Three ensuite owner/guest cabins, plus additional ensuite crew/guest cabin.

Finely crafted solid teak joinerwork finished to a high level throughout the interior, including all flush mounted raised panel or louvered cabinet doors and burled fiddle inlays. Cabin soles are satin finished teak (refinished 2014) with ebony inlays and custom locking mechanisms. Head and shower areas are all painted white Awlgrip and feature Corian vanity tops, solid Corian sinks and heated towel racks.  Hanging lockers are lined with cedar, and there are Oceanair hatch screens/blinds throughout with motorized shades in main salon.  Upholstery is custom leather, with custom mattresses, tasteful bedding, towels and other décor throughout. There are also crew covers and sole covers. 

Beginning forward is a private stateroom with a centerline queen berth, seat and significant storage space, including two large hanging lockers. There are two hull portlights and a deck hatch.  An ensuite head is forward, along with a shower stall shared with the port guest cabin. 

Forward of the main salon and to port is the second guest cabin, featuring a generous double berth, hanging locker and multiple drawers.  There are three opening portholes and a deck hatch.  A head and shower stall is across the passageway, which can be closed off at night to provide ensuite access.

AMANTE’s main salon is quite spacious for a vessel of this size, due in part to her generous 18’ beam. A large L-settee is to port, with a beautiful burled table that expands as needed to accommodate six comfortably and can be raised or lowered by electric lift. Two custom chairs are inboard with anchors for tie-down while underway.  To starboard is a full-length settee with an up/down flat screen TV hidden from view.  The entire space feels light and open, due to numerous hatches, white-trimmed deck portlights and two hull windows.

Aft and to starboard is a U-shaped navigation station with easy access to the cockpit. There are built-in backlit switch panels, navigation instruments, a comfortable pedestal chair, plus remote control panels for the watermaker, furnace, fuel usage and tank monitors. The workspace also includes a chart table with custom storage for a computer, 20” screen and printer.

Further aft and to port is a long walk-through galley that is fully equipped for comfortable living at sea or on anchor. There are several well-thought-out storage lockers for glass, dinnerware and appliances, including a full pantry. Some of the many features include: 

• Granite countertops
• (3) Custom stainless sinks with granite covers
• Twin Frigoboat Stainless Steel front-opening DC refrigerator units (can be used as freezer units)
• Frigoboat top opening DC freezer compartment
• Novacool beverage cooler/refrigerator adjacent companionway for convenient day use
• U-line icemaker
• Force 10 propane stove with oven and granite cover
• GE Advantium convection/microwave oven
• Fisher & Paykel dishwasher drawer
• Broan trash compactor
• Espresso machine
• Instant hot water dispenser
• Full compliment of dishes, glasses, cutlery, galleyware etc.
• Full-sized stacked Miele stainless washer and dryer units at aft end
• (6) Opening portholes for exceptional light and ventilation

A passageway leads aft along the starboard side to the owner’s cabin and a roomy fourth cabin outboard – quite suitable for crew or guests -- with over/under berths, plus a private head and shower stall. There are two opening portholes in the cabin, plus one in the shower.

The owner's private stateroom is located aft and features a large queen-sized berth on centerline, a bureau to port and a seat/desk area to starboard. Extended beam is carried well aft to create a spacious, open cabin, accentuated by twin hull portlights, a deck hatch and six opening portholes. A private head with separate shower stall and opening porthole is found along the port side, with a passageway forward to the galley that can be opened when desired.

• Raymarine GPS/Chartplotter with dual sensors, E80 displays at each helm, E120 displays in cockpit and at nav station, plus able to display on salon TV
• Raymarine sailing instruments with speed, wind and depth in cockpit and repeaters at nav station
• Digital fishfinder
• Raymarine ST 6002 autopilot with remote at nav station, plus wireless remote
• ICOM M-802 SSB
• ICOM  504 VHF
• Immarsat  satphone with internet interface
• KVH Tracvision sat TV will track both US and Euro satellites
• Boat computer with 20” screen, fax, printer and interface with plotter, GPS, satphone
• Wifi on mast with boat network
• Cell phone repeater on mast
• Sirius weather
• Deck camera viewable on nav station chartplotter

AMANTE features a customized electrical system whereby all AC functions are powered by multiple heavy-duty inverters, drawing from a large 24 volt battery bank that is charged directly from shore power or via a DC generator.  In addition, all key systems – refrigeration, hydraulics, navigation, lighting, water, waste pumps, water heater, heads, watermaker – are DC based.  This provides two primary advantages:  universal shore power compatibility around the world, and the ability to run “quiet ship” for extended periods of time.  Features include:

• 24 Volt DC electrical system with custom panels and full meters for managing current flow
• (2) 30 amp/240 volt shore inlets (both bow and stern) with multiple adapters
• (2) Victron isolation transformers able to handle shore power anywhere in the world
• (4) Victron 100 amp/24 volt battery chargers
• Fischer Panda 15 Kw/24 volt DC generator (NEW 2011- 240 hours)
• Large house bank with Northstar AGM 24 volt batteries, total 1,470 amp-hrs (all NEW 2014)
• Separate battery banks for engine, generator, electronics and bow thruster (bow thruster NEW 2014)
• (6) Victron 3 Kw inverters to power all AC functions (with the exception of dive compressor and air conditioning, which runs off the generator)
• Balmar 220 amp alternator in addition to standard 70 amp (NEW 2014)
• TV/phone inlet
• Numerous shore cables and European adapters
• Electrical bonding system including two 3” copper strips bow to stern each side
• 12-volt plugs in cockpit and at nav station
• Cabin fans at each berth and in main salon and galley
• Exhaust blowers for all heads
• Vimar light switches with dimmers throughout
• Rope accent and foot lighting throughout including cockpit
• Red courtesy lights below
• Twin underwater lights at transom
• Transom stair lighting
• LED navigation lights

• Yanmar 4LH-STE 240 hp diesel with dripless shaft seal, shaft isolation coupler and Maxi 3-blade feathering propeller  (prop rebuilt 2014)
• Shaft cutters and line deflector for rudder
• Flowscan fuel monitoring system
• Electric oil change pump for main engine and generator
• Lewmar 300 kfg 24 volt  bowthruster
• Fireboy automatic engine room fire extinguisher
• Dual Racor fuel filters with bypass valves for fuel polishing
• Central dual-stage Cruisair chilled water air-conditioning system
• Tecma automatic toilets with fresh water flush and custom controls
• Pressurized fresh water with dual pumps, 11 gallon hot water tank and back-up electrical heating coil
• Diesel fired furnace for continuous hot water and cabin heating
• Seagull IV-X6 water filtration system plumbed to all cold water taps
• (3) Gray water tanks and (2) black water tanks, all fiberglass, each with custom monitor panel and automatic pumpout
• Custom monitor panels for easy fuel and water tank level management
• Spectra 40 GPH DC watermaker
• Clark dive compressor
• Central vacuum system with toe-kick sweep inlets
• Twin automatic electric bilge pumps plus lazarette pump
• Manual bilge pump
• Anchor washdown pump (fresh and salt water)
• 20- and 10-lb propane tanks and regulator in ventilated deck locker
• Fuel tanks cleaned, and fuel polished 2014

• Forespar three spreader aluminum mast, painted white
• Navtec rod standing rigging
• Leisurefurl hydraulic in-boom mainsail furling system
• Furlex hydraulic genoa and staysail furlers
• PBO running backstays with retrieving lines
• Carbon spinnaker/whisker pole, stored on mast
• Navtec hydraulic boom vang and split backstay controls
• Boom preventer built-in
• Lewmar mainsheet traveler system
• Steaming light
• Foredeck light
• Aft flood light
• Up/down spreader lights
• Air horn
• Doyle Hydranet full battened furling mainsail
• Doyle 135% furling genoa
• Doyle furling staysail
• Doyle asymmetrical spinnaker
• Antal W 80-3 hydraulic self-tailing primary winches
• Antal W 66 hydraulic self-tailing mainsheet and main/spinnaker halyard winches
• Antal W 66 hydraulic self-tailing staysail/runner winches
• Antal W 44 self-tailing traveler control winches
• Antal W 52 self-tailing genoa and staysail halyard winches at mast
• Remote wireless controls for furlers, main/spinnaker halyards and transom garage door

Solid hand-laid Twaron reinforced fiberglass hull using vinylester resins and isophthalic gel coat with epoxy barrier coating.  There is a watertight collision bulkhead aft of forepeak locker.  In 2008 the hull was Awlgripped Stars & Stripes Blue with clear coat, gold cove stripe, white boot stripe, and black bottom (NEW, Spring 2014). There is a teak rubrail with stainless striker and six Lexan topside windows.  Centerboard configuration offers minimum draft of 8”-6” with board up and a maximum draft of 12-’4” with board down.

Fiberglass with balsa core, white gelcoat and molded-in tan nonskid. "Scooped" transom with molded-in steps, swim platform and built-in swim ladder. There is a transom garage door that opens hydraulically for easy access to extensive storage space with custom shelving, along with large corner lazerette lockers each side, accessible on the aft deck.  On the foredeck, there is a deep forepeak locker with line hangers and separate split chain locker forward.

Teak toe rails are bare with rounded edges for easy maintenance.  All stainless deck hardware including grab rails, six stainless hatches, numerous opening portholes and dorade vents, double anchor rollers, genoa tracks, mooring cleats, chocks etc.

One of the many highlights of AMANTE’s design is the spacious cockpit with twin helm stations for easy access from the aft deck and great visibility while steering.  The cockpit seating was customized by the owner to maximize seating for ten comfortably around a beautiful varnished 6’ teak table with built-in drink cooler. 

The twin helms are designed for short-handed sailing, with all sail controls within easy reach.  Each station can be engaged independently and features customized back-lit panels (2009)

• Twin Lewmar hydraulic anchor windlasses
• 50 kg Bruce anchor with 300’ ½” chain
• Delta 90 lb. anchor with 300’ ½” chain
• Dodger and bimini (tan), with clear connector, helm windows and full enclosures
• Adjustable white and blue lighting wired into bimini
• Cockpit cushions with backrest cushions
• Helm cushions with backrest bolsters
• Covers for cockpit table and helm stations
• Teak cockpit sole and seat tops
• Stern pulpit extended to side gates with drop-down teak pushpit seats each side
• Hot/cold shower at transom
• Ritchie 6” compass at each pedestal with stainless grab bars
• Switlik MOM
• (1) Horseshoe life ring
• (8) Life jackets
• Winslow 8-man life raft in valise
• Ditch bag with EPIRB, supplies
• Sea anchor
• Twin radar reflectors on mast
• Flare kit
• Full medical kit
• Fenders and docklines
• Radar reflector
• Varnished teak companionway hatch with drop-down self-storage
• Carbon assarelle
• Teak/stainless side boarding ladder
• Simpson stainless steel dinghy davits with electric hoist
• Removable dinghy chocks on foredeck
• AB 13 AL dinghy with aluminum bottom (2012)
• Honda 30hp outboard motor  (2012)
• Leather steering wheel covers
• Stainless gas grill
• Numerous spares
• Full tool kit with custom storage racks in engine room

AMANTE benefits from owners who invested considerable time and energy into the equipment specifications, design modifications and interior decor/styling, all of which combine to make a magnificent yacht.

Since her launch in 2007, AMANTE has proven to be a fast, safe and extremely comfortable world cruiser with an excellent four cabin layout ideal for both private (in this case) or charter use.  Inspections are highly recommended.

• Personal effects
• Dive equipment