List of options and features installed (and working) on Escape Cay. All property mentioned including non-attached property, such as the submersible handheld VHF or laptop computer, are included in the purchase price of $629,000.

1. Although the boat is an "owners’ version" as opposed to a "charter" version, it sleeps seven in dedicated bunks but you could add four or five more as follows: Two in the port bow, three in the port aft cabin (2 on a queen sized bunk plus one in the "loft" bunk), and two in the owner's king sized bed starboard aft). A unique feature of this particular owner's version of the 471 is the port aft cabin's ability to "split" into two down and one up configuration. Hence three unrelated people can share that cabin without sharing a bunk. However, for those special days when the whole family (or neighborhood) comes down to visit, the cockpit table will lower so that it, together with the cockpit seats, converts into another king/queen for two more guests. You could also sleep three children or one adult on the settee. Plus, the trampoline has had many a slumber party and could act as a dormitory in itself (on warm rainless nights of which there are many during the Caribbean "winter.")
2. Dinghy:
1. Dinghy is a 10’ Avon with a 15 hp Mariner outboard, just four years old. We like the Mariner’s ability to control direction, throttle, gear changes, and even stopping the engine from the tiller while looking forward.
2. Mainsheet cam cleats for when the two mainsheet winches are being used for the dinghy
3. Small cleat installed on aft stbd transom near the fresh water deck fill allowing for unattended filling (by lashing the garden hose to the deck fill)
4. This cleat also serves much better for attaching the dinghy painter getting it further away from the boat thus preventing the dinghy from "humperdinking" the transom when hit by just the right wave pattern e.g. the wake from a passing boat.
3. Windgenerator arch
1. Navtex Ant
2. Emergency VHF Ant
3. Stern light (doesn't blind crew in cockpit as it did when mounted on stern rail)
4. TWO Four Winds II wind generators
5. VERY handy for getting into and out of the water, dinghy, and even walking on and off a gang plank or passerelle (of which there is one on board).

4. Both toilets plumbed so that, when directed overboard, waste goes straight out and not through the long anti-siphon loop, as is required for monohulls.
5. Both engines have high output Balmar alternators and MaxCharge "smart" regulators.
6. The nav station has been remodeled with a laptop computer in mind. When the boat was new, opening up a laptop at the nav station would block the instruments behind (like wind speed, wind angle, and auto pilot controls). Hence you would have to constantly raise and lower the laptop's screen. But now, the laptop sits in a rack below (on a docking station) and is accessed via a wireless keyboard and mouse. This fully configured Dell 600M laptop with Bluetooth, wifi, and 60G hard drive is included in the sale price. (Another "backup" Dell, fully configured for navigation, email, weatherfax, etc. is stored in the included "Faraday Box" located under the owner's berth, which will protect it (and other backup electronics stored there, from lightening.)
7. Nav station faces forward making it much less confusing going from the "video chart view" to the "real view" out the saloon windows. With the great visiability of the saloon, it is really nice to be able to sit up a little and look out the windows forward to search for traffic, then return to the radar screen or chart without losing orientation.
8. Galley is up and aft so that, when sliding doors are open, galley and cockpit are unified. Anyone fixing drinks, snacks, dinner, or washing up can still participate in the discussions going on in the cockpit.
9. TWO autopilots! If one fails, merely turn that one off and turn the other on!
1. The ST7000 + is Catana's OEM autopilot.
2. We added a Robertson (Simrad now) AP20 auto pilot with rate sensing fluxgate compass which eliminates fishtailing in all but very heavy seas. That A/P has handled the boat in all points of sail, in all winds (up to 40 kts). Besides the ST7000 for a backup, there is a backup J300X system board for the Robertson available if desired.
10. Refrigerator, freezer, AND an icemaker. In addition to the obvious benefits of an icemaker, it was originally ordered to act as an energy storage device. That is, when the wind is blowing hard, the sun is shining, the batteries are topped off, rather than shutting down the power generating equipment, you have the option to make ice. You can then throw it in the refrigerator (or cocktail glasses to be the hit of any sundowner party in the anchorage) as the sun goes down and recover perhaps half of the otherwise lost energy. But it turned out to have an added benefit: The refrigeration units are water cooled so useless on the hard. But the icemaker is air cooled so it is a simple thing to make ice and pour it into the refrigerator for cold drinks when you need them most, on the hard!
11. Single sideband radio upgraded to Pactor III capability for doing email form anywhere in the world ($250/year total) and for receiving weather and weather faxes.
12. All nav instruments "talk" to each other with these results:
1. A/P can steer to a waypoint (or run a route)
2. A/P can keep a constant pre-set angle to the wind, very nice when you are beating into the wind and the wind keeps changing direction because you can trim the sails for, say, 38 degrees and the A/P will keep that point of sail.
3. Cockpit instruments show distance to waypoint, VMG (velocity made good), apparent wind angle, true wind angle, and true wind direction Magnetic in addition to the more common boat speed and wind speed.
4. Radar will show lat/long of cursor so that the person on watch can obtain course and speed of a target
5. A safe route can be plotted on the computer and then uploaded to the gps so that if the laptop crashes, the route will still be contained in the gps, giving you time to swap it for the backup stowed in the Faraday box.
13. The tricolor LED light at the top of the mast converts to a very low power consuming anchor light with the flip of a switch. Once switched on, the anchor light goes on automatically at dusk and off at dawn, as do the running lights.   A toggle switch at the nav table determines which "mode" that light will be in, anchor or running).
14. Fishing equipment:
1. Two telescoping outrigger poles. This greatly assists in bringing fresh food into the boat because the lure is much more visible outside of the “wash” of the hulls.
2. Canon down rigger and mount
3. Magma fish cleaning table that installs on the stern rail. We almost always clean our fish shortly after catching them.
15. Prop and rudder protecting skegs with SS skids
16. Rack and pinion steering (NOT HYDRAULIC) so no chance of misaligned rudders as is often the case with OEM hydraulic steering. And no annoying chore of bleeding the air out of the hydraulic steering system as is so often the case with the "stock" Catana steering system.
17. Sunbrella Sun shades all around. Factory installed them by stapling them to the teak trim and then covering with another piece of teak trim making it impossible to remove them for long term storage or repair. The mounting method has been changed to a boltrope system where a track is permanently mounted on the bimini and the sunshades modified with a boltrope/hem arrangement now so that they slide in and out easily as desired.
18. New windlass (Ocean 3) was installed in its own housing to protect against sea water incursion when in a seaway (unlike the way it was configured when it was new).
19. Aluminum passerelle for boarding while Med moored. This was a $1,000 euro option.
20. Yanmar 56 HP main engines with less than 1100 hours each. Yanmars are famous for yielding long, maintenance-free life spans, especially compared to Volvos, the OEM equipment.
21. Volvo 3-bladed folding props for an extra "clean" bottom
22. Spectra watermaker which produces 12 gph of fresh, clean, drinkable water, in the Caribbean.
23. Factory installed air conditioning for getting a good night's sleep on those hot days with no breeze
24. 5.5 KW Northern Lights genset so that when there is no sun or wind, you can still charge batteries efficiently without running one of the main power plants which is supposed to be bad for them. They say it's bad to run a 56 hp diesel in order to extract a mere 3 HP worth of electricity from it.
25. Incredible amounts of storage:
1. Many shelves were added throughout.
2. Cargo netting along "alleyways" allow for even more storage.
3. There is even tough, light plastic shelving in the bilges for storing canned goods and the like for long passages without the chance of bouncing against a through hull.
26. Sea water foot pump at the galley sink for rinsing food particles off dishes before washing in fresh water, washing hands, cleaning out bilge pump filters, etc., or even adding 20% sea water for boiling pastas when in especially clear water.
27. Removed tiny Catana OEM trash basket in the trash "cupboard" and custom built one of 1/8" thick plywood, then fiber glassed it. Also ordered custom heavy mil bags to fit it perfectly. Now, when we move garbage to the bow locker (when we can't bring it ashore), the plastic is thick enough that it doesn't hole out and SPILL liquids into the locker!
28. Anchor Tackle:
1. Stainless Steel Anchor with Stainless Steel chain (220') as opposed to the 140’ of galvanized chain that came with the boat when new.
2. Primary anchor is 44 LB SS & Alum Hydrobubble and sets EVERYTIME! Chain will never rust!
3. The chain locker has been redesigned (as per photos on
   www.escapecay.com/CatanaOwnersClickHere/ThingsWeHaveDoneToOur471.htm) Anchor chain now NEVER "Dairy Queens" up to the point of jamming the windlass. This should be put under safety features because in the past, it would hamper anchor raising. You would always have to push over the pile while bringing up the chain and when you forgot, the chain would jam in the windlass and blow the breaker (under the nav station). You would then have to abandon the work at the bow to go into the saloon to reset the breaker! In the meantime, the helmsman would have to continue to hold the boat in place and avoid putting any strain on the windlass. In a storm, something could break.
   In redesigning it, we rotated the windlass motor out of the way of the "hawsepipe" which was open to the sea, and built a wall around it. Now, even in a heavy sea way, the windlass motor never gets doused in salt water as it did before we had to replace it in 2004
4. Replaced OEM Lewmar remote with a simple, DPDT switch housed in a waterproof housing and connected with a 40' straight cable (as opposed to the OEM curlycue 15 ft or so).
5. Secondary is a 44 LB Delta plow type anchor
6. Third is a large Fortress FX 22 aluminum anchor.
29. Electric sea water pump in anchor locker with long self-retracting hose for washing mud off anchor, hosing down cockpit after catching/cleaning a fish, etc.
1. Fresh water garden hose connection in port engine room for hosing anything with fresh water.
2. Small cleat installed on aft stbd transom near the fresh water deck fill allowing for unattended filling.
30. Two (instead of one) amidships cleats on each side
31. Push button switch at helm wired in parallel with power winch in cockpit. This allows you to raise the sail at the same time you are motoring forward to recover the anchor. Timed right, the main is all the way up just as the anchor comes out of the water allowing you to fall off the wind and turn the diesels off at that time. This avoids having to bring the boat into the wind later while the main is raised, many times in rougher seas. This can even be done in fairly crowded anchorages once you get to know the boat pretty well.
32. Safety Equipment:
1. Liferaft stowed in external, exposed compartment for easy, immediate, emergency deployment simply by pulling a well marked handle in the cockpit. Liferaft is due for inspection.
2. Abandon ship bag kept in starboard head near emergency exit including EPIRB registered to Escape Cay (which needs 5 year inspection now and re-registration of new owner's contact information, although the battery was good in May).
3. SS hand grips on coach roof located such that jib sheets can no longer chafe gel coat.
4. Teak hand grips at strategic places in the cockpit.
5. Lifelines at 30 inches, not the Catana standard 24 which are more of a tripping hazard than safety device.
6. ANCHOR Drag Alarm! Boat has custom designed relay connected to gps and smoke detector alarm so if anchor drags, you will not sleep through it!  (There is an identical gps (Garmen 128) kept in the Faraday box in case a lightening hit takes out the first one. In that case, you simply swap one for the other; takes three minutes.      
7. There are two sets of navigation/runnin lights:

i. A very low power consuming LED tri-color at the top of the mast provides very long range visual acquisition while drawing low power. (This one can be converted to a very bright and distinctive anchor light at the flip of a switch at the nav station. Both turn off automatically at dawn.)

ii. Plus, the OEM nav lights at the bow and stern provide an excellent backup. The stern white light has been relocated to the top of the wind generator arch so that it does not reduce night vision of any crew in the cockpit like the OEM sternrail light did.

8. Emergency VHF antenna mounted on the wind generator arch in case something should happen to the one at the masthead.
9. B&G Full Function Displays in all the normal places so they can be seen from the cockpit and nav station PLUS one in the owner's stateroom. Thus, when it sounds like the wind has come up, you can wake up and see the wind speed exactly. (A glance at the compass will tell you if the wind has shifted.) And when underway with a not-totally-experienced crew on watch while you are sleeping, you can keep an eye on wind angle, wind speed, heading, etc. if you like and feel comfortable going back to sleep knowing everything is normal.
10. Life-buoy-type of horseshoe device for throwing to an MOB. The lifebuoy contains the normal safety items you would attach to it such as a mirror, whistle, and strobe light to assist in locating the MOB. But it also has a submersible VHF handheld radio enabling the MOB to direct the big boat (with it's 71' mast) back to the MOB! It's quite a trick to locate and maintain a visual on the MOB. However, the MOB will have no trouble obtaining a visual on the big boat if it gets within 3-4 MILES of the MOB. So while motoring back to the MOB, you might hear, "Come to port 40 degrees and you'll be heading right for me. You look like you're about a half mile out yet."
11. Dual 500 series Racor fuel filters in each engine room. If ever an engine should quit due to dirty fuel or water, the large lever can be switched to the other new Racor filter to get you going immediately, as opposed to the usual "fix" of trying to change the filter while underway (in a seaway) and then bleeding the injectors. Then the bad filter can be swapped out at your leisure at the next anchorage.
12. Three electric bilge pumps in each bilge plus one manual pump, operable from the cockpit, for each hull.
13. FIVE sources of weather exist, none relying on expensive and quirky satellite technology:

1. Weather fax 4 times/day via the US Coast Guard transmissions in New Orleans (and similar sources when not in the Caribbean or coastal waters). This gives about 6 different views of the present, 24, 48, and 72 hour wind and wave forecasts along with wave height, pressure isobarics, and most importantly wind barbs. It covers the entire Caribbean and North Atlantic. Satellite views are also transmitted.

2. "Fax copies" of NMN reports produced by NOAA, that is to say, a photo of the text.

3. Email copies of the last mentioned source. This Sailmail feature has total flexibility. You can ask it to email you as many times per day as you like and at the exact times of day you wish. You can also determine the areas of the world covered. In the Caribbean, for example, you could request that it email you the entire text of the Caribbean Sea and SW N. Atlantic Ocean or just the Windward Islands.

4. "Grib Files" produced by various sources. These highly compressed images show wind barbs (and pressure gradients if you like) for the geographical areas you specify. Once requested, these arrive attached to emails on an automatic basis at the times and you specify.

5. Various weather "nets" operated around the world by volunteers. These only require an SSB (like the Icomn M710 already installed) and do not need the computer or Pactor.

6. Navtex transmissions which cover all parts of the world and are independent of the SSB/Computer/Pactor equipment, needed for the first five sources.

See www.escapecay.com/TheYacht.htm for information about optional equipment purchased in 2001, plan view, and more from back then. The above list is mostly comprised of equipment added since then . . . making this boat, litterally, better than when new!