K'ung Fu-tse
K'ung Fu-tse (Confucius, in Chinese) is a 3-masted ocean-cruising junk,
designed and built by Tom Colvin for comfortable,
independant, live-aboard cruising. Maximum time of self-sufficiency depends
on fuel consumption and rainfall. Colvin single handed this vessel for
over 3,000 miles on one voyage, and once cruised for 11 months without
putting into port for fuel or water.
KFT under sail in the Firth of Forth
KFT motoring
(243 Kb)
KFT in
Florida (746 Kb)
- 48.5' (centreline of deck)
- 43.5' (stem to rudder stock)
- 52' (over rails)
- Breadth
- 13.8' (outside of plating at deck edge)
- 14.3' (over rails)
- Depth
- 4.4' (draught)
- 5.75' (tonnage deck to ceiling)
- 7.3' (deck to bottom of keel)
- Registered Tonnage
- 28.57 gross, 21.56 net.
Rig
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All sails manually raised, and secured in pin rails. All rigging set
up via deadeyes and lanyards. Once underway, all sail handling is done
from abreast the pilot house. Aluminium masts and yards, grp battens and
booms. Standing rigging: main and fore, stainless steel; mizzen galvanised
iron, parcelled and served.
Working sails 1157 sq.ft. junk-rigged, on three masts. Triple stitched,
hand-roped.
- Fore 344 sq.ft.
- Main 426 sq.ft.
- Mizzen 387 sq.ft.
Light-weather topsail 249 sq.ft. and mizzen staysail
Build
Welded Aluminium Alloy,
Alcoa and Reynolds 5086 H 117, 1/4" plate.
5 bulkheads (non-watertight).
Wheel steering by Lunenburg worm gear rated at 50 tons.
14000lb interior ballast (lead).
Build: carvel
Stem: raked.
Stern: curved transom
Single Screw, Single Deck, Sail and Motor Ship
Tanks
Fuel 115 gallons in butyl tank fully encased in aluminium,
plus 12 gallon day tank of stainless steel.
Water 240 gallons in four integral tanks, pumped via filter to 20 gallon
day tank with gravity feed to heads and galley.
Cabin tops arranged as water catchments
by-pass overboard or to water tanks.
Registry
UK Registered ship no. 147758, Leith 1991
VAT paid UK
Builder
Built and fitted out by
Colvin Shipbuilding Company,
Miles, Virginia,
USA 23114.
Keel laid 1971
Launched 1974
Engine
22h.p. 2-cylinder, diesel, 2GZ 73 223
Sabb, Bergen, Norway, 1973.
Hand or electric start
Stroke: 120mm,
Bore: 90mm
One Shaft, controllable pitch propellor.
Length of Engine Room: 4.75'
Speed: 5.5 knots @ 1550 rpm.
Electrical
12V electrical system, ungrounded and floating.
5x 80Ah gel batteries Sonnenschein. Independent batteries for navigation,
starting, domestic use, and spare,
charged via four splitting diodes.
85 amp Motorola alternator
600W Soma wind-driven generator
Rediline 12V DC - 120V AC convertor
- Navigation lights
- Masthead tricolour
- Running lights (Port, Starboard, Stern)
- Steaming light
Incandescent light in each berth;
chart light, compass light, spot light; (300,000 candle-power);
fluorescent lights galley, after cabin, engine room, lazarette, pilot
house;
halogen lights in heads and galley.
Pumps
Electrical bulge pump.
Deck mounted ship's pump.
Single through-hull serves engine, heads, and deck wash:
iron valve, neoprene lined, ball ram, into a sea chest.
Heads are Simson Lawrence Kentigern, 3" pumps, all bronze workings,
no joker valves. All water intakes have individual strainers.
Accomodation
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The interior is finished to high standard in varnished mahogany, throughout.
Sleeps six in three cabins: twin berths forward, pilot berth midships,
double and pilot berth aft. In addition, the saloon settee has a lee-cloth
for use as an extra visitor's berth. All cushions are atractively covered.
All bunk mattresses are covered with 13oz Vivatex waterproof, mildew resistant
canvas, with zippers. Double berth has two custom-made innerspring mattresses
placed side by side.
Separate galley, with serving hatch to main saloon. Dickenson diesel
cooking stove, with oven. Ice chest with 60 lb ice capacity, and triple
that volume for food storage. Stainless steel sink and drainer, tiled surround.
Salt and fresh-water supply to sink.
All interior joinery is solid tongue and groove Honduras Mahogany with
the exception of one portion of main cabin, which is African Mahogany.
Cabin soles are tongue and groove 1.75" Honduras mahogany. Structural
bulkheads are 1.75" mahogany. Remainder of joinery is not less than
3/4", and much of it 1" mahogany. Berth bottoms, settee bottoms,
and shelving are all marine plywood 1/2" and 3/4" thick. Hull
is fully insulated.
All berths have individual dorade ventilators, directly to each berth.
All compartments, including heads, lazarette, and chain locker are ventilated
via dorade vents. 22 opening rectangular portholes with screens, and four
round portholes in the scuttles, all with armoured glass. All locker door
and separation doors, except engine room doors, are basket woven, of mahogany,
giving excellent ventilation. There are also two basket woven doors leading
to the rope locker and one to the lazarette. All upper panels in the companionway
doors are louvered and screened.The forward cabin has an aluminium hatch
for ventialtion and access. The main saloon has a hinged skylight, of teak.
Engine room and lazarette have natural light via prisms.
Divided lockers for storage are under all settees in the main cabin,
and in the bilge under all the cabin sole. In the lazarette are four lockers
and two shelves.
Pilot house is of wood construction, 7'6" wide, 6' headroom, overall
length inside approx 8'. It is fitted with four seats, capable of seating
six persons. There are four opening windows, and two doors, one port, one
starboard. A typing and writing table which locks into the starboard door
and overhead is stowed behind the seat while underway. The VHF, controls
for navigation lights, and horn, are installed on the overhead, accessible
to the helmsman. Engine controls and wheel are between the after seats.
The compass is mounted in a binnacle, separate and forward of the wheel.
Engin room has stowagefor tools and spares, and workbench with vise.
Full-sized (BA chart) navigation desk.
Separate galley.
Engine room with workbench.
Two heads with washbasins.
Ample stowage.
- Forecabin
- 2 single berths
- 3 opening ports
- 1 deck hatch
- 2 dorade vents
- Saloon
- Mahogany Dining table
- Opening Deck light
- 7 opening ports
- Serving hatch to galley
- Pilot berth off with dorade vent
- Tor Gem solid fuel stove
- Owners cabin
- Double berth
- Single berth/settee
- Navigation station
- Tor Gem solid fuel stove
- Companionway to pilothouse
- Galley
- Dickenson `Pacific' diesel stove/ oven.
- Stainless-steel sink with fresh and salt-water supply.
- Ice-chest
- Heads
- 2 Simpson Lawrence Kentigern, water intake from sea-chest via individual
strainers.
Ground tackle
Simpson Lawrence hand-operated windlass of 5000 lb. straight-line pull.
First Bower Simpson Lawrence Delta 55 lb. plough on 45 fathoms 3/8"
stud link chain
Second Bower 45 lb. CQR on 45 fathoms 3/8" stud link chain
Kedge 45 lb. CQR plough on 30 fathoms 3/4" nylon line
Grapnel 95 lb. "coral pick"
Liferaft
Six man RFD Seasava Plus (valise) D06SE00369
Boats
Inflatable 12' Avon Sportboat S28102
Hard Dinghy 14' modified Dory carried in davits
- Outboard engines
- Mariner 2HP 6A1 071140
Ownership
Michael P. Fourman,
Jennifer R. Head,
14 St. Leonard's Bank,
Edinburgh EH8 9SQ
Scotland, UK
Equipment
Compass Sestral Binnacle 13501/V
Log Stowe TL327
Sextant Plath 53657 34293
VHF Motorola Modar 55-75 640455 WRA4663
Compass Weems Hand-Bearing
Binoculars Selsi 7x50
Fire Extinguishers ABS B-I
Barometer Sestrel Aneroid
Quartz bulhead-mounted Chronometer
Ships clocks: Eight day Sestral in saloon; Eight day, striking, Seth
Thomas in after cabin.
Fog Bell, Bronze
Danbuoy afterguard
Air Horn with its own compressor
Full set of international signal flags
Life vests,
2 horseshoe life buoys with lights
Mooring lines and warps
Bulwarks, double safety lines with chain gates on 1" dia. solid
stanchions, hand rails and safety rails on cabin tops.
Spares for engine, stove, pumps, lights, etc.
Boathooks, Flares, lead line, etc.