IMPRESSIONS
Instantly good looking… and with so much more to her than first meets the eye.
With a big boat feel and our high-end Dutch quality the Contest 42CS is a very special yacht for her size, and one full of surprises for family and friends first stepping on board. Super spacious, super sorted and so easy to sail and manoeuvre, and typically 'Contest Quiet' underway.
SPECIFICATION IS PERSONAL
With Contest it's as easy to choose how you want your yacht fitted as selecting the right scented soaps to refresh your life afloat!
With a sense of more openness within the interior, created partly by the introduction of more light with increased glazing and new thinking in ambient and mood lighting, the Contest 42CS retains all of our 60-year history in keeping accommodation and working spaces safe and secure in every situation, be it at rest or out in a big seaway.
We also build to make living aboard easy. Not just in cabin arrangements but in the construction of every element. Furnishings are refined but equally robust, hand-finished surfaces incredibly smooth and tactile yet really tough. Corners are radiused to prevent injury, and everything fits tight so there's not a rattle.
RELIABILITY IS IN-BUILT ... SO TOO IS YOUR SECURITY
On deck you’ll see the craftsmanship in the sculptural shaping and polished welds of the sturdy stainless steel railings. You’ll enjoy the beautiful shaping of the composite mouldings perhaps unaware of the complexity in creating such contours. Below in the well thought layout it’s everywhere you turn, in the seamless grain-matched joinery, the hand stitching of turned corners for the settee cushions.
And then there's what is actually in and under those cushions to maximise comfort and durability. Less glamorous, but no less important in this practice, are the boat’s hidden systems, the electrics and electronics, pumps, engine, generator, complex hydraulics. All installed with pre-planned care, minimising noise and vibration, all clearly routed, labelled, sited for optimised access.
Conforming with strict international classification standards, equipment is invariably highly specified. The list runs on and on. Ampage sufficient to run all apparatus simultaneously. Fuel and water tankage to support distant voyaging. So, with Contest Yachts it’s not just what you see that counts. What you don’t see is equally significant. We go the extra mile to make sure you can, too.
Reassuring quality and comfort
Even in the simplest arrangements there is deep thought in delivery. Mattresses are of the highest quality and set on ventilated slat-sprung bases with assisted lifting for simple stowage beneath. Linings, too, are of the highest quality for personal comfort and top level insulation.
So, keep looking at the Contest 42CS, there’s so much more to this yacht than mind and eye first see.
