Starlight 39

Boat Details

dimensions

• LOA: 12.32m
• LWL: 9.55m
• Beam: 3.81m
• Draft 2.05m
• Ballast: 3230kg
• Displacement: 8600 kg

Hull, Deck & Keel

• White GRP hull and deck with non slip panels
• Fin Keel version
• Partial skeg hung rudder
• Hull No. 41 built by Rival Bowman Yachts Ltd
• Hull soda blasted in 2006 by Bowman Yachts and epoxied
• Wheel steering
• Hull number 41 (42 built)
• Anti fouled (February 2026)
• Topside polished (February 2026)
• Shaft anode replaced (February 2026)

Deck Equipment

• Stainless steel pulpit
• Stainless steel pushpit quarters
• Stainless steel stanchions with twin guard wires
• Port and starboard gates
• Transom gate
• Raymarine 2kw radome mounted on a stern pole
• Canvas covers fitted to all hatches and winches
• Pulpit mounted horn
• Swim ladder

COCKPIT

• Wheel steering with leather trim (48 inch wheel)
• Lewmar folding 36 inch wheel new 2025 (available by separate negotiation)
• Binnacle with extended grab rail
• Teak seating
• Port, starboard and aft lockers
• Gas locker
• Lights fitted in port and aft lockers

ANCHOR

• Lofrans Cayman 1000w electric anchor windlass with deck handheld controls (serviced 2021)
• Double bow roller
• CQR type anchor with 60m chain (anchor chain 2022) and 40m warp
• Fortress 4.5 Kg FX16 aluminium kedge anchor (2019)
• Stern anchor roller
• Heavy duty waterproof 12v socket in anchor locker (e.g. for a dinghy inflator)

WINCHES

• Two Lewmar 54 self-tailing genoa sheet winches
• Two Lewmar 40 self-tailing winches on coamings
• Two Lewmar 44 self-tailing winches on coach roof
• Gibb mast winch

Interior & Accommodation

• Access direct from the forward cabin
• Jabsco sea toilet (pump replaced 2024)
• Shower with teak grating and seat over toilet
• Sink with hot and cold-water system
• Storage lockers
• Portlight and opening hatch for ventilation

AFT HEADS

• Accessed from saloon and aft cabin (day heads)
• Jabsco sea toilet (pump replaced 2024)
• Aft toilet seacock replaced (2025)
• Shower with teak grating and seat over toilet
• Sink with hot and cold-water system
• Storage lockers
• Portlight and opening hatch (portlight renewed 2020)

Navigation Equipment

• B&G EVO3 plotter with AIS at helm, interfaced to chart table plotter (2018)
• Simrad Waypoint plus Navigate at helm
• Switches at helm for horn, cockpit red light
• Autohelm autopilot 7001 in cockpit (with hydraulic ram)
• Raymarine depth above companionway (2018)
• Raymarine wind and speed above companionway (2018)
• Raymarine log above companionway (2018)
• Raymarine RL70C radar at chart table
• Raymarine 2kw radar mounted on a stern pole
• Raymarine A50D plotter at chart table
• McMurdo ICS Nav6 Navtex at chart table
• Techno weather station at chart tableI
• ICOM IC-M601 DSC VHF radio at chart table
• VHF radio handset extension in cockpit with cockpit speakers
• Fuel and water tank gauges at chart table
• Raymarine handheld compass
• Clock and barometer
• Helm magnetic compass
• LED navigation lights
• GPS aerials mounted in aft locker to prevent any damage
• Two Simrad cockpit instruments are redundant but left in place to avoid holes (Raymarine covers to match other instruments)

Machinery & Propulsion

• Yanmar 3JH2E 40hp diesel engine with shaft drive
• Darglo Featherstream three blade feathering propellor (2025)
• Serviced twice annually (winter and summer service)
• Morse engine controls replaced 2024Engine hours 1910 (estimate December 2025)
• PSS shaft seal

Rig & Sails

Rig

• Mast head Rig
• Three reefing lines
• Main sail stack pack with lazy jacks by Owen Sails 2020
• Frederiksen ball slide system for main sail
• Furlex 300S furling system
• Hasselfors backstay adjuster (serviced 2025)
• Professional rig report May 2025
• Cap shrouds and intermediate shrouds replaced (July 2025)
• Lower shrouds replaced (2022)
• Running rigging renewed 2020-2022
• Mast mounted spinnaker pole
• Keel stepped mast
• Mast gaiter renewed 2014
• Inner forestay, storm sail and staysail, stowed on board
• All lines led aft to cockpit

Sails

• Main sail, fully battened by Owen Sails 2020 
• Furling genoa in Vectron by Owen Sails 2020
• Furling genoa for lighter winds by Parker & Kay
• Cruising chute (make and age TBC)

Electrical Systems

• Larger alternator fitted (original as spare)
• Sterling Power battery management system with voltmeter and ammeter
• Sterling Power 20A battery charger (2006)
• 16A shore power socket
• Three 110Ah domestic batteries (2021)
• 110Ah engine battery
• Seven ring main outlets in forward, aft cabins, saloon, galley, chart table, cockpit locker
• 12V outlets in forward, aft cabins, chart table, cockpit

Audio Visual

• Blaupunkt CD MP3 player

Plumbing & Tankage

• 227L Fuel tank
• 182L Water
• 42L Holding tank
• Two additional fuel tanks in custom built base in port locker 25 litres each
• Two additional water tank fitted into aft locker 25 litres each
• Eberspacher cabin heating with saloon and aft cabin outlets
• Calorifier with immersion and engine heating

Canvas work

• Helm cover for winter protection
• Helm cover to match sprayhood (2023)
• Sprayhood with leather trimmed grab rail (Owen Sails 2020)
• Sprayhood zip on and drop-down cover to protect companionway (2020)
• Full cockpit tent to match sprayhood (Owen sails 2025)
• Cockpit winter cover (Owen sails 2021)
• Coach roof hatch covers 

Safety Equipment

• Seago Cruiser Plus six person liferaft (new 2024)
• Manual and electric bilge pumps
• Raymarine Life tag MOB system (requires new batteries)
• McMurdo 406MHz EPIRB (requires new batteries)
• Mini B 300 Personal Locator EPIRB
• Danbuoy with light
• Cockpit pad eyes
• Tri-Lens radar reflector
• Jackstays
• Fire blanket
• Dual watch gas and carbon monoxide alarm
• Gas alarm
• Carbon monoxide alarm in cockpit port locker
• Ball and cone set secured in anchor locker
• Blake’s seacocks lubricated twice annually
• Raw water inlet seacock replaced 2023

Additional Equipment

• Various warps and fenders

Ships Papers

• All 'Bills of Sale' (four owners from new)
• UK VAT paid invoice
• Builders certificate
• RCD certificate of conformity
• RYA Offshore Sail number
• Documented evidence of the vessels UK based location on the 31st December 2020 (Brexit transition date)