Basic specs:

• Steel sloop, cutter rigged.  Hard dodger, centre cockpit. Cockpit and cabin top glassed plywood.  Dodger fibreglass.
• Roberts Offshore 38 design (hard chined), built in 1992
• LOA: ?
• LWL: ?     These specs seem to have been lost in the mists of time
• Beam: ?
• Draft: ?
• Displacement: ?
• Boat was fully stripped inside, sand blasted and epoxy painted 7 years ago.
• Recently refurbished head/shower.  High pressure water and large capacity califont (18l/min).
• Partially complete refurbishment of saloon and galley.
• 600l water in 3 tanks
• 400l of diesel
• 50hp Nanni motor
• New Stainless steel standing rigging
• New furling headsail
• New main (fully battened)
• Two yankees
• New running rigging
• Two new self-tailing winches in cockpit
• New stainless steel rudder stock.  Chain steering.
• 480Ah of battery, some new.  80A alternator for house battery, 50A alternator for motor battery.
• LED lighting throughout
• DC fridge/freezer
• BBQ
• Large cockpit cover
• 1000W stereo + indoor (220W) & outdoor speakers (160W)
• 19″ TV with DVD
• Rope and chain anchor rode
• Topside hull condition: minor corrosion only
• Previously been to islands, but significantly changed since then
• New two burner stove/oven
• Carpet and underlay
• Zodiac inflatable with Yamaha 2hp outboard.  Damaged and needs some repairs.
• One small bilge pump, plus another portable. Engine pumping not connected up.

It is missing some basic equipment including compass, fire extinguishers, capstan, liferaft and epirb.

The interior floor is lined with underlay and carpet.  The walls are mostly covered in a white synthetic carpetting as well, except in the saloon where the walls are American Ash, which is only partly complete.  There is spare timber that needs to be cut and fitted, etc.  There is no table in the saloon.  There is no nav station, and I’m not sure where one could go.

Compared to the Ganley, it is missing autopilot, radar, heating, holding tank for head, stay sails, HF antenna.

The door to the head/shower is currently just a piece of plywood.  Much of the galley is also bare plywood.  It is missing many of the small the niceties of a more lived in or properly fitted out yacht.  There is quite a bit of work to finish it all off.

To get to Cat 1, I figure at least the following would be needed:

• Some general maintenance and rust treatment, etc.  A few deck fittings might need replacing.
• Install compass.
• Install autopilot.
• Install running backstay.
• Install trysail track on mast.
• Currently no spinnaker pole, would probably be useful.
• Navigation lights may need changes to be legal.
• Sails: New storm trysail.
• Hull: Needs survey (+ultrasonics) to find out if this is okay or not.  May need new surfacing and antifoul, new sacrificials, etc.
• Stanchions/lifelines may need work.
• Fire extinguishers.
• Engine compartment ventilation improvements.
• Smoke, CO, O₂ detectors.
• SSB, antenna, tuner, plus emergency antenna.
• Liferaft.
• Offshore first aid kit.
• New EPIRB.
• WeFax.
• Emergency tiller (needs some special adjustment to fit this confined space).
• Sea anchor/drogue.
• Tool kit, sail repair kit.
• Solar panel and charger.
• 2+ harnesses and tethers.
• Additional life jackets.
• Grab bag, pyros, etc.
• Should really have AIS-B but not required.
• Fog horn.
• Bilge pumps.
• Radar reflector.
• Jack lines.
• Bosuns chair.
• Couldn’t see plugs for through-hulls, so would probably need to get some made up.
• Some additional handrails and supports in cabins.
• Lee cloths (and attachment points) need to be installed.
• Realistically, probably needs wind vane or similar self steering added.
• Probably should also have a wind generator/turbine for DC.
• Need to get existing papers, documentation, if it still exists.
• Registration.

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Basic specs:

• Steel sloop, soft chined with fin keel.  Cutter rigged, with hard dodger.
• Ganley Tara 39 design, built by R Clauson in 1986.
• LOA 39′, beam 12′, draft 6’6″, LWL: not sure.
• Engine: 62hp GM 2/71 diesel.  1 alternator of 3 not working, but otherwise engine supposedly runs well.  Cruises at 6-7kn, max of 8.  Has some spare parts.
• Fuel: 290l
• Water: 630l
• Rigging: Galvanised (alloy spars)
• Sail wardrobe: Main (slab reefing), furling headsail, 1 & 2 genoa, staysail.
• Berths: Supposedly 6, but I’m not sure that’s possible right now.  V-berth is currently storage instead.
• Head: marine flush with holding tank (size unknown)
• Cooker: LPG 2 burner, grill and oven.  Not working, but don’t know what’s wrong with it.
• Galley: plain old kitchen sink, needs replacing with deep double basins.
• Electronics: Coursemaster autopilot, VHF, Furuno radar (24 mile), Furuno GPS, Lawrence depth sounder.
• Looks like it previously had SSB, but has been removed now (backstay has antenna built in it appears).
• Ground tackle: 5 anchors, 2xchain + warp.  Not all seen.  Electric capstan.
• Dinghy: 2.6m Aquapro RIB with 4hp Suzuki outboard
• Safety: Lifering, danbuoy, 4 lifejackets, 2 electric and 1 manual bilge pump
• Water: Hot and cold pressure water.  Heated from engine and 240V, but not currently working.
• Compressor based freezer.
• Wood burner (mad).
• Solar panel.  No specs, but looked like maybe 80W-100W, and probably a bit degraded now.
• Battery charger.
• Petrol generator
• Fenders, not inspected.
• Topside hull condition: mostly superficial rust and rust stains
• Bilge hull condition: could do with some maintenance
• Interior: Very basic and ugly and could do with some work
• Not sure what the box under the solar panel contained (aft deck).  It couldn’t be opened.  Maybe an old small liferaft?
• Previously NZ registered ship.

To get to Cat 1, I figure at least the following would be needed:

• A fair bit of general maintenance and rust treatment, etc.  A few deck fittings might need replacing.
• Sails: Probably could do with a new main, and use current as a spare.  New storm trysail.
• Hull: Needs survey (+ultrasonics) to find out if this is okay or not.  May need new surfacing and antifoul, new sacrificials, etc.
• Stanchions/lifelines may need work.
• New fire extinguishers.
• Engine compartment ventilation improvements.
• Smoke, CO, O₂ detectors.
• SSB, plus emergency antenna.
• Liferaft.
• Offshore first aid kit.
• New EPIRB.
• WeFax.
• Emergency tiller.
• Sea anchor/drogue.
• Tool kit replacements, sail repair kit.
• Non-skid on decks may need to added in many places and replaced in some existing places.
• Low quality charging electronics needs replacing.  Batteries and solar panel probably need replacing now as a result.
• 2+ harnesses and tethers.  I suspect existing life jackets would need replacing too.
• Grab bag, new pyros, etc.
• Should really have AIS-B but not required.
• Fog horn.
• Needs additional bilge pumps to meet Cat 1.
• Radar reflector.
• New jack lines.
• May need new bosuns chair.
• Couldn’t see plugs for through-hulls, so would probably need to get some made up.
• Galv rigging mostly seemed okay, but I couldn’t see it all, and some might need replacing.
• Some additional handrails and supports in cabins.
• Lee cloths (and attachment points) seemed non existent and may need to be installed.
• Probably new anchor chain.
• Oven needs to be fixed.
• Alternator needs to be replaced.
• AC heating needs repairs.
• Realistically, probably needs wind vane or similar self steering added.
• Probably should also have a wind generator/turbine for DC.
• Need to get existing papers, documentation, if it still exists.
• Re-registration.

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Basic specs:
Design: Roberts 38 (hard chine) steel ketch, 1992.
LOA: 38’3″ (11.8m)
Draft: 5’9″ (1.75m)
Beam: 11’3″ (3.4m)
Displacement: approx 11 tonnes.
Engine: 36hp. Old, but seems to be working fine. Goes at around 6 knots.

The depth sounder transducer is failing and needs to be replaced.  There are a number of patches of rust that need dealing with.  The sails are not exactly new either.

The interior seems quite good.  The nav station is unpleasantly small though.  Only one sea berth with lee cloth.  But the aft double berth seems rather comfy if it’s flat or docked.  Good amounts of storage.  I’m not totally sure about a kerosene oven/stove.

Fuel capacity is borderline at 220l.

The say they budget approximately 4 knots of headway for trips, which is not particularly speedy.

The SSB is essentially receive-only as there is no antenna tuner, etc.  The antenna is rigged as the main backstay, and the SWR would be pretty bad without a tuner.

There is a GPS which is a very clunky old JRC 4510.  But that should do the job, just not as quickly or accurately as something a bit more modern.

It seems to be a cutter rig despite what I understood (see photos).  The forestay and inner stay are stainless steel, but the remainder are all galvanised steel and looking quite brown due to the fish oil used to treat them regularly and keep them in good shape.  There doesn’t seem to be any obvious problem with them at present otherwise.

It has everything needed for cat 1, but a few things would need servicing to bring them back into date before it would get cat 1 again (eg life raft service, new flares, etc).  One possible exception is they don’t have a proper drogue or sea anchor, but they have sufficient onboard to jury rig a warp that might be enough for cat 1.  Maybe those rules have changed since they were last cat 1 though.

The bilge was bone dry.

The wiring needs some work.

The “non-slip” areas need some coating or replacing.

Anchors and ground tackle seem okay, but I didn’t look particularly closely.  Primary anchor is a Bruce, and all chain.  They also have a CQR.  Windlass is hydraulic.

The boat was built in 1992 in steel.  Twenty years takes its toll.  Some photos including some of the bad bits, particularly the external steering (click to zoom):