 24" x 24", transom 66" x 48". All hatches are flush with self-draining gutters, trimmed in teak with tinted Lexan center except forepeak and transom. Forepeak hatch finished in teak to match deck, transom hatch painted to match hull. All deck hatches equipped with riser arms to hold hatch open in any position. Forepeak hatch equipped with gas pistons to hold hatch open to approximately 120 degrees.

Cockpit lockers are molded with integral self-draining gutters. Chain locker in forepeak. Cabinhouse ports include eight custom opening ports inside cabin house with hand and electro polished 316 stainless steel portlights with screw type closure knobs, oil resistant neoprene gaskets, tempered glass, angled spigots to prevent water collection, fiberglass screen with rubber gaskets. Hull ports are custom fixed ports.

Deck gear includes fourteen 1¼" diameter polished stainless steel stanchions thru-bolted to deck with two gates, pulpit and pushpit made out of 1¼" polished stainless steel tubing with nav, Lewmar deck hardware, genoa and staysail tracks, line jammers and clutches, eight 12" stainless steel mooring cleats, six stainless steel fairleads in bulwark, stainless steel bow in front of mast for hooking halyards, flagpole and stainless steel flagpole holder, stainless steel davits.

Canvas includes cockpit bimini covered with Sunbrella fabric with stainless steel frame, flexible cockpit enclosure with clear windows attaching to cockpit bimini frame. Transom door approximately 36" tall x 66" wide with access to lazarette and steering gear, door horizontal when opened. Lazarette sole finished with non-skid epoxy paint and includes access hatch for servicing steering gear. Helmsman cockpit seat locker hatch provides additional access to lazarette.

Safety equipment includes Switlik 12-person cylindrical soft valise life raft stowed in lazarette, personal flotation devices, flares, Class A EPIRB 406/121.5 MHz emergency position indicating beacon, Class C EPIRB for life raft, safety harness system, jacklines with harnesses, 7" diameter chrome plated brass ship’s bell, radar reflector, man overboard module mounted on port pushpit, lifesling on starboard pushpit, and medical kits.

Spars include carbon fiber mast, burgee block at mast head, four steps at mast top, ball bearing spinnaker pole track system, two stainless steel padeyes on lower spreaders for flag halyards, Enerpack mast jack system. Main boom is carbon fiber with internal preventer on centerline underside side of boom led forward to gooseneck, two internal cockpit lights. Spinnaker pole is carbon spinnaker pole stowed vertically on mast.

Rigging includes stainless steel standing rigging. Furling systems include headstay Harken hydraulic unit and inner forestay Harken hydraulic unit with hydraulic power provided by Lewmar 24 VDC power pack. Main mast furling is a hydraulic Seafurl unit mounted in mast.

Additional equipment includes Lewmar Commander 5 24 VDC power pack with multi-function manifold for headstay furler, inner forestay furler, mast furler, anchor windlass, sailing winch operations for 7 winches, ratchet handle for manual backup furling functions. Manual hydraulics include two main backstay cylinders, Navtec mechanical lock cylinder, Navtec boom vang, Navtec panel control panel mounted in cockpit, and hydraulic control panel mounted in cockpit.

Sails made by Maine Sailing Partners include main in-mast furling, Yankee/genoa, staysail, storm trysail cross-cut trysail slides to fit bronze T-track fastened to mast, coated wire tack and head pennants, storm jib cross-cut. Additional equipment includes fenders and lines, numerous spares, and tools.