Galley

• Electric cooktop
• Front loading fridge/freezer
• Sink with hot and cold pressure water
• Microwave
• Cooktop
• Good counter space and storage in cabinets and drawers

Electronics

• Furuno 16” Nav Net displays – Chart plotter, GPS, Radar, speed, depth, etc.
• Furno Nav Net controller
• Garmin 8612xsv
• Furno RD-30
• Simrad AP 25 Autopilot 
• Kenwood Stereo with remote keypad at helm, cockpit speakers.
• Icom M504 VHF radio at lower helm with external speaker
• Caterpillar C-view engine display panels helm
• Glendenning electronic controls helm and tower
• Garmin GPS in tower helm
• VHF in tower helm
• Engine gauges in tower
• EPIRB
• 6-person life raft

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Electrical

• 12-volt DC and 120-volt AC systems
• Three 8D house/engine start batteries
• Westerbeke 5.5 KW generator –50 hours 2025
• Battery parallel switches
• Battery charger 2025

Deck Equipment

Deck Equipment

• Aluminum tuna tower with helm station
• bow anchor
• 12 V electric windlass with helm control
• Bow pulpit, stanchions and rails
• Cockpit cushions
• Deck washdown
• Fiberglass non-skid decking with custom cockpit mats
• Front and side and isinglass curtains 2023
• Six-man life raft

Fishing Equipment

• Aluminum tower with helm station
• Outrigger Rupp Double spreaders
• Rupp Cent rigger
• Rocket launchers
• 130-gallon bait tank
• One Large boxes in cockpit floor
• Two in deck drink boxes
• Electronic reel 12v plugs on part and starboard of cockpit 
• Reel Color Pancake Teaser reel recessed in hardtop
• Chill box
• Livewell
• Fighting Chair - Color Matched to hull

Mechanical

• Caterpillar 3126B 450 HP engines with 1701 hours. All updated completed and all services up to date
• Glendenning Electronic controls with sync, warm, troll and engine synchronizers
• Caterpillar Electronic Engine Diplays at helm
• Two bilge pumps - 2023
• Lectrotab trim tabs
• Windshield wipers
• Remote control searchlight
• Reverse cycle air conditioning unit
• Vacuflush head
• Electric oil change system
• dripless shaft seals 
• Engine compartment blowers
• Engine alarms
• Tower and lower helm engine controls 
• Hydraulic steering
• Four blade bronze propellers
• Engine compartment blower
• Racor fuel filters
• Engine compartment automatic halon fire extinguisher
• Underwater lights

Updates/Upgrades

Updates and Upgrades

Pipe Dream has been continually updated and upgraded in excess of $175,000 in upgrades since 2019. The following is a partial list of the items completed since her purchase by the current owner in 2019.

2025

• Rebuild Racor assemblies - Port and Starboard.
• New Block Heaters Port & Starboard
• New VHF in tower
• New fish box macerator pump
• New 12-volt electric reel outlets under covering boards - Port and Starboard
• New Secondary fuel filters and Racor fuel filters - Port and Starboard.
• New Starter - Starboard 
• New deck rams and rewired power supply
• New Westerbeke 5.5 KW generator (50 hrs.)
• New generator fuel lines
• New generator battery and starter cables
• New generator raw water hoses
• New generator Racor Assembly
• New battery charger
• New water heater
• New hot water bypass kit
• 1000 hour service completed - Port and Starboard
• Complete Coolant system service - Port and Starboard.
• Cooling system cleaned and flushed - Port and Starboard
• New hoses - Port and Starboard
• New Engine Zincs - Port and Starboard
• New Seawater Pumps - Port and Starboard
• Cleaned Gear Cooler - Acid cleaned - Port and Starboard
• Cleaned Heat Exchanger - Acid cleaned - Port and Starboard
• New circulation pumps - Port and Starboard
• Valve Adjustments - Port and Starboard
• New Belts - Port and Starboard
• Complete air intake system cleaning and resealing - Port and Starboard.
• New Air Filters - Port and Starboard.
• Cleaned air side of Turbos - Port and Starboard
• New PCV Filters - Port and Starboard.
• New secondary fuel filters and Racors - Port and Starboard
• New Oil filters and oil - Port and Starboard
• Replace gear oil - Port and Starboard
• Repaint and re-zinc running gear, rudders, and all thru hulls
• Acid Wash and Barnacle Buster Shafts, Rudders, Struts - Port and Starboard
• Soda Blast bottom
• Boat bottom job including epoxy barrier coat, primer and two coats of bottom paint
• All cockpit hatches and engine inspection hatch all completely replaced with Divinycell PVC foam coring, fiberglass, and gel coated.
• Currently In process miscellaneous surface gel coat repairs in cockpit

2024

• Replaced all engine and house batteries
• All exterior soft goods replaced. Cockpit, helm, tower, and cockpit bolsters

2023

• Rebuild Racor assemblies - Port and starboard.
• New Secondary and Racor fuel filters - Port and Starboard.
• New Starter - Starboard 
• Cat engine displays refurbished by CAT - Port and Starboard
• Modified deck rams and mounting system for rams, switch back to single operation switch
• Acid Wash and Barnacle Buster Shafts, Rudders, Struts - Port and Starboard
• Boat bottom paint
• New Rudder and shaft underwater Zincs
• New air inlet heat solenoids - Port and Starboard
• New battery - Starboard
• New raw water intake screen - Starboard

2022

• New air conditioning raw water supply hoses.
• New deck rams and mounting system for rams
• Modified deck rams and mounting system for rams, switch back to single operation switch
• Acid Wash and Barnacle Buster Shafts, Rudders, Struts - Port and Starboard
• Boat bottom paint
• New Rudder and shaft underwater Zincs

2021

• New windlass motor and wiring 
• New deck rams and mounting system for rams
• New holding tank discharge pump
• New holding tank filter
• Replace engine room insulation
• New anchor rode - 300 feet of 1/2" x 310 rope/chain
• New batteries
• Rebuilt Onan Generator
• New Motherboard for Glendening Controls

2020

• Starter Cables cleaned and tightened - Port and Starboard
• 1000-hour service - Port and Starboard
• Cleaned Heat Exchanger Assemblies - Port and Starboard
• Cleaned Gear Coolers Acid cleaned and new zincs - Port and Starboard
• New Raw Water Pump Impellors- Port and Starboard
• New Thermostats- Port and Starboard
• Valve Adjustments - Port and Starboard
• New valve cover gaskets - Port and Starboard
• New hoses - Port and Starboard
• Cooling system cleaned and flushed - Port and Starboard
• New Water Pumps and hoses - Port and Starboard
• New dripless shaft logs - Port and Starboard
• New Cutlass bearings - Port and Starboard
• New rudder packing - Port and Starboard
• Acid Wash and Barnacle Buster Shafts, Rudders, Struts - Port and Starboard
• Bottom Paint - Carolina job
• Engine and shaft alignment - Port and Starboard
• New Engine Zincs - Port and Starboard
• Clean and oil Air Filters - Port and Starboard
• New secondary fuel filters and Racors - Port and Starboard
• New Oil filters and oil - Port and Starboard
• Replace gear oil - Port and Starboard
• Serviced Macerator Pump
• Replaced bilge pump discharge hose
• New freshwater pump
• New forward bilge pump and float switch
• New Engine Intake hoses - Port and Starboard
• Rebuild and remount engine strainer - Port
• New exhaust from engine to muffler - Starboard
• New Updated Caterpillar Aftercooler Core Assemblies - Port and Starboard

2019

• New Alternators - Port and Starboard
• New Thermostats - Port and Starboard
• Cooling system cleaned and flushed - Port and Starboard
• New Engine Zincs - Port and Starboard
• Cleaned Gear Cooler - Acid cleaned - Port and Starboard
• Cleaned Heat Exchanger - Acid cleaned - Port and Starboard

Additional Information

Sport Fishing Magazine = Review of 32 Topaz Express

By Dean Travis Clarke September 13, 2004

I know many people, especially in the boating industry, who long for the “good old days,” when life and technology and the very pace at which we lived were simpler. Topaz represents the perfect expression of that sentiment: rock-solid, simple, proven technology and the kind of craftsmanship and luxury that comes to mind when we reminisce. In fact, 20 years ago, a company called Marine Matrix surveyed thousands of boaters and discovered that Topaz delivered the highest rating of owner satisfaction.

Performance

The Bertram 31 became the world’s most successful pocket sport-fisherman only because this Topaz 32 wasn’t around at the time. You’ll find it very difficult to come up with any negatives when considering this boat.

Idling out of Townsend’s Inlet on the South Jersey coast at 6 mph (650 rpm using 1.7 gph), the trolling-speed wake exhibited two distinct, clear alleys, though all turbulence disappeared by the second wave back. Past the jetties, the Topaz 32 hopped onto plane in four seconds, dramatically faster than the original 32. In fact, Topaz CEO Tom Russell has made so many improvements to this boat that you can hardly compare it with the original. The 420-hp Caterpillar 3126s crank out twice the power that the original 32 could muster. In fact, all the power options, from three different diesel companies and ranging from 350 to 450 hp, supply more muscle than this boat’s earlier version offered.

Rather than riding bow high the way the predecessor did, the new 32’s flat angle throws spray out amidships. Anytime wind catches the spray, the boat has already passed before spray rises to deck level. Making use of the knife-sharp entry to carve through head seas smoothes the ride, too.

Top speed with the Cats hit 35.9 mph at 2,850 rpm while burning 35.5 gph total — considerably faster than in days of yore. Cruising speed also improved by throttling back, running comfortably at 31 mph turning 2,400 (21.4 gph) while providing a range of more than 450 miles.

Hard turns, fishing spins and backing down are all exactly what you’d expect from a fine fishing machine. You can’t ask for more. Well, I might ask for single-lever controls, but that’s all.

Fishing 

Topaz has quite successfully maximized the available cockpit space by moving the livewell, tackle and rigging modules to the forward end of the cockpit and placing the big, hinged-lid fish box in the deck. Optional items include a bait freezer and fighting chair.

When you choose the optional marlin or tuna tower (and you will), you can stand in the center of the cockpit, surrounded by your choice of 16 rod/reel combinations in rod holders and rocket launchers. The standard-issue coaming pads hit an average-sized person just above the knees. Topaz glasses in a support plate for anyone wishing to mount a fighting chair.

Backing down in relatively calm seas didn’t produce prodigious amounts of water in the cockpit even around the tuna door. However, if you back up-sea on a rough day, the amazing scupper system that drains into a central box, then out through the transom, will empty the deck very quickly.

I used to see quite a few 32-foot Topaz boats 100 miles offshore fishing the Northeast canyons. I expect that once word gets around that a new, improved model has come on the market, Topaz loyalists will flock to sign up for it.

Design and Construction From the rub rail down, Topaz consists of nothing but solid fiberglass. A substantial layer of gelcoat in your choice of color starts the process. Then vinylester resin bonds with Coremat (to prevent print-through) and stitched fiberglass — nine layers — resulting in a bottom a full inch thick. Above the rail, the laminate contains balsa coring for weight savings without sacrificing strength. As I said, tried-and-true construction technology.

The bridge deck sits several inches higher than in the old models. This not only affords more work space in the engine compartment, but dramatically increases 360-degree visibility as well. The helm provides more than ample space for flush-mounted electronics, though short people may find it a tad tall when seated.

Topaz still employs some of the best Old-World craftsmen, who assure that every drawer, locker, cabinet, teak-and-holly sole, and hardwood bulkhead fits seamlessly into the hull and that every grain pattern is book-matched. Sure, it takes more effort and money than glassing in a fiberglass liner and then adding wood trim, but that would go against the quality mission Topaz lives by.

Belowdecks, a comfortable L-shaped dinette to starboard can seat three easily, while the galley and head opposite provide the alpha and omega of food processing. A large double berth in the forepeak lets weekending aboard become a reality.

Many express boats suffer from high bridge-deck noise levels. Because the cabin and attendant carpeting don’t muffle engine noise, some expresses tire you out just by forcing you to listen to the cacophony all day. Topaz researched noise abatement with some of the top experts in the field and has built one of the quietest-running expresses on the market today.