1982 Kettle Creek Boatworks 42 Long Range Cruiser

Stepping aboard Tsimshia, you understand her thoughtfully designed tri-cabin layout that balances offshore functionality with the warmth of a classic liveaboard. Built to be a home away from home on long transoceanic passages, the interior features a timeless, traditional aesthetic with wood veneer panelling and solid wood trim.

The layout is configured as two-stateroom yacht with two enclosed heads, offering excellent privacy for owners and guests on extended voyages.

Forward Cabin (Guest Stateroom):
Accessed via the helm station, the forward cabin serves as a comfortable guest stateroom with a large V-Berth. This space features its own enclosed head complete with a vanity-mounted sink and marine toilet, providing a private retreat for overnight guests or crew. There is access to the engine room from the forward cabin.

Main Cabin, Helm Station, Galley:
Steps lead up from the forward cabin into the bright and spacious main cabin, which acts as the central hub of the yacht:

• Helm Station: Forward in this space, the captain enjoys excellent visibility at the single-station helm.

• Salon & Dinette: A welcoming salon is in the same space as the helm station. The area features comfortable seating and an adjustable table, perfect for dining, entertaining, or spreading out charts for passage planning. It can go higher, lower and fold into a large and medium table.

• Galley: Located conveniently adjacent to the salon, the galley is well-equipped for long-range cooking. It features a counter-mounted sink, a 2-burner pressurized kerosene cooktop alongside an AC microwave oven, and a below-counter AC/DC refrigerator with an icebox and a below-counter AC/DC 1.9 cu/ft freezer.

• Deck Access: Port and starboard doors lead directly from the main cabin to the side decks—a critical safety and convenience feature for docking and handling lines in locks.

• Engine Access: Hatches in the cabin sole provide additional access to the engine/machinery space for quick checks.

Aft Master Stateroom:
Steps lead aft and down from the galley into the owners stateroom. This large suite is appointed with two berths and features its own enclosed head. The head is a standout feature for a vessel of this size, offering not only a vanity-mounted sink and toilet but also a separate tub/shower—a rare luxury that significantly enhances comfort during extended liveaboard cruising. A door leads from the aft cabin directly out to the aft cockpit.

Built in Canada by Kettle Creek Boat Works Ltd. , Tsimshia is a custom tri-cabin trawler-style motor yacht designed for serious offshore capability by engineer D.C. MacPhail and yacht consultant P.L. Friedman. This is not a production boat—she was conceived, designed, and built with one purpose in mind: to cross oceans while also ensuring comfortable cruising on Canada’s remote and rainy west coast. Her displacement hull with soft chines, raked bow, cruiser stern, and long keel was engineered for seaworthiness in heavy seas.

With a fuel capacity of 2,800 litres, Tsimshia possesses the range to undertake transatlantic passages—from Canada to Europe—and then continue seamlessly into the Mediterranean and the inland canal systems of France, Holland, and beyond. .

This yacht has been carefully maintained and was professionally surveyed in April 2022, with the surveyor concluding she is “heavily built and appears to be in good overall condition” and “fit for her manufacturer’s intended use.”

If you are looking for a capable, go-anywhere cruiser that can take you long distances, efficiently and safely.

The Lister HRW3MGF is a legendary, heavy-duty 3-cylinder, water-cooled diesel engine built by R.A. Lister & Co. (now Lister Petter). It is known for its bulletproof mechanical reliability with a reputation for 50,000 hr lifespans before requiring any major overhaul. Simple, strong and reliable.

• Twin 1982 Lister HRW3MGF 3-cylinder naturally aspirated diesel inboards—46 HP each

• Fuel capacity: 2,800 litres in four welded steel tanks

• Newage Marine PRM-160 gears with 3.0:1 reduction

• 1-3/4″ stainless steel propeller shafts with mild steel intermediate shafts.

• Bronze 3-blade propellers (RH & LH)

• Hydraulic Wagner steering with emergency tiller

• Single-station Morse cable controls

• Fresh water cooling via engine-mounted heat exchangers

DC Electrical (12V):

• 2 x Group 27 starting batteries

• 2 x Group GC 6V house batteries

• Engine-mounted alternators

• Victron battery charger

• Fuse-protected DC panel at helm

AC Electrical (120V):

• 30A marine twist-lock shore connection

• Genset driven by the starboard propulsion engine

Electronics

• Uniden Solara VHF with DSC

• Marine 480 depth sounder with flasher

• Wagner S50 autopilot

• Wagner rudder angle indicator

• Internally gimbaled magnetic compass

• Raymarine depth sounder with digital readout

• Fresh water system with 2 pressurized aluminum tanks and 2 stainless tanks with a hand pump.

• Two enclosed heads with manual marine toilets

• Blackwater holding tanks with shore pump-out only. A hand pump can be used when required.

• 2-burner pressurized kerosene cooktop

• AC microwave and toaster oven

• AC/DC refrigerator and icebox

• Below-counter AC/DC NovaKool 1.9 cu ft (54 L ) freezer.

• Water heater with AC electric and engine coolant heating coils

• Fortress F37 lightweight anchor

• CQR plow style and stockless spare anchors

• Hydraulic windlass driven by the port propulsion engine

• Wood cabin-top handrails and cast aluminum cleats

• 3 x 12V electric bilge pumps with auto function

• 2 x manual bilge pumps

• 3 x 1A10BC and 2 x 6A80BC dry chemical fire extinguishers

• Fire axe

• CO detector

• Lifebuoy, buoyant heaving line, reboarding device, crew-overboard pole with flag.

• Electric and portable air horns

• Navigation lights

• Radar reflector

• Gale Rider drogue

• Livingston tender on back deck launched and retrieved with electric winch and manual wormdrive topping lift.