Description

6.50 metres / 21ft ocean-going solo or crewed yacht.
21ft long upwind.. 33ft long downwind!

Historic vessel
“Number One” / “Numéro Un” / “#0001”
• First Mini 6.50 registered, with full race history, skippers and crew history on Classe Mini website www.classemini.fr
• Classe Mini currently lists 1130 x Minis Classe Mini all of whom display their registration number on their hull. Hence this having the historic #0001
• Eight transatlantic crossings in total, from France to Caribbean five times & France to/from Brazil three times;
• Five transatlantic crossings in Mini Transat races from France to Canaries (Stage 1) to Martinique / Guadeloupe / Brazil (Stage 2)
• Total sea miles approx. 35,000+nm !!
• Designed by Paul Berret, La Rochelle, who has been Beneteau / Jeanneau’s primary designer for 30 years with an estimated 15,000 Berret designs sailing today.
• Built and raced in Mini Transats by Yves Dupasquier, La Rochelle.
Pictorial history of the boat here: https://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%20Minis/1.htm

2024 re-fit
• Sailed 1,000km from La Rochelle to Cork, two-handed by current owner with the original boatbuilder / most recent previous owner
• Dry docked, fully marine insurance surveyed, rated for IRC/ECHO and insured for racing in Irish coastal waters.
• Re-painted topsides, deck, hull, spinnaker pole, boom and rudders.
• Carbon fibre boom (3.8m) and spinnaker pole (3.8m).
• Unsinkable construction: 1,000 litres of buoyancy required in all Minis to ensure they remain afloat even if holed below the waterline or split in two

Added new in 2024:
• Spinlock EA Tiller Extension & Diablo Universal Joint: upright tiller for single-handed helming and freeing cockpit space
• Solar panel for charging batteries
• Outils Ocean halyard bags
• New hull graphics applied
• New turning blocks & cleats added for easier trimming of runners & jib
• Replaced various running rigging
• All shackles, jammers, blocks cleaned & serviced for free running and easy operation
Electronics
• Raymarine Autopilot – old style, no graphic display
• Blaupunkt stereo & speakers
• 200 litre water ballast system with pumps (currently un-installed)

Sails
• Mainsail with three reefs – laminated Vectra
• Jib with single reef
• Gennakers x 2 with one furling block
• Fractional spinnaker
• Storm main
• Storm jib
• All to class specifications

Class benefits
Because Minis are a box class with equal measurements, second-hand high quality sails and equipment are always available through the class website. Extremely easy to upgrade / pimp up with so much equipment and ideas available.
 

Specifications

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