2018 Allures 45.9 for Sale – 48 ft – Bodrum, Turkey

This stunning 3-cabin, 2-heads alloy & composite centreboard sloop is fitted out for serious liveaboard and circumnavigation duties. 

FURTHER BROKER COMMENTS:

Launched in 2018, One-Owner privately used, professionally looked after and Turkish flagged / taxes paid, GRANMA features absolutely everything a serious liveaboard yachtsman could wish for to enable safe and comfortable passage across the world’s oceans. Her strong alloy construction, coupled with her light and well-insulated composite superstructure make her a safe and comfortable home, whilst her twin rudders and powerful cutter rig afford thrilling performance under sail. Her centreboard and fully-skegged saildrive offer unrivalled access and protection in the most challenging of anchorages. 

Specification highlights include:- 

•    Centreboard version with fully skeg-protected Saildrive gearbox

•    Ocean interior layout with ‘Zen’ light oak joinery

•    Modular forward owner’s cabin with centreline double berth converting to twin berths

•    Saloon table converting to double berth

•    Webasto heating system

•    Fischer Panda 5kw generator

•    Dessalator 12vDC watermaker

•    Bowthruster 

•    800w solar panels on transom arch

•    Upgraded battery capacity

•    Hydrovane self-steering 

•    Sloop rig with removable inner forestay for staysail

•    Fully-battened mainsail with Harken battencar system and single/twin line reefing

•    Gennaker 

•    Electric halyard winch

•    Additional spinnaker winches

•    Cork decking to cockpit and bathing platform

•    Davits built into transom arch

•    B&G instrument package with plotter/radar displays at chart table and at both helm positions

•    Fusion stereo system

•    Iridium GO sat coms

•    Highfield aluminium-bottomed tender with outboard

REFIT HISTORY

2022

•    New 5x service batteries 

2021

•    New solar panels

•    New Generator 

•    New Watermaker

•    New extra sails

2018

•    New tender

MANUFACTURER’S COMMENTS:

For the past 14 years, the Allures Yachting shipyard has become a reference point for blue water sailing yachts thanks to the support and confidence of its owners. 

Their experience, based on tens of thousands of miles aboard our sailboats, our own sailing expertise and passionate attention to architectural developments have contributed to the creation of this new gem in the Allures range. 

Allures 45.9 offers even more comfort, easy sailing with a small crew and better performance, all while ensuring the utmost safety. 

This new model is available in centreboard version for low draught, which enables beaching in total autonomy. 

Besides the centreboard version–a shipyard speciality–Allures 45.9 is also available in a lifting keel version, ideal for those who prefer the performance of a lighter sailboat.

ALUMINIUM HULL

 Allures hulls have always been aluminium, a material of unparalleled resistance for safe sailing. 

The Berret-Racoupeau Yacht Design combines elegant lines and performance. Finally, the unique know-how of the Groupe Grand Large Yachting offers world-class workmanship and unmatched finishing quality. The minimalist draught and the possibility of beaching enable you to access the most inaccessible anchorages, often the safest.

COMPOSITE DECK 

The aluminium hull and composite deck construction has long represented the perfect combination in the luxury yacht industry. 

Developing this technology for yachting provides Allures Yachting customers with the best of both worlds. 

Attractive, ergonomic, practical, lightweight, insulated... if we hadn’t been building it since 2003, it would have to be invented!

ACCOMMODATION 

Franck Darnet, the designer, is also a seafarer. For Allures Yachting, Franck Darnet designs practical nautical interiors whose comfort is matched by their pure and elegant lines.

EQUIPMENT 

Spaciousness, ideal accessibility, high capacity tanks and host of details to make your daily life at sea a breeze. An Allures yacht takes you far, for a long time, in total autonomy… and back home!

SETTING A NEW STANDARD 

A few centimetres longer (77, to be exact), a more powerful stern, forward bearing shapes, all contribute to an entirely new impression of interior spaciousness. 

Aside from the extra centimetres, the Allures 45.9 proposes an innovative modularity, such a forward cabin which quickly transforms into either a double bed or two twin beds; or the saloon, which turns into a large children's play area, nighttime sleeping area or daytime leisure area. 

Safe, functional, elegant, the accommodation in the Allures 45.9 is particularly ideal for life at sea. The headroom and generous portholes offer exceptional living space and comfort. 

In addition to the traditional interior – Classic version (Cherry wood), a Zen version is also proposed with a light oak.

CONSTANTLY AIMING FOR EXCELLENCE

With its centred winches on the cockpit, positioned at ideal height, the ergonomic cockpit allows easier and safer manoeuvring, perfect for sailing with a small crew. The entirely composite deck ensures better weight distribution, thereby optimising performance and seafaring experience. Key elements of blue water yachts, favoured by our seafaring customers are the standard spacious forward sail locker forming the crash box and technical room at the back. Accessible from the interior and from the deck through a watertight hatch, the technical room comes equipped with a standard number of storage cupboards.

Constantly aiming for perfection, the smallest details receive just a much attention: 

•    Large capacity water and fuel tanks 

•    Aluminium sea-cocks below and above the waterline 

•    Technical locker between the two cabins suitable to accommodate a power generator + a washing machine 

•    Ample storage space in the skirt - 13 kg gas bottle compartment and fender compartment 

•    Aft compartment for outboard motor 

•    Large access hatch to sail locker 

PRESS REVIEW:

I’d love to own an Allures 45.9 – it gives me all I want 

in a cruising yacht and so much more. She feels indestructible on the water and, with some extra canvas to increase her sail area for light wind days, she’ll heel and go – whatever the weather.

She might not be the most responsive boat to helm, but when she’s going you feel like nothing is going to get in her way.

I don’t care that she’s got a bare aluminium hull. 

In fact, it requires just the amount of upkeep I have time for – absolutely none!

Just the sight of her approaching will scare most GRP boat owners into action looking for extra fenders.

The accommodation is spacious, comfortable and versatile; there is room to do maintenance and running repairs, relax, be social or hide away.

I covet the thought of making a morning coffee, sitting at the chart table and looking out across some remote drying anchorage.

WOULD SHE SUIT YOU AND YOUR CREW?

If you’re looking for a serious cruiser, capable of coastal, offshore and bluewater sailing, the Allures 45.9 should 

be on your short list.

She has layout options to satisfy a couple or a family and can easily be sailed short-handed over long distances. Add to that the ability to dry out or navigate in just over a metre of water and you have a formidable package; even without all the advantages an aluminium hull brings to the table.

With the GRP deck, aluminium round-bilge and centreboard, she’s unique – no other manufacturer offers all of these features on one boat.

Like most yachts, she could benefit from a few small tweaks here and there (which any owner would have their own views on) but Allures can adapt to and incorporate your ideas.

As she is, she’s replaced the Allures 45 on my five-boat-list of yachts to dream of sailing round the world on, but having just worked out how many more years I’ll have to test boats for, sadly I won’t be casting off in her any time soon!

Yachting Monthly – December 2018

CONSTRUCTION:

RCD Status:

•    Our understanding is that GRANMA is CE certified for category A - OCEAN: Designed for extended voyages where conditions may exceed wind force 8 (Beaufort scale) and significant wave heights of 4 m and above, and vessels largely self-sufficient.

Hull, Deck & Superstructure Construction:

•    Hull in marine aluminium alloy (5083 H111 for aluminium sheets and 6060 T6 for extruded profiles) welded under neutral gas atmosphere through a TIG or MIG process. 

•    Welds on hull side are controlled by penetrant inspection and/or radiography 

•    Chainplates and backings welded on the hull/deck structure 

•    Watertight bulkhead welded to the hull

•    Deck, roof and cockpit built in GRP (PVC high density foam/felt sandwich) by vacuum infusion process. 

•    Interface with hull through gluing and aluminium riveting. 

•    Self-draining cockpit 

•    Hull topsides: finish with adhesive acrylic covering. Matt color.

•    Cork decking in cockpit and bathing platform

Keel & Rudder:

•    Aluminium centreboard adjustable from cockpit

•    2 NACA profiled rudders with stocks tube welded to the hull and self-aligning bearing with needles

MACHINERY

Engine & gearbox:

•    Volvo Penta D2-75 4-cylinder 2.2 litre inline turbo-charged diesel engine producing 75hp

•    Fresh water cooling via raw water intake and heat exchanger

•    Double-pole engine insulation 

•    Engine compartment soundproofed with engine mounted on silent blocks 

•    Acoustic insulation by viscoelastic mass and absorbing foam 

•    Forced air ventilation 

•    Engine instrument panel with alarms

•    Volvo 150S Saildrive gearbox fully protected by hull skeg

Maintenance & Performance:

•    Engine hours: Approximately 2,950 hours as of Summer 2025 

•    Date of last engine service: April 2025

Propulsion & Steering:

•    Saildrive gearbox with J-Prop auto-feathering 3-bladed propeller

•    Spare 3-bladed fixed propeller 

•    Steering wheel system with 2 leather sheathed wheels (900mm) in direct transmission with the rudders

•    Emergency steering gear 

•    MaxPower 12vDC tunnel bowthruster

•    Hydrovane wind-vane self-steering system

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

Voltage systems:

•    12vDC domestic system with 12v starting banks and 220vAC via generator, inverter or shore power 

Battery Banks:

•    5x 12vDC AGM service batteries

•    1x 12vDC engine start battery

•    1x 12vDC generator start battery

•    1x 12vDC bowthruster and anchor windlass battery

•    Emergency parallel switch between engine & generator battery banks

Charging:

•    Philippi 12V/25A battery charger 

Generator:

•    Fischer Panda 220vAC 5kw generator 

•    Generator hours – approx. 120 as of Summer 2025

•    Date of last generator service: September 2024

Inverter:

•    Victron Phoenix 12vDC 1,200w Inverter with controller at chart table

Solar:

•    2x 400w solar panels on transom arch with MPPT charge controller

Alternator:

•    12v/115A engine-mounted alternator 

Other Electrical:

•    220vAC 50Hz shore power connection with AC outlets in interior

Cathodic Protection:

•    2 sacrificial anodes on hull 

•    1 sacrificial anode on sail drive 

•    1 sacrificial anode on centreboard

PLUMBING SYSTEMS

Fresh Water:

•    12vDC pressure system with accumulator tank for hot and cold fresh water.

•    Isotemp 20 litre calorifier tank for heating water via engine or with 220vAC element from shorepower or generator

•    Water distribution by bronze manifold (to isolate each piping)

Watermaker:

•    EcoSistems SPLASH-25 12vDC watermaker 25/30 litre per hour 

Bilge Pumps:

•    Main 12V electric bilge pump 

•    Secondary 12V electric bilge pump 

•    Electrical bilge pump in sail-locker 

•    Manual bilge pump

TANKAGE

Fuel:

•    Built–in aluminium fuel tanks with 650 litre combined capacity 

•    Tank gauges at chart table

Fresh Water:

•    Polyethylene water tank with 420 litre capacity

•    Tank gauges at chart table

Holding Tanks:

•    2x 40 litre blackwater holding tanks 

NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT

In cockpit:

•    B&G Zeus2 9” colour GPS/chart plotter radar displays at both helms

•    3x B&G Triton2 multi-displays at companionway

•    B&G wind, speed, log, depth and water temperature transducers

•    B&G/Simrad OP12 autopilot with NAC-3 autopilot computer, Jefa DU-DD2 autopilot drive and 9RTM2 compass

•    B&G Halo 24 digital radar scanner on mast

•    B&G Class B AIS transceiver 

•    Steering compasses inset to cockpit coamings

At chart table:

•    B&G Zeus2 12” colour GPS/chart plotter radar display at chart table

•    B&G WR10 wireless autopilot remote

Communications Equipment:

•    B&G V50 VHF with AIS & DSC at chart table with fist mic.

•    Icom handheld VHF

•    Iridum GO sat-phone system including PredictWind external antenna

•    Spare VHF aerial

DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT

Galley:

•    Twin stainless steel sinks with hot & cold pressurised fresh water supply.

•    Manual fresh & salt water supplies at galley

•    ENO 3-burner gimballed gas stove with oven

•    2X stainless steel draw-opening fridges - 12vDC

Heads:

•    Jabsco manual marine heads 

•    Hot & cold showers in both heads

Heating & Ventilation:

•    Webasto  diesel-fired central hot air heating 

Lighting:

•    LED Lighting

Entertainment:

•    Fusion RA770 Bluetooth stereo system with internal and external speakers plus subwoofer

ACCOMMODATION

 

Summary of Accommodation:

•    Up to 6/7 berths in two dedicated sleeping cabins with master cabin forward and one aft double guest cabins, one technical room to port with eventual single bed, plus converting saloon double. Ensuite heads for master cabin and shared heads for aft cabins and day-heads usage.  

Accommodation Finish:

•    Interior design by Frank Darnet Design 

•    Hybrid ‘Owner’ and ‘Family’ layout with Family forward section and Owner aft sections.

•    ‘Zen’ interior finish with Light Oak interior woodwork, either solid, bonded laminated or marine plywood and white-painted main bulkheads

•    Main bulkheads in 19mm and 25mm bonded laminated 

•    Furniture in 10 and15 mm bonded laminated (bottom trapdoors in 5mm marine plywood) 

•    Head in white laminate 

•    Floors in 19mm laminate 

•    Large numbers of opening floor hatches to facilitate maintenance 

•    Linings made from marine plywood (8mm) covered with white vinyl 

•    Furniture’s hardware for marine use 

•    Door restraint in all cabins 

•    All mattresses and cushions in 120mm thick foam with removable fabric cover

Description of Accommodation from Forward:

Forward Cabin:

•    Modular Version Owner’s Cabin layout with centreline double berth that can be separated outwards to create two single berths with central access. 

•    Drawers under bed 

•    High and low shelf units along hull 

•    Seats with storage and cushions

•    Mirror on mast bulkhead 

•    Double ventilated hanging lockers and storage 

•    Led deckhead lights and halogen swivelling reading lights 

•    220V socket + 2 USB

Forward Heads:

•    Marine toilet with manual pump, 1 black water tank 

•    Wash basin with pressurised hot/cold water mixer tap on, counter with storage space 

•    Shower

•    Mirror 

•    Led deckhead lights + switch 

Main Saloon:

•    Central settee with seats and backs, 2 drawers for storage 

•    Bottle storage under the sofa 

•    L-shaped settee to starboard (seats and backs) with storage space and continuous to the front chart table seat 

•    Saloon table height-adjustable with infill to create an occasional Large Family Double berth for 2 adults (proved to be comfortable also with child)

•    Along hull shelf units Led overhead spotlights + switch 

•    Lampshade lights

Navigation Station:

•    Panoramic 2 seats chart table with storage spaces under seats and storage spaces on sides 

•    Stainless steel back with cushion for front seat 

•    Bookshelf storage spaces 

•    Large drawers under chart table for charts 

•    Anthracite front panel for electronic equipment 

•    Asymmetrical panel for navigation chart-plotter 

•    12V electric panel; 18 functions with double pole circuit breakers, electrical leak detector, voltmeter, navigation light indicators and alarms, 4 220V indicators, bilge pump alarm, main bilge pump control panel, water and fuel gauges 

•    LED overhead spotlights 

•    Spot red/white LEDs (night function) 

•    12V sockets + 2 USB 

•    220V socket

Galley:

•    2 stainless steel rectangular sinks, synthetic stone worktop 

•    Pressurised hot and cold water mixer tap 

•    Seawater foot pump 

•    Stainless steel oven and 3 burners stove on gimbals, electronically lighting, pan holders, stainless steel handrail 

•    Fridge with 2 stainless steel drawers (144L) 

•    Overhead shelf units with dresser 

•    Large ventilated storage units, one including plastic removable storage tray 

•    Storage for cutlery 

•    LED overhead spotlights + switch 

•    220V socket 

•    Gas shut-off valve 

Port Aft Heads:

•    Separated shower closed by Plexiglas door, bath seat and 12V evacuation pump 

•    Marine toilet with manual pump, 1 black water tank 

•    Wash basin with pressurised hot/cold water mixer tap on, counter with storage space 

•    Mirror 

•    Led deckhead lights + switch 

•    Access to engine room

Port Aft Cabin:

•    Access to central technical space 

•    Access to steering system 

•    Led light + switch 

•    220V socket

•    Option to convert to single berth

Starboard Aft Cabin:

•    Double berth with slatted mattress and ventilated storage space under berth 

•    Ventilated storage locker 

•    Seat with cushion 

•    Shelf unit along hull 

•    Access to electrical panel and steering systems 

•    Large access to technical space 

•    Access to engine room 

•    Led deckhead light + switch and halogen swivelling reading lights 

•    220V plug + 1 USB plug

DECK EQUIPMENT

Rig:

•    Sparcraft anodised aluminium deck-stepped mast with two sets of spreaders

•    Harken mainsail track for batten cars with ball bearings. 

•    Anodised aluminium boom 

•    Continuous stainless steel wire standing rigging with aluminium rigging screw protectors

•    Stainless steel rigging screw protectors

•    Profurl manual genoa furler

•    Removable inner forestay for staysail with checkstays

•    Single-line and twin-line reefing system led aft to cockpit with 3-reefs in main

•    Rigid boom vang adjustable from cockpit

•    Admiral boom brake gybe preventer

•    Aluminium alloy spinnaker pole stowed vertically on mast

•    German mainsheet system

•    Adjustable mainsheet track on coachroof forward of companionway

•    Adjustable genoa tracks with sheeting blocks for genoa 

•    Stackpack with lazyjacks for mainsail

Winches:

•    2x Lewmar 50ST 2-speed manual self-tailing primary cockpit winches

•    2x Lewmar ST 2-speed manaul self-tailing spinnaker/gennaker cockpit winches

•    1x Lewmar 45EST 2-speed electric self-tailing main halyard and control line winch at companionway

•    1x Lewmar 45ST 2-speed manual self-tailing halyard and  control line winch at companionway

Sails:

•    Ullman Dacron tri-radial 52sqm fully-battened mainsail – 2021

•    Incidence Sails Dacron tri-radial fully-battened mainsail – 2018

•    Incidence Sails Dacron tri-radial 48sqm furling genoa – 2018

•    Ullman Dacron tri-radial furling genoa – 2021

•    Ullman Dacron tri-radial hank-on staysail – 2021

•    Ullman Dacron tri-radial storm-jib (white & orange colour)– 2021

•    Ullman  Gennaker with snuffer – 2021

General:

•    Pushpits, pulpits and stanchions in polished stainless steel 316L with insulation. 

•    Side boarding gates

•    Stainless steel handrails on coach roof

•    GRP cover on coachroof to hide lines 

•    Ropes box in cockpit next to companionway with self-drain 

•    Large cockpit locker on starboard side 

•    Technical room Lewmar T70 hatch under port side cockpit seat 

•    Lockers under aft cockpit seats 

•    Gas bottle storage under aft cockpit seats 

•    Storage for life raft accessible from the swimming platform 

•    Teak cockpit table

•    Stainless steel bathing ladder and cold and hot shower on the bathing platform 

•    Aft arch/gantry for electronics and use as davits with manual hoist to lift the tender 

•    PVC profile toerail with Flexiteek finish 

•    Lewmar hatches and ports

•    Hot & cold pressurised cockpit shower

•    Salt water deckwash pump at transom

Anchoring & Mooring:

•    Closed bowsprit with rollers for  anchor 

•    Fairlead and cleat for aft mooring 

•    Lewmar 12vDC vertical windlass 1000w with warping end

•    Windlass control at helm pedestal with chain counter

•    Ultra 27kgs anchor with 100m galvanised 10mm chain and warp

•    Spade and Fortress secondary anchors

•    200m floating warp and 200m warp. 

•    8 mooring cleats 330 mm welded on deck 

•    Mooring cleat in anchor locker 

•    2 mooring cleats 160 mm on the arch

•    Fenders and warps

Tender & Outboard:

•    Dinghy davits on arch

•    Highfield 270 2.7m aluminium bottom inflatable tender

•    Suzuki 6hp outboard engine

Covers, Cushions & Canvas:

•    Stackpack for mainsail with lazyjacks

•    Sprayhood and bimini with stainless steel frames

•    Enclosure panels for sprayhood

•    Cockpit table cover

•    Helm pedestal and wheel covers

•    Cockpit cushions

•    Tender cover 

SAFETY EQUIPMENT:

General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as liferafts, Epirbs, fire extinguishers and flares etc. are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on-board as part of the sale of a used vessel may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owners specific needs.

Navigation Lights:

•    LED Navigation lights, mooring lights, masthead and deck lights

Life saving:

•    Zodiac 6-man liferaft

•    8x lifejackets

Fire control:

•    Automatic engine room fire extinguishing system

•    Fire extinguishers throughout interior