CONTEST 55CS

Classic teak interior, custom designed saloon and customised navigation corner, new upholstery in saloon. 2.00m headroom in saloon and galley. Accommodation for six persons in three double cabins: owner's cabin aft with double berth with mattress & sprung slats, ensuite wc/showerroom with Raritan Atlantes electric toilet and separate shower cubicle. Double bedded cabin forward with mattress & sprung slats, separate wc/showerroom with PAR quiet flush electric toilet and shower cubicle. Twin bedded guest cabin forward to starboard. Galley in passage with white Corian worktops, Force 10 three burner stove with oven and grill, Etna cooker hood, stainless steel water-cooled front opening fridge (115 litres capacity) with deep freezer, top opening deep freezer, top loading dishwasher, Indesit washing machine/dryer, microwave built in above fridge. Set of Contest porcelain crockery stowed in teak fittings, set of drinking glasses in bar cabinet. Webasto DW90 heating, 3x Airco air-conditioning units, electric hot & cold pressurised water system.

Perkins M135 130hp/96kw 6 cylinder intercooled 2,600 rpm diesel engine. Twin disc reduction 2.39:1 hydraulic gearbox, MaxProp 24" self-adjusting 3-bladed propeller, standard propeller as spare, stainless steel 316 water lubricated prop shaft including homogenized coupling, thrust bearing, Profiseal stern gland, engineroom noise insulatation, ventilator and natural ventilation, Sleipner 24v 20hp bowthruster (in lieu of standard 15hp). 24v/220v electric system, 16 Optima Blue top 12v/75 amp service batteries in pairs producing 600 24v amps, two Optima Red top 12v/80 amp batteries for engine, two Optima Red top 12v/80 amp batteries for bowthruster, Panda 6kw generator, Optima Red top 24v/80 amp generator battery, 24v/70amp alternator for engine start, second Mastervolt alternator, set of nine 240v sockets, AC charging/volt/ampere meter, Phoenix 24v/50/1800 battery charger/inverter, shore power connection with 25m cable with CE plug and security cut-off switch.

Whitlock compass, ICOM 710 SSB radio, Sailor R4801 VHF with DSC-A1 and complimentary second hand-held VHF in cockpit, B&G Hydra 2000 log/echosounder/windset, two FFD (analogue & digital) with repeaters, B&G Hydra autopilot, Furuno 1832 radar with Arpa, Furuno NX300 Navtex with paper output, Raymarine C 120 W colour plotter in cockpit (new 2009), R&R Pacific combi-antenna (GSM/VHF/TV/AM-FM/SSB weatherfax/windex) with DGPS and DSC module, radar reflector, R&R Delta 1000s antenna VHF-FM/AM SSB Navtex, GPS configured EPIRB under chart table.

Radio/CD player with set of two speakers in saloon and set in cockpit. Bimini (new 2009), cockpit tent with stainless steel frame and cover, folding cockpit table with extension, special cockpit dining table with stainless steel supports, two folding pushpit seats with stainless steel supports, Novalift deck crane, Besenzoni hydraulic gangway (235 cm), custom-made Simpson 250 electric davits fibreglassed to base of hull to carry Jet Rib, stainless steel outboard engine bracket on pushpit, Danbuoy with light on pushpit, Modula 6-person liferaft, Moerer lightning conductor, Amartec profiseal, Aramstar backstay (white), Simpson Lawrence Sprint 3000 electric windlass with extra windlass controls in cockpit with chain length meter, A200 Alu 25 kg spade anchor with 60m of 13mm stainless steel chain, 50m lead anchor rope, second 10 kg anchor, saltwater anchor chain deck wash, freshwater deck wash at mast, three deck lights, two aluminium boat hooks, flagpole, foghorn. Blue cockpit cushions, covers for all hatches, curtains under hatches, blinds, mosquito window nets, wall lamps, automatic lights in all lockers, dimmer ceiling lights in saloon and aft cabin, pelmet lighting under galley lockers.

Cutter-rigged sloop. Proctor Hall Spars aluminium mast with three spreaders and boom painted in Awlgrip white, boom cover (new 2009). Dyform 316 stainless steel standing rigging. Reckmann hydraulic genoa and cutter furling system. Leisure furl in-boom hydraulic furling, boom with cockpit light and dimmer. Navtec hydraulic backstay adjuster and hydraulic boomvang (ram renewed 2012). Aramstar running backstays. Lewmar Commander hydraulic pump with separate hydraulic pump for mainsail release.Ttwo Andersen 52ST mast winches. Two Andersen electric 46ST mainsheet winches, two Andersen 58EST genoa winches and two Andersen 46EST electric staysail winches, all with second control button from steering pedestal. Sails: - De Vries leisure furl cruising mainsail 68 sq.m. - De Vries cruising genoa 94 sq.m. - Cutter sail 24.6 sq.m. - Unused orange 480g 10.4 sq.m. - Dacron storm trysail with halyard and separate mast track. - De Vries Opti Radial 2 spinnaker with halyard and sheets and stripper. - 2x Proctor spinnaker poles in carbon, including topping lifts. - De Vries gennaker with halyard sheets and stripper.