Full Specs
This BENETEAU FIRST 53F5 is a GRP sailing yacht built in 1991 (launched 1992) to a design of Bruce Farr and Pininfarina.
The BENETEAU FIRST 53F5’s main characteristics are: 16.20 x (15.75) x 4.48 x 2.40 m - Hull weight: 14t - Ballast: 4.3t.
Powered by an 80 Hp Perkins Prima Turbo engine with 2200 running hours, the BENETEAU FIRST 53F5 comfortably accommodates 6 persons in 3 cabins, with an additional crew cabin.
Designed for performance ocean-going cruises, this high quality, and competitively priced world cruiser can be easily handled solo or by a sailing couple.
This BENETEAU FIRST 53F5 sloop features teak covered cockpit, seats and floors. She has been kept by her meticulous owner on a program of regular, preventive maintenance and improvements. She is a fully sorted out sailing yacht and in many ways a better than new vessel, also because she has never been chartered, rented or raced, but sailed exclusively as a summer holiday cruiser.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Builder: Beneteau (France)
Model: Beneteau First 53f5
Designers: Bruce Farr / Pininfarina
Type: Sailing Yacht / Cruiser
Rig: Sloop
Material: GRP
Length overall: 16.20 m
Length at waterline: 15.75 m
Beam: 4.48 m
Draught: 2.40 m
Hull weight: 14,000 Kg
Ballast: 4,300 Kg
Flag of registry: Monaco
Lying: Monaco
MACHINERY
PERKINS Prima 80 CV Turbo engine with 2200 running hours (Oct 2016)
Drive: Shaft
HURTH inverter, s/steel prop/shaft
MAX PROP 3-blade propeller
Maximum speed: 8.2 knots @ 2900 rpm
SEA RECOVERY Watermaker, engine driven, 75 litters per hour
TANKAGE
Extended fuel tanks: 500 litres in 2 s/steel tanks
Fresh water: 400 litres in 2 s/steel tanks
ACCOMMODATIONS
Mahogany interior
Alcantara upholstery
Owner version layout, sleeps 6 plus crew in 3 staterooms and fore crew cabin
Crew cabin is independent, forward located, with single berth, s/steel sink and head
Master cabin is forward off the saloon with a king size (200 x 140 cm) bed, desk/vanity table with VHF radiotelephone over and swivelling chair, large drawers, lockers, ample storage
Owner's private head with shower, s/steel sink on white marble top
2 Guest cabins aft: 2 mirror image guest staterooms aft, each has two opening ports, a king size (140x200 cm.) berth, hanging locker, vanity table and storage
Head and shower compartment on starboard
MAIN SALOON AMIDSHIPS
Beautifully moulded companionway steps of mahogany and polished aluminium take you inside
Galley is starboard with twin s/s sinks with hot and cold pressurized water
Large white marble top, garbage disposal under
Drawers, ample storage
TABSCO 3-burners s/s gas stove
Oven
FRIGOBOAT 150 litre refrigerator and separate 150 litre freezer
Oilskins hanging locker aft
On port side a large round table for four readily extendable into an oval table for eight
Alcantara upholstered settees accommodating up to 8 people in comfort, storage over and under
Music center consisting of an ALPINE tuner/amplifier, separate CD charger and four hi-fi surround speakers
Chart table, charts storage under, drawers, tool drawer
Electronics and navigation equipment panel
Master electrical panel, Nav Sat meteo receiver, VHF radiotelephone
RIGGING
White aluminium spars, earthed
FRANCESPAR main mast with double spreaders, running rigging inside
FREDERICKSEN reciprocating ball mainsheet car travellers
FRANCESPAR spinnaker pole and fittings, storage over deck
LEWMAR spinnaker boom rail, cars and topping winch, fore on mainmast
FRANCESPAR mainsail boom, 2 x automatic reefs, Spectra running rigging inside
NAVTEC hydraulic boom vang
4 x FREDERICKSEN mainsail sheet blocks
NAVTEC rod standing rigging
S/steel base plates
PROFURL head sail rolling furler with rod stay and double grooved stay sail
NAVTEC backstay hydraulic tensioner
SPECTRA sail halyards
SAILS
ELVSTROM 75 m2 genoa
ELVSTROM 100 m2 gennacker with sock
ELVSTROM storm jib
ELVSTROM 55 m2 full batten tri-radial dacron mainsail with cockpit controlled automatic reefing
ELVSTROM Zippak for mainsail stowing and protection
DECK EQUIPMENT
2000W electric windlass in under deck compartment, 2 x remote controls
Large Goyot hatch on foredeck, skipper cabin
2 x Hatches on master stateroom
16 x Opening Goyot portlights
FRANCESPAR spinnaker boom stored on foredeck
2 x S/steel mast base pulpits,
10 x Running rigging blocs at mast base
LEWMAR mainsail sheet rail, car traveller, control lines and FREDERICKSEN blocks
LEWMAR rails, cars, stops, control lines and pulleys for genoa and spinnaker
Spray hood and Bimini top
2 x Large sail lockers under cockpit seats
Twin wheel steering station
2 x PLASTIMO steering compasses
8 x LEWMAR self tailing cockpit winches
2 x ST70, 2 x ST52, 1 x ST46, 1 x EST46 electric, 2 x ST43
17 SPINLOCK rope clutches in cockpit to control all running and rigging
PLASTIMO cockpit coilers for halyards, sheets, reefing lines and lifts
NAVTEC hydraulic central for boom vang and backstay adjustment
Engine and navigational controls
Opening platform aft electrical, with remote controls
Swim ladder
NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT
Chart plotter: GARMIN, C map system, C map charts,
GPS: GARMIN 200
Pilot books, Mediterranean
GPS: GARMIN 50
Radar: RAYTHEON R2OX, 24 miles range
Autopilot: AUTOHELM 7000, 2 control repeaters
2 x PLASTIMO steering compasses
AUTOHELM bearing compass
VHF: SHIPMATE 8100 radiotelephone
VHF radiotelephone repeater in owner stateroom
NAVTEC meteo receiver and printer
Anchor meter in cockpit
Barograph
Clinometer
NKE electronic navigational central comprising: boat speed, chronometer/clock, race start, boat log, daily log, depth sounder, apparent wind speed, apparent wind direction, true wind speed, true wind direction, engine hours, batteries state
NKE all navigational functions repeaters, at chart table
NKE all navigational functions repeaters, in cockpit
3 x NKE single function, analogic repeaters, at mast base
1 x NKE depth sounder analogic repeater, in cockpit
Remark: The entire boat’s electronics, GPS, chart plotter, navigational central, radar and autopilot are NMEA 0183 linked, enabling automatic cruise control, from start, through any selected way point up to target
ENTERTAINMENT EQUIPMENT
ALPINE tuner/amplifier
6 CD charger
4 Hi-fi surround speakers
GROUND TACKLE, SAFETY, MISCELLANEOUS
DELTA anchor on 60 m of 12 mm galvanized chain
FORTRESS anchor on 10 m of 12 mm chain and 100 meters of 22 mm
Three strands nylon rope
Mooring lines
Fenders
Folding aluminium gangway
Large sun awning to cover roof and cockpit
8 x Personal flotation devices
PLASTIMO automatic life raft
2 x Horse shoe buoys on rescue lines
2 x Man overboard floating lights
Flares
TENDER
ZODIAC inflatable dinghy, 2.80 meters, rigid hull, stored over roof
YAMAHA four strokes outboard engine 4 Hp, from July 2006