Our Boat

This is Clarity! Clarity is a 2001 Bavaria Ocean 42 center cockpit, and she’s our full-time home. (See photo gallery below.)

She has been meticulously maintained and upgraded by the previous owners.  It’s a newer boat, but has the design elements and gorgeous woodwork of the older ocean cruisers. She’s built very well and blue-water ready, and very comfortable down below with plenty of living and storage space.

Her topsides double as a outdoor playground, with ample spots to play, have outdoor meals, and luxuriate on the swim platform. She has a good balance of heavier displacement for stability and an efficient hull design for faster sailing.

And she’s fitted out like a dream (most of it recently redone):

• Furling main and genoa sails with adjustable whisker/spinnaker pole, and spinnaker – with electric primary winches
• Boat is powered completely by 800 watts of solar panels, as well as a 4.5kW diesel generator
• Radar, AIS, GPS, SSB and Pactor Modem, underwater 360 sonar, and two EPIRBS
• Custom canvas shade cover for the entire deck
• Custom dingy davits with motor hoist
• Electric windlass with two anchors
• Watermaker
• Air Conditioning
• Scuba and fishing gear
• Two electric heads and a separate shower, plus a hot/cold water outdoor shower on the swim platform
• Fridge and keel-cooled freezer
• Hard bimini and cockpit roof, with integrated rain catchment
• Lot’s of recent upgrades

Most all of the shelves have been taken over by crafting supplies and stuffed animals abound, but that’s how we like it. Home sweet boat home.

Overall layout

Navigation station

The roomy salon, view from the galley

From the salon, the pass-through galley leads to the aft cabin. An additional deep freezer is also situated underneath the cockpits steps.

The view from the bed to the aft head the mirrored door leads there). The door to the left of the TV leads to the galley.

Our well-appointed aft stateroom, with a surprising amount of shelves, drawers, lockers and storage areas, not to mention a TV

The aft head, with a separate shower stall (yes!!). The head also leads out to the nav station, and Claire has her own small head next to her cabin.

Claire’s v-berth cabin. Lots of natural light, plenty of nooks for her stuffed animals and toys.

The transom, complete with dinghy davits for easy hoisting.

Can you picture it? A family living their dreams here. A place to call home.

Claire checking out her room for the first time.

Main salon, view from the galley, with Claire’s v-berth cabin and head just beyond

Galley, which passes through to the aft cabin

Close-Up of Claire’s Cabin

Pass-Through Shower and Head, view from the navigation station on the starboard side of the main salon

Aft Cabin

Morning coffee with a view from the cockpit