1983 Wauquiez Gladiateur

Wauquiez boats of this era are considered the French Swan, are legendary for their sailing characteristics and builder quaility. Designed by famous naval architects Holman & Pye and built by the Henry Wauquiez Yard in France. Hull is solid hand laid fiberglass. Boat has always been in the Pacific Northwest, and this boat is known by the original broker who imported all these vessels in the early ’80s. This broker personally toured this boat in ‘24 and remarked at memories of her in Alaska and commented on how nice she was. The boat was repowered in 2005 with a new Volvo Penta and matching saildrive. (this nice of an engine is hard to find on a vessel of this price).

Equipment: PROPULSION

Volvo Penta (MD2020-D) 20 hp diesel coupled to a Volvo Saildrive with folding prop.

FUEL TANKAGE

18g SS tank

FRESH WATER TANKAGE

2 SS tanks totaling 55g

HOLDING TANKAGE

Poly tank 25g with y and macerator overboard discharge.

Submersible auto bilge pump and manual bilge pump in engine compartment.

ELECTRICAL DC: (2) house batteries wired to marine selector switch. AC: none.

ELECTRONIC/NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT.

ICOM IC-M 80 VHF radio Ritchie manual compass Depth & Speed Transducers

GROUND TACKLE

10 KG Bruce on 33’ /- chain with 300’ of three strand nylon

SAILS & RIGGING

Deck stepped Aluminum single spreader mast (Isomat), 1x19 SS wire standing rigging, bob stay, roller furling on headstay. Aluminum spinnaker pole. Main sail, 100 jib, storm sail.

Since owning the boat, I have done some small improvements such as:

All new running rigging. Installed two Lewmar secondary winches on the cockpit coaming Installed chock on deck for on mast spinnaker pole storage Installed Spinnaker crane and harken block on masthead for spinnaker halyard Installed dyneema lazyjacks for mainsail Serviced all winches New bottom paint and new zincs installed Spring ‘23 New head installed Spring ‘22 New second house battery installed Spring ‘22