Ragin Cajun is a centre cockpit Roberts Maritius. It has various custom modifications to make it both a better and safer cruising boat. Notably it has a rear sugar scoop and fixed stainless ladder which ensure boat can be accessed from the water at any time. This is a great safety feature.

The cockpit has been extended to allow full length sleeping while on watch. Solid steel doghouse ensures dry seating on both sides of the cockpit during rough conditions, while two foot square hatch in front of doghouse
ensures wonderful flow through ventilation in warm conditions.

The custom long fin keel design has helped directional stability particularly when sailing down wind. The original rudder design has been modified by marine architects so that the rudder shaft is now verticalised. The rudder shape now closely follows the Bernoulli formula and the increased surface area ensures that the rudder now very effectively steers the boat, both at sea and in the tight confines of a marina. Ragin Cajun has sailed tens of thousands of miles dead down wind on only auto-pilot in the last seven years.

The rig has been designed so that down wind sailing performance is enhanced. It consists of two 130% Genoas on rollers at the front and a Yankee cut staysail forward of the main mast. It has a standard slab reefed main and slab reefed mizen. The masts are both designed to be able to be layed down using a block and tackle and frames carried aboard single handily. This is so that the boat can be driven through the canals under the bridges in Europe. The less than two metre draft fin keel also is helpful in the shallow canals.

The sail set up for dead down wind is very simple. Pole out a Genoa at either side of centre, strap the staysail dead amidships tight, strap a triple reefed main dead amidships tight and set the auto pilot and away you
go. Because the rudder is at the very rear of the boat, and the drive is coming from the two Genoas at the very front of the boat she is being pulled by the nose, and therefore keeps a straight line. The purpose of the
staysail and the mainsail strapped to centre is to act as flopper stoppers and to stop the boat rolling from side to side. In the Pacific, we have actually left cups of coffee sitting on the table sailing down wind like this.

The engine is the ever reliable 80hp 4236 Perkins which was in all 65hp Massey Ferguson red tractors and early bob cats and many gensets. The transmission is a Borg-Warner velvet drive, driving an 1 3/4" shaft and 19" fixed three blade bronze prop.

A Muir windlass pulls up the anchor which is a 70kg Bugel. The forward chain box has 100m of 12mm chain. The after locker has 60m of 12mm chain with two 45lb CQRs. The boat is also equipped with two 45lb Fishermans in case of cyclone.

GPS= Furuno GPS Navigator
Depth Sounder = Northstar 443 df Explorer finder
Auto Pilot = Raymarine S2 smart pilot, Type 2 long Electric Linear Drive
AIS = Vespermarine AIS Watchmate
HF = M700 Icom Aus HF
VHF = GME 6x600
Radar = Furuno 1623 16mile
Wind Generator = Eclectic Energy D400
Solar Panels = 3x Uni Solar 80w panels
Engine = 80hp 4236 PerkinsFuel Capacity = 420L steel fuel tank
Water Capacity = 850L
Batteries = 7x N70 type

Ragin Cajun is being reluctantly sold because of an urgent health concern of the owner. The intention was to spend two years in Darwin and head off round the world again. Unfortunately not to be.

Obviously the new owner will be supplied with a detailed list of what will be necessary to have this robust cruising boat ready to circumnavigate again. We love her as she has been our home for the last twelve years and will be sad to let her go.

Forced Sale. $40K
Contact Tony:
Phone: 0459 723 359
email: tony.ragincajun@gmail.com