Passport 42 Sailboats for Sale

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull Type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Cutter

LOA

42' · 12.8 m

Disp.

25,500 lbs · 11,567 kg

First year

1981

The Passport 42 stands as a definitive example of the "Golden Age" of Taiwanese yacht building, representing a departure from the Robert Perrydesigned models that initially defined the brand. While the more common Passport 40 and 44 models featured transom sterns, the 42 is a traditional doubleender designed by Stan Huntingford. Built primarily at the Hai Yang yard in the mid1980s, the Passport 42 was conceived as a heavydisplacement, longrange voyager. It shares a deep architectural lineage with Huntingford’s other celebrated designs, most notably the Tashiba 40 and the Panda 40, which utilized very similar hull forms to emphasize seakindliness over raw speed. According to the historical records at Passport Yachts, the brand's early success was rooted in this specific era of highquality craftsmanship in Taiwan, where massive scantlings and exquisite teak joinery were the industry standard.