Description

Ocean going, Ed Dubois designed Pilot Saloon

The Wauquiez 48 Pilot Saloon provides an exceptional quality of life aboard a high performance cruiser. At 48 foot long she is ideal for extended periods onboard, but also small enough to be handled by a couple. It makes them an excellent choice for blue water cruising. ALMIRANTE is lightly used and in excellent order, well equipped and maintained. Preliminary brochure

Features

• Asking price
  EUR 275.000 (VAT Paid)  
• Manufacturer
  Wauquiez  
• Model
  48 Pilot Saloon  
• Boat name
  Almirante

Dimensions

• Beam
  4.5 metres  
• Draft
  2.15 metres  
• L.o.a.
  14.9 metres  

Build

• Designer
  Ed Dubois  
• Builder
  Wauquiez  
• Year
  2002  
• Hull construction
  Polyester sandwich  
• Hull type
  GRP / Balsa sandwich hull built with the infusion process  
• Deck construction
  GRP / Balsa sandwich deck fitted on the hull via polyurethane bonding and mechanical fastening at bulwark level  
• Keel type
  Lead bulb keel, fastened with stainless steel bolts, nuts and counterplates  
• Ballast
  Approx. 5.000 kg  
• Displacement
  Approx. 17.000 kg  

Engine

• Fuel
  Diesel  
• Horse Power
  100 HP  
• Engine manufacturer
  Yanmar 4JH3 GHTBE with hydraulic gearbox  
• Cooling system
   

Accommodation

• Cabins
  Owner's suite forward with double berth and two double-berthed cabins in aft, one with double berth, the second with two single bunk berths  
• Berths
  6  
• Toilet
   

Rig sails

• Type
  Masttop rigged with Solent rigging  
• Round wooden rigging
  Sparcraft aluminium mast and boom. Stainless steel standing rigging and rigged boom vang.  
• Lieren
  Electric winches  
• Main sail
  T-Cut Pentex laminate by North Sails  
• Main sail reefsysteem
  Electric in-mast furling  
• Genua reefsystem
  Electric genoa furling (2010)  
• Fok reefsysteem
  Manual furling on inner forestay