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Contest 49CS review: luxurious bluewater cruiser

• Toby Hodges
• February 14, 2023

Contest Yachts has created a hull with the unique option of two different decks and layouts. We tested the first aft helm Contest 49CS over two lively days

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Ahead of testing the Contest 49CS we had some miserable weather, certainly not the sort of conditions you’d ordinarily choose to go out in. It had been blowing 30 knots for the past 30 hours straight that we’d been aboard and despite the protection the small fishing port on the Dutch island of Texel offered, there was still enough swell bouncing around inside its walls to make the warps groan as we pitched up and down against the old musselling barge alongside. No, were time not an issue – were you cruising proper – you’d choose to stay warm and dry, read a book in the decidedly welcoming interior, enjoy some more coffee and local cuisine.

But as I donned all of the foul weather kit I could in preparation for our second day of sailing in these conditions, there was a certain pleasure in the task, a knowledge that this craft would take in its stride what was lurking outside the harbour’s confines. Once we were spat out of that tight entrance channel, there’d be no hiding, but also little need to – because, I knew now, there was still sailing enjoyment to be had. I’d built up a rapport with this Contest 49CS, a level of confidence only a well built yacht can provide.

That said, this new model does bring with it some fundamental questions – not least, whether you might choose this or its twin sister, the Contest 50CS.

Taking on the strong conditions with full sails. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

Decisions decisions

The new 50ft premium bluewater cruiser market is brimming with top choices, including the proven Amel 50 , Hallberg-Rassy 50 and the new Oyster 495 . These all tend to share a layout formula: a deep centre cockpit to protect the crew and the typical large aft master suite this can help buy space for.

What if your desires and demands were different, however? Many cruising sailors today aren’t looking to spend long periods on the ocean and prefer layouts that suit their anchorages/destinations, while many also spend long periods aboard in the hospitable Mediterranean before going further afield.

What if you place a higher value on helm sensation, deck relaxation space, a proper swim platform, a garage to house a practical dinghy? Or perhaps you want more space or comfort for your guests or children? To find designs with layouts focussed more on these elements you’d typically have to look towards performance oriented yachts such as the Solaris 50 we featured last month, or those from Swan or X-Yachts.

Reefed down in the windy conditions. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

When developing a new 50ft bluewater cruiser Contest Yachts factored such questions in and decided on offering the hull in two completely different layouts: the more conventional centre cockpit/aft master 50CS and the first aft cockpit/twin aft cabin style boat in this market, the Contest 49CS. And by developing a full hybrid option at this size, it offers clients more choice still.

“The idea is that we bring something new and attract a different market with this,” says Arjen Conijn, CEO of this third generation family run yard, who joined us for a sail. “The main interior option is the choice of a completely different layout!”

Flush composite decking and hatches. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

Contest built over 50 of the original Contest 50 since it launched in 2002, but it has not been produced for some years by the Medemblik yard. This current Judel/Vrolijk-designed interpretation has a modern hull shape, designed to perform in all conditions, with long waterlines, high topsides, beam carried right aft and plenty of glass. It’s a voluminous package, which has helped the yard to create these two opposing layouts.

It’s a unique choice, which will come down to the type of sailing owners want to do. At the time of our trial, Contest had sold eight Contest 50CSs and four Contest 49CSs. The owner of this first Contest 49CS, for example, sails with his two children and wanted them to have similar sized cabins they wouldn’t squabble over! To gain these spacious aft doubles or twins you do have to be prepared to give up some space in the master cabin – a forward owner’s suite never feels as plush as an aft, full beam version at this size.

Sail handling is managed effectively from or around the helm stations. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

Lively greeting

November in the North Sea can be pretty bleak. The yard had a small window for shooting press images (which they managed in a few hours of sun), before we were given the exclusive opportunity to spend a couple of days and nights aboard.

I’ve never known such consistent conditions: 25-30 knots of grey, all day, all night, and all the next day! So our introduction was a lively one as we exited the naval port of Den Helder, and began deep reaching, as the wind ripped against the tide to form a testing 1.5m-2m sea. We kept full white sails for as long as possible to give the photographer some full sail shots as we ploughed down the channel towards the island of Texel, averaging 9-10 knots with 13 knot surfs.

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The Contest 49CS quickly proved itself. The single rudder offers plenty of grip, while steering from the aft helms provides a relatively direct sensation.

And for a yacht with a generous underbody, it was still playful enough to enjoy the surf. More fun came when we turned around into the wind, sharp waves and, by this stage, rain.

Despite the thoroughly unwelcoming conditions, I already had an entrenched confidence in the yacht. Perhaps it’s because I know how it’s built and to what standard (more on that later). But it also proved dependable to handle and relatively easy to control.

Easy sail handling. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

Reefing the main and genoa and adjusting the genoa cars could all be done from the cockpit and helm area. Having crew to keep lines under control during tacks and furls in strong wind obviously helps. The mainsheet plinth works well, providing a bracing position between pedestals from which to keep keen control of the powerful sheet. A hydraulic backstay and vang also aid mainsail trim.

One of the biggest takeaways was how quiet the Contest remained below decks during these trials, with no movement or creaking. The curved companionway steps and solid handrails are mounted where you need them most to help make it safe to move around.

Punchy performance

We averaged 8.5 knots punching into the waves with a double reefed main and genoa, something we were to repeat the following day during a long beat at 30° to the apparent wind. It tacked tightly, with a nice steady motion and in good control. And despite this not presenting the prettiest of sail shapes, it felt balanced enough on the helm.

The deep, sunken cockpit houses a short but wide and sturdy table with space for eight to sit around. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

However, a concern was that with this in-mast 3Di mainsail, we were at maximum reef with two reefs in. Personally I’d want deeper reef points or a third reef and potentially some sort of staysail or storm jib option to keep the sailplan balanced when things get really fruity.

But that’s an owner decision, which involves many factors when commissioning the rig and sails including, in this case, the handling simplicity of in-mast furling versus the performance of vertical battens and how much of the inner mast profile these and the mandrel take up.

The test boat had a relatively standard deck layout, with electric winches for main and genoa within reach of the twin helmstations, plus an extra set of optional multipurpose/spinnaker winches on the coaming step. The optional electric genoa furler also proved a wise choice during our trials.

Large swim platform and RIB garage. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

There are no designed-in options for tidying up the sheets, but halyard tails are at least kept at the mast base with this in-mast mainsail set up.

Viewed from the side, this is a large yacht, with high topsides (I could only just reach the bottom of the boom standing on tiptoes). That equates to headroom Dutch folk will marvel at below decks and helps keep dry decks in waves, but brings downsides such as boarding and windage. Adding a coveline might help aesthetically break up the freeboard.

The helms are outboard and high enough for good sightlines, particularly with the low sprayhood design. This seems a good compromise, in that most adults will need to duck to get below it, but it still protects the forward end of the cockpit without overly hindering views or aesthetics.

The steering felt relatively direct. Despite the aft helms and short connections needed, Contest uses Jefa’s tube and rod system, with independent linkage on each wheel to the quadrant to provide redundancy and allow autopilots to mount on each side.

Chunky bowsprit with integrated anchor roller and tack points. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

The extension of the cockpit coaming aft gives some protection and creates a practical perch for the helmsman, while the huge, beam wide deck area aft is free for lounging (with additional beanbags) with direct access to the swim platform. The quarters are well designed, with lifting seats to access cleats and fairleads, and deep, handy lockers with line hangers for warps and hoses.

A garage below the main aft deck houses a 2.8m RIB mounted athwartships. Fenders can stow in the dinghy itself as there is big central access for use when under way. Elsewhere the sail locker in the bows is plenty roomy enough for the Helix gennaker on Corazon.

eautifully built and finished, the interior has a warming, inviting and luxurious feel. The saloon easily hosted six of us for drinks in real comfort. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

On arriving at midnight for the first of two nights aboard, we descended into a particularly welcoming semi-raised saloon. It’s a smart, contemporary and appealing interior, which shouts modern elegance and design, backed up by a superior quality of finish. Equally, following a day of inclement weather sailing, it felt atmospheric and inviting to recuperate in the well insulated and heated accommodation.

Wetzels & Brown, Contest’s long term design partners, did the styling. “Gill [Brown] treats everything as a superyacht, always adding light and comfort,” thinks Arjen Conijn. He explained how the main bulkhead might conventionally use horizontal lines to enhance the beam, whereas the Contest 49CS has plenty of beam already, so vertical lines were chosen. Brown wanted a gentle, rounded corner look to the wood, “so we needed to find a way to bend it!” The ribbed natural oak used on the main bulkhead, which curves towards the forward cabin, is a beautifully executed centrepiece.

Larger chart table option. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images

Generous hull portlights and coachroof windows provide ample natural light. The saloon ports are at different heights to the cabin ports, which makes sense to get the correct horizon lines when seated, even if it does look a little odd from outside. The saloon, with its thick cushions, is a comfortable adaptable area. Pouf stools are used to convert the port side sofa into a chaise or daybed, or they can slide over to join the table, which also lowers and doubles over.

One of the yacht’s trumps is the accessibility of usable stowage. Contest uses sprung hinges to make it quick and easy to access the spaces below the saloon seating, for example. Then, moving forward from the saloon you’ll find a favourite feature: a proper large hanging locker, which has been cleverly camouflaged into the ribbed joinerwork. The full height of this allows for two rails, so you can hang wet and dry gear separately and there is a heater outlet in the base.

The owner of the test boat had chosen an enlarged chart table at the expense of a shower stall in the smaller aft heads. Owners of this type of yacht will arguably want a desk of this size anyway, so it’s a pity to have to choose between the two. And as it is, you still only get a stool with this larger desk, not a proper chair with a seat back. But it’s on the same level as the saloon, so there are views through the hull ports, and it’s within communication of the cockpit.

The forward master ensuite cabin proves it can still be lavish in this layout. Photo: David de Jong

A large carbon panel houses instruments and has excellent access to the wiring behind; there’s an alcove for pilot books, while the power points and battery switches are beneath the table’s large lifting lid. While you can monitor everything on the C-Zone touch screen, there is redundancy built in to manually control all the important systems, with a fuse for each.

At the forward end of the galley, where it can be accessed from the saloon too, is a smart slide-out cupboard designed for a Nespresso machine and its capsules.

Moving aft, the passageway galley is high and deep, in a layout which proved useful for working at heel, with the large sink and counter mounted inboard.

However, there’s only a narrow hatch to the cockpit, no hull port, and worksurface space is a little compact, particularly the inboard draining area. The bin is also on the small side, but there is good raised and undercounter stowage.

The aft twin berths (above) can form double. Photo: David de Jong

Arguably the biggest gain of this layout comes in the (identical) aft cabins, especially the amount of beam and headroom here. These have separated twin berths in each cabin, yet the outboard bed can slide across to transform either cabin to a double. There’s good stowage and still lofty headroom (around 7ft) back here (enough to make me wonder if so much freeboard is really needed).

Although I said it may slightly lack the wow factor of an aft master, the forward owner’s suite is still a supremely comfortable cabin. There is enough beam to have steps up each side of the large double berth and the headboard forward, so you can recline looking up through the double hatches at the rig, or through those XL portlights.

The details are classy, from the lighting and switches, to the blinds, magazine racks and fabric on the hull lining. Yet practical features also remain, such as a variety of stowage options, manual fans and leecloths to divide the mattress and contain those on it. The ensuite has an excellent shower stall, which includes the option for a washer dryer in the outboard locker. A towel rail is not a standard fit, however, and a shower tray or alcove for soaps/shampoos would help.

Floorboards all lift for systems access.

Engineering and construction

A three-quarters height door opposite the aft heads provides the main engine room access, and once inside there’s standing headroom aft around the saildrive. This is mounted on hefty shock absorbers, while the genset is installed further forward under the companionway steps.

The Contest 49CS and Contest 50CS are also offered with an electric hybrid drive, developed with Torqeedo to use its electric shaft drive with BMW batteries and a 20kW genset. For a bluewater cruiser builder, Contest is comparatively early in offering a full hybrid option. Equally, Estec composite decking is standard fit as opposed to teak, as is induction cooking with 460Ah of 24V batteries, and the option to upgrade to 600Ah and from gel to lithium.

This battery bank, along with 700lt fuel and water tanks, is mounted under the saloon. The sole boards all lift on suckers, below which the marine ply floor is mounted on an aluminium grid.

assageway galley works well and includes nice details. Photo: David de Jong

Fuel filters for the main engine were positioned below the navstation stool, and although the enlarged chart table was an optional choice on this boat, it meant access was tricky including the need to remove the stool. For future builds, Contest is moving the filters to below the galley sink, behind the bin.

The Contest 49CS has a one-shot vacuum-infused sandwich hull and deck with a foam core. The hull is kept in the mould while stiffeners and keel grid are added, to maintain a perfect shape when it comes out, Conijn explains, therefore the deck is not needed to create stiffness. This also allows the yard to assemble a lot of the bigger parts outside of the boat.

Contest has worked with Lloyd’s Register for the last five decades, to deliver all its yachts with a hull construction certificate. This involves approvals from design stage all the way through build, including ongoing inspections of materials and methods and the signing off of keel and rudder connections etc. It’s an impressively rigorous and reassuring process. Take forward grounding precautions for example: “Lloyd’s Register requires impact resistance to three times the boat’s displacement at the lowest tip of the keel,” says Conijn.

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Stepping off the boat following our trials, it struck me that Corazon, Spanish for heart, courage or spirit, feels like a pretty apt name for this 49CS. Although its layout is more typically associated with Med-style yachts, it’s a dependable medium displacement design and build which is both enjoyable and reassuring to sail. It’s the culmination of some tasty ingredients: Dutch build quality and a family-run, can-do approach, with contemporary styling and the reassurance of Lloyds approval. Would I choose one? If I had teenage or adult children or friends I cruised with frequently, then this layout makes sense. And I like it from a helming and more direct steering perspective. But Contest has made the bold call to take both this and the first 50CS (centre cockpit) version to the Düsseldorf boat show. So I think I may just have to compare them side by side before making that decision – it’s a tough contest indeed.

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History of Contest Yachts

Founded in 1959 by the Conijn family, Contest Yachts is a Dutch sail and motor yacht constructor of exceptional pedigree. This legacy company was born in the heart of the Netherlands, a country renowned for its centuries-old shipbuilding tradition. Contest Yachts' original shipyard was located by the North Sea Canal, a place that provided the perfect base for seaworthy sailing and motor yachts construction. Still entirely family-owned, the company has etched its name into the Dutch yacht building industry as a paragon of excellence. Their unwavering commitment to quality, innovation, and the highest standards of craftsmanship set them apart.

Over the decades, they relocated their manufacturing site from the canal area to the Ijsselmeer lake, settling finally in Medemblik. This location continues to serve as their primary base of operations while offering an immediate testing ground for finished yachts due to its direct open-water connection to the sea. Over the years, with the expertise and craftmanship from the Conijn family, matched only by the designs from distinguished designers, Contest Yachts evolved from producing small sailing yachts to a versatile range of yachts up to 26 metres long, integrating traditional techniques with the latest industry advancements.

Today, Contest Yachts is a leading name globally in both the luxury sail and motor yacht markets. Their strict quality control processes, exceptional designs and meticulous build quality ensure every Contest yacht that leaves their shipyard represents the pinnacle of Dutch yacht building. Their continued success has allowed the business to grow significantly, all while retaining the irreplaceable family-touch that has underpinned their success and continues to define the Contest Yachts brand.

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Contest Yachts produce a range of boats including the Contest Yachts Contest 41 and Contest Yachts Contest 48S . For the full list of Contest Yachts models currently listed on TheYachtMarket.com, see the model list in the search options on this page.

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Contest Yachts manufactures a range of different types of boats. The ones listed on TheYachtMarket include Sloop , Cruiser , Bluewater cruiser , Ketch and Cutter .

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Used boats from Contest Yachts on TheYachtMarket.com range in price from £14,600 GBP to £625,000 GBP with an average price of £216,000 GBP . A wide range of factors can affect the price of used boats from Contest Yachts, for example the model, age and condition.

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The largest in the range, the 26-metre Contest 85CS demonstrates very ably the strengths in Contest Yachts’ now long-term collaboration with world class designers and partners judel/vrolijk & co and Wetzels Brown Partners.

Designed for fast passage with powerful, practical, deep-ocean cruising capability, the Contest 85CS is easily sailed, managed and maintained by short-handed crew.

The hull and deck-form show the reasoned approach of a design team referenced across every level of performance cruising and racing, from family adventuring to grand prix eventing. This shows in a moderate, shallow underbody running back from near plumb bow, with integral bowsprit and optional furler for asymmetrics, to a soft-chined, broad stern..

Sailing flat and fast she has a single rudder for precise and powerful yet light control at the twin helm stations. The keel is of stainless steel and lead for a performance profile with cruising draft, and the rudder is carbon again for performance yet equally keeping weight out of the stern to allow large lazarette which, with hydraulically operated transom garage and beach platform, has such space that the RIB stows with outboard still in place.

The practicality doesn't end with the exterior aspects, you’ll see this in the arrangement of furnishings and walkways below decks, and in the easy access always given to service and maintenance of all onboard services and systems. And the entire interior is wonderfully bright with extensive panoramic outlook to saloon and throughout with multiple hull windows in the cabins. This is Dutch heritage and modern technology ensuring superyacht standards.

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Our approach to semi-custom yacht construction permits wide ranging personal choice in cabin configuration and completion. The plans shown on this page are examples of the beginnings of your personalisation and our building dreams together. We look forward to working with you.

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Standard specifications.

We care deeply about what we do and how we do it. We believe in reputation. For this, all the many trades involved in building a Contest yacht work with only the best appropriate materials, equipment and systems. And all carried out at the highest of skill levels to deliver a yacht exceeding expectations.

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POLAR PERFORMANCE DIAGRAM & STABILITY CURVE

The diagram shows the exceptional upwind and reaching potential of the 85CS. Curves from in- to outside are calculated at 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 20 knots true windspeed.

The stability curve shows a high initial stability and great sail carrying capacity.

MIX & MATCH YOUR OWN LAYOUT

Our approach to semi-custom yacht construction permits wide ranging personal choice in cabin configuration and completion. The plans shown on this page are examples of the beginnings of your personalisation and our building dreams together. We look forward to working with you. Off course other interior layouts are possible.

• Lazarette with dinghy horizontal in garage
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I’d been meaning to read “I Hotel” ever since Paul Yamazaki, the legendary buyer of San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore, recommended it in an interview. So you can imagine my excitement when it appeared on a lobby radiator last January: It was fate — or maybe that nice woman with the sweet terrier mix who lives on 4.

Mixing literary fiction, playwriting and graphic art, “I Hotel” is made up of a series of interconnected novellas set over 10 years in and around one real-life Chinatown hotel. Yamashita’s subject is the Asian American movement of the 1960s and ’70s, a moment of intense artistic and political blossoming. As San Francisco heaves with changes, the hotel resists gentrification even as it plays host to an-ever widening roster of characters and activists. There’s the philosophical postcard-collector who quotes Mao and Gertrude Stein, and the journalist for an alt weekly who’s covering the controversy over whether to declare Chinese New Year a holiday in local schools. We meet a Filipino American farm union worker and a Japanese American organizer working to transform a sweatshop. There are cameos from Oakland Black Panthers and Berkeley antiwar protestors. The Indians of All Tribes occupy Alcatraz; the war rages; there’s a pig-cooking contest; there are ghosts. It’s electrifying.

Lots of other blurb-ish words actually apply here — ambitious, sweeping, virtuosic, kaleidoscopic.This is certainly the Great San Francisco Novel. I’m angry for all the years I wasted not having read it and glad that maybe some of you will come to it as a result of my writing this now.

Read if you like: “The People’s Almanac,” the Cow Palace, San Francisco Sounds Available from: City Lights !

“The Custom of the Country,” by Edith Wharton

Fiction, 1913

I grabbed this out of desperation. I was running late; I knew I would finish my Ruth Rendell before the end of my train ride to Philadelphia; my only lobby options were a 2007 Fodor’s Guide to the Berkshires and this copy of “The Custom of the Country,” which someone seemed to have downloaded from the internet. Oh well, I thought. I haven’t read it since college, and even if it is printed in Noto Sans, Edith Wharton is better than nothing.

How had I forgotten how incredible this novel is? The story of an adventuress on the make, it’s one of Wharton’s most rollicking works: She’s as unflinching as ever, and as gimlet-eyed on the vagaries of high society, but it’s also clear how much fun she has portraying parvenu crassness. (Mental note: Pigeon-blood notepaper with white ink is totally declassé.) And in Undine Spragg, the small-town beauty determined to conquer New York, Wharton gives us one of her most remarkable creations. Undine is spoiled, willful, ruthless and vulgar, an amalgam of all Wharton’s Ugliest Americans. But even at her broadest, she remains a fully realized human. You love to hate her — at times it’s as though the author wonders exactly how monstrous she can render her, and keep you reading — and yet a part of you can’t help rooting for her, too.

Time and again, I found myself dog-earing or underlining lines whose wording could simply not have been better (an advantage of a copy this crummy is that you feel free to annotate without guilt). Take this passage, after Undine has thrown a tantrum: “That incident had left her half-ashamed, half-frightened of her behavior, and she had tried to atone for it by the indirect arts that were her nearest approach to acknowledging herself in the wrong.”

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Why don’t you …

Judge a book by its cover? Last weekend, I stopped by the current exhibition at the Grolier Club: Book bindings from 1470-2020. But you don’t need to be in New York to see it; their programs are beautifully digitized .

Make your escape? There’s escapism, and then there’s “The Rome Affair,” by the British writer Karen Swan. You want glamour and romance in the Eternal City? She’s got you. How about some lurid family secrets, hidden passages, yachts, surly heroes, vintage gowns, missing jewels and identical twins? I often think how much duller my life would be had some anonymous benefactor not left this gateway Swan in my building’s lobby, introducing me to the Moët & Chandon Imperial Vintage 1946 of beach reads.

Self-actualize? One of my recent giveaway-table acquisitions is a blank notebook. Always useful, right? Except this notebook, titled “In My Humble Opinion,” is full of … abuse. On every page is some sour, misanthropic maxim: “Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race” (H.L. Mencken); “I don’t have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation” (Whoopi Goldberg). I presume it’s intended for venting; I use it mostly for shopping lists. Today: ingredients for lentil soup; “Humanity is a pigsty, where liars, hypocrites and the obscene in spirit congregate.” (George Moore)

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