About Adagio
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Adagio is an Outbound 44 that was delivered to us at Norfolk, VA in April 2007. She was built in Xiamen, China. Here is a picture of Adagio (and Merrie) in China:
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The fellow on the right is Phil Lambert, owner of Outbound Yachts.
Designed by Carl Schumacher, Adagio has a solid glass hull with a cored deck and a fin keel with a bulb on the bottom. She displaces over 32,000 pounds -- 10,000 of which are in the keel.
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Adagio's LOA (length overall) is 44'9"; her beam (width) is 13'6", and her draft (depth of the keel) is 6'6". Her bridge clearance (height of the mast from the water) is 64'.
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You can't see the mast in this photo because the mast was installed in Virginia after Adagio was shipped over by freighter.
Interior Layout
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The forepeak (the very front of the boat) has a stand-in sail locker with two chain lockers and a collision bulkhead (wall).
Behind the collision bulkhead is our "in port" cabin with a centerline queen size berth and ample storage: two hanging lockers, four shelf lockers and seven very large drawers, with additional storage space under the berth.
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All of the bulkheads and cabinetry are cherry.
Next aft is the main cabin with a dinette to port, settees to port and to starboard, and lockers on both sides. The house battery bank, battery charger/inverter and a second battery charger are located under the starboard settee. All of the space under the port settee is available for storage, as is the outboard space behind the settees.
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The settees make excellent sea berths -- see the leecloths that Mike has sewn (leecloths keep you from rolling out of the berth when the boat is heeling):
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Moving aft on the starboard side, we have a head with a separate shower stall and a guest cabin with more storage space: a hanging locker, four shelf lockers, two drawers and under-berth storage. This is where we sleep when we're offshore.
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To port is a U-shaped galley.
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It has a sink with overhead dish storage and lockers beneath, an outboard refrigerator/freezer under the counter with cupboards above, and an inboard centerline counter with a locker beneath.
The stove/oven is aft of the refrigerator, with a microwave oven behind the stove. The arrangement of the counters and the stove allows the cook to wedge him/herself between the centerline counter and refrigerator yet forward of the stove, an important safety feature when cooking underway.
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Opposite the galley, between the starboard settee and the head, is a built-in wine cabinet. We also store provisions in several storage areas built under the sole in each cabin:
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Aft of the galley is a navigation station with four drawers and an outboard locker.
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Finally, aft of the nav station is what we call the garage, aka "Mike's place":
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Outboard is Mike's workbench, the interior of which is a large deep freezer. There are four drawers and two storage shelves above the workbench. Aft of the workbench is a 39 gallon per hour AC driven watermaker (a watermaker is a desalinator that converts salt water to fresh water), with another storage locker above. Inboard under the cockpit sole is a 5.5 kw genset (electricity generator) with a storage platform aft.
A wonderful design feature has the cockpit seat open above the garage, so that Mike can actually stand in there!
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Click here for more details on the garage.
Above Decks
The cockpit is roomy and comfortable:
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In front of and under Mike you can see a fold-down table that Mike added. This allows us to enjoy our meals in the cockpit.
*** This section still under construction ***
Sail Plan
Adagio is solent rigged -- like a sloop but with a removable inner forestay set just aft of the forestay. Sails can be set on either headstay but not at the same time. A roller furled 110% Genoa is on the forward headstay while either a hanked-on 90% jib or a storm jib can be set on the inner forestay. In addition there is a removable sprit on which either an asymmetrical spinnaker or a roller-furled 160% jib topsail can be set. The mainsail has two reef points. There is also a carbon fiber spinnaker pole which we use as a whisker pole. All sails are made by Z Sails.
Equipment
The Outbound 44 comes from the factory very well equipped but with our live-aboard lifestyle and cruising plans we have added a number of things. As Merrie is fond of saying, "cruising is not camping." For non-sailors, here is a selective summary of what we have. The boat came with basics like an engine, fuel tanks, water tanks and water heater. We have added
- instruments showing boat speed, wind direction, and water depth
- route planning software and hardware (chart plotters)
- a radar system
- several GPS's
- "Man Overboard" electronics and other rescue equipment (so that if one of us falls overboard it will keep track of where we so the other can find and rescue us)
- an autopilot (automatic steering device: we can set it to steer a particular compass direction)
- a wind vane (mechanical system that steers the boat relative to the wind direction)
- VHF's -- very high frequency radios for communcations within 25 miles
- SSB -- Single Sideband (HF radio able to transmit half way around the world -- our only way to comunicate when we are offshore)
- a modem so that our computers can communicate over the SSB
- Upgraded batteries and alternator
- AC power generator
- a wind generator (uses the wind to generate electricity)
- a water maker (salt water desalinator)
- a dinghy (to get to shore) with an outboard
- a life raft (in case we have to abandon ship -- it is well stocked with survival supplies)
- two EPIRBs ("emergency position indicator radio beacons" - broadcasts where we are if we have to abandon ship)
- a stereo system with radio, CD player, and MP3 player
- a barbecue.
For a technical list of the additional equipment, click here.
