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The Castellina Sul Mare is a unicorn of high-quality cruising yachts. Exceedingly rare to the market. Swedish build, aft-cockpit and pilot saloon. A very highly specified example of the Gabriel Heyman designed Fantasi 44 from Jaccobssons in Sweden launched in 2003. The Fantasi 44 really is a very very special yacht and one which would simply not be financially viable to build today. Below decks, her comfortable and beautifully appointed teak-finished two cabin, two heads layout offers plentiful living space for a short-handed crew with a large upper saloon, lower dinette and fantastic lower galley. Fantasi 44 is a proper sailboat. The freeboard is lower than usual. The keel has a longish fin with the lead positioned very low, in a pronounced bulb. Therefore, in spite of the yacht being of moderate displacement, she has turned out just as stiff and powerful as you would expect from a blue water cruiser. The result is a modern yacht with a slender, easily-driven hull shape. Most are still in original ownership as there are few yachts out there that offer an improvement. |