NOW SOLD – 1997 Malo 42

Grabau International is delighted to confirm its successful sale of the 1997 Malo 42 ‘WILD ORCHID’.

An iconic yacht from an iconic Swedish boatyard, designed and delivered during their heyday, the Malo 42 is the true ‘Swedish army knife’ of the yachting world. The Leif Ängermark design was rumoured to cost substantially more to build than her later Malo 41 replacement, thanks to her focus on hand-finishing, over-engineered specifications, and epic build-quality.

Originally supplied and delivered to a Dutch owner by the Netherlands Malo dealer in the late spring of 1997 as build number 121, and named ‘GOLDEN FLUKE IV’, WILD ORCHID was used very lightly for local cruising before her onward sale in the Netherlands to her second UK-based owners in 2002 who renamed her WILD ORCHID and enjoyed extensive cruising, living aboard for 6 months of the year and sailing across the Atlantic, round the Caribbean and the coast of South America from Guyana to Panama, Central America etc before returning to the UK in the Spring of 2011. In the Spring of the following year, WILD ORCHID was sold to her third and current owners who were stepping up from their much loved Malo 96.

Continually serviced, updated and improved through her current ownership, with a focus on simplification and ease of handling, WILD ORCHID is now presented in fantastic condition and would be ideally suited to those looking for a comfortable, capable, ocean cruising yacht, equally at home crossing oceans as cruising around the Solent, W.Coast of Scotland or the Med’. Her specification highlights include:-
• Teak laid side decks – overhauled and recaulked 2013/14
• Epoxy treated from new
• 1.95m lead keel and skeg-hung rudder
• Transom with integrated bathing platform
• Powerful 97hp Yanmar engine with shaft drive, 3-bladed prop and rope cutter
• Sleipner 24vDC 10hp twin-prop tunnel bowthruster
• Aft cockpit configuration with Targa-arch for mainsheet
• Sprayhood, bimini and cockpit tent arrangements
• Slab-reefing mainsail system with 3-reefs
• Andersen hydraulic genoa furling system
• Andersen hydraulic cockpit winches
• Spinnaker pole
• Three double cabin interior layout with owner’s cabin forward, en-suite heads and separate en-suite shower cabin.
• Twin armchair saloon layout
• Hand-polished mahogany interior joinery
• Eberspacher Hydronic diesel-fired hot water and cabin heating system allowing generation of hot water without connection to shorepower or running the engine
• Fresh water and air cooled refrigeration with galley and saloon fridges
• Fusion Bluetooth stereo system
• 12vDC and 24vDC system with recently replaced AGM battery banks
• Superwind wind generator and solar panels
• Updated Raymarine instrument package with twin plotters, Quantum radar, CHIRP Downvision echo-sounder, EV-1 autopilot system, AIS transceiver and DSC VHF
• Windpilot Pacific Plus windvane steering system (currently uninstalled but could be reinstated if required for ocean crossing)

We wish her new owners fair winds and following seas.

For those that missed out, Grabau International has several other similar yachts available for sale, including:

Najad 490 – full details here

Sweden Yachts 45 – full details here

Nauticat 42 – full details here

Rustler 42 – full details here

Malo 40 – full details here

Najad 410 – full details here

Hallberg-Rassy 37 – full details here

Do you have a yacht like this to sell? Grabau International is always looking for new high-quality cruising yacht listings in the UK and internationally. For further information about our tailored brokerage services, please look here