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builder: Abeking and Rasmussen, GmbH beam: 12ft 6
LOA: 56ft 8
Lwl: 40ft 0
draft: 7 ft 8
year: 1954
displacement: 51,000 lbs
price: $1,250,000-
Construction: Double planked mahogany over oak frames. Silicon bronze fastened and diagonally strapped.
Laid, double planked , teak deck.
Mahogany cap rails, coaming, deck nboxes, hatch frames and house. House of plywood with epoxy laid polypropelene covering. Sitka sprucem, spars excepting aluminium mainmastwhich was designed by S&S andm installed by original owner in 1966.
Engine: Yanmar 3GH 27 hp engine with hydraulic gearbox, Walter v-drive and 2 blade feathering MaxProp.
Tankage: Water in 2 75 gal copper tanks under main cabin settees and 150 gallon tank under cabin sole. Fuel in 70 mgallon monel tank under cockpit.
Electrical: All 12 v excepting 120 v battery charger. Two 8-D gel house batteries and separate engine start battery.
All new wiring running to electric panel at chart table.
Electronics: Brookes and Gatehouse Hydra system, FFD and four analogue instruments in cockpit. Icom SSB, Icom VHF, Furuno Navtex receiver and Furuno GPS.
Battery monitor and audio CD player/radio.
ACR 408 EPIRB.
Accomodation:
IMPALA is a flush deck configuration with a small house over the, companion way and aft cabin. Coming down the companion, which is offset to starboard, is a wet locker, then chart table with two chart drawers and eight drawers for tools. To port is the head with A&R sink, Wilcox Skipper head, and lockers for towels etc.
Going forward is the main saloon with pilot berths outboard, L-shaped settee to port and straight settee to starboard and a mahogany gimbled, drop-leaf table in center. A Danish Reflecks diesel heater is on the aft port bulkhead and its chimney exits through the head to keep the head warm. Forward are two hanging lockers and a bureau.Forward of the Saloon is the Galley across the width of the boat. Eno France propane stove and soapstone sink to portand original stainless steel ice box, capacity 300 lb of ice, to starboard. Fresh and saltwater taps are supplied by foot pumps. The mainmast runs through the middle of the galley and provides support for the cook.
Forward of the Galley is the Fo’c’stle with a pilot berth and a bench that can be use as an extra bunk. The Fo’c’stle has a hanging locker and 7 drawers.
Forward of the Fo’c’stle is the Forepeak which is used for ground tackle storage.
Aft of the companion is the owners cabin, private and with a double bunk to starboard, a single to port. It has two hanging lockers, a bureau and four large drawers and three other lockers.
Ground tackle:
IMPALA has three anchors, 106 lb CQR, 66 lb Bruce and 45 lb CQR. She has three chain rodes, 2 @ 3/8†x 20 ft and one @ 7/16†x 40 ft. She has four nylon rodes 5/8†x 120 feet and two nylon rodes at 3/4†x 120 ft.
Equipment:
Givens 8 man insulated bottom liferaft
2 MOM VIII by Survival Tech
Man overboard bouy.
Avon inflatable dinghy with
8hp Evinrude outboard.
Comments:
In 1954, three institutions, the CCA rating rule, the Sparkman and Stephens design firm, and the Abeking and Rasmussen building yard, all three in their ascendancy, came together to create IMPALA, a boat that even then, when most all sailboats were beautiful, was considered a particular beauty.
S & S designed IMPALA in the tradition of STORMY WEATHER and their long line of full keel ocean racers. She is a bit beamier, and wider aft, than many of her sisters. She is also a little shallower-- drawing 7’8†rather than the customary 8’ to 8 1/2’. She is flush decked with a small house aft. Her interior is reminiscent of an Alden--off center companionway, owner’s cabin aft, and galley forward.
A & R built her to a high standard in double-planked mahogany.
During her present ownership of 20 years IMPALA has been restored to like new condition. Her hull, deck, rigging, interior cabinetry, and all systems have been taken apart, restored and renewed. She keeps her original layout and style. Her systems are simple and robust. IMPALA is lying at Lagos Portugal and is expected back on the east coast of the USA in June 2006.
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