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MANTRA
Mantra is a displacement motor yacht with sails. She was built on a Cygnus hull by Bryce Waterhouse of Worcester. Cygnus make a range of Cornish fishing boats and are still in business. They are renowned for their very solid, sturdy and sea kindly hulls. Bryce Waterhouse are no longer in business. They bought hulls from Cygnus and fitted them out as gentlemen's bespoke motor yachts tailored to each individual owner's desired specification. Mantra was launched in 1980. She is 43˝ feet overall, 11.27 metres (38 feet) long on deck, 10.6 metres LWL, 1.85 metres water draft and 4.11 metres beam. Her registered tonnage is 16.86 and her weight is closer to 25 tons. Air draft with mast raised is 8.7 metres. With the mast lowered to rest on the coach roof, the air draft becomes 3.15 metres. Mantra is registered at the Port of London and is on the British Register of Shipping.
She has a small mainsail (more a steadying mizzen) and also has twin foresails for running and reaching.
I am her fourth owner. I bought her in March 2006. Since then she has been extensively refurbished and upgraded and has also been fitted with paravane stabilizers. So far, I have done over 5,000 miles on Mantra from Portsmouth, England via the Bay of Biscay to Gibraltar, then to Malta and Cyprus and then a cruise from Cyprus to Greek Aegean islands, on to Athens, via the Corinth Canal to Greek Ionian islands, Italy, Malta, Crete and back to Cyprus.
I am very happy with her. Mantra is very safe, is very comfortable to live on and is easy to handle. I have yet to master reversing Mantra and at present I am finding it difficult to get her to go where I want when I manoeuvre backwards to Med-moor stern to!
For more detail on Mantra and her equipment, scroll down to whichever interests you of:
LIVING ACCOMODATION
The original owner specified that he wanted a motor yacht which must not be longer than 38' officially and which would be suitable for a world circumnavigation.
Amidship, Mantra has a large and lovely saloon with U shaped seating, table, helm and a navigation desk with bench seat.
Aft is a very nice full width galley with dinette corner whose seating converts to an additional double bed if needed.
Between the galley and the engine room is a utilities room with a washing machine, watermaker and a workbench.
The engine room is under the saloon and is full width. Forward there are two cabins and the heads / shower.
The owner's cabin has a normal size 4’ 6 ” double bed.
The bed in the guest cabin is 3' 6" wide; a very ample single which can be a cosy double. The guest cabin has a small full height wardrobe 44 cms wide for hanging clothes in and in which insect screens and a life jacket are stored, a corner locker unit with two shelves, two very small thin lockers, a vanity unit / dressing table with mirror in lid and 48 x 60 x 14 cms storage underneath. Also two long shelves, one of which is already full with books while the other (17 x 160 cms) is available for your use.
On the aft cockpit deck there is an external helm position, a twin locker seat and a single locker seat, both cushioned. There are three collapsible armchairs and a folding table which live on the deckhouse roof when not in use in the cockpit or on the foredeck.
We have shade awnings which can shade the cockpit, the deckhouse / saloon, the foredeck. Also a rain awning for the cockpit and that has been made such as to be available if needed ( God forbid) for use as a collision mat.
The photos of saloon and galley so far in this website do not do justice to the living accommodation. The saloon and galley are very nice indeed.
The photo below is old and does not show the electronics / instrumentation as they now are after upgrading.
ELECTRONICS & AIDS
Electronics & aids are two independent GPS's, another GPS which is part of the AIS collision avoidance system, a handheld GPS, two Radars, EPIRB, SSB, two VHFs, three handheld VHFs, two walkie talkies, two autopilots (Simrad AP25 and Wagner Mark 4), two electronic heading sensors / compasses, two Sestrel steering compasses and a Sestrel for the Wagner autopilot, two handheld compasses, Steiner binoculars with inbuilt compass, Zeiss binoculars, Raytheon wind, Echopilot forward looking echo sounder, Furuno depth sounder, Raytheon plotter, Yeoman plotter, SeaCAS AIS, Weatherman, Navtex, weatherfax via SSB and two notebook PCs with electronic charting, SeaMe radar transponder, FloScan fuel metering, fuel polishing system.
ELECTRICS & REFRIGERATION
24 volts DC, 240v AC, some 12v DC
6kva generator.
Aero4Gen wind generator.
Refrigerator with freezer compartment
Deep-freeze.
Air conditioning.
Ebersbacher central heating.
Watermaker.
PROPULSION
Main engine is a 6 cylinder 138 horsepower Lister. Maximum speed is fractionally above 8 knots. Cruising speed is from 4 knots to 7 knots depending on how far one wants to go, when one wants to arrive and what is the sea state. Safe cruising range should be well over 3,000 nautical miles.
Get-one-home wing engine has its own propellor and own rudder. That is a 1.8 litre 37 horsepower Leyland Thorneycroft. She cruises at 2˝ to 3˝ knots on the wing engine.
SidePower bowthruster.
Mizzen sail 59 sq. ft.
Foresails: two of 170 sq. ft. each.
DINGHY & LIFERAFT
Avon Redstart 3 person dinghy with 2˝ HP Mercury outboard.
Avon 6 person liferaft with hydrostatic release.
RECREATION & TOYS & TRANSPORT
We have a range of things for recreation. This is covered in greater detail in the Living on Mantra section.
For transport, I have a 90cc Jincheng EasyRider which is a re-creation of the Honda MonkeyBike. Unfortunately the authorities in UK and Cyprus would not give me a light motorcycle license on the basis of my Bahrain and New South Wales, Australia licences which were expired. Even more unfortunately I failed the test in UK. I did not go fast enough round roundabouts. So I will be taking the test in Cyprus and re-registering the bike there. I can drive it on my own on my car driving license but I cannot take a passenger on the pillion until I pass the light motorcycle test. However, if you have a light motorcycle license, then you could take me on the pillion!!
I like walking.
DETAILED SPECIFICATION
Elsewhere on this website there is a copy of the Broker’s For Sale Specification which originally aroused my interest in Mantra.
The full specification will be updated for the new Mantra in due course
MANTRA OPERATING MANUAL
We will have an Operating Manual as a guidebook & reference book.
If you are interested in seeing what was covered in the previous (catamaran) Mantra Operating Manual, scroll on for its first page. It is unlikely that, before joining, anyone would be so interested as to want to read over 30 pages of all type, no pictures; but if you would like to see the whole of the old Mantra Operation Manual then you should click on its button. However, please bear in mind that I have only just started adapting it for my new Mantra. This will be a winter project for me!!
MOM first page
M.Y. MANTRA
MANTRA OPERATING MANUAL
These notes cover the main operating systems on Mantra and should be useful to people in giving them somewhere where they can look up how to work things, how we go about various operations and where to find things (and where to put them back!). A subsidiary reason is that it would be of use if ever I were to be incapacitated, which subsidiary reason is why I have included descriptions of certain things which I normally do myself and which I do not want crew to do of their own accord. Such a manual is now a legal requirement on new boats which have European Union CE compliance certification.
The fact that a manual has been produced does not mean that you are being discouraged from asking questions. Far from it; ask whenever you want to ask. The operating manual is to give you somewhere to look it up yourself if you prefer to look it up. It also saves a whole verbal recital at the beginning and it should be a useful aid to refresh your memory.
The level of detail in this operating manual is pitched at around novice level of sailing and for people who are not already familiar with the handling characteristics of displacement motor boats.
I hope this Mantra Operating Manual (MOM) will be really useful for you. Refer to MOM when you want to find something out or to refresh your memory. Visit MOM regularly. Believe MOM. MOM knows best. MOM knows how we do it in this home!
Suggestions are welcome regarding how to make this more useful as a work of reference for crew new to Mantra.
The Manual is structured under the following major headings:
1. Heads
2. Hatches & Portholes
3. Where to put your Gear
4. Lighting
5. Instruments
6. Log entries
7. Under power
8. Under sail
9. Galley
10. Where things are
11. Generator & inverters
12. Watermaker
13. Safety
14. Pumps
15. Dinghy
16. Laundry
17. Boat work
18. Cockpit & decks
19. Kitty
20. Watchkeeping
21. Cooking (& washing up)
22. Toys & recreation
23. Anchoring
24. When you leave
Briefing checklist
Pre-departure checklist
Arrival checklist
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