History and Background

Anho was shipped to her first owner via Marseilles in 1981.

He used the boat for a while in the Med and then had her brought out to the Caribbean.

He used to come over for a couple of months every year or so until failing  health and age made the trip inadvisable.

She has spent most of her life on the hard.

Her new owner has lived aboard a heavy steel boat with his family for the last ten years. He was looking for a faster , more agile boat  (without compromising on safety) in which to complete his circumnavigation.

The refit took just over a year and a half and  absolutely no costs were spared.This was a family with a child going to circumnavigate!

However an expanding  family and an expanding business in ST Martin has required that sailing plans be shelved for the next five years.

Regretfully therefore, ANHO is  for sale.

She is radically overbuilt, using alternate layers of woven roving and chopped strand mat.(26 layers at the keel, 24 below the waterline and 17 layers above the waterline.13 layers on the deck securing the cored laminate.

The solid grp hull is 1 3/8 inches(about 35mm) thick below the waterline (a new skin fitting was fitted in the engine room and the core has been kept),and even thicker at the bow.The  hull is solid laminate….only the deck is cored.

The port lights, deck cleats and steering binnacle are bronze, giving her a wonderful traditional feel.

 A loose oil drain plug resulted in her being re-engined in 1987 in St Lucia using a 90hp Ford Lehman.

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Prior to launching, all the through hull fittings were replaced, the bronze sea cocks rebuilt, the propshaft checked for trueness , the prop balanced, cutlass bearing replaced, rudder removed and seals replaced .Every point of potential water ingress was refurbished.

She was then splashed and sailed down to Trinidad where the refit began in earnest.