Sailing boat Grand Soleil 44 Race 2021

Beautiful racer in excellent condition

Beautiful GS44 PERFORMANCE for sale

Unique opportunity to purchase a Grand Soleil in like new condition, proven winning boat.
The best prepared GS44 for racing built with a huge specs list.
The boat's weight upon leaving the shipyard was 8,799 kg. During the first ORC Worlds, it weighed 9,499 kg, including 700 kg of bilge ballast. In 2024, the ballast was reduced by 400 kg.

GENERAL INFO

• DESIGNER: MATTEO POLLI YD & CANTIERE DEL PARDO DESIGN TEAM
• CE CERTIFICATION: ''OCEAN''A CATEGORY
• HIN: IT-CDP44125K021

 

General
Other:

Underwatership

Fully shaped by one of the top boat builders in Europe (underwatership fully sandboard, connection keel/bulb/keel/hull, stern platform laminated for waterflow, custommade bearing plates)

Every year new antifouling have been done and boar re-shaped, last one done June 2024.

Keel and rudder

• Keel and bulb C&C made
• Carbon rudder
• New Bulb design Matteo Poli 2021

Rigging

• Keel stepped High modulus Axxon mast.
• Mastjack internal Enerpack (serviced 2022)
• Custom made mast foot for easier adjustment forward and aft
• Custommade MAst collar with lateral plates
• Carbon spreaders
• PBO ultra light standing rigging
• Racing carbon boom
• Carbon riggid Vang
• Carbon bowsprit
• Single backstay with Bamar mechanical tensioner and stainless steel wire rigging with turnbuckles. (serviced 2024 with new Seals and Valve)
• Tuff luff -2024
• Windex
• Custom made square bracket for MHU  (new chip 2023)
• Floating mainsail track with purchase and Harken track on the mast (custom made)
• Balldrop track recessed
• carbon spinnaker pole 2x

Running rigging supplied by Alpha and Mafioli

• Mainsail lock with trip line
• Code cero bullet lock
• Kite hallyard 8mm
• Code cero 8mm with lock
• Mainsail hallyard 8mm with lock with option 2.1 for offshore race
• Topping elevator
• Sk 99 jib halyard
• Fracc Halyard
• Boat has been constantly upgraded, New Halyards and sheets are from 2023 and 2024, Many spares

Sails

All North Sails designed by the team designer, 2021

Mainsails

• 3di Mainsail C Square top 2024 (only one race used)
• 3Di mainsail A square top 2021 March
• 3Di mainsail square top 2021 End JUly

Jibs

• Light 3di jib 2023 (only raced one day at the orc worlds in Kiel + 2024 worlds)
• Light 3Di jib 2021 July
• 3DI medium Jib 2024 (new at orc worlds 2024)
• Light medium jib 2021 March
• 3Di MH jib 2021 March
• 3Di Heavy jib 2021 May
• Heavy+ 3Di jib 2021 May
• Upwind Code Zero 3Di with furler 2021 May (only used for Europeans 2021)
• Down wind staysail with furler
• Ultralight A1
• A1.5
• A2
• A3
• A1,5 204 M2, 2023
• A2 204m3, 2023
• A4 204 m2, 2024 (never used yet, just tested)
• storm jib

Optional Sails

• S1,5
• S2A
• S2B
• S4

Accommodations

• 3 cabins 2 heads (one being used as storage)
• Boat has a complete cruising set up and a Racing set up. The interior is fully protected during racing
• Owners cabin with large double bed, stowage area with locker underneath the bed, cupboards and bookcases on the bedsides, wardrobe, shoe compartments, Adjustable reading led lights, 230 VAc socket and USB sockets
• Master head with toilet (not installed but available) - dismounted to be used as storage for sails
• Saloon with Large sofa " shape with chaise longue, custommade carbon saloon table, Sofa to the bulwark
• Chart table to the bow
• Aft cabins with double bed, wardrobe equipped with hangers and shelves, shoes compartment, 2 adjustable reading led lights, 230 VAc socket and USB sockets
• Aft head with toilet, sink (carbon) and showerthat can be closed off with doors in plexiglass
• All closet shelves haven been removed for racing

Galley

• Double stainless steel sink with covers
• Adjustable tap for hot/cold water
• Closet and bin compartment under the sink
• Large refrigerator box with baskets of 90 lt and with a 12 VDc compressor
• Front fridge of 42 lt with satin stainless steel opening

Racing Interior:

• Light cushions
• Carbon toilet sink "Custome made"
• Side panels made of cloth
• Light kitchen top
• 2x burners with out oven
• Carbon saloon table "Custome made"
• Light floors and lighter floor structure
• front toilet dismounted
• light closet with no mirrow on toilet
• sail cloth shower door
• Honeycomb wooden doors

Cruising interior:

• standard Cushions (new)
• water heater (new) installation done "plug and play
• standard side panels
• front shower and toilet
• cupboard in toilet with mirrow
• plastic shower door
• toilet floorboard

Deck and Cockpit

• Folding stainless steel mooring cleats with beat rope protection on the toe rail
• Deep self draining chain locker with closing handle and gas pistons consists of 2 separate
• compartments self draining chain locker and a large watertight compartment to storage
• sails, ropes, fenders etc
• Housing gas bottles inside the anchor locker in its self draining compartment
• Big stowage locker at the stern with pistons
• Liferaft (6 p) locker in the transom behind the stern platform
• 8 stainless steel stanchions with rollers
• Pushpit with flagpole fitting. (black powder coated)
• 2+2 side rails in wire with turnbuckles

Winches Harken Performa

• 4 x 50 2 STP (2 mainsheets and 2 halyards)
• 2 x 60 3 STP (upgrade)
• 6 Harken winch handles

Deck hardware

• Recessed track used for the self tacking jib and a fixed point in the cockpit for the mainsheet
• Diagonal jib tracks
• All the blocks for the manoeuvres are Harken

Cockpit

• Selfdraining cockpit has the seats covered with Sea-deck
• engine throttle (Spinlock) and control panel
• switch panel lights and 12V socket watertight
• emergency fuel shut off valve
• cockpit shower with hot/cold water
• 1 folding padeye for lifelines
• Shore power inlet socket in the aft locker in the cockpit.
• Side decks and coachroof treated with white antiskid finishing.
• Water loading on the right and Diesel loading on the left.

Racing deck gear & cockpit

• Sliding door ultra light carbon (compagnionway)
• Ultra light companionway door, removable
• Anchor locker ultra light carbon
• Front hatch carbon, enlarged
• Cockpit locker carbon
• Fixed swimming platform carbon
• Jib control lines in and out, up and down, are crossed and with extra purchase and upgraded blocks
• Primary winch upgrade to third gear
• Mainsail winch moved more outside for better position
• Carbon footrest helmsman
• Ultra light Sea-Deck at cockpit
• Custom-made cockpit layout (6 XXB and 1x XXC stoppers, 4 Harken cleats)
• Spinnaker pole down and vang cleat have been moved to the coach roof
• Spinnaker blocks have been upgraded with loop blocks
• Outboard sheet padeys and code zero padeyes
• Ceramic clutch for asym and code zero
• Jib tracks modified to trim to 5 degrees sheeting angle
• Mast collar has been modified to have side lateral shims for better mast trim
• Custommade neoprene covers for shroud pins
• Hiking protections custommade
• Ultra light carbon steering wheels with compasses on each pedastle
• Single carbon stanchion cockpit custommade
• 180 degrees openable carbon porthole
• Staysail padeys

Cruising deck gear

• Quick 1000 W electric windlass recessed into the anchor locker and supplied with a cable
• controller
• Stainless steel anchor roller with bronze pulleys concealed beneath the pulpit
• GRP doors for anchor, cockpit and aft lockers
• Plexidoor for compagionway-entrance

Electronics and Navigational Gear

• Faro Atom 2X processor (new in 2023)
• 5 Garmin GNX displays on mast with multi info
• Garmin autopilot dismountable
• Two cockpit displays GNI20 multicolour for rudder angle and forestay load
• VHF Garmin 115I with GPS and DSC
• Ultra light cables for masthead unit with plug and play connector

Sensors:

• Custom loadcell forestay  (full refurbished 2024)
• string pod rudder angle
• Mechanical rudder angle for autopilot
• B&G masthead unit
• Signet Marine speed sensor
• compass LT500
• Wireless wifi antenna mounted on carbon stanchion
• Depth flush transducer

Electrics

• Deck lights
• Navigation lights LED
• shore power 30 Ah inside an aft locker with a 15 m extension cable
• Interior LED lights
• 230 VAc and USB sockets in each cabin, in the saloon chart area and in the galley
• Engine compartment light
• Windex light
• Batteries: Lithium Mastervolt upgrade (ultralight) 2x MLI 12/2750

Engine

• Propeller Folding 2 blades Gori
• Volvo 30HP D130 (new in 2023 before the ORC worlds)
• Self drive original 2021

Safety

• High water alarm sensor is provided with visual and audible signal on the electrical panel for each bilge compartment
• electric bilge pump immersion with automatic and manual operation at sail locker, mast base, amidships, aft locker
• Fire extinguishers
• Safety pack

Additional

• 6 fenders and 4 mooring lines
• 15kg Delta anchor and chain
• All seacocks flush, water exhaust removed on the stern for waterflow

Covers

• cockpit cover
• boomcover
• covers for steering wheels
• mast displays covers
• cover for mast bracket