Van De Stadt FornaPrice Just Reduced to £49,500
An attractive blue water cruising yacht from Van de Stadt, designed for safety, speed and comfort.
This yacht is well equipped for short-handed long distance sailing and has a proven blue water history - The current second owner has owned this yacht for 10 years and in that time completed an Atlantic circuit including 6 years cruising the Caribbean. While the previous first owner reportedly single handed this yacht from Holland to South Africa and back.
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Accommodation:
Six berths in two cabins plus the saloon.
Forward Cabin: Owners cabin forward with large offset Double berth to port with Bedflex slatted base for additional comfort, large hanging locker to starboard and opening deck hatch, numerous additional smaller lockers.
Saloon: Main saloon with settee berths each side with lee boards providing excellent sea berths, central table with 2 folding leaves and internal storage.
Central opening roof hatch and 4 opening portlights providing excellent cross ventilation.
Reflex diesel heater mounted on forward bulkhead providing efficient heating throughout the boat.
Galley with Taylors paraffin two burner cooker with oven, Coolmax refrigerator, two stainless steel sinks, pressurised water system, fresh water foot pump, salt water hand pump
Aft cabin to port with wide double berth, hanging locker and 2 opening portlights for ventilation.
Nav Area: Large Chart table to starboard with adjacent electrical panel and navigation instruments.
Heads: Heads compartment aft to starboard with sea toilet, shower and wet hanging locker
Radio/CD player with saloon speakers
Mechanical And Electrical Systems
Volvo MD2030 29hp inboard diesel engine
Conventional Shaft drive with Blade type rope cutter
Kiwi three blade feathering propeller
Spare 2 blade fixed propeller
Tankage:
Fresh water: 300 litres in 2 tanks
Fuel: 200 litres
Holding tank: 60 litres
Tank guages
Trojan 400 amp hour domestic battery
Engine start battery
Batteries charged by alternator and Mastervolt charger
Mastervolt inverter
Battery monitor
Shore power system
2 x flexible solar panels on aft side rails adjustable for optimum angle
2 x 80 watt solid solar panels on hardtop canopy
Rutland 913 wind generator
Sails &Amp; Spars
7/8 rig with Selden alloy mast, deck stepped with double spreaders
Slab reefing with 3 reefs
Gas rod kicker
2 x Spinnaker poles
Sails:
Fully battened slab reefing mainsail (2008)
Stack pack and lazy jacks
Furling jib (2008)
Furling lighter jib (2008, as new)
Staysail (2012)
Cruising chute ( original, rarely used)
Stormsail (original, never used)
Navigation Equipment
Raytheon SL70 radar
Standard Horizon CP190i Chartplotter with built-in North American and Caribbean charts
SD Card with Pacific Island charts
Folio of Worldwide paper charts
Garmin GM10 wind/depth and log multi display at companionway hatch
Hydrovane self steering system with padded cover
Autohelm tiller pilot, connects to Hydrovane
Target Navtex receiver
Target SSB receiver with insulated backstay
Standard Horizon VHF with DSC and AIS receiver
Handheld VHF radio
Deck Equipment:
Quick Antares electric anchor windlass
15kg Rocna anchor
60m 8mm chain (new 2016)
CQR anchor
Danforth anchor
Jordans series drogue (not used)
Large wheel with direct rod linkage to rudder
Self tailing 2 speed Anderson winches:
2 X 46 & 2 X 40 at cockpit
2 X 40 & 1 X 28 at mast
Cockpit Bimini cover with side shade panels
Spray Dodgers
Cockpit cushions
Stern Boarding ladder
Portabote foldable dinghy
Aluminium Hull Inflatable Rib with Hypalon tubes
Tohatsu 3.5hp 2 stroke outboard engine
Safety Equipment
4 person liferaft (Zodiac ISO5650-1 Needs service)
AIS emergency transponder
Hand-held water maker
Horseshoe lifebuoy
Danbuoy
Lifesling
automatic and manual bilge pumps
2 x fire extinguishers
Fire blanket
History And Construction
Aluminium hull, deck and superstructure professionally built in Holland by Casco Mekon with round bilge hull form.
Alloy fin keel with substantial flat bottomed Lead bulb
Forward area of Cockpit protected by rigid dodger with hand rails and opening front window for ventilation, this ridged dodger provides a useful mounting for 2 X 80w solar panels.
Owners Comments
We are the second owners of this yacht which was built in Holland and sailed single handed to South Africa and back by the first Dutch owner.
Under our ownership we have lived aboard and sailed a six year Atlantic circuit. There have been many upgrades over that time and 'Felice' has proved to be a safe and efficient blue water cruiser.
