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 has a Bukh 36hp diesel engine.

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, at bottom of page.

Equipment:

We have in-mast mainsail reefing, and a roller furling genoa. We have a genniker boom to fly the cruising chute.

Our electonic equipment is virtually all Raymarine - ST60 Tridata, Multi, & Wind; Raynav 300 GPS;  RL80CRC Radar/chartlotter using CMap charts; ST4000 Autopilot; as well as the radar we also have a SeaMe active radar enhancer; our VHF is an Icom ICM503, with a DS100 DSC unit; NASA Weatherman & Navtex Pro; Rutland 913 Wind Generator;

We have an Anchorman power windlass for the anchor; we changed our original 3 bladed propellor for an Autoprop automatic variable pitch propellor.