Contest 41

discusses

The owner presents EYWA, a Contest 41 from 1988, built by Conyplex in Medemblik with Dick Zaal as architect. He says 30 were built and his is number 23, with only three known in France. His figures: 12.5 m length, 3.85 m beam, 1.90 m draft, 12,350 kg displacement and 4,135 kg of ballast.

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With the boat on the hard, the owner describes a steeply raked bow and a keel that looks short but is hung low, giving 1.90 m of draft. He says the rudder is carried on a fin and held at one point inside the boat and one at the bottom, which gives it great rigidity, and the shaft is fully enclosed in the hull.

discusses

Owner says the double-propeller bow thruster is "absolutely necessary on this boat" because of the powerful propeller pitch and the boat's total mass, which make it hard to maneuver without one.

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Owner on deck hardware: there are only the minimum mooring cleats, one forward, one aft and one amidships, which he calls "a bit limiting sometimes" in ports where the catwalks are short.