"Pájaro" is a 1963 Pearson "Triton" sloop sailboat (Hull #399), built in Bristol (Rhode Island, U.S.A.) by Pearson Yachts Corporation and designed by Carl Alberg.

Pájaro specs: L.O.A: 28' 6" L.W.L: 21' Beam: 8' 3" Draft: 4' 3" Rig: Fractional rigged "bermudian sloop". 38' mast (stepped on deck). Displacement: 8000 lbs aprox. Sail area:371 sq'

Pájaro equipment:

After an extensive refit on decks and interior, for extended cruising I upgraded her with:

• All external 304 stainless steel chainplates (custom made)
• All new 1/4" rigging wire on Sta-Lok connector fittings, with double backstays (instead of one), and recently added forward lowers stays
• 1/2" throughbolted polycarbonate (Lexan) windows
• A Lofrans Royal manual windlass and 125' of 5/16" galvanized chain (plus extra 100' nylon attacted)
• Lewmar "Claw" type 33 lb anchor on a "home-made" aluminum bow roller
• A Norvane windvane for mechanical- automatic (and powerless) self-steering
• Simrad TP-10 Tiller Autopilot
• New laminated tiller on cast bronze rudder head and tiller head
• New Rodstan 1" working jib tracks and blocks
• 4 H.P. Tohatsu four stroke long-shaft outboard engine
• Rigid 6' long virtually un-sinkable plywood-fiberglass pram with oars (based on the D-4 pram design with some modifications)
• Siemens 55 watt solar panel (on a fully swivable stainless steel mount. This was an original "Atom Suntracker", on board "Atom" sailboat, supplied courtesy of James Baldwin)
• 2 x 6 volts Trojan's T-105 wired for 200 amps and 12 volt battery bank (for all halogen G-4, and fluorescent cabin ligthing) regulated by a "Flexcharge PV7" 7 amp, ultra high efficiency charge controller
• "ICOM IC-M45" VHF Marine Transceiver
• Hella Marine 12 volt cabin fan
• 750 watt, Black & Decker 125 volt inverter
• 45 gals. Plastimo flexible watertank pumped by a Whale "baby foot pump" on cabin floor
• An "AtomStove" swivel (copied from online plans) with a pressure kerosene "primus" stove for cooking
• Blakes Lavac Taylors marine W.C. (manual diaphragm pump)
• DHR Kerosene gimbaled lamp on main bulkhead
• "Weems & Plath" Barometer-Thermometer-Hygrometer unit on main cabin bulkhead

Navigation equipment includes: Garmin GPS 72 handhled gps, (plus an unused spare backup) "Acer Extensa 4420" laptop, loaded with Max Sea digital charts. Mark III Davis Sextant and H.O. 249 Sight Reduction Tables DMA Pilot "Maury" charts Sony GR-7600-SW SSB world-band receiver, wired to a dipole antenna Plastimo 130 Contest Compass (Main) Aquameter Saturn compass inside cabin (tell-tale) West Marine bearing compass Horizon DS100 digital depth sounder West Marine "Huahine" 7x50 binoculars All around top-mast self-made dioptic light (5 watt halogen) and running bicolor and stern lights

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