2001 Uniesse 42 Open

Four steps lead down into the salon, which presents beautifully with light-coloured exotic African timber joinery, buttermilk-coloured carpet, real marble benchtops, gold curtains and a saddle-coloured leather settee with designer scatter cushions.

The portholes are recessed, the doors are oval and shiplike, and all opening ports and hatches have privacy curtains as well as flyscreens. The twin cabins and saloon are air conditioned, all lockers are fully lined, while headroom is plentiful right through to the bow. The chrome-rimmed clock, barometer and thermometer are talking points.

The settee to port offers a setting for four people to dine in privacy.

• U shaped fabric sofa.
• Carpet.
• Curtains and fabrics (to be chosen from shipyard catalogue)
• Clock, thermometer and hygrometer
• DVD
• Halogen lighting.
• Main electric panel 24/220 V with generator control
• Opening porthole (nr. 01).
• Stereo Cd Sony with inside and outside water proof loudspeakers.
• Storage lockers under the sofa.
• TV LCD SHARP 15?
• Wall storage cupboards.
• Wooden dining table.

Opposite is a compact galley with marble benchtops and impressive marble joinery. An overhead cupboard reveals a television and VCR facing back to the settee.

Cooking amenities include a microwave, two-burner electric stove, sink with stylish mixer, a fridge, and plenty of drawers for crockery and cutlery.

Such are the outdoor cooking facilities that I doubt the galley will be used for much more than making an espresso or knocking up a salad and garlic bread.

• Botticino marble worktop.
• Cutlery organized drawer.
• Halogen lighting.
• Microwave oven.
• Opening porthole (nr. 01).
• Organized locker for glasses.
• Refrigerator 115 lt.
• Sockets 24/220 volt
• Stainless steel sink with hot/cold water mixer.
• Two burner pyroceram cook top.
• Wall organized storage cupboards.
• Water level gauge.

Accommodation is generous for two couples or a family of four. There is a classic Euro-style guests' cabin with twin, full-sized single berths back aft. The foam mattresses are cut to shape and mounted in bed frames. Storage exists in a locker, in shelves, and drawers under the berths.

The forepeak cabin is the pick. Destined to be occupied by the owners, it has soft-touch panelled walls with timber kickboards and a big island double berth.

Two hanging lockers, drawers, a mirror and separate access to the head. 

With such amenities you could spend weeks aboard if you so desired.

While the Uniesse doesn't have a separate shower stall, there is a curtain on slides. The sink is marble-topped, while storage for personals exists in a mirror-backed timber cabinet.

• Carpet.
• Curtains and fabrics (to be chosen from shipyard catalogue)
• Double bed with bedcover and pillows.
• Fore bed chest of drawers.
• Halogen lighting.
• Hatch with light shade.
• Headboard mirror.
• Lateral wardrobes (nr. 02).
• Opening portholes (nr. 02).
• Tv socket
• Sockets 24/220 volt
• Store room under the bed.

Guest cabin

• Carpet.
• Central wood bed-side table.
• Curtains and fabrics (to be chosen from shipyard catalogue)
• Drawers under the beds.
• Halogen lighting.
• Lateral shelf.
• Mirror (nr. 01)
• Opening porthole (nr. 01).
• Tv socket
• Separate beds with bed covers and pillows (nr. 02).
• Sockets 24/220 volt
• Wardrobe (nr. 01).

Head

• Botticino marble countertop
• Curtain (nr. 01)
• Electric fresh water system toilet (24 V).
• Head fittings: glass holder, toilet roll holder, soap holder, WC cleaning brush holder, towel holder (nr. 02).
• Laundry locker.
• Opening porthole with curtain (nr. 01).
• Shower with curtain and teak grating.
• Sink with hot/cold water mixer and mirror.
• Vanity locker.

• Anchor windlass control and chain washer.
• Antena GPS Raystar 125
• Automatic and manual bilge pump switches.
• Control station with helm and companion seat.
• Controls for transmission and throttles.
• Echo-speed log and water temperature indicator Raymarine.
• GPS-chartplotter Raymarine C80 da 8.4?.
• High speed compass.
• Horn.
• Hydraulic steering.
• Switch for anchor lights.
• Switch for dashboard lights.
• Switch for navigation lights.
• Switch for start engines.
• Trim tabs.
• VHF-Shipmate.
• Vtr console.
• Windscreen wiper switch.
• Wiper washer switch.
• Instruments
• Engine oil pressure gauges (nr. 02).
• Engine water temperature gauges (nr. 02).
• Fuel level gauge.
• Gearbox oil pressure gauges (nr. 02).
• RPM gauges with engine hour counter (nr. 02).
• Alarms
• Engine oil pressure warning light (nr. 02).
• Engine room water level warning siren.
• Water temperature (nr. 02).

• Aft stainless steel cleats (nr. 02).
• Air intakes for engine aeration (nr. 02).
• Antifouling bottom paint.
• Bimini top in forward cockpit.
• Bow stainless steel cleats (nr. 02).
• Bow stainless steel fairleads (nr. 02).
• Bruce anchor 20Kg.
• Chain locker with draining system.
• Cockpit deck shower with hot/cold water mixer.
• Cockpit lights.
• Cockpit lockers.
• Diesel fillers (nr. 02).
• Dockside water pressure.
• Electric 1000 W 24V winch with controls from bow and helm station.
• Electric seawater pump for washing aft deck and anchor chain on bow.
• Engines Cummins 480 hp (nr 02).
• Fiber glass bathing platform with stainless steel hinged ladder.
• Fiber glass transom door.
• Glass windscreen.
• Hatch in owner cabin.
• Horn.
• Lateral stainless steel cleats (nr. 02).
• Navigation lights.
• Self-draining cockpit.
• Shore power supply with plug and lead 30 Ah.
• Stainless steel anchor guide.
• Stainless steel fender holders (nr. 02).
• Stainless steel handrails on each cockpit side (nr. 02).
• Stainless steel oval opening portholes (nr. 06).
• Stainless steel pulpit handrails and stanchions.
• Stainless steel rubrail.
• Stern stainless steel fairleads (nr. 02).
• Water filler (nr. 01).
• Windscreen wipers with washers (nr. 02).
• Zinced chain diam: 8 mm, 75 meters.

Construction

• CE omlogation certificate category B
• Topsides and deck in GPR hand laid vinilester resin with airex sandwich
• Transverse and longitudinal reinforcement throughout hull made with unidirectional and woven roving glass fiber
• Bottom and flybridge in blister\resistant vinilester glass fiber
• Isophatic gelcoat finishing (ivory color Uniesse standard)
• Epoxy resins, antiosmosis and antifouling bottom paint

• Automatic fire extinguisher in the engine room.
• Battery charger 80 Ah.
• Boat hook (nr. 01).
• Cockpit deck shower with hot/cold water mixer.
• Diesel generator 5,5 Kw.
• Dockside water pressure.
• DVD
• Echo-speed log and water temperature indicator Raymarine.
• Electric 1000 W winch with controls from bow and helm station.
• Electric seawater pump for washing aft deck and anchor chain on bow.
• Fenders (nr. 06).
• Fire extinguishers in all rooms (Kg. 3 nr. 01, kg. 1 nr. 04, kg. 2 nr. 02)
• Fuel fast closing system.
• GPS-chartplotter Raymarine C80 da 8.4?
• Mooring lines (nr. 04).
• Pressurized fresh water system.
• Refrigerator in the cockpit 60 lt.
• Refrigerator in the galley 115 lt.
• Safety system for 10 people (ISO 9650 certified)
• Sony Cd Stereo with inside and outside water proof speakers .
• Trim-tabs.
• VHF-Shipmate.
• TV LCD SHARP 15?
• Water heater 30 lt
• Windshield cover and sides

The deep-vee hull beneath the Uniesse has been designed by Miami-based Fred Hudson, who has a reputation for hatching performance-oriented hulls for Chris Craft and Magnum in the US.

Unlike some go-fast boats from the States, however, this fast runner has passagemaking capabilities.

The solid hull is fine below the waterline, but nicely flared and with a lot of freeboard in the bow. In fact, I thought the Uniesse looks and performs more like a gameboat than a lightweight point-and-shoot sportscruiser. You will be able to maintain a comfortable mid-20kt speed through just about anything.

Stability at rest is another strength. We sat beam on to the swell in the blue grotto and heaved gently. The hull seems heavy and lifts only so far before settling back on its chines. The feeling of solidity is felt running into a headsea, while the boat seems to surf before the swells entirely predicably.

The cutting edge of the Uniesse - its forefoot - seems neither too full to throw a lot of spray nor too fine to dig in and steer when you are running downswell. The flare up front also keeps you dry. I found no salt on the windscreen after our offshore run, which certainly contrasts with my time on some 40ft sportscruisers.

Tweaking the trim tabs doesn't bring too many surprises, either. The tabs aren't so aggressive that they throw the boat off line. A touch of in-trim helps button the bow down into a headsea, giving an improved view, but downswell the boat likes to run au naturel.

• Air intakes for engine room.
• Automatic fire extinguisher Kg. 3 (nr. 01).
• Balanced trim stainless steel rudders.
• Cathodic protection.
• Cockpit way-in hatch.
• Earth connection system for engines, inverters, tanks, propellers, rudders and sea water drive.
• Engines mounted on anti-vibration supports.
• Exhausts with Vtr silencers.
• Fuel fast closing system with remote control.
• Fuel tank breathers with fire extinguisher system.
• In line fuel filters able to separate water from fuel and any other kind of impurity.
• Inspection lights.
• Sound insulation throughout engine room.
• Stainless steel fuel tanks (nr. 04) with level indicator.
• Water intakes for cooling engine with inspection filters.

Bilge pumps

• Engine room water level warning siren.
• Manual emergency pump.
• Separate systems with automatic\manual electric pumps (nr. 03).

Water system

• Dockside water pressure.
• Electric sea water pump for washing aft deck and anchor chain on bow.
• Installation of shower water tank and electric pump with manual control.
• Installation of waste water tank and electric pump with manual control.
• Pressurized fresh water pump with filter.
• Water heater 220V 30 lt.

• 24V. DC
• Batteries of 100 Ah. 12 V for services (nr. 03).
• Batteries of 100 Ah.12 V for engine starting (nr. 03).
• Battery of 80 Ah. 12 V for generator (nr. 01).
• Circuit breaker protection to all AC installation systems.
• Electronic battery charger 80 Ah.
• Lights in all the rooms.
• Switches to disconnect service battery on control panel.
• 220V
• Diesel generator 5,5Kw and silencer system.
• Safety system switches.
• Shore power supply with plug and lead for external source.
• Sockets 24/220V in all the rooms.

Building just 60 boats a year, Uniesse from Chiudono in Italy is respected for the quality of its luxury craft. 

Their boats have earned a reputation for quality and performance in the discerning European and US markets.