$114,500

Description

Taia is a 1980 Morgan 462, a solid cruiser that cruised the East Coast of the US and the Caribbean Sea with a family of four from July/2013 to August/2016. She was safely stored on the hard at RAM Marina in Rio Dulce, Guatemala, from September/2016 to April/2017. Her current owner purchased her in 2019 and has cruised the Bahamas on her and sailed locally. Before 2013, when she was known as Liberty, she cruised the East Coast and Bahamas, crossed the Atlantic, and spent a few years in the Mediterranean Sea. She’s an experienced boat and fully equipped for cruising!

The sellers have sailed her thousands of nautical miles.  She is safe both underway and at anchor. Her sloop rig is easy to handle, with 2 reefs on the main and a jib on a furler. The spinnaker pole, mounted on a track on the mast, is trivial to deploy for the jib or the symmetrical spinnaker. Easy sail handling for any point of sail.

Every porthole and hatch, as well as both companionways, has screens that keep the bugs out. Three big hatches and three small ones provide excellent ventilation with great air flow through the cabin.

This is a proven blue water cruiser and will take you and your family safely anywhere you want to go!

Full Specs

Boat Name

TAIA

Dimensions

LOA: 46
LWL: 39
Beam: 13.5 ft
Maximum Draft: 6 ft
Ballast: 3,810 lb

Engines

Engine Brand: Perkins
Engine Model: 4-236
Engine/Fuel Type: diesel
Engine Power: 85|horsepower
Engine Type: Inboard

Tanks

Fresh Water Tanks: 2 (290 Gallon)
Fuel Tanks: 2 (130 Gallon)

Accommodations

Number of single berths: 6
Number of cabins: 2

Sail inventory
Heavy dacron main sail, with 3 reef points.
Heavy duty dacron jib on Harken furler.
Symmetrical spinnaker on snuffer and tack system that fixes the tack around the furled jib. It can also be rigged traditionally with the spinnaker pole.
ATN Gale Sail. New, never used.
Electrical
Taia is energy self-sufficient with renewable sources. As a backup to power generation, she has a 100-Amp alternator and a 5.5 KW diesel generator.

The solar panels and wind generator are perfectly capable of producing more than 200 Amp-Hours a day. And for those rare stints of no sun and no wind, the generator can easily charge the batteries.

All the lights aboard Taia are LED's, including all cabin lights, navigation lights and anchor light. We have a photosensitive anchor light on the arch that consumes about 0.3 Amps. It turns on at dusk and stays on till dawn.

House bank: 8 Deka ProMaster GC25 6-volt batteries totaling 920 Amp-Hour capacity. New in November/2014.
Solar panels: Two 270-Watt, 24-volt panels controlled by a Morningstar Tristar MPPT 45 controller. The panels bear the brunt of the generation. New in December/2013.
Wind generator: Silentwind 400 W, with its own controller. New in August/2015.
Generator: Next Generation Power 5.5 Kilowatt diesel generator powered by Kubota engine. The generator is installed in the engine room and is started/stopped from a button on the 110-volt electrical panel. The generator has its own hour counter, which marks 1346 hours.
Alternator: 100-Amp alternator.
Charger/inverter: StatPower ProSine 3.0 with Advanced Control System panel. 3000-Watt inverter.
Shore power: Two 30-Amp connectors and cables.
Battery monitor: Link10 monitor that keeps track of production/consumption of Amp-Hours, as well as battery voltage and current.
Electronics/navigation
Raymarine Axiom 12 Pro Chart Plotter with Navionics charts
Raymarine Quantum 2 Doppler Radar
2-Raymarine i70s Instruments
Raymarine Evolution EV-1 Autopilot
Raymarine P70Rs Pilot Controller
Raymarine Type 1 Hydraulic Drive Autopilot Reversing Pump
Em-trac B900 Series AIS
Raymarine Windvane
Deck and gear
Ideal V3C electric windlass with buttons on deck. This windlass, along with the 30-Kg original Bruce anchor and 130 feet of 5/16? chain have provided at least 3 years of safe anchoring in all sorts of conditions.
Secondary anchor is a 75-lbs CQR.
Fortress FX-23 anchor on a bracket on the stern rail, ready for deployment in an emergency or to point the bow into the swell in rolly anchorages.
Anderson 52 self-tailing winches for jib and spinnaker sheets.
Harken 16 self-tailing winch with rope clutches to allow sharing between main sheet and furling line.
Harken 16 self-tailing, 2-speed winch for halyards at mast.
Dinghy davits.
Atlantic Towers aluminum arch to hold solar panels and wind generator (new in December/2013). The arch is also used to reinforce the davits and as a crane to hoist the outboard before long passages.
Dodger and bimini, including full enclosure for the cockpit. The full enclosure makes autumn sailing in the East Coast very comfortable; the cockpit remains at a nice temperature and the crew stays warm.
Refrigeration
Taia has big top-loading refrigerator and a big freezer. Each of those is cooled by its own 12-volt Sea Frost compressor with electronic speed-controlled thermostat and thermometer. The system was installed in May/2013 and runs like it was installed yesterday. The compressors can be switched between air-cooled and water-cooled.
Watermaker
New in May 2015. It's a Spectra 200T Deluxe capable of making 8 gallons/hour. It's frugal in power consumption and is generally run 2 hours per day. The watermaker allowed for 4 showers a day, plus drinking water, dish washing, and cooking.
Interior
The v-berth is currently partitioned with a piece of fabric to separate our two kids' bunks. Aft of the v-berth, there's a shelf locker and hanging locker to port and the head to starboard. The head has a shower and an electric toilet.
The saloon has a big table to starboard and a settee to port. Aft of the saloon there's a big u-shaped galley to starboard. The galley has the refrigerator and freezer, a Force 10 stove and oven, and deep double sink. At the sink there are 3 faucets: one for raw water, one for fresh water from the tanks, and one for filtered water from the tanks.

The nav station is to port, opposite the galley.

Outboard of the passageway going aft there are two bunks which we used to store gear most of the time. Inboard of the passageway is the cavernous engine room with the engine, generator, refrigeration compressors, and Raritan water heater that runs both on 110 volts and off the engine cooling water. The passageway opens up to a huge master cabin with a desk bigger than the nav station and a king size bed (yes, you read that correctly: Taia has a king size bed in the master cabin, made up of two single size mattresses placed side-by-side). There's a 26" LED TV in the aft cabin for those rainy days or family movie nights.

There's plenty of storage space under every surface and a huge cave of a locker under the king size bed.

There are two 16,000-BTU reverse cycle air conditioners on board, one just aft of the v-berth and the other one in the master cabin.

All the interior upholstery was redone in July/2016.
Engine/generator
Re-powered with Perkins 4-236, 85 HP. The engine has 5000h hours and purrs like a kitten. Hurth HBW-250 transmission.

Next Generation Power 5.5 Kilowatt diesel generator powered by Kubota engine. The generator is installed in the engine room and is started/stopped from a button on the 110-volt electrical panel. The generator has its own hour counter, which marks 1429hours.
Recent maintenance/upgrades/detailed equipment lis
Hurth Transmission professionally rebuilt in (2022)
PYI Dripless Shaft Seal (2020)
New pillow block bearing at drive shaft (2020)
100 gallon main fuel tank
30 gallon auxiliary fuel tank
New fuel lines (2021) Old ones worked fine but were out of date.
2 electric bilge pumps,1500 GPH Automatic, 2400 GPH with float switch
Onboard high water alarm
LocMarine monitoring system monitors for high water: sends warning to cell phones (4g wireless)
Whale manual bilge pump located in cockpit (2023)

Sea Frost BD 12V Air and Water Cooled Condensing Unit for Freezer
Sea Frost BD 12V Air and Water Cooled Condensing Unit for Refrigerator
Both with Sea Frost Electronic Thermostats

Fareast Sails ATN Spinnaker Perfect Condition
110 Heavy Dacron Genoa in good condition
Heavy Dacron Mainsail with Battens attached to Harken BattCar System in good condition
New running rigging 2020
Doyle Stack Pack
Harken BattCar System/Mainsail Track
Harken Unit 2 Roller Furler System
Harken 16st Self-Tailing Winches (recently serviced)
Jibe Preventer

NexGen UCM 2-5.5 Generator (5.5KW) regularly serviced

Raymarine Axiom 12 Pro Chart Plotter with Navionics charts
Raymarine Quantum 2 Doppler Radar
2-Raymarine i70s Instruments
Raymarine Evolution EV-1 Autopilot
Raymarine P70Rs Pilot Controller
Raymarine Type 1 Hydraulic Drive Autopilot Reversing Pump
Em-trac B900 Series AIS
Raymarine Windvane

New Foredeck/Steaming Light Combo
All LED bulbs throughout
New cabin lights
New cockpit light

Standard Horizon HX 890 Handheld GPS VHF Transceiver
Standard Horizon GX1600 VHF
Ram3+ Remote Station Microphone at binnacle
SSB Radio
Epirb


Auto-Nav Model 2006 Helm Pump (Steering) Removed and Certified by manufacturer in perfect working order 4/2021

560 Watts Solar Panels Mounted on Stern Arch
TriStar Solar Controller programmed for solar battery house bank
600 Amp Hours Lithium House Battery Bank (Ampere Time) 6/2023
Renogy DC-DC Charger (to charge cranking battery from house lithium bank)
Powermax High Output Alternator 150 amps
Balmar MC-618 Regulator/Controller for Powermax Alternator to charge lithium batteries
SilentWind 400 Watt Wind Generator
SilentWind Charge Controller (blue tooth)
3000Watt Inverter/Charger (Pure Sine) 2020
LocMarine monitoring system: monitors shore power and monitors battery voltage levels. Sends warnings to cell phones via 4g cell networks.
Onboard Link 10 battery monitor

Force 10 Propane Gourmet Galley Range
Restaurant style faucet (2020)

2-Cruisair 16000 BTU A/C Units one aft and one forward

JVC Stereo
Bose Speakers
2-TV’s

Tank Tenders by Hart Systems (monitors fuel level and fresh water tanks)
320 Gallons Fresh Water Tanks
Spectra 12volt Ventura Watermaker, regularly serviced

Single head makes Taia unique to the model: allows for King Size Aft Cabin Berth and spacious aft cabin with its own desk
Raritan SeaEra Electric Toilet
30 gallon plastic holding tank
Extra Shower (Hot and Cold Water) at Cockpit
New Raritan 12 Gallon Hot Water Heater (2021)

New port light gaskets at all 14 port lights (2022)
New hatch gaskets at the 3 main hatches (2022)

Regularly serviced Ideal Model VC3 Vertical Windlass
66 lb. Genuine Bruce Anchor, 120 feet 5/16 galvanized chain (2019) with 200 feet of 5/8 nylon rode
Spare 150 feet 5/16 galvanized chain with 200 feet of 5/8 nylon rods (under v-berth)
CQR 45 lb anchor
Fortress 17 lb anchor

Keel Stepped Aluminum Mast
Fold up aluminum steps on sides of mast

New Jabsco Engine Room Blower (2023)

Spare Parts:
All filters Engine and Generator
Racor Filters
All Belts Engine and Generator
Spare Alternator
Impellers Engine and Generator
Water Maker Filters
Fresh Water Pump

King size memory foam mattress (2019) in aft cabin
Pet netting (2019)
Complete Interior hull recovered with waterproof fabric (2019)

Bimini, Dodger and complete isinglass enclosure (2021)
New cockpit cushions (2023)

New bottom paint (2022)
Divers clean bottom monthly
Zincs inspected monthly and replaced as needed 
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.
Additional Units Included

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