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S/V Knot Bad is a Jolly Harbour, Antigua and Barbuda based 2008 Voyage Yachts 500 For Sale By Broker. Responses to inquiries may come from a broker who is representing the owner as a fiduciary. This owner requires financial settlement only. No trades.
Combined with upgraded electrical systems, modern charging, solar, safety equipment, and sail handling improvements, this is a turn-key offshore cruiser ready to depart without the usual refit headaches.
Specifications
| Name | S/V Knot Bad |
| Make | Voyage Yachts |
| Model | 500 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Multihull Sailboat |
| Builder | Voyage Yachts |
| Designer | Simonis Voogd |
| Construction | Fiberglass |
| Cabins | 5 |
| Heads | 5 |
| Galley | Up |
Dimensions
| Loa | 50ft / 15.24m |
| Lwl | 47ft / 14.33m |
| Beam | 27ft 2in / 8.28m |
| Headroom | 1.9 m |
| Draft | 4ft 5in / 1.35m |
| Mast Height | 68 ft |
Performance
| Engines | 2 x 57HP Yanmar 4JH57 2025 |
| Engine Hours | 75 / 75 |
| Generator | Northern Lights 6 kW |
| Displacement | 22660 lb |
| Sails | Endurance full-batten mainsail (6 battens, 2 reefs); Endurance genoa with UV cover; Parasailor 2024 Oxley Levante 17.50 spinnaker |
Layout Diagram
Inventory
Key Recent Upgrades
- New Yanmar 4JH57 engines with SD60 saildrives (December 2025, 75 hours)
- Parasailor 2024, Oxley Levante 17.50
- Northern Lights 6 kW generator 2024
- Victron electrical refit: Multiplus 12/3000, Cerbo GX, GX Touch 50, Victron SmartShunt, new AGM batteries
- Blue Sea ML automatic charging relays 2024
- 720 W solar with Victron controllers (four panels: 3 x 200 W, 1 x 120 W)
- Liferaft and updated offshore safety gear
- Bottom paint and antifouling December 2025
- Dyneema genoa halyard
- New trampoline and cockpit cushions
- New interior upholstery
- Secondary Anderson winch upgraded to electric
- Dedicated dinghy halyard added
- Primary anchor chain upgraded to 200 ft stainless steel
- Lumitec blue underwater lights on inboard and outboard hull sides
Forward and Aft Cabins
- Cabin and reading lights
- En suite heads with electric toilet, shower, basin, vanity cabinet with mirror
- Stainless steel towel rail
- Hanging lockers and storage cupboards
- Laundry locker with upholstered cover
- Moulded GRP modules
- Queen size berth with split mattresses
- Cabin fans
Double Guest Cabin (Forward of Mast)
- Double berth
- Two lights
- Two fans
- Storage locker
Main Saloon
- Faux teak and holly hard wearing vinyl flooring throughout
- Upholstered settee
- Alcantara ceiling liner
- Bar with seating for three
- Coffee table raised to dining height (original lower leg available)
- Corian type work surfaces
- Moulded GRP modules
- Standing headroom approx 1.9 m throughout
- Storage within seating modules
- Saloon fans
Galley
- Alcantara ceiling liner
- Two stainless steel sinks
- Two top opening freezers, 12 V air cooled (Adler Barbour)
- Four burner propane hob with propane oven
- Corian type work surfaces with stainless rails and fiddles
- Front opening refrigerator, 12 V air cooled (Adler Barbour)
- Large recessed drip tray
- Pressurized hot and cold water
- Stainless steel waste chute with cover
- U Line ice maker removed and replaced with efficient countertop unit
- Microwave oven
Hull and Deck
- Antifouling over epoxy based osmosis barrier
- Closed cell PVC foam core, vacuum bonded for stiffness, strength, and minimal weight
- Forward water tight compartments with horizontal bulkheads
- Hand laid up GRP construction using multilayers of quadraxial glass roving, isophthalic and orthophthalic polyester resin
- Low aspect reinforced keels, marine ply, and balsa core on critical structure bulkheads for added strength and stiffness
- Reinforced fitting areas for cleats and chain plates
- Skeg supported rudders
Deck Fittings
- Bow pulpits with teak bow seats
- Double guard wires with gates
- Grab rails on coach roof
- Pushpits on stern with brackets for life ring buoys and overboard lights
- Stanchions and stanchion bases
- Swim ladders port and starboard
- Water stays and crossbeam attachment points for bowsprit
Deck Equipment
- LEWMAR electric windlass
- 2 primary electric powered winches on coach roof
- 2 secondary winches in cockpit
- 8 aluminum mooring cleats
- Teak walkway between trampolines, tracks, cars, jammers, and blocks
- Webbing trampolines
Hatches and Windows
- 6 GRP locker lids in cockpit
- 8 reflective laminated safety glass windows
- 11 LEWMAR port lights
- 15 LEWMAR hatches
- 5 anodized aluminum framed sliding doors with safety glass and fixed opening positions
- Ventilation and escape hatch with teak grid
- Port lights in aft coaming
Cockpit and Aft Deck
- 6 storage lockers
- Cockpit deck level walk through to dive platform
- Dinghy stowage supports and BBQ mounting point on aft crossbeam
- Dive equipment and dive tank lockers for 8 cylinders
- Double helmsman seat
- GRP cockpit table
- Hard top Bimini and spray dodger
- Sheet pouches x 2 and utility pouch x 1
- Steering console including instrument console with new 12 inch multifunction display
- Stainless steel steering wheel
- Teak dive platform and aft deck
- Teak grating at the saloon sliding door
- Traveler arch
- Cockpit cushions
- Rear Bimini sun shade
Electronics and Navigation
- Compass
- Icom IC M304 VHF radio
- Raymarine i60 Tridata and Wind
- Raymarine p70 autopilot with Whitlock rotary drive
- Raymarine C125 chart plotter with AIS and digital radar
- Instrument console with new 12 inch multifunction display
Electrical Power and Plumbing
- Two new 125 A alternators with smart multi stage regulators
- Two engine start batteries, 12 V 65 Ah
- Battery isolator switches
- Circuit breaker panel
- Ceiling, cockpit, deck, lazarette, and engine compartment lighting
- Interior AC outlets: four in saloon, one in each cabin
- Blue Sea ML automatic charging relays 2024
- Victron inverter and AGM batteries 2024: Victron Multiplus 12/3000, Cerbo GX, GX Touch 50 display, Victron SmartShunt
- Masthead and lower navigation lights
- House battery banks: 8 x 6 V 220 Ah deep cycle AGM (Vision EVGC 220A AM)
- Shore power cable, one 50 A
- Four solar panels (3 x 200 W and 1 x 120 W) with individual Victron controllers (total 720 W)
- Air conditioning, 30,000 BTU total with four individual units
- Dimmers, courtesy lights, boom light
- 12 V outlets
- Fusion MS AV755 multimedia stereo with interior and exterior speakers
- 22 inch flat panel TV
- Sea R O watermaker, 800 GPD
- Electric toilet
- Northern Lights generator, 6 kW
Engine and Mechanical
- 2 x Inboard Yanmar 4JH57 2025, 57 HP diesel (75 engine hours on each)
- SD60 saildrives
- 3 blade bronze propellers
- Sail drive propulsion system
Rigging
- 7/8 fractional rig
- Anchor chain lead internally through compression post
- Anodized aluminum mast, boom, cross beam, and double compression post
- Attachment point for bowsprit
- Color coded sheets and control lines
- Double purchase main halyard
- Dedicated dinghy halyard and flag halyards
- Port and starboard mast support: triple spreaders, intermediate and cap shrouds, forestay, and inner forestay
- Reefing lines x 2 and luff pendants x 2
- Telescopic boom derrick for hauling a dinghy onto the dive platform
Sails
- Endurance mainsail, 2 ply construction with Dimension OC materials, 2 reefs, 6 full battens, Velcro tie in batten pockets, ring and lug headboard, overhead leechline, reefblock leech low friction ring, drawstring bag 420D
- Endurance genoa constructed of Dimension OC 348g with UV cover, luff tape, and drawstring bag 420D
- Parasailor 2024 (Oxley Levante 17.50) spinnaker with spinnaker halyard and color coded running rigging
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