Colvic Victor 40 Ketch built 1980. Centre cockpit deck saloon cruiser. Powered by 50hp Volvo (from 1995), Vetus bowthruster, standing rigging from 2000, inmast furling main, an abundance of sails. Accom for 6/8 in 3 cabins and saloon, 2 heads, Eberspacer heating, holding tank. Very well equipped from Nav gear, safety to spares. Great space/volume for storage throughout. In the current British ownership since 1995. £32,500
Construction
Colvic Victor 40 Ketch built 1980. Centre cockpit deck saloon cruiser. Powered by 50hp Volvo (from 1995), Vetus bowthruster, standing rigging from 2000, inmast furling main, an abundance of sails. Accom for 6/8 in 3 cabins and saloon, 2 heads, Eberspacer heating, holding tank. Very well equipped from Nav gear, safety to spares. Great space/volume for storage throughout. In the current British ownership since 1995. £32,500
Construction
Built by Colvic Craft, Essex, UK in 1980 to John Bennett design
Centre cockpit deck saloon cruiser.
GRP hull with Gelshield Epoxy Treatment supervised by surveyor (2000)
GRP & tread-master decking
Long fin keel – Encapsulated steel keel
Skeg hung rudder
Wheel steering
Whitlock ‘Mamba’ steering system with new pedestal, torque tubes and reduction gearbox
Last full survey 2013 (for insurance)
LOA: 40’0 (12.19m)
LWL: 32’9 (9.98m)
Beam: 12’5 (3.81m)
Draft: 6’0 (1.68m)
Displacement: 10 tons
Ballast: 4 tons
Machinery
Volvo Penta MD22 50hp diesel with conventional shaft drive and 3 blade propeller
Installed 1995
Last full service Oct 2019 (full service history since 1995)
3 bladed fixed prop to shaft drive
Volvo MS2 gear box
Soundproofing to engine room
Engine room extractor fan with 2 x smoke detectors
Vetus bow thruster
Electrics
Autohelm 7000 inboard autopilot
Autohelm ST50 depth and speed/distance log
Tacktick wind instruments
Swiftech VHF radio
McMurdo 406 EPIRB
Nasa Navtex pro
Nasa Weatherman radiotelex receiver
Raymarine C120 chartplotter with Navionics Gold charts and GPS repeater at pedestal
Garmin GPS 120
Mast lights: triwhite, steaming, all-round white, deck flood and cockpit flood.
Navigation lights to bow and stern
Plastimo 135 main steering compass
Sestrel H/B compass
Tankage
40 gallons (180 litres) fuel tank S/S
60 gallons (270 litres) water tank S/S
100 ltr plastic holding tank
Rig And Sails
Ketch rigged (last replaced 2000) S/S
John Powell mainmast with mast steps
‘Easyreef’ inmast reefing system
Barton mainsheet traveller system
John Powell mizzen mast with Proctor roller reefing boom
Telescopic whisker pole with Barton track and car
Mizzen staysail pole
Facnor roller headsail system
Detachable inner forestay with Highfield lever
Maxiroach vertically battened mainsail – Inmast furling (20yrs)
2 roller headsails by Austin Farrar (reaching genoa and working genoa) (40yrs)
Hanked No. 1 jib for inner forestay (40yrs)
Storm jib (orange, 16yrs)
Roller reefed mizzen sail by JKA sails, Pwllehi (16 years)
Mizzen staysail plus pole, by Austin Farrar (40 years)
Large cruising chutes with snuffer, Austin Farrar (40 years)
Smaller cruising chute with snuffer, Crusader Sails (25 years)
**Note** headsails original to yacht but all still in serviceable condition.
Storm jib and cruising chutes unused
2 x Lewmar 48ST headsail winches
2 x Lewmar 25’s mizzen staysail winches
4 x Lewmar Halyard winches
Accommodation
From the stern the layout is as follows: also see layout attached.
Stern Master cabin with centreline double berth and en-suite heads.
Navigation station with full instrumentation including Raytheon C120 chart plotter.
Raised deck saloon with all round views from the seating area, plus an additional saloon berth
Large galley to starboard and enclosed passage cabin to port with large single /cosy double berth.
Main heads / shower room to port and larder and hanging locker to starboard.
Finally, a large forward cabin with twin berths.
As the yacht was designed as a long distance cruiser she has a massive amount of storage
Domestic
2 x heads compartments with LAVAC marine toilets
H and C water to both heads with shower and pump out to forward unit
Holding tank
Eberspacher ducted warm air heating to all cabins
Pressurised water system with PARMAX 4 pump, Pressurised H and C water.
Calorifier and 240v immersion heater
Techimpex gas cooker with 2 burners, grill and oven
Twin stainless steel sinks
240v supply
Waeco Coolmatic 12v refrigerator
Deck
Lofrens Tigres 1200w windlass
60 pound CQR bow anchor on 60m of 10mm chain
15 kg Bruce kedge anchor on 10m chain and 60 m warp
3 x foredeck cleats, 2 midships cleats and 2 aft quarter cleats
Lewmar deck hatches all with insect screens
Deck Saloon windows of 10mm glass by Seaglaze (suppliers to Oyster yachts and RNLI)
Telescopic ‘Yacht legs’ for drying out, with reinforced hull fittings
Sprayhood by Yacht Shelter, Lefkada
10 fenders and numerous mooring warps
Bosuns chair
Winter covers
Yamaha portable generator
5 x 20 litre fuel cans
4 x gas cylinders
2 x white overboom sun covers
Large quantity of various spare parts
Swim ladder/boarding ladder
Navigation
Autohelm 7000 inboard autopilot
Autohelm ST50 depth and speed/distance log
Tacktick wind instruments
Swiftech VHF radio
McMurdo 406 EPIRB
Nasa Navtex pro
Nasa Weatherman radiotelex receiver
Raymarine C120 chartplotter with Navionics Gold charts and GPS repeater at pedestal
Garmin GPS 120
Mast lights: triwhite, steaming, all-round white, deck flood and cockpit flood.
Navigation lights to bow and stern
Plastimo 135 main steering compass
Sestrel H/B compass
Tenders
Gala 240A dinghy (new 2018) with high pressure pump
Mercury 3.3hp outboard
Avon dinghy and pump
Safety
Fortes A 4 man RORC liferaft
McMurdo 406 EPIRB
Jackstays to side decks
Plastimo MOB recovery sling
Tri-buckle MOB recovery sling
Horseshoe lifebuoy
Emergency steering system
6 x dry powder fire extinguisher
2 x smoke alarms
1 x fire blanket
Flares pack
Electric bilge pump
Gusher Titan manual bilge pump
Bilge alarm
Gas alarm
The condition or level of safety equipment on board is not to be negotiated on following survey. It is likely to be listed by most surveyors but is not structural or an integral working part of the vessel and is not to be used to further negotiate the price down after survey. We strongly suggest that for your own personal safety that when purchasing a yacht you provide new safety equipment rather than relying on second hand gear.
Should you become the new owner of this yacht then the responsibility to re-register or update official bodies for items such as EPIRB, VHF, MMSI or AIS becomes yours.
Comments
Owners Comments
In current ownership since 1995.
1995 – 2004 cruised Irish sea, Scotland, south coast of UK and northern France.
2004 to date : sailed to Greece via Biscay, Spain, Portugal, Balearics, Sardinia, Italy, Sicily and Malta.
based in Greece since 2010
Colvic Victor 40 ketch, designed by John Bennet as a trans-ocean cruising yacht. She was built and fitted out professionally in 1980 and has been in our ownership since 1995. During the past 26 years she has been continuously updated and refitted. After a lifetime of sailing we are now considering whether it is time to for us to move on.
For many years we sailed out of Caernarfon in North Wales from where we cruised the Irish Sea from the west coast of Scotland to Devon and Cornwall. Our summer trips usually took us south to Brittany and beyond as far as La Rochelle. On retirement we decided that the sun beckoned and in 2004 headed south to the Med where we have been sailing ever since, most recently in Greece where she is based in Lefkas Marine.
She has a raised deck saloon configuration giving all round views from the main cabin.
Title Documents And Tax
Listed below are the documents/or copies of what we have seen on listing this yacht.
Current British Part 1 Registry
Copy - Bill of Sale to current owner (1995)
VAT - Exempt (Built pre 1985) Located in UK 31st Dec 1992 & evidence of first British Registry in the UK 1980.
RDC - Exempt (Built in UK prior to June 1998)
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