Factory Specifications for Island Packet 350 / Designer Bob Johnson N.A.

LOA 36' 10"		Sail Area 725 sq fee
LWL 29' 4"		Engine 38 hp FWC Diesel
Beam 12'		Ballast 7500 lbs.
Draft 4' 3"		Displacement 16500 lbs (approx.) / approx. may be low [after all modifications and with full tanks and provisions for ocean cruising the displacement is about 24000 lbs]
Fuel 50 gal
Water 100 gal
Holding 30 gal

Factory Options

• Upgrade in size of all winches
• Full battened mainsail
• Storm trysail track on mast
• Mainsail bat-car system
• Spinnaker crane at masthead
• Lead instead of iron for ballast (only person to elect this factory option)
• Extra lead (700 pounds additional ballast) for stability compensation for weight to be added above deck (solar panels, hard dodger, arch, wind generator, etc.) This results in the waterline of the fully outfitted boat being an inch higher with the related loss of perhaps a quarter knot of speed.

Deck / Outside

• Extended headsail track aft
• Track and blocks for trysail, spindrifter, and MOB hoist
• Tang for flex in furling headstay
• Rigid vang
• Cleats for preventer lines
• Stand-up for main sheet
• Halyard wrap preventer on headsail furler
• LED masthead running and anchor lights
• Self leveling radar reflector (stays in catch rain position)
• Mast head radar "transponder" enhancer
• "bottle-brush" ion dissipaters at masthead
• Turning blocks for sheets to clear dodger
• Reinforced stanchions and pulpit/pushpit
• Upgraded lifelines
• Dinghy brackets
• Dinghy rigged as life raft (with sail) using what is normally onboard (ors for mast, seat for rudder, etc.)
• Whisker pole track and bracket
• Samson post
• Custom hard dodger with ¼-inch Lexan windshield and side panels (removable side panels that store under dodger top) / solar panel support / lots of handholds
• Instrument arch over companionway
• Corner line protectors for solar panels / hand rail protector
• Custom arch / built for folding solar panel support; wind generator support; hydro generator support; GPS support; Inmarsat antenna support and ties for boom and high jack lines. / lots of handholds
• Wind generator guard
• Aladdin cleats on upper mast stays for high jack lines
• Stiffener bars for arch
• Solar panels on seahood
• Non-skid on spreaders
• Deck lights
• Telescoping boarding ladder (can be deployed from water)
• Top step of boarding ladder serves as bracket for emergency use of outboard motor
• Extra cockpit drains
• Reinforce pedestal
• Portable VHF clip on pedestal
• Bulkhead in starboard cockpit locker fot additional hull strength
• Outboard motor storage in locker with vapor sniffer
• Outboard motor gas tank storage in cockpit locker with overboard drain
• Dri-deck in line and gasoline lockers and where needed to keep floatation off of hull or bilge
• Positive screw latch for propane locker
• Max prop (to offset drag of hydro generator
• Line cutter on shaft for prop wrap problem
• Scuppers (minimal) to kep deck drainage from running down topsides
• Batten "easy jack" rings (keeps battens on boom when reefing)
• All sails reinforced by Hasse (new trysail and foam-luff Genoa / spindrifter with artwork
• Mast climbing steps

Below Deck

• B&G Hydra 2000 instruments
• B&G Hercules autopilot
• 25-watt VHF radio
• Inmarsat-C
• Iridium mobile phone
• Barometer
• Automatic engine fire extinguisher
• Duel fuel filters
• Shut off valve for engine exhaust (protects from following seas)
• Engine / bilge ventilation blower
• Duel engine seacocks / strainers
• Valve for using engine as bilge pump / used for pumping fresh water through engine / can be used to blow air back through thru-hull with
• dinghy foot pump
• Soy diesel / ten gallons extra fuel
• Fuel bulb-siphon (to get water and/or fouled fuel from bottom of fuel tank)
• Wooden plugs attached to seacocks
• Cabin fans
• Second fiddle on rail shelfs
• Ventilated storage in head
• Nav station seatback
• Extended aft berth to sleep parallel to boat centerline
• LED reading lights and night lights
• LED bilge light
• Plexiglas bilge viewing panel
• Bilge alarm
• Positive security for all hatches (won't dislodge or float)
• Secure storage for stove lighter
• Rigid springs on doors / magnet on head door
• Positive latches on fridge/freezer and drawers and sliding panels
• Four handholds added
• Extend fiddles in galley
• Glacier Bay vacuum panels around freezer (built freezer inside existing ice box)
• Ice cube rack
• Foam security in microwave
• Brackets for water bottles, hygiene bottles; and cup holder at nav station
• Water maker and galley tank
• Salt water hand pump in galley
• Large galley thermos
• Pot Canned Heat stove with tie down
• Splash guard
• Seagull filter with hand pump
• Paper towel shield
• Foul weather hangers in head
• Towel hooks in head
• 3rd anchor stowed in head
• Toilet tabs in head (keep toilet seat hinges from breaking)
• shower timer in head
• Head bungles for sea boot and bucket storage
• Moved bilge switch
• nav table hinged lip
• Chart light
• GMT nav clock
• 24-mile Radar / GPS also at helm through high speed bus
• SCUBA floating spotlight
• Bungee at nav station for charts and/or laptop
• Hand pump-out for holding tank
• Transducers in watertight sea chest
• Ti-stainless anchor chain lead to locker (lower and more aft)
• Heavy latch on chain locker / caged and ventilated / hand spray pump and scrubber to clean dirty chain
• Windless emergency stop swatch at chain locker
• Lee board and post added in forward cabin
• Removable lee board for middle of forward double berth
• Security straps on berths and at nav station

Environmental Energy

• Totally new wiring with detailed monitoring / managing computers (SALT)
• EARTH FLAG

Positive floatation

• About 200 cubic feet of Styrofoam refrigerator quality foam was added to boat (cut so that it can be removed in any area desired)….a main reason for buying an Island Packet is that there was enough space to install positive floatation
• Part of floatation volume was accomplished by using closed cell foam in seat Cushions and backs. (similar to Bottomsider material)….a layer of Dri-fast foam was added at the top to ventilate body moisture and soften the cushions. Works well….no mildew problem.
• Two Float Pac floatation bags to be carried for use in leveling a swamped boat for re-floating or for sailing (can also be used to lift the keel a few inches off a reef)

Major Outfitters

I was involved in every step of designing and implementing the outfitting of the vessel, but it was also necessary that others lend their skills and have confidence (and even belief) in the philosophy….this was not always a direct or smooth path:

SeaView East Boatyard: Shepherd Moon was on the hard for 51 weeks as I worked side by side with stainless craftsman, Earl Arzadon, with periodic breaks for pondering. (Non-stainless projects were done as well).

Miller & Miller Boatyard: Installation and testing of the super insulated freezer/fridge; also various other projects.

Cruising Systems: Michael Charters implemented my plans for an ambitious rewiring of the vessel for environmental energy.

Port Townsend Sails: Carol Hasse, Gae Pilon, and company facilitated the reinforcement and construction of sails (and Carol designed the sailing "life raft" with me).

Brion Toss Rigging: Brion implemented several rigging upgrades.

Classic Marine Services: Bob Schwartz built the instrument arch and did a number of boatwright alterations.

The Island Packet factory worked with me throughout the outfitting.

Other craftsmen and marine contractors who offered their much appreciated opinions and skills are too many to list