1982 Colvin Gazelle

1982 COLVIN GAZELLE FOR SALE - CORTEN STEEL - $9500 USD - SAN BLAS, NAYARIT, MEXICO

Length on deck: 42 feet Name: LE PATRIOTE Registry: CANADA

I’m selling Le Patriote, my Colvin Gazelle ketch.

Rigged as a gaff cutter-ketch (the mizzen is a pointy-headed sail). Aluminium masts in tabernacles. Oversized stainless standing rigging of unknown age, looks to be in good condition, no meat hooks.

From fore to aft: yankee, boomed jib, gaff main, bermudan mizzen.

Accommodations: From forward to aft – V-berth forward, then storage to port and head to starboard, then a dinette to starboard and settee / pilot berth to port, then galley to starboard and large nav station storage to port. Then the engine room / workshop with tonnes of storage (crouch height only). Aft cabin does not have standing headroom either, but is roughly a foot higher than the engine room. It contains two single berths and a lot of storage room. Could be converted to contain a double berth.

Rough but sailable and livable. I bought this boat at auction in Monterey, California in September of last year, and sailed it 1200 miles down to Pacific Mexico, with no problems. Used about four gallons of diesel over the whole trip, so you know she can sail. The boat is currently on the hard in San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, in one of the greatest cruising areas of the world. The yard storage fee is paid in advance in full until February 2025 (was around $250 a month, not sure what it will be this year). The yard allows working on the boat, but not living aboard while on the hard. I’m told a studio apartment can be found in town for about 600 USD per month.

Reason for sale is that I was wrong about being able to work remotely while living aboard. My business is just too busy and this living arrangement isn’t for me. I loved the boat but I can’t justify keeping it around until my situation changes. I don’t want it to become another abandoned yard boat, and to slowly slip into irreversible disrepair. It needs to be sailed and loved.

Full inventory of sails, stained but strong.

Equipment: - 670W of brand new bifacial solar panels and 10GA tinned wiring - 800VA Victron inverter - Victron battery monitor - DC-to-DC charger to charge lithium batteries off the engine - Victron solar charging controller - VHF radio - Expired and probably no-good life raft - Hard dinghy - 46lbs thrust electric dinghy motor - Inflatable kayak and paddles - All running rigging replaced with new or good-used - Brand new heavy dock lines - Piles of spares, fasteners, wiring, electrical spares, fittings, paint, epoxy, lubes and so on - Fuel transfer pump and fuel polishing filters - Fuel and water jerries - Head is a composting Nature’s head - Ice box - Solid fuel heating stove - Life jackets and new flares, flare gun - 12V fans (not installed) - Gimballed two-burner kerosene stove and oven - 40lbs Bruce anchor, 40lbs CQR, 25LBS Bruce, 200 100ft of chain