Wauquiez Hood 38

XBOAT ref: 378.
I am selling my 1984 WAUQUIEZ HOOD 38 sailboat, the second version MK2.
It is a sloop rig, built in thick polyester resin, making it a very sturdy boat!
I am the 3rd owner, selling reluctantly due to health reasons. I have enjoyed sailing in Breton waters, the Bay of Biscay, with annual trips to Spain, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall for 14 years.
It is very comfortable with its 2 cabins, a large living area in the saloon which converts into a 2-person berth, forced air heating, pressurized hot water, 2 toilets including one equipped with a black water tank (never used), a fully equipped kitchen with worktop, double sink, gas stove with oven, microwave oven, and stereo with speakers inside and outside.

It's a robust and very comfortable boat. Built between 1978 and 1989, 179 units were made.

It’s not easy to combine often contradictory qualities like comfort and performance, and add aesthetics.

The Hood 38 is beautiful. Ted Hood, its designer, gave it elegance and character. Part of the pleasure of owning a boat is simply looking at it.

The Hood 38 is comfortable. Its interior volume is probably the largest among boats of this type, and the teak used generously gives a refined luxury to the fittings. It offers great comfort for happy cruising from cove to cove thanks to its lifting keel.

The Hood 38 is fast. Ted Hood is like us: he likes boats that perform! Thanks to his vast experience, the Hood 38 provides great pleasure at the helm. Comfortably seated behind the wheel, with eleven meters sixty of deck ahead, you sail close-hauled at less than 30° apparent wind. On broad reaches, with keel up, you achieve surprising averages.

WAUQUIEZ SHIPYARD
- HOOD 38 MKII
- Keelboat
- No. 116
- Year 1984
- Architect: Ted HOOD
- length: 11.60 m
- waterline length: 9.50 m
- beam: 3.60 m
- draft min 1.40 m / max 3.30 m
- category: 1
- 8/12 persons
- interior, deck and cockpit in teak
- 3rd owner
RECENT PRICE DROP.
A MUST SEE.

ENGINE:
- YANMAR
- model: 4JH4E
- ENGINE REPLACED IN 2007
- power: 55 HP
- V-mounted gearbox
- 4-cylinder atmospheric diesel.
- shaft drive
- approximately 2600 hours
- fuel capacity: 150 l + 50 l totaling 200 l
- 3-blade JPROP propulsion propeller (2008) + old spare propeller
- REINSTROM bow thruster

SAILS:
- full batten mainsail, 3 reefs, approx. 32 m2 (2013)
- furling genoa, approx. 55 m2 (2013)
- FURLEX 300 E furling system (2014)
- possible to reinstall an electric genoa furling (removed in 2014)
- working jib on a removable forestay + "fake stays" (NEIL PRYDE, equivalent to solent)
- tri-radial spinnaker approx. 110 m2 + sock
- pole with bell

RIGGING:
- 17 m deck-stepped mast with 2 sets of spreaders
- boom with lazy jacks
- open lazy bag (2010)
- standing rigging replaced in 2007
- full textile running rigging

FITTINGS:
- 2 LEWMAR 40 winches (mast base)
- 1 LEWMAR 40 ST + 1 LEWMAR 30 winch (cockpit)
- 1 LEWMAR 40 ST electric winch (mainsail halyard)
- 2 LEWMAR 50 ST electric winches (genoa sheets)
- custom LEWMAR mainsail sheet track mounted on the cabin roof
- cockpit dodger
- full closed cockpit cover
- full winter cover

POWER / ELECTRICS:
- MASTERVOLT battery charger and inverter
- 5 batteries 105 AH/12V (4 service and 1 engine dedicated)
- 220 V system on circuit breaker and shore plug
- ALPHA PRO regulator
- 1 solar panel 150 W on adjustable aft arch
- MPPT 10 A charge controller

ELECTRONICS AND NAVIGATION:
- RAYTHEON R40X radar
- AUTOHELM 6000+ autopilot, on RAYMARINE evolution +P70 + ACU400 (actuator serviced by pro in 2018, evolution system from 2015)
- STOWE navigation sounder system (old but functional)
- external repeaters on cabin roof with depth, speed, wind vane, anemometer
- GARMIN 158 I GPS
- old TOSHIBA navigation laptop under Windows XP
- with OpenCPN + worldwide charts + AIS connected + GPS
- NAVICOM RT 650 ASN VHF (with AIS and portable handset)
- Weatherman (radio Telex system on RTTY band)

COMFORT:
- WEBASTO forced air heating
- pressurized fresh water system (hot and cold water)
- 50l electric hot water heater on 220V
- + engine circuit hot water
- double insulated refrigerator (water-cooled)
- stove with oven + gimballed gas burners
- microwave oven
- radio with internal and external speakers
- saloon modified by previous owner (bunk removed, quality carpentry storage added)
- 400 liters fresh water autonomy

HULL:
- hull out of water since December 2022
- smooth hull (no paint buildup)
- epoxy VC Tar hull treatment in the 90s
- white hull paint in good condition (recoated by previous owner)
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