Tartan 37 Sloop - Wonderful Family Cruiser

OWNERS NEED AND WANT HER SOLD. BRING OFFERS.

NOW IS THE TIME! MAJOR PRICE REDUCTION ON THIS CLASSIC SPARKMAN STEVENS DESIGN!

If you want to own a sailing vessel with style, substance, and a great community, you are barking up the right path. The Tartan 37 is a serious cult boat. No, we don't mean that she is obscure, old world traditional sailing vessel like the BCCs we so proudly support. No. The Tartan 37 is a classic from the drawing board of Sparkman & Stevens. She is a gorgeous, all purpose, and great sailing boat for the Chesapeake Bay or lots of other wonderful places. There are 450 of them in all corners of the US and a few that have ventured far.

Our offering, named Vision Quest, is a 1978 vessel and she’s had two owners. Her first family had her for 25 years and raised their boys racing around the buoys. Her current owner has also raised his family cruising on the Bay for years. They had aspirations of cruising and upgraded the boat for a Delmarva Circumnavigation and then they even made an excursion to Key West! They have enjoyed owning and sailing her and she is a lovely boat after all the family years. The kids are all grown up now and it is time for find another family for Vision Quest!

So, if you want a community, a family, a sense of pride of ownership, races, and rendezvous, you’ll really like this world of the Tartan 37. A great boat for a family. Go see the community at the Tartan Sailing Association. And on the Chesapeake, it is the boat to have! She’ll race round the buoys with the best of them. She’s generous and forgiving to the novice and at the same time she’s a sail animal with a skilled captain. She’s an all round great performer. When Sparkman & Stevens took up the challenge of building a truly great production boat and teamed up with boat builder Tartan Marine, who knew that they would succeed in producing a classic. They succeeded!

The Tartan 37 will win approval for good, stable, predictable, sailing performance on all points of sail. The shoal draft centerboard design is well suited to a cruising boat on the East Coast, the Bahamas, and in the Chesapeake Bay. That’s what she does so well. She’s not an ocean racer, but you can’t deny that Steve Pettingill set a record in the Port Huron to Mackinac Island Single-handed Race in his Tartan 37 Ambergris, a deep draft fin-keel Tartan 37.

The majority of the 37's, like our offering, “Vision Quest” are centerboard, shoal draft designs drawing just 4'-2" with the board up. This is nearly the perfect draft for a boat of this size intended for cruising the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries.

She’s no light weight either. With a displacement of 15,500 pounds and a displacement/length ratio is 220. Light enough to sail the light winds of the Chesapeake in summer, and heavy enough that you can feel confident in coastal waters. Lots of Tartan 37s have ventured far like the one we raced to Bermuda. But then again, we like to say it is 90% skipper and 10% boat. Wherever you sail this boat you will love her just like her two families have.

Vision Quest has had the standing rigging replaced along with the halyards and she has upgraded Raymarine C-80 Radar and Plotter, new Autopilot, and M302 VHF with DSC. She is complete with dinghy and outboard.

Now you can own a beautiful classic S&S design that you will love and be proud to own. Call today and get ready to take the helm!

ACCOODATIONS

As you enter the companionway you will find that the interior is traditional and welcoming. Teak veneer and trim is used throughout the boat and white formica lines the ceiling overhead. The overall quality of the wood work and joinery is very good. With the almost 12 feet of beam the interior is larger than you would expect.

To port of the companionway steps is the sit down nav station and the cozy quarter berth which gets even larger when the nav seat is converted into more berth space. To starboard of the companionway steps is the spacious U-shaped galley. Moving forward is the salon with a strait settee to starboard that pulls out to make a larger single berth and has a pilot berth above and outboard. On the port side of the salon is the L-shaped settee and drop down folding table. Storage cabinets and shelves are outboard of each settee.

Forward of the salon to port is the very spacious head with standard marine toilet, stainless sink, teak medicine cabinet, lots of storage outboard, a shower head that stows away and a shower track with curtain. All the way forward the V-berth cabin has a privacy door into the head, plenty of maneuvering room, and changing seat, hanging storage, drawers and cabinets.

• One private cabin, one quarter berth, one head layout
• Pilot berth with foot well above starboard settee
• Starboard settee pulls out to make a larger berth
• Drop down folding table, cross-bulkhead mounted
• Entertainment: Sony Am/Fm/cassette/10 disc changer stereo w/ remotes, Sony Xplod 40wx4 100w amplifier, Bose Mini Theater interior speakers & Bose Marine outdoor speakers
• 8 opening ports
• Two deck hatches
• Weems & Plath clock/barometer/temperature units (mounted together)
• Continuous mood lighting string around salon ceiling (a nice touch!)

GALLEY & PLUMBING

Galley:           

• Refrigeration Grunert dual plate system AC/engine driven
• Shipmate 3-burner stainless steel cooking stove w/oven & broiler
• Large pull out cutting board that stows behind stove
• Fitted cutting board over sink
• Lots of custom dish storage
• Great counter space and storage
• Double stainless steel sink with swiveling pressure faucet
• Fresh water hand pump
• Salt water hand pump

Propane

• 10 lb tank stored in dedicated aft cockpit locker
• Runs propane cooking stove
• Solenoid

Plumbing

• 90 gallons fresh water in polyethylene tanks (30 gal in port tank, 60 gal in starboard tank)
• Pressurized fresh water via Jabsco pump
• Head has standard marine toilet & stainless sink
• Holding capacity 20 gallons in polyethylene tank
• Deck pump out for holding tank
• Y-valve for offshore overboard discharge of holding tank

NAVIGATION & COMMNICATION SYSTEMS        

At Helm Station

• Sailing instruments: Kenyon apparent wing, wind speed, hull speed, Datamarine depth sounder
• ST6002 autohelm
• Richie compass at binnacle
• Handheld Standard Marine VHR radio

At Navigation Station

• Raymarine C80 chartplotter
• Raymarine radar
• Raymarine autopilot
• Icom M302 VHF/DSC radio
• Kenyon nav log unit
• Nav station has bench seat & opening chart table w/ storage underneath
• Brass lantern w/ decorative glass

MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

Mechanical

• Single Westerbeke 40 diesel marine engine
• Model 407/40 hp 4 cylinder
• Serial # 108u1775188712
• Engine hours: 272
• Westerbeke panel in cockpit
• Cruise speed 6 ½ kts @ 2250 rpm
• Max speed 8 ¼ kts 3300 rpm max
• 53 gallons diesel in aluminum fuel tank
• Spare parts Westerbeke Deluxe Kit on board
• Max Prop 3-Blade feathering/full-reversing prop
• Engine room blower
• Manuals all available
• Maintenance log
• Pedestal Upgraded, Serviced & Refurbished: SS Top Plate
• SS Guard Feet
• SS Throttle Lever
• SS Brake Knob
• SS Quick Release Nut
• Engine Control Decals
• Brake Relining Kit

Electrical

12 Volt System

• DC panel (upgraded with Blue Seas system)
• Batteries
• Five 12 v deep cycle wet cell (1 start, 4 house)
• 110 amp hr each
• Total amp hr capacity 550 Amp
• Inverter/Charger Heart Interface Freedom 20, 2000 watt - 100 Amp
• Link 2000 monitoring system, digital control interface & analog amp/volt
• Blue Seas system with all panel illumination installed
• Required navigation lights
• Foredeck light
• 12 volt outlet by companionway

110 Volt System

• AC panel (upgraded with Blue Seas system)
• Amperage 30 amp service
• 25 ft yellow shore power cord
• 100 ft white shore power cord
• AC-DC outlets
• GFCI receptacles
• Complete wiring schematic included

RIGGING & SAILS

Rigging:

• Keel stepped mast
• Sloop rig
• Bridge clearance of 53’, ICW compatible
• Furlex roller furling

• Standing rig in excellent condition
• Running rigging in good condition
• 3 halyards internal condition good
• 2 vang preventers clam cleat systems, stowed on deck each cabin side
• Aluminum Spinnaker pole 16’x5’ w/ topping lift & foreguy bridals
• Hood Gemini Foil racing headstay system
• Custom design dual spreader pennant halyards
• Backstay adjuster upgraded w/Sailtec piston hydraulic
• Main Traveler Upgraded W/ Harken Heavy Duty System
• SailTec hydraulic backstay
• Wire boom topping-lift is completely removed from boom & stowed against backstay when under sail to eliminate interference
• Fitted for racing (extra sheets, blocks, handles, etc)

Sail Inventory

• Headsails: Hood 150% racing #1 genoa 5.5 oz (deck sweeper)
• Hood 120% racing #3 genoa 8.2 oz
• Hood 90% racing jib 8.2 oz
• Mainsails hood racing mainsail 8.8 oz
• Spinnakers Leonard triradial light/moderate air spinnaker ¾ oz
• Sail Area (100% foretriangle) 625 sq ft
• I Dimension 47’
• J Dimension 16’
• P Dimension 41’ 6”
• E Dimension 12’

Winches

• All winches have been serviced as needed
• All reefing gear & trim adjustment lines lead forward to mast area
• Primaries - Two Lewmar 48s 2-speed self-tailing
• Secondaries – Two Lewmar 40s 2-speed
• Lewmar 25 2-speed on cabin top
• Two Lewmar 16s 2-speed on cabin top
• Two Lewmar 8s 2-spd
• Lewmar 25 2-speed

HULL, DECK, & GROUND TACKLE

A true Sparkman & Stevens design, constructed to Tartan Marine standards. Tartan marine was the first company to introduce construction of fiberglass balsa core laminates in the late 1960’s. Vision Quest has no blister history and has never needed barrier coating. This Tartan 37 is over equipped for serious racing and when sailed correctly will literally kick butt. She is a real top performer. Beautiful, sleek, swift, well cared for and loved; a timeless classic that will make any owner proud.

Hull

• Sparkman & Stevens design
• Hand laid fiberglass w/ end-grain balsa coring (improves stiffness w/out gaining weight)
• High stress area are solid fiberglass
• Hull to deck join is of an internal flange bedded w/butyle & polysulfide & bolted to deck on 8-inch centers
• Generous bow rake & a reverse transom
• Skeg hung rudder
• Topsides polished and waxed at every haul out
• Port lights replaced 2010
• Center board pennant

Deck

• Decks in excellent condition
• Fiberglass construction w/ end-grain balsa coring
• Beige non-skid surface molded into all flat areas
• Over equipped for serious racing
• Foredeck area lifelines custom fitted so they can be lowered to deck to accommodate #1 genoa which is a deck sweeper
• Inboard genoa lead tracks installed to maximize close-hauled performance
• Four mooring cleats on cockpit combing

Cockpit

• Two large cockpit drains
• Large lazarette under starboard seat bench, and one under helm bench
• Naugahyde cockpit cushions (3)
• High Seas custom transom boarding ladder

• Hatch boards upgraded w/ heavier ¾ solid teakwood

• Edson teak slide-on pedestal table (2)
• Edson teak side tables (2)
• Gimbaled cup holders on pedestal (2)
• Winch handle holders on pedestal (2)
• Leather wrapped wheel

Canvas

• Canvas By C. Ford Yacht Canvas
• Cabin Dodger (Sand-Taupe) w/ stainless steel handholds
• Captains Awning (Sand-Taupe)
• Mainsail Cover (Sand-Taupe)
• Winter Cover (Sand-Taupe) Custom Mast-Aft Boom Tent
• Deck Awning Custom Over-Boom To Backstay (Brown & White)

Ground Tackle

• 24 lb CQR primary anchor on bow roller
• 16 lb Danforth secondary anchor

OTHER & SAFETY EQUIPMENT

•  Johnson 5 hp outboard motor
• Inflatable dinghy (deck stowed)
• Guest strobe (activates when turned on its side or upside-down)
• Inclinometer
• Manual bilge pump

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