Boat Overview
Model: Formosa 56 Pilothouse Ketch
Year: 1991
L.O.A: 62ft - L.O.D: 56ft
The Formosa 56 Pilothouse offers a great package with excellent accommodation and inventory. She features a warm interior with quality hardwood joinery and fittings, designed for comfortable long-distance travel.
Condition
This Formosa 56 requires some work on her teak decks and a few other areas. However, at this price, she deserves consideration for serious blue water sailing, chartering, or as an economical liveaboard with ample accommodation and berths.
Sails And Rigging
- Ketch Rig
- Cutter rigged with Staysail
- Stainless steel standing rigging
- Battened mainsail with lazy jacks
- Furling Genoa
- Furling Staysail on self-tacking track
- Mizzen
- Furling system by Harken
- Winches by Harken, all self-tailing
Engine
- Ford Lehman 135hp diesel engine
- Four 12-volt batteries charged by alternator
- Two steering positions with engine and gear controls
- Three-bladed propeller on stainless steel shaft
- Fisher Panda 12 Generator located in the engine bay
- Excellent access with Engine Bay light
- Air conditioning unit and system believed to require attention
- Bow thruster
- 240-volt shore power system with battery charger
- Inverter
Accommodation
Eight berths in four cabins plus the saloon, working aft as follows:
- Workshop and rope locker in the bow with access to the chain store
- Heads compartment with marine toilet
- Two forward crew cabins, each with two single bunk beds
Main saloon includes:
- Navigation station
- "L" shaped settee arrangement with saloon table and two single portable seats
- Two single seats opposite with inbuilt chess table between
- Ample storage and shelving for long-distance sailing
- Electrical panel with main switches
- Heating panel
- Flat screen TV
Further aft leads to:
- Galley
- Third guest cabin with two bunk beds
- Large stateroom with huge double bed, wardrobes, storage, and en suite heads compartment
- Two day seats with table between featuring a further inlaid chess table
Galley
- Linear style galley with three-burner gas cooker with oven
- Microwave oven
- New refrigerator
- Two stainless steel sinks
- Worktop area
- Ample storage for pots, pans, and provisions
Inventory
- Garmin 12-inch touch screen display unit with:
- Radar
- Chartplotter
- Sonar, etc.
- Wind Instruments
- Speed/Log
- Sounder
- Icom VHF Radio
- Autohelm 7000 autopilot
- Manual and Electric Bilge pumps
- Fire extinguishers
- Harken self-tailing winches
- Electric anchor windlass with foot controls on bow plus remote at the helm
- Anchor with stainless steel chain
- Mooring lines and fenders
- Pilothouse has rear canvas screen for shelter and security
- Stainless steel mooring cleats
- Stainless steel dinghy davit system
- Stainless steel boarding ladder
- Stainless steel Dorades for ventilation
- Two outboard brackets
- Folding dropleaf cockpit table
- Cockpit cushions
- Mainsail and Mizzen sail covers
Comments
This Formosa 56 is a serious blue water cruiser. She requires some attention to the deck and other areas but represents great value. Well-appointed with a great layout and practical deck design, she will make an ideal liveaboard or a source of income through charter.
