SOLD!!!   Looking to sail into the sunset? Just add groceries and GO!  (NOTE:  March 28, 2016 - we're back from almost a month in Cuba - amazing experience!  Check out CommuterCruiser.com for Cuba info posts!)

s/v Winterlude is a wonderful example of Robert Perry's highly sought after classic bluewater cruising sailboat design, the Passport 37.   Whether you want to sail around the world, or just enjoy a sunset cruise off Key West, this boat will take you there.

The main salon is light and airy with plenty of ventilation.
 

Cruising Equipped and turnkey including:

• Spectra Catalina 300 Watermaker
• Lighthouse Electric Windlass
• New Frigoboat Refrigerator/Freezer
• Hydraulic Belowdecks Autopilot
• Monitor Windvane
• 6 Sails including spinnaker, storm trysail (separate mast track) & storm jib
• Solar (225 Watts) and KISS Wind Generator
• 625 Amp Trojan T105 House Battery Bank, plus separate Windlass & Starting Battery
• Icom M802 SSB Radio, Icom M504 VHF with Cockpit Mike
• SeaGull Drinking Water System
• 2015 44# Oversized Spade Anchor, 150 ft 5/8" chain spliced to 125 ft 5/8 anchor rode
• Redesigned Weatherproof Cockpit Enclosure
• New 2015 Transmission

Price:  $114,900, serious inquiries only please.

Contact:  Gary Monnell, Whiteaker Yacht Sales, 941-776-0616, gary@whiteakeryachtsales.com

Full Specs, Click Here or read on for more information and photos...

(Exclusions, fully listed on Spec Sheet include 9' AB Dinghy & 2015 9.9 hp Yamaha Outboard, 2 kayaks and jungle painting on back wall of salon)

1985 Passport 37, s/v Winterlude

Sunset anchored at Boca Grande, 16 miles from Key West

 You'll be hard pressed to find a better maintained or better equipped cruising sailboat. 

Sailing under spinnaker to the Cayos Cochinos, Bay Islands Honduras

We have owned and actively cruised Winterlude for the past 15 years.  She has taken us safely from Annapolis, MD to Cartagena, Colombia and back to Key West, Florida where we enjoy life in paradise.  As with all dreams, after sailing with the dolphins, buying molas in the San Blas Islands, reveling in Carnivale in Cartagena and diving Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize and the Bay Islands, Honduras, it may be time for us to chase different rainbows.

San Blas Islands

So sadly, s/v Winterlude is for sale.   Better equipped than most newer boats with top of the line equipment AND already in paradise, in Key West, take possession and immediately begin living your dream.

The galley with 3 burner/oven/broiler Hillerange stove, a deep large sink, new Frigoboat refrigerator and freezer and microwave.

Currently in Key West, Florida, you can sail almost year round, step aboard and begin enjoying the cruising life immediately.  Sail out to the Dry Tortugas and take in the civil war era fort, superb snorkeling and amazing clear water.  Or take off further afield - Isla Mujeres, Mexico, the Bahamas or Eastern Caribbean.

The main salon dining area.  The table drops to make a bed.

The starboard settee in the main salon with the 22" Samsung TV on a pivot bar to watch from multiple locations.

Winterlude has the highly desirable pullman berth layout with a separate shower stall and separate head.

The weatherproof cockpit enclosure features both UV/bug screens as well as isenglass to keep you dry in a tropical downpour.

In the past few years, Winterlude has had many upgrades including:

2015 New Frigoboat keel cooled refrigerator

2015 New batteries (windlass & starting) 2014 Trojan T-105 house bank - 625 amps in house bank and 2015 TruCharge charger

2015 New transmission

2015 New smoked acrylic in all hatches and windows

2015 Refabricated rudder and steering quadrant assembly

2015 New Raytheon ST4000+ wheel auto pilot

2013 Rebuilt belowdecks autopilot hydraulic pump and 2015 replaced wiring.

2012 Spectra Catalina 300 watermaker - rebuilt clark pump in 2012

2012 Factory rebuilt Lighthouse 1501 electric windlass

2011 New sunbrella canvas total enclosure with isenglass roll down panels for rain and shade panels for shade.

225 watts of solar and a KISS wind generator provide enough juice to last for days at anchor.

NOTE:  6' headroom at the angle, 6'2" in the middle of the hall.  

For full specs and details, click here.  

Call or email today, boats this well equipped and maintained don't last long!

More photos:

Anchored in Sapzurro, Colombia, one of our favorite anchorages!

Anchored in the Hollendaise Cays, San Blas Islands, Panama

Underway with "Bo" the Monitor Windvane steering.  The boat also has a heavy duty belowdecks electric/hydraulic autopilot and a light duty Raytheon ST4000 wheel autopilot



Electronics at helm include the Northstar Explorer APS380 belowdecks autopilot, the Garmin 541S, wind speed/direction, the ST4000+ wheel pilot, depth/speed and a Ritchie compass

Warderick Wells, Exumas Land & Sea Park 2012