"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to
excellence."
Vince Lombardi
The yacht “Passage” is a custom steel yacht that looks and feels like it should be going up the Amazon River. It has a husky, commercial, masculine quality, but also embraces grace, a sweet sheerline and the fluidity of the sea.
It was built in the heartland of the USA; work was done by a team of craftsmen who took great pride in everything that they did. All systems are well thought-out and carefully constructed. The yacht is designed to be comfortable and practical to operate and a pleasure to own.
The interior joiner-work is superb. Adhering to the principle that yachts shouldn’t have many straight lines, the interior uses appropriate and comfortable curves in solid cherrywood. Everything is laminated into the hull; no fastenings are used…to eliminate holes that could be a source of rust.
| M/V "Passage" |
| 2010 Dutch Barge (custom) built to ABYC standards |
| Material: | Steel |
| LOD: | 50' |
| LWL: | 45' |
| Draft: | 3' 6" |
| Beam: | 12' 6" |
| Power: | Cummins 6BT 5.9 liter 210HP turbo with Walter keel cooler and stainless steel dry exhaust. |
| Fuel Filters: | Racor on both main and genset. |
| Fuel Fill: | Commercial 2" fills on both sides of vessel. |
| Fuel: | 300 gallons diesel in specially coated and pressure tested tank w/large access plate. |
| Water: | 200 gallons in specially coated and pressure tested tank w/large access plate. |
| Transmission: | ZF/ZFE 63 - Reduction is 2.48:1 |
| Propeller: | Michigan Wheel "Workhorse" commercial symmetrical 4-blade silicon-bronze on 2" stainless steel shaft 28" x 22" left-handed prop with synthetic cutlass bearing and PSS dripless shaft seal. |
| Steering: | Capilano (Teleflex premium) manual hydraulic with variable ratio adjustment. Custom emergency manual tiller with easily accessible port over stainless ruddershaft headstock. |
| Genset: | Northern Lights - 12 KW with insulated sound enclosure with Walter keel cooler and stainless steel dry exhaust. |
| Electrical: | All wiring is Ancor marine-grade designed by a certified electrical engineer and assembled by certified electricians to ABYC codes. The power-distribution panel was custom made by "Blue Seas" for 12v, 110v and 220v. |
| Charger/Inverter: | Xantrex RS-3000 3000w continous-output 7500w surge with automatic system control panel for AGM batteries. |
| Isolation Transformer: | Charles 12kw |
| Batteries: | Lifeline AGM 4 GPL-8DAP (1975 cca) deep-cycle house batteries 3 GPL-3100T (1220 cca) deep-cycle batteries for bow thruster and windlass 2 GPL-31MT (880 cca) starting batteries |
| Fire Extinguishers: | Fireboy automatic system in engine room plus three handheld units throughout vessel |
| Nav Lights: | Aqua-Signal "55" (over-size) and deck lights and amber LED deck lights and halogen search light on custom aluminum antenna farm. |
| Windlass: | Lofran 1500w stainless steel with 200' heavily galvanized 3/8' high-tensile chain rode chain stowage box is lined with "Tuff-Liner" and drained overboard main control is on foredeck with back-up control in pilothouse. |
| Anchors: | Delta self-launching 45# with fresh-water washdown. Fortress 45# |
| Bow Thruster: | Lewmar 185TT 6KW 12v 8HP |
| Rudder Stock: | 2 1/4" stainless steel stock in custom delrin bearings top and bottom. |
| Rudder: | Like all of vessel, is foamed inside. |
| Marine Head: | Headhunter electric "Royal Flush" with no moving parts. |
| Water Heater: | Raritan 110v 1250w 20 gallons |
| Power Cord: | Marinco 50' |
| Instruments: | VHF Icom IC-M504 Rudder angle indicator - Raymarine Wind instruments - Raymarine Depth sounder - Raymarine Digital compass - Azimuth 1000 Autopilot (hydraulic/electric) - Northstar Chartplotter GPS - Garmin 4012 GPS (backup) - Furuno Stereo - Pioneer TV 32" flatscreen - Sony Blueray player - Sony |
| Galley: | Granite countertop. Full size refrigerator, microwave, oven, double sink and ceramic cooktop. All black. |
| Comments: | "Passage" is probably the best small dutch barge in the world. She is from the very well respected English naval architect Nick Branson and designer J.Z. Morris, who did the 55' mahogany daysailer "Patrician." She was built for operation in warm climes, with all pilothouse ports opening and a large aft deck. No expense was spared in her construction. She's a modern V-hull with stainless steel ships ports...which make her much more seaworthy than traditional dutch barges. She has shoal draft with a full keel and prop that is protected by multiple pieces of 3/4" steel. The keel coolers are also protected. After welding, the hull was coated inside with "Corroseal" a special anti-corrosive primer that the navy uses. Then the inside of the entire hull was sprayed with fireproof "Tiger-Foam" for both acoustic and thermal insulating qualities. The hull is quiet and never has condensation. The interior was secured in place with West Epoxy. No fastenings (which would necessitate drilling rust-inducing holes) were used. All interior attaching-wood is hardwood, coated in West Epoxy. There are no dissimilar metals used...sea-cocks are "Marelon" synthetic, approved by the American Bureau of Shipping. All necessary fastenings used are of 316 marine grade stainless steel. No ferrous steel is onboard except for the hull. The pilothouse roof is Klegecell foam covered with fiberglass. The interior is spectacular. It is made of solid Cherrywood, custom fabricated into appropriate curves. All furniture joints are hand-cut dovetails. All systems are kept as simple as possible. Vessel is very economical to operate. Hull speed is 9 kts. At about 7.5 kts, with the generator running, she only burns two gallons of fuel/hr. The vessel has tremendous torque and power. |
| Price: | $750,000 |
J.Z. Morris
P.O. Box 517 New Harmony, IN 47631
Phone: (812)306-1252 Fax: (812)682-3943