Bedouin is an Irwin 37 ketch. It's length is then 37 feet. A ketch is a two-mast sailboat. The bigger mast holds the mainsail and the two jibs. The smaller one holds the mizzen.

The most common rig in a sailboat is a sloop, with only one mast, a mainsail and a headsail (usually a genoa) and an aft cockpit. In Bedouin it is possible to hoist up to four sails. Dividing the sail area in smaller sails means using less strength to handle them - a huge advantage for a single-hander.



Bedouin has a center cockpit, which makes its internal design different from the traditional aft-cockpit boat. It has a smaller main salon, but a large and comfortable aft cabin, with it's own head (bathroom).

The main salon has a living area with table, cabinet and two settees, and a galley (kitchen) with a three burner gimbaled stove with oven, sink, fridge and microwave oven.

She has also a fore cabin with a second head, now being used as storage space.



In a sunny, windy day, the boat is able to generate most of its electrical energy, thru two solar panels and a wind generator. The electricity "stored" in the batteries is always being consumed, to ensure safety (like in the bilge pumps or navigation lights), help navigation (GPS, radar, depth finder, auto-pilot) or make life easier (keeping the beer cold and the music in the cockpit). If the sun or the wind don't do their job, then the engine should run to charge the batteries. Bedouin has a 50HP diesel engine and it's tank stores up to 85 gallons of fuel.



Fresh water in the galley and the heads comes from two tanks with 180-gallon total capacity. For one single person, this is enough for many more days than required by even the longest passages.

Bedouin has an rigid-bottom, 9-foot inflatable, with a gasoline outboard that is used to go ashore or to dive.



During Carnival in 2012, while Katia was recovering from a gall bladder surgery and Bedouin was moored in Key Biscayne, I bought a water-resistant white-and-blue fabric and sewed new covers for the settees of the main salon. I bought also a matching blue fabric and made two new courtains. As soon as I got back to the boat, on February 29, I painted the cabinet and table white, put the new covers and courtains on an Bedouin got a brand new salon!