Callahan

Cruisers Callahan

Blue Water Capable Beauty with ICW-friendly mast and shoal draft.

The Taswell name is synonymous with the finest blue water yachts available today. This particular 2000 Ta Shing Taswell 44 All Season, Callahan, is a highly sought-after center cockpit cutter featuring a two-cabin, two-head layout with a shoal draft (5'6") and an ICW-friendly mast (64ft). Designed by Bill Dixon and expertly built at the prestigious Ta Shing yard, this yacht is renowned for comfortable, safe blue water sailing. 

Callahan offers a rare blend of features perfect for both true offshore capability and coastal cruising/Bahamas readiness. Actively cruised for the past two years, Callahan is turnkey and well-equipped with desirable amenities such as a sugar scoop stern, genset, watermaker, solar, a wind generator and so much more…

Highlights:

• 5’ 6” Shoal draft keel
• ICW-friendly mast 64ft
• Center cockpit/center berth queen, raised salon, sugar scoop
• Solar (2023), Wind generator 
• Northern Lights generator (only 1,999 h)
• Watermaker 
• Bow Thruster
• Starlink (2023)
• Liferaft (new in 2023)
• Reverse cycle air conditioning
• Electric halyard winch

Accommodations 

Descending the companionway, the raised main salon offers two large settees, a dining table, and a navigation station to starboard. To port, the passageway galley leads aft to the spacious owner's stateroom, which features a center-line queen berth and an en-suite head with a separate shower stall. Moving forward, a port passageway provides a custom desk with a removable stool, which can also be utilized in the main salon for extra seating. The forward V-berth cabin has adjacent access to the day head/wet head. Callahan can comfortably sleep six people across its two cabins and the convertible settee in the main salon and provides plentiful storage throughout.

The interior of Callahan boasts a bright and comfortable main salon, distinguished by varnished teak joinery, large fixed windows, and various opening portlights and hatches. Standout features include beautiful joinery, louvered cabinetry, fiddled teak trimming, integrated grab rails, and a teak and holly cabin sole.

Galley

• Front and top loading refrigerator and top loading freezer Seafrost DC (NEW 2023)
• Stainless steel Force-10 3-burner stove with oven, broiler, and ventilation hood
• Faucet upgrade (2025)
• Microwave
• Double ss sink
• Pressurized hot/cold water - dedicated fresh and salt water faucets and footpumps
• Corian surfaces
• Numerous lockers and drawers and a custom trash bin

Electronics

Nav station

• Raymarine E120 chartplotter
• Raymarine ST60 multifunction display
• ICOM IC-M802 SSB radio
• Standard Horizon VFH
• Raymarine AIS

Helm

• Raymarine E80 chartplotter
• Raymarine 48 mile radar interfaced with GPS and Autohelm
• Raymarine ST60 tridata
• Raymarine ST60+ wind instrumentation
• Raymarine ST6000 hydraulic Autohelm
• Ram mic for VHF radio
• Auto/Manual bilge pump controls
• 12VDC outlet

Entertainment and Internet

• Starlink internet (2023)
• Fusion MS-RA 70 Stereo with remote and speakers throughout

Deck

• Custom teak deck on sugar scoop (2024)
• Rail-mounted Magma-style kayak/SUP rack
• Custom deck storage box forward of mast
• Custom lower dorade guard to carry dinghy on foredeck with staysail pennant to clear dinghy
• Double lifelines with 3 gates
• Double rail bow and stern pulpits
• Two varnished teak seats for stern pulpit, one seat for bow pulpit
• Guard rail for bow running lights
• Radar pole mounted aft with outboard engine lift. Radar platform is adjustable to keep unit horizontal
• Gas BBQ stern rail with two propane tanks
• Stern shower with hot and cold water
• Stern swim platform with large storage locker, deep steps, and stainless steel hand rails
• Swim platform boarding ladder with flush fit storage locker
• One side deck and two stern storage lockers. Scuba tanks and gear fit in starboard locker.
• Goiot aluminum toe rail
• Teak rub rail with stainless steel ½” oval

Ground tackle

• Rocna Vulcan 73 lb anchor with 300 ft chain (2023)
• Secondary 55lb CQR anchor with 50 ft chain + 180 ft rode
• Electric Lewmar windlass
• Helm and bow controls for the windlass
• Segmented chain locker for primary and secondary anchor chains

Rigging

• Stainless steel standing rigging with staylock fittings (New in 2015)
• Running rigging partially replaced in the last two years
• Selden aluminum mast with double, swept back spreaders for added stiffness, and cutter rig
• Leisure Furl in-boom furling mainsail
• Forespar boom vang with controls to the cockpit
• Selden Furlex genoa furling
• Removable inner stay for staysail
• Split hydraulic backstay to accommodate easy access of the swim platform
• Running backstays
• All lines led to cockpit except for staysail and gennaker halyard
• Self-tending track for staysail with staysail sheet led aft
• Mast mounted whisker pole

Sails and Canvas

• Doyle mainsail from Super Sailmakers 
• New mainsail cover and sacrificial UV trim (2024)
• North Sails Staysail
• Sails are in good condition
• Lewmar 58 CST primary sheet winch
• Lewmar 44 CST electric winch under dodger to raise and lower Leisure main
• Lewmar 40 CST starboard mast winch
• Lewmar 44 CST port mast winch
• Bimini new in 2023
• Dodger with new strataglass (2024), removable center panel and Integrated grab rail
• Cockpit cushions 

Mechanical/Electrical

• Yanmar 4JH2-HTBE 75hp turbo diesel (5,858 hours)
• Yanmar serviced in Fall 2025 (impellers, fluids, filters etc. - rebuilt in 2015 by previous owner)
• Dual Racor
• Northern Lights 6.5kW generator (1,999 hours)
• Engine room fans on auto thermostat
• Manual oil change pump

• 3-Blade Maxi prop folding propeller (Serviced Nov 2025)
• Cutlass bearing replaced (Nov 2025)

• Two Dometic Marine Air reverse cycle A/C units; 12,000 BTU aft (New 2024) 16,000 BTU salon & forward (2017)
• House Bank: 4x AGM 200Ah (2023)
• Solar: 350W Renogy panels and controller (2023)
• Start Batteries: Renogy (2023)
• D400 Wind generator (2017, serviced in 2024 with new bearings and blades)
• Magnum Energy power management panel
• Magnum Inverter/Charger
• Balmar 100A High Output alternator
• Two 30A shore power cords and 50A splitter
• Radio grounding system and lightning protection system
• LED Mast tri-color 
• LED navigation lights
• LED spreader lights
• LED reading and courtesy lights
• Halogen overhead lights

Plumbing

• Sea Water Pro Watermaker (2023)
• 11 Gallon hot water heater – electric
• Two backup pressure water pumps
• Tank level monitors
• Manual head Raritan ElectroScan (fwd)
• Raritan ElectroScan waste treatment system (aft) 
• Pressurized foredeck freshwater washdown

Safety Equipment

• Liferaft (2023)
• ACR 406 MHz GPS EPRIB
• Rule high water alarm
• New forward bilge pump and hose (2023)
• Fire extinguishers
• Jacklines
• Safety padeyes in cockpit
• Emergency tiller

Bottom sandblasted and painted (2024)

Scuba tank with 50 ft hose

Many spare parts, filters, and maintenance supplies included in the sale

Tender/Outboard (NOT included in the sale but negotiable)

• 2024 Highfield 310 Hypalon dinghy
• 2.5hp Suzuki outboard (as-is)

Construction

The Taswell 44 hull is constructed of hand laid GRP with vinylester resin for superior moisture resistance and both mat and roving fabrics. She's a solid and stiff boat with numerous longitudinal stringers. The superior hull to deck joint is both mechanically and chemically bonded with 5200 and 3/8" stainless steel bolts on 8" centers. The deck has a sandwich construction with 1/2" end grain balsa core. In areas of high stress and heavy loads solid construction and backing plates have been utilized.

Cruising Speed/Hull speed: 7kn/8.5kn

Length Overall: 44ft

Waterline: 36.5ft

Max Bridge Clearance: 64ft

Beam: 13.8ft

Draft: 5.6

Tankage:

Fresh Water Tanks: 2x40 gal each (3rd water tank has pinhole leak and is currently decommissioned). 80 gal total

Fuel Tanks: 105gal

Holding Tanks: 40gal

Engine: Yanmar

Engine Model: 4JH2HTE

Total Power: 75hp

Engine Hours: 5858

Generator: Northern Lights

Model: 6KW Generator M/N: M6.0073L3G (6.5kw)

Hours: 1,999