Contest 38 Sailing Boat For Sale

£39,500

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Seller	Clarke & Carter Interyacht
RB Boat Ref	12121979
Advert Type	Sailing
Manufacturer	Contest
Model	38
Price	£39,500
Year Built	1972
Boat Name	Saecula
Builder	Conyplex
Length feet	38' 0"
Length metres	11.58
Beam (ft)	11' 3"
Beam(m)	3.43
Displacement	7650
DisplacementUnits	kilogram
Ballast	3300
Draft (ft)	6' 6"
Draft (m)	1.98
Engine model	3HM35
Fuel type	Diesel
Number of engines	1
Engine power HP	34
EngineHours	1500
Cruising Speed	6.00
Max Speed	7.00
Description	A good example of the Contest 38, properly prepared and equipped for extended cruising. Although easily sailed shorthanded, these powerful sailing boats have good performance and make excellent passage-makers. The present owners have cruised down to the Med and back. A well built and well proven offshore design. Viewing by appontment through our Suffolk Office 01473 659681
Tankage Fuel	209
Fuel Tankage Units	Litre
Tankage water	480
SafetyEquipment	Three fire extinguishers Fire blanket Gas alarm Jackstays Radar reflector GME MT 400 EPIRB Zodiac 4 man liferaft (last serviced 2005) Horseshoe lifebuoy Danbuoy with strobe Ma
GeneralEquipment	Plough, CQR and Danforth anchors with chain and warp Lofrans 1000W electric anchor windlass Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit, stanchions and guardwires Teak coachroof grabrails Sail cover with lazyjack system Sprayhood Cockpit spray dodgers with boat name Stainless steel boarding ladder/swim/MOB recovery Various warps and fenders Boat hook Outboard stowage bracket
Cruiser accommodation	The accommodation is traditionally laid out and offers up to five berths in two cabins. V berth forward with infill and stowage below. Opening hatch to foredeck. Separate heads compartment with marine toilet (2005) with 170 litre holding tank, washbasin and shower. In saloon, two settee berths. Fixed table with drop leaves. Chart table to starboard with quarter berth behind and galley opposite. Two burner gimballed gas cooker with grill and oven. Refrigerator and cool box. Stainless steel sink. Hot and cold pressurised water system. 480 litres reshwater capacity in twin stainless steel tanks, 2006. Reflex diesel cabin heater. The hot water is heated by immersion heater an the Reflex. New upholstery 2005.
Navigation	Steering compass NASA depth NASA boatspeed and log NASA windspeed and direction Icom M56 VHF radio Simrad autopilot ( needs attention) Navman 900 chart plotter Radar NASA Navtex Pro Masthead and deck level navigation lights Clock and barometer Hand bearing compass Radio/CD player
Mechanical	Located abaft the companionway, Yanmar 3HM35 three cylinder 34hp diesel engine. The engine was fitted new c1990. Electric start. Seawater cooled. Shaft drive to fixed pitch three bladed propeller. Single lever control. 209 litres fuel capacity in stainless steel tank giving approximately 450 miles range at 6 knots cruising speed. Maximum speed under power 7 knots. Single lever control. Alternator charging to 2 x 12 volt batteries (2009). Sterling high capacity external alternator regulator. Two solar panels. Rutland wind generator. 240 volt shorepower. Battery charger. Immersion heater.
Hull construction	Fiberglass/GRP
Location	Lincoln, United Kingdom
Country	GB
Owner's Comments	A good example of these classic cruising yachts properly prepared and equipped for extended cruising. Although easily sailed shorthanded, these powerful sailing boats have good performance and make excellent passage-makers. The present owners have cruised down to the Med and back. A well built and well proven offshore design.
Extras	Contest 38 built in 1972 by Conyplex BV, Holland, to a desing by Dick Zaal and U. van Essen. Dark blue painted GRP hull with white GRP superstructure. Rubbing strake. Painted non-slip to decks. Fin keel with encapsulated lead ballast. Skeg hung rudder. Wheel steering. Aft self draining cocpkit. The hull was epoxied below the waterline in 2001.
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Sails & Spars	Masthead rigged sloop. Anodised aluminium mast and boom. Stainless steel standing rigging (2001). Removable inner forestay. Terylene running rigging. Adjustable backstay. Spinnaker pole. Slab reefin to mainsail with lazyjacks. Headsail furling system. Two Lewmar 43 sheet winches. Two halyard winches. Mainsail - good Furlign Genoa - good Spinnaker (with snuffer) - good Storm Jib - as new Spare mainsail Spare genoa (hanks on to removable forestay)
Disclaimer	The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.