Arcadia | Able Apogee 50' 1998

The owner of this incredible rare and sought-after vessel has loved Arcadia well and enjoyed making several New England/Canada passages and one Annapolis to Bermuda run on her. Over these years he has maintained Arcadia as they would their home. She is the ultimate comfortable cruising home for a couple or family who loves to sail far. This boat is extremely lightly used and again, has been maintained by one of the finest Yards in Annapolis, regardless of cost because he owns the Yard. It doesn’t get any better than this.

Arcadia combines the high-tech hull design for which Chuck Paine is famous with the warmth of a traditional yacht interior. A real teak and holly cabin sole accentuates the soft glow of fine cherry joinery with beautiful cherry bulkheads and lovely accents. Above the cherry furnishings bright maple ceiling planks surround the long windows, contributing to the light and airy feel. All of the wood pieces are impeccably cut and varnished.  Everything about the interior is as beautiful as it is reassuring. You have only to look around you to confirm that the boat was extremely well built. Able Marine employed many of Maine’s finest craftsmen. 

The interior design can be well appreciated at the dock but its brilliance fully emerges at sea. It is only in a seaway that the true genius of yacht design becomes apparent. Handholds are always within reach just where you want them. Furniture edges are nicely rounded and not just for beauty! The cabins, designed for safety at sea, are cozy and purposeful. Although space is ample there are no giant open spaces where you can be thrown across in rough seas. The forward cabin is the “owners’ stateroom.”  With a lovely double pullman berth 6’ 7” long two people two people can sleep in comfort. A separate dresser, large hanging locker, and comfortable reading chair completes the cabin. It is well lit with a large overhead hatch, two long windows, four overhead lights and three reading lights making the cabin a bright space at all hours. The large overhead hatch and two air scoops provide ample ventilation. With headroom 6’ 4” throughout the owners’ cabin and the main saloon, galley, nav station, head and inside the entrance to the aft cabin even the tallest of sailors will be pleased.

The aft cabin to PORT have upper and lower bunks, accessible through a cabin door at the base of the companionway port side, is an ideal bedroom when coming off watch. It is smaller than the owners’ cabin but comfortable, with a 6’ 8” long berths that varies from a 3’ 10” width at the back end to 4’ 11” at the forward end.   

To STARBOARD is the aft stateroom offering her guests and comfortable huge double berth, hanging locker, combination of large and small drawers, and wrap around shelves, provides comfort and storage for an owner or other crew members. 

The main saloon just aft of the forward bulkhead is traditional with port and starboard settees 6’ 8” long on either side of the cabin and a large centerline drop-leaf table. It is a traditional layout because it totally works! Of course there is the necessary built in liquor cabinet and flatware drawers  in the table. There is ample storage behind above and outboard of the settees with beautiful cabinetry. It is comfortable space for relaxing, dining and, for additional sleeping berths on a passage. A Chelsea clock and matching barometer are mounted on the forward bulkhead.

The galley and nav station are just aft in the main saloon area located near the companionway. These essential areas are beautifully designed with voyaging in mind. Separate white and red lighting systems in the aft cabin, galley and at the base of the companionway allow crew members to come on and off watch without impairing night vision. It’s just one more feature that reveals the designer’s attention to detail.

The nav station is more than just a place to navigate. It is a ships office. The chart table is on starboard and faces outboard and is huge. The nav station is surrounded by all the ships instruments with displays, monitoring gauges, navigation equipment, radar and chart plotter, and communications equipment including the VHF radio, single side band radio, and Iridium Satellite phone. The ship’s office is a perfect spot to sit and relax or plan your next passage.

The galley to port is U-shaped, with entry from forward salon and is also something you appreciate even more underway. It is designed with wrap around counters and cabinets to provide a secure working space in all sea conditions. All that without sacrificing amenities because you have everything you need with a propane stove and oven, microwave, heavily insulated refrigeration and freezer compartments, and stainless steel sink. Louvered storage areas above and below the counters complete the galley. Hatches and air scoops above the galley and nav station keep them airy, and the hatches combine with overhead lights and long windows to keep them bright.

Everything is designed with purpose and safety in mind and as you’ll spend a lot of time below decks, it is lovely and comfy also. The cushions throughout the boat are in excellent condition. Her interior still looks brand new. You will be very pleased with everything you see.

The living quarters we’ve described are essentially a boat inside the boat with all the “business end” located in specifically designed spaces at the bow and at the aft end. You will be amazed at how well thought out all the storage and systems installations are.  At the bow, there is a large walk-in storage area, accessible from the forward cabin through a watertight door and also accessed from the deck through a large hatch. This fabulous feature gives you room for sail bags, fenders, lines, and all your other equipment. At the aft end of the living space a watertight door provides access to the amazing full width engine room and work space, housing all of the boat’s mechanical systems.  . This mechanical space is home to the Yanmar diesel engine, steering system, refrigeration and water making equipment, as well as storage compartments for years’ worth of filters, spare parts, and tools. At sea as well as at the dock, the engine and other mechanical systems can be accessed and tended do in an instant without the need to disassemble anything.  Three fuel tanks hold enough diesel to motor from Annapolis to Bermuda with many gallons to spare. 

The accommodations don’t stop with the interior of the boat. The thought that went into the interior carries through to the cockpit, where the highly desirable and unique “hard top dodger” enables two crew members to sit and operate the boat in comfort, surrounded on three sides by wrap around soft windows, while enjoying protection from the weather. Aft of the cozy space under the dodger there is ample space to lounge under the protection of a Bimini or sit in the sun all within the safety of the high cockpit coamings. Solid stainless steel railings surrounding the cockpit provide a lot more security than those little wire “life lines”.

This is a sailing yacht of the highest order build for the demands of the sea and providing the comfort and security that enable you to have a great time while passage making across oceans.

Creature Comforts

• Beautiful interior with lovely cherry joinery, beautiful light and ventilation
• Heating and cooling systems keep the boat comfortable year round
• Webasto diesel forced air heater with ducts in every cabin - warm and dry
• Reverse cycle Air conditioning system operates with shore power to cool or heat the boat
• Great ventilation thanks to large hatches and fans in every cabin
• Stereo radio and CD changer with great sound system down below and cockpit, FULL 2PT NMEA 2000 Backbone throughout, with Wifi booster
• Hard top dodger is brilliant, safe, warm, dry, and comfortable
• Lovely comfortable cockpit with bimini for sun protection
• The aft of the cockpit is literally a back porch
• Sugar scoop transom with swim ladder and shower provides easy access for swimmers as well as an easy way on and off the dinghy

The galley of the Apogee 50 is one of the best designed galleys for safety at sea. It is secure in a seaway with wrap around counter space and it is designed to work as well on a passage as it does at anchor. The Force 10 stove, new in 2018, has three burners with an oven and the essential broiler. The microwave mounted within a louvered cabinet is great to have in the tropics or anywhere for that matter. The refrigeration system is excellent. It is a 12 volt Frigaboat system that keeps the separate top opening refrigerator and freezer compartments as cold as you like and It has proven to be  reliable and efficient. The separately controlled refrigerator and freezer compartments are well insulated and easily managed. The double stainless steel sink located on about the centerline has pressure water with a water mixing faucet. The Seagull filter water system provides water for drinking and cooking. There are foot pumps for  fresh water and sea water which is a wonderful thing. I like the hands free element and also sea water for filling pots and prewashing dishes. I just like saving water even if there is a watermaker. I like the seventeen square feet of counter space also. It is great to spread out with ample work space. There is plenty of space for galley ware and ships stores. A cabinet almost seven feet long with sliding louvered doors runs the full length of the galley, providing ideal storage for plates and glasses in one compartment and leaving two others for stores. An open shelf running atop the full length of the cabinet provides additional storage space behind a tall fiddle. A custom rack attached to a ceiling panel above that cabinet securely holds eight wine glasses. A second cabinet above the refrigerator and freezer provides several square feet of additional storage alongside the microwave. Two compartments for pots and pans, a large trash bin, and draws for silverware and other utensils, are located beneath the countertops. With other storage spaces in the main saloon and other cabins you will have had no trouble stocking the boat with enough food, beverages and other supplies to feed a four person crew for a month.

Galley Details:

• Incredible counter space
• U shaped galley with nice space, light, and air
• Ample storage in cabinets and drawers
• Good access to the cockpit
• Frigaboat 12 v refrigeration system for refrigerator and freezer
• Refrigerator is top opening
• Separate freezer top opening
• Force 10, three-burner propane stove with oven and broiler 2017
• Microwave
• Double deep stainless steel sinks
• Hot and cold pressure water with mixing faucet
• Seagull filter water system
• Fresh and sea water foot pumps
• Trash bin
• Spice storage
• Drawers for utensils and flatware
• Cutting board
• Liquor storage

Propane for galley stove 

• Starboard deck locker
• Properly vented with solenoid
• Two 20 lb tanks to run the stove

Plumbing Details:

• 300 gallons of water in two tanks
• Deck fill
• Universal Aqua watermaker 500 gallons per day
• Two bathrooms located aft at the companionway with a stall shower and forward in Master stateroom
• Sink with vanity and cabinet space
• Two electric toilets, one fresh, the second salt water
• New head hoses in 2018
• Two holding tanks, 20 gallons with tank gauges
• Deck pump out
• Diverter valve for direct overboard discharge
• Pressure water pump
• 15 gallon hot water heater operates with 110v and engine heat exchanger.

Engine room and mechanical space is the entire center and aft section of the boat extending the entire beam of the boat. There is excellent access to this space with the main engine and all the mechanical systems along with storage for all the engine spares and supplies. The mechanical space is accessed through the watertight door from the aft port stateroom which has the upper and lower berths.. An overhead hatch can be opened from the cockpit to bath the engine room in sunlight. It is simply fabulous. The vessel is powered by a Yanmar 88hp turbocharged diesel. The drive train is connected through a V drive to a 1 ¼ inch prop shaft turning a feathering three-blade MaxProp with line cutters. The engine has been maintained to the highest standards. It’s in early mid-life with less than 2700 hours on the meter and it has just undergone a very deep maintenance to inspect and renew and replace anything and everything that did not look perfect. The dripless shaft seal and cutlass bearing were installed prior to the 2018 season during this recent inspection and maintenance process. The owners simply instructed “THEIR” finest mechanic in a particularly fine yard (Seller owned) and examine everything and do whatever it took to assure worry free operation.

The engine is supplied by three aluminum fuel tanks; two 70 gallon tanks and one 80 gallon tank for a total of 220 gallons of fuel.  At 2000 rpm, and a cruising speed of approximately 7.5 knots, the burn rate is less than 1.5 gallons per hour which is a good number for conservative planning purposes.   A range of about 800 miles is expected in most conditions. The dual Racor filters provide a nice comfort in that you can instantly switch filters with the flick of a valve without shutting down the engine. The engine and filters are easily accessed simply by walking through a watertight door from the head to the engine room.  Filters and other spare parts are at your fingertips in boxes and trays that are securely attached.

MECHANICAL:

• Yanmar 4JH2-HT (rated 88 hp) with recent deep maintenance
• Hours 2651
• Shaft 11/4 inch
• Cutlass bearing new in 2019
• PSS dripless shaft seal new 2019
• PYI Max Prop three blade
• Fuel – 200 gallons in three tanks
• Fuel burn about 1.50 gallon per hour at 2000 rpm
• Cruising range about 750 miles
• Dual Racor fuel filters
• Gerco sea water strainer
• Electric oil change pump
• Excellent engine room access in watertight mechanical space
• Engine room blower
• Fire suppression system
• Steering system cable on quadrant
• Emergency tiller
• Receipts for major items available
• Annual service
• Maintenance spares, filters, belts, impellers

Other Mechanicals

• Cruisair AC systems 16,000 btu and 8,000 btu
• Wabasto diesel heater
• Frigaboat12v Refrigeration

DC 12v Electrical System

• Total over 900 amp hours of batteries
• Start Battery – One LITHIUM battery new in 2019
• House bank  - three LITHIUM batteries 2019 TOTAL 900 Amp hours
• Main engine has high output Custom alternator 250 amps
• Small Yanmar with high output Balmar alternator  provides  additional charging source.
• DC electrical breaker panel
• 12 Volt Systems:
• Voltmeter and Amp meter
• Frigaboat 12v refrigeration compressor
• Aqua Signal Nav lights new port and starboard deck level nav lights
• Tri-color masthead navigation light - LED
• Anchor light- LED
• Stern light – Aqua Signal mounted on arch
• Steaming light – Aqua Signal
• Foredeck lights – flood light and two spreader lights
• Boarding light on the transom
• Red and white overhead lights under the hard dodger
• Mast junction box at mast base
• 12 Volt outlet at the nav station
• Cabin lights - new main salon
• Four electric bilge pumps, main bilge pump, secondary main day bilge pump, engine room bilge pump in watertight compartment, and forward bilge pump in watertight
• compartment
• High-water alarm
• Manual bilge pump
• Engine can be switched at the seacock to pump water from the bilge
• Various electrical spares

AC 110v Shore Power System:

• 120v 30 amp connections with available splitter and adapters for 50 amp source
• 50 ft. shore power cord (two)
• Magnum MS2012 inverter charger 2011 accepts US or Euro power
• AC breaker panel has master on-off breaker and reverse polarity indicator
• 110 v outlets
• Microwave and appliances
• Hot Water Heater
• Marine Air air-conditioning system 16,000 btu for salon and 8,000 btu in aft cabin run with shore power only

Grand navigation station and ships office with large chart table and chart storage. Navigation station faces outboard, starboard side of Arcadia. Wrap around instrumentation to control all the ship’s systems. 

• Full B&G Zeus 3 12” screens/plotters
• B&G high definition 4KW radar
• Stern radar post
• B&G displays at the helm and at the nav station
• B&G AIS
• B&G GPS
• Single sideband radio Icom with insulated backstay and copper grounding
• B&G H3000 autopilot with control panel at the nav and remote in the cockpit-just rebuilt
• B&G Sailing Instruments wind, speed, and depth 2017 throughout Arcadia
• VHF 240 radio full function cockpit mic 2017
• NMEA 2000 2 point Backbone throughout Arcadia
• Wifi Booster throughout
• Richie binnacle compass 6”
• Windex on the masthead
• Iriduim satphone
• Sirius weather

Rigging

The Able Apogee is a solent rig design with a keel stepped aluminum mast, rising 68 feet above the water line. A GMT carbon fiber spinnaker pole is mounted on forward of mast. The mast is secured by rod rigging which was completely inspection and parts replaced in 2016 including the shroud turnbuckles. She is normally rigged as a sloop, with the removable inner forestay always ready to be deployed for use with a stay sail or storm jib. Because she is designed for serious voyaging, a storm trysail track and dedicated trysail halyard are part of the mast design.  Back up halyards are installed as well.

The boom is sort of a park avenue boom, with conventional slab reefing. There is new mainsail traveler installed in 207. Up front are two Furlex roller furling system, with a line led back to the cockpit, provides simple trouble free furling for the Genoa.

All Genoa and jib sheets are led through track mounted Lewmar “cars” (two for the Genoa and two for the jib sheets) for optimum sheet angles.

Reefing is completed by a electric Lewmar winch.

Winches

There are five winches in the cockpit and two on the mast.

• The main halyard and furling systems are operated with a Lewmar 48 electric winch mounted under the dodger. Rope clutches forward of the winch allow easy switching between the halyard and furling lines.
• Genoa sheets are operated by two Lewmar 64 winches, mounted on the cockpit coaming to the right and left of the wheel.
• Sheets for other sails (main, stay sail, storm jib, etc) and control lines (topping lift, Genoa furling line, boom brake, etc) are handled with two Lewmar 48 manual winches located just forward of the 64’s. Once again, rope clutches forward of the winches allow each winch to serve multiple lines.
• Two Lewmar 44 manual winches at the base of the mast raise the Genoa and spinnaker halyards.
• Winches have been professionally maintained and are in excellent condition.
• Mast base "granny" "sisie" bars port and starboard.
• Custom dynamo lazy jacks
• All running rigging less than 3 years young
• One electric winch handle making all winches electric

Sail Inventory

The comprehensive inventory of sails is manufactured by Quantum and North Sails. 

• Storm Jib (hank-on) and trysail never been used in new condition
• Staysail (hank-on). Lightly used.
• Asymmetric spinnaker. Lightly used, with integral sock for dousing.
• Quantum Full batten mainsail with three reefs 2017
• Quantum working Jib 2017
• Quantum Genaker 2017
• Sail inventory also has jib top, 2 working jibs, storm jib, heavy duty working jib, 2 spinnakers

The Apogee 50 has become the very definition of the proper offshore passagemaker. Watertight bulkheads, walk-in engine room, and Kevlar-E-glass construction with vacuum-bagged CoreCell core in 100-percent vinylester resin provide utmost strength, durability, and self-sufficiency for long voyages. Apogees are sailing to the far corners of the world, usually with just a couple on board, often completing 200-plus mile days in safety, style, and comfort. 

• Modern cruising fin with slight bulb keel and spade rudder
• Fiberglass with Kevlar laminate reinforcement on inner and outer skins
• Baltek 1” CK-100 end grain balsa core below waterline and CK-57 from waterline to sheer
• 100% vinylester resin is used throughout hull
• Glassed in structural floor system with latitudinal and longitudinal stringers installed immediately after last laminate layer to assure hull rigidity
• LOA 50'10’, LWL 45’8”, Beam 14’, Draft 6’6”
• 32,000 lbs with 11,400 lbs lead keel ballast
• Two rows of stainless steel keel bolts
• Marlon seacocks on all thru hulls
• Spade rudder with 5” carbon fiber rudder post
• Aluminum toe rail
• Sugar scoop transom with swim platform, shower, and dinghy dock!
• Teak rub rail 2” wide along the hull length with SS striker
• New bottom paint 2020
• Recent Awlgrip of hull, deep forest green

Deck Details

• Fiberglass sandwich with Balsa core deck reinforced for deck fittings
• Hull deck joint flange is glued with #M 5200 and through-bolted with 1/4 inch bolts and backing plates
• 32" high SS stanchions thru bolted with backing plates
• Bow and Stern pulpit
• solid stern rails to the boarding gate
• Double lifelines forward
• Port and starboard boarding gates amidships
• Transom extends eight feet aft of the wheel to stay dry in following sea
• Sugar scoop transom serves as swim platform and dinghy dock
• Cockpit shower
• Two extra large deck hatches in forward cabin and salon, two moderate size hatches over galley and nav station and smaller hatches and opening ports in head and aft cabin provide flow through ventilation
• Hatch covers
• Ten acrylic fixed port windows are made of ½ inch thick Acrylic and mounted in integral recessed flange for max strength
• Bow, stern and midship cleats
• Motor mount on the stern rail
• Stern radar post
• Stern dinghy davits
   

Cockpit Details

• Aft cockpit with fabulous hard top dodger with removeable front and sides
• Dodger windows, replaced in 2016, provide great visibility
• Covers for dodger windows
• Overhead lights under dodger and under arch
• Cockpit sole lights at the helm station
• Flat coamings with teak overlay you can sit on
• Wrap around stainless steel railings for safety and security
• Great winch placement for single hand sailing
• Handholds everywhere
• Bimini
• Wheel steering pedestal
• Navigation displays in the cockpit
• Leather covered wheel
• Single lever engine controls
• Engine instrument panel
• Compass-Richie compass binnacle mounted
• Teak cockpit sole
• Four large cockpit drains
• Varnished  teak cockpit table stows on the pedestal
• Varnished  teak drink holder
• Sugar scoop transom (known as the back porch or dinghy dock)
• Transom shower – hot and cold
• Propane locker starboard
• Covers for vanished coamings, instrument panel, and cockpit table

Ground Tackle:

• Stem fitting with double bow anchor roller
• Maxwell electric windlass WITH NEW Windlass motor
• Anchor wash down system
• 80lb Rocnar anchor with 350 ft all chain rode
• Delta secondary with 100’ chain and 200’ ¾ nylon rode

An AB dinghy (an aluminum bottom RIB with a 9’0” length) is mounted on davits for easy deployment. A 15 horsepower Honda outboard is mounted on a bracket and is raised and lowered by a “crane” built into the arch.

• Watertight bulkheads separating the forward compartment and engine room from the rest of the vessel.
• Four electric bilge pumps (a main bilge pump, main day bilge pump, engine room bilge pump and forward compartment bilge pump) and one manual bilge pump. In addition, the water intake for the propulsion engine can be switched at the seacock to draw water from the bilge rather than the through hull. There is a high water bilge alarm.
• 30” high double lifelines run from the bow pulpit to the forward edge of the cockpit
• Cockpit safety railings -30” high steel rails surround the cockpit
• Steel side rails make for a safer environment and extend the usable area of the cockpit
• A “scoop” transom with a swim ladder provides a good way to get a tired swimmer back in the boat
• Six person offshore life raft, stored in a soft valise, in a purpose-built compartment under the helm seat. (New inspection is required.)
• Six Type 1 Offshore PFD’ are stored under the helm seat.
• Pad eyes are mounted at the helm, and in the forward end of the cockpit area, to attach harnesses.
• Jack lines are supplied, with attachment points at the bow and on either side of the cockpit coaming.
• An ACR Global Fix Pro 406 Mhz GPS Epirb, with a battery expiration date of March 2022, is ready for use in an “abandon ship bag” together with an electronic strobe light, flares, flashlight and hand held radio.
• An automatic Fireboy extinguisher is installed in the engine room.
• Fire extinguishers are located in cabinets at the companionway, galley and forward cabin.
• CO detectors are mounted in each sleeping cabin; a gas alarm and automatic LPG shut off switch is mounted in the galley.
• A Lifesling is mounted alongside the cockpit.