
Raced to 2nd in the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart double-handed division by PBS Director Lee Condell with co-skipper Lincoln Dews along with other podium results in the CYCA Bluewater Series lead up, and more recently a 2nd Overall in the 2024 Melbourne-Davenport and 1st in Div' 2 in 2023 with the current owner. Carefully optioned for allround performance this example has been lightly used since and is ready to take you to a podium in any racing you wish. The 3300's have proven to be highly competitive across all genres, from twilight and club racing to coastal and offshore, these yachts have collected trophies in multiple club series, but their most notable results in Australia are:
- podiums in the last three Hobarts double-handed
- Gold Coast to Mackay race 1st overall fully crewed
- Noakes Sydney Gold Coast 1st double handed
- CYCA short offshore series 1st crewed
- RPAYC Bluewater Series overall winner 3 years running.
Purchasing a fully optioned yacht that has been prepared to Cat' 1 takes a huge amount of effort, and money, so take advantage of the attention to detail that went into this example to make it fast, reliable and highly competitive. Cars on a triple-reef mainsail make gear changes quick and easy, while the All Purpose reefable headsail on hanks minimises headsail changes, Twin Karver furlers used for the Code 0, J0 and staysails similarly makes sail handling easier. There are twin tack lines (one 2:1) and twin spinnaker sheets with tweakers to avoid bareheaded spinnaker/Code 0 sail changes and lots of upgraded blocks and additional deck fittings in the same vein. A Cyclops strain gauge is fitted to the forestay and readable from the plotters to monitor forestay tention from the runners.
The Carbon mast and water-ballast system makes the yacht powerful, stable and fast and there is a custom rack over the liferaft recess on which mounts a GoFlex 120A solar panel to minimise the need to run the engine to recharge the batteries.
Instrumentation is B&G 5000, but with the superb Garmin GNX120 Maxi's at the mast, twin Vulcan plotters in the cockpit and autopilot controls at both helms. The autopilot is the NAC3 and has proven to work phenominally well. At the nav station there is a 400A Invertor, 4G modem with router and it is Iridum Sat phone enabled.
The sail inventory is North's with the mainsail and headsails (AP & #4) Carbon NPL Sport, the Code 0 is a Helix, then there is an A2+ with top-down furling, A4 in a sock, furling genoa staysail, furling spinnaker staysail, Anson J0, and storm jib.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to become the next proud owner of this yacht. The 3300 is so much fun!