42 Catalina 2008 Boat for Sale

Forepeak head with shower, along with luxurious owner's stateroom forward with Pullman twin berth port side and cabinetry across to starboard. Step aft to roomy main salon with comfortable settee and drop-leaf dinette port side with in-line galley across starboard.

Nav table found aft part of salon port side, centerline companionway up to cockpit and second head starboard. Far aft are the two guest staterooms, one port and one starboard.

Note entire boat is light and roomy with 6' 6+ headroom, numerous opening hatches and ports (15 to be exact, plus fans installed throughout), beautiful teak interior shows almost as new, very comfortable innerspring mattresses in both staterooms..

Hot/cold pressure water with twin deep stainless steel sinks and 11 gallon hot water heater (110v and engine fired), Hillerange three burner propane gimballed stove with oven, Sharp microwave oven, Adler-Barbour 12V refrigerator/freezer.

Two Raritan M2500 FRESH water heads (2018, this is a nice upgrade!).

110V AC / 12V DC. Thirty amp shorepower service, four 8D AGM marine batteries in two banks with new inverter/charger (2025) and Vectron smart controller and battery monitor.

Raymarine 2KW Radarl, Raymarine E-80 8" Color Chartplotter at helm, Raymarine ST Knot-Depth-Windspeed/point, Raymarine ST6002 Autopilot, Raymarine AIS 650, ICOM M422 VHF radio, Ritchie SP5C magnetic compass.

Fusion MS-UD 755 with bluetooth, Bose speakers below and in cockpit. Samsung TV (2017) in salon (on a swing out bracket) with DVD/Blue Ray player, Vizio TV (2017) in master stateroom aft (mounted to forward bulkhead) with Sony DVD/Blue Ray player

Charleston aluminum mast with double spreader keel stepped mast and 1 x10 stainless steel standing rigging, Ullman double reef fully battened dacron mainsail (2020, $4,811) on aluminum boom with stack pack and lazy jacks, Garhauer mainsheet with traveler and Garhauer rigid boom vang.

Ullman 120% jib (2020, $5,681) on Schaefer 3100 roller furler, 110% jib (reportedly lightly used).

Two Lewmar #54 self-tailing winches, single Lewmar #40 self tailing ELECTRIC winch, single Lewmar #40 self tailing standard winch, all lines lead aft thru Garhauer rope clutches.

 Asymetric spinnaker with sock (never used by current owner).

Solid fiberglass hand laid hull protected under water with blister resistant gel coat, cast lead deep fin keel with 1" keel bolts. High volume hull with a fine entry, firm midship section and smooth run aft terminating in a modified reverse step-through transom, with a long horizontal skeg running aft between the keel and rudder, last hauled and bottom painted May, 2024 (two coats of Petite Trinidad).

Molded anchor locker for below-deck rode storage, Maxwell 1000 electric windlass (this is an upgrade as most of the 42s came with a Maxwell 800 windlass) with Delta #35 plow anchor on dual bow roller with ample chain and line rode, 10 mooring cleats.

Stainless steel bow pulpit, stainless steel stanchions with double lifelines, stainless steel aft pulpit. Whale Gusher manual bilge pump in cockpit, Rule 2000 electric bilge pump.

Note heavy duty offshore dodger with stainless steel grab rails along the sides and back), also bimini and transition (2018, very well constructed and reportedly cost over $12,000).

Yanmar 50 hp fresh water-cooled diesel with 1 1/4" stainless steel shaft thru dripless packing gland (2018, at which time the rudder bearings were also reportedly changed) to Max-Prop VP three-bladed prop (2022, $3,566). Leather wrapped destroyer wheel.

Catalina Yachts is one of the most successful production builders in this country. President Frank Butler and chief designer Gerry Douglas know the production boat business very well. It is not unusual to find Catalina owners who are on their third Catalina product. I have spoken to several Catalina owners' groups and they are always enthusiastic about their boats. The secret to this success in the ability to combine comfort, performance and low price.

After extensive market research, Butler and Douglas came up with the new 42. They took the forward end of the Freeport and Passport series boats and combined it with a French back end and connected it with a Californian middle. Three couples can cruise in comfort with reasonable privacy.

This is a good looking boat with clean and functional lines. The hull has quite a deep midsection with moderate flare to the topsides. The D/L is 172. The stern has been sculpted to allow a swim platform and aft boarding gate or door in the transom. This is ideal for cruising. The keel is a straight fin and the rudder is a partially balanced spade. There is plenty of beam at 13 feet 10 inches and this is carried aft to a broad transom. The bulk of the transom seems to be diminished by the step and gate detailing.

The Catalina 42 is rigged as a sloop with slightly swept-back spreaders and single lower shrouds. The backstay is slightly off center to allow free access to the boarding gate, presumably. The boat comes with a fully battened main and lazy main system of lazyjacks by North. The solid boom vang is also standard. The SA/D ratio is 18.56.

I like the crisp lines of this deck and cabintrunk. The cockpit is spacious with ramp type coamings. The raised helm seat removes for clear access to the transom gate. A hand-held shower is located on the swim step, recessed beneath a teak step. There is a large anchor locker in the foredeck.

I try to restrict my comments to the drawings of the boats I review. Every once in awhile I get some photos. In some cases the photos prove that the designer was optimistic in his aesthetic decisions and the actual boat is not a thing of beauty. In other cases the drawings may be ordinary or even plain bad and the photos show the boat to be quite handsome. In this case the drawings are well done and the photos show the boat to be even better looking. The hull has an attractive line to it and the way the quarter wave just kisses the edge of the transom indicates to me that this design will sail nicely and make full use of its potential sailing length.

The interior is finished in solid teak trim with teak veneers. This is without a doubt the most luxurious Catalina ever built. With over 50 boats sold in its initial six months, I think we can assume that this will be another successful Catalina.