North South Nautical Group Inc.
1965 Custom Steel Ketch Defontaine
| Listing ID | 2775181 |
| Sale Price | $28,000 CAD [ Convert To USD ] |
| Seller | North South Nautical Group Inc. |
| Status | In Stock |
| Condition | Used |
| Category | Cruiser Racer Sailboats |
| Year | 1965 |
| Make | Custom Steel Ketch |
| Brand Research | More About Custom Steel Ketch |
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| Model | Defontaine |
| Located | Port Credit, Ontario, CA |
| Length | 40ft / 12.19 m |
| Beam | 11ft 6in / 3.51 m |
| Engines | 1 |
| Engine Model | Daimler Benz |
| Engine Type | Inboard |
| Engine HP | 400 |
| Fuel | Diesel |
| Weight | 28000 |
Price Reduced to sell!
Classic steel ketch designed as a safe comfortable off-shore cruiser with shallow draft for the ?Great Lakes and the Bahamas. Flush built (no side decks) for safety and increased room down below. All steel, ballast carried inside the hull (no separate keel). Easily sailed by two people.
Originally designed?by W.H. ("Ham") DeFontaine (vice commodore New York Yacht Club) as an offshore cruiser in 1943. Standing rigging redesigned by George Cuthbertson N.A.?from rope to steel wire before construction in 1964/5. Built by Cliff Richardson Boats Ltd. of Meaford Ontario in 1965. Round bilge steel hull and decks, ketch rig, flush-built, teak fore and aft rails, and oak?bowsprit, Sitka spruce boxed masts and solid booms.
Boat comes with an 8 ft Boatex Sailing Dinghy with a 5 hp Mercury motor.
Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.