M/S Iron Maiden Quick Specs: Heavy Offshore 70 Explorer – All Steel Pilothouse Motor-Sailor Designer: Holland Marine - S.F. CA. Built/Launched (hull plated): 1989 Alameda, CA; Fully commissioned in 2007 Portland, OR Length: 70-ft. LOD/LWL, Beam: 18.6-feet, Draft: 9-feet Displacement/Weight: 88-tons gross (scaled at Ventura Boat Yard) Hull: Heavy reinforced 1/2" & 3/8" plate A-36 Steel Plate w/Ice Bow (16") Power: Cummins NH-855 (275 hp.) w/ Twin Disc Marine Gear Sail Area: 2,400 feet Dacron (Cutter Rigged) Accommodations: 10 persons in 4 Staterooms w/ensuite heads Fuel: Diesel in two 750 gal. steel tanks (1,500 gals.) AC Generator: 8KW Cummins - 120/240 VAC. Back up 3.5 KW Diesel Gen-Set. 12 V. Power: 8 Rolls Surrette 8D batteries, 3 High-output Alternators, 2) 1,100-watt Solar Panel Array, 3 bank 40-Amp Stainless-Steel Battery Charger, 3 Bank 80 Amp Stainless Steel Charger,  AirX marine 400-watt wind generator. Range Under Power: Approximately 3,000 N.M at 8 kts & 1,400 Rpm (10 knot full speed at 1800 RPM) U.S. Documented with Coastwise Trade Privileges (Legal for Charter Work). Last drydock: March 2009 at Ventura Boat Yard, Ventura CA. Nav-Com Systems Pilothouse Starboard side   NavCom Quick Specs: FURUNO: 40 mile CRT Radar (two units) FURUNO: Color Bottom Sounder (4,000 feet) FURUNO: 10 inch Nav-Net VX2 FURUNO: Moving Map Chart Plotter (w/full charts) FURUNO: Multi-Sensor Sea Temp/Speed FURUNO: Weather Fax 207 w/Printer & Auto Scan FURUNO: Weather Fax 30 FURUNO: FAP 330 Commercial Auto Pilot ICOM: SSB-HAM 150-Watt Transciever ICOM: VHF Transciever with Hailer FURUNO: VHF Transciever HORIZON: VHF Transciever w/Hailer and Fog PLATH: Aneroid Barometer PLATH: Clock PANEL: Paneltronics magnetic breakers COBRA: CB-SSB Transciever 5-25 Watts ROLLS: Rolls-Surrette Dedicated Nav-Com Battery NOAA: Chart Set West/East Pacific NOAA: Sailing Directions West/East Pacific USC: Title 46, Rules of the Road BOOKS: Bowditch, Chapman's, Navy Dive Manual, etc. Galley Salon Table w/Solid Purpleheart table Salon area starboard-aft view - stairs to pilothouse Entertainment And Amenities: GlobalStar Sat-Com Voice/Data Cellular Phone 220-Watt Alpine Stereo (CD-FM-Sirius) w/JBL Speakers 2 Color TVs w/DVD-VHS Player (100 DVDs Movie Library) Apple Titianium Laptop/Sony PC Viao Laptop, X-Box 3 250-Watt Sine-Wave Inverters SCUBA Dive Gear for 2, plus 2 snorkelers Seayak 2-man Kayak Full set (6) heavy fishing rods and reels (Penn) Full set (4) light fishing rods and reels (misc) Flying gaff & large net Back deck seating (6) for trolling with Heavy rod holders Full Galley (coffee maker, toaster, microwaves, dishwasher, etc.) Full size (household) refrigerator and freezer Maytag Stack Washer/Dryer 40 gallon hot water heater Purified Water System Village Marine 360 GPD Desalination Plant Onboard Library (Science, Marine Life, Fiction, etc.) Standard beds (Queen, double, 2 twins, 2 singles, day) Full-size Kohler deep soaking tub w/Shower (master) Showers in 3 other cabins Skipper Heads (toilets) in 4 cabins w/ElectroSan processor Seating for 10 at custom purple-heart wood Saloon table Custom stained glass windows Deck lighting fore and aft Sun/lawn chairs foreward Hydraulic System for auxillary equipment (as needed) Oxygen and first Aid Kit Handheld VHF transcievers Foul weather gear (4 sets) Portable CD player Sabot Sailing dingy w/carbon fiber mast 14 foot Alaskan Shore boat w/8 hp Honda 4-stroke Planton net, microscope, glassware, freezer Onboard Security: YachtSentry Alarm System w/cell dialer & Pager Private Charters May be Arranged: *Minimum 3-Day Charters *Daily Rate for the boat is $1,700/day, base rate *Rate for specialty/research charters may be more *Extra equipment or preparations/stationing may be more (call) *Bauer Dive Compressor ($50/hour/use), ROV (call) Captain & Crew: *Captain is USCG Licensed Master - Vessels, Power-Sail-Towing 200 Gross Reg. Tons/500 Int. Tons, STCW-95 Endorsed, with over 200,000 sea miles, PADI DiveMaster, FAA Commercial Instrument Pilot - Multiengine Airplanes & Turbine Helicopters. *Crew may also be licensed Masters or well qualified. *Passengers may elect to participate (under the supervision of the captain/crew) in sailing/boating/navigation lessons underway and build sea-time for USCG licensing and/or for cruising purposes. Pilothouse Aft Engine Room: NorthernLights 12KW Gen-Set; SnapOn Tool Boxes/tools Cummins NH-855 (250 hp.), Dual Racor FG-1000 w/SS Manifold, Fuel/oil lines (blue) AeroQuip USCG App. Fire Type A-1 The Iron Maiden is a one-off (hull #1) Holland Marine designed heavy Pilothouse Motor-sailor. Her design is intended for extended worldwide offshore exploration, cruising/chartering. Her hull is laid-up in heavily reinforced A-36 steel plate (over spec. in all areas). The Iron Maiden is 70 feet in length over her deck and at her waterline due to the modern designed reverse transom, with an 18.6 foot beam. She draws approximately 9 feet of water at her gross weight of 88 tons (scaled at Ventura Boat Yard). Her steel hull plating is 1 1/4" on the shoe (bottom) of the keel and rudder skeg. The sides of the keel are 1/2" steel plate, going to 3/8" steel plate on the bottom of the hull up to and above the waterline, where the plate is 5/16" up to the top of the deck. The bulwarks are 1/4" plate. The deck is plated in 1/4" steel plate. The pilothouse is plated in 3/16" steel. The top of the pilothouse is 1/8" plate steel and is reinforced to handle the weight of a car. Her keel is approximately 48 feet long and 3 feet 6 inches wide  and extends down approximately 6 feet below the bottom of the hull plating. The keel has heavy ballast made up of steel shot and a special concrete matrix, which weighs approximately 20 tons. Above and below the waterline at the bow to a point about 15 feet aft of the bow shear is an integral-to-the-hull 1,000-gallon steel fresh-water tank, which also doubles as an under-water collision bulkhead. Aft of that tank is a 500-gallon integral steel gray water holding tank, which also doubles as a second below-water collision bulkhead. All tanks were coated with Nyloc. There are 2-35 gallon purified drinking water tanks in the galley supplied by a purification unit. Farther aft under the pilothouse is the engine room, which has 6’5" headroom. In the engine room there are two 750-gallon (port and starboard sides) steel diesel fuel tanks, which are also built integral to the hull and are laid-up in 3/8" steel plating on all sides, including the outboard hull sides. These tanks are baffled and are designed to act as workbench areas on the port and starboard sides of the engine room. The engine room also has a full toolbox roll-away (with stack) built-in, as well as commercial bolt-screw assortment boxes. There are back-up parts for everything on-board and a huge assortment of hardware in stainless steels and grade 8. The fuel moves from the two 750 gallon fuel tanks through Aeroquip hoses and 316 stainless steel selector valves to the new dual Racor FG 1000 Fuel Filter Manifold that feeds the new Cummins 855, 275hp. 600 ft. lb. Torque @ 1400 RPM, a quiet 4-stroke marine/industrial diesel engine (this is a big, serious bruiser that weighs in at 2,000 lbs., not a 'Mickey-Mouse' Dodge Cummins truck engine). This engine has 176 hours since new, with an expected life span of 40,000 hours being very typical. This engine holds 10 gallons (40 quarts) of lube oil (Delo 15-40wt.). The super heavy-duty Twin Disc 8708 (weighs 800-pounds) commercial marine gear is also brand new in 2002, which holds 8 quarts of gear oil. There are heavy filters, coolers and magnets in all the oil systems for extensive protection and long-life. The 12 KW Northern Lights diesel generator (4 stroke Lugger, very quiet) is also located in the stand-up engine room and like the main engine, it too is very easily accessible and very easy to service. 9-Drawer Dresser - Solid Tiger Ipe Master Cabin Head - Kohler Tub/Shower left of view In the stern of the vessel is a large water-tight steerage compartment with storage and 7 foot head-room. Just forward of that compartment is a solid 1/2" steel plate watertight collision bulkhead that separates the steerage compartment from the aft master cabin. The master cabin has extensive hand-crafted rare wood furnishings, a solid 1" thick Ipe plank floor system and appointments made from solid Ipe, Jatoba, Purple Heart, Wenge and Buebinga. The ensuite head has a full size Kohler tub and shower and Skipper head. There are three double cabins in the forward part of the vessel, one each on the port and starboard sides of the ship just aft of the bow cabin. All of these cabins also each have their own ensuite heads (Skipper) and showers. Aft of the forward cabins is a large saloon with seating for 10 at a large custom hand-made table of 1" thick purple heard wood. The galley has all full size household appliances including a full size Hotpoint freezer, Whirlpool refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, microwave and double stainless sink. The vessel has an average overall headroom of approximately 6’5" in the most of the ship. The large steel reinforced pilothouse is aft of the saloon and galley and up five steps. The pilothouse provides excellent visibility in all directions forward through 1/2" thick bulletproof (literally) polycarbonate windowpanes. The navigation center and nav-table are located at seated areas just below the helm seating. The vessel has a new suite of state-of-the-art FURUNO electronics, which includes: (2) 48-mile CRT radar, (2) Weather Fax, Autopilot, Nav-Net, Moving-Map GPS Chart-Plotter and color echo sounder. The communications transceivers are: ICOM M-710 150-watt SSB/Ham with AT-130 Tuner, 2 ICOM VHFs and a 25-watt Cobra CB-SSB, Standard Horizon Commercial VHF with hailer and automated fog signals. All antennas are new (2007) and are located on a custom-made heavy duty 6061 double 3" row aluminum arch on the top of the pilot house. No antennas are mounted on the mast. The main mast is intentionally short rigged w/heavy standing rigging and the mast extrusion was made by Lafeil in Los Angeles California. There is a stainless-steel framed & covered area with seating outside and aft of the pilothouse. The area on top of this 8’ X 16’ hard awning is used to support a 1.1 KW of Solar Panel array. A small crane serves the back deck area with its 1,700 pound lift capacity for lifting small boats aboard or cargo. There is a swim step on the back of the reverse transom, with a ladder suitable for boarding or divers. The vessel is surrounded on deck with heavy-duty solid stainless steel life railings, which are built to U.S.C.G. specs for offshore safety standards for passenger charter work. The vessel was dry-docked at San Pedro Boat Yard in June & July 2002 for 2 months and underwent extensive updating and systems installations as well as a complete sandblasting and an extensive hull painting program with premium 2-part epoxy primers and two-part epoxy barrier coats. This entire impressive state-of-the-art process was published in Metal Boat Quarterly Magazine (click here for PDF article; hard copy available on request). All vessel systems were installed new at that time including among other things: all wiring (Anchor Marine Wire) and electrical panels (Paneltronics), hydraulics (steering rams (Parker) stainless steel dual rams with AeroQuip hydraulic hoses), and a 12,000 pound lift hydraulic anchor windless. She was also equipped with a new Cummins 855 cu. in. 275-hp. Diesel engine coupled to a new Twin Disc Marine Gear (8708), a new 2.5 inch Aquamet 22 shaft, Morse commercial cutlass bearing, and three-blade 28" bronze propeller. She has a primary 85 Kg. Bruce Anchor which is her main anchor and is held in place on the 1/2 Stainless-steel plate framed bronze bow roller and fair-lead. She also has 2 secondary naval style 160-pound Danforth anchors stored in the bow anchor locker. The primary anchor is secured to the windless through the fair-lead with a 3/4" swivel on 250 feet of 1/2" G-4 Ancor high-test chain. The anchor windless is a htdraulic Braden 18,000 lb. open spool.The anchor locker is just aft of the bow and has 5-foot headroom. Inside is an additional coil of 250 feet of 1/2" anchor chain. There is also a 500-foot coil of new 1-inch double braid line. The Iron Maiden was surveyed out of the water at San Pedro Boat Yard in early July 2002 by an accredited marine surveyor. The hull was audio-gauged in more than 40 key locations "as new" at that time. At that time, she had a market (cash) value of $575,000 and a replacement value of $1,400,000. Since that time, she has undergone extensive interior design remodeling, which has been partially completed and as such, the vessel’s value has increased. Upon completion of the extensive hull painting process, 250 pounds of commercial Zinc Anodes were attached to the hull to assure adequate long-term protection. In November 2002, the Iron Maiden made a 33 day voyage (maiden-voyage) from Southern California to her berth on the Willamette River in Oregon City Oregon, visiting several ports, Catalina Is. and the Channel Islands during winter weather (upwind and up-swell) operations, day and night. This was a winter trip north along a very tough coast (lee shore) and the Iron Maiden made this trip almost effortlessly. With her all-new running gear, she made 10 knots enroute at 1800 RPM. The list of new upgrades since 2002 is very, very extensive (by any measure) and the vessel has been seriously equipped and maintained by a licensed professional mariner for a circumnavigation. Her safety gear includes, but is not limited to: 10 Type ABC Fire Extinguishers, flares with 2 flare guns, strobe lights, smoke signals, dye markers, light sticks, 8-man offshore Avon Liferaft with stores and Class A EPIRB, ARC Cat. I 408 EPIRB (2nd EPIRB), two handheld ICOM VHFs, SOSpenders - 4 sets, 10 offshore life jackets and 2 throwing rings with line. This vessel is clean-clean and rust-free right down into her bilges! She is dry as a bone everywhere inside and there is absolutely no oil in the white (painted) engine bilge. She has a carbon-seal on her Aquamet 22 shaft so there is no dripping and the stainless steel rudder shaft is piped-up well above the water-line so there is no leaking past that seal either. The vessel has a modern yet very-heavy design with a sharp entry forward at the bow and a reverse transom at the stern. Her bow is reinforced for light ice penetration. She goes though big seas (20-ft. seas off Cape Mendocino in Feb. 2003) like an axe through butter. In heavy conditions she doesn’t pitch like most boats her size and she is very, very soft riding and sea kindly. The Iron Maiden is truly a "go anywhere, anytime" bulletproof vessel. She has a spartan utilitarian exterior, which is easy to maintain and service, giving her a military ship appearance. Her steel hull and deck plating is so thick that without any coatings to protect her, she would easily last 20-25 years and still be structurally sound. Since her dry-dock in 2002, she has been exclusively in the fresh water of the Willamette River. The only time the hull saw salt water was on the trip north to Oregon, so the underwater surfaces of the hull are still in perfect shape as are the Zincs. The vessel surveyor Thomas W. Bell, (Senior Surveyor – Society Of Accredited Marine Surveyors) has been surveying boats for over 30 years and has sailed most of his life. He says that the Iron Maiden is "built like a tank". We have several sample steel plugs that were taken from different areas of the hull, deck, bulkheads and pilothouse during the installation of piping and they are quite impressive. Mr. Bell has indicated that the cost today to just simply lay-up a steel hull like that (just a bare steel hull) would be at least $4,000.00 per foot, which is over $280,000.00 just to get the steel dropped into a boat yard. This is why that her actual cash value or "market value" in her current finished condition is truly $470,000.00 used, with a replacement value of $1,450,000.00 new. Nevertheless, she’s a "like new used ship". The original blueprints from Holland Marine are onboard the vessel and there is also a full-set of full-size copies. Cruising offshore is one of this life’s ultimate experiences, however, it’s not worth anyone loosing their life in the doing. 'Hardship Cruising' puts strain on crew and relationships and takes a lot of the joy out the experience. At the end of the day, wooden and plastic (fiberglass) boats are very susceptible to serious damage from any collision with a submerged log, whale, container, or worse yet, with another ship. Most of us have heard about fiberglass and wooden boats going down in under a few minutes after a collision of one kind or another. Steel vessels on the other hand, especially ones that are overbuilt, rarely are holed by a collision of any type. The Iron Maiden is a true fortress of protection when at sea and she defends the souls in her charge. She is exceptionally strong, safe, reliable and economical. For More information contact: Capt. Bill Simpson - U.S. Merchant Marine Officer Master - Vessels 200 Gross Reg. Tons/500ITC - Power, Sail & Towing PH: 858. 212. 5762 Email: gemmaster7@aol.com www.svironmaiden.com HF Radio: S/V Iron Maiden WDB 2131 Foreward underbody of Iron Maiden (Drydock 7-10-02) Port-stern: Rudder Skeg and Rudder, Cutaway Guard (between lower aft keel and bottom of Skeg) is made of 1" X 16" cold rolled steel. Rudder is sysmetrical oil-filled foil made of 5/16 A-36 steel. Skeg is reinforced 3/8" A-36 steel. Rudder shaft is 4" Shedule 120 AquaMet Stainless. Iron Maiden at DryDock Ventura CA 2009 IronMaiden Launch 2009