Wind Chaser
♦ '83 Beneteau First 38.
♦ Renowned build quality.
♦ Solid-layup hull.
♦ Massive structural grid.
♦ Ruggedly engineered.
♦ Trend-setting looks.
♦ The original performance cruiser.
♦ Legendary seaworthiness.
♦ Superb sailing qualities
♦ Huge, comfortable interior.
♦ Large ergonomic cockpit.
♦ Perfect coastal weekender.
♦ Or blue-water passage maker.
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The YachtWind Chaser is a right-priced, well-kept example of the fabulously successful design which pointed the way to today's performance cruisers. In fact, having been so far ahead of its time in the early 1980s, the sleek and angular First 38 still looks contemporary. With it, Beneteau and designer Jean Berret invented the functionally driven yachting aesthetic which we know today as "euro-style." And at the same time brought robust engineering and world-class construction to production boat building.Worldwide, these boats enjoy a legendary reputation for longevity. They have crossed many an ocean and even circumnavigated. The solid-layup hull is bonded and through-bolted to the deck to keep the joint strong and water-tight. A massive structural grid reinforces the hull bottom. Although there's an interior liner, all furniture and bulkheads are glassed meticulously to the inner hull. Beneteau took the added step of fiberglassing the hull liner to the grid. All of this produced a line of yachts which have stood the test of time and gained a big following as a used-boat best buy. Built early in the production run, Wind Chaser displays all of the First 38's manifest virtues. The big T-shaped cockpit with angled combings is very comfortable under sail. It's easy to get around the clean, spacious deck. Down below, Beneteau's innovative modular construction system produced a voluminous, user-friendly, low-maintenance interior. Ower has kept her clean and bright and made a number of sail-handling improvements for easier boat management. A new #1 genoa was added in '09. She got a carbon spinnaker pole for Christmas in 2011. As you would expect, Wind Chaser shows no signs whatsoever of structural fatigue. Lying Milwaukee. Price: $62,500. Call broker Eric Jones today today at 414-305-2541; email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ACCOMMODATIONS• Sleeps six in four cabins Deck and Hull Equipment• 22D anchor w/200' x 5/8" nylon rode; anchor locker.• Double lifelines, bow pulpit, lifeline gates, swim ladder. • Running lights/deck light. • Cockpit cushions. • Deck washdown system. • Six dock lines, four fenders, horseshoe, Lifesling. • Radar reflector, signal kit, horn. • Dodger and Bimini w/connector (both new '03). • Pedestal and winch canvas covers (new '10). • Red leather wheel cover (new '02). • Atkins and Hoyle single dinghy davits w/winches (new '01). • Edson outboard engine mount (new '01). • Crane Forespar Motor Mate (new '01). • Custom teak transom step ('05). • Teak cockpit grates. • Steel boat cradle (new '02). SAILS AND RIGGING• Barbarosa mechanical backstay adjuster.• Boom vang. • Harken roller jib furler. • Carbon spinnaker pole ('07). • Forespar whisker pole ('11). • Harken mainsheet traveler ('07). • Ten total Winches. • Six winch handles. • Doyle Stack Pack main flaking system ('09). • Strong Sail Track slide system (new'02). • Spartite mast collar. • Genoa 140% ('07). • Genoa 155% ('09). • #3 genoa. • Spinnaker. ELECTRONICS• Autohelm 4000 autopilot.• Bon Marco Polo compass. • ComNav NX2 wind instruments. • Comnav NX2 depth sounder. • Icom VHF radio. • M502 DSC w/command mic HM127 ('11) • Garmin GPS 180 ('02). • JVC CD player w/four speakers. • Garmin 76 GPS map w/Edison mount. • Autohelm 4000 autopilot. Auxiliary• Perkins '83 direct-drive 50-hp diesel, model 4-108.• Engine hours: 1514. • Groco Full Flow safety seacock on coolant inlet. • Two-blade propellor. • Cruising speed: 7 knots. TANKS• Freshwater: 55 g.• Fuel: 35 g. • Holding: 35 g. ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT• Boston clock/barometer.• Oil lamp. • Small airguide compass. • Toolbox. • Sun shade. • New water pump 2011. PRINCIPAL DIMENSIONS• LOA: 38 ft, 5 in.• Beam: 12 ft, 8 in. • LWL: 31 ft, 9 in. • Displacement: 15,600 lbs. • Ballast: 6,615 lbs. 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. Last Revised: Jun 14, 2011. Contact World Yachts, Inc. 15415 Woodbridge Road, Brookfield, WI 53005, United States; toll-free 877-274-4670; tel 262-938-2233; fax 262-938-2277; other 414-305-2541. |
