Description

Blue water cruiser with all comfort you wish on and below deck

This very well maintained Contest 55CS is a true blue water cruiser equipped to the highest standards of the famous, family-owned, Dutch yard, which celebrates her 60st anniversary in 2019! Staying on board is a true pleasure with all the comfort items you will need like, generator, watermaker, airco and heating. The fully hydraulic operated sails enables to sail her easily by a couple.With her C-shaped settee on starboard and the two arm chairs on port side, "Windfalls" saloon layout deviates from most other 55cs' and is therefor a unique opportunity in todays market.(preliminary brochure).

Features

• Manufacturer
  Contest  
• Model
  55CS  
• Boat name
  Windfall

Dimensions

• L.o.a.
  16.75 metres  
• Beam
  4.65 metres  
• Draft
  1.95 metres  

Build

• Year
  2000  
• Builder
  Contest Yachts, Medemblik, The Netherlands  
• Designer
  Doug Peterson and Georg Nissen  
• Hull construction
  Polyester sandwich  
• Hull type
  Vacuum infused round bilged hull in flag blue  
• Superstructure construction
  GRP  
• Deck construction
  Teak (refurbished '16) on vacuum infused sandwich GRP deck  
• Keel type
  Wing keel  
• Ballast
  Approx. 8.870 kg  
• Displacement
  Approx. 26.000 kg  

Engine

• Fuel
  Diesel  
• Cruising speed
  8.5 knots  
• Horse Power
  135 HP  
• Engine manufacturer
  Perkins M135 6 cylinder  
• Cooling system
   

Accommodation

• Cabins
  Owners cabin with double berth aft, double berth forward, side cabin with bunk bed  
• Berths
  6  
• Toilet
   

Rig sails

• Type
  Sloop/cutter rigged  
• Lieren
  Anderson: 2x manual 40ST at mast, 2x manual 46ST for main sheet, 2x electric 68STEFS for genoa and 2x electric 46STE for cutterjib  
• Main sail
  North Sails vertical battened spectra dyneema  
• Main sail reefsysteem
  Hydraulic in-mast furling  
• Genua
  North Sails spectra dyneema with UV-ply in white and North Sails cover  
• Genua reefsystem
  Reckmann RF90-2/R30 hydraulic furling genoa system  
• Fok
  De Vries cutterjib with North Sails cover  
• Gennaker
  De Vries Sails gennaker with snuffer