Bruce Roberts 54 Wheel House Round Bulge steel construction

Escape to north Queensland in this floating home. Enjoy the Great Barrier Reef, diverse Qld waters or from Cairns access the Pacific, North to Indonesia an/or beyond.

Enjoy this boats light, roomy interior. Three large cabins and two separate living /dinning areas plus a spacious aft deck with BBQ for entertaining. Hydraulic Stering to Internal and external Helms. The external helm, secure and comfortable and sheltered from the elements.
The wheehouse seating enjoys a vista of surrounding waters and converts to another double berth, convenient for night passages.
Two aft cabins share a bathroom while the mastercabin has its own ensuite.
She is as comfortable at sea as she is on a berth/ anchored.
Secure U shaped galley, stove, microwave and plenty of storage.
Water maker, separate fresh drinking tank.
separate laundry area.
A built in washing machine assures salt free and clean swimming gear

Venturer Kayak on board and equipped with a dive compresser a Bauer Junior 240v mounted in engine bay with air intake and filling air line run into cockpit area, this unit is run from the generator. Spare filters onboard. The engine also has an assortment of spares including altenators, starter motor, mixing elbow, filters and more.

With 900amp hrs of house battery, 1200w's solar panel, 2500w's inverter, 100amp battery charger and 140amp altenator on engine there is no shortage of power onboard. The engine and Genset both have there own start batteries. Seperate 24v battery system runs a 6kw TX Bower Thruster with 2x aposing direction 250mm propellors makes for easy maneuverability in any situation.

SV. Tewaipounamu is professionally built by Taunton Engineering CHCH, New Zealand. Fitted out by Cusiel Builders

She has had several trips from NZ to the Pacific Islands, around NZ, Australia and to Asia where we she has been our very comfortable home for 17 years as we cruising Indo, Malaysia, Borneo, Thailand, Anderman islands India. Total cruising miles of well over 65,000 nm

Fuel in Asia can be a bit dicey so we have always used a BaHa fuel filter to fill diesel tanks plus the use ol 2xDebug unit installed in fuel lines.
The system comprises of 3x diesel tanks: main tank, secondary tank filled via main tank and a day tank of 240lt also filled via main tank with diesel returns returning to day tank giving a fuel polishing system We have never encountered any fuel issues (dirt or water)

Survey available dated 03/23. See photo showing boat being relaunched after being checked and re antifouled 23/06/25.

If you are looking for a safe comfortable vessel in a well maintaied vessel SV. Tewaipounamu is voyage ready and awaits you.