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Contessa 32 Overview
The Contessa 32 is a modern classic, widely regarded for her seaworthiness and offshore capability. Combining elegant lines with reassuring handling, these yachts have remained a popular choice for sailors looking for a capable and enjoyable cruising yacht. Green Pepper is a smart example of the Contessa 32. As her name suggests, she features a distinctive green hull, which has recently been polished. In her current tenure, the owner has maintained her well which has all be well documented.
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Deck
- Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit and stanchions
- Green sprayhood with grab rail
- Green stackpack mainsail cover with lazyjacks
- Teak grabrails
- Tiller extension
- Stainless steel boarding ladder
- Mooring cleats
- Spare tiller
- Fender baskets
- Cockpit sun shade
Cabin
The accommodation offers up to six berths in two cabins. V berth forward with double infill and stowage under. Opening hatch to foredeck. Canvas door to forepeak. Full width heads compartment with Lavac marine toilet, moulded washbasin and hanging locker opposite. Saloon with dinette to port converting to double berth. Single settee berth opposite. Opening hatch to deck. Chart table to starboard with the electrical distribution panel and navigation equipment. Quarter berth behind chart table. Galley aft to port with two burner gimballed Neptune 4500 two burner gas cooker with grill and oven, twin stainless-steel sink and top opening coolbox. Approximately 80L freshwater capacity in stainless steel tank under cabin floor. Green vinyl upholstery. Curtains. Manually pumped cold water supply throughout.
Sails & Spars
Masthead rigged Bermudan sloop. Anodised aluminium mast and boom by Selden. Selden rod kicker. Stainless steel standing rigging. Manual backstay adjuster. Terylene running. Slab reefing mainsail. Headsail furling system. Spinnaker and jockey poles. Lines led aft. Two Lewmar 44 self tailing sheet winches. Two halyard winches. Two secondary winches.
- Mainsail – Dacron
- Spare main sail
- Jib – Dacron
- Spare jib
- 2 spinnakers
Electrical & Electronics
12 VOLT SYSTEM:
- Domestic batteries
- Engine start battery
- Alternator charging
230 VOLT SYSTEM:
- Outlets
- Battery charger
ELECTRONICS:
- Garmin GPSmap 192C
- NASA AIS radar
- Autohelm NAVDATA
- Autohelm wind instrument
- Autohelm speed & log instrument
- NASA clipper depth instrument
- DSC VHF
Machinery
Located abaft the companionway, Yanmar 2GM20, twin cylinder 18hp diesel engine. Electric start. Freshwater cooled via a heat exchanger. Shaft drive to three bladed feathering propeller. Single lever control. Approximately 72 litre stainless steel fuel tank. Regularly serviced.
- Cutlass bearing replaced 2021
- Stern gland replaced 2021
Safety
- Manual bilge pump
- Electric bilge pump
- LED navigation lights
- Horseshoe lifebuoy
- Danbuoy
Construction
Built in 1979 to a design by David Sadler. Green painted GRP hull with style stripes. Teak toe rail. White GRP superstructure with moulded non-slip to decks. Long fin keel with encapsulated ballast. Skeg hung rudder. Tiller steering. Aft self-draining cockpit. Teak cockpit grating. Teak cockpit seating (new 2023).
- Hull stripped, dried and epoxied in 2021 as a preventative measure
- All sea cocks replaced in 2019 and then serviced in 2021 and again in 2023
- Rudder dropped and repaired in 2021
Specifications
- Stock Number: 2810
- Name: Green Pepper
- Vendor: Foxs Yacht Sales
- Model Year: 1979
- Engine Year: 1979
- LOA: 9.75m (32ft )
- Beam: 2.9m (9ft 6in)
- Draft: 1.69m (5ft 7in)
- Weight: 4,309kg (9,500lbs)
- Hull Material: GRP
- Keel Config: Fin Keel
- Fuel Type: Diesel
- Make: Contessa
- Category 1: Sail - Cruisers
- Category 2: Sail - Sloops
- Location: Fox's - Ipswich
NOTES TO PROSPECTIVE BUYERS & READERS - The company offers the above details in good faith and whilst every care and attention has been taken in the preparation and correctness Foxs Yacht Sales cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct their agent or surveyor to investigate such details as the buyer desires validating. We do not accept liability whatsoever for claims arising, construed as derived from the use of these details. This document is intended as a guide and is NON-CONTRACTUAL. Electronics and instruments are included in good faith and expected to work, but due to their nature, cannot be guaranteed. Their residual worth is based on the current second hand market for valuation purposes. E & OE
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