Hunter Helsen Signature 470 - MAJOR PRICE REDUCTION

MAJOR PRICE REDUCTION. OWNER WANTS HER SOLD.

SHE SHOWS ALMOST NEW.

This special offering is likely the most expensive yacht ever built by Helsen Hunter, and the owner just reduced the price! She cost over $700,000 to build, and her name is Belle Ile!

The story of the Helsen Signature 470 is such; Helsen turned the stock 46-foot Hunter into an elegant high end cruising yacht at Sailor's Wharf, in his boatyard on Salt Creek in St. Petersburg. One of the most dramatic changes is in the hull itself. Helsen cut off the transom of the production boat and designed a new sugarscoop that adds 1.5-feet to the overall waterline, giving the boat better performance and an updated look. The extended transom also provides a platform for diving and swimming. The trailing edge of the keel is faired for good upwind performance. Other upgrades include a stainless steel and vinyl rub rail, an Awlgrip paint system in custom colors, a 22-karat gold leaf sheer stripe, Harken hardware, electric halyard winch and a steel cockpit arch. Helsen worked with Mark Pooch of Doyle Sails in Clearwater to produce a performance sail package and added 100 square feet to the sail plan. The upgraded interior is elegant ash and teak with a teak and holly sole. The interior features an entertainment system that includes multiple flat-screen televisions. Stainless steel hatches and ports have custom shades that convert to screens. The master stateroom berth has a thick custom mattress made in California specifically for the yacht. Corian custom counters and faucets with gold accents were added. The Signature 470 has 167 upgrades from the standard Hunter 46.

Belle Ile is Helsen's masterpiece with a rich dark forest green Awlgripped hull. The three stateroom two bath layout provides perfect accommodations for two couples with some grandkids included. She is designed to be comfortable and pleasing in every aspect with the interior design completed by a professional (expensive) interior designer choosing the window treatments, upholstery, carpets, artwork, brass lighting, Corian, and soft high quality coverings all professionally implemented. The intention of total comfort continues right into the cockpit that is perfect for entertaining with seating for about ten people with a walk through transom, swim platform, and a large cockpit table and many drink holders. The canvas dodger and bimini provide shade and of course there are cockpit cushions.

There is no shortage of amenities to rival any home with the ice maker, flat screens TVs , air conditioning and a large 6kw Northern Lights Genset with less than 600 hours on it to run everything. 

This vessel is complete with everything you need to start enjoying sailing! The electronics, navigation and communications systems are all current with Raymarine color radar/plotter with displays at the helm and at the nav. There is nothing else you need to buy, nothing to upgrade, just write one check and start sailing right here in the Chesapeake. Cruise down to Florida and see how life looks from the water side. You won't miss home, that is safe to say.

Give us a call. You really must see this vessel to appreciate the opportunity!

ACCOMMODATIONS

If you are looking for accommodations, you will be utterly impressed with this vessel. This is a sumptuous three stateroom yacht large enough for entertaining friends and family. This is without a doubt one of the most elegant and stylish vessels we've seen in this price range. The custom interior is thoughtfully designed with the assistance of an interior designer and decorator without regard to cost! You will be amazed to see how beautiful a boat can be. Everything has been thought out and cared for, from the seating for comfortable entertaining to cooking and dining. This vessel will make you want to stay forever as you'll have no need to leave. The owner’s stateroom forward is the most elegant stateroom with so many extras, so much storage, closets, and the bathroom is unbelievable. For people who want to live aboard and cruise in complete comfort, there is no compromise here. Everything is pleasing. The decorating from window treatments, to bed clothes to each nuance is perfect. No detail was left to chance and the cost of doing this is not recoverable. Someone will soon be the beneficiary of a truly beautifully appointed vessel. Why not you?

• Sumptuous three stateroom, two bath yacht
• Interior design by a professional (expensive) interior designer
• Elegant Salon, ash & teak interior with teak & holly sole
• Custom port & hatch shades convert to screens
• 6’6” headroom
• Beautiful Kitchen
• Entertainment Cockpit
• Huge Swim Platform with walkthrough from cockpit
• Custom woodwork
• Entertainment center w/ Kenwood AM/FM radio CD player
• Flat screen TVs, Bluupunkt DVD player
• Owners stateroom has full size queen with custom 9.5" spring mattress and huge lockers and closets and ensuite head with separate shower with custom edged glass door, Vacuflush toilet! Jade green Corian vanity with molded matching sink and chrome and gold faucets
• The guest stateroom aft to starboard cabin with double 8.5" spring mattress, hanging locker and large storage lockers and flat screen TV with access to aft head
• The third stateroom aft to port is also large with a single 8.5" spring mattress and an offshore adjustable pipe berth
• The port aft cabin is aft of the galley and houses the icemaker, liquor storage, tools, cockpit cushions
• 3 separate air conditioning and reverse cycle heat systems
• 12 volt fans installed throughout interior
• 167 upgrades from the Hunter 46 model!

GALLEY & PLUMBING

Galley:

The galley is one to be dreamt of and yet it is real, as real as this one of a kind vessel is. The beautiful Corian counters and stainless steel sink. The top of the line Gurnert refrigeration powers a refrigerator that is thoughtful, with front and top opening. The lids of the freezer and refrigerator are held open with lifts so you never worry about it falling. The stove and oven are gorgeous and maybe used once or twice. There's a microwave of course. The centerline sink surrounded by acres of hunter green Corian is deep and wide. The whole interior is custom, and the kitchen is just about as perfect as they come. Everything has a place and there's a place for everything, and more. There is even a trash compactor. The kitchen has easy access to the cockpit for passing food up. Just aft of the galley is that third stateroom, which of course makes an incredible pantry if needed. Oh and with the ice maker and full bar in there, you'll never run short when entertaining!

• 110 volt Gurnet Refrigerator and Freezer
• Separate Freezer with custom shelving
• Refrigerator is front and top opening with a gas lift to hold lid open
• Stainless steel shelving inside refrigerator and freezer
• Force Ten Propane gimbaled stove w/ oven & broiler, with guard installed
• Large Microwave
• Icer Ette Ice Maker! 75 lbs per day
• Double stainless steel centerline sinks and custom faucets
• Fresh water spigot/sprayer
• Seagull water pure system for drinking water
• Corian counters with ample space
• Built-in shelves and cabinets
• Trash bin
• Custom dish racks
• Custom glass racks
• Large hot water heater, 18 gallons
• 34 gal an hour Spectra water maker, Never Used

Propane

• Propane tank installed in vented aft cockpit locker
• Pressure gauge
• 12 volt solenoid with electronic switch
• Mast propane control/alarm installed in galley

Plumbing

• 250 gallons of fresh water in 5 polyethylene tanks (4 in bilge in main cabin, 1 under bunk in forward stateroom), water maker
• Beautiful stall shower
• 2 Atwood 750 12 volt electric sump pumps with float switches
• Two Vacu-Flush heads
• Two Jabsco macerator pumps
• 80 gallons of holding in two polyethylene tanks
• Y-valve
• Deck pump outs
• Pressure fresh water system with strainer
• 12 volt electric water pump
• Approx. 11 gallon Seward 120 volt/engine heat exchanger hot water heater
• Spectra water maker

NAVIGATION & COMMNICATION SYSTEMS 

The navigation station to Starboard just down the companionway provides a comprehensive ships navigation and instrumentation including your HSB color Raymarine color plotter and radar, Globalstar satellite phone with masthead antennae, VHF radio, ST80 repeater, and all the controls for the charging system and watermaker as well as electrical monitoring systems. At the helm, you'll delight in having the ten-inch daylight screen for your chart plotter with radar overlay. The plotter combined with ST80 multifunction repeaters gives you everything you need to sail safe. The VHF also has a cockpit mic.

At Helm Station

• Raytheon Pathfinder RL80C Radar/GPS/Plotter
• Oversized Raymarine Autopilot, sized for a 65’ boat
• Suunto binnacle mounted compass

• Raymarine ST80 wind speed Tru-Apparent instruments over companionway
• Custom engine panel on binnacle
• Raymarine ST600R autopilot with remote
• Raymarine Sea Talk remote key pad
• Standard Horizon VHF radio with remote station at helm

At Navigation Station

• Raytheon Pathfinder RL70C radar

• Raymarine GPS/WAAS/DGPS
• Raymarine Marine Maxi View repeaters
• Standard Horizon VHF radio
• IC-M3A hand held VHF radio
• Celluar masthead antenna
• GlobalStar satellite phone
• ICOM SSB 710
• Weems & Plath clock & barometer
• Down Eastern tidal clock

 MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

The ships mechanical and electrical systems are complete as you would expect for a yacht of this caliber. The engine room’s foil covered foam insulation is very effective in keeping the interior of the boat quiet.

Mechanical

• Yanmar 4JH3-TE 75 hp diesel engine
• Manual transmission with strait shaft drive
• Fresh water cooling with raw water heat exchanger
• Engine hours: 1,081
• 136 gallon polybutylene diesel tank
• 3 blade bronze max prop, 17 in diameter
• 1 ¼” shaft through bronze strut
• Engine instrument panel mounted on helm station
• Electric fuel pump
• Dual Racor fuel filters
• Engine room blower
• Audible and visible alarms for low oil pressure and engine overheat
• Drip free stuffing box
• Edson mechanical steering via wheel
• Emergency tiller
• Rule 1500 bilge pump w/ automatic float switch
• Diaphragm type manual bilge pump in cockpit
• High water alarm
• Windlass
• Bow thruster
• 6kw Northern Lights generator w/ 455 hrs

Electrical

Complete 12volt ships systems with 1000 total amp hours of batteries with a Northern Lights Genset that can power the air conditioning system even at anchor. Freedom 30 inverter/charger with remote panel.

12 Volt System

• Three Deep Cycle batteries, two in forward bilge, one under stb aft berth
• Three AGM Deep Cycle batteries installed in amidships bilge
• All batteries stored in plastic boxes with vented covers and secured with nylon tie downs
• Heart Interface Link 2000R battery monitoring
• Rule 1500 bilge pump w/ automatic float switch
• Anchor windlass
• Water pump
• Deck wash down pump
• Shower sump pumps
• Macerator pumps
• Cabin fans
• 12 volt Vetus bow thruster
• Lights:
• Navigation (steaming, running, anchor)
• Deck
• Cockpit
• Compass
• Courtesy
• Cabin

110 Volt System

• Dual 30 amp system
• Two hook-ups for shore power, two power cords
• Freedom Marine 25 inverter/charger (2000 watt inverter)
• Two reverse cycle air conditioning systems (40,000 BTU total)
• Gurnet refrigeration/freezer system
• Kenmore microwave
• Ice maker
• Small solar panel installed on housetop for start battery

6kw Northern Lights model TF276D diesel generator, installed just aft of engine, 455 hours

RIGGING & SAILS

Rigging

• B&G masthead sloop/cutter rig
• Selden aluminum deck stepped mast (compression post below) with in-mast furler
• Standing rigging: Dyform and 1x19 stainless steel wire
• Insulator tubes over lower portion of standing shrouds
• Staylock and stainless steel swaged fittings
• Two sets of swept back aluminum spreaders
• Stainless steel chain plates mounted on hull sides, forward plates fitted to stainless steel tie rods secured to interior bulkheads
• Selden solid vang w/ block & tackle adjuster
• Line stoppers
• Braided Dacron running rigging, in good condition
• Aluminum spinnaker pole, mast mounted off deck
• All Harken hardware
• Windex, VHF antenna, TV antenna and wind instrument mounted on masthead
• Most control lines led aft to cockpit

Sail Inventory

• 100 sq ft more sail area than the Hunter 46
• Dacron genoa on SeaFurl roller furling
• Doyle Dacron in-mast furled mainsail
• Spinnaker
• Staysail

Winches

• One Lewmar 48 ST 3-speed manual and electric main halyard winch
• Two Lewmar 48 ST 3-speed
• One Lewmar 44 ST 3-speed
• One Lewmar 16 ST 2-speed on mast

HULL, DECK, & GROUND TACKLE

Hull

• Hand laid up fiberglass construction with balsa core
• Modified wing fin keel with spade hung rudder
• Bolted on lead ballast wing keel
• Trailing edge of keel is faired for good upwind performance
• Rubber rub rail w/ stainless steel striker cap
• Fiberglass swim platform integral with transom
• Fiberglass rudder blade
• Forest green Awlgripped hull with 22kt gold leaf cove stripe and white boot stripe

Deck

• Hand laid up fiberglass construction with balsa core
• Raised fiberglass toe rail integral with deck
• Nonskid molded in to fiberglass with paint applied
• Fiberglass anchor locker hatch
• Two metal dorade vents
• Bifold teak and acrylic glass doors at companionway w/ lexan glass hatch with teak trim
• 9 metal frame deck hatches with lexan glass
• 2 skylights
• 12 port lights, most opening
• Double vinyl coated 7x19 in stainless steel wire lifelines
• Stainless steel stanchions and pulpits
• Stainless steel hand holds
• Stainless steel radar arch
• Fiberglass cockpit combings, long and spacious
• 3 cockpit locker hatches
• 2 transom locker hatches

Cockpit

• Large, comfortable cockpit – wonderful for entertaining!
• Cockpit cushions
• 3 leaf drop down cockpit table
• Many drink holders
• Collapsible hideaway 3 step stainless steel ladder on transom
• Manual bilge pump
• Helm seats lifts up for walk through down to transom

Canvas

• Dodger
• Dodger window covers
• Bimini with viewing panel above
• Cockpit enclosure panels
• Deck hatch covers

Ground Tackle

• Double stainless steel anchor chute/nylon roller assembly
• 60 lb Suncor stainless steel Plow primary anchor
• 45 lb CQR and 45 lb Plow secondary anchors
• Additional rode for all 3 anchors
• 12 volt Simpson Lawrence Horizon 1500 anchor windlass installed in anchor locker
• Up/Down foot switches located on bow
• Deck wash down pump

OTHER & SAFETY EQUIPMENT

• Johnson 8 hp outboard, model BJBREDO, mounted on motor bracket on stern rail
• Stainless steel lifting bracket for outboard motor
• Lifesling
• Bell
• Canister horn
• 4 type III PFDs, 2 type II inflatable PFDs
• Throwable cushion
• 3 type BC size I dry chemical fire extinguishers (galley, nav station, forward stateroom)
• Flares
• CO detector
• First Aid kit
• Tools and spares aboard
• Two toilet seat replacements
• GFCI outlets

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