28.5' Ericson 29

U.S. Coast Guard Documented Vessel
SV Vindsang is a classic boat that has been meaningfully upgraded.
**Check out most recent equipment improvements at bottom of equipment section!
She is liveaboard ready with a transferable slip at the recently remodeled and commodious Port Aransas Marina, with easy access to St Josephs Island and the many fun anchorages in Aransas Bay and Padre Island. We are on a liveaboard dock and the community and staff here at the Port Aransas Harbor is welcoming and friendly.
With just over 6ft of headroom and a large V-berth, she is the perfect boat for a couple looking to do some Gulf sailing, and even to take down to the Caribbean on a longer journey. This boat could sleep 4 with a generous quarter berth and starboard berth. She has had an engine conversion (formerly this boat was an Atomic 4 gas engine), and now has a 20 HP Beta Marine diesel engine with less than 200 hours. Her other significant upgrades include a new Garmin Nav system and VHF, 2 new water bladders, and a Dometic 12,300 BTU A/C, which is a must on the Texas Coast!
Full list of upgrades and replaced gear below.
Some work remains to be done(as with all boats) but overall she is in good working order and currently is a full-time live aboard.
We will be updating this ad as we continue to work on her and make further upgrades/maintenance etc in the coming weeks.
**Of course, the more work is done the more firm we will be on the price. Due to uprgrades completed in March(see bottom of equipment list) price is now firm at $12,500.**
If you are thinking about a Catalina, Hunter, O'Day etc. then consider stepping up to an Ericson.
She is fully insured and registered with title USCG documentation in hand.

-Encapsulated fin keel with lead ballast.
-New breakers throughout vessel (9 12-volt breakers for batteries and 2 110-volt breakers for shore power)
-Brand new shore power plug and power receptacle
-Upgraded, tinned wiring from shore power receptacle to 110V breaker panel, increased wire gauge from 12ga to 8ga wire to better accommodate Dometic A/C unit.
-Brand new port side wiring and outlets
-New GFCI outlet
-Dometic 12,300 BTU A/C unit
-New A/C intake and outlet hoses
-New A/C intake seacock
-New A/C raw water strainer

-Groco ARG-750 raw water strainer with new sight glass and strainer basket
-New raw water intake and outlet hose with inline shutoff valve
-New vented loop and hoses
-New coolant cap
-Replaced all hose clamps on engine with SS316 clamps

-Rebuilt Whale manual bilge pump
-Brand new bilge hose for entire system (manual and electric pumps)
-New thru-hulls for manual and electric bilge outlets
-Installed in-line one-way valve and strainer for manual bilge pump

-2 new 13-gallon Plastimo water bladders installed (one each on port/starboard) which increases the water capacity of the boat from 14gal to 26gal.
-New water hoses and inline valves throughout
-New water intake hose

-Dickinson 2-burner propane stove and new propane hose and hookups with inline shutoff valve

-Updated Jabsco head
-New seacocks and thru-hulls for head (intake and output)
-6 gallon blackwater tank

-New oversized seacocks for cockpit scuppers
-New dock lines and fenders

-Beta Marine 20hp engine with less than 200 operating hours
-RACOR 500FG water separator
-2 to 1 gear box upgraded transmission
-New engine air filter(OEM Beta Marine)
-New water return hose(OEM Beta Marine)
-New ignition switch(OEM Beta Marine)
-New engine stop switch(OEM Beta Marine)
-New alternator belt(OEM BM Mitsubishi)
-New Garmin Navigation System (8610 series, touchscreen)
-GMR 18 Radar Dome with Seaview radar mount
-NavPod that holds the Raymarine Autopilot and the Garmin Nav System
-Raymarine Autopilot
-New VHF Radio (Garmin 215 with GPS)

-3 Optima Blue-Top batteries

-Harken MKIII Roller Furling System
-Fortress FX 16 Spade anchor (40 ft of chain and 230 feet of rode)
-Sails in good shape (furling headsail(genoa), main, and working jib)
-Stern anchor with 260 ft of rode

-AS OF MARCH 2026: Running rigging-Main halyard=Novabraid XLE with new headboard shackle, Jib/Genoa halyard with swivel snap shackle, Topping Lift= New England Sta-Set, Main Sheet=New England Yacht braid, Boom Vang= Samson XLS3, Furler line=Samson Trophy Braid
-Complete overhaul of Jabsco manual head: all NEW hoses and vented loops, NEW Jabsco Twist and Lock pump assembly.