1982 Hinckley Bermuda 40 MK III Yawl12m

The iconic Bermuda 40 is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful sailboats ever built. The Mark III version is faster than its predecessors with its taller rig and reconfigured ballast. This William Tripp Jr. Hall of Fame design was the Hinckley Company's first semi-custom offering. A total of 203 Bermuda Forties were built between 1959 and 1991. 

The interior has a varnished ash interior with port and starboard settees, out board pilot berths and fixed dining table with folding leafs. Her white overhead, varnished teak and holly sole, two opening overhead hatches, ports and a companionway hatch provide lots of light and natural ventilation in a very pleasant living space.The two-cabin plan sleeps 6 and has a:

• Main Cabin - includes the galley, nav table/icebox , and main salon
• Head
• Forward Cabin

Cockpit companionway enters aft in the main cabin:

• Three-step companionway - bottom step opens for storage.
• Storage locker is at the top step, just below the hatch

 Interior features include:

• Emerald green upholstery and floral curtains
• Overhead hatches with screen - in forward cabin and main salon
• 12-volt bulkhead and dome lighting 
• Clock and barometer

Main cabin (amidship):

• Integral varnished ash handrail runs full-length port and starboard below the ports.
• Can sleep up to 4 persons in the Main Salon.

Galley (aft port):
The aft-facing galley is to port of the companionway and very convenient to the cockpit.

The L-shaped galley has a white Formica countertop with the stove outboard, sink and refrigeration opposite to starboard that doubles as a nav table.

• Gimballed stainless steel, 3-burner LPG stove/oven. When the stove is not in use, more work space is created by a matching formica hide-away stove cover
• Double stainless steel sink with fixtures providing hot and cold pressure water including sprayer and raw water hand pump
• 12-volt bin refrigerator/freezer is opposite to starboard and has dual hatch counter access
• Storage is provided with vented sliding door lockers and drawers. A drop front locker is aft of the sink

Main Salon:

The forward full-width Main Salon is separated from the galley and nav station with half bulkheads.

• Port and starboard settees that slide out and convert to sleeping berths
• Outboard matching pilot berths
• Overhead opening hatch with screen 
• Dining table with dual drop-leafs

• Hanging locker forward has more top storage 
• Locker behind the hanging locker is accessed from the forward end of the pilot berth

 Head (Port and forward):

Head is finished in varnished ash

• White formica countertop with sink and hatch accessed hamper 
• Stainless steel sink with hand-held shower and hot and cold pressure water 
• Manual head
• Medicine cabinet
• Storage lockers
• Towel bar, grab handle, and toilet paper holder
• Teak floor grating for the shower area
• Opening port with screen

Forward Stateroom:
Next forward is a private stateroom with a solid ash door. 

• V-berth forward - forms a double berth with insert and cushion.
• Seat between V-berths opens for storage
• Drawer and drop-front storage below V-berths
• Bookshelves are over outboard V-berths
• Bureau to port with shelf top 
• Hanging locker with shelf 

• Opening overhead hatch
• Forward door access to the forepeak chain locker

The spacious cockpit has a bridge deck with a varnished teak sliding companionway hatch forward. Varnished teak cockpit coamings that have built-in winch pockets and allow comfortable seatback cruising. 

• Two opening, watertight cockpit seats offer sail/locker storage
• Teak grate cockpit sole - has drainage scuppers
• Varnished teak companionway hatch
• Raytheon I70 instruments on steering pedestal
• Engine gauges and switches in cockpit steering well
• Shore power inlet

• Edson pedestal wheel steering

• Stainless steel steering wheel
• Binnacle mounted compass with chrome cover
• Mounted engine controls
• Stainless steel pedestal guard
• Folding helm seat
• Cockpit dodger 
• Cockpit cushions
• Folding varnished cockpit table with two folding leaves – pedestal mounted 
• Varnished teak mug/cup holder - pedestal mounted

• Royal Blue Awlgrip topsides
• White deck and house with camel brown nonskid
• White Awlgrip boot top
  
• Black ablative bottom paint
• Gold cove stripe
• Jib sheet, outhaul and furler lines are rigged outboard providing uncluttered decks
• Solid hand laid fiberglass hull reinforced in all stress areas
• Balsa core deck is set in molded 6" hull flange, fiber glassed and bolted to form a permanent hull/deck joint
• External lead keel fastened with stainless steel bolts
• Bronze centerboard activated by a worm gear
• Bronze sea cocks
  
• Stainless steel stem head with anchor roller
• Stainless steel bow and stern pulpits
• Stainless steel stanchions with double lifelines and both port and starboard gates
• Varnished teak exterior trim
• Two large ventilators mounted on a teak dorade box with storage between
•  Stainless steel dorade guard
• Two translucent white, opening house top deck hatches with screens

• Aluminum main and mizzen mast and boom - Yawl rig
• Stainless steel 1 x 19 standing rigging
• Rod lug tensioners, swaged terminals, stainless steel mast bale
• Hall Quickvang
• Housetop traveler
• Spinnaker/MPS gear
• Mizzen staysail gear
• Harken roller furling

Winches:

• #28 ST primaries - Barient 
• #23 ST secondaries - Barient 
• #23 ST Mainsheet winches

Sails:

• North Sails Fully Battened Main with lazy jacks
• North Sails Fully Battened Mizzen with lazy jacks
• North Sails 135% Genoa
• Storm Jib 
• Cruising spinnaker
• Mizzen Staysail
• Covers for main and mizzen

• Raymarine C90W Charplotter/Radar
• Raymarine 4Kw Radome
• Raymarine I70 Wind Indicator
• Raymarine I70 Multidata
• Apelco 5160 VHF Radio
  
• Autohelm

2005 Westerbeke 55B diesel fresh water-cooled 55-hp engine:

• Stainless steel shaft
• 3-blade Maxi propeller 
• Raycor fuel filters
• Engine room sound insulation
• Bilge blower
• High water alarm
• (2) Electric bilge pumps
• Manual bilge pump
• Deck wash pump
• Hot and cold pressure water system 
• 12- gallon hot water heater
• (2) 10# aluminum LPG tanks

• 12-volt and 110-volt breaker panels with spare breakers
• Engine start battery with 53-amp engine alternator for charging
• House accessories: (2) 8D AGM batteries with 105-amp engine alternator for charging
• Parallel switch for emergency engine start
• Master shut-off switches
• Shore power 110-volt system with shore power inlet, 30A cord
• Shore power converter
• Xantrex battery monitor/inverter

• Lewmar electric windlass with chain stopper and wash down
• 35 lb. Plow anchor mounted in bow roller
• Spare Danforth anchor
• 200 ft x 5/16" anchor chain
• (2) 200 ft. 3/4" braided rode

• Sea water deck wash pump forward with hose.
• Dock lines
• (3) Fenders
  
• (2) White monogrammed horseshoe life rings mounted on stern pulpit.
  
• Life jackets in cockpit lockers.
  
• Varnished wooden boat hook
  
• Lifesling man overboard recovery system
• ACR ditch bag
• Fire extinguishers
  
• Bosun's chair

     The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.