1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 "NOCTILUCA", Ventura, CA 93001

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Ability analysis

Everything below is costed to cross the Pacific.

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Specifications

All-in, cruising

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not analysed

All-in, offshore

$263k–$289k

offer + full refit

Length

41.75 ft

Draft

5.83 ft

Capability

6.2 · 6.4

cruising · offshore, of 10

Capability is scored for both standards from the same design research, re-weighted. The money is not: a coastal refit has to be costed on its own, which is why it can read “not analysed” above while the score beside it is real.

24 of 24 systems still unexamined, carrying $20k of reserve.

That figure falls as you inspect — it shrinks because you did the diligence, not because you got optimistic. A system with no assessment counts as unexamined and carries its full allowance.

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Identified risks (14)

Discrete events, kept out of the cost ranges so they stay visible and can be retired once you have looked.

Teak decks found worn out and the core beneath them saturated, requiring the teak to be removed, the substrate faired and recored where wet, and a new non-skid surface laid
$15k–$70k
50% likelyexpected $18kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding, and the largest number in this file by a wide margin. Three things stack. Sailboat Guide says of this model that 'Most have teak decks with all the benifits and pitfalls'; the closest comparable hull found, a 1988 Vancouver 42, has decking described as 'Teak, in fair to average condition' over 'balsa-cored topsides, and deck'; and Cruising World names teak decks as the route by which water gets into the wood-block core. Against that, a thirty-seven-year-old teak deck is at or past the end of its life almost regardless of care - the planks thin, the bungs lift, the screws weep, and every screw is a hole through the core. The probability is set at 0.5 rather than higher because nothing in this listing actually confirms teak, and because Ta Yang built semi-custom - KI, twelve years later, turned out to have molded non-skid, which removed this entire problem. It is set at 0.5 rather than lower because the model default is teak and the boat is old. The cost band is built from the Cruising World teak-replacement article's shape rather than its numbers: material is cheap - Treadmaster at 'around $200' per square metre over perhaps 30 square metres - and labour is not, because the author's own fibreglass decks were 'severely damaged during the removal process' and a month went into removal and fairing alone. At Bay Area skilled rates of $140-$169/hr plus the 4.75% SHE fee, 150 to 350 hours of removal, screw-hole potting, fairing, localised recore and surfacing is where these numbers come from. The high end assumes substantial recore across more than one area.
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Sailboat Guide“Most have teak decks with all the benifits and pitfalls”
1988 Tayana Vancouver 42 Cutter - YachtWorld“Teak, in fair to average condition”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“can allow water intrusion into the core”
Teak Deck Replacement Options for Classic Cruisers“fiberglass decks, which were severely damaged during the removal process”
Teak Deck Replacement Options for Classic Cruisers“around $200”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
Chainplates or their belowdecks attachment bolts found corroded and requiring fabrication and replacement
$8k–$32k
45% likelyexpected $7kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. Cruising World names this as a Vancouver 42 issue in words that point directly at a hull of this age: 'some older boats have suffered corrosion on chainplates and their attachment bolts belowdecks'. This boat is thirty-seven years old, and SAIL Magazine's account of the mechanism is written about a 1984 Tayana 42 - the same builder and model family, five years older - describing stainless deprived of oxygen inside the deck developing 'microscopic fissures' so that it can 'literally corrode from the inside out' and 'fail catastrophically and without warning'. The probability is set at 0.45, double KI's 0.22, for two reasons: twelve more years of exposure, and a much higher likelihood of teak decks trapping water at the plate slots. It is not set higher because somebody re-rigged this boat in 2026 and may well have dealt with them - which is exactly why the rigger's name is worth more than the survey. The band assumes eight to twelve plates fabricated and fitted in stainless at Bay Area rates, with SAIL's 30-40% titanium premium and an unstep-and-restep at the high end.
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“some older boats have suffered corrosion on chainplates and their attachment bolts belowdecks”
Know-how: Chainplate Replacement“1984 Tayana 42, Eclipse”
Know-how: Chainplate Replacement“will increase the cost by 30 to 40 percent”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
One or both original black-iron diesel tanks found perforated or unserviceable and requiring replacement
$6k–$28k
40% likelyexpected $6kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. Cruising World gives the model '120 gallons of diesel in two black-iron tanks' and names them as a weakness: they 'can rust if their external paint is chipped'. This listing states 120 gallons with no qualification, which on the face of it means both original tanks are still in place after thirty-seven years - and the sister-ship evidence says that is when they stop being in place. The 1988 Vancouver 42 now carries a 'new aluminum tank 2021 + steel tank', i.e. it lost one at about year thirty-three; KI, at twenty-five years, had already lost one. On that pattern Noctiluca is at or past the age where the first tank goes. Sailboat Guide records the same material combination and the same susceptibility. The band assumes fabrication of one or two replacement tanks to fit - most likely aluminium, in which case Pascoe's installation rules become the specification, since 'Properly installed, aluminum tanks will usually outlast the life of the boat' but a badly chocked one crevice-corrodes - plus the joinery and sole work to get the old ones out, at Bay Area rates.
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“The black-iron fuel tanks can rust if their external paint is chipped”
1988 Tayana Vancouver 42 Cutter - YachtWorld“341 L (new aluminum tank 2021 + steel tank)”
How to Install an Aluminum Fuel Tank on Boat or Yacht“Properly installed, aluminum tanks will usually outlast the life of the boat.”
How to Install an Aluminum Fuel Tank on Boat or Yacht“Severe corrosion is always caused by water plus a lack of oxygen.”
The 37-year-old Yanmar 4JHE needs major work or repowering
$5k–$32k
35% likelyexpected $5kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. The hours are fine and the calendar is not. 2,544 hours over thirty-seven years is 69 a year, entirely believable, and a 4JHE at that count is not worn out by hours. What raises the number is age rather than use: seals, hoses, the heat exchanger, the exhaust system and the raw-water side all age on the calendar, and long idle periods are harder on a diesel than steady work. Nothing anywhere in any listing mirror claims a single piece of service history, which on a boat where four other items are precisely dated is a conspicuous silence. Set against that, three things hold the probability below KI's turbocharged engine on a like-for-like basis: it is naturally aspirated, so no turbo, intercooler or turbo mixing elbow; the aftermarket for the 4JH family is alive, with heat exchangers, injectors, pumps and overhaul kits listed by specialist suppliers; and Yanmar has an official distributor in Papeete. The high end of the band is a repower rather than a rebuild - the 1988 sister ship's owner reached exactly that conclusion in 2025 and dropped in a Yanmar 4JH57, which is the realistic worst case here and is what the high figure represents.
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - Boat Trader“Engine Hours: 2,544”
1988 Tayana Vancouver 42 Cutter - YachtWorld“Yanmar 4JH57 (57 hp @ 3000 rpm) - one hour since install”
Yanmar 4JH Series engine parts“Yanmar 4JH”
Tahiti Cruisers Guide - Marine supplies“Dealer for Mercury outboards, Yanmar and Northern Lights”
The 2024 lithium and solar retrofit onto a 1989 DC system is found non-compliant, and the original wiring and distribution need substantial rework
$3k–$20k
35% likelyexpected $3kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. Two things compound here that were separate on KI. First, the retrofit itself: lithium banks put onto older boats fail an ABYC-informed audit more often than they pass, and the specific failures are predictable - no Class-T fuse at the bank, no alternator protection against a BMS high-voltage disconnect, undersized inverter cabling, a lead-acid charging profile left on a lithium bank, and a BMS whose fault behaviour nobody has tested. None of it is visible in a listing and the listing names no installer. Second, the substrate: this is a 1989 boat, so whatever the 2024 work did not touch is thirty-seven years old - the distribution panel, the feeders, the grounding, and every crimp and connection that has spent its life in a warm bilge. The listing lists an inverter, a battery charger and a shore power inlet with no makes, no ratings and no ages, and gives no capacity for either the solar or the lithium, which is also why neither has been marked as generic gear aboard. Probability is set at 0.35 on the base rate for owner-era lithium retrofits; the cost band is remediation and partial recabling at Bay Area electrician rates plus the SHE fee, not replacement of the 2024 equipment.
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Solar Charing & Lithium Batteries - new 2024”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“12V DC circuit, Shore power inlet, Inverter, Battery charger”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
KKMI Sausalito - Menu of Services“Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) fee of 4.75%”
The refrigeration is beyond economic repair or uses an obsolete refrigerant and needs a complete new system
$2k–$10k
45% likelyexpected $2kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding, and it is here rather than in the cost item because it is a coin-flip-plus on a small number rather than a certainty on a large one. The listing gives one word - 'Refrigerator' - with no make, no age and no refrigerant, on a boat built in 1989. A system of that vintage may well be running R-12 or an early replacement that is now hard to source, and marine refrigeration in a Southern California boat that has spent decades on shore power is often quietly limping rather than dead. The band is a new 12V compressor and evaporator at US retail plus fitting; the box itself, with its insulation and liner, is reusable, which is what keeps the number small. Probability is set high because the base rate for undated thirty-seven-year-old refrigeration surviving a year in the tropics is not good.
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Refrigerator”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
One or more original hatches or ports are unrepairable and need complete replacement
$4k–$18k
35% likelyexpected $3kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. Nothing in any listing mirror mentions hatches, ports or glazing at all, and none of the four dated 2024/2026 items touches them, so read them as 1989 originals: thirty-seven years of Southern California UV on acrylic or polycarbonate and on hatch gaskets, followed by a tropical year at anchor. Crazed glazing cannot be polished back, and old aluminium frames corrode at the hinges and dogs, which is where they stop being tired and start being unrepairable. The failure that matters is not a drip over a bunk - it is a crazed pane in a coachroof hatch when a wave lands on it. The band assumes two to four hatches replaced with modern equivalents plus fitting at Bay Area skilled rates, on top of the re-bedding already priced as a cost item. Probability is a touch above KI's for the obvious reason of twelve more years.
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Standing Rigging - new 2026”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
Gelcoat blistering or an absent or failed barrier coat found at haulout
$4k–$25k
30% likelyexpected $3kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding, and this is the number where a 1989 hull sits squarely between KI's 2000 hull and the 1980s cohort. Cruising World records that 'after 1985 the yard used isophthalic gelcoat to resist blistering' and 'after 1992 laminated the hulls with vinylester resin'; Sailboat Guide localises the model's blistering association to 1979-1985. So this hull has the better gelcoat and the older resin - one of the two protections, not both. Against that it has thirty-seven years in warm Southern California water, which is the harshest osmotic environment on the West Coast, and no statement anywhere about whether a barrier coat has ever been applied. Set at 0.3, double KI's 0.15 and well below what a pre-1985 hull would carry. The band assumes localised blister repair and a barrier coat rather than a hull peel; a full peel and dry-out on a 42ft boat would be well beyond the high figure and is not assumed because nothing suggests it.
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“After 1985 the yard used isophthalic gelcoat to resist blistering”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“after 1992 laminated the hulls with vinylester resin”
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Sailboat Guide“The early Tayanas, from 1979 until 1985 while not overly prone, do have an association will gelcoat blistering.”
KKMI Sausalito - Menu of Services“40' to 49' $17.00”
Mast step, compression post, partners or heel found corroded, crushed or wet
$3k–$20k
22% likelyexpected $2kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding, and the probability carries the source conflict inside it. Sailboat Guide describes the model as a 'deck-stepped rig'; the 1988 sister listing describes an 'aluminum Z-Diffusion mast (keel-stepped, 17.65 m)'. Both failure modes are live until somebody says which this boat is. If deck-stepped, the compression load of a 60ft cutter rig goes into a plate on a thirty-seven-year-old cored deck that probably has teak over it - the one place where core saturation is structural rather than cosmetic. If keel-stepped, the failure mode is an aluminium heel sitting in bilge water for thirty-seven years, which is the classic hidden corrosion on boats of this era and is worse when nobody has ever looked. The probability is held down by the single most useful fact available: the rig came off, or at least the wire came off, in 2026, so somebody competent had access recently and would have had reason to look. If the mast was unstepped, photographs of the heel and step almost certainly exist.
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Sailboat Guide“deck-stepped rig”
1988 Tayana Vancouver 42 Cutter - YachtWorld“aluminum Z-Diffusion mast (keel-stepped, 17.65 m)”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Standing Rigging - new 2026”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
The '2026 standing rigging' turns out to be partial, undocumented, or not to offshore specification
$3k–$22k
20% likelyexpected $2kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding, and it exists because the single most valuable claim in this listing is also its least substantiated. 'Standing Rigging - new 2026' is four words on a broker page with no rigger named, no wire specification, no terminal type and no invoice offered. The failure modes worth pricing are not that it is a lie but that it is narrower than it reads: shrouds and forestay renewed but the backstay, the inner forestay or the diamond stays at the upper spreaders left alone; swaged terminals where an offshore boat wants mechanical ones that can be re-headed at sea; wire sized to the original 1989 specification without checking what thirty-seven years of hardware fatigue did to the tangs, spreader ends and chainplate clevis pins it all lands on. Rigworks' own warning is that costs escalate when the mast comes down and 'corroded mast bases, damaged spreaders, frozen hardware' turn up - which raises the question of what was found in 2026 and what was quietly left. Probability is low because the claim is probably substantially true; the band is completing the rig and replacing terminal hardware, not a second re-rig.
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Standing Rigging - new 2026”
Replacing Your Standing Rigging - Rigworks“The anticipated lifespan for stainless steel rigging is 10-12 years for wire and 15-20 years for rod.”
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Sailboat Guide“Harris' unique diamond stay at the upper spreaders, supported by an aluminum arc”
Skeg-hung rudder bearing, heel fitting or blade core found degraded at the survey haulout
$3k–$15k
20% likelyexpected $1kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. A skeg-hung rudder is the conservative offshore arrangement and one of the reasons this design is worth considering at all - supported top and bottom, protected from debris, far more forgiving of a strike than a spade. The failure modes are not absent, just different and slower: the heel fitting and its fastenings, the stock where it passes the bearing, and water in the blade. Thirty-seven years with no disclosed grounding history, no mention of the rudder anywhere, and no statement of whether it has ever been dropped is a normal amount of not-knowing for a boat this age. Probability is kept low because it is easy to inspect out of the water and nothing suggests a problem; it is a touch above KI's for the twelve extra years.
TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 - sailboat specifications“Fin with rudder on skeg”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“a long fin keel and skeg-hung rudder”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
One of the two stainless water tanks is leaking and has to be extracted from under the sole
$3k–$15k
20% likelyexpected $1kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. Cruising World is positive about this model's water tankage - '150 gallons of water in two stainless-steel tanks' - and reserves its criticism for the black-iron fuel tanks, which is why this sits at half the fuel-tank probability. Stainless in fresh water is a kind environment; what kills these tanks is a weld letting go or a tank sitting wet on a bearer for decades. The expense is access rather than the tank: getting at a tank under the sole of a Tayana means cutting teak joinery that somebody will want restored, and on this boat the interior is described as 'graceful' and 1,009 sq ft of it, which is a lot of joinery to disturb. Probability is a little above KI's for age.
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“150 gallons of water in two stainless-steel tanks”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Fresh Water: 150 gallons (stainless steel tanks)”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”
Undisclosed grounding history, with water in the encapsulated ballast cavity or damage at the keel-to-hull moulding
$2k–$15k
15% likelyexpected $900inferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding. Encapsulated ballast is the best keel arrangement in the candidate set - Cruising World describes '11,800 pounds of ballast is in a single iron casting, encapsulated inside the keel's thick walls', which means no keel bolts to corrode, no keel joint to weep and no smile to monitor. An entire failure mode is simply absent. The residual risk is the one encapsulation creates rather than removes: a hard grounding cracks the moulding, water reaches the iron, and the ballast rusts and expands with nowhere to go. Thirty-seven years is a long time to avoid touching anything, and nothing in the listing mentions a grounding - as nothing in a listing ever would. Probability is low and the consequence is moderate.
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“11,800 pounds of ballast is in a single iron casting, encapsulated inside the keel's thick walls”
TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 - sailboat specifications“11,800.00 lb / 5,352 kg”
The refrigeration needs significant work or complete replacement
$2k–$10k
60% likelyexpected $3kinferred
Reasoning, not a source: Reasoning, not a finding, and it is here rather than in the cost item because it is a coin-flip-plus on a small number rather than a certainty on a large one. The listing gives one word - 'Refrigerator' - with no make, no age and no refrigerant, on a boat built in 1989. A system of that vintage may well be running R-12 or an early replacement that is now hard to source, and marine refrigeration in a Southern California boat that has spent decades on shore power is often quietly limping rather than dead. The band is a new 12V compressor and evaporator at US retail plus fitting; the box itself, with its insulation and liner, is reusable, which is what keeps the number small. Probability is set high because the base rate for undated thirty-seven-year-old refrigeration surviving a year in the tropics is not good.
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Refrigerator”
Berkeley Marine Center - Yard Rates“Skilled Marine Technician Labor: $140 per hour”

Systems to check (24)

Standing rigginglisting only
'Standing Rigging - new 2026', four words on a broker page, no rigger named, no wire specification, no terminal type, no invoice offered. If true - and there is no reason to think it is not - this is the single most valuable fact in the listing: rigging replaced in 2026 is new at purchase and roughly two years old at a March 2028 departure, against Rigworks' industry yardstick of '10-12 years for wire', which removes the largest line item a thirty-seven-year-old boat would normally carry and satisfies the underwriter. What is unresolved is scope and what lies beneath. Nothing says whether the backstay, the inner forestay and Harris's diamond stays at the upper spreaders were included, whether terminals are swaged or mechanical, or whether the tangs, spreader ends and clevis pins the new wire lands on were replaced or reused. And nothing says whether anyone looked at the chainplates while the wire was off - which matters more here than on any other candidate, because Cruising World names 'corrosion on chainplates and their attachment bolts belowdecks' as this model's known weakness and this hull is thirty-seven years old. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Standing Rigging - new 2026”
Replacing Your Standing Rigging - Rigworks“The anticipated lifespan for stainless steel rigging is 10-12 years for wire and 15-20 years for rod.”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“some older boats have suffered corrosion on chainplates and their attachment bolts belowdecks”
Mast, boom and fittingslisting only
Not one word in any listing mirror. No mast material, no stepping, no boom, no vang, no spinnaker or whisker pole, no mast steps, no radar bracket. Everything below is model-level and CONTAINS AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT that is recorded rather than adjudicated: Sailboat Guide describes the Vancouver 42 as a 'deck-stepped rig' with 'Harris' unique diamond stay at the upper spreaders, supported by an aluminum arc' which 'eliminates the need for running backstays'; the 1988 sister listing describes an 'aluminum Z-Diffusion mast (keel-stepped, 17.65 m)'. Ta Yang built these semi-custom so both may be true of different hulls, but nobody has said which this one is, and the inspection, the failure mode and the cost are different in each case. Good Old Boat gives the only rig dimensions found anywhere - I=55.11ft, J=19.50ft, P=48.61ft, E=16.67ft - which is the basis for pricing sails and a pole. GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD: downwind-pole and mast-climbing-gear are both unevidenced and both lines stand. inferred
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Sailboat Guide“deck-stepped rig”
1988 Tayana Vancouver 42 Cutter - YachtWorld“aluminum Z-Diffusion mast (keel-stepped, 17.65 m)”
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Good Old Boat saildata“I: 55.11 ft | J: 19.50 ft | P: 48.61 ft | E: 16.67 ft”
Running rigginglisting only
The 2026 work is explicitly and only 'Standing Rigging'. Running rigging appears nowhere. No halyards, no sheets, no control lines, no winch makes or sizes - a notable contrast with KI, whose listing itemised nine Lewmar winches by model. The only running-rigging-adjacent items evidenced are 'Lazy jacks' and a 'Mainsail cover', both undated, and a 'Furling genoa' whose furler make is not given. On a thirty-seven-year-old boat the default is that all of it is original unless shown otherwise, and the furler is the item that matters: a drum unit of that age doing continuous work for three weeks at a time, with a jammed swivel or a failed bearing being a problem you cannot solve mid-ocean. No boom preventer arrangement is described - that is a catalogue item and the line stands. No vang is mentioned either. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Standing Rigging - new 2026”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Lazy jacks”
Sailslisting only
The entire sail inventory is three items: 'Battened mainsail, Furling genoa, Trisail'. No dates, no cloth weights, no loft, no reef count, no condition. This is the sharpest single contrast with KI, whose post-2022 Precision Sails wardrobe was its second-best asset. Two structural observations. First, no staysail is listed at all, on a boat every model source describes as a cutter with a double-spreader rig - the sold 1989 sister ship carried a 'roller furling yankee and hanked-on staysail', which is how these are normally rigged, so either this boat's staysail is missing from the listing or it has been sailed as a sloop with the inner forestay removed or unused. That matters for a downwind passage, because the cutter's reefing logic is what makes the rig manageable shorthanded. Second, a trisail is aboard, which is unusual and good - it suggests somebody once intended offshore work - but no storm jib is listed, and the storm-sails catalogue line therefore stands. Sources disagree on the model's total sail area - 833 sq ft (Sailboatdata), 942 (Good Old Boat), 1,000 (Sailboat Guide) - so price off the rig dimensions, not off published area. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Battened mainsail, Furling genoa, Trisail”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 "B'Shert" - Seacoast Yachts“roller furling yankee and hanked-on staysail”
TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 - sailboat specifications“833.00 ft² / 77.39 m²”
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Sailboat Guide“1,000 square feet of canvas”
Enginelisting only
Yanmar 4JH, 44hp, engine year 1989, 2,544 hours, direct drive, three-blade bronze propeller, cruising 5.5kn at 2,200rpm, maximum 7.5kn. The suffix is not given but the sold 1989 sister ship's 'Yanmar 4JHE S/N02196 44HP freshwater cooled' at 2,455 hours is strong corroboration that this is a naturally aspirated 4JHE original to the boat. That is materially better news than KI's turbocharged 4JH3-TE: no turbo, no intercooler, no turbo mixing elbow, and no documented factory parts-supply gap. The 4JH aftermarket is alive for heat exchangers, injectors, pumps and overhaul kits, and Sin Tung Hing Marine in Papeete is an official Yanmar dealer, so this is a supported engine on the route. Two counterweights. Nothing anywhere claims a single item of service history, on a listing that precisely dates four other things. And 44hp on 29,147lb is about 1.5hp per thousand pounds, which is thin - Cruising World notes the model came with 'a variety of engines; the most common was a 50-horsepower Perkins 4-108', Sailboat Guide notes repowers ranged 44-75hp, and this boat is at the bottom of that band. That is a specification judgement for a Tuamotu pass, not a defect. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - Boat Trader“Engine: Yanmar 4JH# (1989) - 44 hp - Engine Hours: 2,544”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 "B'Shert" - Seacoast Yachts“Yanmar 4JHE S/N02196 44HP freshwater cooled”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“Van 42s came with a variety of engines; the most common was a 50-horsepower Perkins 4-108.”
Tahiti Cruisers Guide - Marine supplies“Dealer for Mercury outboards, Yanmar and Northern Lights”
Shaft, coupling, prop, stern glandlisting only
'Direct drive' and a '3-blade bronze' propeller, and nothing else. No transmission model - it will be a Yanmar KM-series unit behind a 4JHE - no cutless bearing history, no shaft material or diameter, and no statement of whether the boat has a traditional stuffing box or a dripless seal. On KI these were the two drivetrain items already done and excluded; here they are undated and thirty-seven years old. A conventional direct-drive shaft behind a Yanmar is the right architecture for this passage: simple, serviceable and supported in Papeete. A fixed three-blade costs perhaps half a knot under sail on a boat that is already not fast, which is a conscious trade-off rather than a defect, and it is the propeller you want when motoring against a pass current with only 44hp behind it. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Drive: Direct drive; Propeller: 3-blade bronze”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Cruising Speed: 5.5 knots @ 2,200 RPM”
Fuel tanks and systemlisting only
120 gallons, stated without qualification, matching Cruising World's factory figure of '120 gallons of diesel in two black-iron tanks' exactly. Unlike KI, where the spec field and the itemisation contradicted each other and revealed a replaced tank, there is no contradiction here - which most likely means both original black-iron tanks are still aboard after thirty-seven years. Cruising World names them as a model weakness: they 'can rust if their external paint is chipped'. Sailboat Guide records the same combination and the same susceptibility. No filtration is mentioned anywhere, not even a Racor, and no polishing arrangement. No tank inspection ports, no fuel-system service history, no statement of when the tanks were last opened or cleaned. The sister-ship evidence is that these tanks start failing in the low thirties of years: the 1988 boat now carries a 'new aluminum tank 2021 + steel tank'. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Fuel: 120 gallons”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“120 gallons of diesel in two black-iron tanks”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“The black-iron fuel tanks can rust if their external paint is chipped”
1988 Tayana Vancouver 42 Cutter - YachtWorld“341 L (new aluminum tank 2021 + steel tank)”
Electrical, AC and DClisting only
'Solar Charing & Lithium Batteries - new 2024', plus equipment checkboxes for a 12V DC circuit, a shore power inlet, an inverter and a battery charger. No wattage, no amp-hours, no makes, no models, no installer, no controller, no BMS, no fusing, no monitor. That is the whole record. The 2024 date is genuine good news - it means the owner has spent money on the right system in the right decade - but a checkbox is not a capacity and cannot be netted against the catalogue. GENERIC GEAR DELIBERATELY NOT MARKED ABOARD, and this is a considered decision rather than an oversight: solar-panels-800w and battery-300ah-x2 are capacity items that require a fittedQuantity, and inventing one would be worse than leaving the lines standing. Also standing: battery-monitor-distribution, alternator-regulator-dcdc, solar-controllers, alternator-balmar-100a, solar-mounting and electrical-install-labour, none of which is evidenced. The unaddressed half is everything the 2024 work did not touch - a 1989 distribution panel, thirty-seven-year-old feeders, and every connection that has lived in a warm bilge since the Reagan administration. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Solar Charing & Lithium Batteries - new 2024”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“12V DC circuit, Shore power inlet, Inverter, Battery charger”
Battery banklisting only
'Lithium Batteries - new 2024' and nothing else - no capacity, no chemistry stated beyond 'lithium', no cell make, no BMS, no Class-T fusing, no shunt or monitor, no start battery described, and no statement of how the bank is charged beyond an unnamed inverter/charger and unnamed solar. Two years old at purchase and four at departure is early-middle life if it is LiFePO4 and a genuine problem if it is anything else, which is why the chemistry should be confirmed rather than assumed from the word 'lithium'. GENERIC GEAR NOT MARKED ABOARD: battery-300ah-x2 is a capacity item needing a fittedQuantity of amp-hours, and none is stated anywhere in three listing mirrors, so the line stands at full value until a number arrives. This is the highest-value cheap question in the electrical section - one photograph of the bank and its BMS settles the capacity, the chemistry and most of the install-quality question at once. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Solar Charing & Lithium Batteries - new 2024”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Lithium batteries (new 2024)”
Steering gearlisting only
Nothing. Not the steering type, not the make, not the age, not the rudder bearing, and no emergency tiller anywhere in any of the three listing mirrors. Every Vancouver 42 of this era is wheel-steered from a pedestal, so read it as an original 1989 system: cable, quadrant, sheaves and rudder bearing all thirty-seven years old and all consumables. The contrast with KI is instructive - that listing at least named 'Pedestal steering with bronze base' and a 'Teak emergency tiller', which allowed the emergency-tiller catalogue line to be provisionally zeroed. Here there is no such evidence, so GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD: emergency-tiller stands at full value, and the cost item above carries fabricating and fitting one rather than merely testing it. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Teak cockpit, Cockpit cushions, Cockpit table”
Autopilot and self-steeringlisting only
'Autopilot: Yes'. That is the entire record - no make, no model, no type, no drive unit, no date, and no statement of whether it works. On KI this section turned on whether an identified B&G NAC-3 computer had an adequate drive behind it; here there is not even a brand. On a thirty-seven-year-old boat an unnamed autopilot is as likely to be a period Autohelm or Navico wheel pilot as anything else, and the brief is explicit that a wheel pilot will not steer this boat across the Pacific - 29,147lb with a skeg-hung rudder needs a linear or hydraulic drive on the quadrant. GENERIC GEAR DELIBERATELY NOT MARKED ABOARD: autopilot-ev200 and autopilot-install both stand at full value, and so do windvane-selfsteering, windvane-spares and autopilot-spare-drive, none of which is evidenced anywhere. If the answer comes back as a modern linear-drive pilot, these lines can be revisited; nothing in the listing supports doing so now. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Autopilot”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Vesper AIS AND B&G Chartplotter - new 2024”
Hull and laminatelisting only
Fiberglass monohull, 1989 build, no HIN published anywhere - which is itself a gap, since on KI the HIN was what pinned the build date and therefore the resin generation. Per Cruising World, Ta Yang built 'about 200 Vancouver 42 hulls in solid fiberglass and polyester laminate', moving to isophthalic gelcoat after 1985 and to vinylester resin after 1992. A 1989 hull therefore has the improved gelcoat and the older resin - one protection, not both - and sits between the 1979-85 blistering cohort Sailboat Guide identifies and KI's 2000 hull. Displacement 29,147lb on a 33ft waterline gives D/L 362, capsize screening 1.63 and comfort ratio 43.77, among the most conservative numbers in the candidate set; the same numbers give SA/D 14.13 and a 7.70kn hull speed, so this is a heavy, easily driven but not fast boat that will want its light-air sails on a trade-wind route with more calms than the brochures admit. Cruising World's verdict on the model: 'a well-built offshore cruiser with a cruising range, load-carrying capacity, and comfortable motion seldom found in boats under 45 feet today'. Bottom paint is new 2026, so the boat has been hauled this year; no barrier-coat history, blister history, grounding history or survey history is disclosed. inferred
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“about 200 Vancouver 42 hulls in solid fiberglass and polyester laminate”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“a well-built offshore cruiser with a cruising range, load-carrying capacity, and comfortable motion seldom found in boats under 45 feet today”
TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 - sailboat specifications“Capsize Screening Formula: 1.63”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Bottom Paint - new 2026”
Keel and keel boltslisting only
THE DRAFT GATE IS CLEARED AND THERE IS NO VARIANT TRAP. The listing gives draft 5ft 10in; Good Old Boat gives 5.83ft; Sailboatdata gives 5.80ft - three sources agreeing within a tenth of a foot against a 6.5ft hard limit, leaving roughly eight inches of margin. The deepest credible figure, 5.83ft, is what is recorded. The Vancouver 42 was not offered in deep and shoal variants; every source describes one keel, so the trap the brief warns about does not exist on this model. The keel itself is the cleanest thing about the boat and is identical to KI's: Cruising World describes '11,800 pounds of ballast is in a single iron casting, encapsulated inside the keel's thick walls' on 'a long fin keel and skeg-hung rudder', which means no keel bolts to corrode, no keel joint to weep and no smile to monitor. Ballast ratio 40.47%. The residual issue is the one encapsulation creates rather than removes - an undisclosed grounding cracking the moulding and letting water reach iron ballast - and no grounding history is disclosed.
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Draft (max): 5 ft 10 in”
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Good Old Boat saildata“Draft: 5.83 ft”
TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 - sailboat specifications“Max Draft: 5.80 ft / 1.77 m”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“11,800 pounds of ballast is in a single iron casting, encapsulated inside the keel's thick walls”
Rudder and bearingslisting only
Nothing in the listing. Model-level only: Sailboatdata gives the hull type as 'Fin with rudder on skeg' and Cruising World as 'a long fin keel and skeg-hung rudder'. This is the conservative offshore arrangement and one of the design's genuine advantages - supported top and bottom, protected from debris and from a strike, and far more tolerant of a hard grounding than a spade. Nothing anywhere describes this rudder's condition, its bearing, its heel fitting, whether it has ever been dropped, or whether a moisture reading has ever been taken on the blade. Thirty-seven years is a long time for none of that to be recorded, and the boat was out of the water in 2026 for bottom paint, so somebody saw it recently. inferred
TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 - sailboat specifications“Fin with rudder on skeg”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“a long fin keel and skeg-hung rudder”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Bottom Paint - new 2026”
Deck, hardware and hull–deck jointlisting only
THE MOST IMPORTANT SILENCE IN THE FILE. Not one word in any of the three listing mirrors describes the deck surface. That is precisely the fact that, on KI, turned out to be the single best finding in the workup - the broker's spec sheet there said 'hand-laid FRP, cored deck - Molded non-skid', which removed a $30,000-plus line. Here nobody has said, and the model default runs the other way: Sailboat Guide says 'Most have teak decks with all the benifits and pitfalls'; Cruising World records decks cored 'with wood-block squares isolated with resin' and names teak as the water-intrusion path; and the closest comparable hull, a 1988 Vancouver 42, is 'Solid GRP hull, balsa-cored topsides, and deck' with decking 'Teak, in fair to average condition'. Hardware inventory is equally thin: an electric windlass, a teak cockpit, cockpit cushions and a cockpit table are the whole of it. No toe rail, no pulpit or pushpit, no lifelines, no stanchions, no tracks, no traveller, no dorades, no handrails, no bollard, no cleats are described anywhere. GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD: lifelines-guardrails is unevidenced and stands at full value - note that on KI the lifelines were at least described, and vinyl-coated, which was a finding; here there is nothing to assess. inferred
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Sailboat Guide“Most have teak decks with all the benifits and pitfalls”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“coring the decks with wood-block squares isolated with resin to minimize moisture retention”
1988 Tayana Vancouver 42 Cutter - YachtWorld“Teak, in fair to average condition”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Electric windlass”
Through-hulls and seacocksnot looked at
Nothing whatsoever. No seacock, through-hull, strainer or skin-fitting information appears in any of the three listing mirrors - not even the present-tense reassurance KI's listing offered. On a 1989 boat the working assumption has to be original bronze fittings at thirty-seven years, which is well past sensible service life, and the boat has the usual crowd of penetrations plus several implied by its own equipment list: engine raw water, a sea water pump, a VacuFlush head, a galley sink, a watermaker feed, bilge discharges and cockpit drains. This is the failure mode that sinks boats at their own dock. Maturity is recorded as unknown rather than listing_only because the listing does not mention the system at all, and that absence is itself what drives the unknown-cost reserve. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Sea water pump”
Plumbing, water tanks and headslisting only
150 gallons of fresh water in stainless tanks - the model's good news, since Cruising World criticises the black-iron fuel tanks and not these - plus a 35-gallon GRP holding tank, a VacuFlush freshwater-flush marine head, a hot water system, a sea water pump, an electric bilge pump and a 'Fresh water maker'. Nothing is dated and nothing is named. Three specific gaps. The watermaker has no make, model, capacity or condition statement, and the sold 1989 sister ship's watermaker condition was explicitly 'unknown' - that is the expectation to carry. Only an electric bilge pump is listed: GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD - bilge-pumps specifies a Whale Gusher Titan manual pump on deck plus a second manual pump operable below plus a high-capacity electric, and only the electric is evidenced, so that line stands nearly in full. And the potable and sanitation hose on a thirty-seven-year-old boat is a consumable that has long since expired. GENERIC GEAR MARKED ABOARD, conditionally: watermaker-rainman-12v, on a checkbox and with a recommissioning cost carried against it. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Fresh Water: 150 gallons (stainless steel tanks); Holding Tank: 35 gallons (VacuFlush freshwater flush, GRP)”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Electric bilge pump, Sea water pump, Fresh water maker, Hot water system”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 "B'Shert" - Seacoast Yachts“water maker condition is "unknown"”
Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“150 gallons of water in two stainless-steel tanks”
Ground tackle and windlasslisting only
'Electric windlass'. That is the complete ground-tackle inventory in all three mirrors. No anchor of any kind, no chain, no rode, no snubber, no swivel, no bow roller, no chain locker, no second anchor. The contrast with KI is stark - that boat had a 65lb Mantus, 300ft of 5/16in G4, a double sprit and rollers, and all three ground-tackle catalogue lines zeroed. Here only the windlass is evidenced. GENERIC GEAR MARKED ABOARD: windlass, on the explicit listing entry, with the gypsy-size question left open because no chain is described and therefore nothing proves the gypsy matches 5/16in G4 - which is exactly the near-miss the brief warns about. GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD: primary-anchor, chain-300ft and secondary-anchor all stand at full value. Chain matters before departure rather than after: the Tahiti guide records that chain ordered in French Polynesia 'will take a few months to arrive'. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Electric windlass”
Tahiti Cruisers Guide - Marine supplies“STH has some chain in stock and is able to order chain for you that will take a few months to arrive.”
Safety equipmentlisting only
One item, and it comes with a warning attached. The listing records a liferaft of 4-person capacity, and the Boat Trader mirror annotates it 'certification may be needed'. GENERIC GEAR DELIBERATELY NOT MARKED ABOARD: liferaft-offshore-6p stands at full value, for three separate reasons - the capacity is 4 rather than the 6 the catalogue specifies, no make, model, type or manufacture date is given so there is no way to know whether it is an offshore or a coastal raft, and the listing itself flags that it may not be in certification. A raft that is out of certification and of unknown age is worse than no raft, because somebody will be tempted to trust it. NOT EVIDENCED ANYWHERE and therefore all standing: grab bag, offshore medical kit, jacklines and tethers, lifejackets and harnesses, PLBs, flares and danbuoy, series drogue, fire extinguishers and fire blanket, boarding ladder, damage-control kit, deck safety sundries, lifejacket spares, and the EPIRB - note that KI at least had an ACR GlobalFix; this boat has no EPIRB in any mirror, which for a 'bluewater' listing is a significant absence. The galley cooking fuel is also unstated, which is a safety question as much as a comfort one. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - Boat Trader“Liferaft (4-person capacity; certification may be needed)”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Life Raft Capacity: 4 persons”
Electronics and navigationlisting only
Two dated 2024 purchases and a page of undated checkboxes. Dated: 'Vesper AIS AND B&G Chartplotter - new 2024'. Undated: radar, GPS, VHF, autopilot, compass, wind speed and direction, log-speedometer, depth sounder, navigation centre. The Boat Trader mirror annotates the radar 'requires service', which is the single most useful condition statement in the whole listing and should be read as end-of-life on a 1989 boat - the sold 1989 sister ship's original Si-Tex radar/plotter had simply stopped receiving GPS, which is the same story. GENERIC GEAR MARKED ABOARD: ais-transponder (Vesper, class unconfirmed), chartplotter (B&G, model unconfirmed), instrument-pack (on the weakest evidence in the file - wind, speed and depth exist but their age and protocol are unknown, and period instruments will not talk to a 2024 plotter without a gateway), and vhf-fixed-handheld (fixed half only, DSC unconfirmed, no handheld). NOT ABOARD and all standing: radar - a unit requiring service is not a solid-state radome - plus nmea-backbone, iridium-backup, paper-charts-nav-backup, sextant-almanac, radar-reflector, emergency-vhf-antenna, ships-papers-flags and starlink-mini. The route support is good: B&G and Garmin, which now owns Vesper, are both serviced in Papeete. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Vesper AIS AND B&G Chartplotter - new 2024”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - Boat Trader“Radar (requires service)”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 "B'Shert" - Seacoast Yachts“Si-Tex radar/chart plotter (original 1989) not receiving GPS signal”
Tahiti Cruisers Guide - Marine supplies“Raymarine, Simrad, Lowrance, B&G”
Canvas, dodger and coverslisting only
Better than the file average in coverage and worse in documentation: a bimini top, a spray hood, a mainsail cover, lazy jacks, cockpit cushions and a cockpit table are all listed, and none of them is dated or attributed to a loft. That is a real asset - the boat has shade over the cockpit, weather protection at the companionway, and a main that two people can drop and cover - but Sunbrella in Southern California is a seven-to-ten-year fabric and the stitching fails before the cloth does. Note this is a soft spray hood rather than KI's 2022 custom hard dodger, which is a meaningful difference for a downwind passage: a soft hood will not take a boarding sea and cannot carry solar. GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD: foredeck-awning is unevidenced - a bimini is a cockpit shade, not the anchor-awning that line buys - and stands at full value. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Bimini top, Spray hood, Mainsail cover, Lazy jacks”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Teak cockpit, Cockpit cushions, Cockpit table”
Windows, hatches and portsnot looked at
Nothing at all - no hatches, no ports, no glazing material, no dorades, no companionway arrangement, no storm boards or shutters described anywhere in any mirror, and none of the four dated items touches them. Read as 1989 originals: thirty-seven years of Southern California UV on acrylic or polycarbonate and on hatch gaskets, about to be followed by a tropical year at anchor. Crazed glazing cannot be polished back and is structurally weaker than it looks when a wave lands on the coachroof; gaskets are a ten-year consumable at best. Tayanas of this era commonly have teak louvred companionway doors, which are pretty and are not washboards. Maturity is unknown rather than listing_only because the system is not mentioned at all. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Wanna sail away? This Tayana is expedition ready!”
Dinghy and outboardnot looked at
Nothing. No dinghy, no outboard, no davits, no chocks, no crane, no lifting tackle, no snorkelling or dive gear anywhere in any of the three mirrors. Not even the outboard crane KI had. GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD and all standing at full value: dinghy, outboard, dinghy-stowage and snorkel-dive-kit. Worth stating plainly because it is easy to skim past on a boat with bigger problems: in the Tuamotus and the Society Islands the tender is the boat's car, and a 42ft cutter with a bimini and no stated way of getting ashore is not, on this evidence, 'expedition ready'. Also unaddressed is where a 3.1m RIB would live on this deck - a Vancouver 42 foredeck is busy, and the answer affects the foredeck awning, the staysail and the anchoring arrangement. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“Noctiluca is loaded and ready to support your adventure!”
Interior and sea berthslisting only
Two cabins, one head, four double berths, sleeping eight below plus two in the cockpit, in 1,009 sq ft of cabin space. Equipment: an oven, a refrigerator, a hot water system, a VacuFlush marine head, a 3-stage nothing - no water purifier, no microwave, no heater is mentioned. The galley description is one word, 'Oven', with no fuel type and no statement of whether the range is gimballed, which is a real gap for a four-week passage. The accommodation figures are the more interesting problem: 'sleeps eight' on a 42ft boat means berths that are good at anchor and mostly useless at sea, and a single head on a boat that sleeps eight tells you the layout is a traditional one with a big saloon rather than the two-cabin two-head arrangement of a production boat. Good Old Boat records 130 aft-cockpit, 70 centre-cockpit and 5 pilothouse hulls and 'semi-custom construction allowing significant interior variation', and nothing in this listing says which this is - no layout drawing, no cockpit type, no photograph description. GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD: lee-cloths is unevidenced and stands - no sea berths with lee cloths are described, and four double berths are four poor sea berths. inferred
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Guest Cabins: 2; Guest Heads: 1; Double Berths: 4”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - YachtWorld listing 10249342“She comfortably sleeps eight below, with additional accommodations for two more in the cockpit”
1989 Tayana Vancouver 42 - boats.com“Oven”
Tayana Vancouver 42 - Good Old Boat saildata“130 aft-cockpit cruisers, 70 center-cockpit versions, and 5 rare pilothouse variants”