C C Custom 40 Sloop "Red Jacket"

Harris & Ellis Yachts is honoured to present RED JACKET for sale…a veritable Canadian sailing icon. This is a rare chance to own a remarkable piece of Canadian sailing history. She is in remarkably good conditions with many upgrades and refits throughout the years. RED JACKET truly is launch-ready and able to start a new season of racing with little to no prep.

In 1965, Canadian yachtsman Perry Connolly commissioned Cuthbertson and Cassian to design a custom 40- foot (12m) racing sloop. Connolly requested the “meanest, hungriest 40 footer afloat”. The boat, named RED JACKET was built by Bruckmann Manufacturing in fiberglass with a balsa core; the resulting structure was and still is strong, stiff and significantly lighter than the wood or solid fiberglass yachts that were sailing at the time. RED JACKET is considered to be the first sailboat engineered with a cored hull. She was launched in May 1966 and took 11 out of 13 starts that summer. That winter RED JACKET headed south and won the famed SORC (Southern Ocean Racing Circuit) competing against over 85 of the best racers of the day. RED JACKET was the first Canadian boat to win the SORC.

RED JACKET has an aft cockpit and a fractional rig and the fin keel is lead. The hull has been refinished in white Awlgrip with a double blue boot top stripe and a gold sheer accent. The decks and superstructure are also white (refinished) with a tan nonskid texture on horizontal surfaces. The layout of the vessel is, from forward, an open forepeak. Next aft is the head to starboard with a chest locker opposite to port. The saloon comprises a settee, pilot berth, chart table and quarterberth to port with a settee, pilot berth and galley to starboard. The Pathfinder diesel engine with v-drive is under the companionway and steering is by wheel. The cockpit has a deep seat locker to port with incorporated LPG locker.

RED JACKET’s most recent major refit was in 2007 at Bruckmann Yachts with most electrical and electronic systems updated. She boasts a very favourable appraisal survey from 2020.

General Equipment

• Anchor: Danforth anchor with chain and rode
• Batteries: 3 x 12v house batteries and 1 x 12v starting battery
• Battery Charger: Pro Mar 10 amp charger
• Battery Parallel Switch
• Battery Switch Vapor Proof
• Bilge Pumps: 1 Manual
• Bilge Pumps: 2 Electric
• Storage Cradle: 8-pad folding steel cradle
• Fenders: 5
• Head: Manual Jabsco
• Pressured Water
• Screens on Ports
• Shore Power Inlets: 1
• Shore Power Amps: 30 amp
• Shore Power Cord Length: 1 x 34 feet
• Survey Year: Appraisal Survey from 2020
• Teak and Holly Cabin Sole

Galley

• Refrigerator: 110-volt Coolmatic refrigeration
• Stove with Oven: Shipmate LPG with oven

Safety Equipment

• Boat Hook
• Fire Extinguishers: 3
• Fume Detector
• Horn
• Life Ring
• Life Jackets: 6
• 3 Safety Harnesses and 2 Jack Lines

Electronics

• Chart-Plotter: Ray Marine E80 and Standard Horizon GPS Chart 150
• Compasses: Ritchie on binnacle and Saturn at chart table
• Depth Sounder: B&G System H3000
• Knot Meter: B&G System H3000
• Sum Log: B&G System H3000
• Wind Speed Indicator: B&G System H3000
• AM/FM/CD Stereo: Sony
• VHF with DSC: Standard Horizon Quest GX 1500S
• Inverter: 1500 watts

Canvas Info

• Colour: Beige
• Mainsail Cover
• Pedestal Cover

Sails and Rigging

• Keel Type: Fin
• Rig: Fractional Sloop (Klacko Spars - new in 2000)
• Spar Material: Aluminum
• Rigging: SS Rod Rigging
• Mainsail Traveler: Harken coach roof traveler

Sail Inventory: There are a total of 14 sails for Red Jacket.

4 spinnakers

• .50 oz. masthead
• .60 oz. masthead
• .75 oz. masthead
• 1.50 oz. masthead

10 upwind sails

• Evolution laminate mainsail (very good condition, repaired by North Sails in June 2022)
• Evolution laminate mainsail #2 (good condition)
• Light #1 genoa (good condition)
• 7 other sails that have not been recently inspected, mostly headsails, but in good condition

Also included:

• Spinnaker Poles: 2 – 1 x aluminum and 1 x carbon fiber
• Back Stay Adjuster: Navtec hydraulic
• Boom Vang: Navtec hydraulic vang
• Topping Lift
• Emergency Tiller
• Man Overboard Pole
• Propeller: 2–bladed folding Martec RH19D x 18 x 3

Winches Self-Tailing and Standard:

• In the cockpit are 2 x Barient # 32ST primaries and 2 x Barient # 30 secondaries.
• On the coach roof aft are: 1 x Harken # 53ST and 1 x Barient # 32ST.
• Amidships there are: 1 x Barient # 27ST, 1 x Barient # 23ST, 2 x Barient # 26 and 2 x Barient # 22.
•  Winch Handles: 4
• Wheel Steering: Edson

Disclaimer

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.