Flicka Jubilee

Jubilee, hull #418, was ordered new in 1993 by a woman who had found the Irwin 30 she and her husband sailed too much boat after his death in 1988; the name was his - "If I ever order the boat I want, the boat name will be JUBILEE." She specified the boat carefully - lightning ground, rub strakes, teak rail caps and eyebrows, oil lamps, a full suit of sails, a trailer and a green stripe - sailed her only in fresh water on a lake in Iowa, and stored her indoors each winter. A second owner kept her about a year without launching her before Frank Durant found her, as he recounted in "Finding a Flicka" in Flicka Friends #42 (Spring 2007).

Durant trailered Jubilee south to Indiantown, Florida, fitted a dodger and storm curtains, and launched her for a cruise to the Bahamas. A first attempt at the Gulf Stream ended when water in the fuel stopped the Yanmar 1GM10 in six to eight foot seas - she hove to comfortably under mainsail alone - and it took a pumped-out tank and a rebuilt injector and injector pump at Stuart to put her right. The crossing proper, from Lake Worth Inlet to West End on Grand Bahama, finished in twenty-eight knots gusting over thirty and seas of about ten feet, with Durant reporting no concern for the boat at any point.

Ten weeks of cruising Florida and the Bahamas took in Great Sale Cay, Allens/Pensacola, Manjack and Green Turtle Cay, the first month of them singlehanded before crew joined Durant at West End. Her shallow draft let her tuck further into the anchorage at Allens/Pensacola than the two larger boats already there, and on one overpowered broad reach she touched 7.1 knots on the knotmeter. At the end of the season Jubilee was hauled and stored on blocks in a wooden cradle at Abaco Yacht Services, Green Turtle Cay.

Trailer

Standard trailer with 2 axles/4 tires and tongue extension. Surge brakes with stainless steel rotors.  Has surface rust and may need lighting repairs. 

Electronics

Garmin 545S Chartplotter and depth sounder 2008; Raymarine X-5 autohelm 2009 with remote; Raymarine 2000ST autohelm - reconditioned at factory 2009; Raymarine masthead wind instrumentation (talks to X5 autohelm); Raymarine AIS Model 500 transponder - sends and receives - 2010; Furuno radar Model 1623 - 2010 that mounts to port backstay on a Waltz gimbal (currently removed, cable will need to be replaced but can demonstrate that it is working with wire splice, simple to reinstall); Furuno digital Nav-Tex receiver; masthead LED tricolor - 2010; Airbreeze wind turbine mounted starboard stern (blades have deteriorated, replacement blades included but will need minor modification); solar panels mounted on cabin hood (surface scratches and crazing but still functioning). All electronics power on and had no issues with minimal testing. 

Rig

Sloop with staysail that has built-in high tech rope stay. Sail inventory: Cruising main and working jib - 2008. Racing main, staysail, 2009. Gennaker (red, white and blue) with sock - 2009 and Selden extendable bowsprit for use in light air. Storm trysail - 2010. Storm jib (used once) and 140% reacher in good condition. Forespar telescoping whisker pole (extends to 18 feet) attached to mast. The storm trysail has separate track and halyard on mast.  All sails except working main stored indoors.

Interior

Enclosed head (new Groco toilet); Origo 2-burner alcohol stove; sink with Whale-gusher hand-operated faucetts, fresh and sea water; ice box;

V-berths with removable middle section; bronze ports; oil-burning lamps on gimbals as well as standard interior lights; original ceiling liners (a few minor stains, zippers are corroded, some rust visible at forward seams); quarter berth with port hole to cockpit; 14+/- gallons fuel, 11+/- fresh water; VHF new in 2009 with DSC; Clarion stereo new in 2009 with high end 3" speakers built in;2 cig lighter outlets.

Closed-cell fitted cockpit cushions new 2008 (a few very minor stains). Fitted screens for hatch and companionway.

There is water damage to the interior wood around the forward portside portlight.  One deck fitting was resealed and the wood is not damp after heavy rains.  This will need attention to make it nice again.

Engine: 1GM10 Yanmar, recently motored 1 hour with now issues to test.

Darglow Feathertream Propeller: This expensive three-blade propeller aligns itself with the flow of the water when the engine is not pulling either forward or reverse. No more propeller drag. No "clunk" when ehgaging the engine. Superb performance in both forward and reverse. This is the only feathering or folding prop in the world that will fit the Flicka aperture without any modification. To my knowledge Jubilee is the only Flicka in the USA to have one. It is 12 X 10. A standard 3-blade, that I bought and used a few times in 2008 also comes with the boat as well as its original 2-blade that I deemed inadequate for the tides in SC. Original cost of the Featherstream was about $1,500.

Additional equipment included in price: Delta anchor (25 pound) with 20 feet chain and 200 feet rode; 4 inflatable bumpers; telescoping boat hook, 3 interior hammocks; Forespar propane gimbal-mounted single-burner stove; ship's bell; 3 winch handles; fog horn; Lifesling2 rescue system (needs new cover); 2 throwable cushions. Spare tiller with forespar spinlock extenstion and other spare parts for engine/filters/pumps. 

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Jubilee was sailed on a lake in Iowa 1993 - 2004; in Toronto warehouse 2004-2006; Sailed to Bahamas for 6 weeks in 2007 by Frank Durant.

2010 sailed from Beaufort, SC to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia with stops at Cape Fear, NC, Cape May, NJ, Montauk, NY, Nantucket, MA. Then Lunenburg to Plymouth, MA and Newport and Wickford, RI.

Article by Frank Durant on Jubilee

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