1995 – Trident Warrior 40 with a Volvo Penta D2-50 engine

Overview

Designed with serious cruising in mind, she offers reassuring handling in adverse conditions, generous tankage, excellent stowage and spacious accommodation, making her equally suitable for extended liveaboard cruising or comfortable coastal sailing.

Sgt Pepper is a 1995 example having had just one owner from new and has benefited from a major mechanical upgrade with the installation of a Volvo Penta D2-50 engine in 2018. The engine has completed only 254 hours since installation and has been professionally serviced annually by the local Volvo Penta dealer.

Whether your plans include cruising the South Coast, crossing Biscay or embarking on more ambitious offshore adventures, this Warrior 40 is exceptionally well suited to the task.

Spars and rigging: Cutter rig, Kemp aluminum spars, deck stepped, stainless steel standing rigging, Kemp rod kicker boom vang, Harken mainsail traveler on coach roof, 2 x spinnaker tracks on mast, 1 x spinnaker pole.

On Deck:

• Traveller added to enable better centering of boom
• Winch controls at helm making short-handed sailing more comfortable
• Sails:
  – Large roller yankee with sacrificial strip
  – Staysail mounted on self tacking boom
  – Mainsail
  – Working yankee designed with full length luff and no overlap, stored under forward berth
  – Cruising chute with long sheets and tack line in sock stored under forward berth
• Drogue under Navigators seat
• Pads mounted midships to take legs which are stored under forward berth
• Headsail Furling line has jammer added, allowing electric winch to assist furling
• Stay sail halyard led back to cockpit jammer to allow hoist from cockpit
• Anchor windless replaced in 2024 it is designed to handle both chain and warp
• 55m anchor chain spliced to 50m four ply warp
• Second, light weight, anchor and 50m warp plus 5m chain in lazerette
• On coach roof is a rack to hold tender
• Light crane mounted in cockpit, useful for loading, unloading, tender
• 2 × Lewmar 44 primary electric self-tailing winches
• 2 × Lewmar 30 secondary self-tailing winches (manual)
• 2 × Lewmar 40 coachroof electric self-tailing winches

Electrical

• 380AH domestic batteries and 120AH engine battery in floor of saloon
• The deep bilge has an automatic bilge pump. Standard mechanical float switch changed for a solid state
• The AC switches allow for a generator, but one has not been fitted
• Control panel allows for the inverter
• Inverter has been sized to drive the microwave and located under navigation table
• The specially commissioned switch panel was designed to give better access and more switches. Spare switches have been included and not yet used
• Battery charger was changed 3 years ago for a more modern, quieter version

Accommodation

The Warrior 40 offers spacious accommodation for up to six people in a traditional and practical centre cockpit layout.

Finished in quality teak joinery throughout, the interior provides a warm and welcoming atmosphere, complemented by excellent headroom and plentiful natural light.

Forward Cabin

• Spacious owner’s cabin (“A” layout with dressing table)
• Large double V-berth
• Hanging locker
• Shelving and storage lockers
• Opening hatch for ventilation

Heads Compartment

Located aft of the forward cabin.

• Marine WC
• Wash basin
• Shower
• Mirror
• Storage lockers

Saloon

The generous saloon provides comfortable seating and excellent entertaining space.

• Large settee berths
• Folding dining table
• Excellent storage throughout
• Shelving
• Opening ports and deck hatch

Galley

The practical L-shaped galley is positioned securely for use at sea.

• Gimballed cooker with oven and grill
• Stainless steel sink
• Hot and cold pressurised water
• Refrigerator
• Extensive work surfaces
• Ample lockers and storage

Navigator’s cabin

An Admiralty sized chart table is located in the aft, port side cabin at the forward end facing forward. Stowage for charts, navigational equipment and pilot books is provided. A double behind the navigator’s seat does not interfere with the navigational area. An advanced design circuit breaker panel is located on the port side adjacent to the navigator’s seat.

Guest cabin – Aft. stb. side, two single berths with storage below. Lee cloth on upper berth.

Toilet is located aft of the main saloon on the stb. side. Fitted with marine w.c. hot and cold running water, sink and shower.

Owner’s Comments

A Brief History of Sgt Pepper

We bought Sgt Pepper new, and I was lucky enough to “skive” the occasional day from work to watch her being built in the Trident yard at the top of Portsmouth Harbour. Being present during the build meant I could make a few small but worthwhile changes to the fit-out — the crockery cupboard, the washboard stowage, and most notably the keel cooler, which has proved its value many times over.

If you ever come across a Trident brochure from that era, the cover photograph of Sgt Pepper under way is us, beginning the delivery trip to her first home in Plymouth.

Our original plan was to spend long stretches aboard in the UK and Europe but work and family commitments kept those ambitions in check. Instead, we enjoyed many years exploring the West Country and Normandy. Eventually Sgt Pepper moved to a berth in Cherbourg, where we came to know the northern French coast extremely well.

Around 2000 we crossed Biscay to Lisbon — a single, seven-day passage. We spent a couple of years on the Atlantic coast of the peninsula, then later moved her to Denia for two more years. By then the family had grown, and the appetite for months away had naturally diminished, so we returned to the UK: first Plymouth, and finally Buckler’s Hard around 2020.

The benefit of the rig was clearly demonstrated on the Lisbon crossing. For the first four days we were hard on the wind against a heavy south-westerly. The large headsail was swapped for the working yankee, and combined with the staysail it gave the boat real drive to windward while still keeping her balanced and — relatively speaking — comfortable.

Sgt Pepper has only been raced in a handful of Round the Island events, all of which proved enjoyable in their own way. As there is little reaching around the island, the working yankee came into its own. Its full-length luff means very little is lost upwind, while quick tacking is much easier. Downwind, the chute was deployed.

Owning Sgt Pepper has been a pleasure for me and for the whole family, each of whom has used her to varying degrees. The Biscay crossings proved her strength and capability on long passages, and my only real regret is that work and family circumstances never allowed us to take her to the Caribbean.

I hope her next owner will put that right.