The sailboat was designed by the Hungarian Jeno Benacsek Hankoczy. It was built to an English customer’s order as part of a series of 15 sailing boats in Vac and Balatonfured Shipyards.It was completed in 1956 but the English customer could not take it due to the Hungarian uprise and revolution.The sailing boat was launched and operated by SZOT (National Commitee of the Trade Unions) Cruise Centre along with the other sailboats of the series for decades and it was named after Galyateto SZOT Resort. In 1994 -few years after the democratic transformation and privatisation- it was purchased by Szilágyi Miklós’s Yachtparty Phoenix private company. The sailing ship had mainly German guests on board those days and they were struggling to pronounce its name “Galyateto” so Miklós decided to rename it to Phoenix.After 26 years of succesful sailing Miklós made up his mind to pass on the baton as a captain and sold the ship. The sailing boat changed ownership in the fall, 2020.The new owner-captain is Robert Rasko.

Description

• Phoenix (formerly Galyatető) is a 2-mast classic cruising sailboat (seagoing cruiser).
• Capacity: 30 people
• Dimensions: 16.4m long, 3.7m wide
• Depth: 1.9m
• Engine: Diesel 4-cylinder Csepel 4400 cm3 (100 hp)
• Sails: Large: 75 m2, Bezan: 25 m2, Fly: 50 m2, Genoa: 50 m2
• Sail surface: 200 nm
• Main mast: 19.6 meters
• Bezan mast: 12.3 meters