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1975 CAL 2-46

San Carlos

$94,500

DREAM CATCHER is a beautiful 1975 Cal 2-46 ketch, a coveted Lapworth design (only 129 made), professionally maintained by her current owners, and in great overall condition. A sturdy, well-respected ocean going vessel with spacious live-aboard characteristics, this vessel has been extensively refit by her knowledgeable owners during the 29 years they have been caring for her. Upgrades include many of the parts of the engine, a completely rebuilt spectra water maker (2023), davits, dinghy hoist, 360W rail mounted solar, inner solent stay, washing machine, and the list goes on on on! Nearly every system has been gone over and all work has been done with an eye towards reliability and ease of maintenance.

We know that many boat owners think their boat design is something special. In the case of the Cal 46s, that is true. Bill Lapworth designed them. Jack Jensen built them. They each bought one that they kept all their lives. Jensen sailed his 110,000 miles including a circumnavigation. If anyone wants to live aboard or go cruising and does not want to live in a cave, the raised dinette configuration and glass windows are unbeatable! Great layout for a family, easily handled by a couple, many 2-46s have sailed far and wide. She is a MUST SEE for anyone looking for a classic cruiser. Contact us today to schedule an appointment to view this fantastic opportunity, she's ready to continue her adventures!

This vessel is located in beautiful San Carlos Sonora, Mexico, A short 250 mile drive on a safe 4 lane highway from Nogales, Az. San Carlos is a known boating destination/community, featuring breathtaking scenery, quiet anchorages nearby, great fishing, diving, two marinas, 3 haul out facilities and much more.

Disclaimer

Great Southern Yacht Company is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by La Paz Yacht Sales.

Basic Boat Info

Make: CAL
Model: 2-46
Year: 1975
Condition: Used
Category: Sail
Builder: Jensen Marine (USA)
Designer: C. William Lapworth
Construction: Fiberglass
Keel Type: Full Keel

Dimensions

Length: 46 ft / 14.02 m
Length Overall: 45'6 ft / 13.87 m
Waterline Length: 37'6 ft / 11.43 m
Beam: 12'6 ft / 3.81 m
Displacement: 30,000 lb
Ballast: 8,000 lb

Engines / Speed

Engines: 1
  • Make: Perkins
  • Model: 4-236
  • Fuel: Diesel
  • Engine Power: 85hp
  • Type: Inboard
  • Propeller Type: 3 Blade

Tanks

Fuel Tanks: 2
Fuel Tank Capacity: 190 gal
Fuel Tank Material: Other
Water Tanks: 2
Water Tank Capacity: 110 gal
Water Tank Material: Stainless Steel

Other

Heads Count: 2
Boat Class: Ketch, Cruisers

Interior

Raised dinette configuration in salon
Full size chart table
Spacious aft cabin with owners berth and separate sea berth/settee
Huge vee berth
Stand up engine room with work bench
Main salon windows, upgraded to tempered glass, Diamond Sea Glaze
Washing machine – 120 volt, Ariston AW125
Custom drawers in galley
Teak counter top with hand rail/fiddle in galley
Covered trash containers in galley
Teak and holly salon floor in sections with lockdowns for underfloor access to storage, tanks, wiring, plumbing
Sigmar Diesel cookstove
One burner butane stovetop
Microwave – Daewoo 120 volt, 2018
Refrigerator and freezer upgrade, across from engine room, separate boxes with separate Frigoboat controls, 12 volt compressors, and keel coolers
Tall bookshelf across from engine room
Storage compartments and bookshelf in aft cabin
White vinyl headliner main salon and outside engine room
Birch door skin headliner with teak trim in vee berth and aft cabin
(3) Pick-A-Watt built in 120 volt heaters with separate thermostats, vee berth, main salon, aft cabin, added
Numerous Caframo Sirocco 12 volt fans added with built in timers
12 volt outlet in aft cabin added, suitable for sleep apnea machine

Electronics

Ritchie Compass
Autohelm ST50 speed
Autohelm ST50 depth
Autohelm ST50 wind
Rudder angle indicator
ACR Globalfix V4 EPIRB with GPS, new 2023, user replaceable battery good until 5/2032
Raytheon Radar R20xx on swing arm, visible in cabin or from helm
Garmin 128 GPS
Com Nav Commander autopilot brain, 2011, with Wood Freeman 12 volt drive motor
Icom M504 VHF with on deck remote speaker/microphone and DSC
Standard Horizon Intrepid VHF with on deck remote speaker/microphone and DSC
Icom 802 Marine SSB/HAM radio with pactor modem, sintered bronze ground plates, GAM antenna, one of the best signals in the Mexican fleet
Icom MXA-5000 AIS receiver
Chart table wiring with USB outputs for Pactor Modem and GPS/AIS information
Computer stand RAM mount near chart table
JVC KDR-520 AM/FM/stereo/CD with USB input
RAM mounts at helm

Electrical

All wiring ugraded and replaced, Ancor tinned, stranded copper wire, Ancor shrink wrap connectors
(2) 30 amp shore power inlets with galvanic isolators
120 Volt Paneltronics panel with main breakers for multiple inputs, reverse polarity indicator, ammeter, voltmeter, 12 branch circuit breakers
12 Volt Paneltronics panel with 100 amp main breaker, ammeter, voltmeter, 30 branch circuit breakers battery selector switches for engine feed and 12 volt panel feed
200 amp alternator, large case, to charge house bank, driven by dual belts on separate pulleys added to the engine crankshaft
42 amp alternator to charge starting battery
SuperStart Marine starting battery, new 4/2020
750 AH house bank, 4 Rolls Surette 6FS, new 12/2022
Mastervolt Mass Combi 12/2500-100 inverter/charger with remote control and readout in main salon, new 2010
Masterview Easy MKII
(2) Professional Mariner Protech 1250 battery chargers, 50 amp each
(1) Xantrex TrueCharge 40 battery charger, 40 amp
(2) Solarland SPL 180S-12, 180W 12 volt solar panels, new 2021
Victron Smart Solar MPPT 100/30 MPPT charge controller, new 2021
Tri-Metric 2020 monitor for house bank batteries
Tri-Metric 2025-RV monitor for solar output
Quipall 2200i, 120 volt gas powered generator, new 2018, tie downs on deck

Propulsion

Steering is chain and sprocket to wheel-wire -pulley, quadrant
Original Perkins 4-236, 85 HP diesel engine
Propeller Columbian 26” 3 blade, left rotation, pitch 20
Replaced starter/solenoid assembly
Replaced heat exchanger for engine coolant 2021
Replaced oil/transmission cooler 2021
Replaced all engine salt water hoses and all engine hose clamps 2021
Rebuilt bases for engine mounts and upgraded engine mounts
Upgraded exhaust manifold, stainless steel from Exhaust Systems of Alabama, 2011
Replaced stainless steel lift muffler, 2016
Rebuilt diesel injection pump, Oregon Fuel Injection, 2010
Injectors cleaned and serviced, 2020 Labrotorio Diesel in Guaymas
Upgraded exhaust thru hull fitting with check valve, 2013
Upgraded 1 1⁄4” shaft with highest grade aquamat steel
Upgraded coupling between shaft and transmission
Replaced cutlass bearing
Upgraded to prop nut zinc
Replaced flax in stuffing box November 2023

Plumbing and fuel

Fuel tanks upgraded to black iron with two 3/32” external coats of Line X polyurethane pickup bed liner, port 80 gallons, starboard 110 gallons
All fuel lines neoprene
Dual Racor 500MA remote filter bodies in engine room with 2 micron filters and restriction gauge
Electric fuel pump for bleeding diesel and to fill daytank for diesel cookstove
Water tanks upgraded to stainless steel, 110 gallons each
All plumbing replaced
Sending units for water tank gauges replaced 11/2023
Spectra Cape Horn watermaker, 14 GPM, new membrane, rebuilt Clark pump, rebuilt both feed pumps, new pressure and flow gauges, new 5/8” hoses and hose clamps, 2023. Commissioned November 2023, pickled December 19, 2023.
UV sterilization on watermaker output, new 2021
Water heater, 110 volt and heat exchanger from main engine, new 2019
Recirculating hot water system to galley and forward head, switch at galley sink, new pump 2020
Shower sump pump aft head
Lectrascan/lectrasan sewage treatment system

Deck

Railings and life lines raised to 30” off deck
1 1⁄4” stainless custom bow pulpit
1 1⁄4” stainless custom boarding gate supports with stern rail around aft deck
Lifeline stanchions heavy duty bases with doubled uprights, 1” exterior sleeved over 7/8”
Stainless steel hand rails on house
Dodger frame with handrails and canopy, through bolted with backing plates
All lines for jib, solent, and main led to cockpit
All winches except mizzen halyard upgraded to Andersen self-tailing (52ST, 40ST, 18ST, 12ST)
Goiot aluminumum toe rail, upgraded from teak toe rail with failed original caulk at fasteners
Plastimo 36183 pivoting davit system, 2018
Mounting pads for outboard (2), one with extra strong leg for larger outboard
Garhauer crane for outboard, can be operated from on deck or standing in dinghy
Garelick boarding ladders, a two step ladder for docks and dinghies, a 4 step ladder for swimming, with mounting brackets at port and starboard gates and stern
Overhead hatches changed to Bomar with extra thick plexiglass option, deck built up below them for drainage so you can leave them in the vented, latched position while underway in most conditions
Magma stainless steel BBQ with on deck fiberglass propane tank
Hose bib that can be used for on deck pressure water from tanks or shore water inlet
A pair of mast steps at the top of both the main and the mizzen to make it easier to service items on the
mast heads

Hull

Fiberglass barn door rudder
Deck repainted with new soft-sand rubber non-skid 2018
Topsides repainted 2015
Epoxy bottom seal – problem was with with old gel coat repair, no blisters in hull, 2015
All thru hull valves replaced, all bronze ball valves, 2015
Bronze ball valve, 1 1/2” for forward head replaced 2020
Sea strainer inlets for engine room thru hulls, bronze, replaced 2015
 2 coats of Interspeed bottom paint, March 2024.

Ground tackle

Custom dual bow roller with self-launch on primary side
Ideal V3C Windlass, with power up and down, foot switches on bow and remote control in cockpit
Salt water washdown at bow added, new pump 2020
Rocna 33 kg main anchor
400 feet 3/8” proof coil chain, marked every 12.5 feet with color coded cable ties
10 lb Kellet with quick release system
CQR 45 lb spare anchor
Deployment/retreival system to use the CQR and the Rocna as two anchors on one rode for storms
Stern anchor roller
22 lb claw anchor at stern
Hawse pipe into stern lazarette
Chain/rope stern rode
5 fenders
8 dock lines
Plate type chain snubber with new 3⁄4” three strand line November 2023
2 Wichard hook type chain snubbers with three strand line
Chain hook and line to use for emergency backup for windlass, can raise the anchor with a halyard

Sail plan

Original Ketch configuration with solent stay added
 Full batten main with 2 reef points, tides strong track with low friction cars, lazy mate sail flaking
system, 2010, Lee Sails
 Matched twin headsails, roller reefing on one luff tape, for downwind sailing, Lee Sails
 Solent on roller furler, 100% jib
 Mizzen with flattening reef, two reef points, lazy mate sail flaking system, 2006, UK Sails
 135% roller reefing jib, 2008, Halsey Lidgaard, sun protective layer on outer edges needs replacing
 storm jib, roller furling
 hank on jib, North Sails
 Storm Mizzen, also carried to be deployed underwater in case of emergency if we get a hole in the 1" thick hull.

Foretriangle:
Solent stay added
Harken roller furler forestay and solent stay
Turning blocks for jib sheets near stern upgraded to double foot blocks
Jib halyard upgraded to spectra core (wire/rope original)
Upgraded blocks for jib and solent sheets along rail and dual aft turning blocks, Schaefer and Garhauer
Twin spinnaker poles track mounted on mast
Two spinnaker halyards that double as topping lifts for the poles
Twin headsail for forestay

Main:
Spreaders replaced with aluminum
Garhauer rigid boom vang, springs replaced 2019
Replacement boom with internal control lines for two reefs, topping lift, outhaul
Lazy mate sail gathering system
Preventer for downwind sailing
Tides low friction strong track
All lines run to cockpit except for topping lift and outhaul with cleats on boom
Spectra topping lift, replaced 2023
Lazy Mate sail gathering system
Main halyard upgraded to spectra core (wire/rope original)
Masthead sheaves upgraded

Mizzen:
Running backstays, spectra line replaced 2023
Two sided sheet/vang control
Replacement boom with internal control lines for two reefs, topping lift, outhaul
Spectra topping lift, replaced 2023
Lazy Mate sail gathering system
Halyard upgraded to spectra core line
Masthead sheaves upgraded
Spare halyard

Dinghy and outboard

2017 Highfield Ultralight 260 dinghy, 8’ 6” with aluminum floor, hypalon warranty until 2027
Suzuki DF6, 6 HP outboard with internal fuel tank and external tank option
Spring loaded flip up dinghy wheels
Dinghy bilge pump
All around light for dinghy with clamp on mounting pole

Safety

All standing rigging replaced
Chainplates inspected
All nuts and bolts for chainplates replaced
Firdell-Blipper Radar Reflector
Emergency tiller
Smaller PAR electric bilge pump, manual or automatic selector switch
Rule 3700 high volume electric bilge pump, manual or automatic selector switch
High water alarm system
Guzzler manual bilge pump
Life sling man overboard retrieval system
Through bolted strong points for jacklines and tethers
Tubular webbing jack lines
Fire extinguishers
Survitec 6 person life raft, new 2016, covered, but never repacked
Weems & Plath SOS Distress light C-1001 and daytime distress shape, USCG approved
Orion flare gun
Portable air horn
12 volt foghorn with FogMate automatic controller
LED navigation lights
LED anchor light with photocell
LED deck lights mounted on both masts
Miscellaneous fire extinguishers
Miscellaneous PFDs and throw cushions
All thru hull ball valves replaced with bronze

Tools included

2 large pipe wrenches used to adjust the stuffing box
keys for diesel deck fills
wrench for water filter housing
telescoping pole with boat hook and miscellaneous attachments
pumps for changing oil
hydrometer
tool for velcro sail batten pockets

Spare parts included

200 amp alternator with external voltage regulator
37 amp alternator
matched pair of belts for large alternator
belt for small alternator
starter assembly for Perkins 4-236, rebuilt
starter solenoid
heat exchanger for Perkins 4-236, rebuilt
cooler for engine and transmission oil for Perkins 4-236 and Velvet drive transmission, rebuilt
fresh water pump for Perkins 4-236, rebuilt
raw water pump assembly for Perkins 4-236, needs rebuild
impeller for Perkins 4-236
one spare injector
one set spare injection lines
mechanical fuel pump
electric fuel pump, 12 volt
one set of fuel and oil filters
assorted engine gaskets and gasket material
zinc for heat exchanger
zinc for prop with stainless steel bolt and brass washer
zinc for refrigeration (not needed as boat is not bonded) also used on outboard
one set water filters for water system and watermaker
Lectrascan: spare controller, spare motors
one set filters for fuel (2) 2 micron racor, one fuel for engine, one oil filter
Outboard miscellaneous parts
(2) propellers for the Suzuki outboard. The sacrificial bushings have been replaced with epoxy.
Dinghy – hypalon patch material
12 volt caframo fans – several spares
Washing machine main control board
Stanadyne lubricity formula diesel additive
Z-spar two part underwater epoxy
cutlass bearing, flatfish size
miscellaneous engine bolts and nuts
steering parts, chain, sprockets, wire rope clamps
cable assemblies for gear shift and throttle
solar controller
For watermaker, spare parts for feed pumps, miscellaneous gaskets and o rings, spare UV light bulb, spare
12 volt ballast for UV and spare 120 volt ballast for UV, pickling chemical, salinity gauge
ceiling lights and parts and light bulbs
fuses, miscellaneous
light bulbs, miscellaneous
marelon cover for sea strainer
water filter housing and screen for bilge pumps and shower sump pump
water filter housing for 10” filters
8” Beckson deck inspection cover (used)
O rings for 8” and 6” Beckson inspection port covers
O rings for water and fuel deck fill fittings
(2) foot switch covers for windlass
Soft Sand Rubber non skid additive, one jar
flax for stuffing box
oil absorbent pads
boarding ladder storage brackets
Transducer paint
Silicone spray
303 UV protective coating for dinghy

WD-40
CRC corrosion inhibitor spray
teak wood putty
regulator for magma bbq
cotter pins
etc.

Anual maintenance

- service engine and transmission per manufacturer’s recommendations including filters and zincs
- inspect all thru hulls and attached hoses, service valves and replace valves, hoses and hose clamps as
necessary
- inspect stuffing box, adjust and, if needed, replace flax
- inspect cutlass bearing
- inspect steering cable
- service generator
- service outboard
- service watermaker
- check all electrical wiring and components and electronics
- inspect and adjust standing rigging
- inspect running rigging and replace as needed
- 2011-2023 in Mexico, annual haulout, new or touch up bottom paint, new zincs, summers when not on
board, store at Marina Seca San Carlos for hurricane season and recommission
- 1994 to 2011 in Pacific Northwest haulout every couple of years, new bottom paint, zincs etc.

Documents included

Maintenance logbook
Equipment list with many part and serial number
Manuals for all equipment organized in file drawer
Additional equipment information on thumb drive
Various wiring and plumbing diagrams
Diagrams of layout of blocks and lines on deck

Disclaimer
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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