A great deal for the sailor looking for a beautiful, non-chartered,
shallow draft yacht.....
“Paradox”, a 2001 Jeanneau 43 DS, is a privately owned yacht that has never been in the charter services in the islands. It has been only sailed and enjoyed seasonally as a family yacht. Additionally, it ALSO IS WATERWAY FRIENDLY both in draft and mast height to allow for passages under the standard 64 foot fixed bridges. This Sun Odyssey Jeanneau 43’ Deck Salon offers a bright and open interior and features two stateroom with two heads. This version can also be easily and cleverly converted to a three stateroom arrangement as might be needed by the next owner.
When in the late 1950’s, Henri Jeanneau began building motorboats from the new wonder product called fiberglass-reinforced plastic, he couldn’t have imagined that the company bearing his name would someday have turned out more than 60,000 boats, or 4,000 boats annually. But 45 years and three owners later, Chantiers Jeanneau does exactly that. And while the French yard employs state-of-the-art technology in its production line to handle such capacity, still its boatbuilding techniques remain almost as traditional as they were in Henri’s day.
Built of hand-laid fiberglass without a core, the 43 hull, like other Jeanneau sailboats, is stiffened with laminated-wood longitudinal stringers and ring frames and without structural liners. For years, this was a point of difference between Jeanneau and its archrivals at Beneteau, whose boats are engineered with liners. Even after Groupe Beneteau bought Chantiers Jeanneau in 1995, the construction differences between Jeanneau and Beneteau remain.
