The Ship
Coelacanth is a Hutting 40 full-keeler built in 2001 by Frisian Hutting Yachts. The name Coelacanth goes back to the 400-million-year-old “living fossil” fish thought to be extinct, but rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
Her hull is aluminium with a length of 12.1 m, width 3.6 m, draught 1.6 m, displacement 13.4 tons (half of it cast-in lead ballast). She’s cutter-rigged, mast 16 m, main sail 42 m², yankee 39 m², stay sail 16 m², gennaker 112 m². The engine is a Yanmar 4JH2-TE (63 hp) fed by a 500 litre diesel tank. Steering is by Whitlock, Raymarine autopilot ACU-400 with EV-1 sensor, Windpilot Pacific windvane.