Achilles 9 Boat for Sale

• Manufacturer: Achilles
• Price: £14,000
  VAT has not been paid on this boat
• Location: Swansea
• Year: 1979
• LOA: 29'11" (9.11m)
• Beam: 9' 0'' (2.75m)
• Berths: 3
• Draft: 1.67
• Keel: Fin keel
• ID no.: 05F9308667

• Cabins: 1
• Heating: No
• Heads: 1
• Engine Make: Yanmar
• Horsepower: 15hp
• Drive Type: Shaft drive
• Fuel Type: Diesel
• Engine Hours Port: 2168

Broker Remarks

This well-maintained Achilles 9, 'Acron' is ready to take you on your next adventure. Built by the well renowned Butler Mouldings, with its sturdy construction and reliable Yanmar Diesel engine, you can explore the waters with confidence.

Equipped with navigation electronics and a brand new self-steer SeaFeather Wind Vane, navigating is made easy. On deck, you'll find ample storage, comfortable seating, and all the necessary safety features. Below deck, the cozy saloon and sleeping quarters offer a comfortable retreat after a day on the water.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to make memories afloat aboard 'Acron'. 

Accommodation

**Saloon**

- Original layout with solid finish

- New Upholstery: 2021/22

- Quarter Berth Starboard

- Lifting Chart Table with Stowage

- Sink

-Cooker with 2 Burner Hob

-Storage lockers for galley crockery and equipment

- Lockers to both sides of Saloon

- Storage in Saloon table

-Storage Behind and Under Saloon seating

**Forward Cabin**

- V-Berth with Infill

- Solid GRP escape hatch on coach roof

- Storage

**Heads Compartment**

- Vacuum sea toilet with all supply and discharge hoses

**Safety**

- Navigation lights

- Manual bilge pumps in cockpit and heads compartment

**Misc**

- Anodes Changed: Summer 2023

- Antifouled: Summer 2023

- Topsides Painted: 2023

Mechanical and Rigging

**Hull and Structure**

- Blue Hull

- Fin Keel

- Deck moulding: one-piece FRP sandwich construction with end grain balsa wood core stiffening

**Mechanical and Systems**

- Engine: Yanmar Diesel 2QM15 15HP 2-Cyl

- Engine Serviced: Summer 2023 (By Owner)

- Anodes Changed: Summer 2023

- Antifouled: Summer 2023

- Hours: 2168 (approx)

- New Engine Belts: 2022

- 12V Isolator switch and electrical panel

- 12V Sockets

- New Stern Seal: 2021

**Mast/Rigging/Sails**

- Masthead rigged with deck head stepped anodised aluminium mast

- Single set of straight spreaders

- Running rigging changed in parts between 2020-2023

- Standing rigging changed: 2021

- Sail Cover on Boom

- Tiller Steering

- Barlow Winches in Cockpit

- Self Tailing Winch in Centre

- Central Cockpit track for ease of sail handling

- Genoa Changed to Hank On

- New Boom: 2022

Inventory

 **Deck/Cockpit**

- Cockpit with high coamings, locker storage, and drainage system

- Anodised aluminium toe-rail with inset drainage scuppers

- Stainless Stanchions and Wires

- Sprayhood Grey

- Stainless Pulpit and Pushpit

- Stainless steel boarding ladder securely bolted to transom

- Mooring Lines

- Fenders & Warps

- Topsides Painted: 2023

- Self Steer SeaFeather Wind Vane Installed: 2023

**Navigation Electronics**

- New DSC Icom VHG M330 Installed: 2023

- Handheld Standard Horizon HX300 VHF

- Global Navigation Instruments

- Clipper Wind Instrument

- Autohelm ST4000 Tiller Pilot with separate head unit

- New Contest Compass: 2023

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