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Arcona Arcona 400

163,970 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2003 | Country : Sweden

Engine : Volvo Penta MD 2040 39 hk

Båtagent Sweden – Stockholm

271,280 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2013 | Country : United Kingdom

Barbican Yacht Agency

Arcona Arcona 340

159,090 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2011 | Country : Sweden

Engine : Yanmar 3YM20/SD20, 20 hk

Arcona 465 Carbon

810,000 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2021 | Country : Finland

Engine : Yanmar

Båtagent Finland & Baltic States

132,950 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2010 | Country : Sweden

Navark Yachtbrokers

150,230 EUR

Engine : Volvo Penta MD2040

Yachtsale Sweden

159,500 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2003 | Country : The Netherlands

Engine : Volvo Penta D2-40

Nordic Yachting

795,000 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2019 | Country : Denmark

Blue Ocean Oy Ab

Arcona 435 Carbon

598,270 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2019 | Country : Sweden

Engine : Yanmar 4JH57

Berthon Scandinavia AB

Arcona Fiber Sport 700

Motor boat | Year : 1990 | Country : Spain

Engine : Nissan LD20

Network Yacht Brokers Tarragona

Arcona Arcona 355

Sailing boat | Year : 1999 | Country : Sweden

Engine : Volvo 2030

Båtagent - Stockholm North

Engine : Nissan

De Drait-NL De Drait 38 Advantage „Arcona"

127,990 EUR

Motor boat | Year : 2007 | Country : Germany

Engine : Iveco

Brauckmann Boote / Standort Brandenburg-Plaue

Sailing boat | Year : 1988 | Country : Sweden

Engine : Volvo Penta D1-30

Båtagent Sweden - Southern Sweden

200,380 EUR

Sailing boat | Year : 2010 | Country : Norway

Engine : Yanmar inboard

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Arcona 465 Carbon

A well-equipped Arcona 465 Carbon performance cruiser with an emphasis on both performance and cruising.

This boat has had a first class upgrade and refresh at our yard and is in absolutely top condition. Some features: The hull and deck are built fully in Carbon, A new bow thruster is installed 2024. The interior is made in Oak. Sails from North Sails, Main, jib 106% 3Di Endurance 760, Inner jib Norlam, Asymmetric spinnaker G2, Code G2 Running Gennaker NorLon. Fischer Panda 3,8 Kw generator. 80 hp Yanmar engine. Ultra Marine anchor with stainless steel chain.

Ready to launch and sail away!

14.09M 2019 ARCONA 465 CARBON 6 392 000 SEK EX. VAT (VAT NOT PAID) 7 990 000 SEK INCL. EU VAT | HENÅN, SWEDEN

Arcona 415e

We are delighted to offer a unique opportunity for you to get an Arcona 415e as we are selling our demo boat. This Arcona 415e is built to a comprehensive specification for enjoyable sailing in silence with the Oceanvolt Zero Emission upgrade as well as the hybrid propulsion option with a 6 kw genset onboard. The boat comes with a superb performance sail wardrobe from North Sails, with North 3Di sail & jib and an A2 asymmetric and Code Zero.

Our demo Arcona 415e is lightly used and is available for delivery now!

Full specifications and price on request to [email protected] .

ARCONA 415e

Arcona 430-21

A great opportunity to buy a fantastic Arcona 430, professionally serviced and kept inside during winter. The boat is very well-equipped and is truly an opportunity for someone who would like a fantastic performance cruiser and easy to handle Arcona 430. All of this with the well known Arcona comfort and quality. Owned by one careful owner since new and very well maintained. Please contact Arcona for more information.

Boat on land now, west of Stockholm and will be in water in Gustavsberg. Built 2010 3.450.000 SEK VAT Paid

SPECIFICATION   PREVIOUS MODELS

Arcona 410 – 01

We have the honour of listing an Arcona 410 for the second owner of this boat. This is a 2011 Arcona 410 No. 1 with 3 cabins, standard 220 cm keel, lots of sails, updated over time. She is well set up for racing and also for cruising – for those who prefer that instead, as with all Arcona performance cruising yachts.

The boat will soon be in the harbour in Gustavsberg. Ask for more information and pictures at [email protected] .

Year 2011 2 950 000 SEK EU VAT Paid Located in Gustavsberg, Sweden

Arcona 385-05

‘The moment you waited for?!’ The most beautiful, fastest and most sought-after boat on the used boat market. An Arcona 385 with all the required equipment to be a fast and well-behaved cruiser. Perfect for family sailing or for couples. Please contact us on [email protected] for more photos.

Year 2022 4.400.000 SEK EU VAT Paid Located in Gustavsberg, Sweden

Arcona 435-09

Arcona 435 built in 2019 is now available on Arcona Brokerage. She is very well kept and has low mileage.  The equipment list very extensive. Bow- and stern swing thrusters, reversible electric winch for the self-tailing jib, Furler boom, and double windlasses to mention just a few of her key features. Complete high end North Sails 3Di sail wardrobe. Easily handled by one person. She has a white hull with blue lines. The gelcoat is in perfect condition due to the fact that it was striped grey before this sailing season. Mahogany interior with oak flooring.

The perfect sailboat for easy fast cruising with the best of comfort!

Year 2019 5 900 000 SEK VAT paid Located in Gustavsberg, Sweden ARCONA 435 SPECIFICATION

Arcona 400-104

A well preserved Arcona 400 with a renovated bottom/keel for the season 2023. Lots of updates during the way. In the water now, ready for the 2023 season! Arcona 400 is perhaps the most valued model so far among the Arconas, the one we built most of (176). As always very well suited for both cruising and racing.

Year 2007 SEK 1 995 000 Gustavsberg, Sweden

SPECIFICATION PREVIOUS MODELS

Arcona 380-06

We now have an Arcona 380 on the market! She is in excellent condition and has been upgraded with new sails, instruments and a lot more. Please contact us for more information on  [email protected] .

Year 2014 Lying in Gustavsberg. SEK 3,050,000 VAT Paid.

SPECIFICATION ARCONA 380

Arcona 400-64

A hugely sought after Arcona 400 classic in great condition. Mk 2 deck mould. Double aft cabins with a separate shower.

Contact [email protected] for further information. Full specification in Swedish below.

Year  SEK TAX PAID Vindön, Orust, Nr. Uddevalla, Sweden

Arcona 435 Mk II

Unique opportunity: Buy a brand new Arcona 435 with all options (carbon mast, carbon furling boom, rudder, electric winches, lithium battery pack, and much more) at a great price and set sail immediately! The boat features 3 cabins, 2 heads, mahogany interior, and has less than 50 engine hours!

The boat is on display at Boot Düsseldorf and will return to the Netherlands after the exhibition. For more information: [email protected] .

Year of construction: 2023 Price: 695,000 euros VAT paid Location: Enkhuizen, Netherlands

Arcona 340-58

Arcona 340 nr. 58, one of the last 340s ever built, delivered 2016 and winterised indoor since then. One very careful owner. The boat has some special features such as L-sofa in saloon, plissé curtains and windows in hull for example.

This yacht will be on the market after 15th August but may be viewed from 3 rd  August. Please email [email protected]  for more info. Please note, due to the holidays there may be a short delay in answering Arcona Brokerage emails. Thank you in advance for your patience.

Please contact us for more information on [email protected] .

Year 2016 SEK 1.825.000 VAT Paid Located in Almösund, Tjörn, West Coast of Sweden

SPECIFICATION ARCONA 340

Arcona 430-53

The yacht is in great shape. She has been raced a few times with top results but not sailed altogether. Over the last four years the A430-53 has only been used for two weeks each summer. Each winter she has been stored and serviced indoors with Arcona Yachts/Gustavsbergs Marin Center.

Equipped with twin carbon wheel steering, carbon mast and top of the range sails, this is a yacht to see for yourself to realise how beautiful she is.

Year 2015 3 600 000 SEK VAT Paid Located in Gustavsberg, Sweden (from 10 October)

Arcona 400-78

This Arcona 400, Noellah, has had one owner since new. She has not done any competitive sailing, only family sailing. Her engine has been serviced every year by an authorised marine workshop.

Year 2006 SEK 1,800,000 Uddevalla, Sweden

Arcona 400-123

A very much sought after Arcona 400 classic in good shape. Double aft cabins. Mk 2 deck mould. Kept inside on the west coast of Sweden. Contact [email protected] for further information. Check out the comprehensive specification.

Year 2008 SEK 1.795.000 Uddevalla, Sweden

SPECIFICATION ARCONA 400

A very well kept Arcona 465 ready to sail the world or race with. Beautiful to sail, delicately balanced and with the utmost control at the helm, both when steering and sailing shorthanded or with crew. Has participated in a few races but can not be seen anywhere. An additional race wardrobe (barely used) is available at an additional cost if you would like to do competitive racing. Please contact us for more information on [email protected] .

Year 2018 SEK 6,700,000 VAT PAID [Or if outside Sweden, SEK 5,360,000 EX. VAT] Located in Stockholm, Sweden Photo: Sistership

SPECIFICATION ARCONA 465

Arcona 400-53

A very nice looking Arcona 400. The interior is well kept. New upholstery and revarnished floors. Sail wardrobe and canvas updated. Current owner since 2009. Not chartered or raced. Please contact us for more information on [email protected] .

Year 2004 Lying in Stockholm. SEK 1,925,000 VAT Paid.

Arcona 430 in good condition and highly equipped: Year 2011. Twin wheels, 3 cabins and 2 heads. Extensive sail inventory including both racing and cruising sails. She has watermaker and generator.

The interior is very well kept.

Year 2011 SEK 3,295,000 TAX PAID Gustavsberg, Sweden

Arcona 370-07

Finally an Arcona 370 on the market! She has had two owners since new and is very well maintained. Fresh sails from the UK and otherwise updated and replaced where needed! The boat can be seen in Fiskebäckskil on the West Coast of Sweden for a short period. This Arcona 370 is Hull No. 7 and was built in 2003. She is a two cabin version with a white hull and blue stripes.

Year 2003 SEK 1,675,000 TAX PAID Fiskebäckskil, Sweden

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How did divers manage to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline? We went down to the spot to find out

German network ard chartered yacht and divers to see how sabotage occurred.

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It was an event that rocked Europe and shook world affairs. 

Early in the morning on Sept. 26, 2022, a series of powerful undersea explosions damaged pipelines under the Baltic Sea near Denmark that carried Russian natural gas to Germany. 

Fingers were immediately pointed at Ukraine, which had been at war with Russia since the latter invaded in February of that year. Ukraine denied involvement, and in the absence of reliable information, conspiracy theories proliferated about who attacked the Nord Stream pipeline.

Did a Russian submarine intentionally destroy it in order to cut off the gas supply to Germany, a country allied with Ukraine? Was it the CIA, as famed U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote? 

The German government has been tightlipped about the affair for two years, but this week, German media outlets ARD, Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit jointly reported that federal prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant against a Ukrainian man. A Polish government spokesperson confirmed it.

The German reports identified the man as Volodymyr Z., a diving instructor who last resided in Poland. In a brief telephone conversation on Tuesday with reporters from ARD, Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit, Volodymyr Z. expressed surprise at the accusations and denied involvement.

A report this week by the Wall Street Journal also pointed to Ukraine, suggesting the operation was carried out by Ukrainian soldiers and civilians with diving expertise and under the direction of Ukraine's then-commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.

Journalists at ARD, Germany's public broadcaster, have been hot on the trail since the shocking explosions took place. I was one of the reporters who was part of the team that spent months piecing together what may have occurred. 

To understand what happened to the Nord Stream pipeline that day, ARD chartered the very yacht the perpetrators allegedly used and sent divers into the roiling waters of the Baltic Sea to see how the pipeline might have been attacked.

Group chartered sailing yacht

Several outlets have reported that in early September 2022, a sailing yacht called Andromeda set sail from the port of Hohe Düne in Rostock, Germany. According to the ARD investigation, the commando that was to destroy the pipelines was on board the Andromeda. The group is said to have consisted of six people — five men and one woman. Among them, it is suspected, was Volodymyr Z.

After stops in Rügen, Bornholm and Christiansø in Denmark, Sandhamn in Sweden and Kołobrzeg in Poland, the boat returned to Rostock. 

At some point during the trip, investigators believe the crew dove from the yacht down to the seabed and, in the darkness of the Baltic Sea, attached the explosive devices to the pipeline at a depth of around 80 metres. 

What happened later is well-known. At 2:03 a.m. local time on Sept. 26, 2022, the first explosion damaged Nord Stream 2. Approximately 16 hours later, three other explosions damaged Nord Stream 1. Investigators later found residue of the explosive HMX, also known as octogen, on board the Andromeda.

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During our investigation, we wondered just how hard it would have been to carry out such a mission. 

The Andromeda is a charter yacht. Anyone can rent it — so we rented it, too, and took three divers with us.  

As with many charter yachts, the Andromeda was not in the best condition — our skipper called it "one of the worst boats I've ever sailed with." 

He said several electrical components were broken and that the yacht didn't move well in the waves. Then there was the swim platform, which the divers would need to get on and off the boat. If the swell is high, the platform moves up and down, punching into the sea. A diver trying to get back on the boat could be slammed on the head by the platform, causing serious injury. For us, this risk was too high. 

So we returned the Andromeda and chartered a professional diving vessel with a crew that usually recovers Second World War explosives from the bed of the Baltic Sea. 

We then drove to the exact spot where the first explosion happened — 120 kilometres off the German coast, with the Danish island Bornholm in sight.

Trained divers required

We arrived at 6 a.m. to witness a symbolic moment in the Baltic Sea. 

A Russian military ship appeared. Through our radio, we heard, "Russian warship delta echo, U.S. warship Yankee." The U.S. Navy was trying to make contact with the Russian Navy right before our eyes. How could a sabotage operation have gone on undetected in this environment?

The burst pipeline lay almost 80 metres beneath us, a depth not every diver could handle. 

You need to be trained as a tech diver. At that depth, you have to breathe a special mixture of oxygen, helium and nitrogen, and that means carrying about 220 pounds of equipment. 

It is also pitch black at the bottom of the sea. The multiple scuba tanks gave the divers about 40 minutes to find the pipeline, which means they needed to know precisely where to look. A sonar device was required to locate the pipeline beforehand. The Andromeda did not have this kind of device on board, but our new vessel did. 

Our tech divers found the burst pipeline on their second try and filmed it. 

The difficult part for the divers was returning to the surface. The pressure is so intense that if the ascent is not done correctly, divers could experience serious symptoms like paralysis or damage to their lungs. Doing proper decompression from such a depth — which requires divers to switch to a different gas mix — takes about two hours. 

Conducting a complex mission like that from the Andromeda would have been difficult and dangerous. According to the German investigation, it's plausible Volodymyr Z. was trained for dives like that.

Everyone who has examined the Andromeda agrees it's not the vessel anyone would choose to secure a mission. 

As our tech diver Derk Remmers put it: "I would use the Andromeda for a vacation, but not a sabotage mission."

Yet this could be precisely why the saboteurs used it. To stay undetected and unaccountable — which they managed to do until the charges were made public this week.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lea Struckmeier is an investigative journalist and presenter at ARD, Germany's public broadcaster. She is currently spending her Arthur F. Burns Fellowship with CBC.

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As soon as I heard Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance smearing the military service of his opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, all I could think was: Seriously? Are we really doing this again?

Are we really going to allow Republicans — who are freaking out now that their presumed glide path back to the White House has become a very bumpy road — to slime Walz the way they slimed Vietnam veteran John Kerry 20 years ago?

“When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did?” Vance said last week in Michigan. “He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him — a fact that he’s been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with.”

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Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard before being honorably discharged. During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, he was stationed in Italy, providing support to American combat troops. In early 2005, months before his unit was ordered to Iraq, he decided to retire from the Guard to run for Congress. He became only the second Democrat in more than a century to capture a traditionally Republican seat and continued to support the military as a member of the House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs committees.

In 2018, when he was running for governor, Walz inaccurately claimed that he carried weapons “in war” in the course of making an argument against allowing civilians to possess assault weapons. Vance disingenuously accused Walz of “ stolen valor ,” a phrase typically used to describe lying about military service or honors.

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Like Walz, Vance enlisted right out of high school. He served four years in the Marine Corps and was deployed to Iraq for about six months in 2005 and 2006. He worked in public affairs and was never in combat, though that does not mean he was never in danger. No American in Iraq in those days, military or civilian, was totally safe.

To many Americans, the attempted sliming of Walz has a familiar ring.

“Republicans,” Hillary Clinton wrote on social media last week, “are re-running an old tactic and trying to smear a veteran who’s also a Democrat.”

“Swift-boating” worked once before. Why not try it again?

In 2004, then-Sen. Kerry, a bona fide war hero, ran against President George W. Bush. Like many privileged young men looking to avoid combat in Vietnam, Bush had served in the Texas Air National Guard.

Kerry had been a Navy lieutenant. He commanded a Swift boat on the Mekong Delta for four months in 1969, earning a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Devastated by what he had witnessed, Kerry became a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War soon after he returned home.

“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” he famously asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971, nearly two years before the United States pulled out of Vietnam.

His activism earned him the lasting enmity of those who supported the misbegotten war. He was accused of endangering soldiers who were still fighting.

Years later, when Kerry accepted his party’s nomination at the Democratic convention in Boston, he crisply saluted and said, “I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty.” This was threatening to Republicans, who settled on a then-novel strategy: They would turn Kerry’s greatest strength into his greatest weakness.

Hence the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and eventually the term “swiftboating.”

The “truth” they promulgated was that Kerry was a fraud who lied about his service. It was such an outlandish and untrue accusation that Kerry tried to ignore it. By the time his campaign realized it was hurting him, the lie had already been lodged in the public imagination.

It should come as no surprise that Republican political operative Chris LaCivita, one of the architects of the disingenuous campaign against Kerry, is now one of two co-managers of Trump’s campaign. His fingerprints are all over Vance’s outlandish claims about Walz.

The great irony is that Trump ducked service in Vietnam partly by claiming bone spurs in his heels.

That didn’t prevent Trump from savaging Republican Sen. John McCain, a Navy pilot who spent nearly six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and bore the scars of his torture there his entire life.

“I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said during his first presidential campaign.

As president, the Atlantic reported , he repeatedly disparaged service members who died in war — calling them “losers” and “suckers” — and requested that wounded veterans, especially amputees, not be allowed in military parades.

“Nobody wants to see that,” he told staff during a 2018 planning meeting.

Every time Vance attacks Walz’s military service, Democrats should remind voters that it’s in shameless service of a man who utterly disdains Americans who risk their lives to serve their country.

@robinkabcarian

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