Cruising Sailboat For Sale in Pacific Mexico

Our boat, SV Mosaic, is for sale. She’s been our home since the fall of 2016 and we’ve loved our adventures within her sturdy hull, but it’s time for our family to move on to something new. It’s time to sell our beloved boat.

CURRENT LOCATION: Marina Chiapas, Mexico – southern border of Mexico
PRICE: $35,000 OBO, as-is, where-is
CONTACT US: Send an email to MosaicVoyage@gmail.com

The Specs

SV Mosaic is a 1978 Sparkman & Stephens designed Fuji 40. She was built in Japan and is hull #2 of only about 13 ever made. At 40 feet long and 27,000 pounds empty, she’s a big girl, and sturdily built. The hull is solid fiberglass and the deck has a compressed foam core.

Mosaic has a nice aft stateroom beneath the cockpit with master (double) berth on the port side and a short quarter berth/storage bunk on the starboard side with hanging locker. An additional hanging locker sits above the engine bay at the front wall of the aft cabin.

Moving forward, the spacious nav station is on the starboard side just past the door out of the aft stateroom and equal with the companionway stairs which are nested above the engine bay. The U-shaped sea-going galley is equal with the nav station and companionway, on the port side.

Amidships, there’s a nice L-shaped settee on the starboard side around the mid-line table. On the forward end of the saloon area, we’ve mounted our little Cubic Mini Wood Stove on the bulkhead next to the keel-stepped mast. Across the saloon, there’s another settee on the port side and a raised pilot berth along the port hull.

Moving further forward from the saloon, the single head is on the starboard side and a nice big wet, hanging locker across from that on the port side. A deeply divided v-berth up front has been our kids’ room for the past 8 years. Each berth in the front is about 7 feet long and only connected at the forward ~3 feet so it works well for two kids as each still has their own bed.

The below photos are NOT CURRENT PHOTOS but are the best we have to show the actual space inside Mosaic. We do not have current photos at this time. (Will definitely update this when we return to the boat next!)

Captain’s Berth:

Galley: *Now has a 2017 Force 10 three-burner propane stove/oven.

Saloon looking back:

Here you can see the seat to the Nav Station and the door back to the aft cabin.

Saloon looking forward:

*The TV has been shifted more outboard now and the Cubic Mini woodstove is mounted low between the TV and the mast.

V-Berth:

Video Tour of SV Mosaic from 2016

In addition to these photos, the realtor’s videos are still up, live on YouTube from 2016 when we bought Mosaic. You can view those here:

Interior Tour (LINK) and Exterior Tour (LINK) *NOTE: THESE VIDEOS ARE FROM 2016 WHEN WE BOUGHT THE BOAT

Now, REAL TALK:

Mosaic is in her mid-40s. And it shows. She’s been cruised hard over the past 5 years, but we’ve also put some significant upgrades into her, and we’ve cared for her as if she were our beloved home (because she was). The biggest upgrade was a brand-new Yamaha 3JH40 engine installed by Port Townsend Shipwright’s Co-op in 2019 to the tune of $40,000.

Here are some details below – please reach out, too, if you have other questions! We know this boat inside and out and we want her to find an awesome new owner. She’s worthy of world cruising, and built for it!

Detail List:

1978 Fuji 40 “Mosaic”

Engine: 2019 Yamaha 3JH40, 40 horsepower, hours: ~2300 *exact unsure, professionally installed by Port Townsend Shipwright’s Co-op – they’re awesome

Sloop rig with removeable dyneema staysail stay

Sails:

– Mainsail: brand new in 2019, good condition, 2 deep reef points

– Genoa, 130%: brand new in 2020, very good condition, hank on

– Working Jib, 90%: bought used in 2019, middling-good condition, hank on

– Drifter, ~150%: bought used in 2021, good condition, hank on

– Asymmetrical Spinnaker in Sock: bought used in 2021, good condition

– Staysail: came with boat upon purchase, good condition, hanks onto removeable staysail stay

Standing Rigging: New in 2019, due for inspection

Tankage: 50-gallon diesel tank, two 50-gallon water tanks for 100 gallons water total

Bottom:

February 2023: Full bottom job done: sanded to bare fiberglass, all blisters (~20) ground out and repaired, enclosed prop-shaft repair, epoxy coat, barrier coat, 2 coats of bottom paint
Nov 2023: Sanded again and another coat of bottom paint applied in Guaymas

Watermaker: New in Spring 2024: Seawater Pro DC 20gph, actual output ~15gph

All below-water thru-hulls replaced since purchase in 2016.

Solar: 4x 160watt Renogy solar panels = 640 watts total installed on custom made steel arch, 2 panels from 2020, 2 panels from 2021

2018 Dinghy: Zodiac Cadet 310 Aluminum: 10 feet long, deep bottom aluminum hull (single floor), ultra lightweight (~95 pounds alone), nearing end of life

Outboards:

Mercury 10hp 4-stroke 2018, in deep storage inside Mosaic (quarter berth) since 2022
Mercury 3hp 2-stroke 2022, used exclusively since purchase brand new in Mazatlan, under 30 pounds
*dinghy and small outboard are ~125pounds total, EASY to lift and haul up the beach with 3 people, pretty easy even with 2 people

Rigid/fiberglass paddleboard: huge and AWESOME ~13 feet long and 3.5 feet wide, SO stable, lots of kids can play on it without tipping

Additional inflatable paddleboard ~12 feet long and 3 feet wide, had a slow leak when last used *needed pumped up each morning

Electronics:

New in 2019: Chart plotters x2: B&G Zeus 7-inch display- one at helm, one inside at Nav station

New in 2019: B&G Triton multi-function display x2 for windspeed, depth, etc. mounted at cockpit

New in 2019: B&G VHF radio, received AIS, does not transmit

New in 2019: Wind sensor at mast head

New in 2019: Transducer: depth, boat speed & water temp

Windlass: Manual SeaTiger 555 clone

Awesome 73lb Rocna anchor – ‘the sleeping pill’ (we love our anchor, can you tell?)

240 feet of 3/8s chain, re-galvanized in 2023 plus 200 feet of rope rode spliced at end

LATE SEASON BREAKAGES FROM SPRING 2024:
– B&G Radar: new in 2019, died this spring on trip south at Zihuat – research shows it was a known flaw in the 2019 model, out of warranty
– Auto-pilot: CeTrek hydraulic ram, came with boat on purchase, failed on trip south to Chiapas, possible fix with hydraulic ram rebuild

Extras that would come with the boat if purchased in current location:
– LOTS of tools on board
– Generator: 2020 Honda 2200 watt, companion model suitcase generator – easy plug in with shorepower cord
– Singer Heavy Duty sewing machine
– Splicing supplies and lots of Dyneema

Mosaic is currently located at the southern border of Mexico in Marina Chiapas.

We fully acknowledge that this is not a good place to sell a sailboat! We didn’t intend to sell at this time, when we moved her south from the Sea of Cortez. We were planning to cruise her south this winter (2024-2025) and go through the Panama Canal to the Caribbean for a couple more years of cruising. But life happened and Brenden was offered a job we couldn’t refuse.

Though I have been working remotely while we’ve been cruising Mexico since 2021, Brenden’s fulltime job has been maintaining the boat and leading the homeschooling endeavors. We simply have no interest in continuing to cruise internationally while both of us are working remotely.

We’ve been back in the Pacific Northwest since August with our buddy boats and the marina staff keeping an eye on and taking care of Mosaic in Chiapas.

In an ideal world, we would take a few weeks of vacation time to get back to Mosaic and move her back north to La Paz to put her up for sale. As any actively-cruising sailboat does, Mosaic has some issues and is a constant project to keep full functional. If we took the time to move her north to La Paz and fix her issues to get her into prime condition to sell, we’d be looking to get $50,000 for her.

Make Us an Offer!

But maybe, just maybe, we can find somebody looking for a steal of a deal and willing to buy a good sailboat in a less-than-ideal spot. Are you interested? Let’s chat! Send us an email through the website or directly at MosaicVoyage@gmail.com ⛵

Sadly, we were in such a rush to get the boat prepped for our absence and get back to the states in time for Brenden’s first day of his new job, I didn’t take hardly any pictures the whole last week that we were there. This is my last photo of Mosaic, which I took just after finishing resealing the teak toe rails in August 2024. It’s obvious that I didn’t ‘stage’ the boat for glamour shots, haha. But here she is.