Simnplicity43' Mason 43 1981

Take Full Advantage of the upcoming Season - SIMPLICITY is Turnkey, ready to take you anywhere your Heart Desires.

SIMPLICITY is a seaworthy performance cruiser that has always been a private yacht (never in charter service). She has been meticulously maintained by both her original & present owners. 

"The Mason 43 is a proven passage-maker with many ocean miles to support this claim."

SIMPLICITY is a beautiful example of this exquisite design, with her well-thought-out cockpit with fitted cushions, open deck space, well-maintained interior with gorgeous woodwork, and scrumptious upgraded upholstery. Not to mention, she has a New Oversized Yanmar engine. Simplicity represents a fantastic opportunity that will not last.

• Simplicity comfortably sleeps 8/9 and provides plenty of storage throughout.
• The captain's cabin aft has a large double berth to port and a single berth to starboard, separated by cabinets and a storage locker.
• The customized forward cabin provides a large double berth.
• Custom bedding in Captain's cabin & V-berth
• The main salon table (seats 4-6 easily) converts to a large double berth. The starboard settee pulls out to a single berth with a pilot berth outboard.
• Ocean Marine 16,000 BTU reverse cycle A/C with heat pump
• Aft-facing navigation station with excellent communication to the cockpit
• 14 bronze ports provide ventilation with screens
• Three deck hatches and five stainless steel dorade vents
• Great storage throughout in lockers, drawers, louvered cabinets, and closets
• All interior cushions and foam were replaced (2014)
• Dickerson Propane Cozy Heater

• The U-shaped galley to port is at the companionway's base, providing plenty of working and storage space. 
• Gimbaled LP SEAWARD 3174 three-burner stove with broiler/oven (new 2010)
• TRIDENT LP monitoring system
• Two 15 lb gas bottles (stowed in the aft cockpit bottom vented locker)
• SEA FROST front & top opening refrigerator/freezer 
• Hot and cold pressurized fresh water with a backup manual foot pump
• 6-gallon water heater, electric & engine driven
•  Double stainless steel sinks
• A two-stage water filtration system at the galley sink
• Ample cupboards and storage spaces
• All interior lights replaced with LED's

• New Main Sail with stack pack (2021)
• HARKEN System A mainsail mast track and cars (New 2000)
• QUANTUM 135 Genoa w/ UV cover
• SCHAEFER 3100 Roller furling for the genoa
• Storm jib (hanked on the inner forestay)
• Removable inner forestay Staysail
• Storm trysail - separate mast track
• Spinnaker w/sock & SELDEN 4-meter pole
• Keel stepped mast (new 2000) with internal halyards
• Boom (new 2000) 5/16" 1 x 19 Stainless rigging with swages to open s/s turnbuckles
• Running backstays
• Painted aluminum spars
• 2 BARLOW Two Speed #27 Self-Tailing Primaries
•  2 BARLOW Two Speed #24 Self-Tailing Secondaries
• LEWMAR #48 Electric halyard winch on coach roof at the cockpit
• 2 BARLOW #40 Self-Tailing halyard winches on mast
• 2 SPINLOCK XT Line clutches (on the mast)
• 4 SPINLOCK XT Line clutches (cockpit/coach roof)
• Bosun's chair

• New (2023) Garmin Chart Plotters (helm & navigation station)
• New Garmin Radar (2021)
• ICOM M502 VHF radio at nav station
• Garmin Network speed, wind, depth at the helm, and nav station backbone network to the chart plotter
• New Garmin Autopilot Class B (2021)
• RITCHIE 6" Globemaster pedestal compass at the helm

• House Battery: 6x6V deep cycle AGMs rated 672 amp hours (new 2022)
• Mastervolt Inverter Charger Combination 12-3000 W, 160 AMP with Smart Remote and Battman Pro.
• Start battery: 12V with ACR Combiner (new 2022) 
• 110-volt outlets located throughout
• MASTERVOLT 3500KW diesel generator (new 2007) with digital control
• 120V 30A Shore power cable
• The electrical panel is at the nav station

• New Yanmar 4JH4TE 75HP Diesel Engine (2014) Only 783 Hours
• New Transmission (2014)
• High-output alternator
• Dual RACOR fuel filters
• Three-blade 18" adjustable pitch MAX-PROP

• Fresh Bottom Paint (2025)
• Cabin top repainted with Alexseal X (2024)
• Teak decks replaced with fiberglass (2013)
• Hull is AWLGRIPPED (new 2005)
• Fitted cockpit cushions
• Teak swim ladder
• Teak cockpit table
• Teak cockpit grate
• 2 LPG tanks in vapor tight cockpit locker w/overboard vent
• Deck prism over nav station
• 5 S/S Dorade vents
• Several fenders and dock lines
• Emergency tiller
• ST CROIX 250SS removable Dingy Davits

• ACR 406 EPIRB
• 1.25" S/S Granny rails each side of the mast
• 24" S/S stanchions w/double lifelines
• LIFESLING Hoist Harness
• Cell Phone Booster

• Custom Dodger, Bimini (new 2022)
• Hatches (new 2011)
• Hand Rails (new 2011)
• Full Vinyl Cockpit Enclosure (new 2007)
• UV Protected Vinyl Cushions (new 2006)

• SIMPSON/LAWRENCE Horizon 1000 horizontal windlass w/RC162 Gypsy for 3/8 BBB Chain & 5/8 rode Primary
• 45# CQR w/150 feet 3/8 galv. chain with 5/8 nylon rode
• Secondary 44# BRUCE w/50 feet 3/8 chain with 5/8 nylon rode
• Double bow anchor rollers w/tackle lock pins
• Jabsco Washdown Pump

The owner's personal items are not included in the sale.

"Al Mason designed the Mason 43. During his career, Mason worked with Carl Alberg, John Alden, Philip Rhodes, and Sparkman & Stephens, as well as independently. His take on design is generally traditional, with pleasing proportions and gentle sheer lines. According to PAE's Joe Meglen, the 43 is an "evolution of a successful CCA ocean racer named Sitzmark," which in turn evolved from the Nevins Yawl, Finisterre, and farther back, the New York 32... The design of the Mason 43, with its long trunk cabin, generous overhangs, and full keel, makes no pretenses of modernity. Apt adjectives include Traditional, Classic, Handsome, and, according to the ads, "Timeless.' With its heavy displacement (d/l ratio= 400) and cutter or ketch rig, cruising is clearly its intention." ~ Practical Boat Buying

Ta Shing Yacht Building Co. of Tainan, Taiwan built the molds and the boats for PAE. During a tour of Taiwan boat builders in 1986 we felt that Ta Shing was doing the best work of any Taiwanese-owned and operated yard in the country (the other superior yard at that time was Ted Hood's Little Harbor facility). Ta Shing also has built the Norseman 447 Skye 54, the Babas, Flying Dutchmans and Pandas and its own Tasbiba and Taswell lines....

"The Mason boats are heavily built with solid fiberglass hulls, balsa-cored decks, and eight longitudinal foam/ fiberglass stringers for added stiffness. Bulkheads are 3/4-inch mahogany plywood bonded to the hull with foam in between to prevent hard spots (the right way). The hull/deck joint of the 43 was... through-bolted, caulked with Thiokol, and reinforced with stainless steel flat stock." ~ Practical Boat Buying Hull - hand laid to Lloyds +100 A1 specifications with ten full-length longitudinal stringers Deck - molded fiberglass sandwich core construction with teak overlay Cabin - molded fiberglass sandwich core construction Exterior trim - teak

Engine and generator hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing brochure.

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.

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