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Family circumstances require a sale as soon as possible. Owners have substantially reduced asking price making this a genuine opportunity for a buyer looking for South Pacific adventures and beyond in this exceptional and well proven design that offers everything required for extended off grid living and comfortable safe cruising.
With massive and well-designed space, 4 spacious cabins including a large owner suite and VIP, all with en-suite heads, and plenty of room. TEMPUS is perfect for family liveaboard enjoyment and exploring, sporting adventures, especially as a Scuba platform, and perfectly set up as a deluxe, charter expedition boat, should that be in your plans. She is equipped with every amenity including air conditioning, generator and solar power, water maker, a dive compressor, washer / dryer, and modern galley appliances including a dishwasher. Her features are too numerous to outline in this introduction.
Royal Cape Catamarans, based in Durban, South Africa, are proud manufacturers of the luxurious “Majestic” catamarans. Their objective has been to produce and distribute products that are fit for “royalty,” at a price that is competitive, and which ensures sustainability. Safety and quality are also vitally important in their uniquely crafted catamarans. Most importantly, customer service has always been at the forefront of their organisational thinking.
The Royal Cape Catamaran was first produced using the lines of the Van Der Stadt designed, RCOD (Royal Cape One Design), which for over 25 years held the record for the fastest passage between Richards Bay and Durban on the east coast of South Africa. Adapted and enhanced with CE certification and comprehensive documentation, she is an aesthetically attractive, spacious, strong and a very stable cruiser. Luxurious and comfortable with an equipment inventory that surpasses that found on competitive boats.
The Royal Cape Catamaran, Majestic 530, is MAJESTIC in every sense of the word! This is the complete, versatile, stable, safe, spacious, stylish, superbly equipped, blue-water cruising catamaran. No other catamaran in this class, offers as much and is so well equipped while offering customization of layouts, materials, equipment, deck gear, colours, long range fuel and water tanks. The cruiser’s electrical requirements offer true multi-frequency operation and the generation / storage requirements have been researched and balanced. The classic design is unique and features – superior head room (enabling one to sit up comfortably in bed), excellent lighting and significantly better air flow ensuring fresh air and cooling, while venting cooking odours and heat from the galley.
Do not miss this exceptionally maintained cat at cost below replacement. She is ready to sail away now, “Tempus” offers the total package for liveaboard and extended ocean passage-making with interior accommodations and covered aft deck comparable to larger cats. Her Van de Stadt design remains highly regarded for its stability, performance, comfort, and ocean friendly hulls. The 2014 adaptation is CE certified and is attractive, spacious, and versatile. Her fuller hulls reduce bow movement and flatten the seas, minimizing ocean contact with the bridge deck. The hull design also provides reduced draft, and an ability to carry more without affecting performance. Plenty of room aboard, quality construction, superb fit and finish, 4 beautiful staterooms with en suite heads, a well-equipped, bright, galley-up and living salon make her a World class vessel.
The external fishing, diving, BBQ, and recreational storage area is also unique, and it assists in keeping the wet and dirty activities outside while the spacious cockpit area offers the guests a superb entertainment area and the helmsman good and protected all round visibility. More power, water, sail, space, and storage enable one to travel further, anchor over your favourite fishing or dive areas for longer and offers greater versatility – they can operate successfully as charter vessels too. Besides her attractive looks, the Majestic 530 is a pleasure to handle. Steering is effortless and trimming the sails requires a simple press of the button to activate self-tailing winches. Fully stable and predictable always, she thrives on a good wind.
Tempus is currently owned by a Norwegian family who has been living aboard full time for the last 3,5 years. They have been cruising the Mediterranean, crossing the Atlantic, exploring the Caribbean and Bahamas, taken her through the Panama canal, and crossed the Pacific Ocean and now cruising in New Zealand. She has been continuously maintained and looked after along the way, and is all ready for new adventures all waters.