Contest 32 CS for sale in Woodbridge, Suffolk United Kingdom

Boat Overview

The Contest 32CS is a substantial, ketch rigged, centre cockpit cruiser featuring a long fin keel and a skeg hung rudder. They provide a well-mannered performance and are easily handled. Avocet appears to be well maintained and upgraded throughout the recent years. These boats are rarely seen on the market and are the perfect pocket cruiser.

Viewing by appointment only through the Suffolk/Essex office or email: suffolk@clarkeandcarter.co.uk

Accommodation

The accommodation offers up to 7 berth in a pleasantly fitted out interior, with high quality teak joinery. There is plenty of natural light and ventilation, with standing headroom throughout. Up forward, there is a double V berth with an infill and good stowage underneath. Deck opening hatch. Moving aft into the saloon, there is a dinette to starboard with a single settee berth opposite. Fixed table with drop leaves. Deck opening hatch. The aft facing chart table is to port with the electrical distribution panel and navigation equipment. Separate heads compartment aft with a marine toilet, shower, and washbasin. Opposite to starboard, there is the L shaped galley featuring a gimballed gas cooker with grill and oven, refrigerator (seawater cooled), stainless steel sink with a pressurized cold-water supply, and an extractor fan. Coming aft from the galley, there is the walk through to the aft cabin with good access to the engine compartment and a large hanging locker opposite. The aft cabin offers a double berth to port and a single berth opposite, along with a washbasin and deck opening hatch. Eberspacher cabin heating (serviced 2020). Blue upholstery throughout (new 2019). Headlining's and hull linings replaced 2019/20.

Mechanical Systems

Located under the cockpit in an insulated compartment is the Yanmar 3JH4E marine diesel engine fitted new in 2005. It features three cylinders, 39hp, freshwater cooled via a heat exchanger. Electric start with single lever controls. Shaft drive to a three bladed propeller. 35kgf bowthruster. Engine is professionally serviced and winterised annually. 220 litre fuel tank. Rope cutter. Automatic engine room fire extinguisher (2023).

Electrical Systems

• Two 12 volt 140ah domestic batteries (2022)
• 12 volt engine start battery (2022)
• Alternator charging (new alternator 2017)
• 240 volt shorepower system with outlets
• Solar panel with regulator plus wind generator
• Battery charger
• 350w inverter
• Battery monitor
• New fuse panel in 2023

Sails and Spars

Masthead rigged Bermudan ketch rig. White painted alloy masts and booms by Neut Masts. Stainless steel standing rigging (2019). Terylene running rigging. Slab reefing mainsail and mizzen. Furlex headsail furling system. Lazyjacks. Two Enkes 1240 halyard winches. Two Enkes sheet winches. Gibbs reefing winch. Spinnaker pole.

• Mainsail (Jeckells 2022)
• Mizzen (Jeckells 2022)
• Furling genoa (Jeckells 2022)
• Cruising chute (Jeckells 2022)
• Storm jib

Deck Equipment

• Anchor with approximately 30m of chain
• Manual anchor windlass
• Kedge anchor and warp
• Teak coachroof grabrails
• Main & mizzen stackpack sail covers (new 2019 & 2022)
• Fixed windscreen and sprayhood (new 2020)
• Cockpit canopy
• Bathing platform
• Boarding ladder
• Outboard stowage bracket
• Various fenders and warps
• Cockpit cushions
• Overall winter cover

Navigation Equipment

• Sestrel steering compass
• Sumlog speed & log instrument
• Mariner wind instrument
• NASA clipper depth instrument (2020)
• NASA clipper GPS repeater (2020)
• Raymarine C70 chartplotter with raymarine radar
• Garmin GPS
• M-Tech DSC VHF with AIS and cockpit speakers
• Raymarine EV100 wheelpilot (2021)
• LED navigation lights (all mast mounted lights and wiring replaced 2020)
• Clock and barometer

Safety Equipment

• Manual bilge pump
• Electric bilge pump
• Five Fire extinguishers (2023)
• Fire blanket
• Gas alarm
• Smoke and CO alarms
• Plastimo 4 person liferaft (serviced 2024)
• Horseshoe lifebuoy
• Foghorn
• Day shapes
• Radar reflector

Construction

Built in 1979 by Conyplex to a design by Dick Zaal and first commissioned in 1980. White GRP hull with style stripes. Teak rubbing strake. Teak toe rail. White GRP superstructure with painted and moulded non-slip decks. Long fin feel with an encapsulated ballast. Skeg hung rudder. Wheel steering. Self-draining centre cockpit. Last surveyed in 2018.

Disclaimer

The company normally acts as brokers for the vendor who unless otherwise stated is not selling in the course of a business. Whilst every care has been taken in the preparation of these particulars the correctness is not guaranteed and they are intended as a guide only and do not constitute a part of any contract. A prospective buyer is strongly advised to check these particulars and where appropriate and at his own expense to employ a qualified marine surveyor to carry out a survey and/or to have an engine trial conducted which if conducted by us shall not imply any liability on our part.

General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as liferaft, fire extinguishers and flares etc., are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on board as part of the sale of a used vessel, may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet the specific needs of the new owner(s).