Description

Kelt 9.0m Overview
The Kelt 9.0m is a French-designed sailing yacht that gained popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s. Below is a detailed overview:
Design and Construction
- Designer: Philippe Briand

- Builder: Kelt Marine shipyard, France

- Year Introduced: 1977
Mechanical
- Engine: Yanmar

- Model: 2GM

- Horsepower: 18HP

- Year: 1984

- Engine Hours: Not Known
Electrical
- Batteries: 2 Domestic + 1 Starter

- Voltage: 12v (AGM)

- Amp Hours: 2 x 90Ah + 1 x 90Ah
Navigation
- Compass: Plastimo Contest 101 (installed 2015)

- Log (speed/distance): Nasa electromagnetic

- Chart Plotter: Standard Horizon CP300i + stand for tablet in cockpit and chart plotter app gets data via WiFi

- VHF: Standard Horizon Quest X, GX 1500E + remote speaker and handset in cockpit

- SSB: n/a

- GPS: GPS data fed from AIS unit

- Autopilot: Simrad TP22 (new in 2020)

- AIS: Digital Yacht AIT 1500 Class B Transponder

- WiFi: Digital Yacht Aquawear (NMEA gateway / server)
Safety
- Life Raft: Seago 4 person life raft, new in 2017, last serviced 2019

- Lifebuoys: Dan buoy with McMurdo Smartfind emergency AIS transmitter & strobe light

- Lifejackets: 2 automatic + 2 manual (Gaelforce), last serviced 2023

- Fire Extinguishers: 2 x 1kg dry powder manual + 1 fire safety stick extinguisher + 1 fire blanket

- Flares: Inshore flares (in date)

- Radar Reflector: Clipped and hoisted via backstay

- Bilge Pumps: 1 automatic and 1 hand pump
Deck Gear
- Anchor(s): 16kg delta style with 50m chain + smaller anchor with about 15m chain

- Anchor Windlass: Manual, turned using winch handle

- Spray Hood: Good condition, made by Owen sails in 2016

- Dodgers: Good condition, made in 2017

- Cockpit Cover: Good condition, made by Owen sails in 2016

- Boarding Ladder: Yes

- Swim Platform: n/a

- Winter Cover: Old sprayhood available

- Davits: n/a

- Navigation Lights: Yes with LED tricolour/anchor light

- Horn: Push button on gantry
Sails
- Sheet Winches: 2 single speed on cabin roof; 2 dual speed self-tailing for genoa; 2 dual speed for spinnaker

- Halyard: Main, Genoa and Spinnaker lead to cockpit winches and clutches

- Reefing Type: Main 3 position with a single line each controlled from cockpit

- Headsail: Furlex 200 roller reef

- Sails: White Main and Genoa new in 2011 from Crusader, well maintained with some minor repairs. Stack pack for main new in 2015 (zip replaced 2024). Spinnaker age not known but is in good condition launched from container clipped to guard wire or from snuffer
Domestic
- Accommodation: 2 in forepeak double; 2 single in main cabin; 2 in stern quarter berth, double

- Cabins: 3

- Heads: 1 sea toilet (replaced 2015)

- Showers: n/a

- Hot and Cold Water: Foot pumped cold water

- Fridge: n/a Cool storage 65 litre

- Cooker: Bainbridge Pacific 4500 Gas

- Burners: 2

- Oven: 1

- Central Heating: 2Kw diesel powered, air blown

- Clock: Brass

- Barometer: Brass

- Carpet: Carpet tiles

- TV: TV with integral DVD, mounted on main cabin bulkhead

- Sound System: Kenwood KDC-BT-700DAB with digital and FM radio, CD player, USB and Bluetooth. Speakers in main cabin also mounted on stern gantry
Owners Comments
Stern Gantry with 100w solar panel (and controller to feed to domestic or starter batteries as needed) + horn + flood light + CCTV camera (feeds to TV) + DAB antenna + AIS aerial + backup anchor light. Last Survey 2020; Hempel Silic One antifoul treatment applied 2022 (fast sailing and easy maintenance); Flexofold propeller fitted 2013.

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