6.60m GRP Guy Couach Motor Boat, 1986. AJ

 ASKING PRICE  : £15,500 GBP
Location: Levington Marina, Suffolk, GB
Make: Guy Couach, France      Year built: 1986
Condition: Good and continually maintained
Category: Fish/ motor sports cruiser
Class: Cabin Class, single engine with Aux outboard.
Keel Type: Twin plate keels (a customised adaption)

She is to be sold fully equipped with cutlery,  mugs etc, 2 new life jackets and 1 used, and some fishing gear.

    

Description

A 1986 French built and designed Pleasure / Fishing vessel which has been well looked after and maintained by her present, and past careful owners.

Ideal for coastal and river fishing. In 2018, she underwent a major overhaul of her Nanni diesel engine, new in 2005. The 130hp Nanni engine cruises at 8 knots but will do 20 knots……….

All the electrics have been checked, Wylex fuse box, Victron Energy Blue charger, lightbulbs all now converted to LED’s. She offers a large cockpit area, fishing rod holders

Fully framed and a fitted overall canvas awning (this is  removable in sections or entirely, dependant on the elements. ) Hull Material: Moulded Fibreglass (GRP)  Hull Design: Semi Displacement   Hull Speed: 20knot

New Equipment & Gear include:

automatic bilge pumping system,  new shore power charging unit.  new “Heads” and valves.   new tinted sunscreen, search light replaced.   New seals in trim tabs.

New front section of stainless steel frame for canvas awning support, this also provides strong hand grab holds when using the vessel without the awning covers (in better weather), a new sunscreen, Bimini type.

All instruments, navigation and domestic are all now linked, new batteries, new search light, new outboard for use as an emergency engine.

Measurements

Nominal Length: 6.60m    Beam: 2.50m   Draft: 0.90m

Specifications

Fuel Tank Capacity: 120ltrs
Displacement: 1300kgs
Cruising Speed: 8knots
Engine Power: 134hp
Number of Engines: 1

Builder/Designer

Builder: Guy Couach
Designer: Guy Couach
Boat Name: Angela J   Registered: SSR Part III

Engine

Engine Description: A Nanni diesel, 2005, 4.340TDI, Four cylinders. Key ignition. Designed for fishing vessels.

It is sited in the cockpit and wheelhouse, within its own engine bay, GRP moulded cover.
Documentation relating to a major refit 2018 – 115 engine hours since the refit. Last service at 60hours.
Indirect sea water cooled with freshwater heat exchanger. Shaft driven. 4 bladed 20inch propeller.
Fuel capacity of 120litres in total in two tanks.
Hydraulic steering and power trim tabs. Single lever controls.

2 x large heavy-duty batteries ( new) .

 Construction:

A Semi displacement GRP hull, cabin and cuddy over helm position, a single cabin forward GRP Decks (painted in grey.)
Glazing panels surround the cuddy. Wipers on the windscreen forward. Replacement tinted windscreen.
Builders’ description: A Sharp chine hull, ensuring excellent stability when stationary and exceptional seakeeping.
At some time, twin steel bilge keels were added to the underwater hull. She clears the ground when stood ashore.

When afloat they give her more stability at speed or when stationary when rod and line fishing.
Transom stern. Large open deep cockpit. A formed bench seating across the back.

Accommodation

Berths: 2
Cabins: 1
Heads: 1
Passenger Capacity: 4

In the cabin there is a galley area, starboard side, under a worktop a stainless-steel sink with a manual water pump, (Water is carried in a 20litre plastic container). under is rubbish stowage. Purpose built shelving and stowage for mugs/ glasses and utensils.
Portside a separate “Heads” compartment, new “heads” and valves have been fitted and remain unused to date…..
Forward a V-shaped berth which could be converted into a double with “infill”. Deep blue Vinyl covering on all the berth cushioning , including the bench berth aft.

12v cabin and cuddy lighting. strips of LED lights around the cabin shelving. 240 plug sockets in the cabin.

4 x large cushions covered in waterproof fabric. Carpeted headlining and cabin sole. Opening forehatch/ skylight.

A removable pedestal dining table. Shelving on cabin sides for the stowage of fishing rods.
Removable companionway hatch boards. A single solid cabin door which can be secured.
Pedestal helmsman seat and a tip up guest seat hung from the cabin side.

A kettle is boiled on a single camping Butane burner stood on the sound proofed engine box amid the open cockpit.
Equipment: Wheel steering. Hydraulic steering and power trim tabs.
A fully fitted framed awing over the whole cockpit.

Equipment

Fully fitted overall framed canvas awning with zipped removeable side panels and aft panel with glazing.

A curtain panel, which drops down behind the helm position from the Wheelhouse coach roof. (Especially useful in the summer when the full awning and frame, may not be in use.

This leaves the cockpit open and unobscured when fishing.

Fishing rod holders, and shelving for them within the cabin.

Warps & Fenders
A boarding ladder, fixed to transom.
Boat hook
Electric windlass, Plough Anchor on chain (6m) and warp (30m)
A 2.3hp Honda outboard. attached to an outboard bracket, with a tiller extension handle. used as an auxiliary motor.
Overall, Winter cover. (not seen)

Navigation Equipment:

Wheel steering at the helm
A Pedestal helm seat and navigator’s seat.
Compass, clock and barometer
Garmin GPS map 400/500 Series chart plotter
Garmin Fish Finder
Depth Gauge
AIS receiver
VHF radio
Communication aerials. a steaming light, all can be lowered to coach roof.  a new search light.

Twin windscreen wipers, at the new tinted wind screen.

Safety Equipment:

Stainless steel hand holds.
2 x new lifejackets, 1 x used lifejacket.
Automatic bilge pumping system.
Stainless steel push pit and pulpits. New s/s grab handle on the outside edge of the cuddy coach roof.
Fire blanket, fire extinguisher (expiry dates unchecked)

 

 

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.