2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 "KI", Long Beach, California

Identified risks (15)

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

• The B&G NAC-3 is fitted with an undersized drive unit, or with no drive at all, and a linear or hydraulic drive plus its foundation has to be added

  $3k–$11k

  35% likelyexpected $2kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: The listing identifies the NAC-3 computer but not a drive unit. B&G states the NAC-3 operates a hydraulic steering pump or mechanical drive; it is not itself the drive. Central generic autopilot lines should not be zeroed until the drive is identified.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“B&G NAC-3 Autopilot computer”

  NAC-3 Autopilot Computer“rated to operate high-current pumps, mechanical drive units, and solenoid valves”

• Balsa-cored deck found saturated around fittings, requiring core replacement in one or more areas

  $4k–$30k

  25% likelyexpected $3kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Cored deck, 26-year age, hardtop and fold-out solar/stanchion penetrations create risk; molded non-skid instead of teak deck lowers probability versus older teak-deck Vancouver 42s.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Hand-laid FRP, cored deck - Molded non-skid”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“can allow water intrusion into the core”

• The 40-gallon steel tank is perforated or the 54-gallon aluminium tank has crevice-corroded at its mounts, and one or both need replacing

  $5k–$25k

  25% likelyexpected $3kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Listing says tanks were polished/cleaned, reducing contamination risk, but the material/capacity change remains unexplained and the original black-iron tank weakness is documented at model level.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“40 gal steel diesel tank”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“The black-iron fuel tanks can rust if their external paint is chipped.”

• The 26-year-old Yanmar 4JH3-TE needs major work — turbocharger rebuild, complete heat exchanger assembly, or top-end overhaul

  $4k–$28k

  30% likelyexpected $3kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Turbocharged 2000 Yanmar with 2,000 hours, no disclosed cooling/turbo/exhaust service history and a forum report of heat-exchanger casing supply issues.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42, Long Beach California“Engine Year | 2000”

  Yanmar 4JH3-TE — end of the road?“Yanmar no longer supply spare engine block heat exchanger casings”

• Chainplates or their belowdecks attachment bolts found corroded and requiring fabrication and replacement

  $6k–$30k

  22% likelyexpected $3kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Model-level chainplate/bolt corrosion is documented; new 2022 standing rigging does not prove chainplates were removed or replaced.

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“some older boats have suffered corrosion on chainplates and their attachment bolts belowdecks”

  Berkeley Marine Center — Yard Rates“welding and metal fabrication”

• The 2022 lithium, inverter and alternator retrofit is found to be owner-installed and non-compliant, requiring substantial rework

  $2k–$15k

  25% likelyexpected $2kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: The equipment list is excellent but the listing does not name installer, BMS, Class-T fusing, regulator or charge-source protection.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“3,000 watt Victron inverter charger”

  Berkeley Marine Center — Yard Rates“electrical and electronics”

• One or more original aluminium hatches are unrepairable and need complete replacement

  $3k–$16k

  30% likelyexpected $2kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Aluminum hatches with Lexan windows are listed but not dated in the refit; complete replacement is only a risk after hose test and glazing inspection.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Aluminum hatches - Lexan windows with S-S frames”

• The Grunert refrigeration is unsupported or uses an obsolete refrigerant and both boxes need new systems

  $2k–$9k

  40% likelyexpected $2kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Grunert unit is not in the 2022 refit list; compressor model/refrigerant and actual box performance are unknown.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Grunert 12 vdc refrigerator/Freezer”

• Skeg-hung rudder bearing, heel fitting or blade core found degraded at the survey haulout

  $3k–$14k

  20% likelyexpected $1kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: The skeg-hung rudder is robust but nothing is disclosed about bearings, heel fitting, moisture readings or whether it has ever been dropped.

  TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 — sailboat specifications“Hull Type: | Fin with rudder on skeg”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“long fin keel and skeg-hung rudder”

• One of the two 60-gallon stainless water tanks is leaking and has to be extracted from under the sole

  $2k–$14k

  18% likelyexpected $1kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Stainless tanks are a model strength and no leaks are listed, but the tanks are likely original and access through teak-and-holly sole/joinery can dominate cost.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Two 60 gallon S-S water tanks”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“150 gallons of water in two stainless-steel tanks”

• Deck-stepped mast step, compression post or the deck beneath the step found corroded, crushed or wet

  $3k–$18k

  18% likelyexpected $1kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Deck-stepped rig puts mast loads into the deck/compression structure; listing says cored deck and replaced mast wiring, but no mast-step photographs or compression-post findings.

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“spars, which were deck-stepped and heavily stayed”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Hand-laid FRP, cored deck”

• Gelcoat blistering or a failed barrier coat found at haulout

  $3k–$20k

  12% likelyexpected $1kinferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Post-1992 vinylester reduces probability materially, but no bottom history or barrier-coat date is disclosed.

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“after 1992, laminated the hulls with vinylester resin”

  TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 — sailboat specifications“Construction: | FG”

• 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: Encapsulated ballast eliminates keel bolts but can hide water intrusion after grounding; no grounding history is disclosed.

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 — Stately Passagemaker“ballast is in a single iron casting, encapsulated inside the keel’s thick walls”

  TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 — sailboat specifications“Ballast Type: | Cast iron”

• The 300ft of 5/16in G4 chain is badly worn or de-galvanised and needs replacement before departure

  $2k–$6k

  20% likelyexpected $600inferred

  Reasoning, not a source: The chain is the correct quantity/spec, but age and galvanising condition are not stated; replacement is a discrete survey finding, not a baseline cost.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“300 feet 5/16 G4 anchor chain”

• The AIS transceiver is a 2W Class B CSTDMA unit rather than a Class B+ / SOTDMA unit, so the catalogue AIS line comes back

  $900–$3k

  50% likelyexpected $900inferred

  Reasoning, not a source: Listing says only 'new AIS transceiver' with no make/model/class. The generic AIS line is not marked aboard until Class B+ capability is proven.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“New AIS transceiver”

Systems to check (24)

• Standing rigginglisting only

  Standing rigging and all internal mast wiring replaced since 2022, per the listing's explicit 'Replaced Since 2022' block — no rigger named, no wire specification, no invoice sighted. Against Rigworks' 10-12 year wire standard that puts the rig at four years old at purchase and six at a March 2028 departure, comfortably inside both the industry window and what a Pacific-crossing underwriter will want to see. This is the single largest cost avoided on this boat versus the earlier candidates. The unresolved half is what sits below the wire: Cruising World names 'corrosion on chainplates and their attachment bolts belowdecks' as a Vancouver 42 issue, and nobody has said whether the 2022 rigger looked at the lower ends. The rig is a cutter with Harris's diamond stays at the upper spreaders in place of running backstays. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Standing rigging”

  Replacing Your Standing Rigging — Rigworks“According to industry standards, 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“corrosion on chainplates and their attachment bolts belowdecks”

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Sailboat Guide“diamond stay design at upper spreaders”

• Mast, boom and fittingslisting only

  Aluminium mast and boom, Profurl jib furler, mast pulpit, Forespar boom vang, spinnaker pole, lazy jacks, one Harken mast winch, and all internal mast wiring replaced since 2022. The listing does not say whether the mast is deck-stepped or keel-stepped; Sailboat Guide records the model as a 'Deck-stepped rig' with diamond stays at the upper spreaders that remove the need for running backstays, which is an unusual and load-bearing arrangement a non-specialist surveyor may skim past. Good Old Boat gives rig dimensions I=55.11ft, J=19.50ft, P=48.61ft, E=16.67ft — the only rig-dimension source found, and the basis for any pole or sail pricing. Nothing states the age or condition of the spinnaker pole, its end fittings, or the boom gooseneck; assume 2001 originals. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Aluminum mast and boom”

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Sailboat Guide“Deck-stepped rig”

  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

  Conspicuously absent from an otherwise precise 2021-22 refit block. Lewmar winches are listed in detail — two 24ST jib sheet, two 22ST secondary, four 17ST, plus a Harken mast winch — and appear in the replaced-since-2022 list, but halyards, sheets, control lines, the Profurl furler and the lazy jacks are all undated. On a 2001 boat that means assume original unless shown otherwise. A mainsail stack pack was added since 2022. No boom preventer arrangement is described anywhere, only a Forespar vang, which is a different thing and matters for three weeks of downwind sailing. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Profurl jib furler”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Lewmar winches (2x 24ST jib sheet, 2x 22ST secondary, four 17ST various)”

• Sailslisting only

  The best-documented system on the boat and, with the deck, the reason this candidate is worth pursuing. Replaced since 2022: mainsail, furling jib and staysail all from Precision Sails, plus an asymmetrical spinnaker and a mainsail stack pack. The original 2001 wardrobe — 8oz Dacron main with two reef points, 6oz Dacron jib, 6oz Dacron staysail — is apparently still aboard, which gives a full set of tired but real spares for a passage. This is a slab-reefed cutter with a self-tending-capable staysail, which is the rig configuration the Pacific Puddle Jump material recommends and the exact opposite of the in-mast furling problem. Unknown: whether the new main has a third reef, whether it carries offshore chafe reinforcement, and whether the staysail is on a boom or hanked. No storm jib or trysail is listed. Sources disagree on the model's total sail area — 833 sq ft (Sailboatdata), 942 (Good Old Boat), 1,000 (Sailboat Guide) — so pricing off published area is unreliable; use the rig dimensions instead. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Mainsail (Precision Sails)”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Mainsail (8 oz Dacron, 2 reef points)”

  TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 — sailboat specifications“Sail Area (reported): 833 sq ft”

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Good Old Boat saildata“942 square feet of total sail area”

• Enginelisting only

  Original Yanmar 4JH3-TE, 75hp turbocharged four, engine year 2000, 2,000 hours — 77 hours a year, a believable and unremarkable figure. Racor 500 primary filter, engine room blower, FRP drip pan, new motor mounts. The engine appears nowhere in the 2021-22 refit block, which on a listing this precise about dates means no significant engine work has been done recently or none is being claimed. Sailboat Guide records that most Vancouver 42s were repowered from the original 33hp Yanmar to 44-75hp fours; at 75hp this boat is at the top of that range and appears to have been built with it. Positives specific to the route: Sin Tung Hing Marine in Papeete is an official Yanmar distributor. Negative specific to this engine: the YBW forum records Yanmar no longer supplying the aluminium block heat-exchanger casing, and the turbo, intercooler and mixing elbow are failure points a naturally-aspirated engine does not have. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — Shoreline Yacht Group“Yanmar 4JH3-TE diesel, 75 hp”

  Yanmar 4JH3-TE — end of the road?“Yanmar no longer supply spare engine block heat exchanger casings”

  Tahiti Cruisers Guide — Marine supplies

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Sailboat Guide“most now repowered with 44–75 hp 4-cylinder Yanmars”

• Shaft, coupling, prop, stern glandlisting only

  Direct drive with a bronze three-blade fixed propeller, a NEW PSS dripless shaft seal and NEW motor mounts, both from the refit era. That is unusually good: the shaft seal and the mounts are the two drivetrain items that most often need doing on a boat this age and both are already done. What is not stated is the transmission model (a Yanmar KM-series unit on a 4JH3), the cutless bearing, the shaft material and diameter, or when any of them was last touched. A conventional direct-drive shaft behind a Yanmar is the right architecture for this passage and is supported in Papeete. A fixed three-blade costs perhaps half a knot under sail on a boat that is already not fast; that is a trade-off to make consciously, not a defect. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“New PSS dripless shaft seal”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“New motor mounts”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — boats.com“Drive: Direct drive”

• Fuel tanks and systemlisting only

  The most internally contradictory part of the listing and the one that most repays a phone call. The spec field says 120 gallons, matching Cruising World's factory figure of '120 gallons diesel in two black-iron tanks'; the itemisation in the same record says '40-gal steel + 54-gal aluminum', which is 94. So one tank is not original, the material has changed, capacity has dropped 22%, and nobody has updated the spec field. A Racor 500 primary filter is fitted. Cruising World names black-iron tanks as a model weakness that rust once the paint chips; David Pascoe's position on the aluminium tank is that installation, not material, decides its life. Nothing states when the aluminium tank was fitted, by whom, or why. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — boats.com“120 gallons (94 total: 40-gal steel + 54-gal aluminum)”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“two black-iron tanks”

  How to Install an Aluminum Fuel Tank on Boat or Yacht“Properly installed, aluminum tanks will usually outlast the life of the boat.”

• Electrical, AC and DClisting only

  Comprehensively refitted since 2022 and, on paper, the best electrical system in the candidate set: 600Ah LiFePO4 house bank, 3,000W Victron inverter/charger, 160A high-output alternator, 1,100W of solar in two arrays (600W on the 2022 hardtop, 500W fold-out on stanchions), eight 12V LED cabin lights plus two reading lights, a 110V system with a 30A shorepower inlet, and aft-stateroom air conditioning and heating. What is entirely absent from the record is the installer, the BMS make, the fusing arrangement, the solar controllers, whether a battery monitor or shunt exists, and whether the alternator is protected against a BMS disconnect. This is the standard blind spot of a lithium retrofit and it is the reason the audit line stands despite the equipment being good. The air conditioning is a marina system that becomes weight and a through-hull once the boat leaves the dock. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“600 amp-hour LifePO4 lithium battery bank”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“1,100 watts solar (600W on hardtop, 500W fold-out on stanchions)”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“160-amp high-output alternator”

• Battery banklisting only

  600Ah LiFePO4 installed since 2022 — exactly the catalogue's target capacity, in the right chemistry, four years old at purchase and six at departure, which is early-middle life for lithium. Charged by a 160A alternator, 1,100W of solar and a 3,000W Victron inverter/charger. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD, for the alreadyAboard array: battery-300ah-x2 at fittedQuantity 600, and solar-panels-800w at fittedQuantity 1100. No make is given for the cells, no BMS is named, and there is no evidence either way on Class-T fusing, a shunt, a battery monitor or a DC-DC charger for the start battery — the last two of which remain as standing catalogue lines. No start battery is described at all, which is its own small gap. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“600 amp-hour LifePO4 lithium battery bank”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“3,000-watt Victron inverter charger”

• Steering gearlisting only

  Pedestal steering with a bronze base and a destroyer-type stainless wheel, plus a teak emergency tiller. All undated and absent from the 2021-22 refit block, so assume 2001 originals: cable, quadrant, sheaves and rudder bearing are all consumables at 26 years. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD: emergency-tiller — but only half of it. The catalogue line also buys a secondary steering method (drogue-steering bridle and spare arrangement), which is not evidenced, and it assumes the tiller has been proven to fit and swing clear of the wheel, which nobody has stated. A destroyer wheel is exactly the geometry that fouls an emergency tiller. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Pedestal steering with bronze base”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Teak emergency tiller”

• Autopilot and self-steeringlisting only

  A B&G NAC-3 autopilot computer and B&G instrument package installed since 2022. THE DRIVE UNIT IS NOT NAMED IN ANY OF THE THREE LISTING MIRRORS, and B&G's own description makes clear why that matters: the NAC-3 'contains the electronics needed to operate a hydraulic steering pump or mechanical drive unit' — it is the brain, not the muscle. The computer is correctly rated for this boat (35ft and above, 30A continuous, 50A peak). Whether the muscle behind it will steer 29,147lb downwind in a following Pacific swell is unknown and is the highest-impact open question in this file. No windvane self-steering is fitted or mentioned, so on current evidence the electric pilot is the only self-steering aboard. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD, conditionally: autopilot-ev200 and autopilot-install, both contingent on the drive being adequate. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“B&G NAC-3 autopilot computer”

  NAC-3 Autopilot Computer“It contains the electronics needed to operate a hydraulic steering pump or mechanical drive unit.”

  NAC-3 Autopilot Computer“rated to operate high-current pumps, mechanical drive units, and solenoid valves (30 amps continuous/50 amps peak)”

• Hull and laminatelisting only

  Hand-laid solid fiberglass, HIN TYA42186G001, which decodes as Ta Yang hull 186 built July 2000 to model year 2001. That date is the most important structural fact in the file after the deck: Cruising World records Ta Yang moving to isophthalic gelcoat after 1985 and vinylester resin after 1992, so this hull sits two resin generations past the 1979-85 blistering cohort that Sailboat Guide identifies. Displacement 29,147lb on a 33ft waterline gives D/L 362, capsize screening 1.63 and comfort ratio 43.77 — the most conservative numbers in the candidate set by a wide margin. The counterweight is in the same numbers: SA/D of 14.13 and a 7.7kn hull speed mean this is a heavy, easily-driven-but-not-fast boat that will want its light-air sails. Cruising World's verdict: 'A well-built offshore cruiser with a cruising range, load-carrying capacity, and comfortable motion seldom found in boats under 45 feet today.' No bottom job date, barrier coat history or grounding history is disclosed. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — Shoreline Yacht Group“TYA42186G001”

  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”

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Sailboat Guide“Early models (1979–1985) show”

• Keel and keel boltslisting only

  THE DRAFT GATE IS CLEARED AND THERE IS NO VARIANT TRAP. Draft is 5ft 10in on the broker's own spec sheet, 5.83ft on Good Old Boat, 5.80ft on Sailboatdata — three independent sources agreeing within a tenth of a foot, against a 6.5ft hard limit, leaving roughly eight inches of margin. Unlike production boats of the same size, the Vancouver 42 was not offered in deep-keel and shoal variants; every source describes one keel. The keel itself is the cleanest thing about the boat: Cruising World describes 11,800lb 'in a single iron casting, encapsulated inside the keel's thick walls', which means no keel bolts, no keel joint, and no smile to monitor — an entire failure mode removed. Ballast ratio 40.5%. The residual issue is the one encapsulation creates: undisclosed groundings can crack the moulding and let water reach iron ballast. No grounding history is disclosed.

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — Shoreline Yacht Group“Draft: 5'10"”

  TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 — sailboat specifications“Draft (Max): 5.80 ft (1.77 m)”

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Good Old Boat saildata“Draft: 5.83 feet”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“a single iron casting, encapsulated inside the keel's thick walls”

• Rudder and bearingslisting only

  Skeg-hung, per Sailboatdata's 'Fiberglass fin with rudder on skeg' and Cruising World's 'Long fin keel with skeg-hung rudder'. The seller's own description calls it a 'modified fin keel and skeg-hung rudder' providing 'an easily-driven and seakindly hull', which for once is boilerplate that happens to be accurate. This is the conservative offshore arrangement — 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 the rudder's condition, its bearing, its heel fitting or whether it has ever been dropped. No moisture reading exists. inferred

  TAYANA VANCOUVER 42 — sailboat specifications“Fiberglass fin with rudder on skeg”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“Long fin keel with skeg-hung rudder”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“The modified fin keel and skeg-hung rudder provide an easily-driven and seakindly hull.”

• Deck, hardware and hull–deck jointlisting only

  THE SINGLE BEST FINDING IN THIS WORKUP. The broker's spec sheet describes the deck as 'hand-laid FRP, cored deck — Molded non-skid'. Cruising World records teak decks as the Vancouver 42's standard specification and as the path by which water gets into the core; this hull, ordered semi-custom like every Ta Yang boat, does not have them. That removes what would otherwise be the largest line item on a 26-year-old Tayana. What remains is a cored deck — balsa rather than plywood on later hulls, per Sailboat Guide — with 26 years of penetrations plus a 2022 hardtop and 1,100W of solar recently bolted through it. Hardware inventory: aluminium toe rail with hawse holes, chrome pulpit and pushpit, six chrome Dorade vents and one plastic, an outboard crane, a stainless bollard forward, teak exterior handrails, an aluminium mainsheet traveller, stainless staysail and genoa tracks, teak cockpit seats and grating, and a custom fiberglass hard dodger added 2022. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD: solar-mounting. NOT aboard in usable form: the lifelines were replaced in 2022 but are vinyl-coated, which is what offshore special regulations exclude — that catalogue line stands. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — Shoreline Yacht Group“hand-laid FRP, cored deck—Molded non-skid”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“can allow water intrusion into the core”

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Sailboat Guide“Early decks used plywood coring; later versions switched to balsa.”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Stainless steel stanchions with vinyl double lifelines and gates”

• Through-hulls and seacockslisting only

  'Seacocks on all through-hulls' and 'Bilge pump strainers' — present tense, undated, and entirely absent from the 2021-22 refit block, which on this listing is meaningful. Read as original 2001 bronze fittings. The boat has an above-average number of penetrations for its size: engine raw water, two heads (one composting so possibly fewer), a galley double sink, a 40 gph watermaker feed, aft-stateroom air conditioning raw water, bilge discharges, and an 'extra head in aft cockpit'. Twenty-six years is at or past sensible service life for a bronze seacock and this is the failure mode that sinks boats at their own dock. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Seacocks on all through-hulls”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Air conditioning/heating in aft stateroom”

• Plumbing, water tanks and headslisting only

  Two 60-gallon stainless water tanks (120 gallons, against the model's stated 150 — another small capacity discrepancy), a 25-gallon holding tank, hot and cold pressure water, an Isotemp 8-gallon water heater replaced 2022, a 3-stage water purifier, a Seawater Pro 40 gph watermaker replaced 2022, a high-capacity manual bilge pump, a PAR heavy-duty electric bilge pump, and bilge strainers. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD: watermaker-rainman-12v, with the caveat that SeaWater Pro sell both DC and 970W AC versions and which one is fitted changes the passage water plan. NOT marked aboard: bilge-pumps — the catalogue line specifies a Whale Gusher Titan on deck PLUS a second manual pump operable below PLUS a high-capacity electric, and only one manual and one electric are evidenced, so the line stands. Cruising World is positive about the model's stainless water tanks, reserving its criticism for the black-iron fuel tanks. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Seawater Pro 40 GPH water maker (replaced 2022)”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Two 60-gallon stainless steel tanks”

  Classic Plastic: Vancouver 42 Sailboat Review“150 gallons water in stainless-steel tanks”

  SeaWater Pro — 40 GPH dual membrane watermaker, AC

• Ground tackle and windlasslisting only

  The strongest inventory on the boat relative to the catalogue and the only system where all three specified items are effectively present: an anchor windlass, a 65lb Mantus primary, 300ft of 5/16in G4 chain, a double anchor sprit with rollers, a chain locker with deck pipe and a foredeck anchor well. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD: primary-anchor, chain-300ft at fittedQuantity 300, windlass. What is missing and matters: no secondary anchor or rode is named despite the double sprit clearly being built for one, no snubber or swivel is mentioned, no windlass make or age is given, and the chain's age and galvanising condition are unstated. The Tahiti guide is why chain age matters before departure rather than after — chain ordered in French Polynesia takes 'a few months to arrive'. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“300 feet of 5/16" G4 anchor chain”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“65-pound Mantus anchor”

  Tahiti Cruisers Guide — Marine supplies“a few months to arrive”

• Safety equipmentlisting only

  Thin, and thin in a specific pattern: what is aboard is electronic and what is missing is the physical abandon-ship and stay-aboard kit. Present: an ACR GlobalFix EPIRB added since 2022, a Life Sling, lifelines replaced 2022 (but vinyl-coated), and a 3-burner Force 10 gimballed propane range. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD: epirb. NOT evidenced anywhere and therefore NOT marked aboard — liferaft, 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. Two specific near-misses: the Life Sling is MOB recovery gear but is not the deployable boarding ladder the catalogue specifies, and the vinyl-coated lifelines are the material offshore regulations exclude, so that line stands despite being 'replaced 2022'. No liferaft anywhere in any of the three listing mirrors is the largest single gap. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“ACR Globalfix EPIRB”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Life sling”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Stainless steel stanchions with vinyl double lifelines and gates”

• Electronics and navigationlisting only

  The most comprehensively refitted system on the boat and, unusually, all of it is supported on the route: Marine Supplies Papeete services Simrad, B&G and Garmin, and Tahiti Yacht Accessoire stocks Victron. Installed since 2022: Garmin GPSMAP 1022 chartplotter, Garmin Fantom GMR 18x solid-state radar, B&G instrument package, B&G NAC-3 autopilot computer, a new AIS transceiver, and Starlink. Original: Icom IC-M424G fixed VHF with GPS and DSC plus an Icom remote cockpit station. GENERIC GEAR ALREADY ABOARD: chartplotter, radar, instrument-pack, ais-transponder, starlink-mini, nmea-backbone (inferred), and vhf-fixed-handheld (fixed half only). NOT aboard: iridium-backup, paper-charts-nav-backup, sextant-almanac, radar-reflector, emergency-vhf-antenna, ships-papers-flags. The gap that matters most is that Starlink is not an offshore distress or backup system, and there is no second, independent means of position-fixing or of getting a weather forecast if the network goes down. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Garmin Fantom GMR 18x solid-state radar”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Icom IC-M424G VHF with GPS alert”

  Tahiti Cruisers Guide — Marine supplies“Simrad, Lowrance, B&G, Garmin, Raymarine service”

• Canvas, dodger and coverslisting only

  Better than the candidate set average and recently done. A custom fiberglass hard dodger was added in 2022 — a hard dodger rather than a soft one is a genuine safety asset on a downwind passage and is not a comfort item, and it is also what carries 600W of the solar. A mainsail stack pack was replaced since 2022. What is NOT mentioned anywhere is a bimini, a cockpit enclosure, a wheel cover, or any shade structure for a year at anchor in the tropics, and the catalogue's foredeck-awning line is therefore not marked aboard. Teak cockpit seats and grating are described; teak in a tropical cockpit is a maintenance decision rather than a defect. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Custom fiberglass hard dodger (added 2022)”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Mainsail stack pack”

• Windows, hatches and portslisting only

  'Aluminum hatches with Lexan windows', a 'Lexan sliding companionway hatch', 'Teak louvered companionway doors', and six chrome Dorade vents plus one plastic. Every one of those is undated and none appears in the 2021-22 refit block, so read them as 2001 originals: 26 years of California UV on polycarbonate and on hatch gaskets. Crazed Lexan cannot be polished back and is structurally weaker than it looks. Teak louvered companionway doors are a pretty and thoroughly non-offshore arrangement — they are not washboards and they will not keep a boarding wave out of the cabin; no storm boards or shutters are described anywhere. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Aluminum hatches with Lexan windows”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Teak louvered companionway doors”

• Dinghy and outboardlisting only

  Effectively nothing, and this is a real gap rather than an oversight. An 'Outboard crane' is listed and that is the entire inventory — no dinghy of any kind, no outboard, no chocks, no davits. A crane implies the previous owners had a tender and it may or may not be included in the sale; the listing does not say. GENERIC GEAR NOT MARKED ABOARD: dinghy, outboard, dinghy-stowage, snorkel-dive-kit. The outboard crane is a genuine asset and should be reused if it will take the weight of a 3.1m hypalon RIB and a 9.9-15hp four-stroke, which is a meaningful load and worth checking against whatever the crane was rated for in 2001. In the Tuamotus the tender is the boat's car. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“Outboard crane”

• Interior and sea berthslisting only

  A proper long-distance cruising interior and, unlike SARA, a proper sea-going galley: a 3-burner Force 10 gimballed propane range with oven and broiler, a Grunert 12VDC refrigerator/freezer in two separate boxes, a double stainless sink, a 3-stage water purifier, a passive ice chest with 4in PVC foam and a stainless liner, and a microwave for shore power. Joinery is teak and spruce with a teak-and-holly sole, solid teak doors, hull insulation in all lockers, and 6ft 5in headroom. Accommodation is a V-berth with filler plus an aft stateroom, a forward head with a composting toilet, an aft head with a fresh-water electric toilet new in 2022, a manual marine head as backup, and an 'extra head in aft cockpit'. NOTE THE CONTRADICTION: the seller's prose describes both 'The Trunk Cabin version' and a 'center cockpit interior' in the same paragraph, and the equipment list refers to an 'aft cockpit'. Good Old Boat records 130 aft-cockpit, 70 centre-cockpit and 5 pilothouse hulls, so this is a resolvable question, not a mystery. GENERIC GEAR NOT ABOARD: lee-cloths — no sea berths with lee cloths are described, and a V-berth and an aft stateroom are both poor sea berths. inferred

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“3-burner Force 10 propane stove with oven and broiler”

  2001 Tayana Vancouver 42 — YachtWorld listing 10101505“The Trunk Cabin version of the 42 is designed to satisfy those who prefer the more traditional look.”

  Tayana Vancouver 42 — Good Old Boat saildata“130 aft-cockpit cruisers, 70 center-cockpit versions, and 5 rare pilothouse variants”