Here you will find all the info about this beautiful sailboat for sale.
If interested please contact Ian Bourassa through his
email: ian_bourassa@hotmail.com
or Cell: (514) 816-0008 in Montreal, Canada
The asking price, $125 000.00
Beneteau, Oceanis51 built in 1993. At anchor in Bocas de Toro Panama. Wing Keel. 16 feet width.
Genoa new 6 years ago. Mainsail is the original, 20 years old, but washed and kept covered when not under sail.
Electronics replaced six years ago after a lightning strike, insurance covered all.
Engine refitted December 2011.
Bow with two anchors (one deployed).
Touch up paint and smooth repair of bow, solid line felt by hand.
Stern of boat. In excellent shape.
Two horse collars (safety gear) in storage and will be restored to their position.
Side view. Keel line all the way around is solid, some chipped paint but no sign of separation at any point.
View of deck from fore and aft. A really beautiful wide deck, zero maintenance with non‐skid original fiberglass.
Cockpit awning (new), cockpit today, note fresh varnish on wood deck elements.
Cockpit storage under seats, lifejackets under one, buoys and extra tanks for fuel under others. The amount of storage on this boat is remarkable.
Close‐up of open storage for rope ends, one of two steering wheels to cockpit.
New electronics (all replaced after lightning strike six years ago). Comes with electronic charts for US East Coast, Caribbean, and Central America.
Wind instrument needs to be recalibrated.
Depth and speed work fine but night lights need adjustment. Backup GPS needs testing.
Electrical control cabinet below deck, missing large breaker box that was sent onshore for upgrades, will be installed shortly. Bottom is major on off controls for engine, electronics, refrigeration, cabin lighting.
Typical appearance of each of four heads in the main cabin area. Note cleanliness and especially note clean toilet bowl with no residues. Each head has its own shower, visible in cubby on left next to toilet paper holder.
Another head. Three have doors, one does not (easy to replace). The head to the right hand as one comes down the ladder has two doors, one to the cabin it serves, and another to the common area should guests not sleeping on the boat require a head.
Cockpit looking forward.
Steps into cabin are covered with rubber, wide, and allow descent facing forward.
Anchor locker with power anchor motor.
Includes 50 feet of chain and additional 50 foot heavy duty rope. Foot pedal controls anchor motor. Rubber cover of foot pedal is loose, needs replacement eventually, rim base of cover needs to be glued down before passage.
Genoa furled, close up of Genoa furling and anchors (one down one up).
Third anchor in cockpit storage with line.
Mast and mast close up. Mast has never been unstepped. No cracks visible in mast body or at base of mast, still watertight.
Close up of mast from rear. All pulleys are servicable, all ropes new or replaced within past two years.
Boom.
Boom close‐ups. No cracks visible where pulleys connect to boom.
Close‐up of side stays. IMPORTANT: the 1993 was “over‐built” in terms of both rigging (TWO back stays, TWO forestays, TWO side stays each side) and hull thickness. Later models cut corners, reduced rigging and reduced fibreglass thickness. This is possibly the best hull and rigging combination in the history of the Beneteau offerings.
Genoa winch port side.
Line controls reachable from cockpit, main set to port.
Close‐up of traveler to which boom and mainsail connect. It’s a bit clumsy but not really an issue and easily adjusted from the cockpit.
Genoa winch starboard side.
Actual layout of the boat except that the crew cabin in the bow has only one bunk.
Ladder and storage facing ladder. Note grate for heavy weather draining as foul weather gear is taken off and put in the dedicated closet to right of ladder when facing aft.
One of four cabins with nearly identical sleeping and storage, the hatches and portholes vary between fore and aft cabins. Each cabin has huge storage under the beds as well as around the cabin.
Typical closet for each of the four cabins.
View of ladder and two cabins after, open storage in main cabin (where settee, galley, and navigation table are).
Engine does not have a logbook, was refitted in past two years, ran smoothly.
Excellent access to engine from all sides. Perkins 6 cyl, 92 hp diesel.
Engine close‐ups.
Engine filter easy access for cleaning, engine water cooling exit in hull.
View of shaft from engine to screw on left, view of extra radar cable in bilge forward.
All bilges clean and dry.
Two battery compartments below cabin deck, room for an additional battery (highly recommended). Radar and old lights consume a lot of energy – replacing radar and cabin lights recommended by current owner, but not essential.
Clean dry bilges.
Every single bilge compartment was clean and dry.
The settee has brand new canvas. Note the new blue canvas hatch cover visible from below. All hatches and all cockpit electronics have their own blue canvas covers.
There is the only normal electrical outlet on the boat, behind a storage door to the left of the settee. Additional plugs could be put in the well of the settee table, which is a standing wine rack.
Galley has ample storage includes waste storage, fully equipped with cooking and eating gear.
Stove is old but servicable. No microwave on board. Stove is on gimbals to permit level cooking at all times from side to side, but not if boat is pitching fore and aft.
Two separate refrigeration compartments, running engine one hour a day keeps them fully functional.
External location for cooking gas tanks. Needs to be replaced and modernized, missing key element connecting tanks to stove.
On right, shore power connection.
Typical hatch, generally the hatches are sound with complete locking handles, but rubber around all hatches needs replacement. Amply secure for bringing the boat back, just something to be done as the boat is refitted.
The portholes have some broken minihandles, still functional, but all need new rubber rims, many need at least one new locking handle. ALL handles work as is.
View of the “crew” cabin head from above deck, and view from pillow of the one bunk in the crew cabin. Removal of the crew cabin head, and conversion of this space to hold water maker and other utility elements, recommended after passage when boat is out of the water and the hull is being attended to.
Crew cabin looking forward, storage.
Crew cabin head and sink.
Exposed electrical for anchor engine and navigation lights. Cut‐off switch for crew head.
View of genoa and main sail together during sea trial 29 May.
View of genoa in operation. Large, clean, does not need replacement.
View of mainsail. The permanent installation of the storage bag is not
orthodox, new mainsail will come with a new removable storage cover. The mainsail is servicable with two reef lines permanently in place, but replacement with a modern lighter larger mainsail is recommended. Could be done before or after return trip of the boat.
View of genoa edges.
View of mainsail, note ragged corners, on its last legs but servicable.
Electronic navigation is superb, auto pilot is super, this is fed by a $250 cartridge containing all navigation charts, synchs up with GPS. Cartridges included for Central America, Caribbean, and Mid‐Atlantic to Virginia.
The boat today.
Publicity photos of the owner. The boat is in significantly better shape than was anticipated.
Last of publicity photos. The two rescue rings are in storage and will be installed.
This is an Internet photo of the same boat, as it would appear today.
The bottom of the existing boat needs to be cleaned, but the more tedious task of sanding and painting should wait until it can be placed with an Eastern Shore company, hauling it out of the water and redoing the surface of the hull.
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