Selling a 1980 Pearson 32

[Frank Smith]

I am down the Cape in Massachusetts and need to find a home for my 32 Pearson.  Have owned her for 26 years.  A great racer or cruiser.  Very seaworthy.  If anyone is interested please let me know.

[Jeffrey D]

Happy Friday, All. 

10M folks: what size primary winches are you running?  I’m singlehanding most of the time and im going to need to move to self-tailing winches. My current winches are gorgeous 3-speed behemoths, but without self-tailing I’m doing tiller gymnastics…

Thanks!

[Dan Pfeiffer]

I have Barient 27ST primaries.  That translates to 44.8 or 46 or 48 power ratio?  Barrient used a different sizing scale back in the day and there is some fogginess about ratios and models. My barient 27ST are adequate.  More would always be welcome when grinding hard.  But you trade speed for power.  They are always fine with my working jib.  It's the big genoa where I get into limits. 

Dan Pfeiffer

On 2026-05-01 10:35 am, Jeffrey D wrote:

Happy Friday, All. 

 

10M folks: what size primary winches are you running?  I'm singlehanding most of the time and im going to need to move to self-tailing winches. My current winches are gorgeous 3-speed behemoths, but without self-tailing I'm doing tiller gymnastics...

 

Thanks!

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[Dave Cole]

Autopilot is pretty much necessary when singlehanding.  Or at least some way to lock the wheel or tiller.  Do you have a way to lock your tiller?    I have a wheel, so I can just engage the wheelpilot clutch to lock the wheel.  

If you dont have an autopilot, Id buy one before popping for self tailers.  

Dave

10M #26

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[Jeffrey D]

Dave-

Definitely have a tillerpilot on the short list. Want to swap the winches at the same time as I go at the teak. Probably a Pelagic from my research.  

Dan-

My Lewmar 45’s are positively huge and could probably pull the forestay off the mast😂. The bases are the sign of pizza pans, which is why I want to replace at the same time I do the teak…

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[mark mills]

We had a Pelagic on our Westsail 32.

  It's by far the best tiller pilot I've ever used, and the people at Scanmar have the best customer service in the marine industry. 

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[Peter Trunfio]

In ~2014 I replaced the old Barient primary winches on Annandale (1974 10M #66) with Harken Radial 42.2 STCs (42”, 2-speed, self-tailing, chrome drum).

Those were the “equivalent” size/load of the old non-self-tailing 2-speed Barient winches that I replaced.

They aren’t cheap…but you could probably save about $300 each if you got the 46.2 STA instead (42”, 2-speed, self-tailing, aluminum drum).

https://www.harken.com/en/search/?q=46.2

If anyone is interested, I have a pair of 35.2 STCs (35”, 2-speed, self-tailing, chrome drum) that I bought to replace the old Barient secondary winches. But in the end, I never installed them.

They were the “secondary” winches on a 10M, but I suppose they would be the “primary” winches on a smaller boat.

Never been installed, never even out of the box.

Make me an offer…

PMT

Peter M. Trunfio

S/V Annandale

City Island, NY

+1.917.640.6450 (c)

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[Jeffrey D]

Mark-That’s great to hear. I line the price of the standard Pelagic over the heavy-duty. It seems like the standard is right on the border between the two. My 10M doesn’t have an especially heavy tiller load from what I can tell. 

On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 19:23 mark mills <mpm...@gmail.com> wrote:

We had a Pelagic on our Westsail 32.

  It's by far the best tiller pilot I've ever used, and the people at Scanmar have the best customer service in the marine industry. 

gmail.com.

[Jeff Griglack]

On my P365, I have two, self tailing Lewmar 44 winches for the primary.  The secondaries were Lewmar 30s and I have two more Lewmar 44 self tailers to replace them so I can have the jib sheets next to the wheel.

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[mark mills]

I would go up in size if its close.

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