LADY K has taken her owners across or around every ocean on the planet in comfort and safety, routinely covering 200 miles per day and frequently far more. Her lifting keel allows brilliant upwind performance and, when retracted, allows access to the most desirable harbors and anchorages.  

There is no exterior teak. Maintenance has been easy but scrupulous. LADY K shows no evidence of her miles or age. Redundancy is a theme: autopilots, radars, plotters and spares. This is a sailing yacht that is ready to circumnavigate again, needing only provisions.  

Designer's notes:

This 77 ft. (23.4m) fully custom yacht is designed for unlimited blue water cruising, with an emphasis on passages and autonomy in remote places such as the Pacific atolls. Lady K is one of numerous "off-road" boats" by Tripp Design and is still in the hands of her original owner.

LADY K is in pristine condition, benefitting from a comprehensive re-fit at Pendennis Shipyard in 2015/16 and a second thorough yard period in 2020. 

She is light displacement design with fully cored Aramid/E-glass construction. Kevlar was chosen for maximal impact strength. For ease of maintenance while traversing the globe, Lady K does not have teak decks and any exterior woodwork. She does, however, have an engine room with standing headroom and a workbench as well as a layout that allows access and service to all equipment.

Being purpose built, she has many features to support distance sailing and easy handling by a small crew. The centered cockpit is very well protected, with shelter behind the raised pilot house. She is particularly good for sailing at night or under adverse conditions with all winches, furlers and sail functions controlled from the cockpit. The cockpit is directly accessed from the Pilot House and the boat can be handled from the inside steering station.

The absence of any backstays on the swept spreader ketch rig allows full roach main and mizzen sails. These sails are easy to control, and reef very well with the furling boom systems. As a ketch, all the sailing loads are lower than a sloop and the boat heels less. The boat is very fast with eased sheets, reaching and running with the ability to fly numerous sail combinations safely and easily.  On a beam reach, in 15 knots true, LADY K will easily see 11+ knots and will sail upwind at 34 degrees apparent. 

The jet tender lives in a well on the large aft deck for easy deployment and allows the transom garage to be used for storage of all necessary gear and toys. The transom steps allow safe and easy access to the boat by tender, without having to deploy a transom door.

The centerpiece of the design is the upper salon and helm station which are raised above the engine space. Extensive curved (chemically strengthened and laminated) glass provides panoramic views. Below deck, the boat has been thoughtfully laid out for blue water cruising. Aft of the engine space are two guest cabins, a laundry space and a spacious owner's stateroom. Forward is an open galley and lower salon with abundant seating. Fully forward there is an office desk as well as an additional guest cabin and crew quarters. Here too the boat has been beautifully maintained, and her gleaming woodwork belies her age. Under the care of this experienced owner, Lady K has truly only improved since her launching...

Engineering by High Modulus

Fully cored Aramid/E-glass construction with Kevlar reinforecement.

Colour: Hull - Awlcraft Speed Blue with metallic clear coat

       Superstructure - White

       Deck: White with grey nonskid

Hydraulic lifting keel driven off generator PTO.

Ultra-sonic antifoul system in keel cavity.

OMS bow thruster with joysticks at each helm

30" Double lifelines with stainless cable, port & starboard gates.

Twin helms with 40" carbon wheels, electronic engine and thruster controls at each helm.

Fully retractable carbon bow-sprit for forward A-sym.

Glendenning Cablemaster w/ 50' cord and 25' extension.

4 underwater lights

Ritchie Powerdamp compass at each helm. 

Navtec manual/hydraulic main and mizzen vang controls

Ten Harken powered winches including 3 speed primaries and 2 speed secondaries (2017), powered by a redundant combination of 24VDC power-pack and electrics.

Windlass: Nielsen 24v electric with remote and chain counter

Anchor:  Delta 70 kg stainless anchor w/ ultra-swivel on folding arm, fully retractable below deck and manually deployed.

Chain Length: 400 ft. high tensile 10 mm short link

Spare Anchors: 1 Fortress 

12 Lewmar deck hatches for natural ventilation.

Custom Multiplex carbon passarelle with high/low attachments points painted in SpeedBlue.

Full complement of large Megafend fenders and covers.

Suitable docklines.

Generator Make: NORTHERN LIGHTS (2016)

Generator Model: M844 LW3.7

Generator 16 KW 

Generator hours: 2870

Generator Date hours recorded: 07/13/2023

8 x AGM deep cycle - house bank (24v) (2022)

2x AGM for Electronics

Mastervolt management system (2022)

LED lighting throughout

YANMAR 360 hp / 6 Cylinder with 4000 hrs. (New 2017) with full-function analog panel and gauges at nav station and cockpit. 

Walker Air-Seps on main and generator

Cathelco anti-growth system in circulating sea water.

Bruntons max-prop, four-blade folding prop 25D x 17P w/Spurs

Consumption: 2.75 gph

Range: 2,200 NM

Maretron DSM 410 tank monitor system 

ITIM gray and blackwater tank monitors

PSS shaft-seal

ZF gearbox

Bow Thruster: 30hp hydraulic twin prop

Fuel polishing system controls.

• Marten / Southern Spars in carbon
• Upward facing blue spreader lights - main and mizzen.
• LeisureFurl hydraulic booms
• ECsix standard rigging (2021)
• Furlers: Reckman (2016) hydraulic jib & staysail furlers
• Reckman electric mizzen staysail furler
• Sails: Complete set of Doyle sails, serviced and cleaned annually. 
• Mainsail, Mizzen, Genoa, Staysail, Mizzen Staysail, Storm Jib, Storm Trysail, Asymetrical & Spinnaker in "sock". 

VHF ICOM M-506 at nav station

VHF ICOM M-23 at cockpit helm

Indium Satphone

Independent / redundant radars:

Raymarine 14" Hybrid-Touch screen at port helm with plotter/radar/color fish finder - 18" Raydome on mainmast and

14" Furuno TZT radar/plotter screen at starboard helm with additional screen at nav station - 36" open array antenna on mizzen.  

Hatteland daylight display, 27" touchscreen display driven by Dell Pentium desktop with chart storage and Navionic software.

Two fully independent Furuno Autopilots with separate rams

Three Furuno XL Multi-function displays in the cockpit with Furuno WS and AWI.

Furuno Multi-function repeaters in pilothouse.

Weems and Plath 6" Shipstrike

Air conditioning: Dometic, 7 units with heating coils (dual cycle).

14 sq. ft. of work space with separate plating counter

Water maker: AquaWhisper 60 gallons/hr (new)

Force 10 4-burner LPG stove with oven and broiler

Deep freeze: 1 large (15 cu.ft.) custom box with holdover plates, Danfoss Compressor (2023)

Refrigerator: 1 large (13 cu.ft.) custom box with holdover plates, Danfoss Compressor.

Miele dishwasher (2020).

Washer: Miele full-size W-5780 (2020)

Dryer: Miele TI Excellence full size (2020)

Broan trash compactor - (2020).

1 X owner full beam cabin aft

3 x Guest (1 double bed & 2 twin beds)

Crew cabin forward (twin beds)

27" screen in lower salon with Apple TV

Bose surround-sound stereo with three zones. 

Sonar system and Bose in Main.

Nautica 13 ft jet-tender with Weber 130 hp waterjet (will plane with 6/7 guests)

Crew tender: LeGrand inflatable with 6 hp Suzuki 4-stroke outboard

Dive compressor

Complete set of safety equipment

Two Switlick 6-man Life rafts - certification current. 

Two MOM's

Refit completed 2015/16 at Pendennis Shipyards:

• Rig unstepped, all mast wiring replaced. 
• Repainted topsides, nonskid and hull.
• Removed the keel and replace the keel rams.
• Replaced the bow thruster.
• Replaced the hydraulic computer system and overhauled the hydraulics as needed.
• Serviced the vangs and replace the seals.
• Removed and serviced the steering system.
• Replaced rudder bearings and autopilot relay system.
• Replaced the cutlass bearing and shaft seals.
• Checked the shaft and gearbox.
• Replaced Aquadrive.
• Replaced the water heater, water maker and various other smaller repairs.

Rybovitch mini-refit -2020

• ALL the navigation electronics and batteries replaced.
• The mast unstepped and serviced 18 months early during Covid.
• Standing rigging replaced with ECsix (2021). 
• Running rigging replaced as needed
• Yanmar main engine was replaced.
• The main halyard, mizzen halyard and cockpit winches replaced.
• The washer and dryer, dishwasher, trash compacter, freezer plates, primary anchor, cockpit cushions replaced.
• The lifting keel removed, all components stripped down and ram seals replaced.

We are proud to represent LADY K. She is an unusual offering. We do not often see sailing yachts maintained to this degree and, in fact, improved year after year. We invite comparisons with any late model sailing yachts in this size range. We encourage any sailing enthusiasts looking to cruise the world to give LADY K serious consideration. 

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Engine and generator hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing brochure.

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