S/Y “ZOE” is an Atlantide 40 built in 1995 in ltaly by Cantieri Franchini to a design by Studio Starkel. She is a center cockpit cruising sailboat featuring  a hull in monolithic fiberglass in vinylester resin, with an external lead ballast and a skeg hung rudder. ZOE is rigged with her original aluminium mast and boom which in 2016 were removed and recoated in gloss white. In fact, in 2016 and 2023 ZOE has benefited from two major refitting works, carried out to ensure the highest level of safety in preparation for her two ocean crossings.

ZOE is sailed as a cutter, with a 55 sqm yankee, a 15 sqm staysail, a 40 sqm main sail. For downwind navigation she is equipped with two carbon fiber whisker poles, each to be mounted on its own track on the side of the mast holding out the yankee and an additional 50 sqm staysail. ZOE also features a 60 sqm code zero and a 65 sqm gennaker for light wind sailing. Both the forestay and the staysail are equipped with Bamar rolller furlers.

Interiors:

Main Characteristics:
Length Overall: 12.3 m
Beam: 4 m
Draft: 1,89 m
Displacement (fully loaded): 17 tons
Engine: 72HP Diesel 4JH2 Yanmar
Water tank: 800 lt
Diesel tank: 450 lt
Desalinator: 25/30 lt/h Eco-Systems Splash-25
Windvane: Hydrovane Self Steering (including a backup rudder)

Batteries:
2 x 255Ah 12V Lifeline AGM Service Batteries
1 x 100Ah 12V Lead Acid Engine Battery
1 x 100Ah 12V Lead Acid Generator Battery
Mastervolt Distribution, Display Monitor, and Bus

12V Chargers:
70Ah 220V Mastervolt charger
130Ah Alternator Alpha Mastervolt (charges the service batteries)
55Ah Alternator Yanmar (charges the engine battery)
2 x 140W CMPower (USA) Solar Panels
400W Silent Wind generator

220V Generators:
3.5 KW 220V MASE 3501 Generator
1200W 220V WAECO Inverter

Navigation:
Raymarine Axiom 9 Chart Plotter
Raymarine ACU400 Auto Pilot with P70 Control Head – Switchable hydraulic and rotative actuators
Raymarine wind, speed, sonar, water temperature sensors and I70 display
Raymarine Quantum Wireless CHIRP Radar
Garmin 743-xsv plotter with Panoptics 51-TH look-forward sensor

Communication:
Raymarine Ray60 VHF Radio with RayMic remote station
Raymarine AIS 650 – Automatic Identification System Transceiver
Starlink Standard Actuated Kit
InReach Mini 2
Inmarsat Sailor Fleet One Fixed Satellite Phone