Exterior features & equipment

Bimini
Sunshade for the Cockpit
Coachroof Sprayhood
Outboard Engine Bracket
LED Spreader Lighting

Interior features & equipment

3 couble guest cabins, en suite
Leather Upholstery In Saloon
Water Maker 60L
Three cabin layout with three heads
Sail locker
2 Teak cockpit tables with extensions and covers
Mosquito nets

Electrical & mechanical equipment

Generator 7,5Kva
Air Conditioning
Tender loading system
Electrical engine control
Retractable bow thruster + 4 dedicated batteries (50 Amps) + 1 Battery charger (30 Amps)
140 amperes service batteries × 2
IBS sensor

Navigation equipment

Garmin AIS 800
Garmin Radar Fantom18X
Ghs11 VHF Wired Handset
Depthsounder
Radar
Log-Speedometer
Radar Detector
Wind Speed and Direction
Repeater(s)
Navigation Center
Plotter
Compass
GPS
VHF
AIS

Sails, rigging & winches

Furling boom
Mainsail and Genoa North Sails NPLtour
Lazy bag + Lazy jack
One Electric Genoa Sheet Winches H70.2 Stpeh (Performa)
One Harken Performa H50.2 STPEH starboard electric maneuvering winch
Windlass control with chain counter

About the First 53

“With sights set on high-performance cruising and more, if you are keen on regattas, this “Luxury Performance” sailing yacht was designed for expert sailors and demanding owners. With a well-balanced hull and helm for unique sensations, easy-flow deck plan, modern marine interior with a décor of white lacquered bulkheads and moulded wood, the First 53 gets the renewal of the new generation of First sailing yachts truly underway!”

From Beneteau.com

Sails, Spars, Rigging and Canvaswork

Main

1 x UK Carbon Racing Main

Jib

1 x J1 UK Carbon Racing Jib
1 x J2 UK Carbon Racing Jib
1 x J4 North Sail Carbon Racing Jib

Spinnaker

1 x A1.5 UK Racing Gennaker
1 x A2 UK Racing Gennaker
1 x A4 UK Racing Gennaker
1 x A1.5 North Sail Racing Gennaker

Rigging

Brand New Carbon Rigging Installed Sep
2023 including all Shrouds, Forestay and
Running Backstay

Lines

All new Control Lines, Sheets and Halyard
installed in 2024
Original Carbon Mast, Boom and Bowsprit

Navigation & electrics

Navigation

Brand New B&G H5000 installed in 2024 with speed/depth/wind meter, new speed/depth/wind sensor installed

Electrics

2 x pcs Battery purchased and installed in 2024, functioning Nav light and Bilge pump

About the MC 38

The MC38 took high performance One Design yacht racing to a new level. Designed by four-time America’s Cup designer Harry Dunning, the MC38 delivers high performance racing in a One Design Class. Designed for international, inter-state or inter-club racing, the MC38 has a removable carbon keel-fin for ease of transport.

McConaghy build and finish quality ensure strong, fast and identical boats for maximum racing, without the need for maximum crew. The hull, as you’d expect of a 3,200kg 38-footer, is of carbon/E-glass, and CoreCell composite.

Strict One Design Class – No arms race
Class Association managed – Owner controlled for longevity of the class
Universal racing – Mixed Fleet, regatta, club and twilight racer
Carbon boat with E glass & foam core
Carbon mast and boom
Autoclaved carbon foils – including carbon keel fin
Autoclaved carbon bow pole
Designed by America’s Cup designer Harry Dunning (mascalzone latino)
Engineered by America’s Cup engineers SDK (Alinghi)
Mast design by America’s Cup mast engineer Feddersen design (Alinghi)
PBO Composite rigging
CNC Female tooling with elevated temperature post-curing
McConaghy carbon tiller steering or dual carbon steering wheel option
Harken deck hardware as standard
Specifically designed for ease of road transport

For more information about the MC 38 class, click here for the official McConaghy site.

Sails, Spars, Rigging and Canvaswork

Main

1 x North Sails (3DiRaw) (2023)
1 x UK radio cut (2023)

Jib

1 x J1 North Sails (3DiRaw) (2023)
1 x J1 UK (2023)
1 x J2 North Sails (3DiRaw)
1 x J2 UK Titanium (2023)
1 x J2 UK radio cut (2023)

Spinnaker

1 x A2 North Sails
1 x A1.5 North Sails
1 x A4 UK (2023)

About the C31 Class

The Cape 31 is a High Performance 31 Foot Race Boat. Conceptualised by Lord Irvine Laidlaw, designed by Mark Mills and built by licensed boat builder Cape Performance Sailing. The boats are built in Cape Town where there is a healthy one design fleet. This latest generation sports boat usually sails 7 or 8 up, with an owner driver/amateur driver and a mixed crew of amateurs and professionals.

The boat has proven itself as not only a great one design boat, but also as a highly competitive boat under multiple rating systems, with some very impressive results that include two time overall winner of Les Voiles de St Tropez and a 1,2 and 3 at the UK IRC Nationals.

Another great feature of the Cape 31 is that she (along with her 2 piece mast) easily fit into a 40ft container…. this comes in handy when you have the beautiful shores of Cape Town or the Caribbean awaiting you, while they also now have a ’tilt trailer’ option, that allows legal towing all around the Globe…. particularly handy for sailing in the Med!!

For more information about the Cape 31 class, click here for the official site.

Layout

“The French design team of Berret/Racoupeau has come up with this new aft-cockpit yacht with a futuristic cabinhouse profile that is sure to turn heads when it is introduced this fall. Dual steering stations provide clear access to the transom, and the composite arch overhead gets the mainsheet out of the cockpit and provides support for the bimini top.”

Sail Staff review 2005

Accommodation & Equipment

Accommodation
Large aft owners stateroom with queen size bed and en-suite
Forward V berth
Stbd side forward room with bunkbeds for two
Number of heads: 2

Electronics
Depthsounder
Log-speedometer
Repeater(s)
Ray marine Plotter/ GPS
Autopilot
Compass
GPS
VHF
Radar
TV set
DVD player
CD player
Cockpit speakers
Interphase forward looking sonar

Sails
Fully battened mainsail
Furling genoa
Gennaker/Cruising spinnaker Code Zero

Inside Equipment
Bow thruster
Electric bilge pump
Manual bilge pump
Battery charger
Heating
Hot water
Oven
Electric head
Refrigerator
Deep freezer

Electrical Equipment
Shore power inlet
Inverter

Outside Equipment/Extras
Teak cockpit
Teak sidedecks
Cockpit cushions
Cockpit table
Swimming ladder
Cockpit shower
Liferaft

Covers
Bimini Top
Spray hood
Lazy bag
Lazyjacks

Brightworks

Gunwales and cockpit table: 16 layers of varnish

Construction

GRP / Balsa sandwich hull built with the infusion process, for an optimum resin / fibre ratio.
Hull protected by the use of vinylester resin on the external layers of the sandwich.
One piece composite structure integrating lateral and longitudinal reinforcements, glassed and bonded to the bottom, spreading the rig and appendages efforts throughout the hull.
GRP / Balsa sandwich deck fitted on the hull via polyurethane bonding and mechanical fastening at bulwark level.
Lead bulb keel, fastened with stainless steel bolts, nuts and counterplates.
Cable transmission steering system with 2 steering wheels ; composite rudder shaft.
Teak side decks, cockipt seats and floor.

The Boater’s Notes

“The French design team of Berret/Racoupeau has come up with this new aft-cockpit yacht with a futuristic cabinhouse profile that is sure to turn heads when it is introduced this fall. Dual steering stations provide clear access to the transom, and the composite arch overhead gets the mainsheet out of the cockpit and provides support for the bimini top.”

Sail Staff review 2005

Options

Interior

Oak interiors
Bathroom in fore cabin
Airconditioning system for the saloon and fore-cabin
Folding blades propeller Flex O Fold
Generator Paguro 3.5 kW
Electric toilet forward head

Exterior

Electrical bow thruster
Teak on side decks with grey caulking
Teak on cockpit floor and coach roof
No 4 larger size winches model Harken Performa 50 Rewind, all electric
Bimini and spray-hood
No4 and No2 folding stainless steel cleats
Manual opening bathing platform including swimming ladder and teak
Carbon bowsprit for Gennaker and code zero
Stainless steel gates in life lines, starboard and port-side
Carbon steering wheels

Rigging

White painted aluminium mast and boom
Composite furling boom by Furlerboom
Hydraulic power pack including 1 hydraulic piston for the backstay
Hydraulic vang
Gear for Gennaker and code zero
Long mast option with curler Furled TD and spectra ropes on mainsail and jib

Navigation

B&G H5000 navigation pack including:

2 display H5000 GFD (at the companionway)
H5000 Hydra software
Autopilot display H5000 GPD
12V rotary mechanical drive unit
Triton-2 display (at the companionway) for analogue wind direction
VHF model V60 including second unit H60 in cockpit
B&G maxy displays: no. 3 20/20 H5000 Triton with aluminium bracket at mast (black anodized)
B&G multifunction display model Zeus 3 – 9″ touchscreen display with integrated GPS
antenna,mounted on the console (including Navionics+ chart “Mediterranean and Black sea”, NAV+43XG)
Broad band radar antenna, B&G 4G (installed at mast)
Sintrad Transponder AIS NAIS-500 class B, connected to the multifunction display Zeus Touch, including splitter model Sintrad NSPL-400

Sails

UK Sails carbon Main sail
UK Sails carbon Jib
UK Sails Gennaker
UK Sails Code zero

Entertainment

Music system including:

Fusion APOLLO RA 770 unit with AM/FM tuner, slot for i-Pod, i­Phone and Android devices, external USB socket (can be controlled via the B&G touchscreen displays)
Saloon and cockpit loudspeakers

Boater’s Notes

Good as new and taken meticulous care of, this beautiful, full-options luxury racer-cruiser from the prestigious Italian shipyard, is being offered at a significant discount. Part share available.

Contention 30, Doug Peterson design

Copper coat bottom paint applied in 2021 (lasts 10 years plus). All through hulls were replaced in 2021 (Groco brand). Engine maintenance done at the RHKYC Boatyard in July 2024 and April 2023.

Electrics & Electronics
-Electric Windlass and Rocna Anchor (new Mar 2024)
-B&G Vulcan 7R chartplotter.
-2x B&G Triton2 Screens.
-B&G Depth and speed sensor.
-B&G ZG100 GPS and Heading Sensor.
-B&G WS320 (wireless wind sensor; requires new battery).
-Simrad TP22 Tiller Pilot.
-Fusion MS-RA70 stereo (4x speaker), remote panel in cockpit.
-Installed NMEA2000 network.
-Solar panel and solar charger.
-All nav lights LED (tricolour, steaming, deck light).
-LED internal lights (white / red).
-Intenal cabin fans.

Sails & Rigging
-Asymmetric Spinnaker (new)
-Code Zero (new)
-Main Sail (very good condition)
-Genoa (very good condition)
-Running Spinniker (usable condition)
-Pro Furl R350 Furler (new 2024)
-Standing Rigging new wires: Backstay, Forestay, Shrouds (2021)
– 2x Harken 44 radials (new in 2020)

Layout & Equipment

Layout

Private cabin forward, one aft guest cabin, berths for 4 people
Bathroom with toilet and separate shower room
Full hull width saloon, L shaped galley (new fridge compressor)
Gently sloping 45 degree companionway

Navigation

B&G electronics pack

Sails

New dodger cover and bimini
Red Spinnaker (UK Sails)
Cockpit arch

Boater’s Notes

Performance and comfort at sea. Owned from new. Nice options such as seperate shower room, two water tanks, cockpit arch. Bimini and sprayhood replaced. New UK Sails spinnaker. Overall very good condition, attractive price.

Equipment

3 Cabin, 3 Toilets with shower, 2 refrigerator, burner stove with oven, microwave, air conditioning, Radio, Wind meters, Depth/Speed Gauge, Autopilot, Radar, Generator, VHF, GPS

About the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 44i

The Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 44i is a cruising boat with a fractional sloop rig, a raked stern, a reverse transom with a swimming platform, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by dual wheels and a fixed fin keel with bulb.

In a 2010 review for Cruising World, Jeremy McGeary wrote, “overall, the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 44i demonstrates that this is about the optimum size for a cruising sailboat: You can cut up the interior to accommodate up to six crew in relative luxury, the sailhandling isn’t daunting without power winches (although the test boat did have them), the hull has long enough legs to give it a good range within a day’s sail (and the 63 gallons of fuel, prudently burned, should deliver perhaps 400 miles), and the boat is big enough not to feel small in a blow.”

The i stands for injection moulding.

Boater’s Notes

Sailing school boat, well maintained, in fully operational condition. Causeway Bay mooring available for rent or sale.

Layout

Saloon, sitting / dining area
Spacious aft terrace and hydraulic swim platform
Sunken galley amidship
Master cabin forward, en suite
Guest cabin with twin berths. en suite, starboard

New Navigation Electronics in 2022

Axiom 12+ 12” display
AR200 IP camera stabilisation module for augmented reality
18” Raymarine Quantum 2 Q24 D Doppler radar
Raymarine Cam 220 eyeball camera (aft) w/night vision
Raymarine CAM 210 bullet camera w/night vision

The Boater’s Notes

Good condition Sports Cruiser with low hours on engines and genset. Hull repainted in November 2022. Navigation electronics replaced in 2022. Currently moored in Causeway Bay, other mooring options available.

Spacious aft deck leading into a well laid out saloon area for the perfect socialising. Very large flybridge area. One owner from new. Extra lounging space on the bow. Three cabins.

“Accommodating up to eight overnight guests, each room is as opulent as the last. On the main deck, the vast main saloon is a welcoming modern space with a separate dining and seating area – perfect for entertaining friends and loved ones. Outside, the flybridge offers yet another opportunity to relax and unwind but with the added benefit of feeling the warmth of the sun on your skin. A true benchmark. Pure enjoyment. Pure Sunseeker.” From Sunseeker