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1981 Bristol 45' (13.72 m) 45.5AC

Oxford, Maryland, United States

INDY

New to the market and a beautiful, well cared for example of one of only five aft cockpit Bristol 45.5's built!

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Description

The Bristol 45.5 is one of the second-generation designs by Ted Hood and Dieter Empacher and built by New England’s Bristol Yachts. Dieter Empacher was the lead naval architect and deserves much of the credit for these fantastic yachts.


The 45.5 model began production in 1979 and ran until 1990. In 1989 it was replaced with the 47.7, which utilized the same hull mold with a couple of modifications at the stern. The 47.7 remained in production until 1997, when the company closed. In total there were 75 hulls built of both models.


With only about five built, this aft cockpit version of the 45.5 is a very rare find, making it a very desired opportunity. Among other things, it is known for it's amazing 6'7" headroom, several inches higher than it's center cockpit counterpart- and higher than most boats out there in this size. Ted Hood’s magic created a very capable and comfortable blue water yacht, prioritizing offshore cruising, with two quarter berths near the cockpit, a navigation area, a galley, and a dry aft head for convenience from the helm. With the berths and nav so close to the helm the helm, communication is easy between the captain and crew.  

Combined with her shoal draft, the heavier displacement hull form provides great interior volume, a comfortable motion at sea and access to shallow cruising ground normally limited to much smaller yachts. Her quality of construction cannot be matched on today's market; she is a blue water cruiser; she is a very competent performer and has beautiful lines. With her centerboard she is as comfortable sailing to the Azores as she is in the Bahamas. She is a solid ship and one that is easy to handle, solid, comfortable, classy and reliable underfoot. She feels safe...


INDY’s owners have loved her as a family member for many years- and it shows. She is tidy, clean, and the woodwork shines in every cabin! Time marches on and sadly now they must part with her. “INDY” presents a unique opportunity for someone to own this rare beauty. Call to make an appointment to see her today- she won’t last long!!!  


Brewer Yacht Sales is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Seattle Yachts. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel

Specifications

HIN/IMO: BTY000100980

Official Number: 636974

LOA: 45' 3'' (13.79 Meters)

Type: Sail- Used

Year: 1981

Beam: 13' 3''

LWL: 37' 3''

Draft Max: 11' 0''

Draft Min: 4' 11''

Cabins: 2

Sleeps: 8

Single Berths: 2

V Berths: 1

Double Berths: 2

Heads: 2

Head Room: 6' 7''

Convertibles: 1

Fuel Type: Diesel

Hull Material: Fiberglass

Hull Finish: Paint

Hull Shape: Monohull

Air Conditioning: Yes

Tower: No

Bridge Clearance: 63' 5''

Fuel Tank: 110 Gallons (416.4 Liters)

Fresh Water: 140 Gallons (529.96 Liters)

Holding Tank: 35 Gallons (132.49 Liters)

Displacement: 34660 lbs

Ballast Weight: 15000 lbs

Designer: Dieter Empacher

Builder: Bristol Yachts

Trailer: Yes

Tender HIN: XMO42076J213

Tender Registration: Florida

Tender Title: 110554323

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Engines

Engine 1

  • Engine Make: Perkins
  • Engine Model: 4-236
  • Engine Year: 1980
  • Engine Type: Inboard
  • Drive Type: Direct
  • Power HP: 85.00
  • Power KW: 63.38
  • Fuel Type: Diesel
  • Hours: 1898.00
  • Hours Date: 09-25-2025
  • Serial Number: LD20663U662248G
  • Engine Location: Middle

Full Details

Accommodations

Forward Stateroom

  • 6’6” long x 30” x 7’7” wide V-berth with custom 6" Portland mattress and center fill section
  • Custom comforter
  • Chain locker and forward water tank access
  • Locker storage outboard and forward above bunk
  • Hanging lockers and drawer storage aft of berth on port and starboard
  • Four reading lights
  • 100 Series Bomar opening overhead deck hatch
  • Two opening New Found Metals stainless portlights port and starboard
  • Hella fan
  • AC vent
  • Matching custom curtains
  • 6’7” headroom
  • Private access to forward head; privacy door to salon

 

Forward Head

  • Located on port and aft of the forward cabin
  • Laminate countertop with teak fiddle
  • Oval sink
  • Single lever water mixer with pull-out sprayer wand
  • Storage lockers above and below sink
  • Large mirrors above the sink and on the aft bulkhead
  • Bulkhead mounted light above the sink mirror
  • Separate shower stall
  • Height adjustable shower wand and bar
  • Custom tile floor
  • Raritan PSII toilet
  • 35-gallon holding tank
  • Dockside pump out and macerator driven overboard discharge when allowed
  • SS towel bar
  • Dorade vent
  • Opening New Found Metals stainless port
  • Reading lighting
  • 6’7” headroom
  • Access from either salon or forward cabin

 

Salon

  • Located aft of the forward head
  • Hanging & drawer storage unit forward of club chairs and across from head
  • 2 club chairs on starboard
  • Varnished teak glass holder between the barrel chairs
  • Pipe berth for additional sleeping over club chairs
  • L-shaped settee to port with pull out converts to a 6’7” x 45” berth
  • Shelf and locker storage behind and above dinette and barrel chairs
  • Storage locker with wine rack and glass holders to port and aft of settee
  • Bright teak two leaf fold out dining table with silverware and bottle storage locker below center section
  • Vizio flat screen TV with pullout swivel on forward end of settee
  • Four fixed house side lights
  • Overhead opening deck hatch with screen
  • One opening port light
  • Hella 12-volt fan
  • Six overhead LED dome and fluorescent lights
  • Swivel reading light over club chair on starboard
  • Bright teak hand-rails overhead port and starboard
  • 12-Volt outlet
  • Magazine rack at aft end of club chairs
  • Custom curtains
  • 6’7” headroom

 

Galley

  • Located aft of the salon on starboard
  • Gimballed 3-burner propane stove with oven and broiler
  • Propane solenoid cutoff control
  • Vented propane locker in aft lazarette
  • Two 10-pound LPG tanks
  • GE microwave oven
  • Dometic air-cooled 12v refrigeration with 3 layers of shelving
  • Frigoboat keel-cooled 12v freezer
  • Deep double basin stainless steel sink
  • Custom wood basin covers
  • Single lever hot and cold-water mixer
  • Seagull water filtration system
  • Overhead fluorescent lighting
  • Opening port light on starboard
  • Opening hatch above sink
  • Built in spice rack
  • Spices cupboard
  • Glasses cupboard
  • 2 Cutlery drawers
  • Stainless steel stability rail
  • Pots and pan storage
  • Under sink storage
  • Waste basket under sink
  • 6’6” headroom

 

Aft Head

  • Located across from the galley and aft of the salon
  • Laminate countertop with teak fiddle
  • White oval sink
  • Single lever hot/cold water mixer
  • Pre-hot water mixer to prevent scalding when using heat exchanger heated water
  • Phone-booth style shower with curtain
  • Shower mixer wand on bar with adjustable height mount
  • Electric shower sump pump
  • Custom tile floors throughout
  • Raritan PSII toilet
  • Lectrasan sanitation system (’19)
  • Storage lockers below the countertop and outboard along the hull
  • Large mirror with overhead light over the counter
  • LED lighting
  • Opening port
  • Overhead solar ventilation
  • Towel bars and soap holder
  • Toothbrush and cup holder
  • 6’7” headroom

 

Navigation Station

  • Located at the forward end of the aft stateroom on starboard
  • Large chart table with chart storage underneath
  • 2 electric control panels for both 12 volt and 110 volts
  • GPS receiver
  • AIS receiver
  • Depth sounder
  • Compass
  • 6’7” headroom

 

Aft Cabin

  • Located at the companionway base forward of the cockpit
  • 6’7” x 24” x 42” berth on starboard
  • 6’5” x 19” x 38” berth on port
  • Battery access under starboard berth
  • Storage under both berths
  • Two opening portlights
  • Reading lights port and starboard
  • One overhead light
  • Shelf storage
  • Hanging locker
  • Drawers
  • 6’7” headroom
  • Lockable door to salon entry

Water Systems

  • 3 Stainless steel water tanks
  • 140 gallons total
  • Flo-Jet electric freshwater pump
  • All Craft 12-gallon hot water tank
  • Anchor washdown pump
  • Deck washdown pump
  • Whale Gulper grey water pump
  • Rule electric bilge pump
  • Two manual bilge pumps
  • Solid bronze thru-hulls throughout

Hull and Deck

  • Bottom peeled and barrier coated (’02)
  • Black ablative bottom paint (’25)
  • Centerboard lowers to eleven feet
  • Skeg hung rudder
  • Awlgrip Sea Foam Green topsides (’15)
  • Single white boot stripe
  • Gold cove stripe
  • Plastic rub-rail with stainless cap
  • Folding stainless steel swim/boarding ladder with teak treads on transom
  • Optional taller teak toe rails
  • Stainless steel stem fitting with single anchor roller
  • Stainless steel 45lb (22 kg) CQR anchor with swivel and 200 feet ⅜” BBB chain
  • 45lb Bruce anchor with 50 feet ⅜” BBB chain lead and 150 feet of braided nylon
  • Double-sided chain locker
  • Ideal 12v. electric horizontal anchor windlass mounted below deck
  • Dual down windless foot switches
  • Devil’s Claw chain stopper
  • Anchor chain hawse pipe
  • Spare anchor chain hawse pipe
  • Stainless steel bow pulpit
  • Two port and starboard bow chocks and cleats
  • Four stern & midships cleats port
  • Stainless steel stanchions
  • Double coated wire lifelines
  • Lifeline gates on port and starboard
  • Stainless steel grab rails on housetop
  • Two varnished teak dorade boxes with chromed dorades
  • Stainless steel line guards over dorades
  • Four fixed port lights
  • Four Bomar 100 series opening deck hatches (’11)
  • Six New Found Metals stainless steel opening port-lights (’11)
  • Aluminum arch with integral davits and solar panel mounts
  • Bimini
  • Dodger and connector
  • Full cockpit enclosure panels
  • Cockpit storage ports on port and starboard with varnished teak trim
  • Custom, expandable, teak fold-down cockpit table with cup holders
  • Custom storage shelving system in cockpit lazarette substantially enhances provisioning
  • Teak cockpit grate sole
  • Vinyl cockpit grate cover in simulated teak and holly
  • Ballast / disp.: 43.28%
  • D/L: 299.37
  • Comfort Ratio: 43.66
  • Capsize: 1.62

Sails and Rigging

Sails

  • Quantum stowaway main sail
  • Quantum 135% Genoa with luff padding
  • Genoa serviced at Quantum (’24)
  • Drifter
  • Anchor-riding sail
  • Asymmetrical spinnaker with dousing sock
  • Storm jib and trysail with rigging
  • I: 57.00
  • J: 18.80
  • P: 50.30
  • E: 18.00
  • SA/D: 14.94

 

Rigging

  • Hood single spreader keel stepped Stow-Away aluminum mast painted (‘24)
  • Hood in-mast electric mainsail furler and manual hand crank
  • In-mast main furler cockpit controls
  • “Flute stopper” mast noise dampening device
  • Storm trysail track
  • Mast mounted spinnaker pole track and car
  • Hood aluminum boom painted (‘24)
  • Stainless steel wire standing rigging (‘24)
  • ProFurl C430 headsail furler (’14)
  • Inboard sail sheet tracks port and starboard
  • Outboard sail sheet tracks mounted on toe-rails port and starboard
  • Main sheet traveler
  • Merriman centerboard winch
  • Dyneema braided main and jib halyards (‘24)
  • Dyneema spinnaker halyards (‘24)
  • Jib and main sheets
  • jibe preventers
  • Whisker-poles
  • Two Barient #36 2-speed self-tailing primary winches
  • Two Barient #32 2-speed self-tailing secondary winches
  • Barient #23 2-speed self-tailing out-haul winch
  • Barient #28 2-speed main halyard winch on mast
  • Barient #10 mainsheet winch
  • Four Lewmar line clutches
  • Courtesy flag halyards

Engine and Machinery

  • Perkins 4-236 85hp diesel engine
  • 1898 hours on the meter (need to confirm function)
  • Hurth ZF 250 transmission, 1:88:1 ratio new (’25)
  • Fresh water cooled with raw water heat exchanger
  • Seacamp heat exchanger (’25)
  • Exhaust hose (’25)
  • Perko sea strainer
  • Three stainless steel fuel tanks
  • 110 gallons total
  • Access ports on each tank
  • Fuel professionally polished (’25)
  • Crossover connectors to allow access to all fuel when cruising
  • Shut off valves
  • Racor fuel filter
  • Alxyka fuel purification/water separator system (’98)
  • Spin on primary fuel filter
  • Gulf Coast fuel polishing system with continuous duty pump
  • Wet exhaust system
  • Resilient mounts
  • Drive saver (’25)
  • Stainless steel 1 ¼” propeller shaft
  • Cutless bearing (’25)
  • Shaft zinc
  • Propeller - right hand, 3-blade 20Dx16P
  • Edson binnacle
  • Stainless steel grabrail on binnacle
  • Stainless steel wheel
  • Edson shift and throttle controls on binnacle
  • Ritchie compass with night light
  • Dometic 16k air conditioner with digital controller, soft start and reverse cycle heat (’18)
  • Espar 12v diesel heater system
  • New spare engine starter
  • New spare engine water pump
  • New spare raw water pump
  • Head gasket rebuild kit
  • Engine manuals

Electrical

  • 30A 110V shore power connection
  • 50 Foot 30A shore power cable
  • 50A to 30A converter for shore power cable
  • Bass 110V electrical panel with volt and amp meters
  • 110-Volt shore power source switch
  • 110V receptacles throughout with GFCI protection
  • Bass 12v electrical panel with volt and amp meters
  • Two auxiliary 12v panels
  • LaMarche 40A battery charger
  • Xantrex Freedom Xi 2000-watt inverter/charger (’19)
  • Balmar 110-Amp alternator
  • Balmar Max-Charge charge regulator
  • Dedicated 30A alternator for engine start battery
  • Balmar 12-volt battery monitor
  • Three 8D AGM house and starting batteries (’25)
  • Two Guest battery switches
  • Two MAGE 190W solar panels (’11)
  • Bluesky 3204i MPPT solar and wind charge controller (’11)
  • Constavolt switch to toggle from shore to wind/solar/engine charging
  • Superwind wind generator (’12)
  • Superwind wind generator shut-off switch (’12)
  • Hood main furler breaker
  • Windlass breaker
  • Navigation lights; anchor light; steaming light; emergency strobe light
  • Foredeck light

Electronics

Cockpit

  • Raymarine A70d color chart plotter
  • Raymarine ST60+ depth, speed, and wind instruments
  • Raymarine electronics mounted above companionway
  • Raytheon ST 6000+ autopilot
  • West Marine VHF RAM mic

  

Navigation Station

  • Garmin GPS152
  • West Marine 600dsc VHF
  • AIS receiver to laptop navigation

Safety Gear

  • Emergency ditch bag
  • Flares and signaling devices
  • Personal AIS locator
  • Jack lines and lanyards for weather deck and cockpit
  • Life sling
  • PFD’s
  • Throwable cushions
  • Emergency tiller
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Binoculars

Other Equipment

  • AB 10’6” RIB dinghy (‘13)
  • Venture dinghy trailer (’14)
  • Nissan 5HP outboard motor
  • Outboard motor hoist
  • Edson outboard motor mount on aft rail
  • Magma stainless propane grill with cover
  • Cockpit cushions
  • 4 folding cockpit chairs with green Sunbrella covers
  • LED string lighting under bimini
  • Mounted dock box storage
  • Fenders
  • Dock lines
  • Boat hook
  • Milwaukee 18-volt winch handle
  • Winch covers
  • Hatch covers
  • Wind scoops
  • Winter companionway board
  • Ship’s clock
  • Barometer
  • Fuel transfer pump
  • Specialized tools
  • Flute stopper
  • Paper charts and guidebooks

Exclusions

Owner’s personal effects and any items not specifically described in this listing

Disclaimer

Some pictures may show equipment not included in the sale. Potential purchasers should assume that any items on the vessel at the time of viewing and/ or survey, but not specifically listed on this specification sheet, are not included with the sale of the yacht. These specifications are believed to be correct but cannot be guaranteed. Specifications are provided for information purposes. Data was obtained from sources believed reliable but is not guaranteed by owner or brokers. Engine hours are approximate, may be reported verbally by the seller, and are recorded at the time and date of the original listing of this vessel. Owner's use during the time of this listing may affect the total engine hours upon a prospective buyer's inspection. Buyer assumes responsibility to verify all speeds, consumptions, capacities and other measurements contained herein and otherwise provided, and agrees to instruct his/her agents or his/her surveyor to confirm such details prior to purchase. This vessel is subject to sale, price and inventory changes or withdrawal from market without notice.

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INDY 45ft Bristol Yacht For Sale

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