Stevens 1040

[JackFrobisher]

I was looking round a Stevens 1040 on Saturday and I have a couple of questions that the salesman couldn't answer or evaded. Can anyone with experience help, please?

1. When looked over the stern from the aft deck, there was a ladder that descended to a platform. Nothing unusual in that you might say, it's for swimming or launching/recovering a tender and such. The platform on this one was about two inches below the water surface. Is that a feature of this model? My immediate concern was if one were to park stern to a wall, how could it be fendered, since fenders (in my experience) float?

2. The engine was a 50hp Peugeot. Leaving aside that it's a Peugeot, is 50hp going to make it impossibly pedestrian?

 

[moresparks]

Hi, I was moored near a Stevens 1040 for a while, I cannot help with the handling unfortunately but the bathing platform was well clear of the water. I understand he had a 100HP Volvo and I believe this is up for sale, but in Essex.

 

[Spi D]

IMO a platform below waterline sounds wrong. Did you see it in the water or on the hard? If judged by the painted waterline the level might not be true.

50 hp sounds like river pottering. In the Netherlands the common speed limit is 6 km/h. which is marching pace

 

[Wavey]

Platform should not be below the water

50hp ok for river use. Not sure I'd be more adventurous than that with so few horses under the floor.

 

[JackFrobisher]

IMO a platform below waterline sounds wrong. Did you see it in the water or on the hard? If judged by the painted waterline the level might not be true.

It was floating in fresh water (river). There was a film of mud/slime on the top surface of the platform, which suggests to me that it is normal for that boat for it to be under water ... or had been so for a while. The engine exhaust exited just above the waterline; i.e. 3 or 4 inches above the platform.

 

[RobWales]

It was floating in fresh water (river). There was a film of mud/slime on the top surface of the platform, which suggests to me that it is normal for that boat for it to be under water ... or had been so for a while. The engine exhaust exited just above the waterline; i.e. 3 or 4 inches above the platform.

Were the bilges full of water? just doesn't sound at all right IMHO

 

[Trundlebug]

Were the bilges full of water? just doesn't sound at all right IMHO

+1
That would be my thought, it's been sitting with a lot of water in the bilges for some time for slime to build up on parts that should normally be just out of the water. Investigate thoroughly before proceeding

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

Look at some others .... sorry just seen already done!

 

[Chris_d]

I have seen some of the older Stevens going along with the bathing platform underwater when there are a lot of people on the aft deck.
The bathing platform is part of the hull and is also the holding tank for the toilets, so it maybe just full of **** and loads of stuff in the aft cabin
Most have larger engines but its not a sea boat with 50hp, they roll like pigs.

 

[Relax.A]

Some of them have an underwater extension of the hull making waterline length longer greater hull speed. Watch the old peugeot lump prone to headgaskets parts hard / expensive now.

 

[JackFrobisher]

Thank you all for your replies. The salesman is now suggesting that it isn't a bathing platform and that it's there to protect the rudder and propeller and to keep the prop wash down. I'm still concerned that it cannot be properly fendered when parking stern-to so I think I'll strike it from my list of boats to consider.

 

[Chris_d]

Thank you all for your replies. The salesman is now suggesting that it isn't a bathing platform and that it's there to protect the rudder and propeller and to keep the prop wash down. I'm still concerned that it cannot be properly fendered when parking stern-to so I think I'll strike it from my list of boats to consider.

That is possible some older ones just have a ladder down to the water a underwater hull extension. Wouldn't worry about stern fendering, you just need the appropriate springs in place.

 

[AllanG]

Thank you all for your replies. The salesman is now suggesting that it isn't a bathing platform and that it's there to protect the rudder and propeller and to keep the prop wash down. I'm still concerned that it cannot be properly fendered when parking stern-to so I think I'll strike it from my list of boats to consider.

Couldn't the platform be easily removed, as it would be a shame to strike this from your list just for this platform, unless there are other things worrying you about this boat?

 

[JackFrobisher]

Couldn't the platform be easily removed, as it would be a shame to strike this from your list just for this platform, unless there are other things worrying you about this boat?

Depends what you call easily. I looks like a haul-out and oxy-acetylene torch job to me. It was very tidy and a good price otherwise.

 

[JackFrobisher]

That is possible some older ones just have a ladder down to the water a underwater hull extension. .

That sounds like it.

Wouldn't worry about stern fendering, you just need the appropriate springs in place.

Springs won't help if it's parked stern to a wall, like we had to at a couple of places on our most recent foray into the French canals.

 

[RobWales]

Try a Google image search on that particular model, I just did and couldn't find one which has the platform below the surface.....
And come on why whould it have been designed like that as some suggest?
No way........

 

[Spi D]

And come on why whould it have been designed like that as some suggest?

You never know when an entrepenuerial DIY'er takes on to prove himself better than boat designers :nonchalance:

 

[JackFrobisher]

Try a Google image search on that particular model, I just did and couldn't find one which has the platform below the surface.....
And come on why would it have been designed like that as some suggest?
No way........

I agree.

 

[martinriches]

Thank you all for your replies. The salesman is now suggesting that it isn't a bathing platform and that it's there to protect the rudder and propeller and to keep the prop wash down. I'm still concerned that it cannot be properly fendered when parking stern-to so I think I'll strike it from my list of boats to consider.

I think the salesman is right here. I have a similar boat [not a stevens] which has a underwater projection and a ladder down to it as you describe. Mine originally had a bathing platform built over it and above the water line .I ended up removing it as it was rusting away, I suspect this is what has happened here. I cant say it has ever been a problem but then I have never moored stern to.

Martin

 

[Insideout]

I was looking round a Stevens 1040 on Saturday and I have a couple of questions that the salesman couldn't answer or evaded. Can anyone with experience help, please?

1. When looked over the stern from the aft deck, there was a ladder that descended to a platform. Nothing unusual in that you might say, it's for swimming or launching/recovering a tender and such. The platform on this one was about two inches below the water surface. Is that a feature of this model? My immediate concern was if one were to park stern to a wall, how could it be fendered, since fenders (in my experience) float?

2. The engine was a 50hp Peugeot. Leaving aside that it's a Peugeot, is 50hp going to make it impossibly pedestrian?

Good morning all,

I’ve recently bought a Stevens 1040 and having fun refitting it.
would any owners have plans, wiring diagrams, general arrangement, tank layout even?

anything would help as iI’ve nothing with the boat.

thanks in advance

insideout…