The Tigara is a wooden ketch of 50 'capable of crossing all the seas of the world.
Old rig manufacturing traditional wood. Sailboat built in India at Mangalore shipyard in 1997 by his Steca edited by its architect Cesar Orsini. The lined copper riveted on its structure. Expected to navigate the icy waters of northern Canada, the lower part of her hull was lined with polyester
FEATURES
* Ketch 14 meters in length to the waterline and about 23 meters and it has a long keel. This tonnage is 25 tons and 7 tons of ballast by pig iron and lead. * Its two masts and bowsprit allows numerous combinations of sails, all ocher. The wing is divided as follows: mainsail 63 m2 (20 m2 or Swedish), Grand-jib 36 m2 (or Small-jib 14 m2), staysail 19 m2, 19 m2 forestay, jigger 35 m2 (or 17 m2) .* Its steering wheel is located, with chart table and all the navigation instruments, in the wheelhouse in which a large enough engine room houses a 150 HP Ford engine .* Under sail and / or the engine, cruising speed is 6 knots. * The Tigara is armed and allowed to sail in the first category . * At the front is a cabin with two double bunks and a toilet, shower and toilet. Behind another cabin with a double bunk and toilet, shower and toilet. At the center, the square (convertible into two additional single berths) is equipped with a kitchenette and an iron furnace for both for cooking (plates and oven) that heating the boat.
LOA 14 m / (23 m) lifting bowsprit
Waterline length 12.5 m
Width 4.2 m
Draught 1.5 m (Av) / 1.8 m (Ar)
Head room about 14 m
Headroom 1.8 m (minimum) /> 2.0 (max)
Bridge construction material painted solid wood. Hull solid wood and polyester lining originally used for navigation in icy waters
Weight 29 / 30 t (ballast included)
Ballast Interior: 7t of gueuzes (iron and lead)
Keel Long
Wheel Bar (+ spare tiller) - Possible second steering wheel
poles (N / material) 2 / Laminated Glued
Sails (No. / Color) 7 / Ochre
Max area of 140 m2 wing
What does "Tigara?
* Tigara is the name of a northern passage between the Atlantic Ocean and peaceful? This boat was named "Tigara" because he was to travel in this area! (Stephan Zarzecki - 12/1998)
* Tigara name is Joi. It means hot winds, as "Chinook". (Sam Walden - 06/2000)
Tigara * means "trade" in Egypt. (Tarek E. Fadel - 07/2000)
* Tigara is the Arabic word for "buisiness." (Amer Qureshi - 07/2000)
* I do not know exactly what the word means "Tigara" but it is certainly a term
whose origin is in Alaska, it could be relative to geography, or on behalf of a local animal. (Mary Downs - 02/2001)
* "Tigara Corporation" is the name of an Indian tribe. (Anne Gisiger - 02/2001)
Tigara * The name comes from "Tikigaq" dwelling place of the Inupiaq people of Canada and Greenland. (Gregory M. Chase - 03/2001)
* name "Tigara" is from Alaska. Our boat was named so because of the place "Point Hope to the west of Alaska in the Inupiaq language is written" Tikigaq "and is pronounced Ti-keh-ruk. (Philippe Wohlhuter from "THE THINGS THAT WERE ON THEM SAID" translated the Inupiaq and Tukummiq by Tom Lowenstein - 04/2001)
