Ice Yachts ICE CAT 61

Lightly used, extensively refitted and incredibly well-equipped carbon composite performance bluewater catamaran from Enrico Contreas Design and Ice Yachts in Italy.

FURTHER BROKER’S COMMENTS:

STELLA ROSSA is a lightly used and beautifully presented 2017 example of the carbon composite construction Enrico Contreas-designed Ice Yachts Ice Cat 61. Offering blistering bluewater cruising speeds, coupled with a stunning and versatile 4-cabin interior layout and a complete liveaboard cruising inventory.

Sold by Grabau International to her present owner in July 2025, STELLA ROSSA has had just three private owners since new. Having already benefitted from a rolling program of refit, upgrades and maintenance, her new owner then embarked on a further refit preparing her for trans-oceanic cruising ahead of relocating STELLA ROSSA from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and E.Coast USA region.

STELLA ROSSA’s specification highlights include:-
• Carbon Epoxy foam sandwich with vacuum infused hull construction with structural watertight bulkheads
• Carbon/epoxy curved daggerboards with 1.10m – 3.0m draft variance and operable via electric Antal
• Winches
• Carbon composite rudders
• MaxSpar carbon fibre mast with IMOCA carbon fibre boom
• Carbon fibre bowsprit
• A4 gennaker, Code 0 and second gennaker
• Carbon fibre tender davits with Highfield 3.8m console tender and 20hp outboard
• Carbon fibre passarelle
• Twin Volvo Penta D2-75 diesel engines with saildrive gearboxes and 4-bladed folding propellers
• Sleipner Sidepower 24vDC bowthruster
• Raymarine instrument package with 12” chart plotter displays, digital radar scanner, AIS transceiver and autopilot
• Sailor 150 Fleet Broadband satellite communications system
• Starlink Performance Ocean Cruising and Anchorage satellite internet
• MG Energy Systems Lithium-Ion 1000Ah service battery installation with charge controller
• Victron Energy battery charger and 5,000w inverter
• Mastervolt high-output 24vDC engine alternators on each engine
• Recently-installed Fischer Panda 5000i Neo diesel generator
• 1.6kw solar panel array with Victron MPPT charge controller
• DC switching/monitoring system for lighting, services, tankage, bilge levels and batteries
• Schenker 210lph reverse-osmosis watermaker
• Grey and black water holding tanks
• Mulitple fridges and freezers
• Bosch dishwasher
• Washer/dryer
• Electric heads with switchable fresh/salt water flush
• Frigomar 42,000BTU reverse-cycle air-conditioning system
• Eberspacher diesel-fired hot air cabin heating system
• Fusion Bluetooth stereo system
• LCD TV in saloon
• Versatile 4-cabin interior layout finished in light Oak joinery with 3-double cabins and one twin cabin
• Corian counters
• Alcantara upholstery

Jersey-flagged and available exclusive of EU taxes, making her an ideal option for international buyers, STELLA ROSSA is now offered for sale due to the fulfilment of her owner’s cruising plans and a wish to move on to new projects.

RECENT REFIT HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS:

2026
• New Raymarine digital radar scanner
• New Raymarine 12’’ plotter
• New Raymarine wind/speed/dept instruments
• New Raymarine ACU400 autopilot computer
• Routine engine servicing
• New battery main switch
• New cockpit camera
• New kitchen faucet
• New 2x Dyneema Gennaker halyards with Antal stopper
• New Antal Maxi Stopper
• New 2x Gas 11kg bottles
• New seawaterpump
• Mainsail service
• Reinforced bowsprit with additional row of eyelets to allow twin gennaker setup (butterfly configuration).
2025:
• New Engine batteries
• New Generator battery
• New UV protection (black colour) added to the mainsail head top
• New UV protection (black colour) added to the jib
• Jib reinforced with Dyneema webbing corners and strengthened leech area
• New Racing Design Sails A4 gennaker
• New Racing Design Sails Code 0
• New mainsail battens
• New Profurl furler spinex 6.5
• New sun protection headsail
• New LED Navigation lights
• New Hella LED deck light (mounted on spreaders)
• New Fischer Panda 5000i Neo diesel generator with dedicated start battery and charger
• New Coppercoat antifouling system
• New Quick 60 litre stainless steel hot water boiler
• New Starlink satellite internet system with Performance Ocean Cruising and Anchorage functionalities
• New showerheads and hoses installed
• New toilet controls and valves
• New additional 100 litre freezer
• New Bosch dishwasher
• New gas hose
• New toilet hoses
• New safety hatch on starboard hull to add a 3 additional section
• New watermaker primer pump
• New emergency mobile 28,000lph bilge pump system with 15m hose
• New liferaft
• New man overboard rescue system
• New 406Mhz EPIRB
• New saildrive seal (hull seal) fitted
• New seawater intake system components (hoses and sea cocks) for engine cooling
• New automatic and manual fire extinguishing systems for both engine compartments
• New emergency bilge pump in both engine compartments 1.200 l/h (317 gal/h)
• New Arrow Max 2.0 UV-C LED water purification system installed with filter and dedicated drinking water faucet.
• Seawater system installed for toilet flushing system

2024
• New 8x 200w Blugy solar panels
• New high pressure water maker pump
• New A/C pump
• New Gas bottle and regulator

2021-2023
• New Highfield 3.80m console tender - 2023
• New Tohatsu 20hp outboard engine with power trim - 2023
• New Schenker 210lph reverse osmosis watermaker - 2022
• Relocation of batteries storage - 2021

MANUFACTURER’S COMMENTS:

The ICE CAT 61 develops from the cooperation between ICE YACHTS and the yacht designer and engineer Enrico Contreas, father of the legendary catamarans Mattia and one of the most experienced designers of catamarans. Together Ice Yachts and Contreas began the design and the development of a new generation of catamarans, and the ICE CAT 61, a brand new multihull, characterized by very pure and efficient line. This represents a complete re-design of the legendary” SBANDATO”, the Mattia 56 that years ago, amazed everyone for the speed and manoeuvrability. It established a reference for a cat of that size.

The lines leave little to the fashion of the moment, such as the bows completely inclined backwards. We believe that a boat, which is, in any case, a cruising boat, although fast cruising boat, requires a convenient area in the bow, for example, in order to recover a mooring rope from a buoy without going crazy and this is the philosophy of our cat. The bow is anyway characterized by a “scimitar sword “shape as we find it on the new ICE 33 and ICE 52.

The spacious deck is high on the water, with big volume in the hulls to help when nosedive into the waves when going downwind. The deck high on the water means also a dry deck, so great comfort and safety, aspects that the technician of ICE YACHTS have kept in mind at every stage of the project.

Now, at a distance of 15 years, with the possibility of building hulls with new technologies and innovative materials, including the construction of epoxy resin, hybrid fabrics with glass/carbon, has allowed having hulls and interiors furniture light and strong.

The weight reduction translates into more speed and manoeuvrability, without giving up a high-quality interior, with modern design, optimized study to spaces and attention to finishing details.

ICE CAT 61 construction, interiors and finishes details are the same level of any Ice Yachts monohull, a level that you can’t find in the available cat boats sold presently in the market by mass production shipyard.

The overall length is 18.60 meters, for a good performance in water, stability, generous volumes both internal and external. The width of 8 meters, combined with max drought of 1 meter, gives the opportunity to enter ports and small bays without problems. The cockpit, located at the same level as the saloon floor, offers a large area, fully usable during the day, at night, at sea and at anchor, in perfect continuity with the inner saloon area. The sail plan, with its impressive carbon mast, the real engine of the boat, is effective and easy to manage. The mainsheet and the movement of his traveller can be combined with an electric motor, this automation makes it very simple to adjust the mainsail. The same is expected for the Solent, self-tacking. The Gennaker is the only sail that you have to manage manually, but with extreme comfort, using the electric winch. The expected Apparent Wind Angle is 30° because of the very clean water lines of the hulls, the tuning of the sail plan, and the efficacy of the appendages. Taking advantage of its size and the power-to-weight ratio ICE CAT 61 is engineered to create apparent wind speed and reach very high speed, impossible for a cruising monohull. The deck plan provides that the jib sheet slide along the gunwale recessed, so we have to ease movement on the deck.

The design speed sailing exceeds 25 knots since” SBANDATO “, the 56 Mattia reaches 23 Knots without problems, with autopilot. The projected speed under motor is at 13.5 knots using two engines of 80 hp each. For the insatiable, we have thought about an upgrade, a version in FULL CARBON, with foils, with which, under certain conditions, you can fly over the water. Among the options, we could adopt a hybrid propulsion, diesel/electric. We have a new solution, patent-pending. The innovation is that it can also be used in case of problems with the electronics.

The Ice Yachts shipyard is already well established for being the manufacturer of the largest sailing catamarans built in Italy. The ICECAT, like the rest of the Ice Yachts multihull fleet, will be made entirely at the futuristic Ice Yachts Cremonese shipyard, featuring expert craftsman dedicated to building beautiful world-leading catamarans.