She is a Cheoy Lee Offshore 40 and is a sister ship to the Rhodes Reliant 40. She was designed by Phil Rhodes in 1963 and the first Reliant was built in 1964. Cheoy Lee in an effort to cheat Phil Rhodes out of his royalties took the Reliant and reversed the plan from one side to the other an called it a new design and named it the Offshore 40. There is a great website run by Ben Stavis who has had a Rhodes Reliant in his family since 1963. He has many pictures, history, free owners manual with input from many owners, contact list for other owners, and a newsletter.

The original owner was in the air force and I think stationed in Japan in 1970. He had the boat built at the Cheoy Lee shipyard in Hong Kong and visited the yard to monitor progress while it was being built. When he took possession, He and his wife sailed it from Hong Kong to Ft Lauderdale Florida, so he crossed the Indian Ocean and the Southern Atlantic. The second owners had her for 18 years and sailed the caribbean and spent 8 years in the Mediterranean, so that is two more Atlantic crossings. The third owners bought her in Ft. Lauderdale again and sold her in the US Virgins. The fourth owners sailed in the Virgins and day chartered her. We just sailed in the Virgins. The Mary T, another Offshore 40, did a 14 year circumnavigation and survived the Queens Birthday storm North of New Zealand.

We have completely gone through the boat from top to bottom. See link to current spec sheet. We replaced the wooden spars with oversized aluminum anodized spares and all new rigging both running and standing. We installed Lazy Jacks and Mast steps. We removed the teak decks and re-bedded all the deck hardware and added a new coat of fiberglass with mat and another coat of resin only, painted with algrip and sand based nonskid paint. We removed all the hatches, re-glued and re-bedded them and installed new lexan. We re-finished all the exterior teak. We had new teak decking installed in the cockpit area only, by the excellent local shipwright at a cost of $5,000. We serviced the electric winch and re-built the motor. We put new 3/8" BBB chain and Bruce anchor on the Bow and new nylon/chain rode on the stern. Two new self tailing winches on the mast. The deck mounted stainless steel bridge section for the mast step was also replaced and built oversized to accommodate the larger mast at a cost of $1500 for the part. We bought a fairly new used roll up dinghy and 4 hp Mariner(yamaha) outboard.

The engine is a Perkins 4-108 and was new in 1993. We were told that it was one of the last 4-108 produced before they were discontinued. I think we are showing about 1700 hours on it. We had it all checked out before we launched and had the injectors cleaned and reset and the heat exchanger cleaned. The transmission cooler was also replaced and the front seal on the transmission was replaced along with a new prop shaft, coupler and flexible shaft saver. We baby the engine and change the oil and filters after using it for a month.

Improvements: I installed two 75 watt solar panels and a Kiss wind generator. The output from these is fed through a 3 stage battery regulator that controls the current to the batteries and dumps the excess power to the new hot water heater. We removed the old AC refrigeration and installed an water cooled Isotherm DC unit with a separate cold plate. There is also an engine driven unit that was completely gone through and had the compressor replaced. A Hart battery monitor, Balmar 100 amp alternator and regulator were installed. A brand new Monitor windvane was installed. Everything on the windvane was completed except that I never installed the turning blocks on the starboard stantions. We installed two dodgers with an new longer lasting more water proof material. One over the companionway and the other over the cockpit with and extension to the boom gallows that acts as a partial bimini.

Besides painting the decks, we painted the Cabin tops and applied non skip where appropriate. We also had the topsides(from water line to the rail) painted with algrip. The bottom was redone with a new interlux barrier coat and epoxy and of course new bottom paint every time we relaunched.

The interior has new salon cushions, Seaward Princess stove, rebuilt refrigerator hatches, new sink faucets, foot pumps, bilge pumps, pressure pumps, and sump tank pumps. We did new head liners in the fore and aft berths and carpet next to the berths. The headliner in the main cabin still needs to be done and the interior cabin sides around the ports should probable be done in the same material. Some interior teak needs to be vanished and a few pieces replaced do to previous water damage.

The electronics include a Standard Horizon Intrepid VHF and a Icom 706 Ham Radio. We used a hand held GPS, which is not included. We also installed new Standard Horizon instruments for wind speed, direction, depth, and speed and mounted the readouts a