Bhm Downeast Style Extended Cabin Hardtop Cruiser

Bhm Downeast Style Extended Cabin Hardtop Cruiser

FIDDLEHEAD is a 32\' BHM Hardtop Cruiser which was custom built in 1987/88 for a very knowledgeable engineer owner who wanted to cruise the East Coast for 3 months every year. She has the extended cabin house which allows for a spacious, comfortable main salon with two large single settees, a galley up with 12V Adler Barbour refrigerator, two burner propane stove, hot and cold water, excellent lockers & drawers. The vessel has superb 360 degree visibility with many opening windows and screens, a sliding door aft with screen, a large cockpit with a second helm and controls, and nine custom cabinets for storage. The forward cabin has a vee berth with storage shelves, bookshelves, hanging locker, and an enclosed head with shower and sink. FIDDLEHEAD is powered with a Cummins 210 hp diesel for economical cruising speeds of 10-13 knots burning 4-5 gph. Her engine room is the cleanest this office has seen with a superb access to all mechanical and electrical systems. Some other highlights include 12,000 BTU air conditioning and reverse cycle heat, 4-6V golfcart batteries and one starting battery, C-charge charger, and 110V shore power. Her electronics include a Simrad GPS-radar, Autohelm 5000 autopilot and Garmin 3210 GPS-plotter. Other highlights include a cockpit bimini with a screened enclosure, and teak swim platform. Her cockpit and cabin house sides have been awlgripped white. She is in immaculate condition. This is an exceptional offering of a Downeast Cruiser with many custom features to make liveaboard cruising enjoyable.

HULL & DECK:

• Hand laid up solid fiberglass hull.
• White hull with blue accent stripes and blue boot, with blue bottom (hull is original gelcoat).
• S/S bow rail.
• White Wynne pilothouse windshield windows (non-opening).
• 30” Extended cabin over standard model for more spacious main salon.
• Tinted side and rear Wynne Enterprises windows with screens on the opening windows.
• 1/8” sound deadening on interior bulkheads and overhead.
• 2005 exterior cabin trunk awlgripped white.
• 2005 all deck hardware rebedded.
• 2005 all interior teak refinished with varnish.
• 2005 cockpit sole and lockers awlgripped.
• Vessel was built using Isophalic Resin to avoid blisters.
• Capalano hydraulic wheel steering at helm; Vetus teak wheel.
• Also, cockpit steering with Morse controls for docking.
• S/S handrails on top of housetop and trunk cabin forward.
• Teak swim platform.
• 2 rod holders.
• Nine storage lockers in cockpit plus storage under cockpit sole.
• Hot and cold shower in cockpit.
• Sliding aft companionway door with zippered screen.
• Awlgripped custom dunnage box in cockpit.
• Two dorade ventilators on trunk cabin top.
• Radar mast and anchor light on housetop fold down for transport or bridges.
• Bridge clearance with mast down is 12’.
• Blue cockpit Bimini with screened sides.
• 2008 Lewmar 1000 windlass.

TANKAGE:

• Fuel: 2-100 gallon fiberglass tanks.
• Water: 40 gallons in 2-20 gallon poly tanks under vee berths; additional 28 gallons under port settee.
• Holding: 25 gallons in poly tank.
• Hot water 6 gallons.

ENGINE & MECHANICAL:

• Single Cummins 6B5.9T, 210 hp diesel, FWC, with 4304 hours as reported on the hour meter.
• Cruising speed: 10-13 knots @ 2200 RPM @ 4-5 gph.
• Maximum speed:: 14 knots @ 2600 RPM @ 7 gph.
• New S/S exhaust elbow.
• New 5” wet exhaust hose from elbow to reducer & from muffler to transom.

• 2014 all injectors rebuilt; 2008 new heat exchanger.
• 2014 adjusted valves and replaced impeller on salt water pump.
• 2004 Borg Warner 2:1 transmission.
• Four engine hatches offer excellent access to engine and engine room (hatches have easy-lift gas shocks to raise hatches).
• Morse controls.
• Accugauge tank gauges for holding tank and water tanks.
• PSS dripless shaft seal.
• Complete set of engine maintenance logs.
• Cummins spare parts kit including filters and belt.
• 1 ¾” S/S shaft.
• 26 x 26 LH 4 bladed Michigan prop, reconditioned 2013.
• Exhaust at transom extended to swim platform.
• New engine gauges at engine panel.

ELECTRICAL:

• 12V/110V electrical systems with Newman circuit breaker panels.
• 30 amp 110V shore power with cord.
• Battery master switch.
• Voltmeter.
• 15 amp C-charger battery charger.
• 2013 Delco 105 amp alternator with integral regulator which charges all batteries.
• One lead acid 4D 12V engine starting battery.
• Four lead acid deep cycle 6V golfcart house batteries.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

• Sleeps four; two in vee berth and two single pull-out berths in the main salon.
• Vee berth cabin has a bureau of lockers and drawers, shelves and a hanging locker.
• Brass reading lamps.
• Overhead hatch (screened).
• Enclosed head to starboard with hand-held shower and shower sump, sink, Type 1 MSD manual head, holding tank, y-valve and 12V macerator pump and deck pumpout (also y-valve to go directly overboard).
• Up three steps to main salon.
• Helm station to starboard with helm seat, storage under, and foot rest; a Mate seat has been added and is removable for easy storage.
• Opposite to port is the galley with Force 10 two burner LPG stove, S/S sink, hot and cold water, Adler-Barbour 12V holding plate refrigeration with 3” special foam insulation, a fold up countertop, numerous drawers, and lockers.
• Further aft in the salon are two settee berths which extend out to form generous-sized single berths; storage lockers are under; there is a dining table with adjustable mount.
• The interior finish is in the Herreshoff style with varnished teak trim. The berth cushions are a beige colored tweed material and the cabin sole has a roll-up beige carpet. There are custom curtains and rods.
• Custom details are numerous including owner-made teak paper towel holder.

ELECTRONICS:

• 2013 Simrad colored radar, GPS & Plotter.
• Furuno 31 GPS.
• Garmin 3210 GPS-plotter with depthsounder, water, temperature and speed.
• Sandpiper DL depth.
• Uniden VHF with fog-hailer and distress.
• Ritchie powerdamp Navigator compass.
• Autohelm ST 5000 autopilot.

EQUIPMENT:

• 12,000 BTU Mermaid A/C with reverse cycle heat (110V shore power only).
• New 2006 S/S Isotherm 6 gallon hot water heater, 110V and off engine.
• Ensign & staff.
• Two 11lb LPG tanks with connector to operate LPG grill in cockpit.
• 35 lb Delta Plow with 170\' 1/4\" hi-tensile chain.
• LPG tanks are painted and have proper gauge, etc, and solenoid shut-off valve at stove.
• Two Hella 12V cabin fans.
• 2-12V windshield wipers.
• Vetus spoked teak helm wheel.
• Helm seat with foot and arm rest and removable Mate seat with footrest.
• Saltwater washdown and freshwater washdown, located at bow.
• Rule automatic bilge pump.
• Whale gusher manual pump, portable and mounted on a board.
• Spare Michigan 4-blade 26x26 LH prop. 
• Textaline windshield screens and privacy curtains.
• New Shurflo fresh water pump with new hoses and plumbing.
• Equipment manuals for all equipment.
• Outboard bracket on transom.

UPDATES IN LAST 7 YEARS:

2007:

• Installed Alpine CD/MP3 AM/FM radio with 2 speakers.
• Installed Garmin 3210 chartplotter.
• Installed 28 gallon water tank under settee with separate fill.
• Replaced entire fresh water system hoses.
• Installed fresh water washdown on foredeck portside.
• Installed hot/cold fresh water shower in cockpit.
• Installed air horn on roof.
• Installed Uniden VHF with hailer, fog signal and DSC capability.
• Removed keel cooler and installed fresh water cooling system for engine.

2008:

• Added new windshield wiper and motor.
• Serviced heat and air conditioner.
• Installed Garmin Triducer with Garmin sounder box (GSD 21).
• Installed bow pulpit and anchor roller with 35 lb Delta anchor, 50´ chain and 200´ of nylon rode.
• Installed Lewmar 1000 windlass with deck and cabin switches on 70 amp circuit breaker.
• Installed outboard motor bracket on transom.
• Installed water cooled dripless PSS shaft seal.

2009:

• Installed Racor 500 primary fuel filter.
• Installed 25 gallon holding tank.
• Installed filter on holding tank vent.
• Rebuilt toilet.
• Replaced fresh water pump.

2010:

• Replaced 4D start battery with Survivor 4D.

2011:

• Replaced main engine seacock and hoses.
• Installed new seacock for AC cooling.

2012:

• Installed remote main engine oil filter.
• Installed new Serpentine belt on Cummins diesel.
• Replaced 4-6V deep cycle golf cart batteries Survivor.
• Replaced voltmeter.

2013 - 2014:

• Reconditioned propeller.
• New Simrad color HD radar.
• New GPS antenna.
• New engine vibration damper plate.
• 2 solar panels with regulators; solar panels charge all batteries including running the refrigerator while on a mooring.
• 8\' West Marine inflatable dinghy.
• 2 hp Honda 4 cycle outboard.
• St. Croix davits.
• New adjustable dining table.
• Bus heater off engine.
• 2 storage shelves in forward cabin.
• Modified helm seat and added Mate seat.
• 2 dining chairs.
• 170\' 1/4\" Hi-Tensile anchor chain.
• Anchor chain yoke.
• Gas grill.
• Line cutter on shaft.
• New shaft zinc.
• New hull zinc.
• New raw water impeller.
• New fuel & oil filters.
• Rebuilt fuel injectors in 2014.

COMMENTS: FIDDLEHEAD is a 32\' BHM Hardtop Cruiser which was custom built in 1987/88 for a very knowledgeable engineer owner who wanted to cruise the East Coast for 3 months every year. She has the extended cabin house which allows for a spacious, comfortable main salon with two large single settees, a galley up with 12V Adler Barbour refrigerator, two burner propane stove, hot and cold water, excellent lockers & drawers. The vessel has superb 360 degree visibility with many opening windows and screens, a sliding door aft with screen, a large cockpit with a second helm and controls, and nine custom cabinets for storage. The forward cabin has a vee berth with storage shelves, bookshelves, hanging locker, and an enclosed head with shower and sink. FIDDLEHEAD is powered with a Cummins 210 hp diesel for economical cruising speeds of 10-13 knots burning 4-5 gph. Her engine room is the cleanest this office has seen with a superb access to all mechanical and electrical systems. Some other highlights include 12,000 BTU air conditioning and reverse cycle heat, 4-6V golfcart batteries and one starting battery, C-charge charger, and 110V shore power. Her electronics include a Simrad GPS-radar, Autohelm 5000 autopilot and Garmin 3210 GPS-plotter. Other highlights include a cockpit bimini with a screened enclosure, and teak swim platform. Her cockpit and cabin house sides have been awlgripped white. She is in immaculate condition. This is an exceptional offering of a Downeast Cruiser with many custom features to make liveaboard cruising enjoyable.

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