1987 Bristol 51.1

Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:

Boat Name
Brian Boru

Specs
Builder: Bristol Yachts
Designer: Dieterer Empacher
Flag of Registry: United States
Keel: Centerboard

Dimensions
LOA: 51 ft 0 in
Beam: 15 ft 2 in
LWL: 42 ft 1 in
Minimum Draft: 5 ft 4 in
Maximum Draft: 10 ft 6 in
Displacement: 43700 lbs Dry Load
Ballast: 19500 lbs
Headroom: 7 ft 0 in

Engines
Total Power: 100 HP

Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Westerbeke
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Drive Type: Shaft Drive
Engine Power: 100 HP


Tanks
Fresh Water Tanks: (250 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (218 Gallons)
Holding Tanks: (40 Gallons)

Accommodation
Number of heads: 2

FULL SPECIFICATIONS

Full Specifications

 Accommodations

The Bristol 51.1 center cockpit, three stateroom cruiser is sought after for her generous accommodations for a family. She really meets all the requirements. The Bristol  is a beautiful yacht built in a time when an ocean going vessel looked like a real boat with gorgeous Mahagany joinery and sumptuous appointments. Bristol Yachts has always been regarded as the one of the finished builders offering beautiful workmanship. The salon is lovely with seven foot headroom and spacious accommodation. A U-shaped dinette to starboard wraps around a lovely teak dining table. The straight starboard settee can pull out to make a double berth. Storage is abundant with space outboard of the settees as well lockers and outboard cabinetry and bookshelves. The galley is tucked just aft of the salon on the portside with the forward facing navigation station to starboard. The walkthrough to aft cabin provides for generous access to the engine room. Also in the walkthrough just aft of the nav station there are several storage lockers. The master stateroom is the entire private aft cabin with an ensuite head and shower and abundant storage in beautiful cabinetry. This master stateroom is a totally private cabin with the sought after island queen berth. There is storage for everything necessary for extended time aboard.

Up forward, the guest cabin has a spacious real V-berth and removable filler that makes a fine double berth instead of two singles. There is a vanity and plenty of storage. The second  cabin has two single berths, over/under and a hanging locker. These guest cabins share the forward head compartment that has a beautiful separate shower stall. You will be completely comfortable living on this sailing yacht for extended periods with complete amenities.

• Three stateroom center cockpit
• Spacious salon with seven foot headroom
• Starboard settee makes a double berth!
• Beautiful mahogany joinery feels like fine furniture
• Large galley with lovely tile
• Curtains
• Owner’s private aft stateroom
• Generous guest cabin forward
• Third cabin with uppers and lower berths
• Sleeps eight easily
• Two heads with stall showers
• Dinette servers six to eight
• Cushions replaced in 2007
• Beautiful lighting throughout
• All amenities
• Air-conditioning – two units
• Wonderful ventilation
• Several overhead hatches
• Nine opening ports with screens
• Five fans
• Generous storage
• TV with new antenna
• DVD player
• Satellite radio
• Interior speakers system
• Cockpit speakers
• Wi-Fi booster antenna

 

Galley

The large workable galley is located to port at the base of the companionway ladder. It is a very efficient galley that provides offshore safety for the cook in a seaway. The double deep sink is located near the centerline for good drainage on any point of sail. There is lots of storage and good counter space to make life at sea pretty wonderful.

• Large refrigerator with top and front-loading with two shelves
• Freezer is separate with top opening
• Grunert 110v refrigeration run with generator or shore power
• Double stainless steel sinks with hot and cold pressure water
• Formica counters with tile backsplash
• Manual fresh water pump
• Water filtration system  (not currently hooked up)
• Princess three-burner electric stove w/oven & broiler
• Electrical system w/dual gauges & selector switch
• Microwave 2015
• Felt-lined flatware drawer
• Cutting board
• Coffee pot
• Toaster oven
• Knife rack
• Liquor storage
• BBQ grill

Plumbing

• 250 gallons of fresh water!
• Hot water heater 6 gallons
• Two heads, ensuite in aft stateroom and forward guest head
• Electric toilets in both heads.
• Holding holds 40 gallons with deck pump out
• Overboard offshore holding tank pump out with macerator
• Y-valve for overboard flush offshore
• Two separate shall showers
• Sink and vanity in each head
• Aft deck shower in the lazarette

 

Navigation and Communication

• Beautiful spacious forward facing sit down nav station
• Chart table and storage under
• Simrad radar and plotter
• Garmin GPS
• ICOM VHF radio with full function cockpit mic
• B&G Sailing instruments for wind speed and depth with repeater displays
• Windex at the mast head
• Raytheon hailer – fog horn
• Binnacle mounted Richie compass
• DC outlet in the cockpit
• Robertson AP50 autopilot with remote control
• Clock and barometer
• Temperature and Hygrometer

Mechanical

• Beautiful engine room
• Westerbeke 100 HP diesel
• 218 gallons of diesel in four new tanks (new tanks in 2013)
• Fuel burn is 2.25 gallons per hours
• Cruises at 6.8 knots 1500 rpm and 8 knots at 1900 rpm
• Dual Racor system with pressure gauge
• Water filter system
• Direct drive shaft
• MaxProp 3-blade folding prop
• Wheel steering with cable and chain Edison
• Emergency tiller
• Main engine new heat exchanger
• Electric oil change pump
• Westerbeke generator installed in engine room
• Engine room blower
• Engine instrument panel
• Engine emergency stop and fuel shut off valve    

More Mechanicals

• Cruiseair AC system with two compressors (one is new)
• Grunert 110v refrigeration
• Vetus bow thruster

Electrical Systems

• Three AGM 4D house batteries 2018 installed under aft berth on the center with proper box and tie downs
• Start Battery
• Battery monitor
• Two battery chargers
• Custom distribution panel

      DC Electrical System

• DC Breaker Panel
• Navigation lights
• Tricolor masthead light
• Masthead strobe
• Anchor light
• Stern light
• 12v outlets
• Cabin lights
• Anchor wash down pump
• Electric bilge pumps – engine room and deep bilge
• Aft deck shower pump
• Electric oil change system
• Freshwater pump

      AC Electrical System

• Westerbeke generator charges batteries and runs AC and refrigeration
• Shore power connections both 30amp and 50amp
• Three power cords with adapter
• Interface 100 amp Charger (with inverter) charges house bank 2018
• 40 amp charger for start battery and bow thruster
• Main AC breaker and volt and amp meter
• AC Breaker panel
• 110 volt refrigeration
• CruiseAir 20,000 BTU air conditioning with two compressors
• New compressor in 2018
• 110v outlets
• Microwave
• Appliances

Rigging

• Sloop rig rigged for ease of sailing by a couple
• Keel stepped aluminum mast
• Mast height above the water 70 feet
• Double spreaders
• Mast and boom painted in 2007
• Wire rigging with swaged terminals
• Rigging and chain plates inspected in 2015
• Insulated backstay for SSB antenna
• Sea-Tech hydraulic backstay adjustor
• Hood stowaway mainsail in-mast furling system
• Harken roller furler for genoa with split drum twin slot
• Genoa tracks
• Traveler aft of the center cockpit
• Boom-end sheeting for mainsail
• Rigid boom vang
• Preventer system
• Downwind pole mast mounted
• Halyards with line stoppers on the mast
• Winches on the mast
• Mast safety pulpits
• Spreader lights (deck light)
• Control lines run aft to the cockpit
• Raise and reef from the cockpit
• Electric winch and line stoppers in the cockpit

Winches

• Lewmar winches
• Primary sheet winches – Electric #66ST
• Secondary winches - #55ST
• Furling line winch aft to Starboard
• Additional winch aft to port (electric)
• Two mast winches #52 and #46

Sail Inventory

• Halsey in-mast furling mainsail 2010
• Doyle-Allen 135% genoa 2009
• Drifter

Hull and Deck

Bristol Yachts is well regarded for high quality construction. The hull is solid hand laid fiberglass with a fiberglass sandwich deck. All of the structural bulkheads are glassed both to the hull and deck. All the furniture is built into and tabbed into the hull sides for additional strength The keel centerboard design provides both shallow draft and windward performance when desired.

• Newly Awlgripped topsides of Flag Blue with a double boot stripe in red (2018)
• Solid fiberglass hull
• All new thru hulls
• New epoxy bottom
• New bottom paint
• Bow thruster
• Center cockpit deck layout with lovely aft deck
• New Beige dodger and bimini
• Cockpit cushions
• Five opening hatches
• Four dorades with teak boxes
• Nine opening ports with screens
• Deck fill for four diesel and two water
• Anchor locker forward
• Mast pulpits
• Double life lines with boarding gates
• Swim ladder
• Aft deck shower
• Lift points on the hull
• Dinghy davit system
• Motor mount on the stern rail
• One large deck box on the aft deck

Ground Tackle

• Double bow rollers
• Divided chain locker
• Electric Ideal windlass
• Primary bow anchor CQR w/150' chain
• Fortress anchor stowed
• Stern deck shower

Dinghy

• New Apex 10’ inflatable
• Davit system
• New outboard engine

Additional and Safety

• PFDs
• Flares
• Fire extinguishers
• Radar reflector
• MOM Overboard system
• Two horseshoes - throwable
• Horn
• Automatic fog horns
• CO Detector carbon monoxide
• Lee cloths
• electric bilge pumps two
• Manual bilge pump below deck
• Bilge high bilge pump
• GFCI Outlets in head and galley
• Throwing bag
• EPIRB 406
• Emergency tiller

Bristol 51: Review by Bob Perry.

Bristol 51: Review by Bob Perry.

The Bristol 51 is a commodious, conservative centerboard cruiser...

By Bob Perry (Our very good friend. This Listing Broker has had the pleasure of personally owning three Bob Perry designed boats, so I do trust his judgement/skill/and talent).

From September 26, 2000, Sailing Magazine.

Bristol Yachts has had a long relationship with Dieter Empacher as its lead designer. Together they have established a consistent line of conservative cruising yachts that are both fast and handsome. I always think of Dieter's designs as very East Coast.

Let's begin with the profile and sailplan. The deck lines are clean and unaffected. The result is very yachtlike and not in the least Euro. There is a strong sweep to the sheerline, kicking up about station 5.5 and emphasizing the handsome rake to the bow. The ample freeboard indicates that the designer is working at maximizing the usable interior volume. We all like low freeboard, but the designer must balance the visual effect of freeboard against the positive aspects of increased usable volume that one has below.

The Bristol 51 is rigged as a sloop with plenty of room in the foretriangle (J=21.5) for you to put in an optional staysail if you like. The mast is supported with single spreaders and fore and aft lowers. The sail area-to-displacement ratio is a conservative 15.73. This rig could be handled by a skilled owner with no help. If the rig were any taller, sailhandling could become a chore for the singlehanded sailer. The designer must balance the quest for power against the knowledge of just how the boat will be used and the style in which the typical owner will use it. One of my own most popular designs has a SA/D ratio of around 15. You must always look at the overall picture.

Accommodation targets for production yachts don't vary too much. The Bristol 51 is typical in this area of many yachts between 47 and 60 feet. There is an owner's stateroom aft, a stateroom forward, a crew stateroom and two heads, both with shower stalls. The Bristol 51 also has a lazarette. The galley is big with plenty of refrigerator and freezer space. Both heads are also big with bigger than adequate shower stalls. The aft double berth is arranged so that you can climb in from the sides. This arrangement seems to be nicely exploded. That's probably because I have been scratching my head trying to get the same layout into a 45-footer lately. By exploded I mean that there are very few compromised areas and no feeling at all of squashing in interior components.

The hull form is pure Empacher with steep deadrise, moderate BWL and a pronounced bustle aft. The keel is a shoal fin with centerboard. The rudder is partially balanced and hung on a half skeg. Note the rake forward at the top of the trailing edge. I would guess that this is all cosmetic, but it could have the effect of reduced interference drag. The shaft is absolutely horizontal and this is made possible by the volume aft added by the deep bustle. The high deadrise sections also aid in getting the engine in low. The 51.1 has a D/L ratio of 263.

Bristol is building the 51 with a solid laminate hull and a balsa cored deck. There is tankage for 250 gallons of water and 218 gallons of fuel. Now excuse me while I go below and put the leg of lamb in the oven, slip the newest Dwight Yoakam disc in the CD player and go looking for that last bottle of 1974 Eyrie Pinot Noir.

~~~now that's Bob Perry!

 

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