Here is a list of the major equipment aboard Heartsong III for all or part of the circumnavigation.
Rig
- Selden furling mast
- Selden Furlex furling jib
- Retractable staysail stay
- Lewmar electric primary winches
- Lewmar manual secondary winches
- Modea electric winch handle
- Lewmar graphite “power grip” winch handles (4)
- Self-ratcheting mast-climbing harness
Sails (Hood Vectran™)
- In-mast furling main
- 130% Genoa
- Storm staysail
- Tri-sail (orange)
- Asymmetrical gennaker
Anchoring System
- Maxwell VWC 3500 electric windlass
- Cockpit windlass remote
- 110-lb Bruce anchor
- Chain, 300 feet (for South Pacific, better to have 350)
- 60-lb CQR anchor
- Fortress FX 55 stern anchor (no stern roller — would be nice to have)
- 250 feet rode
Electronics & Radios
- Autohelm ST6000+ autopilot
- Autohelm ST6000+ autopilot (fully installed spare)
- Raytheon GPS, stern rail-mounted antenna
- Raytheon R20XX radar at nav station, mast-mounted antenna
- Raytheon SL70+CRC color radar/chartplotter in cockpit, mast-mounted antenna
- C-Map NT+ chart cards (Club C-Map)
- Trimble Inmarsat-C, stern rail-mounted antenna
- Authohelm ST50+ navigation instruments
- Interphase Probe sonar
- SGC 2000 SSB/ham radio
- SCS PTC-II TNC (radio modem for sailmail)
- Standard VHF DSC radio
- Remote VHF transceiver (in cockpit)
- Speedtech Weathermate digital barometer (very accurate)
- Motorola 3-watt analog cellphone, mast-mounted antenna (totally obsolete; not useful outside US and northern Caribbean waters)
- Iridium 9505 portable satellite telephone
- Magellan Colortrak handheld GPS (2)
- Motorola “Freetalk” family band radios (2)
- Radio Shack TRC 508 family band radios, with headphones (2 sets of 2) (extraordinarily useful)
- ICOM M1+ portable VHF radio, waterproof
- ICOM IC-M3 portable VHF radios (2)
- “Blinky II” watch-keeping alarm, by Sea Witch (indispensable)
Computer System
- Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook, with CD R/W
- Dell Latitude XPi notebook
- Dell port replicator for each notebook (docking station)
- Canon BJC-80 printer
- Canon Cano-Scan flatbed scanner
- Backup drive
- C-Map PC Planner NT navigation software
- Nobeltec Visual Navigator software
- Coretex Weatherfax software
- JVConn weatherfax software
- Visual Passage Planner software
- SkyMap software
Power Systems
- Yanmar 4JH2-UTE100hp turbo-diesel engine
- Maxprop feathering propeller
- Dual alternators
- Onan MDKAL 8kw generator
- 300-gallon stainless diesel tankage, with fuel cleaning/recirculation system
- Heart 2500 inverter, Link 2000
- Heart Freedom 300 inverter (dedicated to computer)
- Isolation step-down transformer (for NZ/Aus/European power conversion)
- Four 210-amp Concord Lifeline AGM (absorbed glass mat) batteries
- Coleman PowerMate 1000 portable generator
- Detachable stern outboard motor mount in case of main engine failure
Safety Equipment
- Fireboy automatic fire extinguisher (engine room)
- Viking 6-person Yachtsman UK life raft
- Lifesling
- M.O.M.-8 man overboard module
- U.S. Coast Guard safety gear (PFDs, flares, etc.)
- 406 EPIRB
- West Marine inflatable Sospenders, with tethers
- Stearns bum-bag PFDs (4)
- Hydraulic wire cutters
- Super Gyser 4 115V submersible emergency pump (5000gph)
- Watch Commander “Blinky” watch alarm device
Galley & Water System, etc.
- Village Marine Tec 150 watermaker (6 gal/hr) (very reliable)
- 200-gallon stainless water tankage
- 20-gallon hot water heater
- Force 10 propane stove/oven
- 20-lb propane tanks in vented lockers (2)
- Microwave
- Dual 12V/220 Grunert refrigerator (top- and side-loading)
- Dual 12V/220 Grunert freezer (top-loading only)
- Combomatic 6000 marine washer/dryer
- Broan trash compactor
- Cruisair air conditioning (20,000 BTU, 2 blowers fwd; 16,000 BTU, 1 blower aft)
- Water saline tester