Flicka Pingouin

Walter T. Fandel wrote up Pingouin's shower in Flicka Friends #8 (Spring 1997), identifying her as hull 431, a 1996 boat. He had thought ahead and asked Pacific Seacraft to fit a drain in the head while she was still on the shop floor, then built the rest around a three-gallon polyethylene tank under the settee just forward of the head and a Nautilist manual demand pump. He rejected an engine heat exchanger, on the grounds that the engine was too small to get the water hot enough and that running it cool was a bad idea, and an electric water heater, which was expensive, needed a shore-power hookup and brought maintenance he did not want.

Tom Davison found Pingouin on the docks at West Sound Marina in the San Juan Islands and told the story in Flicka Friends #64 (Fall 2015). Her owner at the time, named in the article only as Duncan, had a new suit of sails from Carol Hasse, with the headsail on roller furling and the main on a Tides Marine track, which left the original eight-ounce factory sails unusable. He handed them to Davison to find a home for, and they went to Walt aboard Isha at Friday Harbor. Flicka Friends #68 (Spring 2020) later carried photographs of Pingouin's dodger and full cockpit enclosure.

Following are details of PINGOUIN's fittings and equipment:

TOP SIDES:

Cockpit coaming boxes, port & starboard
Second bow roller
Harken roller furling head sail 100% jib
Full batten main with lazy jacks & block & tackle
Boom vang

Bronze port in quarter berth
Custom 316 SS folding swim ladder, transom mounted
Main halyard raised TV antenna
Cockpit bulkhead mounted waterproof 12 Volt lighter socket

NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATIONS

Masthead tri-Color with anchor light &strobe
SSB copper ground strap molded in hull at factory
Foredeck mast light
B&G speed-log with both ultrasonic and paddle sensors in through hull
B&G depth sounder
Ritchie BN 202 compass cockpit
Bulkhead mounted with above instruments
Icom VHF radio, mounted in cabin
Garmin 545 GPS chart plotter, mounted in cabin
Swing out hardware for cockpit GPS viewing and operation

PLUMBING:

Automatic 12 Volt bilge pump with float switch

Galley raw water spigot with foot pump
Galley 12 Volt fresh water pump with foot switch
Carbon water filtration
Hot shower system in enclosed head with drain to bilge
12 Volt macerator for holding tank pump out

ELECTRICAL:

Lewco 20 Amp marine battery charger in hanging locker
110 Volt shore power system
Three 110 Volt cabin outlets
50 foot cable hook up
Custom teak 110 Volt inverter storage
Under cabin electrical panel