NAUTOR SWAN Nautor Swan 65

ARION is one of the late Nautor Swan 65s, launched 1983 and hull number 65-037. She has been with the current family ownership since 1995. Although well looked after over the years and updated in various areas, she does now need some works to bring her back to top “Swan” condition. Hence the attractive pricing. An opportunity to buy an original style Sparkman and Stephens Swan 65 ketch and refit her to your own plans and wishes.

Construction

RCD Status: Our understanding is that the yacht is exempt from the essential safety requirements of the Recreational Craft Directive as she was built and placed into use within the EU prior to 1998.

 

Hull, Deck & Superstructure Construction:

• White hull with blue cove line and blue coaming stripes at waterline.
• Teak deck – refitted 1992 but we believe is original.

 

Keel & Rudder:

• Ballast weight approx. 13,990kg / 30,600lb.

Machinery

Engine & Gearboxes:

• 1 x Volvo Penta TMD41A 148hp turbo engine.
• The entire engine was out of yacht and rebuilt in November 2017.
• New turbo – 2023.
• New intercooler – 2024.
• New water pump – 2025.
• Engine control panel and throttle by helm.

 

Note: Nautor Swan 65-037 was the first Swan 65 to have a Volvo Penta TMD41A 148hp engine (instead of the Perkins 115hp installed to earlier yachts).

 

Maintenance & Performance:

• Engine hours – approx. 14,888 as of November 2025.
• Has had various recent work 2023, including: mountings, new turbo, intercooler renewed, new water pump, new 24V alternator.

 

Propulsion & Steering:

• 3-blade MaxProp propeller.
• Cable and quadrant type steering system with single “Destroyer” type wheel.

Electrical Systems

Voltage Systems:

• 220/110V shore power system with 220/24v.
• 12V and 220V outlets in cabins.
• Battery parallel switch.
• 220V systems include water heater, charger, outlets, fridge, watermaker, air compressor.

 

Battery Banks:

• 12 x 6V Trojan T-145 deep cycle, service batteries, under aft cabin floor.
• Engine start battery – new January 2026.
• Exide 80Ah AGM generator start battery, under the aft cabin floor forward.

 

Battery Chargers:

• 24V battery charger.
• Parallel switch / supply for emergency starting.
• 800W inverter.

 

Alternators:

• 24V alternator – 2023.

 

Generator:

• Onan diesel generator.
• Generator hours – approx. 2,661 as of November 2025.

 

Shore Power:

• 230v, 50Hz, 32A shore power inlet.
• Shore power cable and plugs.
• 125v, 30A shore power inlet.

Plumbing Systems

Fresh Water & Water Heating System:

• 60-litre hot water tank, hot water via 220V or engine calorifier.
• Hot and cold freshwater cockpit shower.

 

Watermaker:

• Eco System 220V watermaker.
• Control panel at chart table, filters under port forward sofa, unit is under the floor.

 

Bilge Pumps:

• Electric shower sump tank pumps.
• Manual bilge pumps.
• Automatic bilge pumps.

Tankage

Fuel:

• 1,000 litres in 4 x stainless steel tanks.

 

Fresh Water:

• 1,000 litres in 6 x stainless steel tanks.
• Water tanks were removed from the yacht spring 2018, bilge cleaned, tanks checked and returned.

 

Grey/Blackwater Holding Tanks:

• Showers and washbasins drain to greywater sump tanks.
• Blackwater tank.

Navigation Equipment

• B&G system renewed in 2021/22, including:
  1. MFD in aft cabin on port side.
  2. MFD at chart table.
  3. MFD at helm on pedestal.
  4. 5 x Analogue displays in cockpit (AWS, boat speed, AWA, Mag WA, and depth).
• Autopilot – B&G control unit at helm, port side, with older Neco autopilot motor.
• Lorenz Pan Navigator MkII Plus chart plotter with C-map cartridges.
• Furuno GP31 GPS.
• Raymarine C.120 radar, scanner on mizzen mast.
• Sailor RT5022 VHF with DSC and cockpit repeater – 1991.
• Portable VHF radio.
• Windex.
• Autonautic pedestal compass.

Domestic Equipment

Galley:

• 24V freezer and 24V fridge system – new in 2022/23.
• 4-burner Alpes Inox gas cooker and oven.
• LG microwave in aft cabin locker.
• Vetus gas detector.

 

Heads/Showers:

• All toilets electric.

 

Heating & Ventilation:

• 7 x Oscillating 24V fans.

 

Entertainment:

• Loewe TV in saloon on starboard (cleverly hinges up/down with access to stowage behind).
• JVC CD/radio. Speakers in saloon and cockpit.

 

Lighting:

• Windex light at mast head.

Accommodation

Summary of Accommodation:

• Teak cover on main and mizzen masts.
• Saloon seating upholstery in beige velours material.
• 7 x Hella oscillating fans around the yacht.
• Reading lamps at each berth.

 

Description of layout from forwards:

 

Foc´s´le:

• 2 x Folding pipe berths.
• Sail stowage under.
• Access to starboard forward head compartment.

 

Forward Starboard Guest Cabin:

• Upper and lower single berths.
• Hanging locker.
• Lockers.
• Access to head compartment forward.

 

Forward Starboard Head Compartment:

• Electric toilet.
• Washbasin.
• Shower.

 

Forward Port Guest Cabin:

• Upper and lower single berths.
• Hanging locker.
• Lockers and drawers.
• Access to head compartment forward.

 

Forward Port Head Compartment:

• Ensuite to forward port guest cabin.
• Electric toilet.
• Washbasin.
• Shower.

 

Saloon:

• Large U-shape settee to port.
• Dining table on port side, with two folding leaves (forward and aft), with stowage in the table base, and in the centre of the table top. Removable fiddles.
• Lockers and shelves outboard over port settee.
• Settee to starboard, can be used as a berth.
• Lockers and entertainment centre outboard over starboard settee.
• The settees were moved further outboard to standard at build, in order to provide greater floor space.
• Rectangular opening in bulkhead between saloon and galley.
• Four lamps – two each side (forward and aft).

 

Galley:

• To port and aft of the saloon.
• 4-burner Alpes Inox gas cooker and oven.
• Top loading freezer.
• Front and top loading 24V fridge.
• Double sink.
• Plenty of stowage space.

 

Navigation Area:

• To starboard, opposite the galley.
• Nav desk and seat.
• Instruments.
• Electrical panel.

 

Owner´s Cabin:

• Double berth to port.
• Wider than standard single berth to starboard.
• Seat between berths.
• Lockers aft of the seat.
• Drawers under the beds.
• Dressing table / desk, with drawers and a swing out stool, and lockers above to starboard.
• Opening port to cockpit. Opening port starboard in coaming.
• Extra locker and drawers forward (between head area and door to saloon).

 

Owner´s Head Compartment:

• Electric toilet.
• Washbasin.
• Shower.
• Lockers below and above washbasin.

Deck Equipment

Rig:

• Ketch rig with the optional taller main mast (l: 24.38m).
• Two spreader anodised alloy main mast, by Nautor.
• Single spreader anodised alloy mizzen mast, by Nautor.
• Wire stainless steel rigging, shrouds, and runners – renewed 2018.
• Reckmann manual furling forestay. New stainless steel Reckmann rod stay 2018.
• Removable inner stay for N5 jib, which fixes immediately aft of the furling unit and when not in use stows by the side of the mast. There is also the standard removable inner stay, with fixing point recessed on the foredeck, which also stows by the side of the mast when not in use.
• Frederiksen car system for mainsail track.
• Slab reefing mainsail.
• Lazy jack system for mainsail.
• Cutter stay.
• Removable inner stay.
• Navtec hydraulic system: 2 x linked hydraulic backstay cylinders (new 2021), plus adjustable boom vang – both operated from central control panel in the cockpit.
• Boom vang with central control panel in cockpit.
• Spinnaker pole stows on mast.
• Step on the mast.
• The mast was out of the yacht March-April 2018. The main mast has had works at the base and at the vang and gooseneck areas – the stainless-steel fittings removed, cleaned and rebedded, with similar work on the mizzen mast gooseneck. Spreaders were removed and repaired / polished as needed.
• Much of the running rigging was renewed 2018 as well.

 

Winches:

 

Note: Most winches were upgraded at build from standard size and all to stainless steel.

 

• At cockpit:
  1. 2 x 90 ST 3-speed Lewmar primaries with centreline pedestal coffee grinder.
  2. 2 x 66 ST Lewmar electric secondary sheet winches, on coaming – changed by current owner.
  3. 2 x 44 ST, one on each side of companionway.
  4. 2 x 30 ST for mainsheet track, one on each side.

• At mast:
  1. 2 x 48 ST on mast, port side.
  2. 1 x 44 ST on mast, forward.
  3. 1 x 55 ST on mast, starboard side.
  4. 2 x 48 ST on mast, starboard side.
  5. 2 x 44 ST on deck by mast.
  6. 1 x 66 ST electric on deck by mast, starboard side – main halyard (added by current owner).
• Aft:
  1. 2 x 44 ST on port side by mizzen mast.
  2. 1 x 48 ST on starboard side by mizzen mast.
  3. 1 x 40 2-speed on mizzen mast, port side.
  4. 1 x 30 ST on mizzen mast, starboard side.
  5. 2 x 44 ST for runners, aft.

 

Sails:

• Mainsail – good condition.
• Mizzen sail.
• Furling genoa.
• N°3 jib.
• N°5 jib.
• Gennaker.

 

General:

• Pulpit with teak seat.
• Gate in pushpit.
• Opening side gates in safety lines amidships on each side.
• Folding gangway.
• Side swim ladder – stows in foc´s´le.
• Hot and cold-water fresh water shower at cockpit, port side.
• Seawater deck wash system at bow.
• Extra opening hatches in forward heads, galley, and chart table, from build.
• Sliding forward deck hatch to foc´s´le.
• Dorade ventilators.
• Deck prisms in bridge deck and over each guest cabin (from build).
• Deck hatches over each forward cabin.
• Large hatch over saloon.
• “Granny bars” at mast.
• Stainless steel handrails at companionway.
• Large mooring cleats – 2 forward, 2 each side amidships.

 

Anchoring & Mooring Equipment:

• Lewmar 3000 hydraulic windlass mounted on deck, with a hand-held plug-in control (renewed by current owner – replacing old Titan electric one).
• Hydraulic power pack for windlass in the foc´s´le.
• To run the windlass, you need the generator running.
• Anchor and chain.
• Boarding gangway / passarelle.

 

Covers, Canvas & Cushions:

• Sail covers for main and mizzen.
• Wheel cover.
• Compass cover.

Safety Equipment

• 8-person life raft.
• EPIRB.

 

Fire-Fighting Equipment:

• Automatic fire extinguisher system in engine room.
• Manual fire extinguishers.