43' Dufour Gib'Sea 43

Location: Tahiti, Papeete - South Pacific

Mahana is a sailing yacht in excellent condition. Equipped for fun and very comfortable blue water cruising.
She has many high-performance sails in order to perform in light wind condition and keep her crew safe and comfortable in more challenging weather. This includes recent laminated main and genoa, staysail and storm jib on an inner detachable forestay in dyneema as well as a gennaker mounted on top down Furler. This one can be set up on a custom-made bowsprit in stainless and Teck.
The deck gear has been upgraded to accommodate for all the sails and to get great performance in a safe, practical manner from them. This includes extra winches, many jammer cleats, blocks etc.

Sprayhood and large Bimini are recent as well, as a heavy-duty stainless-steel arch with davits for the tender. A stainless-steel rack storage for boards/paddle boards etc and a massive self-draining stainless steel basket container. All this extra storage is mounted on the arch. The guardrails have been upgraded from wires to solid stainless-steel tube in the Amel Style. The swimming ladder has also been custom made to be a heavy-duty practical diving style ladder.

Completely autonomous in energy and water (water maker 12v, Lithium batteries 600Ah 12v, 1350W of solar and hydro generator mounted on the shaft). All very recent B&G Electronics, AIS transmitter and receiver, forward scan sounder, STARLINK and all the safety gear and beacon necessary for blue water sailing.

Mahana has been equipped without sparing money nor sweat with the only idea in mind to perfect an already great spacious design into the best possible 43ft blue water cruiser, making her effectively one of the greatest turn key vessel you can find at this price range in the Pacific.

This is an extensive list of equipment and upgrades onboard Mahana:

water tanks 500l
diesel tanks 250l
diesel tanks 250l
black water tanks 80l
4 double cabin & 2 heads

Sails :
One mast, 2 swept back spreaders, double backstay, baby stay and dyneema inner detachable forestay
New forestay and inner forestay (2023)
Profurl Furler C350 (2023)
Dyneema inner detachable forestay (2021)
Adjustment and standing rigging check (2025)
Main sail (38m2) Full batten in high performance laminate and great longevity/resitance tri radial cut, 3 semi-automatic reef in very good state (2023)
Genoa ( 150% 50m2) in high performance laminate and great longevity/resitance tri radial cut in very good state (2023)
Staysail (17.5m2) on inner detachable forestay, cross cut thick dacron, like new (2023)
Storm jib (7m2) on inner detachable forestay, cross cut, very thick dacron, oranged coloured, like new (2022)
Gennaker on top down furler, light pink colour, very good state (2023)
Top down furler Profurl Nex 4 (2023)
Lazy bag and Lazy jacks in very good state (2022)
Selden whisker/spinnaker pole in very good state (2025)
Stainless steel and teak custom made Bow sprit(2022)

Tender and Engine :

Volvo Penta MD 22L BT 50HP uses 2 liters at 5 knots. Works great
Raw water pump replaced and engine serviced last in (08/2025)
Very light use with only 1060 engine hours
Service and seal change in the injection pump (08/2025)
Fuel Pump replaced (08/2025)
Camshaft replaced (08/2025)
3D tender Federlight 315 RIB aluminum hull, PVC tubes. High performance and ultra light tender, only 39kg for maximum authorized carrying capacity of 550kg (2025)
Outboard 15HP 4Stroke Orangemarine (Yamaha copy) few hours, last service 2025 (2022)

Anchor :

Delta 25kg Anchor (2022)
70meters of 10mm diameter chain with chain markers (2025)
Windlass Lofran X2 12V 1000W (2021)
Danforth anchor 20kg 15m of 14mm anchor chain as well as 30m anchor rode

Deck, cockpit and hull gear :

3 layers of seajet 39 platinium antifouling paint (08/2025)
New keel and propeller sacrificial anode (08/2025)
Full polish of hull (08/2025)
Cockpit seats in teak, renovated in (08/2025)
Stainless steel double helm, big sturdy cockpit table with storage inside and cup holder
Black Sunbrella Sprayhood in good state (2022)
Large black Sunbrella Bimini in very good state (2022)
316l Stainless steel high diameter heavy duty arch, reinforced for a heavy tender as well as 3 big solar panels, Starlink antenna, VHF antenna. (2025)
Heavy-duty Stainless-steel Davits for hoisting the tender (2025)
Cockpit shower
6 Blue courtesy LED light in cockpit
2 powerful white LED spots under solar panels
Custom made heavy-duty, stainless-steel diving style swimming ladder (2022)
The guardrails have been upgraded from wires to solid stainless steel tube in the Amel Style (2022)
New Goiot hatches : 2 in (2025), 3 in (2022)
All Portholes seals have been replaced in (2025)
18 opening hatches and portholes which dont leak ! amazing natural ventilation
6 self tailing winches (instead of the factory 4)
New harken traveller for the mainsail (2025)
17 jammer cleats, gybe preventer, trimming of genoa cars, traveller etc all comes back to the cockpit
Navigation lights replaced by LEDS (2022)
Both rudder bearings changed in (2025)
Antifouling paint (2025)
3 blade fixed propeller

Feel free to contact me for full inventory list.