I love my Ted Brewer designed and built 1981 Canadian Whitby 42 Cutter Ketch, the predecessor to the 44. He designed some great boats. A great boat to sail short handed.
I went and checked this boat out last weekend. She's in good shape. I didn't get to go over every last inch of her but I would love to go for a sail on her. My wife was not nearly as impressed as me and the kid were.
Great review complete with the warnings. I see our host here has been catching some sun....sailing we hope. Gawd I remember some sailing sunburns that must have glowed in the dark until I quickly learned to cover up. It feels cool because of the breeze and boat speed but the reflection off of every wave is adding to that being directly absorbed.
Nice Find! Beautiful interior, and I love those SS portlights. Looks like a solid boat to do some blue water in. It looks like the design was often produced with a swing keel, but this one has the same draft and is a fixed keel. It may suffer slightly in its ability to point upwind, but that's a compromise worth taking for a solid keel in my opinion. It looks like you could start cruising now and upgrade the electrics as you go. Solid value.
Well, it has only been 5 days, but it is still for sale. I will be buying in November, but this is a little out of my price range. I know you will not be happy with me, but I am buying a Hunter 33 or a (currently for sale) Legend 37. The 37 is similar to the above as it has had a lot of work done, plus completely outfitted so I can head to the Bahamas. Yea can't wait.
As usual, very interesting video. That would be way too much boat for me, I am a Puget Sound day sailer, but interested in moving beyond that in the near future. This was a CC boat. I have only been on stern cockpit boats. If you haven't done so already, would be interesting to see you do a video on pros & cons of CC vs stern and deck salon boats. Heard some things, but not your views.
Unfortunately a lot of boat owners feel maintenance ads value it doesn’t. If the engine doesn’t work try to sell it. Maintenance is necessary not a feature.
Wow, beautiful boat. It would be cool if you could follow up with whoever buys these boats that you feature. Eventually it's bound to happen that you'll run into a buyer of one of these boats.
I think I differ from you as I see a very small diesel as an electric provider and able to provide pointing in doldrums and very long storms. I have an air cooled and it's tiny and it sips while making a small amount of very dry heat and the exhaust doesn't get very hot. I have no idea what kind of boat I will wind up with, but I suspect it will be a small racing sailboat that was incomplete and forsaken by it's owner. I guess there's a real lot of them out there.
Another boat I could fall in love with - but one I know I couldn't seriously single hand now. But I note the owner is 'down-sizing' to a smaller boat, good on him, I hope he sails on forever on his 34 or whatever. Thanks Tim.⚓ _ps: really don't like the black, you're even more handsome with stuff behind you._
I want to buy live aboard sailing boat someday. I have a question. I want to get something bigger like 50 feet long at least and be able to sail to Brazil and back to US. Which boat is capable to do that safely and efficiently ? Brazil is second country.
Unless he was a complete idiot don't think he would have spent those bucks on a hull full of soft spots an blisters , pretty sure it would be worth looking at and the money for your own survey if this was in the range of what you were looking for , Great Video an thx for it
Talk to an insurance company as boats in the 80's are in some cases at the cut off limit to not getting insurance . The person should have sold 10 years ago
This does not go well with "I just bought my house and need to dial things back a bit" LOL! You're rekindling feelings that faded during the COVID lockdowns, when incompetents were driving up the cost of used boats and treating them poorly while they tried to get famous on YT. I swore I'd wait until a "new" batch of used boats became available.
@@helomech1973 the clown says much worse... he's a click bait artist and constantly bashes other people/youtubers Older boats still have value... it might not be for you, but a boat is worth what someone will pay for it. This boat will sell, barring any major unseen issues (like he said).
