Ketch BOUDIGNON 12m

Cetace is the first boat in the series of 15 'Flamand', built by the famous Boudignon* yard in Arles. The special care taken during its construction enabled it to obtain a C.I.M. measurement certificate with awards for quality and originality for being the first boat in a prestigious series.

* The design was by Louis Vernette . The Flamand model as well as the Cap Nord from the Boudignon yard are by Louis Vernette. Back in early 1932, the famous English Royal Corinthian Yacht Club launched a competition for a small sailboat capable of sailing the high seas with high performance. From over 60 designs submitted from all over the world, the judges awarded the trophy to a Frenchman, Louis Vernette, merchant navy commander, Cap Hornier. Since then, Vernette has designed numerous small, highly seaworthy boats including the 8.40 m Drakkar, the Camargue, the 9.30 m Socotroi, the 8.40 m Cap Horn, the 10.50 m Cap Nord and the 11.60 m Flamand.

In order to facilitate manoeuvring, Cetace is equipped with a boomed foresail with  sheet in the cockpit, where all the sheets of the jib, mizzen and mainsail are manoeuvred. The mainmast is fitted with false (fixed) backstays that simplify and limit manoeuvring to just the mizzen running backstays  in strong winds. The rigging also allows a mizzen staysail  which gives the boat power and speed when running  or with slack winds. Finally, a small removable bowsprit allows the use of a Code Zero 40 m2 roller for additional sail area in light breezes.

Engine: Volvo Penta Type: 2003 No.: 230 0059 831 Installed in 2021 Power: 30 HP Hour meter: 904 hours. Vetus fuel tank 80 litres.

RIGGING / SAILS

Masts and boom in Oregon pine, their varnish is refreshed every year and every 3 years the masts are put on the ground  for checks and fully painted. 8 mm and 6 mm stainless steel rigging.

Winches: 2 Barbarossa 2-speed

Cockpit equipment: yankee sheets, foresail, mainsail, mizzen

Bowsprit: removable ( for Code zero )

Equipment Code 0; complete with 2019 furler

2 Yankee:  2013

Staysail: 1 reef- 2013

Mainsail: 2 reefs 2013

Mizzen Sataysail : blue color- 2013

Mizzen: 2 reefs- 2013

Tiller and emergency tiller

EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT

Gangway: mahogany

Cockpit: teak,Cockpit table: teak

Bathing ladder: mahogany

Anchors: C.Q.R 35 lr + FOB 14,5 kg,Windlass: Simpson Lawrence 500

Mooring: 80m of 10m chain + 50m of 14mm synthetic rope

Bilge pump: double acting starboard cockpit

4 x 3.5 kg gas tanks with regulators for refrigerator and cooker

ELECTRICITY / ELECTRONICS / MISCELLANEOUS

Log, speedometer,Compass: 130 diameter in cockpit,Echo sounder,Autopilot,V.H.F

Shore power cable: 20 m,220 V circuit with circuit breaker,12 V circuit; on switchboard,Battery charger: 8 A ,Batteries: 2 X 95 A, 2023

 In 1962, a Parisian lawyer ordered this ketch from the Boudignon yard, which would be the first Flamant to leave its workshops. The Boudignon shipyard, located in Arles, built mainly wooden fishing boats,and important pleasure sailboats. INCONSTANT is her first name and will be little used by Jean Claude Aubry, her first owner, who will sell her on 2 March 1974 to an engraver and medal sculptor, Cardot Claude and his wife, who will call her ARVI-PA. With her new owners, she would sail during the summer and be a point of reference for the whole family. A few years later, in 1985, she became CETACE and for 38 years the owner has shared his life with her. Her base is Villefranche sur mer.

CONSTRUCTION 

Cetace has a 3.5 tonns cast iron ballast mounted on a lead sole adhered to the oak keel,so that the cast iron is not in direct contact with the wooden keel and corrosion of the wood by contact with ferrous material is avoided. Stainless steel keel bolts.  The hull structure is composed of hot-bent double beech ribs, copper riveted to the planking and joined to the keel structure by bolted oak floors. Longitudinal knee stringers and gunwale stringers. The planking consists of 25 mm mahogany planks riveted with copper riveted nails (5000). Watertightness is ensured by a traditional caulking of cotton, oakum and putty. The deck is 10 mm plywood originally covered with a laminate layer screwed onto 60 mm by 80 mm section beams, on which an old-fashioned glued and nailed teak deck was fitted in 2010. The caulking and sikkaflex seams  of the teak deck are from 2018.The superstructures are solid mahogany.The bulkheads are 10 mm marine plywood. The mast is stepped  on the keel. the deck passage is reinforced with mahogany deck partners between the deckhouse planking . The mizzen mast  is supported by a galvanised steel frame. The rudder, on the keel extension, is solid mahogany. The axle,fittings and accessories are in stainless steel.

INTERIOR /ACCOMMODATION

CETACE is a very comfortable boat and easy to carry by two people, but 4 guests fit very well Its mahogany interior is elegant, very well finished and with marine details .The cabin has a double berth to starboard with anti-roll protection and a double wardrobe with three shelves to port. The washroom is also to starboard with a marine toilet, washbasin and shower compartment, and to port is a large, tall foul weather gears cupboard with storage above.The saloon consists of a U-shaped sofa that can be converted into a double bed and a sofa/berth opposite on the port side.The galley consists of a sink, cooker and cupboards. There is also a refrigerator powered by 220v at the dock or gas at sea. The chart table on the starboard side can be converted into a bunk (perfect for children).Chart table: 50 x 80 cm with storage. 220 V water heater: 15 litres. Fridge: 220 V and 12 V and gas. Gas cooker: 2 burners.Fire extinguishers: 2. Water tanks: 2 to starboard and port 100-litre stainless steel tanks. Bilge pumps: 1 electric with automatic, 1 manual, 1 emergency.

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