Spirit 46 2004/2015 - Sold

The Spirit 46 truly set Spirit Yachts on the right track, and no wonder; this design has many of the answers if you are searching for modern racing and cruising performance with the emotional satisfaction of an incredibly beautiful hull form, startling ease of handling, and an interior as elegant as her external lines would suggest. HELEN OF DURGAN benefits from a meticulous 2015 refit by the builders to optimise racing efficiency and cruising comfort while further enhancing her appearance. Turnkey may be an overused word, but HELEN OF DURGAN is now surely the most sorted of all the Spirit 46s.

HELEN OF DURGAN was first commissioned for cruising and occasional regattas in Greece as LITTLE FEAT, then remained there as JIL with her second owner. Under present UK ownership, renamed HELEN OF DURGAN she enjoyed a major 2015 refit in the hands of her original builders which included upgrading her racing equipment and cruising comforts. Subsequently HELEN OF DURGAN has been a regular Spirit of Tradition participant at the British Classic Yacht Club/ Panerai classic regattas at Cowes, at Falmouth Week, and more recently at the Hamble Classics Regatta. She has also cruised extensively on the south coast of England.

2019
- New forestay replacing furling
- All foresails sails converted to soft hanks
- New high performance rudder fitted

2016 - AT MYLOR MARINE
- Keel was later removed for inspection
- New port and starboard transducers for depth and boat speed

2015 - EXTENSIVE REFIT AT SPIRIT YACHTS
- Teak deck removed and replaced
- Including covering boards and toerails
- Spars fully stripped down and resprayed
- Standing rigging replaced
- Most running rigging replaced
- New sail wardrobe and boat set up for spinnaker handling
- Complete refinishing of topsides (Awlgrip) and external varnish
- New upholstery/foam throughout
- Installation of a heating system
- Removable stanchions and teak handrails fitted
- New life-raft
- New below water skin fittings throughout
- New electric bilge pumps installed
- New Jabsco toilet and plumbing

Wood epoxy monocoque hull
- Brazilian Cedar, 15 mm x 40 mm, epoxy bonded and bronze fastened
- Planking cross laminated with 2 x 3 Khaya veneers at 45 degrees
- 400 gsm bi-radial glass/epoxy, faired with epoxy and an Awlgrip paint system
- Solid/ laminated straight grain Douglas Fir hog, keel, stem and stern posts, horn timber
- Solid/ laminated straight grain Douglas Fir floors and beam shelf
- Lloyds-spec Bruynzeel ply internal furniture/ stiffening bonded to the hull
- Laminated ring frames form the chain plate mounts and mast partners
- Ring frames transit the loads to hull and keel bearing floors

FROM AFT
- Raw teak laid deck
- Varnished teak king planks and covering boards
- Removable stainless steel stanchions
- Deck fittings a mix of stainless steel and chromed bronze

AFT DECK
- Mooring fairleads port and starboard
- Mooring cleat on centreline
- Ensign staff socket
- 2 x Flush hatches
- Stbd hatch to lazarette
- Port hatch to boarding ladder and swim shower
- Wood tiller with Harken extension and Autopilot arm fitting
- Double sheave spinnaker blocks port and starboard

COCKPIT
- Large sunk cockpit
- Attractive elliptical coaming
- Teak laid cockpits seats port and starboard and aft
- Very deep lockers under offer excellent stowage
- Shore power socket
- Lewmar engine control
- Harken mainsheet traveller with 5:1 controls (2016)
- Harken mainsheet blocks (2016):
- 6:1 increasing to 24:1 (inclusive of fine tune)
At Fwd bulkheads
- Port and starboard steering compasses
- Wind displays port and starboard
- Raymarine autopilot control
- B & G Plotter

SIDE DECKS
- Andersen self-tailing stainless steel sheet winches
- 40ST Port and starboard
- 46ST Port and starboard
- Winches serviced 2020
- Ronstan foresail sheet cars with Barber haulers

TRUNK CABIN
- Cold moulded cedar
- 3 x Eliptical chromed bronze opening portlights port and starboard
- Raw teak grabrails port and starboard
- Sliding companionway hatch
- Double leaf companionway doors
- Flush frosted plexiglass hatch over saloon
- Flush frosted plexiglass hatch over heads
- Andersen 40ST stainless steel halyards/ controls winches port and starboard
- 6 x Spinlock rope clutches/ halyard locks port and starboard
- Ronstan lead sheaves port and starboard
- Ronstan turning blocks at mast base

FOREDECK
- Teak stowage chocks to port for spinnaker pole
- 2 x Lenticular deck lights over forecabin
- Stainless steel mooring cleat on centreline
- Chromed mooring fairleads port and starboard
- Recessed forestay chainplate
- Flush hatch for anchor chain locker
- Bow roller plate with padeye for Ronstan foreguy block
- 2 x Anchors with chain and warp

Accommodation for 5 in fore cabin berth, saloon and a quarter berth
- All well lit and ventilated
- Access via 3 x steps down from companionway hatch
- Engine box forms part of steps

GALLEY TO PORT
- Top loading fridge
- Top loading dry store
- Raw teak top surfaces
- Origo 4100 stove
- 2 x Stainless steel sinks
- Lockers outboard and below
- Swivel mixer tap
- 'Cabin' lamp/ reading lamp

NAV STATION TO STARBOARD
- Chart table
- Lift lid stowage under
- Shelf and locker outboard
- 'Cabin' lamp/ reading lamp
- Nav and communications instruments
- Ship's Wempe clock, barometer and hygrometer
- Sony audio system installed.

QUARTER BERTH TO STARBOARD
- Lockers outboard

FORWARD TO SALOON
- Settees/ berths port and starboard
- Alcantara type upholstery (2015)
- Lee cloths
- Buttoned back rests
- Stowage under and outboard
- Shelves and lockers outboard
- Removable folding saloon table
- Bottle stowage under
- Bulkhead light to port

DOOR OFFSET TO STARBOARD FORWARD TO WC COMPARTMENT
- Stainless steel sink unit to starboard
- Mixer tap
- Stowage under and outboard
- Jabsco manual toilet to port (2015)
- Deckhead light

FORWARD TO FORECABIN
- V-berths with insert to convert to double
- Alcantara type upholstery (2015)
- Stowage under
- Shelves at hull side
- 2 x reading lamps
- Access fwd to chain locker

SPARS & STANDING RIGGING
- Nordic Mast white painted carbon fibre mast
- Harken boom vang, cockpit controlled
- Ronstan spinnaker pole track and tackle
- Twin swept back spreaders; jumper struts
- Discontinuous Rod standing rigging (2015)
- 8mm cap & intermediate shrouds, 6 mm lowers, 6 mm at jumper struts
- 8 mm Forestay
- Closed and open barrel stainless rigging screws
- 6mm Dyneema plus fibrewire backstay
- Nordic white painted carbon fibre 'Park Avenue' boom
- Southern Spars carbon fibre spinnaker pole (2015)

RUNNING RIGGING
- Internal halyards; most halyards in 10 mm pre-stretched multi-plait or Dynema
- Tylaska shackles throughout
- All halyards lead aft to the cockpit through deck organisers
- Reefing line and clew outhaul lines led aft to cockpit controls
- Backstay controlled by 12:1 purchase at helm position
- Lazyjacks at boom to collect sail and to act as topping lift
- Spare topping lift

SAILS
Extensive and recent sail wardrobe by One Sails consisting of:
2 x Mainsails -
- Racing: T4 composite (2017)
- Cruising: M3 membrane (2015)
- Harken mainsail luff slides
4 x Headsails -
- T4 Composite No 1 (2020)
- T4 No 2 (2017)
- T4 No 3 (2019)
- M3 Membrane (cruising - 2015)
5 x Downwind sails -
- Spinnaker 84 M2 (2015)
- Spinnaker 91.75 M2 (2017)
- Spinnaker 99.59 M2 (2020)
- Code zero (2017)
- Asymmetric (2015)
- 1 x Trisail (2015)

CANVASWORK
- Summer and winter covers (2015)
- Protect entire deck/gunwale/coachroof from the elements
- Mainsail boom cover
- Sail bags for all sails
- Fabric collapsible dock box for use during regattas

MECHANICAL
- Yanmar 2GM20 18hp fresh water cooled inboard diesel engine
- Engine serviced October 2020
- Hurth 2.6:1 gearbox
- Soft mounted with flexible coupling and flexible stuffing box
- 25mm Stainless steel propeller shaft through bronze “P” bracket
- Gori bronze folding propeller, anode protected
- Wet exhaust system

ELECTRICAL
- 3 x Sealed Vetus 70 Ah batteries (2020)
- Isolator/ changeover switch adjacent to quarter berth
- Electrical panel in chart table area with all switches individually fused
- Integral 240 V AC/ 12 V DC battery charger with charging socket (2015)
- 2 x 240 V AC sockets under chart table

TANKAGE
- 80 L Vetus nylon translucent fuel tank
- 80 L Vetus nylon water tank under cockpit
- Vetus calorifier (2016)

HEATING
- Webasto ducted throughout (2015)

- 2 x Steering compasses with night illumination
- B&G Zeus 3000 chart plotter (2018)
- External repeater
- Raymarine VHF radio
- Raymarine wind instruments
- Raymarine above deck autopilot
- Windex with night light at masthead
- LED navigation lights at deck level
- Steaming light
- All round white anchor light at mast head
- Deck flood light

- Manual bilge pump
- 2 x Electric bilge pumps
- 4-Person Charter ISO valise life raft (2015 next service Oct 2021)
- Deck safety lines
- RORC flair pack
- Heaving line
- 2 Dry powder fire extinguishers (2020)
- 2 x Horseshoe life rings

- Fold out bathing ladder
- Fenders, warps and sail ties
- Cockpit cushions (new foam 2018)

Main Image - Paul Wyeth