Welcome to the Beatrix web site.  Beatrix is a Peterson Cutter, commonly known as a "Kelly-Peterson 44". She is hull #276 of the 44' center-cockpit medium displacement cruising cutters designed by Doug Peterson and built by Jack Kelly for fast passage making and comfortable safe cruising.  (Read about the KP44 at  www.kp44.org).  

My name is Jeff Stander and I have been a live-aboard on Beatrix since 1998. During the summer of 2005 I voyaged from Seattle up the Inside Passage to Juneau, Alaska, twice to Glacier Bay, then around the outside of Chicagof and Baranov Islands, and back down the Inside to Seattle. I was uploading files to this web site as I made connection to the Internet along the track. There is a large number of photos on the pages devoted to this voyage.

Sailing from Seattle to Southern California in 2006 was the first step . Departure date was the 20th of September with Bob Hawk and Blair Fraser as crew. They are both owners/skippers of KP44s. The plan took us south down the 125° W longitude lilne, leaving from Cape Flattery and making landfall in San Francisco 6 days later. It was hard to leave the most perfect place in the world to work on a boat, but it was time to quit refitting and rebuilding and start sailing, although since cruising has been defined as "boat maintenance in exotic ports" I fully expect the projects to be ongoing -- I just won't be in walking distance from the West's biggest sailboat chandlery. But it was time to leave Seattle, turn the page, and start a new chapter...

2007 was spent in San Diego and occasionally Ensenada, MX, working up to finally leaving the USA and heading to the South Pacific.

On Tuesday Jan 15, birthdate of my daughter Sarah, we departed at last from Ensenada to La Paz. Aboard are Kathy Perkins and Fiona Rhodes. Winds are light, seas are calm, and the crew and I are excited to be off. A preliminary logging system is in place, with Google Earth links.

On May 1, 2008 we set sail for the Marquesas from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We arrived 24 days later in Atouna on the island of Hiva Oa. Distance travelled was nearly 3000 nautical miles over the ground, with a rhumb line distance of 2590 miles. Leaving in May, the ITCZ (doldrums) are very broad, but except for motoring from 7° N to the equator we had wonderful sailing. Our best VMG day was 175 miles! While the sailing was brilliant I continue to have equipment failures and I am no longer surprised. The generator I half expected to fail. It's a Fischer-Panda, a complex unit that has NO PLACE on a cruising vessel. We also suffered total refrigeration failure, and partial radar failure. The HF radio modem was not working for a while so we received no emails (or weather data). It appears to be working again. Meanwhile I have discovered we can do without the referigeration, which used an enormous amount of power, thus ameliorating the impact of the generator failure. I have discovered how important it is to have my amateur radio license, as I have been in close contact with family and friends via phone patches from incredibly friendly ham operators K5SIV (Bob from Austin) and K6RC (Randy in Honolulu. The ham radio seafarer's net also is updating our position reports.

For some photos of the journey so far, see the Voyages 2008 page.

POSITION REPORTS

• Winlink
• Yotreps
• Download Yotreps Reporter to track our progress using a low-resolution world charting system. Our boat identifier is KE7EFQ

Here are some initial photos from the first leg of the trip.

This web site includes position reports, photos, logs and travels of Beatrix as a history and informational site for friends, family, and anybody else who is interested.  

Jeff is currently webmaster and listserv owner/moderator for the Peterson Cutter Web site and Peterson Cutter Mailing List.  If you are interested in the Kelly Peterson 44, KP46, Formosa 46, or other flavors of the Doug Peterson Cutters, please visit the web site and join the eGroup.

Jeff Stander

What's on the site?

• Complete Table of Contents
• Voyages
• Beatrix Refit Project

What's new on the site?

• Logs

• Aft Cabin Rebuild

• Alaska Voyage
• Running Rigging Diagrams
• Cockpit Control Lines

 

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Last modified: May 27 2008 23:21