Pieter Beeldsnijder Gouwzee 3A

Description Pieter Beeldsnijder Gouwzee 3A

Sail-motor-dwelling ship Horsburgh.

Year of construction (according to previous owner) 1978.

Registration number stamped on rear wall of cockpit: 17109Z ROT.

The ship is not officially registered today, but these stamped letters and numbers are unique and cannot be removed.

For insurance purposes this number is good to use.

Dimensions: 11x3.5x1.5 meters.

Vertical clearance 13.5 meters.

Weight about 10 Ton.

Horsburg is a famous lighthouse near Singapore. Every sailor has collided with this at one time or another.

Photo engraving.

History:

Horsburgh is a Gouwzee 3A.

Of this ship I have been able to trace only 2 ships.

Design is by Pieter Beeldsnijder from Edam, hence the designation Gouwzee. PB is long gone, however, there are many (sea) ships of his design sailing around the world.

Unfortunately, PB's studio burned down, resulting in the loss of all drawings. Nothing could be found on board and therefore nothing could be traced through the design bureau.

The ship is a forerunner of the frequently built Gouwzee Snoopy (a type Gouwzee 4 ship, which only differs in detail from the 3A, is 1 meter longer and sails charters from Lemmer).

Photos of a type 4 ship, among others, have been the basis for further restoration.

The ship itself was built by Petersen scheepsbouw from Harderwijk. Unfortunately, this company also no longer exists.

The ship was bought without drawings, during the renovation details were discovered via the Internet, and the Gouwzee 4 was also used.

There were some things that were "askew".

The goal from the beginning was to recover as much as possible of the existing idea of PB, so all kinds of wooden parts found on board were reused.

From an electrical diagram of a similar ship the whole electrical equipment was restored.

General:

The ship was built from steel, 5 and 4 mm.

All the steel was stripped bare, then an International paint scheme was applied; 3 coats of primer, 2 or 3 coats of finish.

The ship is blue, with a light gray trim, the deck is painted in the same gray color. All paint is present on board.

The deckhouse is white. The deckhouse roof, however, is gray again.

There is a blue all-new tent mounted.

The aft cabin contains two spacious single berths with a headroom of 1.75 meters.

There is also some closet space here. Under the berths is plenty of room to store equipment.

The rear cabin is actually intended as a skippers cabin. During charter sailing, the skipper and his colleague took turns sleeping here, in a watch system.

Charterer slept either in the bow berths (2 of them) or on the dinette, from which a double berth can be made.

Under the bow berths is a new bow thruster brand Vetus.

With the engine and the bow thruster, the ship is easy to operate even alone.

The ship is a two master, kits rigged.

The sails consist of 1x main and 1x mizzen sail. A furling Genoa, furling jib and a storm jib complement the main sails.

The autopilot makes it easy to keep the ship in the wind which ensures that the sails can also be hoisted and lowered by a single crew member. So the ship is also very good to sail solo.

Furthermore, the ship is extremely well habitable, is equipped with a small 220V refrigerator and a 12V cooling box, a gimballed 3-burner gas stove with oven, and there is both 220V (shore power) in each compartment and 12V available.

Engine instruments, in addition to voltmeter and water and diesel level gauges provide all information regarding the current situation.

The ship is further equipped with original Raymarine instruments which provide the skipper with all necessary information.

There is a Cmap chart plotter mounted and there is even a working radar, whose monitor is now not connected. However, this is very easy to accomplish.

The anchor chain box has been replaced by a polyester box, mounted waterproof, and water entering through the anchor pivot is automatically discharged through the drain in the bow at Sb.

Hull paint scheme:

Note Interthane 990 consists of part A Epoxy and part B hardener!

International Intershield 300 Epoxy Primer: entire hull: 3 coats.

International Inter-Pro red antifouling: underwater hull: 2 coats.

International Interthane 990 Base Ultra Deep Blue: hull: 3 coats.

International Interthane 990 Base Ultra Light Grey: decks, hull band, cockpit, roof deckhouse: 2 coats.

International Interthane 990 White: deckhouse: 2 coats.

International Varnish: all woodwork.

International Interlac 665 Ral 1013: hatches, lower deck deck deckhouse.

International Super Gloss HS Ocean Blue 210 is for kitchen fronts (and can be used for minor repairs to the blue hull).

All interior: use water-based paint as you see fit.

A pot of Epifanes Black Bottom is available. For minor repairs where it is not possible to use epoxy primer, this agent can be used as a substrate.

This ensures that the steel will not rust.

Operation:

Toilet: below deck, under the door to the toilet, is the suction valve: close in case of long absence.

WC handle aft is valve closed, forward open.

Flushing: turn valve forward and pump, after flushing turn valve aft.

The valve to the holding tank or overboard is clearly marked. The bellows pump on the wall is to pump the tank low.

In the toilet is hot and cold water. The Seaflo 3.8 l/min water pump is mounted in the engine room against the aft bulkhead.

Gas stove and oven: the gas bottle is at Sb forward under the bench in the cockpit.

All lighting is 12V. Two working oil lamps are mounted in the cabin for emergency purposes.

Two more 12v reading lamps are mounted in the forward cabin.

The radio is mounted on BB in the panel above the sofa.

The water tank has two connections to the pump, low and high. Low is only used to drain the tank.

On SB under the front bench is a hand bilge pump mounted. Dier sucks from the keel under the engine.

Also under the bank is the paint supply etc.

On BB all sheets and halyards that are not used are stored. Fenders can also be easily stored in here.

The staircase at the entrance to the cabin houses two more spaces for cleaning supplies and the vacuum cleaner (220V).

In the corner above the sofa at BB against the toilet bulkhead is a regulator for the 12V cooling box, which is mounted under the sofa.

You turn the box on by opening the regulator. There is another knob in the chest on the cooling unit to get cold faster.

Electrical:

Electrical connections are summarized in 5 drawings, on which all connections can be followed.

E box: turn on the 100A black switch and all 12v is online, the radio will start playing automatically, the memory wire is permanently connected to the battery, just like in the car.

The fresh water pump switch defaults to on. You can hear the pump working until the pressure switch turns it off.

The oil pump heater switch is not connected, for use if another diesel heater were to be connected (the piping for a diesel heater in the engine room is still there).

There are 14 groups 12v, of which the 14th is not used See attached drawings for the overview.

The switch for the bilge pump is also in the E cabinet.

There are three batteries mounted, a starter battery, a company battery, both in the engine room, and a bow thruster battery under the bunks in the forward cabin.

There are two permanent battery chargers mounted, see below.

There are two solar panels each with their own inverter. The inverters are switched separately but their outputs are mounted together.

The selector switch for charging batteries via solar panels is mounted in the E cabinet: 1 = start battery, 2 is operating battery.

At the bottom of the E cabinet is the 220V section.

There are 4 switches that switch 220V: Top left is battery charger engine room, top right is battery charger bow room, bottom left is vo0or the aft cabin, bottom right is for the cockpit.

A ground fault circuit breaker and a ground fault circuit breaker are mounted on the rail.

Behind the lower door there is a galvanic isolator that eliminates the potential difference between shore and ship. All ground wires are connected to this and this is also connected to the steel hull.

Here there is also a large black selector switch that connects the bow thruster / anchor pivot battery to the mains. See the drawings for this.

There is permanent 220V via the shore connection on the following wall outlets (wcd): in the E cupboard, in the kitchen, in the forward cabin on BB.

Engine:

All books on engine and gearbox are on board.

A plastic new fuel tank has been installed which replaced the old steel one.

Restoration windows:

This is a weak point from this design. The recessed windows always left water in the rebate.

The rebates have been completely filled, smoothed, and repaired so that the windows are now clean again. However, it remains a concern.

At least water can no longer stay there, the underside of each rebate is now beveled which allows water to drain away on its own.

Instruments:

The ST40 depth gauge works well. Under the keel in the box is about 0.8 meters.

The ST50 Tri-Data works well but the depth is not indicated on this, which goes through the ST40.

Apparently the data from the ST40 is not compatible with the Tri-Data.

The ST50 wind vane meter does not work anymore.

There is a ST50 GPS repeater instrument lying around loose. If it were to be put into service, it would have to receive data from the GPS receiver located above the chart table in the cabin.

The ST50 autopilot is loose and easy to mount against the steering position. Its cable can be found in the stand itself.

The C70 chartplotter works fine, when all the plugs are connected it gets data from the other instruments. A CD-ROM card is in the plotter and displays the sailing area.

Note the chart is out of date, it is always good practice to use the current paper sea chart.

Through an update this plotter can get an "overlay" of the radar. Unfortunately that never worked well so Raymarine has set this feature to off by default.

On the Internet you can find how to turn it on again.

There is a real radar screen on board. It is not used but it works. A power cable to the chartplotter and the radar is fine to use.

All manuals are on board.