Spirit Yacht 46 ft Mk II - Sold

S\'AGAPO has been well known to us having provided great pleasure to her first 2 owners. Her current owner having shipped her across to California has refined and optimised her cruising and racing capabilities making her possibly a better boat even than when she left her builder’s yard at launch. This Spirit 46 has all the answers, if you want an incredibly elegant hull form, very manageable sail plan and effortless fast cruising along with an interior to cruise & race in total comfort, comprehensive and very high specification sail wardrobe and electronics & navigation package.

“………..For the first 55 miles of the trip the wind was 10 to 15 knots, but south of Año Nuevo to Point Santa Cruz the wind built until it reached a peak gust of 46 with sustained wind speeds of 42. While S’AGAPO was going about 11 knots with occasional bursts to 14 knots in the 25 to 30 knot winds in this video, later she was holding boat speeds that were steadily in the low 20s and she hit 26 or 28 knots for a time. There was too much water on the instruments for me to read them properly. All this was with just me aboard and without a chute up. Full main set the entire time. Here’s what it was like:




……………The design is one of the truly great downwind boats and it is a shame that they aren’t driven hard more often - the thrill is really rewarding.

During an annual race from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, called the Windjammer’s Race, in this same patch of water we sustained boat speeds over 20 knots for well over an hour with a period of more than 27 knots on one occasion. As you know, we’ve extended the spinnaker pole to reach forward as far as the asymmetrical tack point on the bow (meaning it grew from just over 10 feet to about 14.5 feet). When running in large seas this allows the Spirit 46 to just lock into a wave and stay on it. We had a blast. The boat was so easy to control that we concluded we could move the spinnaker halyard up to the mast head for running, but never got around to doing it.

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Built by Spirit Yachts in 2003, S’AGAPO – formerly MOYA is the first of the extremely successful Spirit 46 mark II line of sloops produced by the company. Her original owner raced and cruised her successfully on the Solent and throughout southern English waters. Her second owner shipped her to France where she cruised and sailed the Mediterranean from the French Riviera. Her current owners purchased S\'AGAPO in the UK and shipped her to San Francisco California where she has participated in numerous cruises and races.

- 3 x Layers cold moulded western red cedar West System hull sheathed in glass cloth and epoxy
- Ivory shade Sterling linear polyurethane repainted in 2012
- Internal bulkheads and furniture are integral to the unified design for strength minimum weight
- High strength epoxy encased steel keel, large flattened trailing bulb; low C of G for stiffness
- Free standing laminated wood spade rudder finished in glass and epoxy
- Over sized solid rudder shaft for reliability
- Composite cold moulded decks with a swept teak deck over for sure footing

- Burl mahogany and exposed deck beam and hull interior of western red cedar
- White painted contrasting deck head
- Cabins well lit by ports and hatches in the saloon and head
- Mahogany cabin sole
- All interior surfaces finished in rubbed varnish to reduce glare
- Access below from the cockpit by sliding hatchway in the trunk cabin
- Galley to port with 2 burner alcohol stove and dual stainless steel sinks
- Ice box and ample storage all surrounded by a teak counter-top
- Fully equipped chart table to starboard; instruments detailed in Navigation section below
- Large quarter berth aft
- Immediately forward are long, wide, settee berths to port and starboard with lifting back rests
- Folding leaf table on centreline
- Doorway in fwd bulkhead
- Enclosed head with Lavac manual WC to port
- Stainless steel basin and storage with bespoke varnished mahogany faced lockers
- Fore cabin with 2 x Vee berths with an insert enables conversion to a full width double berth

Espar heater serving the cabins through vents in the galley, main saloon and head is controlled by an advanced programmable thermostat, which can maintain temperature to a pre programmed weekly schedule unattended.

- Carbon / Epoxy mast, boom and spinnaker pole for great strength and minimum weight
- Discontinuous Nitronic rod standing rigging except for the fixed backstay
- Spectra backstay with an under deck adjustment system

Given the preponderance of downwind races on the West Coast of California and the significant stability of the Spirit 46 design in high winds; the spinnaker pole has been extended from 10 ft 3 inches by almost 4 ft to 14 ft 2 in and a larger symmetrical spinnaker fitted with of course better light wind performance off the wind.

- New main and jib sheets
- New 2:1 main halyard of StaySet high-tech Dyneema 2012
- All racing sails new 2012, to latest North Sails 3Di material and construction technology; lightly used
- The North 3Di sail inventory includes Mainsail, Heavy No 1 jib and light No 1 jib

Additional sails
- North Mylar Code 0 reaching sail 2012
- Doyle light small symmetrical and asymmetrical
- Doyle heavy No 4 jib
- Symmetrical spinnaker by Santa Cruz Sails 2013
- Delivery set of Doyle Spectra mainsail and jib
- All mainsails fully battened with Harken BatCar system
- Nominal sail area for main and jib is 684 sq ft
- The mainsail is loose footed and furling assisted by Lazy-jacks
- Foresails hanked to the jib stay to facilitate changes in heavy weather at sea
- Schafer 2100 roller furling system could be reinstalled and is in included

- Varnished mahogany ensign staff aft
- Mushroom vent on the aft deck provides air to the Espar heater in foul weather
- Tiller steering
- Generous cockpit with deep coamings extend to trunk cabin forward
- Fully cushioned cockpit seating
- All Anderson stainless steel winches
- 2 x 40 ST two speed winches for jib trim and spinnaker after guy on deck by the cockpit
- 2 x 28 ST two speed winches to trim the mainsheet
- Mainsheet system upgraded to an Admiral’s Cup rig to facilitate easier shorthanded sailing
- 2 x 28 ST winches on trunk cabin for main, jib, and 2 x spinnaker halyards
- These 2 winches also for Cunningham, pole lift, fore-guy, jib sheet inhaul, and reefing lines
- All lines to the cabin top held by SpinLock clutches when not loaded onto a winch
- These lines to the clutches are organized by Frederickson deck organizers and blocks
- Vang-Master pneumatic boom vang control - so no boom topping lift
- 2 x 4 inch chromed bronze cowl vents; one over the fore cabin one on the aft deck
- Additional ventilation provided by a large hatch over saloon and a small hatch over the head
- 1 x Fortress FX16 Danforth style lightweight aluminium anchor stowable in anchor locker
- 1 x 25 lb galvanized steel Danforth style anchor
- Both anchors have approx 30 ft / 9 m chain and 150 ft / 46 m nylon rode
- Numerous dock lines and 4 x Fenders
- Fairleads either side of the bow and stern
- Centreline mooring cleats mounted on fore and after decks
- Flag halyard on starboard lower spreader

- Yanmar 2GM20 aspirated raw water cooled diesel engine on soft rubber Yanmar mounts
- Hurth 2:6 gearbox transmission
- 25 mm prop shaft via flexible coupler to reduce vibration
- Wet exhaust is routed via Vetus water lift silencer and transom gooseneck
- Insulated sound reducing engine compartment
- Fuel consumption at 5 knots is approximately 1/3rd gallon per hour
- Nylon 21 US gallon / 80 litre fuel tank beneath cockpit sole
- Morse single lever engine throttle / shift control and alarms in cockpit
- Gori three bladed folding propeller drives
- 12 V DC Electrical circuit and system
- 2 x 110 Ah batteries, new in 2013
- Mastervolt central switch panel outboard of chart table
- Individual breakers for each major function
- 1 x Group 27 12 V DC engine start battery
- Balmar 80A engine mounted alternator charges both battery banks via isolator
- 30 A shore power battery charger
- Mastervolt battery on switch panel monitors battery charge / discharge rate
- 1 x 21 gallon / c 80 litre nylon fresh water tank beneath fore cabin berths
- Fresh water by foot pump to the galley sinks and hand pump to the basin in the head
- Espar diesel heater beneath aft deck

- Raymarine unified radar and chart information display
- Cmap NT available for West Coast of North America and the Eastern English Channel
- Furuno Navtex weather information
- DSC equipped VHF radio integrated with the GPS provides emergency location information
- TriData Wind / Depth / Speed display in the cockpit
- The radar scanner can be dismounted for buoy racing to reduce drag
- Electronic Sea-Me radar reflector, currently not installed
- Navigation lights upgraded to high output tricolour LED at the masthead
- Raymarine below deck autopilot with rudder angle indicator and over-spec linear drive unit
- Autopilot control unit in the cockpit, with sail-to-wind-angle and sail-to-route capabilities
- AM / FM radio and CD player sound system in main saloon with speakers below and cockpit
- Sound system Remote control in the cockpit.

- Four person life raft – not currently within inspection
- Dan buoy - not currently certified
- Current USCG approved flares and fire extinguishers
- Multiple flashlights mounted above the berths
- High powered spotlight at the chart table
- Emergency VHF antenna
- Automatic 12 V DC bilge pump beneath engine at the lowest point in the bilge
- Manual Whale gusher pump operable from on deck

- All anti fouling paint stripped
- Hull bottom sanded fair, sealed with epoxy paint, and new anti fouling paint in 2012
- All standing and running rigging stripped from the mast in 2012, inspected and reinstalled

All exterior surfaces were completely refinished in 2012, including new LP for the topsides, waterline and cove stripe, and all varnish was taken to bare wood and brought back. All varnished surfaces now have at least 12 coats on them.

The current owner had a strong custom steel cradle built by Fairlie Yachts, Hamble, UK, which disassembles for storage and shipment. The cradle enables S’AGAPO to be dry sailed easily, used at the conclusion of distance races for safe transport home as well as providing for winter storage.

The North Sails 3Di cloth and technology - broadly used by the premier ocean racing teams in the world has proven to be both extremely fast and quite durable. Most Volvo Ocean Race competitors shifted to North 3Di in the last event and finished the race with their original sails ready to go again; a significant improvement from earlier composite sail technologies.

The North 3Di sails are lightly used with only half a dozen short ocean races and a dozen buoy races on them. The Doyle sails are of unknown date, probably c 2008. The large symmetrical spinnaker was built by Santa Cruz Sails in 2013 and has only been used half a dozen times.

The bespoke cradle enables the boat to have a very fast clean bottom without constant scrubbing by divers. Racing / sailing the boat once a month it can be less expensive to dry sail her than paying for a slip and diver to keep the bottom clean. All other types of maintenance are greatly reduced by having her out of the water as well.