Excellent value, bluewater capable, ready to sail.

The Bahia 46 is a proven bluewater, long-distance cruiser. It offers real waterline length, good payload capacity, well-centered weight, good bridge-deck clearance. Built by sailors at Fountaine Pajot for sailors - a classic. If you are headed for the steep seas of the Lesser Antilles or bound for the vast expanses of the South Pacific, this boat will meet the challenge. No hobbie horsing or slapping here.

BOTTOM FEEDER has just been carefully refitted and upgraded by a couple that has a circumnavigation on their resume. They are having to postpone their plans for a second trip around the world for personal reasons. Their painstaking work is your opportunity. They have just spent 6 months and some $60,000 outfitting the boat for a proper bluewater trip. All the priorities for safe, economical and comfortable passagemaking were addressed: new solar panels, new watermaker, new batteries, new windlass, new floorboards, new stove, new canvas, new upholstery and the list goes on. The engines run beautifully and you can trust a circumnavigator to know the importance of reliable engines.

This is a no frills, keep-it-simple bluewater boat. No heavy generator or AC here. No high-maintenance, high-energy consumption equipment. Just the right stuff to go real far under wind and solar power. The boat was just bottom painted in October, the rigging was professionally surveyed and the port shroud and gull striker replaced in December. You are ready to sail.