For Sale: 42' Bluewater Cruiser Sloop in Australia

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You're looking for a comfortable yacht, able to sail you far away from home?
Don't hesitate, our via 42 is ready for you.
last price drop before leaving australia area :
122000 AU$.

All details on Via 42 for sale !
or in french on Voilier Via 42 à vendre


Perfect fo liveaboard, very seaworthy and ready for long crossings, Graine d'Etoile is a sailboat that can go everywhere :

• going up a river or entering a tricky pass to reach a shallow lagoon? it's easy with a 3 feet draft and a solid alloy hull
• planning to cross oceans for long weeks without stopping? Graine d'etoile is ideal due to the modern hull, and great autonomy (water, energy, diesel)
• want a safe boat with latest technology? Graine d'Etoile is equipped with recent electronics (AIS, iridium,radar, Gyro-pilot, distress beacon...)
• And in case of a cyclonic alert, the small draft allow to hide the boat in the narrow river of a mangrove, safe from the wave and the wind. Just before Yasi hit Queensland, our boat was safely attached inside in a cyclonic hole, miles away from the sea and the other boats
  

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During the past weeks we got a lot of cyclonic alerts around New Caledonia (Vania, Zelia, Anthony and of course Yasi, all packed in one month)

I take time during the current cyclonic pause for explaining one of the advantages of an alloy centerborder. These boats are very popular in the caribean sea and in Europe, but not well known in Australia. However they perfectly fit to Queensland cruising program. Of course it's the perfect boat for going close to the beach or enter in a very shallow lagoon. But the main advantage is safety by allowing you to pick your place in narrow cyclonic holes.

In New Caledonia, there is no port with a total protection to cyclonic conditions. For example in Nouméa, most of the marina poles are only one feet below the high tide level. If a cyclone strikes at high tide, I let you imagine...

The two good cyclonic holes in New Caledonia are in Bay of Prony (20 miles south of Noumea) and Port Laguerre (12 miles north), where rivers allow to access inland protected waters. However in case of a cyclonic alert both of these shelters are overcrowded, with most of the boat crews having a moderate to low standarts of cyclonic anchoring. The real dangers in these places are the other boats.

We choose Port Laguerre because of its mangrove shores (better than the rocky shores of Prony for an emergency landing) and because part of the place is accessible only for shallow draft boats. Accessing to this place at any time of the tide allow you to arrive first and to pick the deeper place in the mangrove, with no other boat around.

We entered Graine d'étoile in a narrow river branch, less than 30 feet wide, and attached no less than 10 lines to the trees and 4 anchors (that's the time where you are happy to have 4 massive cleats welded on each side of the boat)

We spend three cyclonic alert safely in this place, and without our 3 feet draft our position would have been much less secure.

All details on Via 42 alloy design on :
Via 42 for sale !
for sale 122000 AUD

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Graine d'étoile at anchorage (at antigua)

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view from the inside of the boat

more details on :
Via 42 for sale !

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View from the mast

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new paint

[Kees Westerby]

Hello

I would like to buy a yacht between 30ft to 36ft and preferably located somewhere in Asia

Which country is your yachr registered in ?

Please contact me at kees (dot) westerby (at) gmail.com

Best Regards

Kees

[grainedetoile]

Hi Kees

As your email adress has some delivery problems you can contact me directly at michel (dot) tissot (at) free (dot) fr

Graine detoile is a 42 feet alloy centerboarder sloop ( may be a little bigger than what you are searching)

The boat is under french flag, registered in Nantes- France

She is right now located in New caledonia, but as the cyclonic season is nearly over we deliver her in any country beetween New Zeeland and Thailand, for free, for any serious buyer.

cheers

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Here you can see the two swinging centerboards, and the protection of the rudder and the propeler

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from top of the mast

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Here is the survival kit :

First the life raft. We choose Wiking brand for reliability and compliance to the higher standart of aeronautical industry. We position it on top of the roof in an aluminium berth welded to the deck, with an easy release sling. We prefer this position for avoiding to get it close of the engine ( in case of fire think what your liferaft will look like just exposed to radiation heat)

A second liferaft (out of maintenance scheedule) is located near the transom.

Close to the first liferaft, a floating self release EPIRB (in the white container front of the picture). If the boat deck is under more than 2 meters of water, an hydrostatic pin will release and activate the EPIRB. Otherwise it can be manually activated.

Connected to the liferaft, 3 waterproof tanks with extra rations, survival stuff handheld GPS and VHF.

Inside, there is also a grab bag with an extra personnal distress beacon and the iridium satphone.

Too carefull, you think?
No, just two kids on board and a boat designed for long bluewater passages

more details on equipment : http://via42forsale.blogspot.com

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Our boat is ready for a new long passage, and we are really thinking leaving southwest pacific for indian ocean in the coming months. We want to cross Torres as early as possible.

Except if... somebody wants to buy it.
So if you are really interested don't hesitate to contat us quickly:

michel.tissot (at) free.fr
tel: 00 687 87 61 62
Via 42 for sale !

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The chart table and electronic equipment.

All electronic are from 2005 or later
Chart plotter build with panasonic toughbook (military NATO version, vibration and splashing resistant, touchscreen)
AIS receptor NASA
RADAR JRC 1600
GPS Furuno GP72
Speedo-Loch-Sounder Navman 3100s
Wind-Anemometer Navman Wind 3100s
Autopilot Navman G3100+ hydrolic steering Hypro
Irridium SatPhone
Battery Manitor NASA BM-1

and of course paper charts of atlantic (from north england to cape town on east side, from florida to Buenos Aires to west side) and south pacific (except NZ). All details on http://via42forsale.blogspot.com.

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Why so many pieces of deck equipment are new on Graine d'étoile?

In fact winches, electronic, windlass, the wind generator, the solar panel have been stolen in 2004 when they were removed for deck painting.

Advantage of this bad story is that everything has been replaced by new equipment in 2005, and so deck equipment is in very good condition.

6 lewmar self tailing winches
1200 W tigre windlass
aerogen 6 wind generator
120 W solar pannel
sounder, speedometer, wind angle and speed indicator, radar and GPS replaced for new ones. (AIS and iridium satphone added later)

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The Galley : at the central space (yes, you're on a french designed boat)