Salty Podcast Part 1 of 3 Part-Series |⛵ Island Packet Factory Tour | IP44' Motor Sailer ⛵

This is Part 1 of a 3-part series inside the Island Packet Factory on YouTube:
⚓ Part 1: First look at the IP 44 Motor Sailer (this episode): https://tinyurl.com/IPFactoryPart1
⚓ Part 2: A full tour of the Island Packet 349:  https://tinyurl.com/IPFactoryPart2
⚓ Part 3: A behind-the-scenes factory tour to see how these legendary boats are built (Coming soon)

A century of months in the making, the Island Packet 44 Motor Sailor emerges as a revolutionary hybrid vessel that forever eliminates the age-old "sail or power" dilemma. This walkthrough reveals a meticulously crafted boat offering unmatched versatility for serious cruisers seeking both worlds without compromise.

The tour begins with the exterior features showcasing Island Packet's renowned attention to safety and functionality—hard rails with strategic openings, dual shore power connections at bow and stern, and an ingenious side boarding door adjacent to the helm. The Dutch-style helm door allows for perfect climate control while maintaining connection to your surroundings, complemented by a fully swiveling, reclining helm seat from Stid.

Below decks, the craftsmanship continues with customizable wood interiors (maple, sapele, or cherry), an innovative galley featuring induction cooking and multi-function smart oven, and clever storage solutions throughout. The salon's convertible table, dedicated navigation area, and unique line management system reflect decades of real-world cruising experience.

The engine room reveals the heart of this hybrid marvel—a 110hp Yanmar diesel pushing the vessel to approximately 9 knots, complemented by electric sail handling systems for when the wind beckons. Systems redundancy defines the engineering philosophy, from dual 50-gallon holding tanks to comprehensive climate control options including variable-speed air conditioning and hydronic heating.

At a base price of $699,000 (or less configured as a pure trawler), this limited-production vessel represents extraordinary value. With only 12 built annually and just one discounted slot remaining before launch, serious cruisers should act quickly to secure their opportunity to own what might be the most versatile, thoughtfully designed vessel under a million dollars available today.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to the Island Packet 44
• 2:43 Exterior Features and Design
• 5:24 Cockpit and Helm Station Design
• 10:12 Salon and Galley Tour
• 15:33 Engine Room Deep Dive
• 22:43 Staterooms and Living Quarters
• 30:55 Customization Options and Pricing

Transcript

Darrell Allen: 0:00

Hi everybody and welcome to Island Packet. Leslie and I are here on a beautiful March day and we've got Tinsley and Rob with us here to introduce the Motor Sailor, which is about a hundred month project to get the Motor Sailor finished. We don't have the cushions or the mattresses in it yet, but we want to give you a sneak preview because I think it's the coolest boat out there for under a million dollars, and what we want to let you know is there's only one spot left. You know that has the discount available on it. So if you want to save some money, give me a call first, because once we launch her and get her out there, there's going to be a lot of activity. At least Leslie and I think we can build it as a trawler or we can build it as a motor sailor, either way.

Leslie Allen: 0:45

This is a project that's really near and dear to our hearts. We've thought about it since the day we bought Island Packet.

Darrell Allen: 0:51

Well, we had a motor sailor in San Diego. So you know we're inclined and we like motor sailors anyway, because we believe they provide the best of both worlds and that's why I just mentioned earlier it's a hundred month project. So you can see, number one was built with the standard ivory and camel tan island packet colors. We obviously have a really nice hard rail great bow, pulpit, double rollers, you know nice anchor, windlass, dual spring line cleats, a nice walk around the deck. You can see the little blue courtesy lights that we have along the sides for both port and starboard for the walking around the gate open up right here. The hard rail will open right here in the middle and that's nice, especially for the other side, because it has the helm door right there. And the one thing I want to let you guys know is I want you to know that this boat has a horn. Okay, and we've got Captain Larry up there to demonstrate. Larry, can you show us what the horn sounds like, us what the horn sounds like? There you go. Well, if that doesn't get their attention, I don't know what will. Right, take a look at the inside of the boat, starting on the swim step, working our way through the cockpit and then down below take a look at the engine room. This boat was obviously built as a motor sailor with the optional reacher. You can see there the reacher car on track and then we have electric sheet winch for the reacher. You can see there the reacher car on track and then we have electric sheet winch for the reacher installed on both sides obviously, and the boat will have an electric furler. So you will I'll show you a little bit how you're going to stand, sit or stand in the cockpit and bring out that reacher, which will really give gives all of our boats great light wind performance, as our owners can testify.

Darrell Allen: 2:20

Hey, uh, welcome again to island packet. Uh 44 motor Sailor or Trawler. Leslie and I are extremely excited that the boat is about nine days away from launching. It's taken us a hundred months to get to this point, but we hope everybody loves it as much as we do. Someday we hope to have one ourselves so that we can go cruising.

Darrell Allen: 2:43

As we mentioned, we gave up a motor sailor when we bought Island package. So this is our replacement and it's honestly it's far better than the boat we gave up. So we've got a nice large cockpit here. It's about probably seven, eight feet and then about 11 feet wide. The boat total is 13 foot and beam and 44 feet overall. We've got a very nice swim step on the transom. We've got great under feet. Overall We've got a very nice swim step on the transom. We've got great under cockpit storage.

Darrell Allen: 3:06

Now this is going to be detailed out, it's going to be painted out and then we're going to be put deep grating in here before the boat ships. So, as you can see, the boat is a little dirty because it hasn't been detailed yet. But just look past the dirt and look at what we got going on here. We've got electric winches, we've got a side boarding door. So here, if you dock to starboard which the helm is to starboard you're able to easily come down the deck and step off to the dock. You dock to port. You can step off on the aft and to the swim step and step over to port. Very nice, uh, high quality, stainless steel aft door. This, this window, I'll demonstrate it does roll down. And then, of course, the door opens.

Capn Tinsley: 3:45

That's a good thing.

Darrell Allen: 3:48

Yep, excuse me, okay, all right.

Darrell Allen: 3:50

And then we have over here. We have shore power. We have two 30 amp shore power connectors and we also have the duplicates of these on the bow. So whether you're docked bow or stern, you have shore power very close to you. We've got just a freshwater wash down here and then we've got a just a fresh water wash down here and then we've got our hot and cold shower off that we do on all the boats right here. Of course, we've got a great hard top.

Darrell Allen: 4:14

We are going to add a couple supports right here so that if you want to store your dinghy up on top, you have the ability to do so and there you could get it down with, obviously, the topping lift and the boom. You know it would be something that I would want to see you rehearse a little bit in calm waters before you try to do it. This current owner is going to do kind of a Ross Kelly Olsen-style davit on the transom, and so that's what they're going to do. This boat's shipping to Seattle in about a month, so she'll be here in St Petersburg at the Harbridge Marina from about the middle of March to the middle of April. So if you want to see the boat in person, that's going to be your time frame and obviously we'll be doing demo sails at that time. The owners are going to come and spend a couple weeks with us so we can take you out sailing pretty much any time between the third week of March to about the middle of April. All right, let's take a look inside. The door locks itself open, as I mentioned the window. So the window is purposely designed to be on the slower side so that people don't get hurt, and it has an automatic stop once it reaches the bottom and once it reaches the top and, of course, if you want it somewhere in the middle, you can just stop the mechanism For the galley.

Darrell Allen: 5:31

On the starboard side of the boat we have a nice sink. We've got our usual Seagull freshwater tap. This is a filtered water tap and we also do the cove side in the hedge as well and then you've got a typical growy faucet that we do on all the boats. This is a Corian sink, one of the choices you have, and obviously this is the color of Corian that these owners pick. You can pretty much do any color Corian that you want. This is designed to be the pantry for the galley. So we've got two levels here where you can put different sized goods, and then this is designed to be the trash bin Right now it's tool storage and this is designed to be the recycle bin here, which obviously we don't have installed yet. These folks did the maple interior and this is the little sponge drawer or whatever here that we just didn't want to waste any space.

Darrell Allen: 6:18

We're gonna offer induction cooking only on this boat. We've got a Kenyon two burner induction stove top with a four way smart oven. Below four way would be it'd be a microwave, a convection oven, an air fryer and a toaster oven. So you've got a lot of possibilities there and that's a nice pot and pan drawer that I won't mess with right now. We've got three and a half cubic foot refrigerator or freezer. These doors can both be freezers or both be refrigerators, depending on the type of cruising you're going to be doing. And of course the bottom is obviously this very similar size, except for the little bit cut out here for the compressor.

Darrell Allen: 6:55

We obviously don't have the cushions on board yet. They'll be coming after the boat is detailed, but we do have a really nice island package star table that will float out and be full size or not, it will drop to make a berth. So this pedestal will drop completely down to make a berth. A little bit of storage behind the cushions. Aft. We've got a dusty nav station here for chart books and stuff like that.

Darrell Allen: 7:23

And then what I really think is really exceptionally cool about the boat and very unique is we have the main sheet, the main outhaul, the jib sheet and the boom vine coming in through four small tight holes here that are designed exactly for the line that's going through it to an electric cell beam winch. Okay, and then we have buttons for the electric furlers. So what you would do to extend the main cell out is you would push the green button, you would wrap the outhaul around here and then you push the green button for the electric furler and the furler would unroll the cell as the outhaul is pulling the outhaul line out or the winch is pulling the outhaul line out. This is designed to store all the lines in here. This is waterproof and does drain into the bilge, so we've taken in account that. You know, if you're obviously out in the rain and the lines get wet and they come in here, you know you may need a little bit of a towel or something, possibly, but you do have a place to stick wet lines and they're not just going to be all over the place.

Darrell Allen: 8:20

We've got some nice overhead here for electronics. These owners are going to do a 12 inch display here, obviously, a VHF with a RAM mic down here, a 16 inch display right here, and then we've got our engine start and stop, our engine, wireless controls and then right here we've decided that we're going to do the bow thruster here, the Yanmar control here, as I mentioned, this is the start and stop button, and then we're going to do autopilot here. We've got lights here that actually turn off the courtesy lights outside, and then this will control the overhead lights here on the console to white, blue or red. This owner chose the leather-wrapped wheel. We can also do a wood-style wheel you want, or a chrome wheel. We do have the helm seat currently mounted and this is one of the things I absolutely love about the boat. We've got a Dutch style door. So what I envision as Leslie and I are cruising she's sitting over in the corner of the settee reading her book and I'm sitting up here in the settee with my arm out.

Darrell Allen: 9:32

I got a nice breeze blowing through, right, and then if that's not enough breeze we're gonna you can just pop these out of vent mode or we can open up all the way. So in this, obviously this is what you need to trim your mainsail, okay. Or we can put a camera on the on a hardtop, if you want to do it remotely right so another thing about this store that we love I personally love is that it's so much access.

Darrell Allen: 9:57

If you're at dock and you can just hand off things to each other and you're right in the galley, so and, if I can figure out, the seat will swivel completely. So when you get to and you're right in the galley, so you know, and, if I can figure out, the seat will swivel completely. So, uh, when you get to where you're going, you can swivel the seat around and be part of the you know, the entire group. It will obviously recline, the armrest will go up and down. This is a stid helm seat, by the way. So you know we, as an item packet, we try to seek out the very best that we can, can build or buy and buy.

Darrell Allen: 10:25

This is actually an ice maker, so they wanted an ice maker, and this is typically storage under here, or it can be designed for an ice maker either way, Kinsley didn't you want to point out what was under there?

Darrell Allen: 10:36

Yeah, we have a Maybrew 17,000 BTU air with reverse cycle heat and this is actually a variable speed unit, so it can run off of our inverter. Reverse cycle heat, and this is actually a variable speed unit, so it can run off of our inverter. And then these folks chose a hydronic I will basto hydronic heater because, as we mentioned, the boat is going to Seattle, so this is actually the antifreeze in the heater, one of the heater units right here, and the hydronic heater circulates hot water throughout the boat and then it blows fans or air over the hot water. So it's not a dry heat. You don't get that dry mouth that you do in like a forced air heater. All right. And then as far as the air conditioning is concerned, we have it set here, but we have a fiberglass plenum that takes the air from there up this side and then it splits out and goes both directions. So each one of these overhead units is air conditioning and you can open them or close them, you can turn them, you can rotate them any way you want to provide air conditioning throughout the boat and or the salon and any part you want. So Leslie sitting over here, she needs a lot of air conditioning. So we would have all these turned on her and and coming down on on her right there as well as the one that's above Rob's head. So we've got a really cool air conditioning system in this boat, you know.

Darrell Allen: 11:49

Obviously, as always, all the lights dim. You know the valance lights dim. We are having Dometic is coming out this week to design blinds, pull down blinds for the boat. We also have shades, exterior canvas covers for the windows as well. Nice handrail as island packets. Everywhere is a handrail. This is all the breaker panel here for anchor lights, you know, steaming lights, running lights, foredeck lights, spreader lights, the horn, the wipers, electronics, autopilot, so everything that's. You know we split the breaker panel up. We have a DC breaker after I forgot to show you and an AC breaker. But we also have the stuff that applies to the helm right here next to the helm, which I was, you know, I really wanted, so that was a request of mine Variable speed, windshield, washers, wipers as well as washers. I'm not sure they're hooked up yet but, as we know, the horn's hooked up.

Darrell Allen: 12:50

One of my things was I didn't want people falling accidentally down the stairs, so we did make this little table here to provide a little bit additional place to put a chart or a book or or Cell phone whatever, and it hopefully will keep people from, you know, accidentally falling down the stairs. We put could have put a door here, but it just really didn't work out with, you know, we've got a handrail that's gonna be installed right here, so it's just the door idea didn't work out. So we came up with this and I think this works, works well. If you're afraid of that, obviously if it's a little kid on board, then you know, get you a net right, okay?

Darrell Allen: 13:27

So while we're up in the salon, I want to show you the engine room. We've actually got two hatches here that are removable in the salon. They're both on hinges. This is the one that's accessible from here and then the other one opens from inside the engine room. Obviously they're on pneumatic pistons and we've got a nice stairway to go down. This boat has marillon through hulls, dripless shaft seal, underwater generator exhaust, so you won't hear any of the generator exhaust coming out the side like you would on mini boats. It actually comes out under the boat and the only thing that comes out above the water line is a little bit of air. We have 110 horsepower Yanmar diesel a 6kW. Northern Lights generator.

Capn Tinsley: 14:09

Can we go down? Yeah, all right, let me stop.

Darrell Allen: 14:13

All right. So coming on down the stairs is one way to get in the engine room. The other way, actually, is underneath the stairs that go down to the staterooms, and I'll show you that here shortly. So, starting at Ford and working our way, after we've got our fuel filter system, we've got dual ray cores for the engine with a vacuum gauge, and then we've got our generator ray core as well, or lugger filter, and then we've got our oil change system as well. Actually, not oil change system, I'm sorry, this is the fuel priming system here, and we can also polish the fuel with it as well. Okay, so, depending on how you manipulate the valves and we're obviously going to label all this stuff it happens at the very end, after the boat is detailed, because you want to put labels over dust and dirt. So all these will be labeled so that you can draw from whatever tank you want.

Darrell Allen: 15:02

We have an auxiliary tank on this boat the boat standard with 180 gallons, and then they chose to add an additional 50-gallon tank here. So they have the extra fuel tank. We can also put an extra water tank here. The tank in front is the holding tank for the owner's stateroom or the owner's head. Okay, so each toilet has its own holding tank. They're both 50 gallons each, so you've got actually 100 gallons of holding tank in the boat, okay, and they're both independent. So if one macerator pump or one toilet breaks, you have a complete system to work with as well on either head. All right, obviously, access to you know stuff in the bilge area and you know access to through hulls that looks like that's for the knot meter would be my guess.

Capn Tinsley: 15:50

What's this one?

Darrell Allen: 15:53

uh, we've got a what a macerator pump there and, uh, our overboard dish charge here. So obviously these are all labeled at this point, and over here too. Yeah, well, this would direct it either overboard, uh, or to the holding tank, or to the macerator. So for the overboard, it's like if you're gonna pump out at a fuel dock, okay, and then this would send it to the macerator and then this pulls it from the holding tank.

Capn Tinsley: 16:16

And then what's this one right here?

Darrell Allen: 16:20

Like that's one of the, that's a, that's a fuel tank, that's the standard fuel tank of 180 gallons. Wow, okay, I don't know if you guys can tell, but Tinsley is a boater. There's not many women. I show up to that. Open up compartments in the engine room.

Darrell Allen: 16:44

You know it's fun to, because you know honestly, women buy the boats that's been my motto for 40 years and they buy real estate too so obviously 110 horsepower yanmar uh will push the boat along about nine knots as a trawler uh or a motor sailor, which is faster than hull speed, and the reason it can do that is our stern on the boat is relatively flat. It's not quite a semi displacement hull, but it's not a displacement hull either. So it's kind of in between. We chose the maryland through hulls and we chose the ones that have the fresh water wash down so we can literally, depending on which direction you turn the valve. So this way it would bring in like a hose and flush out the engine with fresh water, and this way it actually brings the raw water in from underneath the boat. So we have that on the all the air conditioners, on the generator and the engine.

Capn Tinsley: 17:31

You got the Victron controllers.

Darrell Allen: 17:33

Yeah, we always do. Victron this is a 3000 watt Victron Multi Plus and then we have different chargers depending on what we're charging whether we're charging lithium batteries or whether we're charging AGM batteries. Obviously, I believe these folks chose AGM. We've got a couple AGM here and then we've got back behind there. We have a whole other bank of AGM batteries and we have this opening here in this lawn that will come out for changing the batteries.

Darrell Allen: 18:00

This is our oil change system here, and so this will change the oil for the generator or the engine and then you pump it into a bucket with this right here, and then you can also reverse it and pull it back out of, say, the oil container for to put the oil back in either the generator or the engine if you don't want to add it manually. We mentioned the dripless shaft log, so it's the last drop. I've got them that. Originally they put a a like a starboard piece over here and I have them coming back and making a clear acrylic piece to go through here, so you don't have to remove this to see what's going on with the shaflop, so literally you can watch what's going on right in front of you. If I had waited about nine or ten days the boat would be clean, but then Tinsley wouldn't be here, would she?

Capn Tinsley: 18:48

That's right.

Darrell Allen: 18:49

So we have a 6kw northern lights generator uh, which would more than power everything on the boat. In the boat next to you we have a the regular start stop down here and then, of course, we have a remote start stop up, and at the helm, I need one of those.

Capn Tinsley: 19:03

Okay, what is this water we have?

Darrell Allen: 19:04

a 12 gallon stainless steel well basto, adjustable temperature hot water here. If stainless steel, webasto, adjustable temperature hot water heater. If anybody can find a better hot water heater on the market, let me know. Okay, so you can adjust the temperature. It's 12 gallons. It's extremely efficient. We have owners that we run into at the boat shows, for example last year in Annapolis that told me that literally he can get up and take a shower in the morning after the boat sitting on anchor all night long and have plenty of hot water, okay, from just the generator. And or these folks did get the 400 gallon a day spectra water maker. This is the largest 12 volt water maker that spectra makes I got a question how much is that water?

Darrell Allen: 19:42

uh, that's about a 30 000 option yeah, and so that was.

Darrell Allen: 19:48

That's like the top of the line spectra is as far as we're concerned, and this is 400 gallons a day.

Darrell Allen: 19:53

Okay, so you think about that it's making 20, something about 21 gallons an hour. So you run it for a couple hours in the morning and you running for a couple hours in the evening, you know why you were cooking, or you're running your generator this is that 12-volt but but if it and you're making you know 40, 80 gallons a day, you know you don't need to get fresh water anywhere. Uh, as far as and you don't, you, you don't and many marinas and many fuel docks, I have a tendency to be worried about the water that I would pick up at them, because you just don't know how old the hoses are, how long the water has set, you know what could have possibly got in there and and, honestly, if I have a choice, I will always use watermaker water and never use a marina water or fuel dock water or anything like that. If I have a choice.

Capn Tinsley: 20:36

So a watermaker for a 349, you know Well we would go one size down.

Darrell Allen: 20:42

We would go one size down and it would probably be in the, you know, low to mid-20 range. Okay, yeah, okay.

Darrell Allen: 20:50

Yeah, I'd have to get my 349 price sheet out. Yeah, yeah, and what is this over here? Uh, this is part of the water makers.

Darrell Allen: 20:53

So this is the, the compressor and these are the filters. Okay, okay, so I'm not an expert at water makers. I've never personally had one. Um, I haven't been fortunate enough to go cruising that long, um, at least not on my own boat if the world ended, you could exist on this boat as long as you didn't run out of fuel but if you did, you just sail.

Darrell Allen: 21:12

Well, that's the way I hope so.

Darrell Allen: 21:14

I hope I sailed long before I ran out of fuel yeah all right. And then we do have a small door that does gain us access into, yeah, the cockpit.

Capn Tinsley: 21:23

Uh, that we've, you know, looked at earlier well, I didn't get a good shot of it all right.

Darrell Allen: 21:27

So we're out of the engine room and we're back in the salon and we want to take tensely uh and you guys downstairs. So we designed the stairway to purposely be very user-friendly. It's about the same uh incline as you would have at your home, so it's easy for pets and animals as well as for, you know, people like myself. I'm turning 68 this month and honestly I don't need, you know, a steep companionway. We're going to do a handrail right here. In fact it's sitting right over there on the settee.

Darrell Allen: 21:57

We just one of the last minute items that we got to do. And then, as I mentioned also, when we're in the engine room, these stairs do lift up. They're on pneumatic pistons, which are not installed yet, but they will lift all the way up so that you have the ability to walk through here and we can lift them up when you guys are down here. But they are going to have pneumatic pistons. All of our doors have magnetic latches so you don't have to reach down to unlock it or try to use your toe or something like that.

Darrell Allen: 22:25

And then you guys come on down. So when you get down, we have to port, we have the guest quarters Wow, and I'm sure you'll adjust the customization options. Yes, so this is the standard layout of the boat. This is a custom built boat and, as Leslie just said, aft cabin can be basically built any way you want. So if you don't plan on having guests on board, you don't. We can build this as an office. We can build this as a utility room we can basically build this any way you want.

Darrell Allen: 23:00

You know we've got a small hanging locker in this arrangement and then this was going to be a big hanging locker, but instead they opted for the Splendide washer vented dryer. It is a vintage dryer and it acts just like a regular home washer dryer, except in a smaller capacity. So, as always, the lights come on when you open the hanging locker doors. They're all cedar lined and, as we mentioned earlier, this is the maple interior. Yeah, the buttons are new, so we just put them on actually yesterday. So if you don't want those cabinets across the side, you don't need them. That's a hull side port in the middle, but we don't have the hull side port installed yet. That's one of the last things we do, so that's why it's covered up, but it really.

Darrell Allen: 23:43

If that was open, yeah, it would provide a lot of light in the in the boat, and if you wanted a larger hull side port, we could do a larger hull side port. So, being a custom boat manufacturer, you know, tell us what you want. We have one owner that wants a companionway helm seat and I should have done this when we in the salon, but I didn't think about it. So we're gonna actually shorten the table and put a companion helm seat there so that she has a regular chair to sit in, versus like a settee to kind of relax in. So I think she might. You know they have back issues or something like that and she needs that support. So we can modify the salon different ways as well. So if you're not liking, the standard layout.

Darrell Allen: 24:21

All you've got to do is call us and say, look, can you build this?

Capn Tinsley: 24:24

and we will work on it. Is there anything that you have told somebody? No, I can't do that on any of the boats.

Darrell Allen: 24:32

Well, I mean it's tough to move some of the bulkheads. Yeah, you know, I could certainly eliminate the second head. We have a drawing where we could do a down galley. If you don't want an up galley and you want more settee space up there, we can do a down galley. But we would use this area plus a little bit of the aft cabin and you would actually enter the aft cabin from the galley. So we would take this away and then there would be, this would be extended and then it there would be a little bit of a galley through here. So the washer dryer then, if you want that, has to move someplace else or move aft but, again.

Darrell Allen: 25:05

It really doesn't. You know. We offer, you know, cherry, we offer like maple, we offer sapele, we offer any color countertop you want. We have multiple different sink options available for the, for the galley as well as the head. This is what we call our frosted sink there's a shower in here this is a wet head.

Darrell Allen: 25:24

Okay, yeah, this is. This is. Oh, hey, we just didn't have the room. Now, if you wanted to shower, if that was important to you, did we do that. Yeah, but you're going to use up. You know you got to give it up someplace. So this is a fresh water or raw water flush toilet so you can you know, when you're offshore you can draw in the raw water. Uh, it all goes into the holding tank and then you empty the holding tank from from there, depending on where you are. So, as I mentioned, this is a wet head, and then the ensuite door is right here If we get off.

Capn Tinsley: 25:53

Oh, another one. Look at all these hatches.

Darrell Allen: 25:55

Yeah the door to the forward cabin is right here. So we have a nice, nice owner's stateroom. This is probably the largest head we build in any island packet. We've got it's about oh my gosh, it's probably 10 feet by 4 feet or so. Again, we've got it's about oh my gosh, it's probably 10 feet by four feet or so. Again, we've got good counter space. We've got storage underneath. We've got the same type of raw water fresh water toilet. We've got a nice tall shower and intensity.

Darrell Allen: 26:25

I don't know if you ever noticed, but we sandblast this pattern into our shower doors of the waves and the stars. So when we buy these they're clear. Actually we buy them in sheets, we cut them to this size and then we sandblast the pattern. And if you wanted to have your own pattern done, we've done that before. We had a guy who had a ranch in Texas and he wanted his ranch logo on the shower doors instead of the star. So we can, we put his ranch logo right here. So we've got a nice seat. You know, sit down. We've got, obviously, the adjustable shower head, little soap dish, you know, all nice and watertight. You know you can brace yourself. Good ventilation. We've got two opening side ports. We've got a hatch that opens up above us, so we've got nice ventilation beautiful.

Capn Tinsley: 27:15

What were you pointing out?

Darrell Allen: 27:16

here storage, okay, yeah, and a little bit under the sink as well, and of course, the sliding storage up here. And again, every light in here dims or can be turned off.

Capn Tinsley: 27:28

You got power right there, okay, and you got power here, yeah.

Darrell Allen: 27:35

Well, and we've added this one inside the locker here. So if you don't want to leave, like if you're using an electric toothbrush or a water pit, you don't have to leave it out here, you can put it inside here and charge it. So that was something that actually a client asked us to do, you know, years ago, and we've never kept up on it. So if you're sitting here watching this video and you're thinking, well, I wonder if they would do this. Or, you know, I would like the boat, but if it had that, I would like tell us the way. We are both have gotten so cool as we listen to owners and every owner comes with with really great ideas. So good-sized hanging locker, cedar line, you know, as always, the lights come on, louvered door for ventilation, and we build all this in-house. This is not, you know, it's something that you, you know, just buy off the shelf. So all this is built in-house.

Capn Tinsley: 28:21

Sweet. And then there's another port hole. We've got two big hole side ports.

Darrell Allen: 28:26

These are actually bigger than the ones that were in the AFT stateroom and just to give you, an idea, oh my god. Yeah. So we've got a really good-sized hole side port on both sides, which would let in a lot of light. We've got two good ports plus a really big hatch and, of course, as always, we've got the blackouts and the screens on all of our overhead storage underneath the bunk, as always so what's under it? So more storage and in the drawers right right here, okay, yeah.

Darrell Allen: 29:04

Door there. Oh sorry, it's supposed to have a pneumatic piston on it. You can see where it's going to have two and a button. It's just not installed, okay, and?

Capn Tinsley: 29:13

then what do we got there?

Darrell Allen: 29:14

Probably access to the bow thruster. Go ahead and check it out. Where's the bow thruster? Alright, so we've got the bow thruster. We've got the bow thruster. Batteries Two more batteries. And all this will get cleaned, it'll all get painted out and it'll look, you know, like brand new there's a whole bunch of controllers and stuff down here isn't there.

Darrell Allen: 29:36

Yeah, yeah, you know, probably controllers for the uh furloughs for the deck. If you're looking at the boat you say you know I'd like a bigger hanging locker and I don't need a shelf locker, then you know we can certainly do that. I mean we could build it any way you want. You know, if you want shelves on here, if you want to take the head and put a door here and make a walk-in hanging locker, you know, for the ladies or those guys you could do that. You can make the head of a big, big, walk-in hanging locker. You know, for the ladies or those guys you could do that. You can make the head of a big, big walk-in hanging locker what are these controls over here?

Capn Tinsley: 30:07

is that heat?

Darrell Allen: 30:08

well, this is the Webasto heater, so we have a vent coming out in here somewhere and then this is obviously just regular outlets and then we do the USB C and A controls as well and this is actually a little temperature sensor for the Robasto. If you buy it as a trawler, this compression post will go away and we do have a leather-wrapped piece that's going to go on here, that's going to Velcro on here, so it'll be basically the same upholstery that's in the boat will cover this compression post up. This is the first deck step island packet ever, but we did that so we could build the boat as a trawler as well. So if you don't want the mast, you don't have to have the mast. And obviously, if we don't supply the mast and we don't supply the winches and all the sails, we can build it as a trawler for even less.

Darrell Allen: 30:58

So the way this boat sits right here, loaded out, as you saw, with water maker, generator, air conditioning, webasto heater, she's in the low nines. So a trawler would even be less than that. How much it would be under nine. You know $50,000 to $60,000 less than the equipment if we build it as a trawler.

Leslie Allen: 31:16

You know, we haven't built a trawler yet.

Darrell Allen: 31:18

Yeah, yeah, but if you want a trawler, I can give you a price. You know this boat is a base price at $699. So they added you know you know what two hundred and you know twenty-five thousand dollars with extras. So the base boat. You can go sailing, you can go motoring. What we call the options is basically the creature comforts and electronics, and then the solar solar. The boat will have solar on the hardtop, yeah, we're gonna have walkable panels on the hardtop, yeah. And then, as I mentioned before, I can't open this with this door open, but this does open to provide access to the engine room. Was that just a little?

Capn Tinsley: 31:51

bit of a yeah, because down there it looked like a dead end. But okay, that's cool.

Darrell Allen: 31:54

Yeah, I want to see, but you'd have to close the door and then stand against the door.

Capn Tinsley: 31:58

I won't make you do it.

Darrell Allen: 32:01

Well, this is all impressive, and you know what, if you came to us and said you know what I cruise with my grandkids, I want a door here We'll figure out a way to make a door. We could probably make a sliding door that would slide into the guest cabin. That would slide right out.

Capn Tinsley: 32:21

But then we'd havedle.

Darrell Allen: 32:23

You know. Bring us your ideas, you know. Let us know what would make you happy and we're here to build your dream boat. Every Island Packet owner we work with we are very fortunate to be able to build their dream boat.

Leslie Allen: 32:35

They usually have experience and know what they've missed on their last boat.

Darrell Allen: 32:40

All different types. Tinsley, we have people that you know have chartered boats but never owned a boat but have chartered every make out there. And you know they retire and they know they want an island packet because they know they want to go cruising and they want to be safe and they want good resale value. And all of them come with great ideas. And you know some people like the traditional island packet colors of ivory and camel, tan, tan. But honestly, the the dove gray or graystone and the off-white is just as popular. We build about the same amount of boats with maple as we do with the sapele and now we're going to start offering cherry. So it's really about building your boat. We only build about 12 boats a year. They're all very unique, they're all custom, they're all pre-sewed and, as I mentioned the very beginning, we've got one slot left for the motor sailors at the discounted price. So give us a call. We'd love to build your boat. And, as always, leslie and I'd say god bless to everybody and you know, good luck and have fun cruising.