1981 Cape George 36' Cutter
“Bay Girl”
01Overview
This is a very rare find proven world cruiser! The Cape George 36 Cutter is a traditional, heavy-displacement offshore cruising sailboat built by Cecil Lange & Son. This is a particularly good blue water sailboat. In 2023, South African sailor, Kirsten Neuschäfer, won the Golden Globe race around
02Highlights
- Hull and deck Painted
- Harvest Moon 1st Place Winner
- 9 Sails
- Air Conditioning
- New bottom 2024
03Specifications
04Description
The Cape George 36 was designed primarily for offshore passagemaking and heavy-weather cruising. Its long Full keel provides excellent tracking, directional stability, and a comfortable motion at sea. It is known for being exceptionally seaworthy, forgiving, and capable of carrying heavy cruising loads. It is widely considered one of the classic Pacific Northwest-built cruising sailboats and remains sought after by sailors looking for a serious offshore cutter.
Galley
- Propane range with 3 cooktops. Two propane tanks in cockpit
- Double sink, with hot and cold water
- Refrigerator/freezer
- Storage cabinets, stocked with plates, large and medium bowls, mixing bowl, cutting boarts, sauce pans, coffee pots, skillet, utensils, trays
Accommodations
- Sleeps 5 – two bench seats in main cabin, aft berth, V-berth, all cushioned
- Large cabin table w/fold-down leafs
- Air conditioned cabin when on shore power.
- Heavy gauge bronze porthole windows
- Bronze dorade air vents, changeable to lower profile plastimo dorade vents
- Head with toilet, showerhead with hot and cold water
Sails and Rigging
Staysail boom – attacheable – enables tacking without re-trimming the sheets
Nine Sails:
- Main
- Jibs
- No. 1 (North) – 17 ½’ foot
- Yankee (Banks) – Med-heavy weight 22’ foot
- Reacher / Drifter (North) light weight 28 ‘ foot
- Storm jib 13’ foot
- Jib top sail 15 ½’ foot
- Staysail (De Witt) (for cutter-rigged sailing) 13’ foot, staysail
- Spinnakers
- Symmetrical 24’ foot
- Asymmetrical (Quantum 2015) 30’ foot, girth 28.93
- 18’ carbon fibre spinnaker pole
- Telescoping whisker/spinnaker with piston fitting at both ends
- Self-steering windvane – in storage can be attached when needed
- Cutter rigged, with easily removable inner forestay to enable sailing as a sloop.
Racing
- Maintained GBCA PHRF Certificate : 2025 Spinnaker Rating 189, Non-Spinnaker: 208
- Several top three finishes in Houston Yacht Club PHRF races
- LYC Galveston – Pensacola Race – First Place (Pre-2008)
- LYC Harvest Moon Regatta
- Cruising Non-Spinnaker Class – First Place 2013
- PHRF Bacardi Fleet (27 boats) 13th place 2012
- PHRF Spinnaker Division – 3rd Place 2011
Additional
· Anchors: Two anchors, each with own line, including one CQR plow anchor with 200’ chain.
· Marine CB radio, Garmin GPS and radar, AIS transponder, AM- FM Receiver, Depth sounder
· Dual cockpit compasses
· Cockpit canvas bimini canopy and foreward acryllic dodger
· Air conditioned cabin when on shore power.
· Heavy gauge bronze porthole windows
· Bronze dorade air vents, changeable to lower profile plastimo dorade vents
· Canvas:
- Cockpit bimini and dodger
- Covers for main, skylight, bowsprit, forward hatch and dorade boxes
· Cutter rigged, with easily removable inner forestay to enable sailing as a sloop.
· Dyer fiberglass dinghy, 8’ long, 4’ beam, mounts on cabin top rack, has 7 ½’’ mast and sail and rudder
· Self-steering windvane – can be attached
· Varnished 6’ boat hook
· Mosquito screens for companionway and forward hatch
· Safety
- 4 Fire Extinguishers
- First aid kits
- Tossable bouy, life ring and 5 seat cushion throwable floats
- Life preserevers/vests: 5 offshore inflatable LP’s with recharge bottles + 7 orange LP’s
- Emergency ditch bag with: Ssignal flares, floating electic signal flashing light, orange flag, horn, whistles
- Floating safety flag
· Spotlight – plug in
· Flag pole –aft mount
· Flag pole –backstay mount
· 6 fenders
· Stainless BBQ pit – mounts on stern railing
· Oil lanterns for in-cabin use
· Built in charcoal heater in cabin
· Long string of colored pennants – runs from bow to masthead to stern
· Bosun’s chair/seat
· Shroud tension guage
· Bins with spare blocks, stainless steel misc screws, pins, light bulbs, fuel filter, oil filter, spare belts, etc
· Bottom cleaned, including through hull openings cleared and zincs checked/replaced every 90 days
· Repairs
- 2014 Meeh Boatyard haul out, full boat fiberglass inspection/repair, paint topside and hull
- 2018: Batteries, power monitor, alternator, power cords
- 2023 Estevan’s / True North Marine – haulout - complete bottom job/repaint entire exterior, various mechanical refurbishes
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