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Jaw-dropping custom Day Launch / Superyacht Tender from Cockwells in Mylor, Falmouth. Combining GRP hull construction finished in Flagblue Awlgrip with the timeless elegance of varnished mahogany decks and powered by super-economical twin Yanmar diesels, she is both achingly pretty and practical.
FURTHER BROKER’S COMMENTS:
Launched in 2013 as custom commission and following closely in the footsteps of luxury superyacht tender ‘GRACE E’ built for the 73m Perini Navi ‘VITRUVIUS’, GRACE’s hull lines were drawn by renowned UK-based naval architect Andrew Wolstenholme with her custom build by Cockwells in Mylor Bridge, Cornwall; a yard renowned for their construction of the Hardy range of all-weathers motor yachts as well as their hugely popular Duchy range of classically styled luxury motor launches.
While naturally suited to a pampered life as a superyacht tender, GRACE was originally configured to be a hugely capable family ‘Day Launch’, with ample seating for 10-14 persons in her spacious and practical cockpit, with a fully equipped wet-bar and large dedicated heads compartment below decks. Powered by fuel-efficient and reliable twin Yanmar 250hp diesel engines, her slippery Wolstenholme lines can be propelled to speeds approaching 40 knots, while those same lines offer forgiving and surefooted seakeeping.
GRACE’s specification highlights include:-
• CE Category-C
• Andrew Wolstenholme design
• GRP foam core construction with Flagblue Awlgrip topsides finish
• Varnished mahogany top
• Teak laid cockpit sole, aft deck walkthrough, bathing platform and heads cabin
• Twin Yanmar 4LV 250hp diesel inboard engines with Mercruiser Bravo One outdrives and stainless steel propellers
• Quick electric tunnel bowthruster with joystick controls
• Hidden retracting anchoring system
• Garmin GPS chart plotter and VHF with DSC
• Horn
• Fusion Bluetooth stereo system
• Cockpit wetbar with sink and fridge
• Silvertex cockpit upholstery
• Cockpit shower
• Hot & cold pressurised fresh water supply
• Electric heads
• Empirbus Connect 50 NXT DCM digital switching system.
• Shorepower system with Victron Energy battery charger.
• Summer and winter covers plus custom steel storage/transport cradle
With just two owners since new, GRACE was acquired by her current owners in 2020. Based in and around West Country for most of her life, and then more recently in the Solent, GRACE has led a very pampered life, always stored undercover and ashore when unused and with very low hours run on her engines. Her gleaming Flagblue Awlgrip topsides hide her hardy and stiff foam core GRP construction, while her timeless varnished mahogany decks are well protected by regularly refinished varnish. GRACE is 100% ‘ready to go’, whether it be a sheltered life living at the end of a private dock in the West Country, cruising around the waters of the French Riviera or Amalfi Coast, carving through the Solent for a fun day out with the family, or following in the footsteps of her older sister as a superyacht tender. GRACE has also been known to find her way onto the silver screen with a recent appearance in the 2024 movie Back in Action in the hands of Hollywood icon Cameron Diaz.
UK-VAT paid, and CE Certified, GRACE is now seriously for sale as her owners are looking to consolidate their sizeable fleet.
MANUFACTURER’S COMMENTS:
Although used as a private day launch, this yacht was based on a superyacht tender design and is similar to the design and build of the 9.5m Owner’s Tender Grace E. But Grace features rich mahogany decks and benefits from a more family-friendly layout with a galley and a large table in the cockpit and a heads in the forepeak. She is powered by twin 250hp Yanmar diesel engines and propelled by outdrive legs.
SPECIFICATION
CONSTRUCTION
RCD Status:
• Our understanding is the yacht conforms with the essential safety requirements of Directive 94/25EC (Recreational Craft Directive) and is categorised C – “Inshore – Coastal & Estuary” for 14 persons on board.
Hull, Deck & Superstructure Construction:
• GRP hull and superstructure construction using epoxy foam sandwich
• Topsides painted in Awlgrip ‘Flagblue’
• Foredeck, side decks and aft deck finished in gloss varnish mahogany planking with holly inlay marquetry and seaming
• Teak laid cockpit sole, walkthrough to bathing platform and bathing platform with black caulked seams
• Hull antifouled – Spring 2024
• Varnish refinished – Spring 2024
• Topsides polished and waxed – Spring 2024
MACHINERY
Engines & gearboxes:
• 2x Yanmar 4LV250Z 4-cylinder, common-rail, direct fuel injection, turbo-charged and intercooled diesel engines producing 250hp 3,800rpm
• Fresh water engine cooling via raw water intakes and heat exchangers
• Yanmar digital engine control system with Ultraflex polished chrome throttle/gear selectors
• Kill cord for emergency engine stop
Maintenance & Performance:
• Engine last serviced: October 2023
• Engine hours: approx. 174 as of Summer2024
• Cruising speed - approx. 28 knots
• Max speed – approx. 38 knots
• Fuel consumption at cruising speed – approx. 70 litres (combined)
Propulsion & Steering:
• Mercruiser Bravo One outdrive legs with Mercathode cathodic protection system
• Stainless steel 4-bladed Mercury Bravo One propellers
• Quick TCD1042 12vDC electric tunnel bowthruster with joystick control at helm
• Ultraflex hydraulic power steering with Cockwells tilt-adjustable polished stainless steel wheel with varnish wood rim
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
Voltage systems:
• 12vDC domestic and start circuits with 220vAC via shorepower
DC Switching System:
• Empirbus Connect 50 NXT DCM digital switching system.
Battery Banks:
• 2x 105Ah Numax XV31MF 12vDC engine start/services batteries (1 each to port and starboard)
• BlueSea ML-RBS remote battery switches
• Victron Energy Cyrix-CT intelligent battery combiner for parallelling batteries
Charging / Inverter:
• Victron Energy 12v 25A Blue Smart battery charger
Alternators:
• Denso 12vDC alternators to both engines
Other Electrical:
• 220vAC shore power with RCD circuit breaker and shore power cable
PLUMBING & GAS SYSTEMS
Fresh Water:
• Whale 12vDC 12lpm pressurized water pump for supplying fresh water
• Hot water supply via engine calorifier and 220vAC immersion heater element in Quick 20 litre hot water tank heated by shorepower
• Hot & cold pressurised water supply to galley, heads and cockpit shower
Bilge Pumps:
• Johnson 12vDC electric bilge pumps for forward and aft sumps with float switches
• Manual bilge pumps
Black & Grey Water:
• Heads discharge to holding tank.
• Grey water discharges to sea.
TANKAGE
Fuel:
• Total fuel capacity approx. tbc litres consisting of 2x tanks located at the forward end of the machinery space
• Stainless steel fillers
• Dual Racor 500FG filtration with clear bowls.
Fresh Water:
• Total water capacity approx tbc litres in 1x Vetus polypropylene tank located beneath cockpit sole.
• Stainless steel filler
Holding Tanks:
• Vetus plastic blackwater holding tank
NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
Navigation:
• Garmin GPSMap colour GRP chart plotter
• Garmin Intelliducer thru-hull NMEA2000 depth and temperature transducer
• Silva magnetic steering compass
Communications Equipment:
• Garmin VHF 115i VHF with DSC
DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT
Cockpit Wetbar:
• Waeco 12vDC 40 litre stainless steel fronted refrigerator
• Stainless steel sink with hot & Cold pressurised fresh water supply and folding top
Heads:
• Planus 12vDC electric flushing marine toilet.
• Sink with hot & cold pressurised fresh water supply
• Separate thermostatic shower supply
Entertainment:
• Fusion MS-RA70N Bluetooth NMEA-2000 Audio system with 4x Fusion cockpit loudspeakers.
Interior Lighting:
• LED overhead ships lighting below decks in heads area
ACCOMMODATION
Summary of Accommodation:
• Cuddy area accessed from forward end of cockpit via twin varnished Mahogany companionway doors and sliding hatch.
• Interior accommodating electric heads, sink, storage lockers and cupboards.
Accommodation Finish:
• White painted bulkheads with contrasting high quality varnished mahogany cabinetry
• Unvarnished teak soleboard with black caulked seams
• Synthetic stone counters
DECK EQUIPMENT
Cockpit Layout:
• Twin J-shaped 3-person settees aft to port and starboard of aft deck walk-through with individual cockpit tables
• L-shaped 4-person settee to forward port side of cockpit
• Helm position to forward starboard side of cockpit with double bench seat
• Wetbar area aft of helm seating with fridge, sink and storage
• Boarding recesses with steps to port and starboard in cockpit
• Companionway access to heads cabin area
• Walkthrough recess in aft deck to aft bathing platform
• Liferaft stowage locker beneath cockpit sole
• Locker stowage beneath forward port seating
General:
• Polished 316 stainless steel windscreen with smoked plexiglass screens and polished support strips.
• Varnished mahogany companionway surrounds
• Varnished mahogany folding cockpit tables with stainless steel legs
• GRP wetbar moulding
• Stainless steel removable bathing ladder
• Ensign socket
• Boat name in polished stainless steel at transom
Exterior Lighting:
• LED cockpit lighting
Anchoring & Mooring:
• Self-launching anchoring system fully concealed in bow section
• Quick 12vDC electric reversing anchor windlass concealed below deck level in anchor locker recess
• Windlass remote control
• Polished stainless steel anchor with stainless steel chain and warp
• Polished stainless steel stemhead fitting with recessed polished stainless steel towing eye and protection plate
• Stainless steel fixed bow cleat
• 6x SeaSmart polished stainless steel pop-up mooring cleats
• 2x stainless steel fixed cleats on bathing platform
• Fenders and warps
Covers, Cushions & Canvas:
• Silvertex weather-proof removable cockpit upholstery in tan finish with white stitching
• Full protective cover
Misc:
• Custom fabricated steel transport cradle for flatbed/shipping transport (stored at the winter base on the Isle of Wight)
SAFETY EQUIPMENT:
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.
Navigation Lights:
• Polished stainless steel port and starboard bow navigation lights
• All-round white navigation light on removable stainless steel pole aft of cockpit
• Docking lights recessed in port and starboard bows
Lifesaving:
• Horn
• Kill cord at helm for emergency engine shut-down
• First aid kit
Fire Control:
• Firebitz automatic fire-extinguishing system in machinery space
• Dry powder fire-extinguishers in cockpit and heads