Contest 43
$185,653
Listed price: €160,000
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Presented For Sale By:
Boats & Barcos Mediterráneos SLU
Marina International Torrevieja
C/ Travesia Jose Huertas Morion, 2
Alicante
Spain
Spain
+34 966 444 111
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| Make | Contest |
|---|---|
| Model | 43 |
| Year | 1990 |
| Condition | Used |
| Price | €160,000 |
| Type | Sail |
| Class | Antique and Classic (Sail) |
| Length | 43 ft |
| Fuel Type | Diesel |
| Hull Material | Fiberglass |
| Location | Cartagena, Murcia, Spain |
| LOA | 42 ft 8 in |
|---|---|
| Beam | 13 ft 1 in |
| Max Draft | 6 ft 5 in |
| Displacement | 12900 kg |
| Ballast | 5780 kg |
| Engine Type | Inboard |
|---|---|
| Engine Make | Nanni Diesel |
| Engine Model | 6 Cylinder. |
| Fuel Type | Diesel |
| Engine Year | 1990 |
| Power | 62 hp |
| Drive Type | Direct Drive |
| Propeller Type | 3 Blade |
| Propeller Material | Stainless Steel |
| Engine usage (hours) | 3400 |
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| Electrical Equipment |
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| Electronics |
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| Inside Equipment |
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| Outside Equipment/Extras |
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| Rigging |
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| Sails |
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| Designer | Dick Zaal |
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| Builder | Conyplex |
| Guest Cabins | 3 |
| Guest Heads | 2 |
| Fuel Tanks | 1 x 350 liters |
| Fresh Water Tanks | 2 x 375 liters |
| Windlass | Electric Windlass |
Description
The 1990 Contest 43 is a well-built Dutch cruising yacht, British registered. She presents in very good condition for her age, with clear evidence of consistent care from both previous and current owners.
Since 2019, the current owners have invested close to €70,000 in maintenance, repairs, and sensible upgrades, helping keep the yacht reliable and ready to cruise. She is fitted with her original 62hp six-cylinder Nanni diesel engine, with approximately 3,400 hours, last antifouled and engine serviced in April 2025.
This example benefits from the less common three-cabin layout, making her a practical option for family cruising or accommodating guests. Below deck, the yacht offers a spacious teak interior that feels warm and comfortable without losing the solid, traditional character Contest yachts are known for.
If you are looking for a capable and comfortable family cruiser with strong build quality and in turn-key condition, this Contest 43 is well worth consideration.
Please contact us for more details or to arrange a viewing.
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.
General
- Shape: Roundbilged hull in white with turquoise striping
- Deck: design Teak on GRP
- Superstructure: GRP
- Keel/Leeboard: Fin keel with bulb
- Rudder: Rudder in skeg
- Steering system: Wheel steering
- Windows: Perspex windows in aluminium frames (2007)
- Load displacement (kg): 12.900 Kg
- Ballast (kg): 5.780 Kg
- Vertical clearance (m): Approx. 20 mtrs.
- Boatyard: Contest Yachts, the Netherlands
- Designer: Dick Zaal
Accommodation
- Material: colours Classic handcrafted teak joinery
- Upholstery, curtains: Blue upholstery
- Saloons: Spacious and light saloon
- Cabins: Forward cabin (V-berth), cabin in passage to aft cabin, owners cabin with double centreline berth
- Beds: 6+2 in saloon
- Headroom: Approx. 1.98m.
- Toilet: 2 x Jabsco manual toilet
- Shower/bath: Separate showercabin in aft head and shower in forward head both with electric drain
- Sound system: VDO Radio/CD
- Cooking device: Force 10 3- burner stove with oven
- Fridge: Yes, 2 toploaders
- Heating: Webasto 5000 (2002), all hoses for Webasto renewed in 2015, temperature sensor (2016)
- Other: Classic teak interior with smooth round curvings, U-shaped galley on portside, charttable on starboard, U-shaped and straight settee in saloon with stowage space behind back rests, V-berth in forward cabin with ensuite head/shower, double bunk berth in passage to aftcabin, double centreline berth in aftcabin with ensuite head and shower cabin.
Engine, electrics and water
- Power: 62 HP
- Make: Nanni 6 Cil. Fully serviced in 2015,
- Year built: 1990
- Fuel: Diesel
- Fuel tank: 350L. in S.S, 20L daytank
- Cooling system: Indirect cooling system
- Propulsion: Stainless steel propeller shaft with 3-bladed feathering propeller
- Cruising speed (knots): 6.5 Knots
- Max speed (knots): 8 Knots
- Fuel consumption: Approx 3.5L/h
- Measuring instruments: RPM, temperature, tank meters
- Bow thruster: Sleipner 6HP
- Voltage: 12V and 220V (shorepower)
- Operating panel: Yes, professional switchboard
- Battery: 4 x 100Ah service (new in 2025 along with all new wiring) + 1x Starter + 2x Bowthruster and electric anchor winch.
- Battery charger: Victron Phoenix charger/inverter 12V/2000W/80A
- Alternator: Yes
- Water pressure system: Electric and footpump
- Warm water: Through boiler (engine and shorepower)
- Water tank: 2 x 350 L in Stainless steel
- Other: 7 seacocks replaced in current ownership, Double Separ filters, Victron Argofet 100-3 100A with 3 outlets, digital multiconrol RJ45, Exhaust system renewed incl. waterlock (2016)
Rig and sails
- Type: Sloop rigged
- Spars, stays: New standing rigging and terminals (2016)
- Winches: 2 x Andersen S.S. 2-spd, 2 x Lewmar ST 2-spd., 2 x halyard (of which 1 ST), Lewmar winches serviced in 2019
- Sails material: Zwaan sails (2015), 39.3 sqm. tri-radial cut, Hybrid 9.65-8.65OZ
- Main sail: Battened mainsail (2015) with lazy jacks, spare mainsail, with new lazy bag in 2021
- Main sail reefing system: Slab reefing with 3 reefs
- Genoa: Zwaan Sails (2015), 51.6 sqm. tri-radial cut,Hybrid 9.65-8.65OZ, with foam strip luff
- Genoa reefing system: Harken furling system
- Spinnaker: Yes, hardly used
- Other: Electric winch for reefing genoa's, Running Backstay terminals & top lines, Spinnaker boom aluminium, Adjustable backstay, new Seldén Rodkicker boomvang (2015), Complete new running rigging (2016) from Lancelin type: Full Dyn SK78 and Punch SK78 Dyneema, Anderson winches and mastwinch serviced in 2016, new Goosneck fitting (2016)
Navigation and electronics
- Navigation lights: Yes, including 3-coloured mastheadlight in LED
- Compass: C.Plath on steering pedestal
- Log/speed/Depth: Airmar triple speed/depth/log transducer new 2021
- Wind: Brooks and Gatehouse Triton (incl. magnified) (2014)
- GPS: Furuno GP-32 (2005)
- VHF: Brooks and Gatehouse V50 wirless VHF (2014) on new
stainless steel bracket on pedestal - Weatherfax/Navtex: Furuno nx-300 (2004)
- Chart plotter: B&G Zeus touch screen chartplotter in custom stainless steel
adjustable bracket on steering pedestal (2014)
Equipment
- Anchor: CQR anchor with 50 mtrs. of chain
- Windlass: New electric anchor winch (extra powerful) (2016)
- Fenders, lines: Yes
- Sprayhood: Yes, new 2021.
- Lazybag: Yes, new in 2021.
- Swimming ladder :Yes, stainless steel
- Sea rails, pushpit, pullpit: 2-wires with opening gates (renewed in 2016) on both sides
- Other: NMEA200 to Wifi data provider (e.g. AIS available on tablets), Emergency tiller, Cockpit sunshade, Life lines, new teak next to entrance (2015), Stainless steel bowladder (2016), stainless steel wharp proctection strips at clamps (2016)
- New stainless steel stern arch fitted along with 3x 90w solar panels in 2021
Presented For Sale By:
Boats & Barcos Mediterráneos SLU
Marina International Torrevieja
C/ Travesia Jose Huertas Morion, 2
Alicante
Spain
Spain
+34 966 444 111
View Seller Inventory
Presented For Sale By:
Boats & Barcos Mediterráneos SLU
Marina International Torrevieja
C/ Travesia Jose Huertas Morion, 2
Alicante
Spain
Spain
+34 966 444 111
View Seller Inventory
