Nautor Swan 55, INDIGO

Broker’s Comments

The Nautor Swan 55 is a breakaway design for Nautor. She is a yacht dedicated to cruising with a vast centre cockpit for comfort and safety. Rig and deck plan are designed to facilitate short-handed use. The engine is the most powerful ever installed as standard in a Swan of this size and is situated in a walk-in engine room together with a generator. INDIGO has many refinements for added comfort and ease of handing.

Completed in 1994, INDIGO was shipped from Finland to Palma de Mallorca and commissioned in May 1994. She has since been based in Mallorca and has been utilized for family sailing, both by her original owners. She was sold to the present owner by me in 2004.

INDIGO is extremely well equipped and in excellent condition. Particular features include a dark blue hull with white cove stripe, hydraulic furling rig, hydraulic winches, hydraulic opening transom with swim ladder/platform, bowthruster, air conditioning, nearly new sail wardrobe and much more.

INDIGO offers a twin berth in the owner cabin, two guest cabins (one double and one twin) and a crew cabin forward.
She is only in her 3rd ownership and has benefited from recent works and refitting. See below the list of improvements:

• New standing BSI stainless-steel rod rigging – October 2024.
• New Elvstrom mainsail – January 2025.
• Repainting of mast and boom in white – August 2024.
• Topsides painted with Awlgrip (in Majestic Blue, with white stripes) – 2019.
• Osmosis treatment of underwater hull – 2022/23.
• New starter batteries – 2023.
• New genset battery – 2023.
• Haul out with new antifouling, hull polished and waxed with UV protection, prop service, filters cleaned and seacock service where necessary – June 2024.

With the works made in 2023-24 as above, it can be noted that over €100,000 has been invested (not including the haul out and servicing).

With her upgrades and configuration, she is incredibly easy to sail short-handed or even single-handed, thanks to her furling boom and hydraulic-powered winches. The Reckmann headsail furling leads back to the powered winches on the port side.

Maneuvering is very simple with a 3 -bladed propeller at the stern and a hydraulic bow thruster, along with superb visibility from the helm.

Do note the teak deck is original.

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Owner’s Comments

To cut a long story short:

We actually don’t want to sell our ship INDIGO, affectionately called “Our Old Girl”, but we have sailed for nearly 50 years – first in the north of Europe and then since 2004 with INDIGO mainly in the Balearic Islands/Mediterranean area. Now a different phase of life begins.

When we had time, between business and work, we sailed to romantic bays and discovered Menorca and Ibiza.
We sailed safely with INDIGO all over the Mediterranean and have never regretted buying this beautiful fully equipped Swan yacht. We had so much fun and inspiration that we were sometimes a bit faster than larger boats. INDIGO is a dream to sail.

INDIGO is annually maintained to a high standard and in excellent condition. But now it’s time to say goodbye and hand over INDIGO to younger, sailing-enthusiastic hands.