Co-Owned by the Rector's
Updated 08/09/99
By the Rector Family Co-Owners of "Quest"
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Victoria 18 ForumAs a side note: in '80 and '81 John was a member of a sailing club operated by William and Vicky McVay, which provided Victoria 18's for members to use. This club operated from the Monroe Harbor Marina in Sanford, FL.
Our partnership works well. We work together to keep her good order. John is far more sailing technical than I am. I never seem to use the correct terms for items on the boat. She is pretty loaded as far as hardware with some of the best name equipment for all her rigging. Most of this is original.
The Quest has Barlow 23 self-trailing winches and Harkin snatch blocks for controlling the headsail. There are Barlow 15 winches for raising the sails and for bringing up the drop keel which weights about 1500 lbs. Most of the rest of the sailing hardware is Harkin. For rudder control she has an Edson chain driven wheel with a Richie compass on top of the wheel post. Again, pardon my lack on knowledge on hardware. She has a one cylinder BMW D7 inboard diesel marine engine. This is a 4-stroke direct injection engine with 280 CC displacement to produce 6 metric horsepower. Single lever engine and gear control. Engine access is obtained through a lift up hatch in the middle of the cockpit area as well from behind the stairs.
There is battery (two batteries) and gear storage under the cockpit seats. There is also a lazarette for additional storage. She carries up to 10 gallons of diesel fuel in a built in tank good for about 100 hours of running (which means the whole season). She may do 5 or 6 knots at full power.
With the keel up she needs a little less than three feet of water and with keel down about seven feet.
She is NOT like the one (red) pictured on the Vic 26 design page, that one looks like it has an additional fixed keel and the side windows are different. Quest's bottom is painted with black anti-fouling paint. There is a blue strip at the water line and white the rest of the way up. She it all white top side with some teak trim. There is a smoke tinted Plexiglas forward hatch with a matching small vent hatch above the galley. All the side ports are also tinted, they open and are screened.
Her inside has teak paneling with a v-berth (double) in the forward stateroom. The hand pump operated head is also in the forward stateroom which starts forward of the mast box. The main parlor has a removable table and two side sofas that pull across to make a double berth. There is a built in alcohol stove, sink with electric pump for water, and built in Icebox under the stove. These are all on the port side next to the stairs. There is a chart table on the starboard side with storage under it. She has rubber bladder storage tanks for fresh water and waste. There is an anchor chain locker in front of the v-berth.
Above the chart table is the electrical control panel for lights, fans, radio, bilge etc. She has A/C outlets on both sides of the cabin with D/C lights on the ceiling and around the sides.
There is storage under both sofas and the v-berth. We have added a marine band radio and depth indicator.
Her sails are white with the red circle and V on the main. We added a Cruising Design, Inc. flexible roller furler this past winter. Great invention! We have installed a PYI, Inc. packless sealing system on the propeller shaft. This replaced the stuffing box, which was the original system.
She sails very nicely, not overly fast but very steady. She has weather helm which can be a bother a times. I enjoy every minute of sailing.
If any forum member is visiting the Orlando area, we can always use additional crew. Just let me know.
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