About the Trip

Keith and Pam plan to set sail mid June 2006. Firstly to ‘beach’ the cat at Ilfracombe in order to anti-foul the bottoms and carry out general pre-sail maintenance.

From there a local waters trip is planned as part of the Celtic Raid 2006 event which they will pick up in Milford Haven on 30th June.

This event should take them to Brittany by 8th August after which charts will be studied and sailing plans made to sail across the Bay of Biscay in August and down through Spain / Portugal for a little R & R.

Next across to Porta Santa / Madeira and on to the Canaries for Christmas and more R & R.

From there, across the Atlantic via Cape Verde isles and onto Tobago / Trinidad for carnival 2007.

Famous last words to friends in Tobago in October 2005 when Keith and Pam got married were “next time you see us we‘ll be anchoring in Store Bay (Tobago)!”

From there further plans will be made for the onward journey.

About Two Easy

Two Easy has recently undergone an extensive refit with most of her interior and exterior receiving attention. This has included hull respray, replacement of all soft furnishings, addition of teak and holly flooring throughout, replacement heads, new sink, oven, hot water system, battery management system and navigation instruments, all new running rigging and standing rigging. A water maker awaits installation, all lamps to be changed to LEDs.

Two Easy was launched in 1989 and is a Dutch design by Veneema, she was renamed Two Easy when she moved to UK waters in 2000.

Keith and Pam acquired the catamaran in July 2005, sailing it from brokerage in Chichester to Bristol in 6 days with friend Roger and Pam’s son Liam as crew. Arriving in Bristol in time for the harbour festival and won best sail boat category with a fine piece of Bristol Blue glass to show for it.

Specifications of Two Easy
LOA - 9.9m
Beam- 5.2m
Sail Area - 64m2
Weight - 4.2 tons
Rig – Bermudan Cutter
Keels – Dagger board
Draft – 1.90m
Hulls – White
Deck – White Grey
Reg – SSR
Designer – Ham Veneema
Builder – Heesens NL
Construction – Ply/GRP
Accommodation
2 double berths forward + a double and single aft (saloon also converts into a double berth)

Sails Spars & Rigging
Fully battened mainsail (2002) on slab reefing – Genoa on Rotostay roller reefing (2002) – Jib on roller reefing, storm sails. Cruising chute and snuffer – Spinnaker and snuffer. Halyards and reefing lines all led aft. Stackpack type mainsail cover.

Engines
2 x 8hp Ruggerini RM80

Drive Details
2 bladed Brunton feathering and self pitching props. (2001) Tachos (2001) Stripper rope cutters (2001) 2 x 30 litre fuel tanks, fuel and pressure gauges (2001)

Nav Equipment
Nav 100 speed/depth/wind/saloon and cabin repeaters (2000) Garmin 128 GPS (2001) Raytheon ST3000+ autohelm (2001)all connected by NMEA.
Sockets for autohelm remote in cockpit and port fwd cabin.
NASA NAVTEX PRO + (2001) with 419/580Khx aerial.
NASA DSC SX 35 VHF radio and cockpit speaker plus recently installed standard horizon DSC radio at helm position.
Two hand held radios and hand held GPS
SSB radio (2006)
Whip aerials (2006)
Full LED nav lights.

Safety Equipment
Danbuoy/drogue/lifebelt.
Oscar rescue sling.
Plasimo liferaft
Tinker tramp with sails and full life saving equipment.
2 Whale bilge pumps.
2 automatic fire extinguishers in engine bays.
8 hand held fire extinguishers.
1 fire blanket
2 station gas alarm

Ground Tackle
2 x 35lb plough + chain and warp.
20lb CQR anchor
Para anchor
Electric windlass

General Equipment
Nelson spinflo oven - 2 rings, grill and oven (2006)
Twin sink drainer, new worktops
Electrolux fridge Gas/12v/240v (2002)
Full size chart table and chart storage
Water heating by 240v AC immersion + gas water heater
Eberspacher hot air heating system (2002)
2 x 250 litre + 1 X 100 litre freshwater tanks + 600 litre bag tank
Watermaker (2006)
240v shore power circuit with sockets throughout
Built in battery chargers and invertor
LED downlighters in saloon
2 x 200 amp/hr batteries (house)
2 x 100 amp/hr batteries (house)
2 x 75 amp/hr batteries (engines)
Air x wind generator
Solar panels (2006)