Tayana 47 CC

The Tayana 47 CC is a Robert H. Perry-designed cutter-rigged center cockpit sailboat, built by Ta Yang Yacht Building Co. since 1991, with a Deck Salon variant also available. It has a fin keel with a rudder on a skeg, measures 14.3 meters LOA, 4.4 meters in beam, 1.8 meters in draft, and displaces 15,875 kg. A shallow draft option of 5.25 feet is offered. Aboard *Sailing Nandji - Frothlyfe*, the crew addressed a loose rope cutter on their Max Prop feathering propeller by securing it with zip ties during a passage from Langkawi, Malaysia, to Sabang, Indonesia.11:35 They used Starlink and PredictWind for weather routing in the Malacca Strait, encountering 10–15 knots of wind.4:55 During a 15-day passage to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, they rigged a sea anchor off a spinnaker pole to reduce rolling at anchor and used a Holofly eSIM with Google Translate for port clearance.0:11 Navigating the Agulhas Current off South Africa, the vessel encountered 60-knot gusts and sustained equipment failures, including a snapped boom vang and a malfunctioning furler drum, while maintaining 8 to 9 knots average speed.9:43 The crew performed an at-sea prop cleaning to remove barnacles.10:32 They navigated the Knysna Heads by timing for slack tide and minimal groundswell, using an EcoFlow Delta 3 Plus portable power station for redundant AC power.0:05 In East London, they installed a six-stage water filtration system from Revive and replaced their VHF radio.13:24 The crew also addressed a delamination on the hull during a haul-out in Thailand, repairing it with bi-axial cloth and epoxy.10:00