1985 Ta Shing Baba 40

Preliminary Listing: more photos to come... 

This vessel is available now and the seller is considering all formal offers made. Standing rig, deck, tanks & stainless hardware have all been replaced. 

Brainchild of Bob Berg & Bob Perry, the Baba is a classic bluewater boat. Built in Taiwan by the renowned Ta-Shing Yacht Building Co.

From Bob Perry, who also designed the Valiant 40:  “The Baba 40 is one of my all time favorite designs. It is superbly well balanced and goes upwind in a breeze like a freight train…I have often thought that the layout on the Baba 40 was one of the very best I have ever drawn. That's probably due to Bob Berg's influences.”

A treat for ocean cruising, she is seakindly & stable with a cutter rig, canoe stern, full keel, and heavy displacement.  

The current owner, a retired boat mechanic, did a pre-covid refit for East Coast & Caribbean cruising. Short-handed set up & original engine has been well maintained.

Basic Information

Dimensions & Weight

Engine

Tank Capacities

Accommodations

Interior

A perfect liveaboard style with functional design, ample storage & two cabin, one head layout. Engine access under companionway, U-shaped galley to port and aft cabin to starboard. Large saloon & navigation area found midship. Master cabin forward along with single head.

The interior feels like home. It is bright & airy with over 6’5” headspace, over a dozen combined deck prisms, opening portlights & hatches; four Dorade vents; electric fans throughout. Ruby red upholstery compliments the gorgeous woodwork & joinery that fills this jewel of a boat.

Nav Station

• 120V AC/ 12V DC Electrical Panels

• Standard Horizon Explorer VHF

• AIMS Power Pure Sine Wave Inverter

• Raymarine Wind/Depth Instruments

• Ritchie Compass

• Clarion Marine FM/AM/Aux Stereohead

• 12V Fan

• Chartplotting Table

• Conant Thermometer

• Opening Portlight

• Wet locker

Saloon

• U-Shaped Dinette Seating

• Gorgeous Starburst Table

• Large Dutch Pendulum Oil Lamp

• Dickinson Propane Heater (independently fed & vented)

• Butterfly Hatch with Wooden Framed Screens

• 5 Opening Portlights

• Settee Storage; Open Shelving & Outboard Cabinets on both Port & Starboard

• Starboard Full Length Settee with Storage 

• LED lighting

• Large Hanging Locker

    
Galley

• Propane Three-Burner Gimbaled Stove Top

• Dual Deep Basin Stainless Sink

• Fresh & Salt Water Foot Pump

• Isotherm Refrigeration (Not Currently Functioning)

• Storage: (8) Drawers; Cabinets- 4 Outboard, 1 Under Sink 

• Overhead Vent

• 2 Opening Portlights 

• 12V Fan

Aft Cabin

• Double Bed

• Huge Lined Hanging Locker

• 3 Drawer Storage Under Berth

• Built in Nightstand with Drawer & Cabinet Storage

• 2 opening portlights & overhead vent

• LED & lamp lighting

• Mirrored medicine cabinet 

• 12V Fan

• Side Engine Room Access

Head

• Raritan Marine Electric Flush Toilet

• Marble Top Vanity with Stainless Sink Basin

• Separate Shower Stall with Teak Bench

• Portable Shower Head

• 2+ Outboard Cabinets

• Dorade Vent 

Forward

• Offset V Berth Double Bed w/ Dressing Seat

• 2 Opening Portlights; 1 Overhead Hatch; 1 Vent; 1 Prism

• Surrounding Outboard Cabinets

• Hanging locker

• LED & Lamp Lighting

• Fan

Hull & Deck 

• Solid Hand-Laid GRP Hull

• Full Keel

• Cast Iron Ballast

• Canoe Stern

• Bowsprit

• Non-Skid Deck Replaced Teak (During Current Ownership)

• All Stainless Fittings Replaced/ Tracks Rebedded

• Double Life Lines 

• 75# CQR Primary Anchor w/ 230’ chain + nylon rode

• 45# CQR Secondary Anchor w/ chain & rode

• Ideal Electric Windlass

Mechanical & Electrical

• Volvo MD 30A 62HP (Exact Hours Unknown approx 3000)

• High output (125amp) Alternator 

• (2) ⅜” Aluminum Fuel Tanks 

• 2022 House Batteries

• Ampair Wind Generator (Not Functioning)

• 50’, 110V Shore Power Cord

• Autopilot

Rig & Sails

• Standing Rigging Replaced 2003

• Cutter Rigged

• Full Battened Main

• Lazy Jack System

• 130% Genoa

• Staysail

• Spinnaker

• Short Handed Sailing Setup

• (2) Lewmar 30 Mast Winches

• Lewmar Clutches

• Harken Blocks  

Cockpit

• Steering Pedestal 

• Custom Hard Top Dodger with Eisenglass

• Bimini & Connector Canvas

• Wooden & Stainless Helm

• Garmin EchoMap Chartplotter

• Stainless Stern Pulpit

• Extra Danforth Anchor

• Two Outboard Engine & Mounts (Yamaha 4 stroke, Mercury 3.3) 

• All Lines Run Cockpit

• Lewmar Winches (2) 48; (1) 40; (2) 30

• 4 Bench Lazarettes

• Propane Locker Starboard Aft Quarter

• Teak Cockpit Sole Grate

• Depth & Wind Instruments