This page is about AtLast, her inspiration and her characteristics.
AtLast is a 38 foot, gaff ketch Ingrid. Ingrids are long keel, double-ender sailboats intended for open ocean cruising. AtLast is based on the style of old sail boats but using modern materials and technology. She is being built in a manner that will make it easy (that's a relative term!) to repair in 3rd world countries.
The hull of AtLast was built by Bluewater Boat Company. They changed the wooden hulled boat to a very heavy duty fiberglass boat. They also changed the sail area, making it taller for the light winds of the Puget sound. Both had implications on its performance, making the boat more tender (it heels more in the wind.) This motivated CAI to change the keel to lead.
CAI is particularly enamored with the double-ender design because, as a young 14 year old kid -YES, gang, a 14 year old kid - he sailed as crew on a 1906 double-ender ship, called Albatross. The boat sailed from Gottenburg, Sweden to the Carribean.
On this trip, the Albatross sailed off the coast of North Africa through force 11 winds. There is only one category of harder winds, force 12, for hurricanes. During these conditions CAI tells me he was lying in his bunk looking out of the sky light of the cabin and watching the tips of the waves. He tells me he was never afraid. OK. Me? I wouldn't be afraid either, I'd be passed out..... But when you hear CAI talk about this story he seems to go back to these days with a special connection.
CAI tells me he has dreamed of building a double-boat in this traditional design ever since.
AtLast Statistics:
Length Overall (LOA): 37.5' (11.43m)
Length of Water Line (LWL): 32' (9.75m)
Beam (width): 11.33' (3.45m)
Draft: 5.67' (1.73m)
Hull Type: Long keel, AKA a heavy displacement full keel
The bow of the Ingrid 38 hull is narrower than the original Colin Archer boats. The narrow-hulled Ingrid 38 can point higher into the wind than the Colin Archer. This enables a more direct path to your destination. The Ingrid hull will also slice into oncoming waves more than the Colin Archer boats and won't hobby-horse as much, but this means a wetter deck. It's all tradeoffs!
The thickness of the AtLast's fiberglass hull (as built by Bluewater) is 1000 lbs heavier than the original Atkins wooden hull design. The Bluewater hull is a structurally VERY strong, sturdy and tough. That gets a thumbs up from me!
Sail Area: 860 sq ft
Rig Type: (sails and masts) Gaff Ketch, based on the early Colin Archer.
Gaff means the sails are "square". They have a boom at the bottom and a gaff at the top. This provides more sail area and a more efficient sail arrangement when you are sailing downwind, as preferred by cruisers. The Colin Archer inspired mizzen, the small sail in the back, will be smaller than typical ketch rigs.
As I said earlier, when Bluewater build these boats, they increased the sail area over the Atkin design due to the light winds of the Puget Sound. There are 5 different sail plans (rigs) for the Ingrid including cutter and ketch rigs. Cutters have one mast and two foresails. Ketches have 2 masts and two or three foresails
Displacement: 25,000 lbs
Ballast: 8000 lbs (3629 kgs)
The original wood hull Ingrid ballast was 9000 lbs, because the wood hull was lighter than the fiberglass hull. When Bluewater built the heavier fiberglass hull design, they reduced the ballast.
Ballast mods: CAI completely removed and replaced the factory ballast in AtLast. AtLast now has a lead keel, modified from the original steel/concrete ballast. This was done for two reasons: to lower the cg (center of gravity) of the keel, making the boat less tender (less likely to lean) and to create volume for fuel, water and batteries.
In addition the ballast in AtLast is more concentrated in the center of the hull to reduce hobby-horsing. The chain locker, normally located far forward in sailboats, has been moved aft by roughly 3 feet for the same reason.
Sleeping bunks: 4
Water tanks:
main tank: 54 gallons
rainwater tank: 35 gallons
Grey water tank: 23 gallons
Black water tank: 23 gallons
12V battery bank: 690 amp hrs starter battery: 90 amp-hrs and main bank: 600 amp-hrs.
Engine: 38 HP 4 cylinder diesel Beta Marine (check out our post HERE about the engine)
Diesel fuel: nearly 80 gallons total
main tank: 40 gallons
two day tanks: 19 gallons each
12V battery bank: 690 amp hrs starter battery: 90 amp-hrs and main bank: 600 amp-hrs.
Construction: fiberglass hull and a wooden (plywood) fiberglass deck.
Builder (hull only): Bluewater Boat Company (USA)
Hull Number: 77
Year Built: 1977
Number of hulls built by Bluewater: 140
First Built: 1938
Last Built: 1985
Other Ingrids:
There is an Ingrid owners group, which can be found at this website:
http://bluewaterboats.org/ingrid-38/
The Original Inspiration: the Colin Archer Rescue Ships
The Ingrid is inspired by the Norwegian Colin Archer rescue boats like in the photo below. These boats were designed for rescuing other boats and crews in BIG HEAVY weather in the Norwegian Sea, part of the North Atlantic.
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| Colin Archer Rescue Ship |
Find out more about the Colin Archer and his boats here:
http://ssca.no/historie/om-colin-archer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Archer
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