Performance Sailing Brokerage

Launched in 2007 and with just three owners since new including the renowned Florentine yacht designer Guido Spadolini, her current Italian-based owner has enjoyed summer cruising and club racing following a comprehensive 2020 refit, and now offers K8 for sale to make way for fresh projects. Her specification highlights include:-

• Composite construction with unidirectional glass and carbon, vacuum laminated with epoxy resin to guarantee maximum lightness and weight concentration.
• Vinyl wrapped hull
• Painted non-slip side decks
• 70m torpedo lead bulb keel
• Recently replaced Yanmar 40hp diesel engine with Saildrive and 3-blade MaxProp or 2-blade folding racing propeller
• Twin Solimar helm pedestals with composite helm wheels
• Carbon mast and boom
• Recently replaced rod standing rigging
• Cruising (E-Glass) and add-on extended racing (carbon) bowsprits (note – racing bowsprit results in LOA of 15.40m)
• Antal winches with electric main halyard winch
• Harken mainsheet track
• Facnor FlatDeck jib furler
• Sprayhood and bimini
• Composite passerelle
• Electric anchor windlass
• Garmin and Raymarine instrument package with mast-repeaters and chart plotter
• Icom VHF with DSC
• Mastervolt battery charger and inverter
• 3-cabin, 2-heads interior layout
• Modified forward cabin with converting double berth to port and single berth to starboard
• Painted bulkheads and carbon countertops
• Leather upholstery in saloon
• Twin fridges
• Ventilation fans

2020 REFIT HIGHLIGHTS:

• Mast disassembly, shroud and equipment replacement
• Complete dismantling of deck equipment and overhaul/replacement
• Complete renovation of the electrical system with LED lights
• Complete replacement of electronic instrumentation
• Overhaul of the hydraulic system and replacement of flush seacocks
• Engine overhaul (later replaced in 2023)
• Rebuilt bowsprit for composite cruise configuration (1.10 m with integrated anchor) and carbon regatta (1.90 m); interlocking dolphin replacement mechanism;
• Deck repainting
• Grey vinyl wrap topside
• Antifoul removed and 2 coats of epoxy added
• Removable recessed stern platform with integrated ladder
• Cockpit table with removable carbon feet
• Composite gangway
• Tuff luf for regatta
• Textile backstay for regattas and rigid for cruising
• New Jib furler
• Code 0 and staysail equipment