NOW SOLD – 2005 Island Packet 445

Grabau International is delighted to confirm its successful sale of the 2005 Island Packet 445 ‘FREEDOM OF GALWAY’.

With just one owner private since new and originally supplied through the Dutch Island Packet dealership, FREEDOM OF GALWAY is hull no.6 of the Bob Johnson-designed centre-cockpit IP445, delivered and launched in 2005.

Having spent her first few seasons cruising around Baltic and Northern European waters, FREEDOM OF GALWAY headed south in 2009 towards Spanish and Portuguese waters where she has remained since.

Specified and equipped for long distance passage-making, FREEDOM OF GALWAY has seen light usage and has been ashore, professionally decommissioned for the past four seasons. Freshly serviced and with service batteries installed, FREEDOM OF GALWAY is ready for her next adventures with only minimal further recommissioning required.

Her main specification highlights include:-
· Twin stateroom interior layout finished in teak with owner’s cabin aft, VIP cabin forward and two heads with separate shower compartments
· Moulded zero-maintenance non-slip decks
· Integral GRP moulded full-length ‘Full Foil’ keel with encapsulated lead ballast and GRP rudder blade supported at base from aft end of keel
· Yanmar 4JH3-TE 75hp diesel engine with shaft drive and 3-bladed MaxProp with rope cutter
· Sleipner SidePower bowthruster
· MasPower 8kw diesel generator
· Echotec reverse-osmosis watermaker
· Webasto 220vAC reverse-cycle air-conditioning system
· Webasto diesel-fired hot-air cabin heating system
· Vacuflush electric freshwater heads with holding tank
· Force 10 stove with oven and grill
· Microwave oven
· Twin Frigoboat keel-cooled 12vDC/220vAC fridge/freezers
· Raymarine instrument package with E120 chart plotters at helm and chart table, radar and autopilot with Mamba drive
· Raymarine loud hailer/foghorn
· In-mast furling cutter rig with Hoyt jib-boom for self-tacking staysail and Harken furlers
· Harken deck gear
· Lewmar electric winch package
· Quantum mainsail, genoa and staysail
· Furling Code Zero
· Asymmetric spinnakers with snuffers
· Muir 2,500w anchor windlass
· Sprayhood and bimini

We wish her new owners fair winds and following seas.

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

Najad 490 – full details here

Najad 420 – full details here

Nauticat 42 – full details here

Rustler 42 – full details here

Malo 40 – full details here

Najad 380 – 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