1967 Custom BUCHANAN 15 m14m

For the ancient Greeks, Venus anadiomene was Venus born from the waves of the sea.

The italian poet D'Annunzio dedicated this epithet to Venice: the anadiomede city, beautiful as Venus and rising from the sea.

Evidently the first Venetian owner of this beautiful seagoing boat wanted to equate her with Venus and Venice and named her ANADIOMENE 

Anadiomene was designed by Alain Buchanan (1922-2015) a renowned British naval architect and yachtsman. He designed over 2400 yachts, including yachts that won the Admiral's Cup, Cowes Week, the Fastnet and the Sidney Hobart. 

Buchanan began his career as a draughtsman and aircraft engineer at the De Havilland Aircraft Company. In 1997 he received a major award from RINA  ( Italian Naval Register ) for his design of small and medium-sized boats built in Italy. Buchanan's cruising boats are famous for their seaworthiness, excellent hulls, interior roominess and optimisation of volumes and spaces.

Anadiomene was built by Cantiere Craglietto in 1967 in Trieste.  Like his father and grandfather, Mariano Craglietto was considered an excellence in shipbuilding. The designer Carlo Sciarrelli publicly praised him, declaring the Craglietto shipyard 'the best shipyard in the world'.

Last haul out , painting and antifouling paint in May 2022

Engine Perkins 90HP

Propeller Max Prop

Bow Thruster

Generator Mase 3.5KW

Battery charger Cristec 60A 

Batteries 2 x Service and Engine  - 1 x Generator - 1 x Bow Thruster

Water tank Stainless steel, capacity 800 l

Diesel tank Stainless steel capacity 500 l

Grey water tank with electric waste pump

Heater: Diesel heather with 4 internal vents

Boiler 20 l electric

Shower :indoor/outdoor hot/cold

Sails: mainsail, mizzen, genoa with Bamar Magic electric  furler, jib with manual furler, staysail, gennaker,  2 SPI, mizzen staysail 2 wooden spinnaker booms.

Winch:4 in cockpit + 5 mast .Navigation device: Raymarine ST - Depth, Wind, 2 Log

Radio VHF 25W (Linerar amplifier100 W), SSB 150W

Radar Raytheon

Autopilot Nautiradar

Anchor windlass Lofrans Falkon  2KW - double barbotin

Anchors One Delta with 70 m 10mm stainless steel chain and one Fisherman with 40m, 10mm stainless steel chain

Teak gangway:  2,30 metres long

Awnings

Cushions Complete for interior and exterior

Tender 2.2m neoprene with  Mercury 5CV engine

Safety equipment

RINA Certificate expires 2025, 8-person raft, fires, life jackets, belts, life line

CONSTRUCTION 

30 mm mahogany planking, caulked and copper-nailed. Teak deck from 2010 in excellent condition. Cast iron ballast.

 INTERIOR

Very spacious interior:

Cabins:1 aft cabin with two berths and bathroom, 1 double cabin in the bow, 1 cabin with three berths and a further three berths in the dinette.Total 10 berths

Bathrooms :Two: one with electric WC and one with manual pump

Description :Going below deck you arrive directly in the dinette, comfortable and spacious, with four large portholes, two of which can be opened fully. This allows a complete view of the outside panorama and perfect ventilation. The cushions in this area were renewed in 2021. Here we find a comfortable sofa that can be used as a navigational berth, two settees/berths with a dining table that can be lowered to create a double bed. Towards the stern, a door opens onto a cabin with two very spacious bunks and a dedicated bathroom.

Continuing from the dinette towards the bow to starboard is the galley with an airing hatch. It is equipped with a three-burner Alpes cooker with oven, cockpit refrigerator, and sink with hot and cold water. Opposite on the left side is a bathroom with electric pump, sink and shower.

A door separates the living area from the walk-through cabin where there are three beds..

Finally, in the bow, the fore cabin, which can also be closed with a door, can be used to create a large double bed (cushions made in 2021) or to be used as a sail locker. From the forward cabin, through a porthole, there is direct access to the deck.

Since 1967, the year of its launch, the boat has changed very few owners, who have been able to love her, maintaining her with precise and punctual ordinary and extraordinary interventions, modernising her just enough to make her liveable and seaworthy without altering the original design.

 It is a boat suitable for cruising with ample interior and exterior space, and the on-board equipment (sails, dinghy, instrumentation, tanks, generator, double anchor, etc.) is complete and suitable for long navigation.

In the external cockpit, in addition to the helm and navigation instruments (modernised this year 2022), there is a convivial space with a removable teak table and complete cushions.