# 2000 Contest 48CS > 2000 Contest 48CS cruising yacht lying Corfu: three cabins, two heads, Yanmar 100hp diesel, wing keel,… No longer available: see similar boats at YACHTS.CO. Web page: https://yachts.co/boats/contest-48cs-21f9682384/ ## Key facts - Status: No longer on the market - Condition: Used - Make: Contest - Model: 48CS - Year: 2000 - Type: Cruising Yacht - Length overall: 48ft (14.75m) - Beam: 4.24m - Draft: 2.05m - Cabins: 3 - Berths: 6 - Heads: 2 - Engines: Yanmar 4JH3-HTE 100hp - Fuel: Diesel - Hull construction: GRP - Keel: Fin keel - Designer: Dick Zaal - Georg Nissen - Lying: Corfu - Listed by: YACHTS.CO Corfu - Contact: +44 (0)1792 209204, corfu@yachts.co - Reference: 21F9682384 ## Description The Contest 48CS is celebrated for its robust construction, thoughtful design, and reliable performance, making it a favoured choice among sailing enthusiasts seeking a capable and comfortable cruiser. This Contest 48CS, built in 2000, is a renowned blue-water cruiser designed for comfortable long-distance sailing. It offers a spacious and well-appointed interior. The yacht's design emphasizes ease of handling, making it suitable for small crews or even single-handed sailing. Features such as hydraulic or electric furling sails, electric winches, and a bow thruster enhance its manageability. The interior typically includes three separate cabins, providing ample privacy and comfort for extended voyages. ## Accommodation - Equipment List - Contest 48CS Specifications - Upholstery in Dark Blue Velor - Gas oven with 2 burners, gimbaled, with mounting for the gas installation - Gas bottle in separate locker with outboard drainage. - Central instrument fuse panel, with 12V plug and battery control unit. - Electric lights in saloon, fore cabin and after- cabin - Water tanks, 750 lts, electrical hot and cold pressurized water system and indicators - 2 Separate W.C. compartments, each with seawater toilet, shower and ventilators - Chart table with chart storage - Electrical indicator for fuel tank - Windows of acrylate safety glass in hydronalium frames - Teak rub-rails with stainless steel strip - 2 Stainless steel sinks in galley - Washbasin in W.C. compartments - Refrigerator and GRP cool box in galley - Curtains on rods for all windows - Crockery rack with sugar, storage containers, 6 cups, 6 mugs, 24 plates and 24 glasses - Wastewater tank, aft - Fire- extinguish system - Electric bilge pump - Battery control - Battery charger 220V - Battery charger - inverter 12- 220V - Electric ventilator - Generator - Bow thruster - Self adjusting propellor 4- bladed - Deck wash pump - Barometer and clock - - 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. ## Mechanical and rigging - Manufacturer Provided Description - The Contest 48CS is designed and built to be sailed by a small crew in comfort. She is an all-round performer, capable of making swift passages. Designed by Dick Zaal and Georg Nissen, the Contest 48CS offers an optional winged keel designed in close cooperation with Piet van Oossanen (who also designed the famous wing keel of Australia when she won the America's Cup) of the Marin Naval Institute. - Mainsail and genoa II with sheets - Single line reefing system - Halyards of pre- stretched terylene - Mast winches for genoa and main halyards - 2 Sheet winches 2- speed, self- tailing - Burgee halyard and 2 flag halyards - Genoa tracks and blocks - Aluminium anodized mast and boom with track for spinnaker boom - Stainless steel standing rigging - Kicking strap - Wing keel with lead - Hull painted in AWL- Grip - Genoa I - Jib I - Jib II - Storm jib - Spinnaker with halyard and sheets - Cruising chute with halyard and sheets - UV- strip on reefing genoa - Spinnaker pole with halyard and guy - Reefing genoa system Furlex - backstay adjuster - winch - Stowaway system Furlin with winch - Stowaway system Furlin electric. - Stowaway system Proctor hydro-white - Fully battened mainsail - Windex - Winch for spinnaker halyard - Radar reflector - Tricolour masthead light incl. strobe - Cockpit light in boom - Rigid boom vang, Selden - Rigid boom vang, Proctor - Lightning conductor ## Inventory - B&G network with all the instruments, 2 plotters (in + out) , log, echosounder, wind, autopilot, VHF, radar , GPS, meteocom receiver, Navtex with printer, radio CD player, clock, barometer. - Outboard + tender, Sprayhood, Bimini - Life raft 2023 - CQR type anchor on stem head fitting with 50 m anchor chain 10 mm - Electric anchor winch - 2 Lifebuoys - Ensign staff - 2 Bilge pumps one fixed and one loose with a minimum capacity of 60 lts per minute - Stainless steel hand grips on the coach roof - 6 Cleats - 2 Lazarette lockers for sails and gas bottle - Red- green navigation lights, stern light and steaming light, masthead light and deck light - Self draining cockpit - Stainless steel double railed pulpit with step - Stainless steel double railed opening push pit, openable - Stanchions with double lifelines - Skylights - Sell draining anchor bin - Wheel steering with compass - Emergency tiller - Teak gratings on cockpit seats - 2 Fire extinguishers - Teak deck - 220V shore power with plug in galley - Swimming ladder - Spray dodger with s.s. frame - Tent over cockpit - Cover for anchor winch - Cover for steering pedestal - Windscreen and dodger - S.S windscreen - sprayhood - Anchor winch - Anchor winch, electric - Anchor chain, 50 m - Cockpit table - Gates in lifelines - Safety lines - 4 Harness eyes in cockpit - Support for outboard engine ## Photos - Contest 48CS: sailing under full main and genoa with crew in the cockpit, dark hull and teak deck: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-1-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: sail plan profile drawing showing masthead rig, dark blue hull and keel outline: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-2-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: three alternative accommodation layout drawings showing cabins, saloon, galley and heads: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-3-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: dark blue hull with gold cove stripes ashore on stands, showing wing keel and skeg-hung rudder: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-4-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: stern quarter ashore showing dark hull, gold stripe, rudder, propeller and swimming ladder: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-5-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: cockpit under blue bimini with wheel, teak seating and instrument pod, boat ashore: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-6-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: view aft over wheel to teak aft deck, winches and liferaft on pushpit, marina behind: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-7-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: teak aft deck with liferaft cradle, red ensign on staff and folding boarding ladder: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-8-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: cockpit seen from coachroof with wheel pedestal, sprayhood frame, winches and teak sole: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-9-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: cockpit and side deck from forward, showing winches, teak seats and companionway: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-10-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: saloon with blue upholstery, cherry-style joinery, oval table and B&G navigation station: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-11-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: galley and navigation area with gas cooker, chart table and blue seats: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-12-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: saloon U-shaped blue settee around varnished table, bookshelves and curtained windows: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-13-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: navigation station with switch panel, B&G display and chart table between blue seats: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-14-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: companionway steps, galley counter and navigation panel seen from the saloon: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-15-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: saloon settee and table with passage leading forward to the cabins: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-16-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: saloon looking aft to companionway steps and galley, blue settee and table: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-17-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: main electrical switch panel with fuel and water gauges and battery monitor: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-18-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: navigation panel with B&G Hydra display, Sailor handset, Navtex and HF receiver: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-19-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: b&G T12 multifunction display set in timber surround at the chart table: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-20-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: passageway from saloon forward to the V-berth cabin, teak and holly sole: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-21-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: forward cabin with V-berth, white mattresses, lockers and opening portlights: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-22-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: view aft through cabin doorway towards the saloon and companionway: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-23-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: heads compartment with washbasin, mirror, toilet and separate shower stall: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-24-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: wide saloon view from forward showing settee, navigation station and companionway: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-25-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: galley with twin sinks, gimballed gas cooker, cool box lid and mug rack: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-26-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: galley stainless steel sink with cover and three-burner gas hob: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-27-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: gimballed gas cooker with oven and stainless crash bar in galley: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-28-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: galley refrigerator with glass door, microwave above and mug rack: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-29-wm-1600.webp - Contest 48CS: aft cabin with large double berth flanked by blue upholstered seats: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/contest-48cs-21f9682384/contest-48cs-photo-30-wm-1600.webp Updated 2026-10-26. 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