1973 20 (ft.) Custom Sail Havsfidra

A rare find since few can be seen in the United States although this seaworthy, sturdy pocket cruiser/racer became very popular and highly respected in Europe! Built to Swedish Royal Navy standards, exceeding Lloyd’s requirements, the Havsfidra, with hull and rig over dimensioned, has made notable journeys across the Atlantic and the Arctic Sea. A testimony to her seaworthiness is that in the 1966 exceptionally hard ocean racing Skaw Race, when 100 of the 157 starting boats did not finish, a Havsfidra placed second in Class V and best Swedish boat.

In 1968, another sistership placed 13^th and second with handicap rules in the Single Handed Transatlantic Race, crossing the Atlantic in 40 days, 14 hours, about the same time as Chichester with a much larger boat in 1960.

 Pippi, serial number 301 of approximately 400, is now for sale in Santa Cruz. A Spartan tandem-axle welded steel trailer with surge brakes, extended tongue and Surg-O-Matic trailer brakes is for sale separately.

Accommodations

Teak interior

Double V-berths forward

Double quarter berths aft, port and starboard

Head under V-berths

Marine toilet with holding tank and deck pump-out

Removable dinette table, mountable in cockpit or below between quarter berths

 

Galley

Alcohol stove

S/S sink

Ice box

 

Deck/Hull/Keel

Single mold hand-laid fiberglass hull and specially bonded deck mold

Double ender (great for following seas)

Self-bailing cockpit with teak floor grating

Teak seat-gratings

Tiller steering/teak tiller

Full keel

Moderate draft , proteced prop and functional fiberglass outboard rudder

Special gelcoat color pigments (above standard)

Upgraded s/s bow pulpit, stanchions, lifelines

Hinged forward hatch

Sliding horizontal main hatch

S/S custom stern rail

 

Sails/Rigging

Deck stepped anodized aluminum mast with roller reefing

Internal halyards

S/S standing rig and turnbuckles

Rolly Tasker dacron main and jib

 

 

Additional

Spartan tandem-axle welded steel trailer with surge brakes, extended tongue and Surg-O-Matic trailer brakes for sale separately.

 

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.