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Jeanneau Sunfast 32 - Manufactured late 1999, 2000 model year - FRESHLY ON THE MARKET £29,500
Sailors local to Plymouth will need no introduction to ‘POPPY’. Her bright red topsides and memorable name are synonymous with her highly successful singlehanded racing record in and around the Westcountry’s peninsular.
This is a justly proud-looking boat that turns heads and draws admiring comments of appreciation for the attention to detail demonstrated by her equipment set up.
With just one owner from new, she was originally bought in France (UK VAT paid receipt held), brought to Plymouth and optimised for local club racing; experienced family cruising (note the indulgencies such as pressurised hot & cold domestic water, a refrigerated cold box, and an electric Anchor Windlass) and, ultimately, single handed coastal racing.
This example is fitted with the nicer Lombardini engine option with indirect cooling (for the sake of the domestic hot water) and the consequent greater longevity than the cheaper alternatives.
Over time, the original electrical systems have been significantly upgraded, with a much improved battery capacity, good quality distribution and protection panel, and the alternator and charging management supplemented with a wind turbine and solar panel all with smart regulation.
Fitted with a new Sparcraft mast 2023/2024 together with new standing rigging, the boom is previous and by Selden and fitted with all the usual rod kicker, uprated mainsheet and ‘tacking’ mainsheet car, while the good quality, laminated, fully battened mainsail is fitted with low friction batten cars. The keel has been removed from the hull, new keel bolts fitted and the hull itself stiffened throughout the keel area.
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Accommodation
Offering six berths in two cabins plus the main saloon, with a V-berth forward cabin; two single berths in the main saloon and a generous double berth in the separate aft cabin. Heads compartment aft and to starboard of the main companionway, with dedicated, forward-facing chart table and Navigator’s seat immediately ahead and an ‘L’-shaped galley to port.
The Saloon’s dining table has been removed and stored at the owner’s home to accommodate a bespoke battery box in its place, low and directly above the keel.
The new berth cushions throughout are covered with a mid-blue coloured, ‘Alcantara’-style of fabric.
Forward cabin: ‘V’-berth with infilling cushion and plywood supporting panel; Hanging locker to port; Top-access under-berth locker abaft and beneath the head-end of starboard berth. Deep fiddled stowage shelves to either side. Carpeted sole board, independent of the bottom of the hull.
Main Saloon: The original sole boards have been replaced with thicker, plain-painted plywood panels; 2 single, straight berth/settees with deep fiddled stowage shelves outboard, plus 2 closed stowage locker boxes toward the aft end of the berths. Water tank beneath the forw’d end of the berths (each side), but under-berth stowage aft ends. Provision for adjustable lee cloths fitted for the berths.
Galley: Provided with a deep-fiddled laminate work surface, with single stainless steel inset sink and mixer tap supplying hot & cold water. Top-opening cold box that is refrigerated. Large, front opening locker beneath the work surface, with half-height fiddled shelf, supplemented by a similarly sized locker within the chart table’s plinth that has been fitted with three deep individual drawers. A cutlery drawer is also provided within the same supporting plinth.
Chart table: Located to starboard and immediately at the foot of the companionway, this is forward facing, with two closed lockers and the 12V DC distribution and circuit protection panel outboard of the Navigator’s right shoulder. There is chart stowage within the chart table and the Navigator is provided with a dedicated, independent seat, again with more stowage within. A flat screened computer monitor is mounted on the forward face of the chart table unit and protected by a tubular stainless steel Crash bar/handhold, with a DVD player connected to the screen and fitted beneath the screen’s mounting.
Heads Compartment: A relatively large, wipe clean moulding forms a practical heads, fitted with a new Jabsco marine flushing toilet flushing directly to sea through a very accessible new ball valve and skin fitting sited immediately behind the toilet itself within an ‘Oilies’ hanging locker. A deep and large storage area outboard is big enough to accommodate a small hold-all or large wash bag. There is a moulded hand basin, fitted with a mixer tap and shower head faucet. Grey water discharge overboard by means of manual hand pump.
Aft Cabin: Provided in the port aft quarter; a generous double berth extends beyond the centreline to meet with the longitudinal bulkhead forming the inboard side of the heads compartment and the cockpit locker. Light and ventilation is provided by two opening portlights; one to the coachroof side and the other to the cockpit’s footwell. A half-height hanging locker is supplemented by a top-opening shoe locker and short deep fiddled hull-side stowage shelf.
Mechanical and Electrical Systems
ENGINE
A Lombardini LDW702M twin cylinder, indirectly cooled diesel rated at approx. 20 BHP drives a two-bladed folding propeller through a conventional stainless steel shaft, with a Volvo Penta lip seal securing the inboard end of the stern tube. Good access is provided from three sides and above, utilising the companionway and removable panels from within the aft cabin.
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
Six lead acid batteries are carried; all in dedicated boxes. Engine cranking is provided by a 70 A/hr battery (unknown age) fitted in a box immediately behind the engine. Domestic and ‘Services’ are supplied from a bank of three 80 A/hr batteries in the plywood box (removable), situated on the centreline, immediately above the keel. These batteries were new for 2024. Another 80A/hr battery of the same type is located beneath the head-end of the aft cabin’s berth. A further 110 A/hrs capacity battery is fitted beneath the Saloon’s starboard berth (09/2020).
A sterling battery-sensing regulator has been linked to the alternator to maximise the charge rate; this supplemented by a P.V. (solar) panel and a wind-driven generator, requiring an additional (HRDi by Marlec) regulator to be fitted. This has been mounted on the forward bulkhead (main saloon) for convenient monitoring of the independent battery banks’ stored capacity, rate of charge and/or current draw.
Jeanneau’s original 12V DC switch panel has been replaced with a larger (13-way) circuit breaker panel by Blue Sea Systems, with Ammeter and Voltmeter incorporated.
Although a 12A 220-240V AC battery charger has been fitted and remains on board, the charger is not currently fitted
Sails and spars
SPARS AND RIGGING
Rigged as a 15/16th fractional sloop with discontinuous lateral shrouds, carried over double spreaders, the mast is keel-stepped.
Upon inspection in 2023 some corrosion pitting was found on the original mast about the area of the deck partners. The mast and standing rigging was replaced with a new one by Sparcraft, with the majority of the previous running rigging being transferred to the new mast. Opportunity was taken to upgrade the mast-mounted navigation lights to LED lamps. A Selden main boom had previously been fitted to replace the original Sparcraft spar. This later boom has been fitted to the new mast.
Needless to say, all the running rigging has been professionally inspected and the whole rig been set-up by the professional, supplying riggers in preparation for the 2024 season, although the boat has not yet been sailed this year. Dyneema halyards.
A Furlex, ‘below-deck’, roller reefing system by Selden is fitted for headsail handling, while the main boom is supported on a rod kicker. Standing rigging is of 1x19 stainless wire and is ‘discontinuous’ over the spreaders to minimise stretch. The backstay adjuster is uprated from original and has been brought through the transom’s gateway to the forward end of the cockpit to be convenient to the central and protected operating centre at the companionway.
Two pairs of headsail sheet cars are fitted (inboard, on the coachroof and on the side decks). The longer, ‘genoa’ cars are towable, although not currently set up with towing lines.
Spinnaker Pole
SAIL INVENTORY
Mainsail: A double Taffeta laminated mainsail by Kemp Sails is full-width battened. The battens are fitted with roller cars to minimise friction against the mast when hoisting or dropping. The sail is gathered on the boom within a recent ‘Stack-Pac’ cover, supported by three pairs of lazy jacks.
Genoa: Roller-furling by Kemp sails, with foam-fitted luff and red-coloured, sacrificial UV protection cover.
Code Zero by Ullman Sails (includes lifting bow sprit fitted to boat)
2 X Spinnakers
Navigation Equipment
• Raymarine ST60+ Tridata in cockpit, giving log, echo and wind readouts.
• Raymarine MN100-2 Micronet Wireless wind speed & direction display
• 2 off Contest 130 bulkhead compasses
• 2 off Raymarine autopilot control heads, mounted one in each cockpit coaming.
• Videosevern computer monitor mounted at chart table, running SeaPro 3000 chart plotting software. AIS Overlay on chart display
• Waterproof keyboard and mouse to operate the computer.
• Garmin GPS chart plotter, by way of an independent back-up.
• SeaMe, dual band active radar reflector.
• AIS transponder (Send and receive)
• Raymarine VHF Radio
Deck Equipment
• Vertical pawl electric windlass by Lewmar with foot and remote (cockpit) switches.
• Rocnar 10 anchor on a self-stowing stemhead fitting.
• Marked chain and rope anchor cable.
• Spare ‘Brittany’ type anchor unused with chain ground cable
• Hinged sprit for attachment of the asymmetric spinnaker’s tack, ahead of pulpit.
• Harken, self-tacking mainsheet car on cross-cockpit track.
• Harken 40 self-tailing headsail winches.
• Harken 32 self-tailing winches on coachroof to handle all other rig controls.
• Main running rigging controls grouped centrally, immediately ahead of companionway.
• Bespoke and rigidly built companionway protection ‘pod’ protects the companionway and provides secure additional hand-holds for when moving forward.
• Similarly, rigidly mounted stainless steel hand rails are fitted to either side of the transom step access.
• Stainless steel deep, transom-mounted swimming ladder with hand rails alongside to assist recovery aboard.
• Inflatable Dinghy cradle mounted on transom boarding ladder.
• Lower guardwires fitted with snap hooks for swift disconnection to assist man overboard recovery.
• Tubular, stainless steel antenna arch, mounted on four individual foot pads and braced by the original pushpits for security.
• Teak sheathed cockpit seats and cockpit sole.
• Original alloy mooring cleats forward, supplemented with stainless steel cleats aft.
• Extendable tiller extension by Spinlock.
• Bespoke reinforced PVC protection (against UV degradation) cover for mainsheet.
• Provision for two Camping Gaz canisters in a dedicated locker (1 off canister included).
• Winter cover, with timber ridge spar and A frame
• Companionway hatch for rough weather in open sea - marine ply to RORC specs
Safety Equipment
• Horseshoe lifebuoy
• Mob throwing line
• Dan buoy
• Stainless steel spare tiller
• Mob recovery sling
• Ocean Signal RescueMe EPIRB (Battery Expiry date: 09/2026)
General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as Liferafts, Epirbs, 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 a new owners specific needs.