Jeanneau Attalia

[blt2ski]

hmmmm, are you sure it is complete raw water cooling? Mine has fresh water cooling, but salt for the radiator if that is what is is called per say. I do understand the original sails issue too, as I had them also. BUT, nice thing about a boat with older sails vs newer ones, if the newish ones are say partial battans, and you want full, then you do not have to refit, or buy a new main! Or if they stayed with hanks, you want an RF system.......

Some good and bad to the options obviously, anyway, for me it had been 10G in new sails, main, spin, 110, 155 carbon, in so far, along with a 140 high cut cruising and a 130 reacher coming in the spring. I do some racing, hence the 155 carbon and all of the sails I own etc.

Good luck on choice!

marty

[JensK]

Hello everybody - and Happy New Year.
I only recently discovered this news group and already found a lot of good discussions here.
I have owned my Attalia for 4 years now and have been very pleased with it - which is luckily also the case for my family.
I have set up a website for our boat - in case anybody is curious. It is unfortunately in Danish - but I am sure you can find your way around.

trud

Best regards
Jens

[blt2ski]

Trud

Jens,

There is a clickable for folks, assuming I googled correctly. True, you can not post a link/picture or recieve PM's until you have 10 posts. Numerous ways to succeed. IE just make 10 posts counting down, or go to the song tread in off topic......anyway.

Welcome over here to this crazy group. Looks like your registered on the Jeanneau-owners site out of the UK too. Do you post on that forum too? Has a tendincy to be kinda slow at times, other than folks with newer boats.

Marty

[JensK]

Dear Marty
Thank you for inserting the link.
I discovered that the reason why I could not access the thread again was that I had kept myself logged-in - apparently one has to log out and then log in again between sessions.
Yes, I also registered with the Jeanneau Owners' site - but very litte is going on there - and they do not have a separate sub-sub-forum for Attalia.
Best regards
Jens

[jlv7777]

Hello, I am back after some time...

I will try to answer based on my experience:
- Hot water: We just bought and almost install a PLastimo 20L water heater system, we have put in the back cokpit in the place over the engine (Easy to connect to the engine, and very easy to pass it to the bathroom. We were going to connect to make the trials but because of a bad diesel fuel our engine sttoped and they are fixing it (About $3.000).

- Water capacity: Our previos owner added two deposits aft, one inside the locker and the other connected to this one in the place where the life rift is suppoused to go. For us now is excesive...

- Fuel capacity, it is not too big the tank, it is not the strongest point, for long navigation periods we carry a 45L deposit aoutside.

- The portlights: the previous owner added some small practical (Two on each side), bathroom, kitchen, cokpit and over chartdesk. It is fantastica, and you can open them to ventilate... VERY GREAT idea.

- Ice box, we had added an electrical system and is fantastic... it seems to be isolated very well...

- 12hp, In my opinion it will a very small engine, we have 18hp, and with big waves and bad conditions it is just limited... in fact we are thinking on changing the propeller...

Hello from Spain...

Originally Posted by Malabo

I am looking a purchasing a mid 80's Attalia and am generally hearing positive things for inside waters (BC, Washington).

Are there any owners out there who can comment on the following:

Adding hot water/creating a reasonable shower (does it have a shower sump?)

Adding water capacity;

Is the fuel capacity a problem?;

The portlights are a bit crazed and seem on the flimsy side. Has anyone experience re-doing these?

Any condensation issues in cooler climates?

The ice box is noted as poorly insulated. Can this be corrected?

The 12 HP diesel is on the light side. Is this an issue?

Thanks for any feedback.

Rob

[windhorze]

I love my Attalia but need to sell her...see the Classified section if interested...