The Passport Vista 515 is truly a remarkable design. Built to the highest standards, her joinery, glasswork and systems installation are second to none. Design features like shoal draft, massive tankage and an ICW-capable rig make it the ideal choice for the cruising couple. An easily handled sail plan with a Solent rig means the boat sails well in all wind conditions while being controlled from the safety of the cockpit. An internally ballasted keel and skeg-hung rudder are classic Bob Perry appendages and provide excellent tracking, stiffness and helm feel. Rubycon is a pristine example of a 515 and she has been absolutely pampered. Loaded with recent upgrades like a custom KATO dinghy arch, new dinghy, solar panels, new batteries etc. etc. Highly Recommended. 

Accommodations

RUBYCON has a custom saloon sole that has been raised 5" above the standard boat. This improves sightlines and provides shorter crew members the ability to see out when below, greatly enhancing the overall experience of cruising and helps in preventing motion sickness. The headroom throughout the boat is impressive. 

The starboard settee is cleverly designed and can either be used as chairs or a settee depending upon the installation of the removable cordial table. The saloon table has two tabletops - a large dining table and a smaller cocktail table. Both have adjustable heights. The saloon table area converts to a full-size bed for additional sleeping accommodations. 

There are two large private staterooms each with en suite heads and separate shower stalls. The boat has an oversized centerline queen berth forward with a king in the aft master stateroom. Both cabins have hanging lockers and abundant storage.

Countertops in galley are Corian (color OY718), heads, and entertainment area (color NS519). The interior is lushly upholstered in ultra-suede and the Passport trademark solid teak doors and louvered lockers, honey-colored superior grade teak veneers throughout. 

Additional Features:

• - Wine and liquor locker in saloon
• - 20 Opening ports with screens
• - 5 teak framed deck hatches with screens
• - Four Ocean Series Ports in Hull (two in saloon and two in aft cabin)
• - Vanity and mirror in the aft stateroom
• - Custom flip-up headboard on aft berth
• - Upgraded innerspring mattresses with pillow tops on both berths
• - Filler cushion for saloon table
• - Curved Companionway Steps
• - Custom LED lighting
• - Tecma electric fresh and saltwater flush toilets
• - New sanitation hoses (2022)
• - Locking Floor Boards for offshore saftey 
• - 7 Hella fans (with replacement)
• - Shower sump pumps
• - All bulkheads are marine-grade plywood tabbed into the hull sides
• - Teak veneer and solid teak trim on all interior bulkheads and cabinetry
• - Teak cabin and locker doors with louvers
• - Teak handrails port and starboard
• - Solid teak and holly cabin sole
• - Locking floorboards
• - Medicine cabinets in each head
• - Automatic locker lights
• - All locker doors and cabin doors on split hinges to allow easy removal
• - Fire extinguisher (4 new 2022)
• - Four CO and smoke detectors (1 new 2022)

Hull & Deck

HULL

She is a solid fiberglass hull, hand laminated, using Knytex knitted and stitched biaxial fiberglass fabric in conjunction with mat and woven roving, and vinylester resin. Kevlar reinforcement in the hull layup. Isopthalic gelcoat on all exterior fiberglass surfaces.

Hull color is Awlgrip paint in"Claret" Hull has optional insulation above the waterline. Watertight bulkhead forward. Ideal for high-latitude cruising

A matrix of longitudinal and transverse foam cored stringers in the lower hull and hull sides provides maximum hull stiffness. Watertight bulkhead forward.

Internal lead 13,250 lbs ballast glassed into a modified fin keel. Balanced skeg-mounted rudder with internal stainless steel rudderpost and integral stainless steel reinforcement. 

The deck is a composite construction using closed cell foam coring. All deck hardware is thru-bolted using stainless steel backing plates. There is a bronze rudder shoe. 

Bronze thru hulls lubricated (2022) Bottom painted (2022) Hull sided cleaned and polished (2022) Lewmar Offshore Series stainless steel hatches with built-in screens Hood stainless steel opening ports with screens Contoured 14 mm laminated glass saloon windows 

Bottom paint and hull polish scheduled March 2024

DECK

•  Decks with teak overlay - 1.25" 34" high s/s stanchions
• - Six s/s/ custom mooring fairleads
• - Double lifelines with gates port and starboard midships 
• - Solid teak cap rail with s/s striker
• - Two molded coaming cockpit compartments with Lexan sliding doors
• - Transom hot and cold pressure shower
• - Fenders with covers
• - Mooring lines
• - Edson pedestal steering system
• - Lewmar 42" folding wheel with an elk hide cover
• - Teak eyebrows
• - Teak seats on the stern
• - Side enclosures for the cockpit
• - Teak transom seat port and starboard
• - Upgraded stainless steel hatches with screens
• - Hatch covers
• - Cockpit table cover
• - Lighthouse 1501 Electric anchor windlass with up and down footswitches    Motor replaced by Lighthouse Marine (2022)
• - Custom 316 s/s double bow rollers/ stemhead fitting
• - Custom stern anchor roller
• - Custom stainless steel flag pole
• - Fresh and saltwater anchor/deck wash systems
• - Teak Cockpit Seats and Sole
• - Five Stainless dorades with guards
• - Teak cockpit table with folding leaves 
• - Dedicated stern anchor locker
• - Custom louvered companionway door
• - Custom companionway screen and insulated cover
• - Acrylic companionway drop boards
• - Hard glass windscreen and canvas/isinglass dodger
• - Bimini with full enclosure and screens and with custom Kato stainless steel   grab rails
• - Custom 316 Stainless stern Boarding Ladder with teak steps
• - Custom side boarding ladder with teak steps modified to fold and store at lifeline gate

Electronics

Navigation & Communication

Helm:

- Richie Powerdamp compass

• - Multi-Function Display a75
• - AutoPilot Controller P70R with rudder angle indicator
• - Bow thruster controls
• - Controls for genoa and jib electric furling

Cockpit and Over Companionway

• - Multi-Function Display e125 (2015)
• - Four Raymarine i70 displays (apparent wind, speed, depth)

Nav Station

• - Multi-Function Display e125 (2015)
• - 2 Displays i70
• - Auto Pilot Controller P70R with rudder angle indicator
• - ICOM M604 VHF with RAM MIC at steering pod
• - ICOM M802 SSB with AT-140 tuner
• - Copper strapping in hull for SSB
• - Three Hayne SSB backstay insulators

Mast

• - Radar RD 424 HD Digital Radome
• - Radar reflector
• - Masthead tricolor and anchor lights with emergency strobe
• - Deck and steaming lights
• - masthead mounted Windex
• - TV Antenna: Digital mounted on the mast

Autopilot

• - ACU-400 EVI AP Sensor

Additional Electronics

• - Transceiver AIS650 Class B
• - Wifi Ranger with external antenna
• - WeBoost Cellular Booster with external antenna
• - GPS RS150 and GA200 antennas
• - Sirius XM SR150
• - Siren Marine SM-MTC-P Security System

Entertainment:

• - Samsung television and DVD player - new (2021)

Sails & Rigging

Selden triple spreader aluminum keel-stepped powder-coated white mast 

• - 1x19 stainless steel wire rigging replaced (2018)
• - Electric In-Mast Furling System
• - Furlex Electric Roller Furler for Genoa (rebuilt 2022)
• - Headstay (replace 2022)
• - Furlex Electric Roller Furler for self-tending Jib (rebuilt 2022)
• - Two Harken 70STEC Two Speed Self tailing Electric Primary Winches (Serviced 2023)
• - Two Harken 46 STEC Two Speed Self Tailing Electric Main Sheet   Winches(Serviced 2023)
• - One Harken 46 STEC Two Speed Self Tailing Electric Utility Winch - Port (Serviced 2023)
• - One Harken Electric 46 Two Speed Self Tailing Electric Utility Winch - Starboard (Serviced 2023)
• - Two Harken 46 two-speed self-tailing halyard winches on mast (Serviced 2023)
• - Selden rigid vang
• - Five halyards
• - Pole topping lift
• - Harken tracks with Harken blocks and cars
• - Harken towing cars on genoa tracks|
• - Harken main sheet traveler system
• - Harken genoa and jib tracks with cars
• - Outboard genoa tracks 
• - Harken curved athwartship traveler for working jib
• - Boom preventer
• - Whisker pole with on mast storage and deployment system
• - Removable staysail stay

SAILS

• - Electric Furlers: Selden Furlex Jib 300E and Genoa 400E (Serviced/Rebuilt 2023)
• -Quantum Tri-radial in-mast Hydranet furling mainsail with Antal clew block cleaned and serviced (2022)
• - Quantum 130% roller furling with foam luff (New 2022)
• - Quantum Self-tacking Hydranet working jib with foam luff cleaned and serviced (2022)
• - Quantum Crosscut 100% Bainbridge storm sail
• - Quantum asymmetrical spinnaker with ATN sock (New 2021)
• - Flag halyards at spreaders - Window covers for Main Salon - Hatch covers
• - New running rigging (2022) including:      main sail halyard      main outhaul      main continuous furling line      130 genoa sheets      working jib sheets      spinnaker halyard      preventer line      vang lines      traveler control lines      mainsheet     

Sail Area - Main 529 sq. ft. - 130% genoa 704 sq. ft. - Working jib 455 sq. ft. 

Performance Data S.A./Disp.: 17.50 Bal./Disp.: 36.84 Disp./Len.: 199.15 Comfort Ratio: 34.03 Capsize Screening Formula: 1.81

Upgrades

RUBYCON is equipped with a Solent rig with mounting hardware for an inner forestay. She has an electric furling genoa, electric furling working jib, bow thruster, glued teak decks in superb condition, autopilot, generator, inverter/charger, heat and air conditioning, 13 cubic feet of refrigeration/freezer, three-color radar/chart plotters, electric winches, self-tending jib, LED lighting, Spectra water maker, and a custom KATO arch that is an absolute work of art. A 2023 Highfield Dinghy and outboard convey.

RECENT UPGRADES (2020 or Newer)

• KATO Stainless steel arch with davits
• Solara solar panels on the arch
• Eclectric Energy D400 wind generator 
• Highfield CL290 9'6" inflatable with aluminum hull lockable storage locker, bow step, and running lights (new 2022)
• Yamaha 15 hp outboard
• Winslow life raft 
• Northstar start battery (2020)
• Northstar house batteries replaced (Nov 2021) 
• Replaced batteries for windlass/furlers (2022) 
• Replaced the water pump on the generator 
• Victron controller and electrical display 
• Asymmetrical spinnaker with rigging 
• Two rev. cycle A/C units replaced 
• Custom canvas shade for aft deck 
• Canvas for the companionway and wheel 
• Custom side boarding ladder

The most recent haulout in Oct 2022 and other work during the summer of 2022 included: 

• New 130% genoa (28 Oct 2022 delivery)
• Both electric headstay furlers rebuilt
• Main sail reconditioned and cleaned
• Staysail reconditioned and cleaned
• New forestay
• New boom sheaves
• New main halyard
• New mainsheet outhaul
• New mainsheets
• New continuous loop main furling line
• New spinnaker halyard
• New main sail preventer
• New vang control lines
• New traveler control lines - New mast boot
• Fresh bottom paint - Propspeed on props and shaft - Hull sides cleaned and polished - New graphics under hull side name
• New stoppers on Gori prop - New zincs - Thru-hulls lubricated
• Windlass motor replaced by Lighthouse Marine - New sanitation hoses for both heads - New pump macerator or aft Tecma head - New galley freshwater foot pump
• Four new fire extinguishers - One new CO and smoke detectors
• New cutlass bearing and shaft aligned - Main engine checked by Bayshore Marine - Cooling system: replaced thermostat, replaced raw water pump, cleaned heat exchanger and after cooler cores.

2023 - All new house batteries (Northstar - SMS-AGM 8DK-S)

Engine & Mechanical

• - Yanmar 4JH4-THE 110HP Engine (2400 hrs Apr 2023)
• - Balmar 100 amp alternator
• - 22" 3-blade folding Gori Prop
• - Shaft Shark line cutter
• - Bronze shaft strut
• - Cutlass bearing (new 2022)
• - Shaft realigned (2022)
• - Propspeed on running gear (Scheduled 2024)
• - Sidepower SP95ti Bow Thruster
• - 1 1/2" stainless steel shaft
• - Muffler/water lock system with water separator
• - Balmar 100 amp Alternator with 3 Stage Regulator
• - Edson cable steering replaced (2020) - lubricated (2023)
• - Emergency tiller
• - Racor 75500 Max 2 Dual Fuel Filter System
• - WEMA water and fuel gauges
• - Holding Tank Gauges
• - Marine Air 34K BTI Reverse Cycle Heat/AC system with 3 units; forward and aft units replace (2020)
• - Central Vacuum: Dirt Devil CV 950
• - Rule 3500 and 2000 automatic/manual bilge pumps
• - Henderson Mk-V Whale Gusher manual bilge pump
• - High bilge water alarm
• - Foam-insulated engine room
• - 12v DC exhaust fan for engine room
• - Splendide washer/dryer combo vented
• - Spectra Newport 400 MKII-Z watermaker
• - Water pumps on engine and generator replaced (2021/2022)
• - Main engine cooling system service in 2022 with Barnacle buster heat exchangers and after cooler cores were cleaned (acid and ultrasonic) new thermostat new raw water pump   

Tankage

• Fuel 267 in three aluminum tanks (75 gal. port / 102 gal. center / 90 gal. stbd)
• Water: 200 gal. in two stainless steel tanks
• Holding: 57 gal. in two fiberglass tanks (forward 35 gal. and aft 22 gal.)
• Wema gauge for fuel and water tank   
• Holding tank gauges

Anchors

• - Ultra 77 lb. s/s anchor with 280’ 3/8" HT chain 
• - Fortress 55 lb aluminum anchor with 45’ of chain and 215’ 3-strand nylon rode 
•  Danforth 20 lb S1500 with chain and 150' 3-strand nylon rode (for use aft of boat)

Added Safety

• ICOM Hand-held VHF (with charger) 
• - Life Raft: Winslow 40 SLOP (new 2021) - 
• EPIRB: ACR Global Fix RLB-41 (serviced to 9/23)
• - PLB: McMurdo Fast Find Plus (serviced to 9/20)
• - MOB Life Tag System: Raymarine with 4 tags
• - MOM8A: Switlick (serviced to 2023)
• - Throwable horseshoe: Jib Buoy - Bosun’s chair - Handheld 12v spotlight - Jacklines - Pad eyes in the cockpit for harness connections

Signal Horns:

• - Electronic by Innovative Lighting Inc.
• - Manual West Marine gas horn

Ditch Bags with safety equipment and emergency rations (current)

Emergency Distress Flares hard case: Pains Wessex contains multiple flares in spec. 

PDF's & Fenders

PFD's

• - 2 Sospenders Model 38
• - 2 Mustang PFD's
• - 3 Sospenders World Class inflatables with harness
• - 8 type II pdf

Fenders

• - 2 flat fenders 3” x 12” x 26”
• - 6 polyform HTX-3 12’ x 26” with covers