"Quest" - Nelson / Marek 43 **Price Reduced AGAIN**

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Performance Legend "Quest" – Nelson/Marek 43

After a successful two-year campaign to compete in the prestigious 2025 Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race, Quest – a renowned Nelson Marek 43 – is now proudly offered for sale.

Fresh off her performance in the Osaka Cup where she placed 3rd on handicap and 3rd on line honours, Quest has proven again that she is a true ocean racing contender. She h is now available for inspection at our home waters - the Gold Coast!

Price Reduced for quick sale - all offers invited!  🔥 The sellers want her sold, so make an offer. Seriously, throw your best at us — honest, reasonable offers will be considered.

🏁 Race-Ready and Recent Refit

Over the past two years, Quest underwent an extensive, methodical overhaul to prepare her for 11,000 miles of non-stop, two-handed offshore racing – to Japan and back. Every system was examined, upgraded, or replaced with Category 1 ocean racing standards in mind. She was fitted out with spares for every conceivable failure point and completed the race campaign without a single failure or breakage.

Set up for short-handed sailing, she is remarkably easy to sail for a boat of her size and power. Her race-ready setup makes her a perfect platform for two-handed bluewater racing, but she also doubles as a highly competitive club racer.

A purpose-built hard dodger, invaluable during the Osaka campaign, offers superb protection at sea and can be removed in under an hour to return her to her sleek, original lines.

⛵ Proven Recent Performance (2023–2025)

In the lead-up to the 2025 Osaka Cup, Quest entered all major Victorian offshore races, finishing on the podium in most conditions:

• 2025 Osaka Cup – 3rd on handicap & 3rd line honours (two-handed division)

• 2024 Melbourne to Hobart – 1st two-handed line honours, 3rd overall line honours, 3rd handicap

• Westcoaster Race – flawless Southern Ocean performance, top speed of 25.2 knots in 40 knots of wind

🌊 Proven Race History (1995–2022)

Beyond her recent achievements, Quest boasts an outstanding offshore racing legacy:

• 2nd – 1995 Sydney to Hobart

• Winner – 1995 Hamilton Island Race Week & Telstra Cup

• Winner – 1996 Sydney to Mooloolaba & Kenwood Cup

• 4th – 1998 Sydney to Hobart (infamous year)

• Multiple podiums and consistent performance over three decades

Built in 1995 by Nelson Marek Yachts in Rhode Island, USA, Quest is a distinguished 43-foot racer-cruiser designed for performance, endurance, and safety. She remains one of the most competitive and respected yachts in her class.

💡 Summary

• Meticulously prepared for 11,000nm offshore campaign

• Fully compliant with Category 1 and 2 safety standards

• Designed for short-handed sailing, but equally capable fully crewed

• Recently upgraded systems and spares throughout too long to list here (ask Helen for a copy)

• Fast, beautiful, and ready to sail today – just restock and go

• Re-rigged in 2020, invoices available!

📞 Enquiries & Inspections

Owner is negotiable on price and delivery location.
Make an offer and step aboard a proven offshore performer.

Contact Helen James
📞  0480 634 685

Region: Gold Coast - Main Beach

Reference: S2130

 Launch Year: 1994

 Hull: Composite Kevlar

 Designer: Nelson/Marek

 Builder: Carroll Marine (USA)

 Length: 43' 0" - 13.11m

 Beam: 3.86m

Draft: 2.95m

Displacement: 6 tonne

Keel / Ballast: Fin keel with bulb and spade rudder

Deck Material: Composite Kevlar

Engine Make: Yanmar 3JHH2CE

Engine: Yanmar 39HP, 3-cylinder engine (2016)

Number Engines: 1

Horsepower: 39hp

Fuel Type: Diesel

Fuel: 75l fuel tank

Cruise speed:  Approx 6knotts

Propulsion:  Propulsion SD 30 sail drive, 2 blade folding propeller

Water: Two 100L bladder-style freshwater tanks - New installations. Pressurized cold water system.  1x20, 3x15, 4x10 jerries for water

Accommodation:  Racing layout

Main saloon, V berth forward, enclosed head and vanity

2 single berths/settee plus 2 pipe berth main cabin

2 single plus two pipe berths aft

Head Jabsco electric fully enclosed with basin

Pressure water system to galley and vanity

Fusion radio/Bluetooth sound system

Toilet: Electric toilet

GALLEY

1x12 volt Travelmate D2-95 fridge

Gasmate stove on gimble bracket

Kettle, pots and pans etc

200 litre water bladders (new)

Dinghy: Small Inflatable

Covers: Removable hard dodger(2023) - Comfort for extended offshore passages, Mainsail boom cover with lazy jacks (2 2022)

Safety Gear: Category 1 safety gear - Offshore compliant (extensive list avail)

Life Raft: Six-man liferaft

Electronics:

VHF Icom IC-MA11

HF Icom IC-M802

Stereo radio/Bluetooth – 2 Fusion speakers

Quell Cardo Monoxide alarm

AIS Send and receive

GME x625 hand held UHF with hard wired cradle

Emergency HF antenna

Emergency VHF antenna with cable

Raymarine EV400 sail aiuto pilot system (new 2025)

Raymarine auto pilot (good working spare)

Raymarine RS 150 GPS system

Raymarine Axicom +12 -12inch MFD (new 2025)

Raymarine remote card reader A80585

Raymarine P705 auto pilot control

3Raymarine Jumbo displays x 3

Raymarine A67, and A70 muilti functional displays

Raymarine linear drive type 2 long

Raymarine linear drive type 2 long (new-unused 2025)

Iridium Go Exec with date hub and exterior antenna

Starlink mini with mounting bracket and power supply

Invertor 10 amps

Spare Raymarine top of mast complete instruments

Spare seatalk cable and connectors

Spare electric cable, connectors and fuses

12volt system incorporating, circuit breakers

House/start/parallel battery switches

170 amp Balmar alternator & serpentine belt

External regulator (programmable)

New 2x200 A/H lithium invicta batteries

New 1x120 AH start battery sealed AGM

New Vitron DC-DC charges

ENC charts loaded to plotter

Navionics charts loaded to MFD

Sail Inventory: 

New Main black double taffeta 3 reef off shore

North main 3 reef offshore

North main regatta

1 Dacron 3 reef delivery main

New furling headsail

1 No4 jib

1 No 5 jib

1 Staysail

1 Jib top reacher – non stretching luff (needs repair)

1 code zero with furler

2 x 1.5oz symmetrical spinnakers

1 x 0.5oz symmetrical spinnaker

2 c 1.5oz asymmetrical spinnaker

3 new snuffers

1 x Trisail

1 x Storm sail

 Mast / Rigging:

Masthead sloop. In line fractional alloy mast and boom in good condition. Rig inspection with partial replacement - Completed in 2016. Re-rigged in 2020!  Invoice showing full re-rig to boot!  New Profurl furler and forestay - Installed 2023. All running and standing rigging in excellent condition

 Deck Gear:

New Profurl jib furler (2024), 2xLewmar 3 speed 50’s

2 x Lewmar 2 speed 54’s ST

2 x Lewmar 2 speed 44’s ST

2 Harken 2 speed 46’s ST (new)

1 Carbon pole

1 Aluminium whisker pole

2 x spinlock tiller extensions

Multiple sheets and braces, spare halyards

 Remarks: Condition: Excellent - race-ready and offshore-capable

 DISCLAIMER: Bosuns Locker offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. As the vessel is sold "As Is Where Is" Bosuns Locker highly recommends that every potential purchaser inspect or arrange a surveyor or representative on their behalf to inspect the vessel prior to making an offer.