General description
The Focus 800 is a beautiful daysailer with super sailing characteristics. This sailing yacht the "Blue Heron" is an 8-meter long open sailboat and is fast, comfortable, stable. Alone or with friends, in the spacious cockpit with two movable teak benches and folding teak table, you can fully enjoy or compete fanatically. "Single-handed sailing in style" in an "eye-catching headturner" that's the Focus 800. This polyester sailing yacht has teak deck in rounding laid with teak fishing and mahogany planking, an inboard diesel engine which makes maneuvering very comfortable. Also powerful on big waters! Furthermore, this Focus 800 beautiful decklid over entire yacht. Beautiful sails in good to very good condition, including: furling jib (very neat), half-winder with its own staysail and furling system (very neat), genoa (very neat), battened mainsail to be stowed via roller jib of white lacquered carbon-fibre. The maintenance of woodwork, hull and engine neatly kept. Every winter in shed located. Last antifouling and engine service spring 2023. The sailing pictures are taken from a sister ship with wind force 5.
General
(Niek Goes)
(cast iron keel)
with extender
(bulb / cast iron)
Accommodation
two teak benches in cockpit (movable or take out), teak fold-away table in cockpit.
Engine, electrics
2-blade folding screw
12V
Navigation and electronics
Rig and sails
Selden (white lacquered carbon-fibre)
(good)17.6 m2 tri-optimally cut, 5x battened and cover
roller boom white lacquered carbon-fibre
furling jib(good) with cover
(very neat) with its own roll-stay (easy to snap on and off)
Rich appearance and distinctive cruising characteristics!
The Focus 800 is for lovers of classic boats who value stability, speed, comfort and ease of operation. She is reminiscent of sailing yachts as you often saw them in the 1930s: traditional lines with overhangs, fore and aft that don't seem to stop anywhere.
The difference is in the polyester hull, the rigging and the underwater hull with bulb keel and balanced rudder. The special feature of the Focus is that it was specifically designed as a large comfortable one-man boat. All trim lines and sheets to the trim table. This gives the helmsman/woman full control at his/her fingertips and a crew does not definitely have to actively sail along but can fully enjoy the tranquility and the water.
Much attention has been paid to ease of use and comfort. For example, all lines run under the floor to the so-called trim table in the cockpit. Because of this facility, the Focus 800 can be sailed single-handed. Important for stability is the bulb keel of 450 kg. This Focus 800 comes with a diesel engine with saildrive. The fact that the engine sits in front of the rudder creates optimum pressure and keeps the boat maneuvering well under all conditions.
Deck Equipment
Danforth
all over boat (good)
additional recessed frogs in aft deck, additional removable bench (2017), boom-cladding. In 2019 and 2021 improvements and reinforced cunstrucities were applied for mast support and renew and reinforce trim-table. Total for €. 7,000 spent on improvements then. All maintenance invoices are incidentally present from 2017 to June 2023.
Safety
Manual