1979 Morgan 462 Ketch

The designer, Henry Scheel, was also the builder of the original molds for this yacht at his company in Maine in the early 1970’s. (Sheel had collaborated with Charles Morgan on a number of the earlier Morgan’s.)
The molds later came into the possession of Morgan Yachts, where they were used for a number of years with various modifications to build a number of models similar to the one shown here.

The Morgan 46 is the queen of our Morgan series of high performance cruising yachts. As queen, this regal lady of the seas exemplifies the design concepts built into the entire Morgan series. She is fast and dry beating to windward, and still out points all but the sleekest racers, even in the roughest of seas. Off the wind, she glides with ease and comfort on her long, directionally stable water line. These fine sailing characteristics are equally matched by her spacious, well laid out interior. An interior designed for a couple or a group of up to nine to spend many happy days sailing wherever they set their sights in this world class cruiser.

The Deck: She features a low center cockpit for ultimate visibility; lots of hatches: fourteen opening ports; and two large lazarettes aft. There is also a large emergency exit that can serve as a private entrance to the owner's stateroom.

Interior: A teak and holly plydeck sole runs throughout. Three private staterooms are standard. Each of the two large heads are complete with showers, with a tub included in the master stateroom head. The galley is a cook's delight. U-shaped for comfort and convenience under way, the galley abounds with counter and storage space. Twin deep stainless steel sinks and a huge 19 cu. ft. top load ice box with two lids lead a long list of highlights. The open main salon is designed for comfortable entertaining, doubling as a dinette or extra berths as needed. The navigation station will please the most discriminating, with plenty of space to house the equipment necessary to take your yacht anywhere in the world. At the heart of this yacht is a dual access engine room, housing a powerful Perkins diesel while leaving plenty of room for accessories including an optional 7.5 KW generator.

Systems: All the plumbing is polybutylene tubing and rigid PVC. All the wiring is color coded to the recommended American Boat and Yacht Council standards and wired through a custom 115V AC, 12V DC modular electrical panel which contains hydraulic/magnetic breakers. The large fuel and water tanks make long extended passages a cinch. The easily adjusted main sheet traveler and three-speed Lewmar sheet winches make sail handling a joy. The optional Hyde rod roller furling system makes sail handling even easier, especially for short-handed crews.

Construction: The deck and hull are both hand laminated solid fiberglass with added sandwiched plywood coring in the deck. The keel houses internal cast lead ballast which is grouted around and fully glassed-over for the extra protection afforded by this double bottom effect. All cabinetry and bulkheads are double bonded to the hull sides for their entire length with a heavy 20-oz. woven roving. To create a unitized construction system for additional strength and stiffness all cabinetry components are also bonded to each other. In addition, all exposed metals below the waterline are bronze to resist electrolysis.

HULL

• Hand laminated with mat, woven roving and fabmat.

• Internal cast lead ballast (8400*) grouted into a deep cavity and fully glassed over. 

• Cast bronze shaft strut and bronze shaft.

•  U/L approved sea valves on all thru-hull fittings below the water line.

DECK & EXTERIOR HARDWARE 

• S. S. anchor roller chock assembly providing stowage for two anchors. 

• Custom welded double rail S. S. pulpit and pushpit with gate in pushpit. 

• S. S. lifeline stanchions with vinyl-coated S. S. wire double lifelines and backup plates.

• Flush mounted FRP lazarette hatch with drains from well.

• Opening ports on cabin sides (14) with screens.

• FRP steering pedestal with 5" compass, engine controls, instruments and 36" destroyer wheel.

• S. S. pedestal guard. 

• Teak coaming caps. 

• Teak deck handrails.

• Full length teak toerails with scuppers and six integral chocks.

• Teak taffrail.

• Back-up plates on deck hardware.

• 45 lb. CQR anchor with ground tackle.

MAIN SALON AND STATEROOMS 

• 3 stateroom arrangement 

• L-shaped dinette w/bulkhead mounted table.

• Settee/berth and pilot berth opposite dinette.

• Headroom 6'2" minimum, except 5'10" passageway/midship cabin. 

• Teak and holly plydeck cabinsole throughout.

• Custom fabricated 4" foam cushions with deluxe color coordinated fabric in all cabins.

• Teak veneer paneling on main bulkheads and vertical partitions. 

• Removable joiner work surrounding the engine room to facilitate engine removal through forward companionway hatch.

• Forward stateroom with flat V-berth and Insert, bureau, double hanging locker, drawers and shelves over berths. 

• Midship walkthrough area is a private stateroom w/over-under double berths, berth, hanging locker, drawers and oilskin locker.

• Aft stateroom with large double berth, hanging lockers, port and starboard, drawers under berth and shelves outboard of berths, with sloped aft bulkhead.

GALLEY

• Large U-shaped galley.

• FRP stovewell-two burner S: S. stove with oven and gimbals.

• Double S. S. sink with standard faucets.

• Emergency fresh water hand pump.

• 19 cu. ft. ice box, with an electric drain pump leading overboard.

• Dust bin in galley sole. 

• Piping conduit from aft deck locker to stove well

HEADS

• Joiner work mica covered with teak trim. 

• Aft head has a tub/shower with telephone style shower head. 

• Forward head has a shower pan with slot teak grate and telephone style shower head.

• Both tub and shower pan drains lead overboard via electric pumps. 

• Holding tanks on both toilets with deck pump-out fittings.

• Emergency fresh water hand pumps in both heads and large home-sized toilets with lever pumps.

NAVIGATORS STATION 

• Full size athwartship chart table with hinged top over chart stowage and locker below.

• Electrical panel with locker below and radio shelves outboard.

PROPULSION & STEERING 

• Perkins 4-154 diesel engine with 2.73:1. Hurth reduction gear, fresh water cooling and 60 amp alternator. 

• 1 ¼ " bronze propellor shaft with intermediate bearing. 

• Three-blade bronze propellor. 

• Pedestal mounted engine controls and instruments including tachometer, oil pressure and water temperature gauges, ammeter and hour meter. 

• Audio visual temperature/pressure alarm.

• Engine bed thru bolted to hull stringers. 

• Pedestal mounted hydraulic steering unit.

• Fiberglass rudder with S. S. shaft, cast bronze heel and bearing, rudder cored with polyester syntactic foam for light weight, high strength and maximum adhesion to rudder skins.

PLUMBING

• Pressure water system distribution thru polybutylene tubing and rigid PVC and filter at pump.

• 7-gal. hot water heater with engine bypass and 225 volt element. 

• Marine heads with manual pump to holding tanks or direct overboard discharge.

• Water tankage: 195 gal. in FRP tanks, lined with sanitaryware gel and fully baffled tanks are dipstickable with central manifold, deck fills.

• Fuel tankage: 175 gal. in fire retardant FRP tank, dipstickable and fully baffled.

• Two submersible bilge pumps.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS 

• All BIA color coded wiring. Custom 115v AC/12v DC modular electric panel with hydraulic magnetic breakers and indicator lights.

• 115V 30 amp shorepower receptacle with 50-ft. Cord.

• Ground fault circuit protection.

• 115V duplex receptacles throughout. 

• Two 115-amp hr. marine batteries.

RIGGING 

• Sloop rig.

• Mast and boom one piece aluminum extrusions treated to protect against corrosion.

• PVC wiring conduit with messenger inside mast.

SAIL HANDLING EQUIPMENT 

• Two three-speed Lewmar #48 sheet winches.

• Two two-speed Lewmar #16 halyard winches.

• One Lewmar #16 mainsheet winch. Mainsheet traveler with car and movable end stops.

• Genoa lead blocks on 14" x 12' "tee" track mounted on toerails.

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.