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 length overall of 14.3 meters, a beam of 4.4 meters, and a displacement of 15,875 kg. A Deck Salon variant and a shallow draft option are also available. Aboard *Sailing Nandji - Frothlyfe*, the Tayana 47 CC *Nandji 2* completed a 270-mile passage from Langkawi, Malaysia, to Sabang, Indonesia, in 48 hours, encountering 10–15 knots of wind and heavy shipping traffic in the Malacca Strait. The crew used Starlink and PredictWind for weather monitoring and navigated around unfavorable winds and into a favorable current near Sumatra.4:55 During a 319-nautical-mile passage from Linga Linga, Mozambique, to Richards Bay, South Africa, the vessel encountered 60-knot gusts and lightning storms, forcing it to heave-to for an hour. Equipment failures included a snapped boom vang, a malfunctioning furler drum, and a tripping solar charge controller.9:37 The crew performed an at-sea prop cleaning to remove barnacles.9:49 The vessel maintained 8 to 9 knots in the Agulhas Current. The crew later repowered the boat after the original engine seized, installing a new Yanmar 4JH110 and retaining a 6.5-kilowatt Cummins-Onan generator for redundancy.watch They also addressed a corroded windlass connection and installed a six-stage water filtration system.13:24 The crew navigated the Knysna Heads in South Africa by timing the passage for slack tide and minimal groundswell, using an EcoFlow Delta 3 Plus portable power station for redundant AC power.5:02