Cruising sailboat M50 RITA

classic6-berthwith enclosed cockpit

M50 RITA is medium size cruising yacht for long range ocean cruising with small crew and live aboard. The boat will be built to the highest Dutch quality standarts with practical and minimalist neo-classic finishing. Aluminium welded hull can be with bare metal surface or painted up to choice of colours. The deck is made of aluminium or composite, foam sandwich with vacuum infusion or wood/epoxy. As all yachts of M-seria, M50 RITA has the build-in keel and skeg protected balanced rudder. The yacht has a very high level of safety, watertight forepeak and engine compartment, forward and aft floatation volumes. The equipment is basic and simple, but enough for sailors to make the safe cruising with minimal problems for repair or service, in opposite to modern over-equipped yachts. The final specification is upon the order the boat and wishes of owner. The central full wide cockpit is very spacious, two living zones with separate entrance from cockpit. The cockpit is protected from elements with the fixed solid sprayhood and full roof, the sides are covered with soft enclosures, depends of weather conditions. You can have the open cockpit for warm weather sailing or practical pilothouse for winter or cold seasons. The 3 options of rig: cutter, ketch or staysail ketch. The staysail ketch is new version of rig, where the middle stay sail is act as the mainsail, easy reefing and handling on any course, reefing of any sail in just few minutes. M50 RITA is building upon order at professional boatyard in Netherlands.