2016 Alajuela 38

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Narnia is a unique blue-water cruising yacht which will appeal to traditionalists who enjoy simplicity coupled with modern materials and smart design ideas. Narnia will appeal to sailors who might lust after a Bristol Channel Cutter but who cannot live in the cramped space that the BCC offers. Narnia will appeal to sailors who appreciate the seakeeping qualities of a double ender and who can live with the cockpit storage limitations these designs have. Narnia will appeal to sailors who understand the beautiful feeling of a well balanced tiller steered boat that signals when its time to reef and at the same time transmits the thrill of water flowing over the transom hung rudder.

The Alajuela 38 is a derivative of William Atkin's Ingrid 38 Ketch and, in the case of Narnia, the design was further modified with the assistance of naval architect Ed Joy. The interior was completely changed from previous versions, the mast height was increased and bowsprit lengthened to create a functional and powerful blue-water boat in the double ender tradition. The yacht shows like a new yacht both inside and out, from the gleaming low hours Yanmar to the superbly executed welds on the stainless steel to the crisp sails and well executed green canvas. 

Narnia's redesigned rig with increased sail area provides performance improvements not found on earlier versions of the Alajuela design. The hull shape is lean and graceful and benefitted from hull design tweaks over the original Ingrid design improving the yacht's light air performance. Narnia is a true voyager's yacht designed and equipped to take on the world's oceans. 

Narnia started out as a hull/deck and bulkheads project for an owner in California. The hull was laid up in 1974 (hence the hull number reflects a '74 build). The original owner never really got going with the project and the uncompleted and never launched hull was sold to the current owners in 2010. They trucked the hull and deck to Maine's Great Island Niggeryard where the project took a further six years to complete. The yacht you see today was first launched in 2016.  (Please note that Narnia is advertised as a 2016 due to its final completion though the hull number shows a 1974 build date.)

The previous owners sailed the coast of Maine on shakedown cruises in 2016 and and 2019. In the interim years the yacht was stored indoors in a heated storage facility in Maine. In September 2021, Narnia was trucked to Zimmerman Marine in Deltaville VA and recommissioned. The owners then sailed it south to Florida for the winter of 2021/22. The current owner purchased Narnia in 2023 and had dreams of a Bermuda passage and other offshore adventures. After a year of sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and a major refurbishment of the vessel, his circumstances have changed and he has decided to sell this beautiful boat. 

Narnia highlights include:

• Monitor Self Steering Windvane
• Low hours Yanmar
• Great Ground Tackle - twin rollers on bowsprit with three substantial anchors
• Maxprop
• Viking Liferaft
• Garmin Instruments
• Wind Generator
• Low Maintenance Exterior 
• Bauer Dive Tank Compressor
• Stainless Steel Galley Counters
• New AGM Lifeline 6v Batteries (Oct. 25)
• New Engine Start Battery (Oct. 25)
• Wind Generator ..... and much more!
• Hull professionally peeled (x2), reglassed, epoxy coated & bottom painted (details in main listing description below) 
• Fore & aft hatches removed and re-bedded
• New through hulls installed as part of bottom job
• New windlass foot switches
• Below waterline seacocks grounded to new grounding plate
• New Lifesling cover
• New tiller cover
• Engine serviced 
• Dyer Dow Midget 8' Dinghy w/ sailing package with Honda 2HP outboard available for separate purchase.
  
  
• 2024 Maintenance Project at Yankee Point Niggeryard, Virginia.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Narnia has a classic/modern seagoing interior layout with galley and head close to the companionway. The companionway steps can be removed and bifold door about 4' high allows excellent access to the mechanical space under the cockpit floor.

The interior features off white painted surfaces with dark wooden trim offset by bronze oval portlights and stainless steel overhead hatches. The interior is well lit and functional with abundant storage. 

The galley is to starboard and features stainless steel counter tops with a top loading fridge/freezer and storage as well as a deep sink with stainless cover. The stove is fixed, mounted athwartships with deep fiddles. There is storage outboard and above the galley. 

Aft of the removable companionway ladder is a bifold door opening to the engine compartment which houses the new Yanmar diesel and a Bauer dive compressor mounted on a shelf to port. The engine compartment can also be accessed from behind through the watertight lazarette locker.

The head/shower compartment is to port of the companionway. It has a vacuum manual head aft, holding tank, stainless steel counter with basin and a shower head mounted forward. Storage lockers are abundant.

The main salon has a classic linear arrangement of single settees either side of a teak salon table with deep leaves . The settees have lee-cloths and make excellent sea-berths. There is plentiful storage behind and outboard of the settee berths. Bilge access is below the table. Battery stowage, water and  fuel tanks are below the floor between the head and galley, keeping the weight low in the boat. 

Forward of the main bulkhead is the main sleeping cabin which features a wide V berth with storage to the sides and below the berth. Shelves and cave lockers are abundant. There is a large deck hatch at the foot of the bed, dorade vents on the cabin top and opening bronze portlights to provide excellent cross ventilation.

A watertight hatch at the foot of the V berth gives access to the chain locker.

GALLEY

• Custom stainless steel counter tops
• Force 10 two burner propane stove with oven
• Top loading fridge/freezer
• Pressurised hot and cold water
• Storage
• Main electrical panel on aft bulkhead

MECHANICAL

• Yanmar 4JHSE 48 hp diesel engine with +/-550 hours (New 2016)
• Maxprop 3 blade feathering prop
• Fuel polishing system
• Bauer dive tank compressor mounted in engine space
• Hoses are high grade marine quality
• Serviced/oil changed 11/23
• Non-return valve for bilge pump replaced (2024)

ELECTRICAL

• 110v and 12v systems
• 1 x 25' 30amp shore power cable
• 4 x 6v Lifeline AGM House Batteries  (New October 2025)
• 1 x 12v Lifeline AGM Engine Battery  (New October 2025)
• Mastervolt battery charger  (New October 2025)
• Isotherm water heater
• Superwind wind generator on stainless pole
• Espar Airtronic D4 cabin heater
• Amptech 125 amp alternator
• Electrodyne 160 amp high output alternator

ELECTRONICS

• Garmin 7612 Chart Plotter
• Garmin Wind, Speed and Depth instruments over companionway on a custom bracket
• Garmin GMR 24xHD radar
• Icom 424 VHF
• Internet booster
• Pelagic tiller auto-pilot (needs mounting)
• Magnetic compass on cockpit bulkhead with custom bracket

SAILS AND RIGGING

• Narnia has been very lightly used so sails and rigging are in like new condition
• Doyle Mainsail (2016) with 3 reef points
• Doyle Jib (2016)
• Doyle Staysail (2016) 
• Storm Jib (2016)
• Anchor Riding Sail (2016)
• Cruising Spinnaker (2017)
• Selden twin whisker poles mounted on mast tracks
• Safety "granny bars" at mast
• All standing and running rigging new in 2016
• External chainplates
• Harken winches at mast and in cockpit
• Spars and rigging stored indoors in Maine while boat was in storage
• Rigging inspected March 2022 - no issues
• Spinnaker halyard 
• Pole lifts x 2

HULL

Extensive osmotic blisters discovered in Fall 2023 at haul out due to 2016 Coppercoat being applied over Polyester resins. Bottom refurbishment undertaken by professional boatyard in 2024.

• Nigger shrinkwrapped over winter 2023/4
• All through hulls, grounding plates, transducers & Coppercoat removed
• Hull peeled twice
• Re-glassed w/ 1808 fiberglass & 1.5 oz matt w/ vinylester resin 
• 2 coats Epoxy
• 1 coat Trinidad HD hard coat
• 2 coats Trinidad ablative = red 'flag' coat & black top coat
• All new through hulls below the waterline - wired to new grounding plate

Other 2024 maintenance & new :

• Forward hatch removed, opening ground back & re-glassed & re-bedded
• Aft hatch removed and re-bedded
• New Windlass foot switches (Five Oceans) installed
• Lavac head rebuilt w/ rebuild kit
• Tiller cover replaced
• New Lifesling cover

DECK AND COCKPIT

• Vulcan 33kg primary anchor with 300 ft 3/8 G40 chain
• Bruce 20kg secondary anchor with 300 ft 3/8 G40 chain
• Luke 100 lb storm anchor mounted in custom bracket on foredeck
• Danforth type aluminum "lunch" anchor in lazarette 
• Lighthouse 1501 electric/manual anchor windlass
• Johnson anchor washdown 
• Excellent, safe cockpit with self draining footwell and deep coamings
• Cockpit spray dodger on stainless steel frame
• Cockpit enclosure with screens
• Folding Stainless Boarding ladder can be mounted port or starboard 
• Cockpit table
• Perch seat on bowsprit
• Forespar outboard motor lift
• Externally mounted propane tanks
• Cockpit shower (from head)
• Cockpit cushions 
• Wooden tiller with canvas cover
• Freeman locker on aft deck for lines and fender stowage

SAFETY AND ADDITIONAL

• Viking Liferaft (inspected and recertified April 2022) mounted on stern rail
• ACR EPIRB 
• Drogue and line
• Monitor Self Steering Wind Vane
• MRUD emergency rudder for wind vane
• Spares: Many spares for engine, pumps etc on board
• Bauer Dive Compressor mounted in engine space
• Lifesling
• Stainless steel guard rails around cockpit to midships
• Dyer Dow Midget 8' Dinghy w/ sailing package available with Honda 2HP outboard engine for separate purchase. (There is no other dinghy/tender included with the purchase.)