Bilge System
Adèle is divided into 6 compartments, each with
its own bilge. Each compartment has an alarm going to the central
alarm panel.
There is a central large electrical bilge pump (Johnson 230/400
V 26 m3 hour). The general service pump (the sea water pump)
serves as a back up for this pump. Those pumps are connected
through a pipe system with electric and manual valves at each
bilge area. The electric valves are remotely controlled from
the deckhouse.
Furthermore there is a similar pipe system, but of smaller dimensions,
connecting to a central bilge pump of smaller size and with a
Bilge Boy separator system. The Bilge Boy separates oil from
water. The dirty oil goes to the sludge tank and the cleaned
water is pumped out.
There is also a portable diesel driven fire pump, which in in
a locker on deck aft and with both a sea suction (for fire fighting)
and a connection point to the large bilge system.
The two chain lockers have have separate chain locker pumps.
Fire Fighting
Heat and smoke sensors/detectors in each compartment are connected
to the central alarm system (alarms at cockpit, deckhouse, control
room and crew mess).
The engine room is equipped with FM200 system controlled from
the control room. The control panel includes emergency shut down
of engine and all generators, engine room fans, closure of fire
flaps in air ducts and discharge of gas.
Adèle has around 40 portable extinguishers for
CO2, portable foam and portable powder. There are fire blankets
and fire hoses.
Fuel System
There are two diesel tanks forward of the engine room with 24
000 l of diesel and one daytank of 500 l. The overflow from the
two main tanks will drain into the sludge tank.
The day tank is normally filled via the separator, which will
run most of the time. The overflow runs back to the main tanks.
If the separator is not in use the fuel transfer pump (Johnson
30 l/min) can fill the day tank through filters.
Duplex strainers are fitted for the main engine and all generators,
so that fuel filters can be changed while the engines are running.
The tenders are filled from the daytank via the fuel transfer
pump and a hose stored on a reel and fitted with a nozzle.
There are two filling stations for diesel, port and starboard,
both drained to the sludge tank.
The fireplace in the main saloon is run on solid fuel.
Sea Water
Adèle has two main seawater inlets with strainers
in the engine room, both dimensioned to supply the total need
of seawater.
The General Service Pump will pump seawater to the fire system
connections on deck and also to the anchor wash system. The pump
can be switched on at the fore deck, the steering cockpit and
the inside steering console. The large bilge pump serves as a
back-up.
Also connected to the seawater inlets (through a manifold) are
the engine, generators, water makers and cooling water for the
air conditioning.
Fresh Water
There are two water tanks with a total capacity of 8000 l and
two filling stations, port and starboard.
The two water makers, have a capacity of 10,000 l each.
Two hydrophor pumps Headhunter Mach 5, work together but switch
on at different pressures and are connected to two 100 l pressure
vessels, one forward and one aft.
Adèle has two hot water tanks of 130 l each,
one placed forward and the other aft of the engine room. Two
continuously running AC hot water circulating pumps will be installed.
The hot water tanks are heated through electric heaters (9 kW
each).
Each cabin (9 in total) has a head (toilet)
with a washbasin (two in owner’s bathroom) and a separate shower cubicle.
There is also a separate day head with wash basin. The owner’s
bathroom has a Jacuzzi and a bidet.
There are sinks in galley, laundry room, forepeak, stewardess
area (immediately forward of saloon), engine room, aft deck house
(in bar area) and in main cockpit.
Adèle has four deck showers, one at each side
(to be used when boarding), one at the swim platform and one
aft at the aft cockpit coaming.
There are four outlets for deck wash and also for anchor wash
forward and aft.
Gas
Due to safety reasons there is no gas on board. The cooker and
oven are both electrical and the fire place in the saloon is
run on solid fuel (logs or artificial logs made of compressed
burning material).
Refrigerators, Freezer and other Domestic Equipment
Adèle has two 230/400 V compressors and two
circulation pumps and an integral hull tank for refrigeration
cooling supply.
Two custom built refrigerators (525 l and 450 l) and one freezer
(720 l) are all placed at the aft bulkhead in the galley.
We have also cool storage under the galley
floor for cans and bottles (200 l) and for fruit and
vegetables (8 – 10 degrees,
100 l). There are also two extra freezers in “the basement” under
the saloon floor (accessible from the hallway) and a cooled medicine
chest in the captain’s cabin.
Adèle has three small refrigerators in the main
cockpit, stewardess area and aft deckhouse.
There is a gimballed electric cooker and an oven and a microwave
(all Miele). Adèle has two instant boiling water
makers in the stewardess area and the aft deckhouse, one icemaker
in the stewardess area, one dishwasher with ultra short cycle,
two trash compactors (in the galley and the stewardess areas)
and two washing machines, two tumble driers and one ironing press
in the laundry room.
Hydraulic System
The hydraulic system is powered by two pumps on the main engine
and one pump each on the two large generators and furthermore
2 x 5 kW power packs of 400 V. The electric pumps are mainly
used for small or temporary functions like launching the boarding
ladder, unfolding the swim platform, hoisting someone in the
mast or similar, when the other pumps are off, or when only the
small generator is running, or when Adèle is
connected to mains power.
The hydraulic system drives 58 different functions including:
- 25 winches,
- bow- and stern thrusters,
- swim platform and boarding ladder,
- crow’s nest,
- 2 boom vangs,
- tensioners for yankee and staysail halyards and for outhaul
and cunningham, for both main and mizzen,
- yankee and staysail and mizzen staysail furlers,
- 2 main and one mizzen backstay cylinders and
- feeders for the different sheets
Pneumatic System
A low-pressure compressor is installed for driving pneumatic
tools and pumping up fenders and tenders. Outlets are in the
engine room, forepeak, near the main mast and in the aft ship.
The same pump can be used for generating vacuum for deflating
tenders and fenders.
Adèle has a foghorn operated from both steering
consoles and deckhouse.
Lubrication System
A lubrication oil tank, 300 l, is built into the foundations
of one generator. We have a separate oil pump with hose and quick
connectors.
A sludge / dirty oil tank of 700 l is built into the foundations
of the other large generator. A separate pump for dirty oil with
hoses and quick connectors. Shore connections at the fuel fill
boxes for emptying the sludge tank.
Grey and Black Water System
Adèle has one keel tank of
more than 2000 l for black water plus two grey
water tanks of 1000 l each, one forward and one aft.
Salt water cleaning wash is installed in all three
tanks.
All sinks, washbasins and showers drains go to the grey water
tanks via gravity or local drainage pumps.
The ten toilets, Raritan Atlantis, are flushed with fresh water
and have electric macerator pumps pumping directly to the black
water keel tank.
The grey water is pumped with two Johnson grey water pumps from
the grey water tanks to the black water/keel tank.
From the keel tank the water goes to a Hamann water treatment
plant and is then pumped over board. If the water treatment plant
should fail, the waste can be pumped overboard with any of the
grey water pumps, or it can be pumped ashore through any of the
two filling stations.
Ventilation and Air Condition
A mechanical ventilation system in combination with air condition
is installed throughout the ship.
There are two air handling units, one forward and one aft. They
clean the air, dehumidify it through cooling and heating and
distribute it to the different areas of Adèle.
The air intakes are from deck through cowl vents and mushrooms.
Also the forepeak is air-conditioned and the aftpeak and all
bilges are force ventilated.
The Airco compressor is installed in the engine room on the
starboard side and has 4 compressor units, with a cooling capacity
of 84 kW. It has its own sea water cooling pump.
Diving Equipment
8 bottles of 12 litres each are stored in a special locker on
the port side of the main deckhouse (next to the swim platform).
The diving compressor is in the engine room and connections for
filling are in the dive bottle locker. In the dive locker we
have also a 50m long hose permanently connected to a bottle for
fast diving jobs around the yacht (e.g. sorting out a rope around
the propeller or rudder).
Other diving equipment are stored in the forepeak in special
drawers and in a wardrobe for suits and BCDs. Full diving equipment
for six persons are stored and two battery driven water scooters.
