For Sale: 27’ Custom Pilothouse, 6-cylinder Volvo Diesel and Trailer

[SimonS]

It’s a sombre day to list this boat - she's created so many incredible memories for my family and me, and now it’s time to pass her on. I bought this boat from the builder who built it for his own retirement in San Francisco. She was launched in 2000.

Beautiful lines and gets a lot of questions every marina we pull into. Amazing details and craftsmanship went into its design. She was originally used to fish salmon and tuna offshore from the Golden Gate Bridge. I bought it from the builder in 2021 and hauled it up from California to Bowen Island, where she’s moored now in Snug Cove.

- Volvo Penta AD41p-a diesel with 1700 hours in great running shape (new elbow, water pump, trim motor, rebuilt and recently resealed DP-E outdrive w/ newer J-props and brand new Korean spare props)
- cruises efficiently at 16.5 kts/ 3000 rpm getting around 3.5 nmpg on average (I cruise almost entirely at 3,000 rpm but at wot it runs 27 kts (about 3,950 rpm)
- Pacific Trailer galvanized tandem axle with custom bunks
- includes downriggers and lots of spares and some fishing gear gems that should stay with the boat
- radar, commercial sounder (reads depth of 1000’ at cruising speed), engine heat, wash-down, sink and pump, captain chairs, VHF, spot light, wipers, etc
- current with maintenance and ready to go
- sheathed strip design with structural fibreglass/epoxy inside and out (info here)

I wanted to post it on this forum before it’s listed more widely. Happy to bring it to Horseshoe Bay or Gibsons to have a look.

$67,000

 

[Rain City]

Very cool boat.

 

[Rayvon]

Very nice design,do you know who designed it? What materials used in the hull? Cedar on oak framing? Or was it cold molded?
You can tell by the pictures the owner/builder knew what he was doing,nice woodwork.OOPS-never mind I see your (Info Here) now.
Click on it.

 

[SimonS]

The boat is a Philip Bolger design, and I'll include some details below from the boat builder himself. When I had the boat surveyed in 2001 for purchase, the surveyor estimated it would cost $300,000 USD to commission a new build of the same boat.

"The hull is design # 505 by the late, great naval architect Philip C. Bolger of Gloucester, MA. Carl Brownstein of Shelton WA. designed the looks of the cabin, gave her a curved transom, a prettier sheer and built the hull & cabin shell. Her hull scantlings rules are based on “Sheathed Strip Construction” by MacNaughton Associates of Eastport, Maine.

Construction Details:

The sheathed strip construction is a modern hybrid of boatbuilding techniques. Essentially it’s a traditional strip built hull with the solid 7/8 “ VG Douglas Fir “core” providing longitudinal and impact strength while the 17.6 oz. biaxial fiberglass inner & outer skins (laid 45deg to the fir strips) handle the transverse loads, abrasion resistance, waterproofing and low maintenance surface finish. Resins were System Three epoxies. She is built with a Lloyds 1088 Okume ply “eggcrate” web of bonded bulkheads, longitudinals, decks and rails as internal framing structure. The topsides and cabin panels are Okume as well. Other framing and the keel are VG Douglas Fir. All wood is sealed both sides with minimum of 2 coats of epoxy. All exterior plywood is sheathed with glass & epoxy. Lower decks are epoxy bedded 3/16” teak over plywood."

 

[Pineapple Express]

Beautiful lines, and that interior looks so classic and cozy. A far cry from the sterile aluminum cabs with grey paint and grey vinyl. Good luck with the sale

 

[Rayvon]

You might want to add a few specs to your post like LOA, beam ,gross weight and it looks like self bailing by the open scuppers.

 

[SimonS]

You might want to add a few specs to your post like LOA, beam ,gross weight and it looks like self bailing by the open scuppers.

Good point!

LOA is just over 29’ with the swimstep and outboard bracket.

Beam is 8’6”

Yes, self-bailing scuppers in the cockpit.

Gross weight is 7000 lbs with half fuel and light supplies.