About MV Survivor

Survivor is our 46 foot 1991 Grand Banks Classic motor yacht.  Calling any boat a "yacht" always seems pretentious to me. A "yacht" is any boat that has a smaller boat (a tender or dinghy) to go along with it.  Under that definition, a 24 foot express cruiser with a raft on the swim platform is a yacht.  So, not so pretentious-just a way of classifying different boats, I suppose.  

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Anyway, Survivor has a light mahogany interior with the "galley down" layout and a rear stateroom with a walkaround bed.  She also has forward V-berth, two heads and a full flybridge with a front enclosure.  (The enclosure looks good from a distance, but don't look too close because I made it, so it's not perfect.)  She has a very roomy saloon (not the drinking kind (and, yes, it is a "saloon" and it is not pronounced "salon")).

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She is powered by twin Cummins 6 BTA 5.9s (250 HP each). (For some reason, in the 1990s, someone decided every boat needs too much horsepower.  Survivor is a displacement hull.  She is not meant to and does not plane.  She needs two 160 HP Ford Lehman diesels that are efficient, bullet proof,  and will push her at her hull speed of about 9 knots.)  She has an 8 Kw generator plus some solar power.  For navigation and safety, she has Garmin MFDs at the upper and lower helm, AIS, autopilot, four person, offshore raft, EPIRB, personal locator beacon, flares strobe lights, plus a good bit more.