Wauquiez Centurion 40 - SOLD
$100,000
Location
Panama
Year
1989
Beam (m)
3.85
Length (m)
12.55
Tax Status
Not Paid
Sleeps
4 People
NORSU is a well-maintained example of the Centurion 40, a fast, elegant and highly seaworthy cruiser designed by Ed Dubois and built in 1987 by the respected French builder Henri Wauquiez. She's currently lying on a pontoon mooring on the Pacific side of Panama, offered at $100,000 USD (tax not paid).
For the past year, Norsu's current owners sailed her from the UK across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and on to Panama, living aboard full-time. Following an extensive 2020 refit by her previous owners, the current owners invested significantly more in 2023 to prepare her for a planned three-year circumnavigation — a new engine, new mainsail, new electronics including a Starlink and Iridium setup, all-new safety equipment including a 6-person liferaft, all nine through-hull fittings replaced, and new standing rigging fitted in 2020. Their circumnavigation plans were cut short by personal circumstances, leaving Norsu a genuinely turnkey bluewater cruiser ready for her next adventure.
Her shoal-draft lead bulb keel gives just 5'3" of draft, opening up shallower anchorages without compromising her offshore ability — a boat that has already crossed the Atlantic at least nine times, sailed easily short-handed thanks to her excellent cockpit layout, and offers over 2m of headroom throughout for genuinely comfortable liveaboard cruising.
Draft (m)
2.3
Sleeps
Panama
Builder: Henri Wauquiez
Model: Centurion 40
Designer: Ed Dubois
Year Built: 1987
Boat Name: Norsu
LOA: 39'4" / 12 m
LWL: 32'10" / 9.75 m
Beam: 13'5" / 4 m
Draft: 5'3" / 1.60 m (shoal-draft, lead bulb keel)
Displacement: 9,500 kg
Headroom: 2 m throughout
Rig: Masthead cutter-rigged sloop
Location: Panama (Pacific side)
Tax Status: Not paid
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.