1977 Gulfstar 37 fully equipped cruising sailboat yacht, tons of upgrades

Description

The boat is located at Key West; FL and can be viewed or taken out for a spin there. Please call my girlfried Charlotte at +1 … or email me danielkarlkrause ( at ) gmail (dot) com to make an appointment. Also, I would be happy to deliver the boat to any given port on the US east or gulf coast, or the Caribbean, for the usual delivery charges and expenses (3$ a mile plus expenses plus flights)

It's a solid late 70s plastic classic heavy cruising yacht that has a solid 1 ½“ fiberglass hull at the keel, 1“ on the topsides and a longer modified fin keel, skeg rudder, and a very safe displacement ballast ratio. The mast is keel stepped, has mast steps all the way up, and she has a classic safe single spreader single upper double lower shroud design, the standing rigging has been replaced 2009 and has been professionally inspected 2014. She is 37ft without bowsprit and davits, maybe 40' over all. Beam is 12' and a shallow draft of 5' that will get you closer to the beaches.

Accomodation:
Forward is a large V-berth with a cabinet locker to stb and a 3 big drawers to port. Next is the head with a marine toilet and a sink with hot/cold shower head faucet, accessible from both the salon and the V-berth. The salon is spacious with a big cabinet locker and a bench, two pull-out setees that make nice sea berths, a drop leaf table that sits 6, a large L shaped nav desk with a new chair, and a U-shaped galley with a double sink, a compressor fridge and a 3 burner stove/oven with a ton of countertop space. The U shaped cockpit easily sits 8 and has a pedestal with wheel steering, compass, nav instruments, a classic drop down table, drink holder and two large cockpit lockers that in other boats are quarter berths.

I refitted this boat continuously since I bought her in 2014. Actually I've spent almost $60.000 in repairs and new gear in the last 3 years.

Upgrades include:

• new teak and stainless steel bowsprit with new Lewmar ProSport 1000 electric windlass with wireless remote control, 200ft of galvanized chain and 200ft of 1“ nylon rode, a 44# Delta and a 44# CQR anchor on anchor rollers.
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• new forestay with newer Hood roller furler, a newer basically never used 110% working genoa
• New Gamrin Gpsmap 741xs chartplotter at the helm, and new Garmin EchoMap 54dv chartplotter at the nav station, both wired into a new NMEA2000 network with a Raymarine 4000ST autopilot, a set of 2014 Raymarine masttop wind-, speed- and depthsounder instruments together with a Raymarine ST70 multifunction display in the cockpit that can display everything from realtime tide and barometric graphs and trends to windspeed and direction graphs and instruments, water speed, water and air temperature, to navigation and satellite info. You've got 10 freely programmable pages and day night color schemes to choose from (e.g. depth, wind direction round gauge and STW on one page, a baro pressure graph over 24 hours on the next page, next a navigational page with coordinates, ETA and time to waypoint, then a Windspeed graph to identify trends... you name it)
• New B100 AIS transponder wired into the network. Sends and receive AIS messages, has an „off“ button and its own VHF and GPS antenna on a 7' stainless steel Garhauer radar pole with outboard lift crane
• New 4 x 100W flexible solar panels delivering 22 amps at peak sun, with a MPPT charge controller
• New 2 x 75Ah double purpose lead acid marine batteries for starting
• 4 x golf cart 6V 100Ah batteries from 2014
• Every single thruhull has been replaced, all seacocks new bronze ball valves.
• The perkins 4.108 engine with 2700h got a new heat exchanger, new raw water pump, new impeller, new belt and new hoses all 2017, also an injector rebuild in 2017. The starter motor and the oil cooler have been replaced in 2014. A new 13 gallon day tank has been installed in 2017 with new fuel lines, an electric transfer pump and a Racor 500 diesel filter water separator. The main tank hold 35 gallons. New backlit electric fuel and water tank gauges have been installed.
• Besides the steaming and anchor light, all interior and exterior lights are converted to LED, some of them are switchable red/white and dimmable. There are 14 interior ligths and a red/white dimmable cockpit dome light. I also installed super bright LED spreader/deck lights in 2017.
• All toilet plumbing including thruhulls, seacocks and strainers has been replaced in 2017 with brand new hoses and a new Jabsco pump, also a Jabsco macerator pump and the holding tank has been professionally cleaned and reinstalled. A new coldwater cockpit shower has been installed in 2017. The boat has an engine cooling water driven hot water tank, both galley and head faucets are hot/cold; head faucet pulls out as a shower head.
• A 2014 Standard Horizon Explorer VHF built in GPS and DSC at the nav desk, doubled with a RAM cockpit remote unit.
• I also put an older Furuno radar on the radar pole which has a LCD display unit at the nav desk, effective range for collision targets around 12nm, squalls show up up to 15-20nm. It's older but works fine for me, although it is a power hog in longe range mode.
• The propane stove is a 3 burner with oven and 2 new 10# propane tanks (2017) one of which fits into the vented propane locker in the cockpit, with a new fitting installation.
• The usual Gulfstar rubrails have been removed (teak rot) and topsides have been sanded, primed and painted in 2015 with easypoxy, you can't see your reflection but the old gelcoat was way worse. Also the bottom has been sanded, expoxied, primed in 2015, then re painted with a multiseason copper antifouling in 2017 (February).
• The boat has no known interior leaks, the bowmar portholes have been rebedded and the gaskets and plexiglass replaced in 2014.

There are two foresails, a 110% genoa and a big 155% genoa (in good shape but unfortunately with some diesel stains). The main sail is a fully battened 2 reef point sail from Doyle and has a sewn in Lazybag, the Lazyjack lines are new (2017). I rigged 4 new halyards (2017), one of which is currently used as a topping lift with a pulley led back into the cockpit, as is the boom vang that can be used as a preventer too. I installed a double rope clutch at the cockpit side coachroof. The boat has 2 primary self tailing Lewmar 44 sheet winches, a multi purpose winch on the coachroof, and two halyard winches at the mast.

The boat comes with a plethora of gear and extras, such as a complete set of emergency signals such as SOLAS parachute rockets, a sea brake drogue, towing rode, emergency tiller, 2 electric rule 1100gal/h bilge pumps, fenders, docklines, and a 2016 Newport PVC inflatable dinghy with a 9.9hp Johnson outboard, a 600W inverter, 30A shore power battery charger with new shore power cable, 7 x Hella marine fans, a 2015 Flatscreen TV, a Sony USB/Bluetooth stereo 2014 and 4 x high quality speakers in the salon and 2 x west marine waterproof speakers in the cockpit.

Please be aware that despite all these upgrades, it's still an older boat from 1977 with the typical cosmetic and technical flaws that come with sailing in tropical climate and a lot of UV and saltwater exposure. There are spider cracks in some areas of the deck gelcoat. You certainly can't eat out of the bilges. the stuffing box needs some tightening. There is some water damage on the cabin sole. These things can be fixed rather easy and do not affect the safe operation of the boat, it's cosmetical damage that has been factored in the starting bid price. Please do not consider bidding on this boat if you expect a brand new sailboat, that is not what this offer is about.

Please be aware that the boat is sold as is where is, please come and visit it before you make a final descision. If you do so, I expect a US$ 2000 payment within one week after the auction ends, and the rest cash at the handover. The boat is sailing under a german flag now, but I hold the original US title, it can be simply re-registered in any state you want. No swap, no owner financing,