Price Details
Price: £25,000 GBP OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED.
Location: Aldeburgh, Suffolk. GB
Make: Kite Builders: Demon Yacht Ltd, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Designer: Andrew Wolstenholme
Year: 2015 Condition: Ex Demonstrator model, very good, very lightly used and competed with.
Category: Trailer sailer
Class: Daysailer, Racer.
Keel Type: Centreboard
Description
A trailer/sailer, designed by Andrew Wolstenholme and built Demon Yachts, Aldeburgh in 2015, She was built as a “demonstrator model”.
Kite is a GRP gaff sloop with a centreboard. She offers a light and airy two-berth cabin, an open deep generous cockpit, spars are made of carbon fibre.
Her sale includes: A braked, galvanised trailer in good condition. A Torqueedo electric outboard with a a new spare battery. Negotiable with her purchase is a ‘dry dock’ floating pontoon which offers provides hassle-free dry sailing!
She has been kept in excellent condition, fully set up for racing and has a current IRC certificate. A very robust, but lightweight vessel for good for towing, launching and recovery, easily trailed behind a family car.
Her inventory includes a selection of covers for all situations: including an over boom tent cover which enables full use of the large cockpit when used, and an overall Winter cover.
She is currently owned by an ex-Olympic sailor, so she has been optimised in a way that only an Olympic medal-winning sailor can!! Competed in the Nore race when she came 2nd out of 1100 boats!
Mostly sailed on the East Coast, she has also taken part successfully in OGA events on the South Coast and the West Country.
She is equally suitable for lake, estuary and coastal cruising with family and friends.
Further details : Sailing Review of the KITE:
Watercraft magazine: https://demonyachts.co.uk/files/Kite.pdf
Classic Boat: https://demonyachts.co.uk/files/kite-test-classic-boat-oct-2015.pdf
Measurements
Nominal Length: 6.71m
Length Overall: 7.02m
Length Of Deck: 6.04m
Beam: 2.05m
Draft: 1.02m
Max Draft: 1.02m
Keel Up: 0.30m
Keel Down: 1.02m
Dry Weight: 750kgs
Cruising Speed: 4knots Hull Speed: 8knots
Number of Engines: 1 Passenger Capacity: 3
Engine
Engine Model: Torqueedo Electric Outboard in well
Fuel Type: electric
Engine Description: Outboard well with hull infill, up to a 6hp engine
petrol storage with lid, in cockpit
Engine Transmission Description: Electric Outboard
Construction:
Hull: Fiberglass Hull Design: Displacement Hull and deck: Gelcoat finish glass fibre with a closed cell foam core.
Marine grade: BS1088 Gabon plywood. Osmosis protection to underwater hull. Antifouled with hard racing antifoul. RCD coded Cat. C and conforms with Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) for inland waters.
A GRP moulded deck with an easy to clean non-slip finish. Mahogany varnished comings, offer protection around the spacious cockpit.
Raised cockpit seating with deck scuppers to drain any water away from the seats. The four cockpit lockers, includes one dedicated for outboard stowage. Removable cockpit sole boards with a sump beneath for bilge pump.
Companionway with sliding hatch over, varnished ply washboards with teak trim. A draining well formed in the deck forward for anchor stowage.
The rudder is an NACA sectioned balanced lifting rudder. Rudder and centreboard constructed with epoxy resin and glass fibre multi axial cloth. The centreboard incorporates an integral stainless steel wear strip around the tip.
The internally lead-ballasted centreboard is raised and lowered via a differential winch and easily operated from the cockpit.
Accommodation: Wash boards at the companionway. In the cabin, twin bunks, a satin white finish with varnished mahogany trim, lighting and ventilation provided by two oval cabin side portholes, and two cabin front portlights.
Inbuilt lockers for plate and cutlery stowage under the bridge deck plus storage space for personal and essential equipment.
Removable sink bowl, and ample provision in galley area for portable stove.
Equipment:
Braked galvanised Road trailer
Torqueedo electric outboard, including new additional battery
Copper coated centreboard
Road and mooring boom crutches
Grapnel anchor, chain and warp
Overall winter cover, Tent cover, Boom cover, Trailing boom cover
Tiller cover, Bowsprit cover
Three fenders
Bow and stern lines
Sails & Rig:
Sails: Sail Area: 19.7m2 212sqft
Spars and rigging: Lightweight white painted carbon fibre tubes, Mast, Boom Gaff, a varnished spruce bowsprit. Carbon fibre whisker pole.
McNamara Sails made in cream Dacron, two reef points in the main sail and three leech battens. A Furling jib. An unused Jib. Two custom sail bags.
Light and heavy jib sheets. All stainless steel fittings. Stainless steel standing rigging.
Spruce varnished bow sprit with bobstay. Varnished Ash gaff jaws.
The mast, gaff and boom easily raised and lowered or stowed for trailing.
On the boom: cleats for outhaul and reefing lines. Hooks on gooseneck for ease of reefing.
braid on braid polyester Running rigging.
Deck fittings: Barton deck gear, a bespoke stainless steel tabernacle. Mooring cleats, & Fairleads forward.
Main, throat, peak and jib halyards lead back to cleats on coach roof.
Sheets and furling lines lead back to cleats in the cockpit.
Navigation Equipment:
A lifting rudder with an ash and mahogany tiller with tiller extension, plywood rudder stock, with custom pintles and gudgeons.
Depth sounder
Safety Equipment: Manual and automatic electric bilge pump
Teak hand rails on coach roof.
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel.
A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
