For several decades Bill Dixon’s interior arrangement and styling have been among the world’s best.  No designer has done a better job maximizing the living spaces in a semi-custom performance cruising yacht under 50’.  Possible Dream a Taswell 49’ is a great example with her large salon and aft master cabin; two generous guest cabins; sea going galley.

The beautiful teak interior joinery is another example of the Ta Shing high quality workmanship.  All the spaces are well thought out and all have the detailed elements that are only available from a semi-custom builder that invest the thousands of extra building hours as compared to production designs.

Interior Features Three sleeping cabins with private aft master with ensuite head with separate stall shower, U-shaped galley and navigation center adjacent to the companionway and spacious salon with L shaped settee and custom dining table with drop down leaves to port and straight settee to starboard.  Forward are two guest cabins and guest head also with separate stall shower.  The forward full beam guest cabin has removable filler.  All cabins have excellent storage a trademark feature of semi-custom yachts.     

• Custom interior layout (owner’s cabin aft, two guest cabins forward)
• Customized chart table
• Interior of cabin trunk teak
• 7 12v Hella fans
• Strip lights from galley to main bulkhead to starboard and from navigation center to main bulkhead to port, set (running) 8” outboard of cabin trunk base.
• Teak fiddle attached to under deck inboard of fixtures
• V berth filler permits seat between berth to be raised to provide double berth
• 36” work bench with hardwood top with locker doors below.  Converts to large single berth in the second guest cabin

Interior Customizing

• European styled woodwork
• Automatic hanging locker lights
• Wider main companionway ladder
• Hand rails full length fore and aft attached to molding at the base of the interior trunk
• Additional lighting over galley sink
• Pair of stereo speakers in 3 cabins
• Bulkhead mounted light switches
• All stainless steel ports
• Custom dining table base (folding of leaves and sides and/or ends for entertaining)
• All galley lockers have doors
• Entertainment center in aft port salon locker with built in TV/VCR

• Varnished dining table

• Icemaker
• Rich Beers 110v cold plate refrigerator and freezer
• Custom gimbaled stove with oven
• 110v washer/dryer ELTAC SC-7100

• Autohelm 7000 autopilot
• Furuno 1831 3 kw radar, 10” display
• Furuno RP100 Chart Plotter
• Magellan 5200 GPS mounted in nav center
• Garmin 45 hand held GPS
• ICOM M125 VHF radio/telephone
• ICOM M700 SSB with AT-120
• B&G network wind speed and direction
• B&G repeater network data display
• B&G network depth

12 volt DC & 110 volt AC electric system

• Bass electrical distribution breaker panel, 12 volt DC & 110v AC
• Onan 8 kw generator with sound shield
• 110v shore power connector
• Three 200 AH batteries with fiberglass boxes, two for house and one for engine
• One 120 ah engine start battery with GRP box for engine
• Engine room blower
• Tank gauges:  1 fuel, 2 water
• 200 amp battery with FRP box
• Newmar HDM 50A battery charger
• Radio grounding system
• Lightning ground system

• Maximum access to engine room, all sides. Wider higher side and end doors.  Access doors from at head and shower.
• Yanmar 110 hp diesel engine
• 80 amp alternator
• 12000 BTU a/c for aft cabin
• 12000 BTU a/c for forward cabin
• 16000 BTU a/c for salon
• 20”x13” 3 blade bronze propeller
• 1 ½” x 304 s/s prop shaft

PLUMBING

• Hot and cold water pressure system with 12 v pump
• 110v engine heat exchange assists water heater capacity 11 gals.
• Fresh water foot pump in galley
• Salt water foot pump in galley
• Electrical bilge pump
• Manual bilge pump
• 2 shower sump pumps
• Par 37010-000 electric heads

GRP hull, hand lay-up lamination compliant with Lloyd’s specifications.  Constructed with foam filled longitudinal stringers on port and starboard side and reinforced by unidirectional roving tape.

First three layers of hull, laminated with vinylester resin

GRP rudder with stainless steel stock and reinforced by stainless steel frames

• Bronze seacocks and hull fittings are fully bonded
• Hull color 1100 Hihide White
• Wale stripe and boot top Endeavor Blue
• PU foam hull insulation (living area only)

Deck and cabin side fiberglass sandwich construction.

• Dune Beige non skid
• Varnished exterior trim
• Bow anchor roller
• Nilsson VWC-3500 3/8” BBB, dual direction
• 45 lb CQR stainless steel anchor with lead tips
• 316 stainless steel deck fittings
• Stainless steel bow pulpit
• Stainless stern bow pulpit with center access
• Stern folding down swim ladder that forms lifeline gate closure when raised
• Teak cap rail
• Stainless steel lifeline stanchions
• Teak hand rails on cabin top
• Deck hatches over every cabin & salon area
• 6 deck prisms
• Stainless steel Manship port lights without bezel (upgrade)
• 10 Lewmar Ocean port lights in  hull, 4 Lewmar standard port lights in cabin
• Two 5”x12” stainless steel opening ports through the cockpit wall
• 6 PVC dorade vents with stainless steel protect guard
• Saltwater deck wash down
• Screens for opening ports
• GRP molded pedestal with Edson cable steering system
• 40” steering wheel
• Teak cockpit seat
• Teak table
• Teak cockpit grating
• Teak cockpit coaming top
• New style wheel steering console
• Additional 12 volt plug pedestal
• Half round stainless steel plate on cap rail
• Stainless steel cowl vent with FRP box
• Transom fresh water shower system

• Forespar electric Stoway mast, vertical motor
• Navtec rod standing rigging
• Pro Furl LC 42 genoa furling
• Staysail release lever
• Running backstays with block and tackle
• Performance boom vang
• Lewmar sheet tracks and cars

Sails:

• Mainsail, 7.2 oz for electric furling
• 135% Yankee
• Staysail with sun shield, 7.2 oz

Winches:

Lewmar Ocean type

• 2 electric 58 CST primaries
• Jib halyard: 48 CST, STD
• Main sheet:  44 CST STD
• Main halyard:  40 CST STD
• 2 staysail sheets: 40 CST STD
• Staysail halyard:  30 CST STD

• Interior cushions, custom Ultrasuede
• Full sailing Bimini (white) with enclosure
• Cockpit dodger with leather aft rail

• Emergency tiller