For Sale: 1966 Buchan 37 Foot Sloop

[FrankC_OR]

I am selling my 1966 Buchan 37-foot sloop, Eos, currently listed at $17,500 with Pop Yachts. I know the price is too high, and it has come down from its original asking price of $25,000 in February 2024. The boat is USCG documented and located in Scappoose, Oregon. The Universal M25xp auxiliary is practically new and has 82 hours after the rebuild. The boat is turnkey, although it desperately needs a new mainsail and some extensive cosmetics.

Last November, I hauled the boat and replaced all the through-hulls and valves with properly needed and bolted seacocks, replaced the propeller, prop-shaft, and cutlass bearing, and bottom paint. The boat sits in fresh water, so the major work below the waterline is complete. I also replaced the two group 27 batteries — sealed and strapped per ABYC standards.

What is needed:

The head needs to be reconnected to the discharge seacock with a new hose or a small blackwater holding tank so that it can be used in protected waters (everywhere). The deck was primed when I bought the boat in 2022, but I was not able to paint it. Now, the primer is bad, and it should be sanded, reprimed, and painted.

Eos is a great boat, but I cannot afford two, as I have a fourty-five foot steel cutter that is my main boat. She is a great classic plastic and would make a great race-boat for weekend beer cans, comfortable for a couple to cruise the San Juans for a week, or be a 37 foot boat that you can keep for two years to prove to your insurance that they should insure you on a boat up to 47 feet.

I am open to all offers, so let me know what you think this boat should be listed at to sell.

[FrankC_OR]

More photos.

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Here are even more pictures of the interior.

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Here are some bottom pictures from the haulout.

[FrankC_OR]

A lot of you have looked at this post, but there haven't been any responses. Even if you are not interested in this boat, I would really like to start hearing opinions about what you think the price should be.

It has been on the market for almost a year. The broker started the listing at $25K, which would have been nice since I bought the boat for $16K and spent $8,500 addressing a few of the bigger issues. I know I won't get my money back, but what price point do you think I need to drop to?

If you aren't interested in this boat but have an opinion on the price, please share. Like I said, it's been on the market for a year. I was hoping to get a low-ball offer at the end of the season, but the asking price is still too high. What should it be?