The Boat

SV Roaming Wild is our Bluewater ready 1990 Hunter Passage 42, and the heart of our family’s sailing adventure. When we chose her, we knew we wanted a boat that could carry us safely across oceans, support full-time liveaboard life, and give our children a comfortable, stable home on the water. This boat checked every box. The Hunter Passage 42 is known for its strong build, spacious center cockpit, and incredibly livable interior, and Roaming Wild has all of that and more.

She is outfitted for serious off-grid cruising, which was exactly what we were looking for. She came with a turbocharged Yanmar 4JH-TE diesel engine (55hp) with just 2,733 hours, giving us confidence in her reliability for coastal passages and future bluewater crossings. Her electrical system was a major selling point: a massive 1000 amp-hour AGM battery bank, 840 watts of solar, and an upgraded high-output alternator give us the ability to stay off-grid for long stretches without sacrificing comfort or safety. She also came equipped with a 22-gallon-per-hour watermaker, a game changer for a family of four planning to live aboard and eventually travel internationally.

Roaming Wild has modern navigation instruments, chartplotting, and radar. She’s ready for the kind of voyaging we want to do. Inside, Roaming Wild has the classic center-cockpit layout the Passage 42 is famous for: a bright, open salon, a spacious aft cabin we instantly fell in love with, a well-designed galley, a dedicated nav station, and a walk-through engine room that makes boat projects so much easier. There’s space for our kids to play, room for us to work, and enough storage to actually live comfortably while preparing for longer passages.

Today, SV Roaming Wild isn’t just a boat we bought, she’s our home, our teacher, and the vessel that’s pushing our dream forward. With her robust solar system, reliable Yanmar engine, upgraded electronics, and powerful watermaker, she gives us the independence and capability we need to explore the world as a family.