Sept. 19 – Hatteras Stats

Lamb’s Yacht Center

I know there are some of our readers who might like to have the stats on our new Hatteras…so here is what was on the yacht listing and a few engine room pictures.

Dimensions

LOA: 48 ft. 8 in

Beam: 15 ft. 0 in

Maximum Draft: 4 ft. 0 in

Displacement: 45000 lbs.

Engines

Total Power: 870 HP

Engine 1:

Engine Brand: Detroit Diesel

Year Built: 1981

Engine Model: 6V92

Engine Type: Inboard

Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel

Engine 2:

Engine Brand: Detroit Diesel

Year Built: 1981

Engine Model: 6V92

Engine Type: Inboard

Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel

Cruising Speed: 15 knots

Maximum Speed: 19 knots

Tanks

Fresh Water Tanks: (190 Gallons)

Fuel Tanks: (590 Gallons)

Holding Tanks: (60 Gallons)

Accommodations

Three stateroom/three head layout. Galley down, handy to Salon. Light and bright salon with room for comfortable household-style seating. Engine room access at galley steps. Versatile upper/lower bunks in forward stateroom. Aft companionway offers convenient access to stack washer/dryer. Mid stateroom and master are located in the aft. Large aft deck with hard side enclosures, wing doors and custom wet bar. Easy steps lead up to the bridge, with a custom, top quality hard top.  

Galley

Corian countertop

Large household-style refrigerator

Princess, three-burner oven

Microwave

Electronics and Navigation

Furuno RD30 Depth Finder (2)

Robertson 200DL Auto Pilot

Furuno Radar

Standard Co. VHF (2)

Clarion Sirius Radio - Bridge

Panasonic TV - Salon

DVD player/Stereo - Salon

Electrical

220 volt/50 amp shore power

Port and Starboard shore power receptacles

15KW Onan generator

Sentry battery charger

Deck and Hull

Flybridge hard top, side enclosures

Pulpit, Ideal rope/chain windlass, Danforth anchor

Deck boxes (2)

Fender racks

6-step Tide Ride boarding ladder

4-step Vertical boarding ladder

RCL 100 remote spotlight (2)

Weather board fender racks

Engine and Mechanical

Air seps

4-zone CruiseAir Marine air conditioning

Block heaters

Naiad Stabilizers

Fuel polisher

Spare props
Vacuflush heads

Sept. 18 - Introducing the Texas Pearl

Lamb's Yacht Center

“Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.”  ―Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early

It’s official…papers have been signed and money exchanged, we’re the new owners of a 1981 48’ Hatteras to be known as Texas Pearl. I can finally just be excited! Here are a few pictures of how she looks right now. She’s in wonderful condition…all she really needs is a good cleaning, but I look forward to redecorating a little and making her feel like our home.

Update: here's a link to some of the upgrades we've done.

Floor Plan to the 48' Hatteras

Flybridge

Aft deck and stairs to the flybridge

Aft deck

Salon looking towards the bow at the galley and dinette 

The Salon looking towards the aft of the boat

Dinette 

Galley with new Corian counter tops

Looking aft at the main stateroom

Mid-stateroom

V-birth off the galley

Sept. 16- Jacksonville, FL

Lamb’s Yacht Center

“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” ―Mandy Hale

Happy 60th birthday babe! A man can never have too many tools, guitars or boats. Stan's answer to how many he needs is always..."Just One More"!

Last fall we fell in love with the idea of having another boat. One we would leave in Texas to use as a vacation home. A place for family to gather, take short cruises and hang out. We've been talking about and looking at boats online and in person for almost a year. We came close to buying a 53' Hatteras last December, but the timing wasn't right and it just didn't happen. This spring we looked at several other boats, a 50' Maine Trader, a Sea Master 48 and the 48' Hatteras. Stan studied and searched the Internet daily for the right boat. Last spring after we finished our trip up the St. John's River Stan looked at a 48' Hatteras docked at the end of our pier. We didn't think much about it until we got home this summer. The more we thought about it the more we realized it was the boat we were looking for...three staterooms, plenty of living space and a large aft deck for entertaining family and friends.

Buying a large old used boat can be somewhat of a roller coaster ride. Definitely not like buying a car...it's more like buying a house. Finding just the right boat can take awhile, but that's only the beginning. Once you find that perfect boat...you start getting excited, but there are still so many things that have to fall into place before it can be yours. One day everything seems perfect and the next day something unexpected comes up. Engines have to be checked out, electrical systems and plumbing have to be looked at, not to mention the condition of the hull, the paint, the windows, the electronics and a zillion other things that could make the boat a bad choice. We spent two days poking around the boat checking everything out, and then debating if we really wanted or needed the extra responsibility of owning another boat. The answer was YES, so we made an offer on the boat and our roller coaster ride of emotions began. Waiting to hear if the offer was accepted was a little hard...especially since we really wanted the boat. Once the offer was accepted we began lining up experts to do a full survey of the boat. One surveyor that would concentrate on the Detroit engines and another would check everything else. We could tell the boat looked great, but it is 33 years old. Our biggest concern was the engines and how much work they might need. The first checks on them showed there might be an issue…so then we had to rethink our offer. We even gave some thought to passing on the boat all together. In the end we adjusted our offer and had the survey and sea trail yesterday.

The sea trail is my favorite part of the process…that’s when you take the boat out on the water and see how everything works while underway. The survey, haul out and sea trail didn’t show anything new or alarming, in fact it showed that the engines seem fine for now, although they may need to be overhauled in the future. So…today we are waiting on the written report and the oil samples to be returned and hopefully by Wednesday we can start the process of signing all the papers and making her ours…I guess we need to come up with a name pretty soon!

A look at the bottom of the Hatteras 

A beautiful day for a sea trail 

A little video of the haul out