Cambria 40 1987 "Crackerjack"

Race History

• 8 Marion to Bermuda Races
• 14 Downeast Race Weeks
• 7 Newport to Bermuda Races
• 8 Block Island Race Weeks
• 3 Marblehead to Halifax
• 10 Maine Retired Skipper Race
• 3 Edgartown Race Weeks
• 12 New York Yacht Club Annual Regattas
• 3 Buzzard Bay Race Weeks
• Local Annapolis/Chesapeake Bay Races

The sole owner, along with David Walters, modified & built CRACKERJACK with a taller mast moved forward for better balance. The boom length was later extended allowing for a larger main sail designed to produce more power and be a more competitive racer.

Interior Features

Crackerjack's layout below deck is slightly modified to accommodate the relocation of the mast from the salon to the head. This opens space around the dining table and still allows functional space in the head and separate shower. The galley and nav station are located adjacent to the companionway ladder and the engine compartment aft. The salon and head are midship with the V-berth cabin forward with a separate door.

All the woodwork is satin varnished teak. The cabin sole, which is totally removable, is solid varnished teak and holly. The interior hull sides are sheathed with teak battens (ceilings) which are set off the hull to provide ventilation. Lockers are all wood lined. The overheads and under decks are white laminate.

Salon

• L-shaped port settee (converts to a double berth) and standard settee to starboard
• New upholstery in main cabin salon (2017)
• Quarter berth aft of nav center, to starboard w/ book shelf and storage shelf. Access to engine compartment, heater and battery charger w/ storage under berth
• Port and starboard settee berths have lee cloths w/ option of using custom pipe berths for offshore transits
• Upper double door lockers above port settee for storage, with build in shelf
• Upper sliding door lockers above starboard setee for stereo radio/cd and storage
• Center shelf for 19" LCD Samsung TV w/ coaxial cable to exterior w/ moveable 15" diameter TV antenna with a stern mount
• Full length upper starboard shelf for additional storage.
• Outboard of the both settees, additional lower storage behind backrests.
• Upper liquor locker and lower lockerstorage locatedforwardofthestarboardsettee
• Custom double leaf teak dining table
• Handrails throughout and double laminated arch
• Stainless steel support bars between salon, galley and navigation table
• Sony Marine Boat CD Stereo with speakers in the cabin and cockpit
• Red courtesy footlights thru out cabin
• Webasto 12V Diesel Forced Air Heater with thermostat for interior heat (replaced 2011)
• Opening cabin port lights to port and starboard forward
• Fixed cabin windows providing natural light
• Large opening translucent hatch in center of salon

Galley

• Force 10 three-burner stove with oven and broiler, gimballed in a stainless steel liner
• Double stainless steel sink
• Sea Frost top load refrigeration and freezer boxes; engine driven and 110 volt holding plate system
• Isotemp Slim Water heater, (replaced 2015)
• Galley storage includes 4 drawers, 3 large multi-shelf lockers with sliding teak doors and storage below the sink counter
• Two 20 lb. propane tanks in individually vented cockpit lockers
• Hot and cold pressure water pump
• Additional opening hatch over galley
• Opening port light over stove
• Binocular box mounted to port of companion way

Navigation, Electronics & Electrical

• Chart table with storage, locker below and instrument console located opposite the galley
• Chart storage in aft bulk head over quarter berth
• Opening hatch over nav station
• Opening port light in nav station
• Master electronics panel w/ battery switches below table
• Separate navigation seat with storage below
• Raymarine 4kW HD Color Digital Radome Scanner (2015)
• Raymarine cSeries 14" Chartplotter c125, Nav Center (2015)
• Raymarine cSeries 9" Chartplotter c95, Helm (2015)
• Vespar AIS Watchmate Transponder & Receiver (2011)
• ICOM VHS Radio
• Offshore Furuno Single Sideband Marine Radio
• Sony Boat AM/FM stereo and CD player - 2006
• 12 volt DC electrical system and 110 volt AC electric systems
• Xantrex Truecharger 40A Link 20 battery charger & monitor (replaced 2019)
• Inverter, Heart Interface
• Two deep cycle marine house batteries, one heavy duty engine start battery
• Balmar Multistage Regulator (replaced 2016)
• Raymarine cockpit instruments are boat & wind speed, wind angle & depth (2015)
• Raymarine autopilot (replaced 2015)

Head

• Large manual head (replaced 2012) with a separate walk-in shower, drains through a teak grating to a sump tank that is discharges directly overboard by a 12 volt DC pump.
• Teak vanity and mirror, below the sink is space for storage and access to the seacocks.
• Storage lockers with shelves and hamper built in outboard
• Mast step & base located in head
• Opening port light in shower

Forward Cabin

• Forward cabin has a hinged V-berth to provide access to additional storage under the berths
• Access to chain locker through forward bulkhead with divider for chain and rope
• V-berth seat with storage below and an insert to make doublewide berth
• Bank of 4 large drawers and hanging locker
• Sliding locker and long shelf for additional storage located outboard on both sides of the berth.
• Large opening hatch with translucent cover located in the overhead of the forward cabin. The hinged V-berth tops open to. An arched privacy door separates the forward cabin from the main salon.
• Opening port light to starboard

Engine & Mechanical

• Westerbeke 55 D Four fresh water cooled diesel engine (new 2016); Approx. 2000 hours
• Rudder post with upper and lower ball bearings
• PSS Shaft Seal dripless seal and bellows (2010)
• 3 blade 18D RH rotation PYI Maxi prop w/ stainless steel shaft, (rebuilt 2012)
• Racor fuel filter with water separator
• Sound insulated engine compartment with exhaust blower
• Instrument panel with tachometer, oil pressure gauge, and engine temperature gauge
• Low oil pressure and high cooling water temperature alarms

Hull & Deck

• Cambria 40 hull is molded of hand-laid fiberglass with a 3/4" Airex core
• Keel grid is bonded to the hull and integrated with the mast step and engine mounts to form a single unit
• Below water thru-hull fittings are marine bronze full-way seacocks bedded on solid glass
• The 9,000 lb cast lead ballast keel provides protection in the event of grounding and is secured to the hull with 1" stainless steel bolts and 3M 5200 bedding compound
• Additional fiberglass reinforcement is incorporated in stress areas such as stern, keel, transom and skeg and in way of chain plate knees. Chain plate knees are solid fiberglass
• The deck is a fiberglass sandwich with PVC core to provide maximum strength
• Teak overlay is bonded and screwed to fiberglass deck

Deck Equipment, Hardware & Rigging

• Topside teak toerail, handrails, complete total new varnish (2022)
• Sail T-tracks 14' long mounted on top of toerail
• 3 teak dorade boxed with new stainless ventilators, 2 supplying the salon, and 1 combined for head and V berth.
• Forward inboard and outboard staysail tracks w/cars
• Genoa tracks with adjustable cars under load
• CQR and Danforth anchor. Anchor line with 10'(?)chain, 150'rode
• Ideal electric windlass w/wildcat pre-wired
• Edson 58" pedestal angled guard with 6" compass and stainless steel binnacle with magnetic compass (2015)
• Teak cockpit table with teak drink holders on pedestal guard
• Cockpit hot & cold shower port side
• Cockpit teak seat extensions
• Cockpit shallow locker to starboard, deep line locker storage to port
• Stainless double rail pulpits with double lifelines and gates, Flag post mounted stern pulpit
• Shore power cables (2)
• Two deck skylight hatches and translucent companionway hatch (replaced 2015)
• Stainless opening ports with beveled spigots
• Raw water wash down pump
• New (3) ventilation dorades (replaced 2016)
• Companion way dodger
• Wider Main Traveler width, lead control lines aft to port and starboard
• Navtec hydraulic systems, boom vang and backstay
• Carbon fiber spinnaker pole and aluminum whisker pole with mast mounted track and car
• Adjustable height spinnaker car on mast forward
• Storm trysail track on mast
• Flag halyards
• (2) Barient #32 ST cockpit primary winches
• (2) Barient #28 ST cockpit secondary winches
• (3) Barient #22 ST mainsheet, main halyard, & centerboard winches
• (4) Barient #24 ST 2 genoa & 2 spinnaker halyard winches at mast deck

Racing Sail Inventory

Mainsails

• Quantum Fusion MC 6500 Offshore Mainsail (2016)
• Quantum Fusion cruising Main (2005)

Quantum Genoas

• 155% Fusion MC Med/Heavy #1 (2012)
• 155% Fusion Z Aramind L/Med #1 (2009)
• 140% Fusion M Cruise #2 (2011)
• (older #2 cut for roller furler)
• #3 - Haarstick
• Staysail
• Storm sails

Spinnakers

• Quantum Code 2 Asymmetrical spinnaker (2008)
• Harstick symmetrical spinnakers by weight .6 oz, .75 oz , 1.5 oz

Safety

• Man Overboard Recovery Module
• Lifesling Overboard Rescue System
• McMurdo 406 MHz EPIRB (2014)
• (6) Offshore Life jackets
• (4) Fire extinguishers
• Horn and flares
• First aid kit
• Radar reflector
• Emergency tiller
• Hand bearing compass
• Spreader mounted deck lights
• Mast mounted foredeck light
• Masthead LED strobe light
• Electric automatic bilge pump
• Whale Gusher manual cockpit bilge pump
• Emergency 25 gallon manual pump under Nav seat