1983 Ocean Voyager 26

Ocean Voyager 26, 1983 sailboat for sale built by Voyager Marine $10,000

length on deck : 26’ Beam : 8.25’ draft : 3.3’ displacement : 6,600 lbs

Full keel heavy displacement pocket cruiser. Clearly built with offshore work in mind. Canoe stern with transom hung rudder and tiller steering. 9 small bronze opening ports, cutter rigged with self tacking boom and external chain plates. Shallow draft opens up the cruising grounds and she has a very kind motion underway. Very solid and comfortable in the water. This is a pretty special boat and is capable of things a typical production boat in this size range just cant do. Its size and cutter rig make it such that sails are easily managed. I have often told people when trying to explain the boat that it was made for one person to sail away for however long he should want to be gone, two people for a couple weeks or a small family for a weekend. It is no round the bouys racer and does not like going to windward but that is not what it is built for. Compares to boats such as Pacific Seacraft 25, Dana 24, Cape Dory 25D…

We installed the electric motor mostly as an experiment and I am happy in the way it has worked out. Its main function is to get away from and back to the dock. I have also been very pleased to use it on demand when I was being lazy and just wanted a little push to make a mark. All I have to do is flip the switch and the power is there. No warmup, priming or other fussing about. Just push the button, use it for the minute you want and turn it off again. The solar panels will take a couple days to fill the batteries from empty which has been just fine in the way we have used the boat. I do not have range figures. I think the most we ever motored at a single go was about 5 miles with battery to spare. Range is of course the main argument against electric. In the most recent interior photos you will see the headliner has been removed. This was done to gain access to the mast step and deck hardware. We have never reinstalled it and had not planned to. The plan was to paint the underside of the cabin top and cover the exposed bolts and such but have not gotten around to it. We have the headliner to send with the buyer should he choose to reinstall the headliner or use it for patterns. Hull is due for ablative bottom paint. We have two gallons of good quality bottom paint which will go with the boat. Not sure if it has a shelf life but the paint is a couple years old now though it has been stored indoors and was never opened. The boat is currently sitting on the trailer more or less ready to go. The tires are dated 2015 and have very little wear so you be the judge. I suspect some people will be looking at the add purely for the trailer.

After purchasing the boat in 2017 some of the repairs/modifications we did include…

All standing rigging replaced. SS wire rope hand spliced on to SS closed thimbles. Wire terminations replaced top and bottom with SS hardware. Deck level terminations use oversized SS shackles which function as deadeyes. Rig is tensioned using Dyneema between deck shackles and large thimbles to form deadeyes. Very tough, inexpensive and easy to replace. Thruhulls for conventional marine head were removed and glassed in. Removed Yanmar SVE8 single cylinder diesel engine and replaced with electric motor. Raw water intake thruhull was removed and glassed in. Yanmar SVE8 appeared to be complete and in running condition but we never used it to confirm. I suspect this Yanmar will outlive us all and should run fine. All fittings and poly fuel tank were retained and go with the sale of the boat if you should choose to reinstall. Bowsprit removed, deck opened and new fiberglass layed to strengthen foredeck under bowsprit. Bobstay and boomkin stays replaced with SS chain. Bobstay connection reinforced with extra fiberglass inboard to provide a better mounting surface and SS backing plate installed. All remaining thruhulls replaced with new bronze and Groco bronze seacocks to include galley sink and both cockpit drains. Cockpit drain hoses replaced. Replaced stern tube with new bronze stern tube, new packing gland and new cutlass bearing. Compression post replaced Cabin top under mast step cut out, old core material removed and built back with solid fiberglass. Hull sanded to gelcoat and built back up with 2 layers of unthickened epoxy followed by 2 layers of 2-part epoxy barrier coat primer.

Equipment

Sails : Yankee, staysail with 1 or 2 reefing points (cant remember for sure if its 1 or 2) and main with 2 reefing points. Sails are in fair to good condition. Staysail on boom as well as main have sail covers in fair condition. Custom 10,000 lbs custom galvanized trailer made by Sail Trailers. Rockna 10, 22lbs anchor with 30’ chain and about 200 ft nylon rode. Uniden Solara VHF. Danforth stern anchor. LED spreader lights port and starboard. Taylor kerosene 2 burner cooker with oven model 029 Airhead composting head. (installed in a hurry and while functional should be refined) Electric motor (inboard on original drive shaft and 3 bladed bronze propeller) Motenergy ME0201014201 BLDC rated for 90A continuous and 48V. HP does not really translate to electric but somewhere in the neighborhood of 6HP continuous and 19HP peak. Kelly KLS7230S, 24V-72V Sinewave brushless motor controller. 4 X 105AH deep cycle AGM batteries in series to make 48V for motor bank. 2 X conventional deep cycle flooded batteries in parallel @ 12V for house bank. These will need to be replaced. Solar converter PPT 48-5R14 which enables the charging of the house bank from the motor bank. Victron BMV700 battery monitor for the 12V house bank. 2 X 100W solar panels @ 24V in series to supply 48V charging to the motor bank. Midnight Solar Kid Marine version charge controller charging the motor bank. 1 X 50W solar panel @12V for charging the house bank. Sunsaver 10 solar charge controller for charging the house bank. schumacher 1000W power inverter Tiller pilot (came with boat and never used, cannot confirm function) or phone 956-494-three-six-four-four