I've never sailed that far, but my old Searunner 31 did. It was sailed down the
west coast from
Washington state, through the
Panama Canal into the Carribbean and anchored at St. Lucia where the owner was diagnosed with terminal cancer. A friend of his flew down to pick up the boat for him, sailed it across to
Florida, diassembled it and mounted it on a two axle
trailer, with the floats and
mast on the top and trailered it all of the way across the US back to Bellingham,
Washington with a station wagon! We bought it and sailed it for many years around the San Juans.
My
advice? Can it be done? Certainly it can. The 37 is a great cruising boat and is not too big to
single hand and is still big enough to punch breakers and handle long ocean passages. Keep in mind, though, if there is a little dry
rot, then there is a lot somewhere else. Soft decks are common, as is dry rotted stem
head fittings and leaking
centerboard trunks. The same goes for wet hatches, fixed port lights and seat areas in the
cockpit. Gotta tell you, tearing out dry
rot and trying to build back to sound
plywood sucks big time. It is dirty, discouraging work and more than a few people have been sucked into getting a great deal on a well used and abused
multihull only to founder and give up on the
scope of the
repairs necessary. That's a question only you can answer. Do you want to try and tackle tearing out all of the known problems and then be confident that your boat is in good shape for
offshore work. (We were on our way to a
haul out at the marina when a squall pulled out the forestay tang and just missed clobbering my wife in the face. Nearly
lost the
mast, but it pretty much destroyed our confidence in taking our 31 offshore and betting our lives that it would get there. We are currently finishing a new Constant Camber 44 tri for the same goal.)Hope some not too jaded
advice will help. Good luck with your decision.