ex Boats.com is a competitive J/80 with numerous race and Series wins to her credit including Autumn Championships 2010, Spring Championships 2011 and was Cowes Week winner in 2011. She is probably the most comprehensively equipped J/80 on the market and is completely race ready with professionally faired keel and rudder(s) and a very extensive and lightly used sail wardrobe. The boat is down to weight, measured for the Worlds in 2012. She is seriously for sale as the new boat is already on order! Available in Hamble to view seven days a week at short notice.

The J/80’s high stability and built in buoyancy make it the only sportsboat with a Category B offshore classification. She has a proper lead keel for high stability, a tough two spreader mast, a large cockpit and ‘top of the range’ jib furling system and deck gear. 

The J/80 is an ISAF one design and in 2013 the World Championships will be held in Marseille shortly after the UK National Championships in June at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes. Boats are check measured and weighed at major events, sail purchases are restricted to one suit per year and professional helmsman are not allowed to ‘parachute in’ for regattas. Racing is fair, fun and targets owner drivers. 

Delightfully easy to sail, yet capable of 18 knots on a breezy day, the J/80 has its own class for the Round the Island Race and at Cowes Week and at many other regattas around the UK.

Construction & Comfort Pack

Hulland deck are built with a composite balsa cored structure system

A strong bulkhead absorbs the chain plate loads

The hull has a deep moulded sump to which the lead keel is bolted and epoxy bonded

A 5 year warranty was issued by the builders against hull blistering

Moulded interior modules form the bunks and buoyancy tanks

The interior has a double V berth and two single settee berths

Stowage space for the outboard motor under the cockpit sole behind the removable steps

Transom hung rudder with tiller and extension

Outboard motor position on transom

Sparcraft fractional mast, keel-stepped. 2 sets swept back spreaders

Sparcraft boom with internal outhaul and reef line

Retractable carbon fibre bowsprit

Dyneema halyards + spares

Harken roller furling forestay 1x19 stainless steel standing rigging

Jib sheets, spi sheets (2)

Tack line

Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit, stanchions and lifelines

Harken main sheet traveller with control lines led to cleats on cockpit sides

Harken ratchet block with cam cleat for main sheet

2 x Harken lead blocks

2 x Harken ratchet blocks for Spi sheets

2 x Harkens primary winches

Halyard winch

2 x jib tracks with cars

Cunningham blocks and lines

Sliding hatch with washboard

2 x fixed cabin ports

Manual bilge pump

2 x rope bags

Access hatches to aft buoyancy tanks

Moulded footrest on cockpit centreline

Moulded toe rails on foredeck

2010 Hyde Sails –Main, 2 x Kevlar jib, 2  spinnakers

2011 North Sails –Main, Kevlar jib, spinnaker

2012 North Sails –Main, 3DL jib, spinnaker (hardly used)

Tacktick GPS Racemasters x 2 + remote

GPS and startline function

New Rudder

Solid boom vang

Gin pole

Spinnaker Launch Bags (2, 1 brand new)

Tiller cover

Full set of trailing undercovers

First Aid Kit

Fire Extinguisher

Bucket

Flares

Anchor, chain & warp

Mooring warps and fenders

Spinlock Tiller Extension

Mariner 4hp Outboard

Lewmar fastgrip winch handle x 1

Harken lockable winch handle x 1

Guardrail Padding 

Braked, 4 wheel road trailer inc dock box

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.   All business is undertaken subject to the current Terms of Business of the British Marine Federation (copies available on request)