Millennial Falcon. It doesn’t quite conjour up whimsical thoughts of sailing into the sunset like the name ‘Serenity’ might do – but it did make us laugh when our friend jokingly suggested it at a farewell BBQ in Perth.
I’d recently learnt that people born between 1981 and 1996 were considered millennials and shared this fact with our group of friends. Some, including me, were a bit surprised when they first learnt this… I had a whopping 2 photos on Instagram, hadn’t posted on Facebook in 3 years and while I would turn to google to get some facts in a conversation, I could easily go a few days without turning my phone on. Not common traits of a ‘Millennial’.
So sitting down with our friends that morning after having discussed the newly released Star Wars film , this ironic and amusing name appealed to us and summed Adam and I up perfectly…
A little nerdy, unique and unconventional, able to laugh at ourselves and hopefully give others a chuckle too when they read our boat name… Millennial Falcon aka Millie.
The Millennial Falcon is a centre cockpit, 1981 Tayana Vancouver 42 built by Ta Yang in Taiwan. Ta Yang means ‘big ocean’ in Mandarin and Tayana means ‘belongs to big ocean’.
Since 1973, the yard has built over 1,400 blue water cruisers, 200 of them being a Tayana 42. It was co designed by boat builder Robert Harris and as the name suggests, she is 42 feet in length and has a distinctive canoe stern design.
Length Over All (LOA): 41’9″ / 12.7m
Length at Waterline (LWL): 33′ 0″ / 10.1m
Beam: 12′ 6″ / 3.8 m
Draft: 5’ 10″ / 1.8m
Displacement: 29,147lbs / 13,225kg
Sail Area: 1009 sq ft / 77.4 sq m
Fuel Tankage: 120 US gal. / 454 l (in two stainless steel tanks)
Water Tankage: 150 US gal. / 567 l (in two stainless steel tanks)
Engine: 55hp Yanmar 4JH5E
If you’re not much of a reader and want to see all our boat details in a boat tour we’ve created a video tour of the Millennial Falcon here…
