Wandering Star II is a Southerly 115. Built by Northshore Yachts, Itchenor, West Sussex in 1993, we acquired her in 2002. She is 11.25m LOA, 3.60m beam, and has a lifting keel giving a draft of  between 0.69m and 2.03m. She originally had a Bukh 36hp diesel but after 22 years of service we retired her, and in the winter of 2014/5 we replaced it with a 50hp Beta. When we bought her, we based ourselves at Southwold, on the East Coast of  UK. We sailed for several years on the East Coast and also across to the Netherlands. In 2007 we sailed from Lowestoft to Denmark via Ijmuiden,  the Frisian Islands, Cuxhaven, and the Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee Canal). For fuller details, see the original publicity pamphlet, below.

Equipment: We have in-mast mainsail reefing, and a roller furling genoa. We have a genniker boom to fly the cruising chute. All sails by Arun. Our  electronic equipment is virtually all Raymarine - i60 Tridata, Multi,  & Wind; c95 chartplotter; Digital radar; AIS Class B transponder;  Autopilot; as well as the radar we also have a SeaMe  active radar enhancer; our VHF is an Icom ICM506, Digital Yacht iNav Connect and WL510 wireless lan; iNav6 Navtex; Rutland 913 Wind Generator;Lewmar Bowthruster. We also have an Echopilot Forward Looking Sounder. We have an Anchorman power windlass for the anchor; we changed our  original 3 bladed propellor for an Autoprop automatic variable pitch  propellor.