1992 Pacific Seacraft 37 "Equanimity", Sausalito, California
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Everything below is costed to cross the Pacific.
Archived on August 27, 2026. Everything researched about it is still here; it sits under Archived on the boats list rather than in the comparison.
Specifications
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not analysed
$227k–$289k
offer + full refit
36.92 ft
5.83 ft
6.6 · 6.7
cruising · offshore, of 10
Capability is scored for both standards from the same design research, re-weighted. The money is not: a coastal refit has to be costed on its own, which is why it can read “not analysed” above while the score beside it is real.
Assistant's read — an opinion, not a source
- This is a genuinely proven compact offshore design already in the San Francisco Bay Area, with unusually strong model-level seakeeping, good access to machinery, and a credible recent-maintenance story.
- Compared with the prior payload, the engine line should not be treated as an expected repower without a failed specialist inspection: the listing now documents 2,875 hours, regular List Marine care, a 2023 cooling-system rebuild, and almost $15,000 spent on the engine in 2023-2024, so I have reduced repower probability and added engine inspection/baseline service instead.
- The main economic threats are now verification items: the draft conflict, 2015 standing rigging and sails reaching 13 years by March 2028, the 2015 LeisureFurl system, possible aluminum fuel-tank corrosion, and any deck/core or rudder findings from survey.
Costed to cross the Pacific.
Finance
At the asking price. Drag down to model a lower offer.
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each line × its odds
slip $6k · ins $2k · tax $1k
offer + full refit
Worst case, every line landing in full: $180,383. Planning figure is the likely cost above; this is the tail, not the expectation.
Resale
The gross figure flatters: Australian duty and GST fall due on sale, and brokerage is charged on the sale price.
$144k
in Australia, gross
$17k
on sale, not arrival
$14k
on the sale price
$113k
what actually comes back
$44k
incl. $11k CA use · $1k CA property/yr
$166k–$210k
cash gone once sold in AU
DIY savings
$59 an hour of your own time, blended. Not folded into any total above — every figure on this page assumes the yard does the work.
$20k
across 15 jobs · $14k more must go to a pro
345 hrs
about 22 weekends
Where the money goes
- Purchase $109k
- Use tax $11k
- Refit $96k
- Risk $24k
- Unknowns $21k
- Holding $18k
- AU import $17k
- Purchase
- $109,000
- CA use tax
- $10,900
- Required refit
- $71k–$154k
- Risk, expected
- $23,760
- Unknown reserve
- $21,192
- Holding
- $18,142
contemplated offer
10 items still unpriced
8 open · $353k if all hit
systems not yet looked at
slip $8k · insurance $3k · tax $2k
- Cash to Pacific-ready
- $228k–$372k
- All-in by Australia
- $255k–$399k
- Net after resale
- $166k–$210k
assumes $144k resale
Where to open
Asking price less $88,116 — the negotiable share of $123,100 in disclosed and suspected defects plus $23,760 of weighted risk. Offshore upgrades are excluded on purpose: a watermaker and a liferaft are your ambition, not the seller's problem, and the next buyer wanting a Bay daysailer would pay near the ask.
- Negotiable defects
- $88,116
- Weighted risk
- $23,760
- Max at high case
- $34,856
from $123,100 of defect work
8 still open
the ceiling, never an offer
Schedule
A boat that cannot be ready is not cheaper, it is a year late.
How much of this is actually known
A boat priced from guesses is a different risk from one priced from quotes, at the same total.