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George
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Call George @ 586-216-9037 "New Number"
Santana 2023-A Tall mast, (hull #102), and 9.9HP Sailmaster outboard motor.
This easy to sail 1994 Santana 2023A Tall mast sailboat spent its first three years of life only as a dealer's display sailboat only being shown on their sales floor, various boat show but not in the water.
Having a large body of 6' 4” and 270 pounds, I feel that two adults and two children can comfortably sleep below.
Since I purchased this boat, it has never been raced and comes with many proper improvements and modifications over the factory stock configuration.
My plans were to provide years of easy hauling and sailing when I retired.
Now that I have retired, my priorities have changed.
This is welcome news for the lucky person who purchases it.
This is a 23' 3” water ballast sailboat is Michigan based and has never been in salt water and is able to sail in 1-1/2 feet of water.
A popular boat magazine falsely claimed this boat to be wider.
Since ownership I have carefully measured it to have a beam width of 8' 6” total.
This allows the special surge braked Zieman trailer to be legally hauled over states around the Great Lakes without a costly permit.
Please check your state for any changes.
This sailboat can be set up, launched, sailed, and also retrieved by one person or if you choose, with a crew.
With minimal practice you can sail “single-handed” too.
The mainsail and jib sail are both made by North Sail Company.
A factory option provided three foot longer Tall mast, (30 foot total), provided excellent power and speed to this never raced sait.
The 1994 sailboat has a 1998, twin cylinder, 9.9 HP Johnson Sailmaster outboard (OB), four stroke, both have very low in the water hours.
The approximate numbers are less than 40hr on the sailboat and less than 10hr on the OB motor.
Johnson designed this OB motor to be a manual or electric starting.
Many guests do not fully understand manual starting.
If you were to pretend that I had fallen in the water, an electric start is much easier to fire up by someone else to retrieve me.
This “Sailmaster” OB has a larger cubic inch motor than other manufacturers thus providing lower RPM's for the same power output.
This allows quicker shifting from forward to reverse as needed by a sailboat.
Combine this raw power with a 10 inch four blade “Mickey Mouse” propeller on a 25 inches extended motor and you see why it is one of the best sailboat OB motors to have.
For those on a windless sailing trip, you'll find a six gallon tank perfect for extended ranges between fill ups.
Johnson perfected many built in extras on this motor, looking at them you'll find that many have since been copied or are about to be copied by other engine manufactures.
Having talked with other Santana 2023 owners about concerns and wishes for their sailboat, I made it my task to re-engineer, redesigned and modified them.
Combine that with my own observations and I many trailer, setup, sailing, and retrieving operations easier.
Many of my improvements and designs have been copied by other sailboat owners with great feedback.
For other thoughts you can go to my website at http://www.kyrasjoy.com/santana2023/Index.htm. (If you type in the web address, note the capitol “I” in the word Index as this site is case sensitive.)
My OB has electric start abilities so I installed a 25 foot long, 6-gauge power line leading from the battery to the transom mounted OB.
The battery is located below deck near the center of sailboat for better weight distribution.
A safety quick disconnect has also been installed.
Parts of the trailer have been padded to help prevent chipping of gel coat.
While not the norm, some reports mentioned the trailer axle hitting the swing keel on very rough roads so I fabricated oversize shackles to prevent that from ever happening.
For my future plans, I wanted to travel around the country and many other states have shallow ramps.
To assist at these ramps, I designed a seven foot long tongue extension and mounted it on the trailer for easy accessibility.
This has never been needed around the Great Lakes area but is available just in case.
After blowing a tire on the road and not having a spare tire, I purchased one and vertically mounted it on the trailer.
Sometimes while launching or retrieving, I stood on a water covered portion of the trailer and almost slipped off.
This led me to find a 2-part epoxy non-skid which was applied on the trailer surfaces to allow safer walking on it.
As a bonus this epoxy was marketed as a rust proof coating too.
In my future days, I figured mounting and removal of the OB would be very difficult.
To make it easier I designed an OB motor crane to lift the OB off and on the transom.
The original mast through-bolts could be over tightened very easily.
In my opinion they were also a bit small so I increased the diameter and installed “crush-bolts”.
With these I mounted the included VHF radio antenna high on the mast.
Having a 30 foot mast on a 23 foot boat meant about five feet of overhang when on the trailer.
To be legal, a red flag must be displayed in the rear during the daylight hours and a red light for traveling at night.
A transom flag and red electrical light has been added at the mast end for night time use.
This plus a white all-around light allows legal nighttime motoring or anchoring on the water.
Many people have difficulty lifting and lowering the mast.
As a factory option there is an easy-lift mast raising system useable for these times.
The factories provided three cleats and in my opinion, were undersized for tying up at a dock.
They were two 5” cleats with two small bolts mounting them on the aft quarters with the third on the center bow which was used to the forward docking or the anchor rhode.
All of the side mounted cleats are now 6” metal Herschoff style and have been mounted with ½” epoxy filled bolt holes with four stainless steel backed ¼” bolts each.
This provides added strength and aids prevention of water seepage into the core.
The bow cleat is now a dedicated anchor rhode cleat.
As a method of climbing aboard after swimming or for emergency needs, a collapsible ladder is mounted on the transom.
There are also two stainless steel backed tie offs for towing a ribby, canoe, or another boat from the transom.
If the rudder were ever to hit something like a rock and break, a replacement would cost about $500.
To prevent this I mounted a safety release clamp mounted on the tiller.
Now the floating rudder would just pop up and out of harm's way.
Separation between the cockpit and the cabin below is provided by ½” Lextan cabin hatches.
A five inch Saturn compass, Garmin GPS-depth and fish finder, are both mounted for easy vision while seated in the cockpit.
The depth/fish finder is powerful enough to record the lake and fish over 100 feet down.
My newly designed gooseneck prevents the jib lines from catching as on the forward portion of the stock gooseneck when tacking or gibing.
In addition you do not need the one-of special handle provided by the factory to operate the roller boom.
Any easy to find standard sailboat winch handle can be used.
The stock water ballast plug uses a screw-tightening action to close.
This will eventually seize, rust, or become stuck within the water ballast tank itself.
My new design uses a zinc and stainless fast operating item that requires only ¼ lever action to open or close the clean water ballast tank.
This design has been well accepted by several other owners.
On the boom, an outhaul has been added.
For the jib, a 2:1 ratio jib line has been added making it much easier and safer to sail.
Below is a simple head with portable pot and a small galley is on the starboard side.
No stove is aboard but a small non-hooked up refrigerator is.
Several adult and child life vests, a throw able seat cushion, a “life ring”, a backup paddle and line hook, older flares, compressed air horn, etc. are included.
Before my long term storage, I was able to pass a USCG Auxiliary safety inspection.
With minimum parts, you should be also.
My reason for my selling this fine sailboat is that I have since returned to my former interest of photography and have not used the sailboat in three years.
This sailboat deserves a better life and is waiting for a special person to fulfill that!
SPECIAL NOTE: Boat Delivery can be negotiated.
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