Custom Schooner Live aboard

Dauntless is a custom-built 78’ expedition yacht by a world-famous sculptor, Art Benson, to cruise the world with his family. The yacht is designed as a sculpture as well as a serious offshore explorer schooner sailing yacht with beautiful hull lines and custom molded bronze fixtures. Capable of cruising long distances by motor and sail. 

Originally named “Javalina Queen,” she’s specially designed for higher latitude sailing equipped with 6 inches of insulation throughout. The enclosed heated pilot house, steel hull and reinforced bow are built for cutting through ice packs of the arctic. The layout is simple and functional with a master cabin aft near the pilot house for easy intervention at the helm. The guest quarters are forward with a desk and its own private head. Enjoy the large whale watching platform around the bow sprit with all your friends and family.  

The gally is equipped with a new large gimbled 4 burner stove and oven. For refrigeration purposes, she is equipped with 2 full sized fridges, and a deep freezer in the engine room.  The salon features a sofa and dinette for conversation.

The engine room is very large with a work bench, a generator, welder, and a refreshed 3208 caterpillar main motor.  

The ground tackle for this yacht includes (2) 400-pound anchors each with 250ft of chain in easy-to-use houser pipes. 

The yacht's power supply consists of 2 D-series deeps cycles batteries, and 2 D-series lithium polymer batteries. To charge them, there is a master volt inverter charger when attached to shore power and 1000 watts of solar power mated to a 60-amp charge converter for when underway with the diesel power.  The gearing of the transmission provides a range of 1000 nmls with only one 300-gal fuel tank. 

For navigation, the yacht is equipped with (2)24-inch computers both running Coastal Explorer, with their own AIS receivers, gps receivers and marine nema 2000 network backbone.  

Training and delivery are negotiable.