Posted by mgkatz@… (mgkatz@…)
My wife and I are planning to sell our Freedom 38 at the end of August. We are currently living aboard her on the beautiful Door County Peninsula in Wisconsin, cruising the waters of Green Bay and upper Lake Michigan. Our home is actually in Boulder, Colorado, but we have fallen in love with this area and have decided to spend our summers ashore here starting next year.
Anyhow, I thought I would offer an interested party the opportunity to buy this boat at a fair price through this list, before turning the boat over to a broker. Here are the details:
She is a 1991 model with a 4’ wing keel and in excellent condition. White hull, double navy blue cove stripe and navy blue sheer stripe. She has an excellent navy blue dodger and bimini, with clear zip-in filler piece for rainy days. She has white cockpit cushions with blue piping, and navy blue cockpit back cushions with white piping, which dresses her up nicely–not to mention makes her comfortable. She has Doyle Stack Pack and Lazy Jacks, and Dolye self tending jib. (My sails are removed and either cleaned or mended as necessary each year. My sail maker says they are in good shape and have several good years left.) She has a Lewmar electric winch (horizontal) with foot pedals on bow and remote controls from the cockpit. (Winch smoothly and effortless handles the 200 feet of chain–never a glitch.) She has two self tailing winches, one of which is a large Bariant and the other a Lewmar Electric winch. This very expensive option makes raising the sails embarassingly easy. She has a stern mounted radar post, a 42" elk covered steering wheel, and Autohelm speed, wind, and depth mounted at the helm. She also has an Autohelm ST 6000 auto pilot at the helm, which sails the boat better than I do–even wing and wing. She has Frigoboat keel cooled refrigeration, which is low draw and extremely effective. She has a scandinavian Varmare Heizgerat diesel heater mounted in the port lazarette which operates off the boat’s diesel fuel tank. Simply turn a switch in the galley and hot air flows into the main cabin and aft cabin–very quiet, simple, and effective. She has a Force Ten 3 burner propane stove and oven, Raytheon VHF, Raytheon radar, electric bilge pump, statpower battery charger, and Balmar alternator (both added in about 2001).
We have put over $10,000 of upgrades and new equipment on in last 3 years including the following:
- Skanvik Swim platform swim shower
- Standard Horizon 175 C chartplotter (mounted at helm)
- 5 new (2006) 80 amp batteries which allow us to cruise without worrying about marinas or shore power. (We NEVER turn off fridge or buy ice…ever.)
- Custom Ronco 30 gallon holding tank and all new plumbing with best hoses money could buy. (Paul Dennis got the tank and diagrams for this retrofit for us.)
- Caribe Dinghy (hypalon) with 17’ tubes and double floor–hardly used at all.
- Mercury 3.3 outboard–only 3 or 4 tanks of gas ever run through her so she is like new
All of the work on this boat has been done by professional yards, and maintenance has been religiously followed. Everything on the boat works, except a Link 1000 battery monitor which the former owner put on to monitor battery charge but which made no sense to me and was really designed for use with invertor, so I just had it disconnected.
Boat will be available after August 22nd, in time for late summer sailing or delivery. I am asking $119K, but to reach the widest “audience” I will give a buyer $5000 “credit” for shipping the boat to the buyers location. If the buyer is in the Great Lakes or wants to take delivery here and sail her home, I will pay up to $5000 for hauling and storing at the end of this season, so there is no need to wait me out and hope I drop the price. As I said, if I have no takers I will give this to a broker at end of August and price will go up considerably.
If you are interested or know someone who is, call me and we can talk further.
Michael Katz
303-919-8488 (c)