1980 CUSTOM BUILT 50' for Sale in Charleston, South Carolina
Luna is a center cockpit, schooner-rigged, fifty-foot fiberglass sailboat with a variable draft swing keel controlled by a hydraulic ram. The vessel was designed by Dick Carter (designed several Southerly Yachts) and originally constructed to RINA standards by Lu Crestitalia S.p.A in Ameglia, La Spezia, Italy. She was launched at Cantieri Navali de La Spezia, Italy in 1980. She is solid. She loves the wind and handles rough weather smoothly. She has circumnavigated and spent most of her life in the Caribbean.LUNA, one of the later Dick Carter offshore designs, is a 50’ Schooner showcasing some groundbreaking innovations for the time: it sports a “boomless” Luna Rig that carries a furling, self-tacking headsail on each forestay as well as a variable draft swing keel.
Luna was updated in 2005 and 2023. She sleeps 8 in four cabins and has two heads.
The lead variable draft swing keel allows for a deep, powerful, ocean-going draft of 9.5’ (2.85m), while the retracted draft of only 4.5’ (1.4m) allows for entrance to otherwise inaccessible locations. Imagine the possibilities!
General Features
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
Designer
CUSTOM BUILT
Hull Material
Fiberglass
Boat Type
Sail
Category
Schooner
Fuel Tank Capacity
120 Gal
Fresh Water Tank
240 Gal
Model
4JH3-HTE
Engine Hours
2089 H
Fuel Type
Diesel
Horsepower Per Engine
100 HP
Measurements
OVERALL LENGTH
50 FT
BEAM
14.41 FT
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FOR SALE
2019 RADEŽ D.D. 157' 6"
CORSARIO
($5,487,075 USD est.) €4,950,000 EUR
Charleston, South Carolina
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About Oaksmith Yachts
We know what it feels like to need to know what's past that next hill. To stare across an ocean and want to see what's out there. To wonder what's in that bay or on that island past that next point. To only have a day or a week to explore what should take months. We know what it's like to not be able to afford to let the weather stop you. We know what it feels like and we have a solution.