SV Wildly Intrepid
Welcome to our home and means of transportation.
This is our 1981 Hunter 33 which we spent over a year refitting, fixing and upgrading.
With hopes of exploring the World we sailed from Canada to the Bahamas!
She’s nor new nor big but it’s in the simplest things that we find pleasure.
Specifications
Make & Model: Hunter 33
Year: 1981
Lenght: 32.67ft
Beam: 10.17ft
Draft: 5.25ft
Displacement: 10,600lbs
Ballast: 4,100lbs
Engine: 13HP Yanmar 2GM raw water cooled
Diesel Capacity: 19 gallons internal + three 5 gallon jerry cans
Water capacity: 48 gallons internal + three 5 gallon jerry cans
Waste capacity: 15 gallons tank
Wildly Intrepid was built in 1981 in Alachua, Florida. From there it started its journey in Rochester, New York on Lake Ontario and spent most of its life sailing there. A few years ago, the previous owner crossed the Welland Canal to end up in Lake Erie where we purchased her in 2018 in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Thus being a Great Lakes sailboat she had never tasted the salt water and open water up until we sailed her to the Atlantic Ocean via the Erie Canal.
Our Electrical System
Solar: Four SolarEngine 100W semi-flexible panels and three HQST 100W polycrystalline rigid panels
Batteries: one 280 AMP Lithium Eve Cell battery + two Interstate 80AMP Deep-cycle
Inverter: 1000W pure sine wave
Radio: Uniden UM385 fixed radio and handheld VHF Uniden Atlantis 275
Navigation: Aquamaps and Navionics on 1 tablet and 1 cellphone
Sails, Rig and Steering
Sails: Gennaker, 150 Genoa, 120 Genoa, Storm Jib and Main sail with 2 reefs
Autopilot: ST3000
Rig: Masthead sloop, split backstay
Our sails are all fairly old around 1999 but still work. Eventually we probably will get new ones made.
Ground Tackle
-35 lbs Mantus Anchor with 150ft of chain and an extra 150ft of rode
-20 lbs Danfort Anchor with 6ft chain and 120ft of rode
-7.5kg Bruce Anchor
Interior
Wildly Intrepid has a v-berth where we sleep. The saloon also has 1 small double berth a single berth and a bunk berth for a child less than 80lbs which we turned into a shelf. There is also an aft double-berth on the port side. We have slept 6 adults once and it worked although we wouldn’t do it for an extended period of time. Our saloon is fairly spacious and has a folding table.
There is a head starboard aft with a JABSCO toilet and shower. We removed the rusty hot water tank when we first bought the boat so it’s all cold water. Across from it is where we find the galley. We recently re-insulated our fridge which runs on a 12Volt compressor. The sink has both a fresh water and raw water tap and we cook on a pressurized alcohol stove/oven.
