Howard Ford Marine Sales
Tidemill Yacht Harbour
Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB, IP12 1BP
Tel:+44 (0)1394 385577
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2003 Island Packet 420

location icon Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Year 2003
Length 44'7 ft / 13.59 m
Builder/Manufacturer Island Packet
Price
£178,450

The Island Packet 420 is a well built, quality cruising yacht designed to deliver a combination of seakeeping qualities, stability and speed coupled with style and comfort for extended cruising.  This particular example boasts one owner from new, has been well maintained and continually upgraded to preserve her fine appearance and condition throughout. Viewing by appointment through Howard Ford Marine Sales.

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Specifications

Year Built 2003
Category Sail
Length Overall 44'7 ft / 13.59 m
Beam 14'3 ft / 4.34 m
Max Draft 4'10 ft / 1.47 m
Cabin Headroom 6'5 ft / 1.96 m
Construction Fiberglass
Keel Full Keel
Engines 1
Total Engine Power 75 hp
Fuel Tank Cap. 160 L
Water Tank Cap. 250 L
Dry Weight 12882.02 kg
Ballast 5761 kg
Displacement 12,882 kg

Engine 1 Specifications

Make: Yanmar
Model: 4JH3TBE
Fuel: Diesel
Engine Power: 75hp
Type: Inboard
Propeller Type: 3 Blade, Feathering
Year: 2003
Accommodations

The accommodation offers up to six berths in two cabins and saloon.

Steps leading down from cockpit to spacious saloon with U shaped galley to starboard side comprising 4 burner cooker with oven and grill, twin stainless steel sinks with hot and cold water supply, refrigerator and icebox, microwave and plenty of stowage throughout.  Navigation area ahead of galley with chart table, seat, navionics and switch panels.  Large dinette area with stowage beneath, fold-away dining table with classic Island Packet design glass/bottle stowage concealed behind table when in stowed position. Cupboards and book shelf above. Settee berth opposite to port side with lee cloth and storage above and below.

Master cabin forward with double berth offset to starboard side with stowage below. Seat to port and hanging locker. Access forward to master heads with W/C, vanity unit with sink and H&C water supply and shower.

Day heads with Jack and Jill access to aft cabin comprising W/C, vanity unit with H&C water supply and shower.  Aft cabin with double berth and storage beneath, hanging locker and stowage to port side.

Teak joinery throughout. Fitted carpets. Interior lighting. Flyscreens to portlights. Peek-a-boo blinds to some portlights. Eberspacher heating

Mechanical Systems

Located under the cockpit floor. Yanmar 4JH3TBE 75hp diesel engine (2003). Freshwater cooled via heat exchanger. Electric start. Shaft drive to Maxprop feathering 3 blade propeller with rope cutter. Flex mounts. Volvo shaft seal. MLS Fuel purifier. Full engine and gearbox service by French Marine in 2020. Cruising speed 6 knots. Maximum speed 7 knots. Sleipner SP75Y 6hp bow thruster. Eberspacher diesel fired warm air heating.

Alternator charging to 4 x 12 volt batteries (Engine battery replaced 2019)

Additional separate bowthruster battery

240 volt shore power with battery charger

Merlin Powerguage Lite battery monitor system

12/240 volt switch panels

Sails and Spars

Cutter rigged. Silver anodised aluminium mast and boom. In mast mainsail reefing with furling genoa and staysail. All lines led aft to cockpit. Stainless steel standing rigging. Terylene running rigging. 

Main sail - very good condition - 2015 - One Sails GBR

Genoa - very good condition - 2015 - One Sails GBR

Staysail - good condition - 2003

Cruising Chute - little used

 

Original main & genoa in fair condition - Quantum.

Navigation Equipment

Binnacle steering compass

Raymarine RL72CRC radar/chart plotter at helm

Raymarine RL72CRC repeated at chart table

Raymarine 6001 Autopilot (upgraded to G version)

ST60 speed and depth indicators

Simrad AIS transponder and antenna

Icom M601 VHF radio with aerial and command mic

Clock and barometer

Glomax masthead TV aerial with 12V/240V TV and bracket

Full navigation lights

Deck Equipment

Electric anchor windlass 

Twin stainless steel bow rollers

65lb CQR Anchor with 60m calibrated chain

Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit, stanchions and guard wires

Stainless steel boarding ladder

Stainless steel davits

Helm seat with back rest

Outboard bracket on pushpit

Teak cockpit table 

Sprayhood with stainless steel grab handles (Dolphin Sails 2014)

Cockpit tent by De Vries Sails

Full winter cover by Jeckells

Bimini

Wheel and pedestal cover

Island Packet cockpit cushions

Leather wheel cover

Various fenders & warps

Winches

Safety Equipment

Manual and electric bilge pumps

Fire extinguishers (expiry dates unknown)

Danbuoy

Lifering

Webbing jackstays

Plastimo Cruiser 4c liferaft (service due) in stainless steel cradle on transom

Construction

Built in 2003 (first launched 2004) by Island Packet. Light ivory GRP hull with ivory style lines. Light Ivory GRP superstructure with moulded non slip to decks, cockpit and bathing platform. Team coamings and rubbing strake with extra rubbing strake including stainless steel striker. Encapsulated long iron keel Self draining cockpit with seating and stowage lockers port and starboard. Stern seats on aft rail and helm seat to centre. Wheel steering to skeg hung rudder. Self draining gas locker. Self draining anchor locker. Coppercoat to hull 2015.

Comments

The Island Packet 420 is a well built, quality cruising yacht designed to deliver a combination of seakeeping qualities, stability and speed coupled with style and comfort for extended cruising.  This particular example boasts one owner from new, has been well maintained and continually upgraded to preserve her fine appearance and condition throughout.  Viewing by appointment through Howard Ford Marine Sales.

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.