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1979 Morgan 46'
$ 74,900
This vessel is a 1979 Morgan 46' 462 Ketch listed for sale with United Yacht Broker Dan Kimball. Dan can be reached at 734-660-4011 to answer any questions you may have on this boat. United Yacht Sales is a professional yacht brokerage firm that has experience listing and selling all types of Morgan Yachts and similar boats. With over 250 yacht brokers worldwide, we have the largest network of boat buyers and sellers in the industry.
The 1979 Morgan 462 Ketch Sailboat is a classic example of robust and versatile cruising design from the late 20th century. Known for its strong build and spacious interior, this model features a sturdy fiberglass hull and a traditional ketch rig that provides excellent balance and ease of handling, particularly in varied wind conditions. The interior layout is designed for extended voyages, offering comfortable accommodations with a well-appointed galley, generous living space, and ample storage. The Morgan 46 is celebrated for its seaworthiness and has remained a popular choice among sailors who appreciate its blend of performance and comfort.
Here is an excerpt from the owner:
"I bought this 1979 boat when it was 18 months old in 1981 and the first year kept it at Toledo Beach Marina in southern Michigan and sailed Lake Erie. Between 1981 and 1989 I sailed Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and the Canadian North channel. In April 1989, I began a circumnavigation via the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal touching a couple dozen countries, arriving back in Michigan in July 1991. Since then I've cruised out of Cheboygan Michigan in Lake Huron.
I've added solar panels in 1984 or so, and doubled up the upper shrouds and added an additional forestay. I spent $25,000 I think in 2016 replacing all the electronics including the auto pilot, radar, depth sounder, entertainment center, and VHF radio. And added the latest Garmin chart plotter. I added a deck washer pump recently and a propane leak detector system. When necessary, I would replace sails and all the canvas work. Over the course of 43 years I have upgraded replaced and maintained everything on the boat."
Specifications
- Price USD:$ 74,900
- Builder:
Morgan
- Model:
462 Ketch
- Year:
1979
- Location:
Mackinwa City, Michigan, United States
- Type:
Sail Yacht
- LOA: 46 ft 6 in
- Display Length: 46 ft
- Beam: 13' 6"
- Yacht Category
Ketch
- Water Capacity: 195 gals
- Fuel Capacity: 175 gals
- Engine Details: Perkins 4-154
- Engine 1: 1979 3396.00 HRS 65.00 HP
- Engine Fuel: Diesel
- Days on Market:
The designer, Henry Scheel, was also the builder of the original molds for this yacht at his company in Maine in the early 1970’s. (Sheel had collaborated with Charles Morgan on a number of the earlier Morgan’s.)
The molds later came into the possession of Morgan Yachts, where they were used for a number of years with various modifications to build a number of models similar to the one shown here.
The Morgan 46 is the queen of our Morgan series of high performance cruising yachts. As queen, this regal lady of the seas exemplifies the design concepts built into the entire Morgan series. She is fast and dry beating to windward, and still out points all but the sleekest racers, even in the roughest of seas. Off the wind, she glides with ease and comfort on her long, directionally stable water line. These fine sailing characteristics are equally matched by her spacious, well laid out interior. An interior designed for a couple or a group of up to nine to spend many happy days sailing wherever they set their sights in this world class cruiser.
The Deck: She features a low center cockpit for ultimate visibility; lots of hatches: fourteen opening ports; and two large lazarettes aft. There is also a large emergency exit that can serve as a private entrance to the owner's stateroom.
Interior: A Teak and Holly plydeck sole runs throughout. Three private staterooms are standard. Each of the two large heads are complete with showers, with a tub included in the master stateroom head. The galley is a cook's delight. U-Shaped for comfort and convenience under way, the galley abounds with counter and storage space. Twin deep stainless steel sinks and a huge 19 cu. ft. top load ice box with two lids lead a long list of highlights. The open main salon is designed for comfortable entertaining, doubling as a dinette or extra berths as needed. The navigation station will please the most discriminating, with plenty of space to house the equipment necessary to take your yacht anywhere in the world. At the heart of this yacht is a dual access engine room, housing a powerful Perkins diesel while leaving plenty of room for accessories including an optional 7.5 KW generator.
Systems: All the plumbing is polybutylene tubing and rigid PVC. All the wiring is color coded to the recommended American Boat and Yacht Council standards and wired through a custom 115V AC, 12V DC modular electrical panel which contains hydraulic/magnetic breakers. The large fuel and water tanks make long extended passages a cinch. The easily adjusted main sheet traveler and three-speed Lewmar sheet winches make sail handling a joy. The optional Hyde rod roller furling system makes sail handling even easier, especially for short-handed crews.
Construction: The deck and hull are both hand laminated solid fiberglass with added sandwiched plywood coring in the deck. The keel houses internal cast lead ballast which is grouted around and fully glassed-over for the extra protection afforded by this double bottom effect. All cabinetry and bulkheads are double bonded to the hull sides for their entire length with a heavy 20-oz. woven roving. To create a unitized construction system for additional strength and stiffness all cabinetry components are also bonded to each other. In addition, all exposed metals below the waterline are bronze to resist electrolysis.
HULL:
- Hand laminated with mat, woven roving and fabmat
- Internal cast lead ballast (8400*) grouted into a deep cavity and fully glassed over
- Cast bronze shaft strut and bronze shaft
- U/L approved sea valves on all thru-hull fittings below the water line
DECK and EXTERIOR HARDWARE:
- S.S. anchor roller chock assembly providing stowage for two anchors
- Custom welded double rail S.S. pulpit and pushpit with gate in pushpit
- S.S. lifeline stanchions with vinyl-coated S.S. wire double lifelines and backup plates
- Flush mounted FRP lazarette hatch with drains from well
- Opening ports on cabin sides (14) with screens
- FRP steering pedestal with 5" compass, engine controls, instruments and 36" destroyer wheel
- S.S. pedestal guard
- Teak coaming caps
- Teak deck handrails
- Full length teak toerails with scuppers and six integral chocks
- Teak taffrail
- Back-up plates on deck hardware
- 45 lb. CQR anchor with ground tackle
MAIN SALON and STATEROOMS:
- (3) Stateroom arrangement
- L-Shaped dinette with bulkhead mounted table
- Settee/berth and pilot berth opposite dinette
- Headroom 6'2" minimum, except 5'10" passageway/midship cabin
- Teak and Holly plydeck cabinsole throughout
- Custom fabricated 4" foam cushions with deluxe color coordinated fabric in all cabins
- Teak veneer paneling on main bulkheads and vertical partitions
- Removable joiner work surrounding the engine room to facilitate engine removal through forward companionway hatch
- Forward stateroom with flat V-berth and Insert, bureau, double hanging locker, drawers and shelves over berths
- Midship walkthrough area is a private stateroom w/over-under double berths, berth, hanging locker, drawers and oilskin locker
- Aft stateroom with large double berth, hanging lockers, port and starboard, drawers under berth and shelves outboard of berths, with sloped aft bulkhead
GALLEY:
- Large U-Shaped galley
- FRP stovewell-two burner S:S. stove with oven and gimbals
- Double S.S. sink with standard faucets
- Emergency fresh water hand pump
- 19 cu. ft. Ice box, with an electric drain pump leading overboard
- Dust bin in galley sole
- Piping conduit from aft deck locker to stove well
HEADS:
- Joiner work mica covered with Teak trim
- Aft head has a tub/shower with telephone style shower head
- Forward head has a shower pan with slot Teak grate and telephone style shower head
- Both tub and shower pan drains lead overboard via electric pumps
- Holding tanks on both toilets with deck pump-out fittings
- Emergency fresh water hand pumps in both heads and large home-sized toilets with lever pumps
NAVIGATORS STATION:
- Full size athwartship chart table with hinged top over chart stowage and locker below
- Electrical panel with locker below and radio shelves outboard
PROPULSION and STEERING:
- Perkins 4-154 diesel engine with 2.73:1. Hurth reduction gear, fresh water cooling and 60 amp alternator.
- 1 ¼ " Bronze propellor shaft with intermediate bearing
- Three-blade bronze propellor
- Pedestal mounted engine controls and instruments including tachometer, oil pressure and water temperature gauges, ammeter and hour meter
- Audio visual temperature/pressure alarm
- Engine bed thru bolted to hull stringers
- Pedestal mounted hydraulic steering unit
- Fiberglass rudder with S.S. shaft, cast bronze heel and bearing, rudder cored with polyester syntactic foam for light weight, high strength and maximum adhesion to rudder skins
PLUMBING:
- Pressure water system distribution thru polybutylene tubing and rigid PVC and filter at pump
- 7-gal. Hot water heater with engine bypass and 225 volt element
- Marine heads with manual pump to holding tanks or direct overboard discharge
- Water tankage: 195 gal. in FRP tanks, lined with sanitaryware gel and fully baffled tanks are dipstickable with central manifold, deck fills
- Fuel tankage: 175 gal. in fire retardant FRP tank, dipstickable and fully baffled
- Two submersible bilge pumps
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS:
- All BIA color coded wiring. Custom 115v AC/12v DC modular electric panel with hydraulic magnetic breakers and indicator lights
- 115V 30 amp Shore power receptacle with 50-ft. Cord
- Ground fault circuit protection
- 115V Duplex receptacles throughout
- Two 115-amp hr. Marine batteries
RIGGING:
- Sloop rig
- Mast and boom one piece aluminum extrusions treated to protect against corrosion
- PVC wiring conduit with messenger inside mast
SAIL HANDLING EQUIPMENT:
- Two three-speed Lewmar #48 sheet winches
- Two two-speed Lewmar #16 halyard winches
- One Lewmar #16 mainsheet winch. Mainsheet traveler with car and movable end stops
- Genoa lead blocks on 14" x 12' "tee" track mounted on toerails
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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FINANCE NOWOur Morgan Yachts listing is a great opportunity to purchase a 46' Ketch for sale in Mackinwa City, Michigan - United States. This Morgan is currently listed for $74,900. For more information on this vessel or to schedule a showing, please contact United Yacht Sales broker Dan Kimball at 734-660-4011.
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