She is a rare classic, an East Orient cutter, 32 feet in length, designed by a well-known Canadian designer, Ted Brewer, and built in Taiwan in 1980. She was also marketed as Union 32 and Shearwater 32 and has been compared to a Tayana, a Pacific Seacraft, and a Southern Cross. Some people confuse her with a Hallberg-Rassy.
According to some sources, only about 40 of these designs have been built. Since the early fiberglass boats were hand laid, it seems that the company could not compete price wise with the cheaper, mass produced boats built after the mid 1980s. It is very difficult to find this boat for sale as most people keep them.
She is a medium displacement offshore cruising boat which means that she is more stable than fast but I've had her sailing on a reach at 7 knots. She has been my home for the past 20 years, crossed the Atlantic and is capable of circumnavigating.
Here are her specs:
DIMENSIONS
LOA: 31'9"
LWL: 27'3"
Beam: 10'10"
Displacement: 11500 lbs
Ballast: 4400 lbs of lead
Draft: 4'10"
Sail Area: 520 sq. ft.
Disp./Length ratio: 253.7
Ballast/Disp. ratio: 38%
Sail Area/disp. ratio:16.33%
Hull speed: 5.7 knots but capable of surfing at 7 knots.
She was built in 1980.
ENGINE
Yanmar, 20HP
TANKAGE
Fuel: 30 Gal
Water: 60 Gal
Holding: 20 Gal
CONSTRUCTION
Solid fiberglass hull with plywood-core, teak covered decks.
Molded, internal lead ballast with a modified keel (cutaway fore and aft).
Teak anchor-roller platform forward. Bronze opening ports.
Bottom paint every year or every second year.
Varnish on the teak trim and solid teak furnishings inside renewed regularly.
STEERING: Pedestal wheel steering (mechanical), Monitor wind vane.
PLUMBING:
Manual fresh water to galley and head. Manual seawater to galley.
One automatic and one manual bilge pump.
COCKPIT:
The aft cockpit is large with comfortable, surround seating. Teak covered seating with cushions and coaming angled for comfort with a fold-down table for meals at anchor. Two bottles of butane in a self-draining locker. BBQ. Sprayhood and bimini, new 2022.
ELECTRONICS AND NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS
2 GPS, hand held VHF radio, depth sounder, binnacle compass.
SPARS AND RIGGING
Standing rigging (New 2002) – 1/4” main and intermediate shrouds, forestay and backstay, 3/16” lowers; Roller furling for the forestay, hanked-on staysail with a clubfoot boom.
SAILS
Mainsail w/3reef points, 100% roller furling jib, 80% roller furling jib, hank-on staysail, isometric spinnaker. All in working order.
ACCOMMODATIONS
6'3" main cabin headroom. The salon features mid-ship L-shaped seating and solid teak dinette to port (converts to a double berth), settee to starboard.
Enclosed storage and shelves outboard also solid teak. The forward cabin has a V-berth with filler to make a double and includes a hanging locker and personal gear storage space. Privacy door.
Fully enclosed head compartment to port includes a manual marine toilet with holding tank; manual freshwater pump , vanity with washbasin. Opposite to starboard are hanging lockers and storage.
Aft of the salon to starboard is a navigation station with chart table storage; seating (and sleeping) on a large 6'3" quarter berth aft.
The galley is aft to port and equipped with a 3-burner butane/propane gas stove with oven; top-loading, insulated ice chest; single stainless steel sink with manual fresh and salt water.
Natural light and ventilation through 6 bronze opening ports and two overhead hatches.
Eidos can sleep four, and the salon seats four.
DOCKING, MOORING AND SAFETY EQUIPMENT
Electric windlass installed in 2016.
30 lb. CQR anchor with 90 feet of chain on the bow.
Fortress FX16 anchor with 30 feet of chain and 150 feet of rode on the stern.
22 lb. Bruce anchor
25 lb. CQR
Two dinghy anchors with rode
Olin flare kit
3 Fire extinguishers
Horseshoe life ring
Searchlight
Radar reflector
Float vests and safety harnesses for each person
MISCELLANEOUS
9-foot inflatable dinghy with oars and a sailing rig.
Polish registration.
Moored near Poros Island, Greece.
Sadly, I am getting too old to sail her any more, so must say good bye. I hope that she will give many years of pleasure and adventure to a new captain.
€32,000
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