Julia Max is a truly unique find for owners seeking a well-founded, extraordinarily well-maintained, sea-kindly yacht suited to ocean and coastal voyaging as well as local cruising and day sailing. Her ketch rig offers a versatile range of sail combinations to manage and balance her on any point of sail, while her center cockpit and dodger provide ample protection from the conditions one might expect on a blue-water passage or points north in Alaska Designed by Doug Peterson and built by Peter Hoyt at the Shin Fa Boatyard in Taiwan, Julia Max has been in the care of her current owners for 20 years. In that time, they've sailed her the length of the Atlantic Seaboard and into the Caribbean, transited the Panama Canal, crossed the Pacific to New Zealand, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Tonga, and Fiji, and thenthe length of the Pacific Coast of North America including extended time in Alaska. She's been continuously upgraded by her current owners, with most major work carried out by Schooner Creek in Portland: both mizzen and main masts repainted, standing rigging replaced, chainplates pulled, inspected, and reinstalled (2020), new North Dacron cruising sails (2019), and a full engine overhaul (2025). Beyond the upgrades and replacements, what stands out most is the clear, functional logic of her deck and sail-handling layout, the product of years of extended offshore miles, evident the moment you step aboard. Things are simply where they need to be for shorthanded voyaging in any weather. There is not a better example of a Passport/Hoyt 45 on the market today, nor is there likely to be. Choose a destination and go. She's ready for her next stewards to continue her journey.
From the owners: "Our retired life has been filled with sailing adventures in exotic places. Julia Max has been a wonderful sailboat for the two of us."
Bluewater Yacht Sales is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Swiftsure Yachts. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel