Tayana Vancouver 42 Sailboat Tour | Sailing Millennial Falcon

Hi guys, welcome aboard. So now that we have finished doing a little bit of maintenance and we've cleaned up from the pigsty that our boat was, we thought that we would give you a little bit of a boat tour. The Millennial Falcon is a 1981 Tayana 42 Vancouver centre cockpit. She weighs 29,000 pounds unloaded which includes an 11,800 pound fully encapsulated cast-iron keel. As the name suggests, she is 42 feet in length with a 12 foot 6 inch beam and a 6 foot draft. She is a cutter rig with a 65 foot mast clearance and ample sail area for her displacement. She does not suffer from weather or lee helm in any conditions and it is said that the stay sail alone will provide balance in 40 plus knots should the need arise. The Tayanas have an extremely comfortable motion and a reasonable turn of speed when underway as demonstrated by our anecdotal evidence and the design starts when compared to popular contemporary and modern counterparts. Now let's go below and take a look around. So this is our kitchen, our galley. In here we have a gas oven. There are two, do you know, we have three 20 pounds? I'm not sure what the poundage is. It's your standard barbecue bottle. So we have three tanks in the back and we switch them out whenever it runs out but usually one of them will last us about three months. We have my spice rack in the back here. Lots of spices which is quite cool. We have all the cutlery and things I got here. A little bit of pantry area. We have more glasses, plates and then a little bit more pantry area too as we go on to these bits here. This is our freezer which opens up from the top. Quite a bit of a beastly freezer. We also have our fridge as well. So we have the top section of our fridge which you can open up here and we also have a open drawer bit right here that we can open it up with as well. So there's two layers, two sides to the fridge. We have a bin here and then our sink. We have a foot pump water tap and we also have a water pump tap as well but we rarely kind of use the water tap one because we had a look at how much power it draws one day and we're like let's just use the foot pump. And we guzzle lots of water when you can just have it on a pump. Exactly, yeah. Alright then, moving on to our lounge area. This is also more pantry area that we use in here and you can also have, we have like, we store our beans and our cans and things like that in here as well and I actually don't know what's in there. I think maybe sheets and just things that I didn't know. Rags and covers and So we have three different options for our couch. So this is one option here in which we often keep this kind of layout out when we're at sea because if we ever just want to go up from our shift on night time we can just flop down here although it is a little bit rolly so we don't, we usually keep this one up and movies as well it's really really good for movies. However, we can put this one away and then we just kind of like leave this around because I'm not really not sure what to do with this thing and you can have the couch area just which is a little bit more spacious. Then our third option is the table up. We don't often eat dinner at this table because it's it's more kind of work productive table if we have a table up. We feel more inclined to kind of work and actually do things at it. Occasionally it stays up. We did need to chop the corner off though because we actually couldn't get past and so whenever we were in there one of us would always be stuck in there or had to make a giant leap over this barricade here. There's lots of storage in here this is our secret stash of the wines and the rums and the beers. Okay then we also have we have another table here however when we did our chain plates we we got rid of the clip that holds this this table up so at the moment we're just attaching it with some bungee cord which works all right and we but behind here is a bookshelf. We've got lots and lots of books in here and it goes back quite far it's not very organized and all those people who have OCD will hate me right now. Down here is where Alan keeps his kite surfing bag and kite surfing kite. In here is another bookshelf and more kind of like cruising guides and instructions for our engine and manuals and things like that. Then we have our maintenance cupboard here which is actually quite big you can see that it goes from about from here to here so you'll often find Adam kind of like reaching his whole body in there to try and find a tool or something of the sort but it's actually really really awesome space to have it's really pretty good. We're just gonna skip the beavers for now because you can see that it's an absolute tip in there and we will secretly squirrel things into the rear of the boat when we go into there and so you'll think it's nice and clean. However, the toilet's here, the front toilet is in there. I'll let you just peek in there. So in that toilet there is a there used to be a shower and there is still the hook up for the shower however it doesn't run at the moment and we don't really feel a need to have two showers on board so we haven't felt like we should hook it up either but that's the toilet that we mainly use. Over here is our nav station we have the radios, the other radio, the third radio and Adam will probably explain more about them. We have all of our breaker switches here so if we need to do our windlasses and put our instruments on and stuff we'll put that all here. We have a little space for our charts that all come down here these actually came with the boat so there's it actually goes back quite far I think we have a little secret hole at the bottom of there too which I probably shouldn't have told anyone because that's where we're going to keep secret things. This is where I keep pots and pans my sewing machine is also at the bottom and then the few pantry items up here as well again this is probably about as as deep as the as the maintenance cupboard so it goes back quite far. Another cupboard here which has this one has our clothes and then we have Tupperware boxes and a few things like that. If you come in here though is our bedroom and I actually don't think I've ever seen it this clean we have a hexagonal shaped bed I'm going to say it's a nightmare to change all of the sheets on this bed so every time we do it it's it's like playing Jenga or something what is the what's the game we need to we have our wardrobes down here so this is our folding space we have also his and hers personal spaces as well and there's another wardrobe in here although it's a really small hanging up wardrobe so we actually don't really put stuff in there it's more kind of like life jackets in here and more safety kind of equipment which is handy to have it close I guess. Up here we also have our fishing rods this is pretty cool holder and came with the boat actually one or two fishing rods came with the boat which is quite cool then on to our toilets our shower here come on through all right so separate toilet to the shower and the shower is nice and spacious full shower so we have covered here and a cupboard there and that's it sink and everything there's also a little hatch down here that gives us access to the engine of the boat and also another hatch in in the shower as well it also gives us more access to the engine so lots of lots of engine access all right so I think that is we'll just go show you the v-burst now and I will clean that one okay we've just done a ninja clean and we've left a lot of stuff in there because you've already seen it dirty now so there's not really any point in hiding much so this is our v-burst in here we have an awesome hatch here which is pretty much half the size of the actual v-burst which provides us heaps of wind which is really good so in here we have anchor well just there that goes to our anchor locker we have lots of storage in here but this is where we keep our diving stuff our snorkeling stuff sorry there's also another door here which goes to our bathroom we have we're gonna call this our project room because every project that we want to do and we'll buy things for we will keep it in here we have our window seals that we need to paint and we sort of keep them we keep them in here we have our anchor well a floor to our anchor well that we need to make and so we've got the wood then we keep it in here there's lots of projects that we need to do and we just keep all the material in here so this at the moment is kind of like our project room. So Chiara gave you the general tour but I wanted to circle back and do a few more specifics regarding the systems that we have on board so in the galley Chiara mentioned that we have three refrigeration systems we have a shore power shore assist compressor unit that's mounted in the engine bay and runs off the cold plates there's one in the fridge box two in the freezer box those same cold plates are run by a Seafrost engine driven belt-powered compressor it's also jockey wheeling off the alternator circuit and then on top of that not wanting to run the engine all the time very early in the piece I installed an Isotherm VE 150 12 volt air cooler unit in the fridge box which does a really great job of keeping the fridge cool so we do lose freezer capability when we don't run the engine sort of twice a day for half an hour but we don't I haven't caught any fish yet so it's really not a problem. We do have a water maker on board it is a I forget what it's called an aqua aquamarine it does about 24 gallons an hour when it works we've only ever seen about 18 gallons an hour for about an hour I suspect there's a pressure switch issue anyway it does work this is the control head and the reverse osmosis membrane is mounted in the shower that Chiara showed you earlier and the compressor unit also runs off the engine which is just behind here we have two good thank you for the question Chiara a very valid question under the floor here there's two 85 gallon water tanks which is more than enough we've been up we've lasted for three months on these water tanks being pretty frugal but we don't go through a lot behind that is the midships fuel tank and under the v-berth in the bow is the bow fuel tank and just under here where you guys are currently standing slash hovering is the holding tank which is about 60 gallons I think can't quote me on that one I'll subtitle in the correct value when I edit this later what have I forgotten so the engine has pretty great access also the we have a Yanmar 55 horsepower 4j h5e engine which has about three and a half thousand four thousand hours on it it was checked quite thoroughly in the survey and shy of constant shaft disappearing shaft issues it purrs like a kitten and has run quite well ever since we've we've used it access is pretty good through this side hatch for top-level things working on anything that's sort of below down in the bilge is quite a nightmare let me just show you so there's the engine she's in pretty good nick and down there in no man's land is the bilge and you may be able to see the bottom in this but I doubt it so it's reasonably clean we do everything we can to keep it clean and dry getting a bilge pump and an auxiliary bilge pump down there is quite a pain in the backside we have a 1500 watt inverter which lives under the bed where Chiara showed you earlier that's more than enough to keep the laptops and things charged we also have two 100 watt solar panels on each of the safety lines stanchions I suppose they're mounted on a stainless steel tube strung between two stanchions on each side of the boat being a center cockpit there's no room above the bimini or there wasn't before I put a hard roof on but I may move them they used to not be room so we strung them up on the side and they're doing pretty well there there's also a kiss wind generator I actually don't know how many watts that is but it puts out anywhere from 2 to 15 amps when it gets up to a 20 knot blow which is fantastic so those two things working together can more than clear our energy. Here is our main battery bank we have we used to have five AGMs in a house bank and one auxiliary AGM group 31 AGM we now have four group 31 AGMs and one wet cell cranking well partial it's not a cranking battery but it's our cranking battery simply because it's extortionately expensive to buy group 31 AGMs so we opted to go one less that gives us about 425 amp hours which is more than enough with all the solar and the wind working. So Chiara mentioned before we have the VHF standard horizon we have battery selector switch we have a SSB ICOM 718 which is opened up for marine frequency bands as well we added if I could ever get it working we have a Pacta 2 LLE modem which is opened up for Pacta 3 software if that means nothing to you please don't be upset it means next to nothing to me as well but essentially this is a modem that will allow us to send signals via the laptop very simple emails and group files for weather send and receive data like that via the modem through the SSB at the antenna to a pickup station and then it will run through typical internet lines to the recipient I'm having trouble getting drivers and connections because the laptops these days don't have a I think it's a VGA connection and so we've got a the previous owner put in a USB step-down transfer case and the drivers for them are very obscure and hard to come by and I just I haven't got it working yet I do however have a app on my iPad which can transcode weather facts through the SSB and I also tune into a lot of the especially call it a scuttlebutt on the SSB bands regarding weather in the Caribbean which is extremely useful and that might be all I have for you thank you so much for tuning in with us and we hope that you're enjoying our episodes and I will that we'll see you again for the next one and if we missed anything or you have any questions and you want to see something on the boat that we haven't showed you already leave a comment below or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram or whatever all the links are down there and yeah we'll be more than happy to answer it yeah thanks for watching