Accommodations
This Fleming 55 is ordered by Chuck Hovey Yachts with the optional “VIP Guest Stateroom” layout which features three staterooms including the master cabin forward (en-suite head & shower) with two hanging lockers, emergency escape hatch, entertainment center, sliding bed for ease up making, hydraulic bed lift for top loading storage, air conditioning controls and custom interior decorating. The port cabin has the optional custom ordered “VIP Guest” layout which is the double berth below, pull out berth above, and built in vanity and cabinetry inboard with hanging locker (see photos). The starboard cabin is with upper pullout & lower berths & hanging locker. The guest head and shower is to starboard.
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- Accommodation with three staterooms
- Hanging lockers lined with Formica
- Insect screens for all opening windows, portlights and skylights
- German made interior door locks
- Non-slip treads on all interior stairs
- Cruisair reverse cycle air-conditioning with remote compressors and SMX-HT controls
- All cabins pre-wired for intercom/phone system
| - LED mood rope lighting behind valances, stairs and settees
- Cantalupi brand lighting with 28v Xenon bulbs
- Teak joinery with satin varnish hand-rubbed finish throughout
- Teak and holly sole throughout
- Light fixtures to have shiny s/s (chrome) finish
- Interior locker door handles to be brushed s/s finish
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Salon
- Fixed windows in house sides
- Opening windows in galley and pantry
- Sliding doors at aft end
- Spring loaded barrel bolts to allow phantom screen installation
- Medium grey tinted, tempered, glass.
- Wood window blinds
- Pre-wired for intercom/phone system
- Teak valance over windows with LED rope lighting
| - Overhead light fixtures on dimmers
- Access hatches to allow for engine removal
- Vinyl headliner
- CO detector
- Upholstered L-Settee
- Fleming Hi-Lo oval table with teak top
- FRP sandwich with Nidacore honeycomb composite sole
- Air-conditioning
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Galley
- Granite countertops
- Black composite double sink
- Insinkerator waste disposal
- Convection microwave oven
- Induction cooktop with s/s potholders
- 20.5 cu ft side by side refrigerator/freezer
- Grohe swivel faucet with removable spray head
- Overhead light fixtures
| - Grohe swivel faucet with removable spray head
- Trash compactor
- Drawers with guides and stops
- Cabinets
- Air-conditioning
- Duplex 110v AC ground fault outlets
- Dishlocker at stbd side
- Granite splash back installed behind sink and cooktop
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Passage
- Lower part of bulkhead finished with teak, upper part finished with Ultrasuede
- Access doors to staterooms
- Rope lights at stairs to salon and forward cabin
| - Overhead low voltage Xenon lighting
- Manual bilge pump under steps
- Bosch washer and vented drier in cabinet behind sliding door
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Forward Stateroom
- Four s/s CE-approved Portlights
- CE approved S/S skylights (2) with insect and black-out screens
- Tapered queen-sized bed with hydraulic lift and manually slide
- Upholstered Headboard
- Foam mattress
- Teak lockers either side of bed
- LED Rope lighting under bed and steps
- Two hanging lockers. Teak faced with louvered doors. Automatic interior lights
- TV space on bulkhead
| - Drawers with center guides and stops
- Beveled-edge mirrors
- Door stops and holders
- Doors teak frame with flat teak panels
- Bulkheads with teak to waist height with Ultrasuede above
- Low voltage Xenon overhead lights
- Berth reading lights.
- CO detector
- Drapes
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Port Head (Ensuite)
- CE-approved Portlight with removable insect screen
- FRP shower stall with granite sole, auto sump pump, & seat and lockers
- S/S and glass custom shower doors
- Grohe Shower mixer, pressure and temperature compensated
- S/S Toiletries rack inside shower locker
- Granite counter top with porcelain basin
| - Grohe Faucets
- Beveled-edge mirrors
- Low voltage Xenon lighting
- 110v AC GFI outlet
- Headhunter pressure-jet toilet. Bone color.
- Ventilator fan
- S/S towel rails
- Drapes
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Starboard Guest Cabin
- S/S CE-approved portlights with removable insect screens
- Two berths, upper berth slides outboard when not in use
- Hanging locker with auto-light.
- Nightstand with drawers
- 110v AC outlet
- Foam mattresses
| - Xenon overhead lighting
- Berth reading lights
- LED Rope lighting and drape tracks at portlight openings.
- Full height beveled-edge mirror
- Pocket entrance door
- CO detector
- Drapes
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Port Stateroom
- S/S CE-approved portlights with removable insect screens
- Sleeps two in double bed plus a third in the pull out upper berth
- LED rope lights under berths
- Full height beveled-edge mirror
- Hanging locker with auto light and louvered door
- Valance over portlights
- VIP Guest cabinetry and vanity
| - 110v AC outlets
- Upholstered Headboards
- Low voltage Xenon overhead lighting
- Bookshelves
- CO detector
- Drapes
- Berth reading lights
- LED Rope lighting and drape tracks at portlight openings
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Guest Head
- CE-approved Portlight with removable insect screen
- FRP-lined shower stall with granite sole
- S/S and glass custom shower doors
- Lockers
- Grohe shower mixer pressure and temperature compensated
- Granite counter top with porcelain basin
- Grohe Faucets
- Porcelain basins
| - Beveled-edge mirrors
- Low voltage overhead Xenon lighting
- 110v AC GFI outlet
- S/S Towel rails
- Headhunter pressure-jet toilet. Bone color.
- Ventilator fan
- Drapes
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Pilothouse
- Chart table with double-guide drawers and stops
- Chart light on flexible arm
- Dismountable control console with space for owner supplied electronics
- Engine display screens on lower console
- Horn control
- Air reservoir for Buell air horn
- Rudder angle indicator with light & dimmer
- Back lit engine start & stop buttons
- Electronic engine controls. Glendinning EEC 3 with back up gear and throttle with
- synchronizer
- Hydraulic steering with Destroyer type steering wheel
- Ritchie Compass with light & dimmer
- Overhead electronics console
- Wiring routes to facilitate equipment installation
- Overhead light fitting with dimmer
- LED red and white dimmable bridge lights in upper console
- Stairs down to salon, up to flybridge
- Back lit electrical distribution panels for AC and DC
- Alarm and advisory panel
- Doors on AC, DC and advisory panels
| - L-shaped settee on raised area
- Filler cushion for watch berth
- Wooden window blinds on port & stbd windows (3)
- Teak table with single s/s leg and swivel
- File drawer
- Self-parking, heavy-duty wipers with multi-speed/intermittent controls & individual fresh water wash on forward-facing windows
- Windshield glass, clear, tempered, 9 mm thick
- Vinyl headliner
- Demister blower on forward facing windows
- Control for bow thruster
- Hinged bookcase for access to underside of flybridge console
- Air-conditioning
- ITIM Black water tank level indication and pump control panel
- Generator digital control panel
- Windlass up/down switch & control circuit breaker
- Fire system and high level bilge alarms panel
- Bilge pump control on advisory panel
- Equipment running advisory panel
- Fleming Captain’s helm seat
- Pre-wired for intercom/phone system
- Dimmer for instrument lighting
- Starter engaged warning lights
- Main engine sea water flow alarms
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Deck and Hull
- Solid laminate, commensurate for hull size. Solid hull, zero coring material.
- Vinylester resin used for outer laminations
- Full-length stringers and athwartships frames laminated
- Simulated planking grooves
- Gel coated finish above waterline
- Pettit, or equal, epoxy barrier coat below waterline.
- Integrally molded guard with s/s rub strip
- Keel extends below running gear
| - Keel space filled and sealed across top
- FRP rudders with Aqualloy 22 Hi-strength stocks
- CE-approved S/S portlights
- S/S keel shoe – 8 ft long
- ZF-Faster Shaft "A” Struts
- S/S trim around roofs, on forward teak cap rail, and guard
- Italian made exterior locks
- S/S Aquasignal navigation and anchor lights
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Aft Deck Area
- Cockpit with teak decking
- Flush lazarette hatches with hinges, gaskets, locks & gutters
- FRP Swim step, with s/s brackets -molded non skid surface
- Stainless steel telescopic swim ladder under swimstep - can be deployed by swimmer
- Wide teak coaming around cockpit
- FRP skirt inboard of teak cap.
- Engine-room air intakes behind skirt and inside bulwarks
- S/S ladder to flybridge with teak treads
- Sliding doors to salon. FRP with glass windows & weather strips
- Seadog style latches for doors
| - Hot & cold shower fittings on inside of transom adjacent to door, with quick release shower head and flexi hose
- Salt water 316 S/S faucet
- Fresh Water 316 S/S faucet
- Shore inlets for 110/220v, 50A AC, Telephone, TV.
- Overhead low voltage lighting.
- LED rope lighting under coaming skirt.
- Chocks at hull sides and transom.
- Two 14” s/s heavy duty cleats secured to plates inside bulwarks
- Deck scuppers piped out through transom at boot stripe
- Hatch with steps down into lazarette for access to engine room
- 316 grade S/S handrail across transom
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Side Decks
- Teak decking
- 316 grade S/S handrails along house-side
- Teak rail cap on bulwarks
- Bulwark doors opening inboard with Seadog style latches and bolts
- Nonskid on top side of guard at boarding gates
- S/S overhead lights. Two per side.
- Courtesy LED "F” logo lights at steps up to Portuguese deck
- S/S handrails at side deck steps.
| - Steps to Portuguese Bridge deck with teak treads
- House side fixed windows with tinted, tempered glass and FRP frames
- Galley & Pantry windows sliding with tinted, tempered glass and FRP frames
- Two sets of spring-line chocks per side
- Three Hereschoff style s/s cleats/chocks per side recessed into bulwarks
- Fuel fill fittings for four fuel tanks
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Pilothouse Deck Level
- Portuguese Bridge
- Teak rail cap
- Locker doors in aft face of Portuguese bridge
- 316 grade S/S handrail around forward side of pilothouse
- 316 grade S/S handrails at side of pilothouse Port & Stbd
- Sliding aluminum pilothouse doors P & S with weather seals
| - Teak decking
- Hinged doors through Portuguese bridge to foredeck
- Individual Screen wash and heavy duty self-parking wipers on windshield
- Clear, tempered 9mm glass, in forward facing windshields
- Pilothouse windows are fixed and have FRP frames
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Forepeak
- Separate stowage for chain and rope
- Watertight collision bulkhead
- Forepeak drains directly overboard
| - Bitter end fittings
- Hatch scuppers
- High gloss poly paint finish
- Overhead light
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Forward Deck
- Teak deck
- Two s/s CE approved skylights
- Teak rail cap on bulwarks increasing in width going fwd
- S/S stanchions to support teak handrail
- Teak hand rail
- Deck lockers forward either side of anchor platform.
- FRP anchor platform with integrally molded non-skid and two sets of rollers
- Lofrans Falkon 24v DC, 1500 watt windlass with pendant control and remotes at
- both stations (P/H & F/B)
- Four s/s Hereschoff cleats
| - Two 14" s/s cleats per side
- 316 grade S/S pulpit diameter tube Welds ground and polished
- Foredeck LED "F” Logo courtesy lights at deck level
- Hatch to forepeak
- Shore inlets for 110/220v AC, 50 amp & TV and phone.
- Plug in for windlass control
- Salt water 316 S/S faucet inside foredeck lockers
- Fresh water 316 S/S faucet inside foredeck lockers
- Deck drains plumbed to boot-stripe to prevent black streaks
- FRP forepeak vent
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Flybridge
- Lexan venturi with s/s rail
- Steering console with engine controls
- Helmseat for two persons at control station
- Electronics console
- Engine instrumentation
- Ritchie Compass with light & dimmer
- Hydraulic steering with destroyer-type wheel
- Rudder angle indicator with light and dimmer
- AC source light
- Fire system repeater alarm
- Flybridge cushions on settees and helmseat using EZ-dri foam with Sunbrella
- upholstery and mesh backs for drainage
- Perfix snaps for attaching cushions
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- Table stbd side with drink holders
- Straight settee port side
- Aquasignal navigation lights in accordance with appropriate Collision regulations
- Buell air horn with twin trumpets
- Two Mastervolt 24v to 12v DC-DC converters with 12v battery back-up system.
- FRP Radar arch with spreader lights
- S/S signal mast with bow and anchor lights and aft facing floodlight
- Dumb waiter pass-thru from galley to flybridge
- S/S railings with mid safety rail
- Starter engaged warning lights
- Main engine sea water flow alarms
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Boat Deck
- Integrally molded beige non-skid on deck
- 316 grade S/S handrails.
- 800 lb capacity Steelhead davit with powered luffing, hoisting and rotation
- Sliding hatch to cockpit ladder
| - GFCI 110v AC outlet
- Fresh Water 316 S/S faucet
- S/S saddles for tender (supplied loose)
- Aluminum plate inside deck for tender tie down
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Lazarette
- Steering gear
- Deck and hatch scuppers
- Hull finished with gloss white polyurethane paint
- Overhead lights s/s
- 300 gal Fresh Water tanks. 4 pcs polyethylene
- Air-conditioning compressors
- Aft shorepower inlet circuit breakers
| - Battery master switch panel
- Aft & main DC electrical panels
- Bow thruster Main Switch panel and fuse
- Charles AC Master controller
- Starboard platforms and sole boards with s/s lifters
- Groco raw water strainers for aircon
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Engine Room
- Fresh water pump & inlet filter
- Aquadrives with thrust plate, CV joints and soft engine mounts
- Bronze drip-less shaft seals with Buck Algonquin "Seal Tight” Packing
- Fire retardant (FRP) fiberglass fuel tanks (4). With sight gages
- Equipment platforms
- 17 Kw (60 Hz) Onan eQD genset with sound shield and combined muffler/water separator for exhaust
- Groco raw water strainers for engines gensets aircon and all seawater intakes
- Main engine exhaust system with water-lock muffler
- Engine room heat extraction blowers (2)
- Heavy duty sound insulation covered with perforated aluminum
- Engine access hatches locked down on gaskets
- Emergency release latch on engine room forward hatch
- Fire suppression system with auto engines/genset/blowers shutdown
- Heat detectors (2)
- Bilges painted with glossy white poly paint
- Sole board covered with Lonseal vinyl.
- Sole lifters s/s
| - Fresh water coiled hose
- Submersible bilge pump
- Hi-bilge alarm
- Start/stop buttons for both engines
- Lube oil pumps (2) for engines, transmissions and generator
- AC and DC lighting
- 110v GFI electrical outlets
- Buell Horn Compressor
- Anti-vibration soft mounts for genset
- Charles Isolation transformers (2)
- 440 A/H house battery bank consisting of 8 pcs Lifeline GC4 AGM (6 volt) batteries
- 220 A/H port engine/genset starting battery bank
- 220 A/H stbd engine/genset starting battery bank
- FRP drip pans underneath main engines
- S/S mirror finished plates on inboard face of aft fuel tanks
- Lead foam sound insulation
- Starboard platforms and sole boards
- Airtight FRP door with dog down latch and viewing port
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Steering
- Hynautic hydraulic steering
- FRP rudders with Aqualloy 22 stocks
- Destroyer wheel at flybridge and in pilothouse
| - Back lit rudder angle indicators at pilothouse and flybridge stations
- Glendinning EEC 3 electronic engine controls at pilothouse and flybridge, with back up system and synchronizer
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Machinery
- Cummins QSC 8.3 500 hp Engines (2)
- Coolant recovery tanks on main engines
- Sidepower SP240TC 15.5 HP (11.4 Kw) bow thruster with Sidepower Main
- Switch and controls at each station
- ZF-Faster 4-blade Nickel Aluminum bronze propellers
- Shafts Aqualloy 22 Hi-Strength 2 1/4”
| - Cutless-type shaft bearings
- Shaft struts – recessed A-Brackets
- Aquadrive anti-vibration system, couplings and engine mounts
- Bronze drip-less shaft seals with Buck Algonquin "Seal Tight” Packing
- Water-lock muffler with transom exhaust
- Bennett trim tabs with indicators and controls in Pilothouse and Flybridge
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Fuel System
- Fuel filters. Racor 75/900MAX Duplex with vacuum gauges and water-in-fuel
- sensors for main engines.
- Racor 500MA fuel filter for generator
- 4 FRP fuel tanks made of vinylester and fire retardant resins
- Total fuel capacity 1,000 USG
| - Sight glasses on all fuel tanks with self-closing safety valves
- Fuel tank sumps and drains with shut-off valves on all tanks
- Fuel management panel for engine/genset supply return selection
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Electrical AC
- 17Kw Onan eQD generator, 220v, single phase, in sound shield mounted on anti-vibration soft mounts
- Load distribution panel. Split panel system. Sub panels as required
- Digital meters (volts, amps, watts and frequency) and circuit breakers as required
- Two 110/220v, 50 amp shore inlets fore and aft connected so as both can be used simultaneously
- AC outlets throughout boat. GFI type in heads, galley, engine room and exterior
- Imtra light switches and dimmers.
| - 3,500 watt pure sine wave Outback inverter
- Inverter bypass system
- Back-up/additional Mastervolt 50 amp battery charger for house bank
- Inverter remote control panel in pilothouse.
- Charles Isolation & step-up transformers (2)
- Tinned copper wire used throughout
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Electrical DC
- Main ships system 24v DC.
- Three isolated battery banks
- 12v DC via two 24v-12v DC-DC converters & back-up battery system located on flybridge
- Battery disconnect and selector switches accessible from outside engine room
- Mastervolt 15 amp battery charger for engine/genset starting batteries (24v)
- DC load distribution center with breakers.
- Link 10 digital battery monitor
| - Alarm panel for engine functions, bilge, fire, sea-water flow etc
- Advisory indicators for key pumps and engine room lights
- 110 amp Leece-Neville alternators on each engine with Balmar multi-stage external regulator
- 440 A/H house battery bank consisting of 8 pcs Lifeline GC4 AGM (6 volt) batteries
- Tinned copper wire used throughout
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Electrical Bonding
Copper strap or cable connecting all thru-hulls, underwater fittings, pulpit and flybridge rails – (equipotential bonding system) Zincs on transom (2) Zincs on trim tabs (2) Copper strapping system in engine room, flybridge and pilothouse for SSB radio counterpoise
Miscellaneous Outfit
Cruisaire reverse cycle air-conditioning throughout using REU model quiet blowers and SMX HT controls Ball-type seacocks on all through hulls at or below waterline Sika-Flex deck Caulking 5/8” thick teak deck Pre wiring with coax, CAT 5 and speaker cables throughout
Plumbing Sanitary
- Headhunter Neo-classic heads, Bone color.
- Toilets flush to FRP holding tank with level indicator or directly overboard
- Toilet flushing for both Seawater and Freshwater.
- Anti-odor filters on holding tank vents Port & Starboard
- 100 gal Black water holding tank
| - 24v DC Sealand macerator pump
- ITIM Tank monitoring / pump control system
- Plastic lined pressure accumulator tank
- Black water tank suction deck fittings port and stbd side
- Black water tank seawater flushing system, with self closing safety valve
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Plumbing FW System
- 300 USG total in four polyethylene tanks, with drain and isolation valves.
- Sight glasses on water tanks
- X-Caliber 24v DC Headhunter Fresh water pump
- 20 USG Torrid water heater with 220v AC heating element and heat exchanger coil, drain & pressure release valves.
- Heat exchanger system and circulation pump for heating domestic water from port main engine
- Fresh Water 316 S/S faucet on foredeck
| - Fresh Water 316 S/S faucet on flybridge
- Fresh Water 316 S/S faucet in cockpit
- Grohe interior faucets
- Whale brand plumbing
- Whale gulper shower sump pumps
- Fresh water coil hose in engine room
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Plumbing SW System
- Caliber 24v DC Headhunter seawater pump and strainer
- Salt water 316 S/S faucet on foredeck
- Salt water 316 S/S faucet in cockpit
| - Sea water flush line connected to black water tank, with self closing safety valve
- Whale brand plumbing
- Groco intake strainers for main engines, generator and sea water system
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Plumbing - Bilge System
- 3 pcs Rule electric bilge pumps with auto/man control
- Manual bilge pump for engine room bilge compartment
- Hi-level bilge alarm switches in lazarette, engine room, and forward bilge
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Remarks
FLEMING 55- The Serious Cruising Yacht! The Fleming 55 is a well-proven raised-pilothouse motoryacht designed for serious cruising. Her semi-displacement hull gives her great flexibility in performance. The Fleming 55 has a range of 2,000 nautical miles at 8 knots yet, with her standard Twin Cummins QSC 500 hp common rail engines, she can attain a top speed of approximately 20 knots. Maximum sustained cruising speed is around 17 knots where her moderate deadrise provides a comfortable ride unlike those boats for which speed is the main design criteria. These high speed, planning hulls require flatter sections making for a hard ride and the need to slow down in a seaway. On long passages, Fleming owners prefer a more leisurely and economical speed of 10 knots, where the typical fuel burn is slightly more than 10 gph.
The Fleming's deep keel provides protection for the running gear and stability in following seas. Because noise and vibration contribute to fatigue, Fleming has paid special attention to producing a yacht which has become the standard in the industry for its whisper quiet, smooth ride. Fundamental to this achievement is the use of Aquadrive anti-vibration drive systems. Other builders either charge a heavy premium for this or do not offer it at all.
The Fleming 55 was first introduced in 1986, and since that time it has benefited from a rigorous program of evolution. There have been literally hundreds of improvements made, both big and small. While its legendary hull design remains essentially the same, today's Fleming 55 is a thoroughly modern yacht utilizing advanced technology, materials and construction methods. In 2008 hull number 200 was launched, making it one of the most successful production yachts in history.
Available upon request is the Tony Fleming walk through video/DVD.
