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1976 Choate Custom 38

San Diego, California

$29,950

38' Choate Custom 38 '76 "Bare Feet"

This custom Choate/Turner/Beck design was a well-known racing yacht in her day, built without regard to cost. She has since been modified for cruising while still maintaining her performance standards.

Basic Boat Info

Make: Choate
Model: Custom 38
Year: 1976
Condition: Used
Category: Sail
Builder: Dennis Choate Sailboats
Designer: Shad Turner/Walt Beck
Construction: Fiberglass
Keel Type: Fin Keel

Dimensions

Length: 38 ft
Length Overall: 43 ft
Length Of Deck: 38 ft
Waterline Length: 31'4 ft
Beam: 12'2 ft
Max Draft: 6'7 ft
Displacement: 15,000 lb
Cabin Headroom: 6'1 ft
Ballast: 6800 lb

Engines / Speed

Engines: 1
  • Make: Yanmar
  • Model: 3GM30
  • Fuel: Diesel
  • Engine Power: 27hp
  • Type: Inboard
  • Propeller Type: 3 Blade, Feathering

Tanks

Fuel Tank Capacity: 20 gal
Fuel Tank Material: Stainless Steel
Water Tank Capacity: 20 gal
Water Tank Material: Stainless-steel
Holding Tank Material: Plastic

Other

Heads Count: 1
Boat Class: Racers and Cruisers, Cruisers, Center Cockpit

Contact

our office
Yachtfinders Windseakers

Office

Yachtfinders Windseakers
2330 Shelter Island Drive
San Diego, CA, US, 92106
Tel:619-224-2349
Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.


Accommodations

Anchor locker forward followed by master cabin featuring a V-berth with new mattress and bedding, an enclosed head with vanity and storage to port and a storage closet to starboard.

Next aft is a full in-line galley to port and a settee/berth and upper sea berth with storage under to starboard.

Aft of the companionway steps is a centerline engine box which also serves as the dinette and nav table with port and starboard settee berths.

On the starboard side there is access to the aft cabin which has a double berth with new mattress and bedding to port and some storage to starboard.

Indirect lighting throughout (both LED and strip) plus reading lights at each berth.

All ports replaced in 2021.

Galley

Vitrifrigo 12V front-loading refrigerator with freezer(2017)

2-burner Regal propane stove with oven

Trident Marine LP Gas Control System

Sunbeam microwave oven

Pressure fresh water system

Single stainless steel sink

Magnetic knife holder

Electronics and Navigation

B&G wind speed and direction

B&G speed and distance logs

B&G depth sounder

Ritchie 3” pedestal compass

B&G Zeus II MFD chart plotter(2017)

Standard Horizon VHF radio

Fusion Bluetooth stereo (2016)

(4) speakers – (2) interior and (2) in cockpit

Electrical

(2) 8D MHD house batteries (2016)

(1) Group 27 deep cycle house battery

(1) Group 27M-XHD engine start battery

Blue Sea battery parallel switch

Battery monitor

(2) 150W solar panels with Solar Boost 3000i MPPT controller(2016)

Inverter

30amp shore power cord

Deck

25# plow anchor with 180’ chain and rode (2018)

Quick electric windlass(2018)

Dodger, Isinglass and bimini (2021)

Cockpit cushions with plastic covers (2019)

Hatch covers (2019)

Running lights

Spreader light (inoperable)

Steaming light

Bow pulpit

Lifelines and stanchions

Boarding gates

Dock lines (2018) and fenders

Swim ladder

Hull

Actual LOA – 43’ (includes pulpit and rudder)

Solid glass hull below waterline, end grain balsa core above

Inside of hull covered with insulation carpet throughout (2018)

Sails and Rigging

Manual boom vang (2015)

Aluminum keel-stepped double-spreader mast

Spinnaker pole

Harken MKII roller furling on headsail

Winches:

 (2) Barient 32ST 3-speed primary

 (2) Barient 28ST 3-speed secondary

 (2) Barient 23ST 2-speed on cabin top

 (1) Barient 22ST on cabin top

 (1) Barient 22 on deck aft of mast

 (1) Barient 16 main halyard winch on mast

 (1) Barient 19 mounted on boom

Sails:

 Main sail with (2) reefs and flattener

 125% high cut roller furling Genoa

Main sheets and jib sheets new 2015

Engine and Mechanical

Raw water cooled engine

Injection pump and injectors rebuilt and compression tested (2020)

Transmission serviced (2021)

3-blade feathering prop (2022)

Engine alarm

Fuel filter

Raw water sea strainer

Cockpit engine controls

Thermal and acoustic engine area insulation

Manual engine fire extinguishing

(1) manual and (1) electric bilge pump

Manual wheel steering

Electric head with macerator and overboard discharge

Plastic holding tank

Katadyn 1.5gph watermaker

Exclusions

All seller’s personal effects on board are excluded from the sale of this vessel.

Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.