Overview
Grateful is a classic 1978 45' Chris Craft Commander offering a 3 stateroom, 2 head layout. She is in good condition and offers some updates, like a newer Radar, chart plotter and inverter. Grateful is a very good liveaboard or Great Loop candidate at an attractive price. Price reduced! Very motivated seller has instructed us to secure any reasonable offer.
45' Chris Craft Overview
Grateful is a classic 1978 45' Chris Craft Commander offering a 3 stateroom, 2 head layout. She is in good condition and offers some updates, like a newer Radar, chart plotter and inverter. Grateful is a very good liveaboard or Great Loop candidate at an attractive price. She is presently hauled for hurricane season in Florida, but available for inspection.
45' Chris Craft Vessel Walkthrough
Entering on either side deck, you will walk through a wing door to the sundeck and find a ladder to the flybridge aft, helm forward and salon entrance port forward. Step down into the salon and you will find the galley starboard aft, bar stools and galley bar to starboard, lounge chair starboard forward and L-shaped sofa and table to port. The full beam master stateroom is aft and the two guest staterooms are forward. Engine room access is via salon sole hatches.
45' Chris Craft Accommodations
The full beam master stateroom aft offers two queen size berths and an ensuite head with enclosed shower. There is a guest stateroom forward that offers a v-berth and direct access to the guest head and then a guest stateroom to port that offers over/under bunks. The guest head to starboard offers an enclosed shower.
45' Chris Craft Salon
The salon offers an L-shaped sofa with teak hi/lo table to port, lounge chair starboard forward, a bar and stools to starboard, carpet, opening side windows and a Toshiba flat screen TV.
45' Chris Craft Galley
The galley is located starboard aft in the salon.
- GE side by side refrigerator/freezer
- Princess 3-burner electric cooktop and oven
- Emerson microwave oven
- Europro toaster oven
- Double stainless steel sinks
- Storage drawers and cabinets
- Tundra refrigerator/freezer in the sundeck
45' Chris Craft Dining
Dining space is available at the salon hi/lo table and the galley bar.
45' Chris Craft Master Stateroom
The full beam master stateroom aft offers two queen size berths, storage drawers and cabinets, shelves, hanging lockers, overhead hatch, opening side windows and curtains, reading lights, carpet and ensuite head with tub/shower.
45' Chris Craft Forward Guest Stateroom
The forward guest stateroom offers a v-berth, overhead hatch, 2 portlights with curtains, hanging lockers, storage drawers, reading lights, carpet and direct access to the guest head with enclosed shower.
45' Chris Craft Port Guest Stateroom
The port guest stateroom offers over/under bunks, storage drawers, hanging locker, portlight with curtain, reading lights and carpet. The guest head with enclosed shower is to starboard.
45' Chris Craft Lower Helm
The lower helm is forward on the sundeck and offers a full console forward, opening center windshield and a helmseat on a cabinet.
45' Chris Craft Flybridge
The flybridge is accessed via a stainless steel & teak ladder from the sundeck. It offers a full console forward with storage, a forward benchseat, bimini, non-skid deck, hinged Radar arch, Todd helmseat and tender storage and davit aft.
45' Chris Craft Sundeck
The sundeck offers a hardtop, Stratoglass enclosure aft and opening side windows, teak & glass wing doors, sunshades, transom gate, bound carpet over non-skid, cabinet with Tundra refrigerator/freezer, wicker deck furniture, storage cabinetry port forward and the salon entrance forward.
45' Chris Craft Audio/Visual Equipment
- DirecTV dish antenna
- Shakespeare Seawatch 2030 TV antenna
- Toshiba flat screen TV in the salon
- Onkyo TX-SV 45 A/V control receiver in the salon
- Monster Cable speaker selector in the salon
- Crown-Vega RE series interior speakers
- Colby flat screen TV in the master stateroom
- Maxima Marine stereo on the flybridge
- RCA speakers in the sundeck
45' Chris Craft Electronics
- Garmin Radar
- Garmin 5212 Mulit-Function display at the lower helm
- Garmin 5208 Multi-Function display on the flybridge
- Raytheon Raystar 390 GPS at the lower helm
- Raytheon RayPilot 650 autopilot at the lower helm and on the flybridge
- Raytheon Ray 202 VHF/hailer at the lower helm
- Ratheon Ray 201 VHF on the flybridge
- Raytheon Raychart 600xx electronic charting system at the lower helm
- Ratheon Raydata depth,speed, nav panel on the flybridge
- Ritchie magnetic compass at the lower helm and on the flybridge
- Weems & Plath clock & barometer in the salon
- Phone-Com intercom system
45' Chris Craft Electrical System
- Onan 12 kW generator with approximately 2513 hours
- Xantrex Freedom Marine 2500 watt inverter/charger with remote panel
- 2 X 30 amp shore cords
- 12vdc outlet at lower helm
45' Chris Craft Engine/Mechanical Equipiment
- Twin Detroit Diesel 8v71N main engines with approximately 2244 hours
- Morse engine controls
- Racor 1000FG fuel filters with vacuum gauges
- Marine air Systems reverse cycle air conditioning/heating system
- Richmond 19.9 gallon water heater
- 4-bladed propellers
45' Chris Craft Deck Equipment
- Lewmar anchor windlass with foot controls
- Danforth anchor
- Stainless steel anchor roller
- Stainless steel deck hardware
- Stainless steel fender racks forward
- Teak cap rails and lifelines on stainless steel stanchions
- Non-skid decks
- Foredeck sunpad
- Foredeck benchseat and storage
- Windshield and window covers
- Marquipt Tide-Ride gangway
- Boarding gates each side
- Teak swimplatform
- Stainless steel & teak swim ladder
45' Chris Craft Tender
- 13' Novurania RIB tender
- Yamaha 40 hp outboard (2011)
- Tender davit
45' Chris Craft Safety and Fire Protection
- FI quench engine room fire suppression system
- S-Tech carbon monoxide detector
- Fire extinguishers
- Searchlight
45' Chris Craft Exclusions
- Sellers' personal belongings
45' Chris Craft Disclaimer
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