Sand Dollar Polaris 43' cutter, 1980 "Sand Dollar" was built by the Chien Yu yard in Taiwan in 1980. She was built from a one-off design by Robert Perry, though he did not play a part in the actual construction of the Polaris series and did not design the interior of these boats.

Hull

LOA 42'8" LWL 35'1" Draft 6'7" Beam 12'6"
Mast height 54'6" above SWL, deck stepped
Displ. 16 tons gross
Full-skeg rudder, cutaway forefoot keel w/ 4 tons of lead (fully encapsulated)

Sails

North Mainsail 8.8 oz. x 334 s.f.
North Genoa (120%) 6.6 oz. x 590 s.f.
JSI Staysail 7.3 oz x 250 s.f.
North Spinnaker 0.75 oz x 1200 s.f.
Profurl roller furling forestay
Forespar line-control whisker pole 27' maximum

Engine

Perkins 4-108 50 hp diesel
Borg-Warner velvet drive hydraulic transmission
partly defunct Shaft-Lok
PYI dripless shaft seal - 1 1/4" shaft
15 3/4" dia. x 9" pitch x 3-blade LH prop.
Diesel storage - 85 gallons + jericans on deck

Ground Tackle

Delta 4# plow anchor with 3/8" chain rode x 300'
Simpson-Lawrence 555 manual windlass
Fisherman 75# storm anchor
Danforth Hi-tensile spare anchor
danforth-type 20# spare anchors (2)
500' of 3/4" nylon spare anchor rode

Electrical Power

4 x Trojan T-105 6VDC battery + engine start spare
Kyocera Solar Panels 2 x 120W + 2 x 60W
100A Kenyon alternator + spare with selectable dual external regulators
Hamilton-Ferris Wind Generator (not a unit I'd recommend: many problems!)

Instrumentation

Nexus instruments, Furuno radar,
Windpilot steering with Autohelm ST1000 autopilot
Icom M-710 RT SSB with Pactor IIe modem and AT-130 tuner
Icom M127 VHF, Horizon VHF, Horizon hand-held VHF, two Garmin 12xl GPS (one spare)

Emergency

Viking 4-person Life Raft, mini-B EPIRB (obsolete?)
small set of current flares and a mountain of out-of-date ones!

Water

Water storage - 150 gallons
Rainwater collection system - 42 s.f. hard top bimini with gutters
Pur 40 desalination system "watermaker"

Galley

Refrigeration - one Adler-Barbour cold machine
& one Technautics holding plate - both 12VDC and air cooled
Propane-converted "Shipmate" two-burner stove (formerly kerosene-fired)

Auxiliary

Trinka 8' hard dinghy with dinghy dogs
2 hp Yamaha 2-stroke O.B. (two Honda 4-strokes died after one to two years from corrosion)
sail rig and oars