KATE

Additional Information

B&G Instruments:

Zeus -3

Halo 20+ radar

Nac2 3 Auto pilot

Precision 9 compass

Wind sensor

Forward scan sonar

Victron Multi Plus 3000( ) charger / inverter

Battery Bank: 8 Life Line 6 volt

Color battery bank monitor

Master Volt charger for starting battery and back up

Solar panel arch by Atlantic Towers

3 solar panels

Victron regulator

Balmar high out put alternator (175amps )

Vesper 8000 (or 600) AIG send and receive w/ stealth mode

Rocna 40 anchor (oversized)

Nilsson Windlass new up/down motor 2017

286’ chain

Dometic refrigeration 2018

Lewmar electric winch (#45 )

Macerator holding tank pump 2020

Holding tank opened inspected 7 cleaned 2021

2 Rule 3700gph bilge pumps w/USS float switch

Rule small pump in sump

Icom IC-M700 pro SSB not installed. (Back stay w/ insulators)

Spare Starter motor by Buchanan

Spare Raw water pump for Perkins 4-236

Canvass 2020

Perkins 4-236 72 hp Approx 3800 hrs

transmission rebuild kit

Fuel polisher P510 MAM

Aft Fuel tank replaced 2023 120 gal. Capacity. 2022

Forward fuel tank under dinette is fouled and leaks when full.

Keep it empty or replace!!!

Thru - hulls replaced 2018

Teak decks rehabbed 2022

Topsides LP 2022

Max Prop feathering prop

Line cutter, (worthy of a Samurai)

Standing Rigging replaced

Chain plates removed, inspected, 3 replaced

Mainsail is strong. Genoa was re-stitched in 2021. In good shape

Spectra water maker installed 2021

Coastal Cruising Characteristics

The West Coast isn't gentle coastal cruising in the way the Chesapeake or Florida are. Between San Diego and the Strait of Juan de Fuca you're dealing with a largely harborless lee shore, persistent northwesterlies that build steep wind-against-current seas, frequent fog, cold water, long passages between safe inlets (Crescent City to Coos Bay, Cape Mendocino, Point Conception), and the reality that "coastal" often means 50-150 miles offshore to round capes safely. A boat suited for this environment needs to behave more like a passagemaker than a weekender, and that's exactly what the Tayana 52 is.

The Tayana 52 is a heavy-displacement bluewater design (roughly 51,000-55,000 lbs depending on configuration) drawn by Bob Perry. That mass, combined with a moderately long fin keel and skeg-hung rudder, gives it an easy, predictable motion in the short, steep seas you get off Mendocino or Point Conception. Lighter modern 50-footers can feel skittish in those conditions; the Tayana tracks and settles.

KATE carries serious tankage (typically 200+ gallons of fuel and water) and has the storage for the spares, ground tackle, and provisions you need when the next chandlery is two days away. West Coast anchorages are often rolly open roadsteads (Santa Cruz Island, San Simeon, Drakes Bay), so the heavy ground tackle a Tayana can carry without trimming down isn't a luxury.

The Tayana 52's are heavily laid-up hand-built hulls from Ta Yang in Taiwan, with teak interiors and serious hardware. They're not light, but they're built for the kind of pounding the Pacific dishes out, and the deep, dry interior is genuinely livable in cold, wet conditions, which is most of the year north of Point Conception.

Standing Rigging Replaced

• Standing rigging 2019 by GC Rigging and Composites.

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.