Nautor Swan 46

A very smart member of the most successful class in the whole sisterhood - 109 of these were launched. This Swan 46 has been much uprated in this ownership combining great performance with comfort and style.

The Swan 46, with 109 hulls completed, is one of the most successful Swans classes ever built.  They succeed not only as exciting yachts that fulfil everyone's expectations of style and luxury, but they are also accomplished regatta yachts.

ECLIPSE was delivered to her first owner in June 1983 in Scotland as a competition version Swan 46 and with a 3 spreader tall rig and deep keel. After a very successful few years of racing, the interior was modified for cruising.

She was bought by her present Finnish owner in Mallorca in May 2001 and wintered 2001/2 in Portugal.  In his ownership she enjoyed a significant refit in the winter of 2002-3 with further works accomplished in 2003-4 at the specialist Nautor refit yard “Xpilia” in Kokkola, Finland (very close to the Nautor Swan yard). These refits included - new teak decks, overhaul of the rig, deck hardware repositioned and replaced, new electronics, central heating added, a modified keel, the addition of the aft entrance to the aft cabin and a major engine overhaul with zero-ing of hours.

Her owners have enjoyed using the yacht for family cruising and together they have sailed in the Western Mediterranean, the English Channel & Solent, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea. In 2009 they sailed ECLIPSE across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Based in Antigua in the past few years, she has spent the periods when not in use ashore.  During the period 2002- 2008 the yacht spent the winters ashore inside a warm shed in Finland.

Although the owners have not really raced the yacht they did attend the Swan 40 Year rRgatta in Turku in July 2006. In 2013 they won the Rolex Swan Cup cruising class in the BVI.

ECLIPSE was shipped back to Palma in March 2014.

The yacht has always been professionally maintained with equipment updates annually. For example in 2013, the windlass and anchor chain was replaced, service batteries replaced and so too was the compressor unit of the refrigerator.

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