Fram's Building and Sailing Pages

SENTA

Senta was the yacht of my dreams. She has fulfilled our wishes about long distance sailing and cruising along foreign coasts. We sailed her to the North and to the South. With the exception of Finland and Polen we have visit all the sea-located countries of Europe and the North of Africa. We won prices. She never disappointed us and was safe in extreme heavy weather. We had a wonderful time with her.

Unfortunately, when the multihull virus had struck, I put her back on sale to make the next sailor happy. The broker who helped us with the sale of the yacht described her as follows:

Describing "SENTA" as just a blue water cruiser, would not do her justice. This oceangoing cruising yacht is for the ambitious yachtsman, who want to discover all those areas he could not reach normally. This is a yacht to cruise the Seven sea's. I wish the new owner good luck and many happy miles with her.

  1. SENTA sales flyer
  2. Aluminum long keel
  3. Designer D. Koopmans Sr.
  4. Built 1970 by Royal Huisman Shipyard Vollenhove
  5. Hull and cabin are aluminum, original teak deck
  6. Hull number 251
  7. Registered Groningen 6521 B G 1993
  8. Dim. 11.00 x 3.00 x 1.80
  9. Displacement 7 ton, lead ballast 3,5 ton
  10. 5 (original 6) settees
  11. 1x sea-safe pilot-berth, 2x sea-berth
  12. 4 cyl. Vetus M4.14 24,3KW (33 PK) built 1990 including spare parts
  13. 3-blade fixed prop
  14. double fuel filtering system
  15. approx. 260 ltr. diesel and 300 ltr. water
  16. 2x maintenance free 108 Ah batteries
  17. TWC-chip for fast charging
  18. Victron automatic charger
  19. stormjib, jib, genua II, genua I (and some spare sails)
  20. 2x special trade-wind sails
  21. All sails are in very good condition:
  22. trysail
  23. full battened main with 3 reefs (and spare main)
  24. orange spinnaker in trunk
  25. 2 st. spinnaker poles
  26. sprayhood with stainless steel frame and extra handle
  27. wintertent for entirely ship with standing height
  28. mainsail cover (new)
  29. sun-tent
  30. 1x CQR and 1x Danforth anchor
  31. 60 m. chain and anchor winch
  32. 60 m. anchor line
  33. drogue, sea-anchor
  34. Zodiac tender with Mercury 2.2 outboard
  35. 4 pers. D.S.B. automatic survival raft
  36. Original Hassler wind-vane with trim-tab
  37. Autohelm 4000, steers the trim-tab
  38. Gimballed Autohelm LCD radar
  39. Brookes & Gatehouse log
  40. Sailor SSB radio with DEBEG Gonio RDF
  41. Seafarer depth sounder, double transducer with automatic switch
  42. Sailor marifoon, spare antenna and scanner
  43. Philips AP and Garmin GPS (working with radar en PC)
  44. K41 Navtex
  45. Stereo
  46. Origo 3000 stove
  47. Taylor petrol heater

Here are some interesting links
about first owner Dr. Kees den Hartoog
and the journeys he made with SENTA.

SENTA to Greenland

 The same article in Dutch, SENTA naar Groenland


 Photo album An article from ′Oud Broek.nl″
about Dr. Kees de Hartoog (Dutch)

Inspired by Senta Den Hartoog has built a new and 4ft longer boat called Sentijn, with which he has completed a singlehanded circumnavigation , with only one stop in Sydney.