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- Beam: 14' 9''
- Hull Material: Fiberglass
- Displacement: 28,500 lb
- Cabins: 2
- Heads: 2
INTRODUCTION:
Cruising World Boat of the Year Award 2007 – “Best Full-Sized Production Cruiser Category”
It’s incredibly rare that we come across a yacht so spectacularly updated or an owner so meticulously focused. Purchased in 2023, he went over every feature, every system, and embarked on a plan to make her even better. The goal? Serious ocean passage making: the Caribbean, Europe and beyond. The latest systems, updated rig, new sails, new hull paint job, new decks, the latest and best power and yacht management system from Victron, the works really…. The vast list of updates go far beyond just the major enhancements as expressed in this highly detailed listing. Why for sale???? Life gets in the way of the best laid plans sometimes. The owner of PIXIE DUST is moving abroad to check out another part of the world for a while.
HIGHLIGHTS:
A touch of super yacht styling in an affordable package, this brilliant renovated Beneteau 49, PIXIE DUST, offers all the performance and accommodation of a much larger yacht in the sub-50’ category. To truly enjoy an off-shore passage, you need some mass underfoot. At around 30,000 to 35,000 pounds (loaded), an adventurous couple can travel fast, far and wide in comfort, style and safety – across oceans or around the world as desired.
Beneteau fine tunes the big boat feel and offers true blue water performance. She’s as easy to handle in a big blow as she is around the dock. Her spacious cockpit is easy to navigate and offers ample space for electronics at just the right locations. All sailing gear is at arm’s length. She enjoys blue water thoughtful touches like built-in life raft storage in the stern and high cockpit coamings for comfort and safety.
Her interior, by Italian firm Nauta Designs, famous for megayacht interiors, provides a layout below that is safe to navigate in spirited seas w/plenty of handholds from bow to stern. In this highly sought after two-stateroom layout, both fore and aft cabins are equally huge and accommodating with abundant storage.
Though rare for yachts this size, owners can enjoy the aft stateroom in rougher seas or, equally, the forward stateroom at anchor when a breeze is desired. The aft stateroom on this aft-cockpit yacht rivals the owner’s cabin on most center cockpit yachts.
Her cockpit, rig, gear, and decks are laid out for a couple to manage easily - single-handed sailing is a breeze when the rest of your crew is off watch. Oversized all-electric cockpit winches do all the work, making this big boat feel much smaller for a cruising couple in a big blow while maintaining the safety and comfort that a big yacht provides.
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Denison Yachting is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Seattle Yachts - Annapolis.
Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but can’t guarantee the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal from that yacht market without notice. She is offered as a convenience by this yacht broker to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a specific yacht for sale.
This is a big boat with a huge comfortable cockpit. The long benches, large drop down table leaves, twin wheels, full enclosure, complete set of modern electronics, and ALL power primary and secondary winches make PIXIE DUST a pure joy to sail.
The decks of PIXIE DUST are clean, broad, and uncluttered. Her simple sloop sail plan is designed for easy management in choppy seas as well as when setting anchor. A huge dedicated sail/storage locker forward, right behind the large anchor/windlass locker helps you keep the boat neat and organized at all times. Shrouds come down to the deck inboard of the toe rail so navigating fore and aft along the deck is easy on both the low and high side even with an athletic heel.
PIXIE DUST is a powerful yacht, capable of handling some spritely off shore sea conditions but she's also set up to be easily and comfortably handled by a cruising couple. With electric winches (ALL of them), nearly all lines led aft to the cockpit, primary winches right next to both helm stations, these are the features that make her a joy to sail. Anchoring and docking is a breeze with the help of her bow thruster. Below the waterline, her spade rudder and bulb keel helps her back like a car. New standing rigging, new sails, new furlers (both mainsail and genoa), all position you to head off shore
Major electronics update in 2018. Bonus duplication of main displays at both helm stations. Large 12" Raymarine touch screen radar/chart plotter at chart table. PIXIE DUST is so easy for a cruising couple to handle. Single-handed sailing is a breeze.
Step below via gradual gently sloping companionway stairs to a spacious and rare two-cabin layout below. PIXIE DUST has a huge salon, full size nav station with plenty of room for all your passage making electronics. Her galley provides a ton of counter space, abundant storage, and large fridge/freezer space for extended passages. Sleeping cabins fore and aft are so spacious, either can be used as an 'owner' space. The forward cabin, with the larger dedicated en-suite head, is perfect at anchor with ample opening ports for ventilation. In a seaway, her aft cabin is huge, safe and comfortable underway with tons of useful storage, large lockers and opening ports for ventilation. This cabin is so large, one might think you were in the master suite of a center cockpit yacht. From the main salon back to this spacious aft cabin, owners will realize the huge benefits of her 14'-9" beam.
The daylight flooding the salon is enticing. The space is huge and comfortable for lounging or entertaining. PIXIE DUST has a satin cherry interior that presents as modern, sleek, yet sumptuous. Her forward facing nav station is part of the social space or a good station for your sous chef during gourmet meal prep. Every possible nook and cranny provides additional storage for long range cruising.
Traditional nav stations seem to be vanishing with modern yacht design. Not on PIXIE DUST. Her full-function station offers ample paneling for current and future electronics. She has a real chart table and easy access to systems and wiring.
Too often, yacht designers neglect galley space in favor of other aspects of a yacht interior. Not so on PIXIE DUST. She has TONS of counter space, TONS of deep storage, deep and spacious fridge/freezers, and the galley is appropriately architecturally connected to the main salon. At the same time, chefs will find it easy to brace between the sink island and L-shaped galley space when preparing a meal in bouncy seas.
Spacious, broad, with high ceilings, PIXIE DUST has a huge owner's suite forward. Well lit and ventilated with a large private head & shower, her queen-sized bed (with brand new custom inner spring mattress) is easy for a couple to access on port and starboard. Large hanging lockers, drawers, nooks and crannies all provide abundant storage.
You would just never know this wasn't a center cockpit yacht when you step into this spacious aft VIP guest stateroom. Her offset queen sized bed ingeniously allows for two people to separately get in and out of bed while also providing ample headroom for those who want to hang out back here, sitting up in bed against the starboard hull side. Huge lockers, drawers, cubbies, and an installed washer/dryer combo-unit (not currently operational) rounds out this bright and well ventilated space.
Yacht systems monitoring has turned a major corner in very recent years. This owner has purchased the best that money can buy, a fully integrated Victron ship's system monitoring suite that tracks power in & out, controls alternator charging, solar charging, water and fuel tanks, and provides easy access and control from any smart device with the versatile Victron app. It's an amazing system and so easy to use. Between the engine, genset, and solar panels, PIXIE DUST can spend weeks at sea covering all your electrical needs with ease.
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