- Manufacturer: Contessa
- Price: £24,950
- Location:
- Year: 1982
- LOA: 38'0" (11.58m)
- LWL: 32'7" (9.94m)
- LWL: 32'7" (9.94m)
- Displacement: 7212kg
- Ballast: 3500kg
- Colour: White
- Designer: David Alan-Williams
- Beam: 11' 0'' (3.35m)
- Berths: 7
- Draft: 2.01
- Keel: Fin Keel
- ID no.: 171624
- Cabins: 3
- Heating: Diesel Cabin Heating
- Heads: 1
- Showers: 1
- Watertank Size: 318 Litres
- Engine Make: Watermota Sea Panther Bobtail
- Horsepower: 30hp
- Drive Type: Shaft drive
- Fuel Type: Diesel
- Fuel Tank Size: 91 Litres
- Cruise Speed: 6 knots
- Top Speed: 7 knots
Broker Remarks
1982 Contessa 38 – NEW MOON sailing yacht for sale. Designed by David Alan-Williams & Built by Jeremy Rogers. NEW MOON is a highly desirable and well-found fast cruising yacht. Ideal for coastal or ocean cruising. Sleeps 7 in 3 cabins, 5 singles and 1 double berth. The present owner bought her in 2011 and is retiring from sailing. NEW MOON benefits from many upgrades in recent years so often not found on a boat of this age. From navigation to power winches, standing rigging and sails to list just a few. The detail is in the listing so please take time to read for yourself what a great opportunity New Moon presents. An early viewing is highly recommended
New Moon - Contessa 38 has just been launched and is ready for the 2025 sailing season berthed on the River Dart.
Accommodation
Accommodation:
- Sleeps 7, 5 singles & 1 double berths in 3 cabins including the saloon
- Starboard quarter berth has been rebuilt & refurbished 2016
- Saloon table converts to a double
- New Sound system with Bluetooth 2016
- LED roof lighting
- Teak interior joinery
- Diesel fired cabin heating
- Galley area with 3-burner gas cooker, oven & grill
- New Refrigerator motor compressor & cool plates 2022
- 2 x Stainless steel sinks
- Heads compartment with Lavac marine wc, handbasin & shower
Mechanical and Rigging
Construction
Built by Jeremy Rogers Ltd in 1982
Designed by David Alan-Williams
White GRP hull, deck & superstructure
Cutter rig
Fin keel with skeg hung rudder
Wheel steering
Engine:
- Watermota Sea Panther Bobtail 2500 4-cylinder 30hp diesel engine, new 1997
- Fresh water cooled
- Shaft drive to 3-blade fixed pitch propeller
- Single lever morse control
- Cruising speed approx 6 knots
- Maximum speed approx 7 knots
Electrics:
- 12v system supplied by 4 batteries, total capacity 180ah
- Two twin, heavy duty battery banks
- Switched & charged by engine alternator & 240v charger
- Wind generator
- Shorepower & cable
- New socket fitted at bottom of mast to enable electric horn 2018
- Switching system on electrical box door for different alarm systems 2018
Tankage:
- Fuel capacity 91 litres
- Fresh water capacity 318 litres
Water System:
- Pressurised hot & cold water throughout
- New calorifier for heating the water from engine and immersion via shore power 2016
Rigging:
- Mast completely rewired 2013
- Standing rigging approx. 2011
- Cutter rigged with Proctor anodised aluminium spars
- Twin sets of spreaders
- Stainless steel standing rigging upgraded to a larger diameter from spec
- Terylene running rigging
- Mast steps
- Spinnaker pole & gear
- 2 x Headsail furling gear
- Slab reefing mainsail
Winches:
- Self-tailing winches 2017
- Electric winch for raising the Mainsail 2018
- New heavy duty rope clutches
Sails:
- Battened mainsail 2016
- Furling genoa 2015
- Furling staysail 2015
- Spinnaker 2016
- Cruising chute 2016
Inventory
Navigation Aids:
- 2 x Bulkhead mounted steering compasses
- Raymarine ST60 Log, speed, depth
- Raymarine Windspeed & direction
- VHF
- GPS/Plotter
- Autopilot
- Navionics Navigation Plotters fitted in the saloon and the cockpit 2012
- Raymarine Radar fitted in cockpit- gimballed
Ground Tackle:
- Anchor with chain plus roller bracket fitted to avoid anchor hitting hull 2016
- Electric windlass with hand-held remote control for use from the cockpit
- General Equipment:
- Navigation lights
- Guardwire, pulpit & pushpit
- Radio & CD player
- Bathing ladder
- Cockpit table
Safety Equipment:
- Fire extinguishers
- Fire blanket
- Firdell Blipper radar reflector
- 2 x Horseshoe lifebuoys
- Lifesling
- Danbuoy
- Extra-long boathook
- Quick release boathook
- 2.5hp Marina 2-stroke outboard & Seago inflatable
Contact NYB Dartmouth
- Address:
Network Yacht Brokers Dartmouth
Noss Marina
Bridge Road
Kingswear
Devon
TQ6 0EA - Telephone: [+44] [0] 1803 834 864
- Email: sales@nybdartmouth.com
- Link to full office details
Disclaimer : EQ Marine Ltd t/a Network Yacht Brokers Dartmouth offers the details of this vessel for sale but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of the information contained in the specification or warrant the condition of the vessel or equipment. A buyer should instruct his agents, or surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered for sale subject to no prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
