SC27 Gusto For Sale in Huntington Beach CA. $8800

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Dec 21, 2024, 11:50:24 PM12/21/24
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Gusto is for sale.
She's never touched salt water and her bottom side is better than any other SC27's you will find.

We have SC27 hull number 72 “Gusto” that has never touched salt water since she was built and purchased new, and she’s ready for sale soon.  She’s been sitting on her trailer in our yard for three years waiting for us to put her in the water and get her sailing again.  She has a great history racing on Lake Champlain and Lake George in Vermont and NY, and then Lake Lanier in GA, and finally the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, TN.   I have documentation of races that Gusto participated in that will come with the sale.  Gusto was pulled out of the water and winterized on her trailer every year since bought new in Santa Cruz CA and trailered to NY, and she hasn’t ever touched salt water.  This means her bottom is pristine and just needs a good coating of trailer-able or saltwater bottom paint before she hits the water again.

We received Gusto with big plans to get her in the water, but Covid killed many of our plans for far too long, and then our kid’s sports and tournaments further complicated plans after that.

Gusto’s robust single axle trailer has new tires, but needs some surge brake system work (the guy that pulled Gusto and her trailer from TN to CA for me said he didn’t care that the surge brake trailer system wasn’t working with his truck, but towing Gusto behind a less beefy vehicle means surge brakes should be fixed to work before serious towing. 

CA DMV wouldn’t register the trailer even with the NY, GA, and TN trailer registrations in hand because trailers built when Gusto was new were not given VIN  numbers.   To get Gusto’s trailer registered in CA, here are the steps:

  • Get surge brakes fixed
  • Tow the trailer, to a CA DMV office and wait for an inspection.
  • DMV will inspect the trailer, give it a serial or VIN number after passing inspection.
  • Then DMV will issue trailer registration
    • Sorry, but I’ve not had the time or will to do this yet.  I'm ok using the GA permanent trailer plates for now.

Gusto was registered and I got title three years ago in CA when I received her, but because of the trailer registration issues, I have not kept up with “Gusto’s registration” , but I have title for the boat, and I will pay any required late reg fees to get her registration current, or go to DMV myself to handle the registration and title issues prior to sale.

Sorry, but I’m not including the new 6hp Tohatsu long-shaft outboard motor or the new West Marine dingy unless someone wants to pay current retail prices for those so I can replace them because I will need them for our future boat. If you're a sailor, you don't want this heavy 6HP tohatsu anyhow.  Tohatsu new outboard was started only when broken in in the tank when purchased, and dingy is still in original box never opened.

Gusto’s bottom is in excellent shape but she now shows some peeling on the freshwater antifouling coating that’s been dry for over 5 years, but there’s no penetration through fiberglass bottom.  The old freshwater antifouling paint does need to be removed and redone with a trailerable hard antifouling paint or a good bottom of saltwater soft ablative paint, but I won’t do this before I show her for sale so everyone can see the great shape of Gusto’s fiberglass hull that’s never touched salt water.  If you want to strip and repaint this yourself, or put a softer ablative bottom paint on Gusto and keep her in the water, you can save some money doing it yourself.

We did put a lot of hard work into Gusto when we received her.

  • 3 year old rotting leaf stains from dry storage in TN were hard to polish off the topside white gel-coat, but with elbow grease, good polish/wax, and good music, it polished and waxed out. 
  • We removed almost all teak and beautifully restored it with lots of sanding, 7 coats of marine spar varnish, and the restored teak is still in a box in the garage ready to reinstall (why put it on a boat sitting drydocked?)). 
  • Stainless Lifeline cables are in great shape, and I have new white lifeline cushions in boxes in the garage ready to be put on to cover all of the lifeline (again, why put it on a drydocked boat?)
  • New coax cable is in a box ready to pull up the mast tube for instruments. 
  • A working VHF radio is ready to install and connect to the COAX, and that’s why full shielded coax is part of the package ready to pull up the mast.
  •  The stock compass on the bulkhead works great. 
  • The winches all work great, but all of them should be lubed and serviced prior to any  heavy stress sailing.  
  • Topside gel-coat is clean and good for now, but in five more years it will need to be sanded, patched, gelcoated, or possibly patched, primed, and painted over with a urethane topcoat over the existing gel-coat. 

Above the waterline, the Tequilla gold hull paint just needs to be polish/waxed with a cleaner wax to shine and bring out the luster of the paint, and I hope to do this prior to sale.

Interior is spotless.   Wood floorboards are in excellent shape. Fully functional stern berth aluminum sling poles and the rope and vinyl hammocks are in great shape ready to put in place.  They are stored in totes in our garage.  The cushions for the V-berth are in great shape.   The Porta-potty for the V-birth is in great shape, clean and ready for use stored our garage.  There is NO damage to the wood interior work, but I hope to sand it lightly and put a couple of coats of Marine Spar varnish on it prior to sale

All sails are folded properly in sail bags, and stored in our garage.  Two mains, two jibs, one spin.  When we received her 3 years ago, I pulled out all of the sails, opened and checked all seams on our front lawn, and I saw no issues needing repair.

Only a few lines have been left exposed to weather needing replacement because they are connected to the mast that is carefully laid down on the boat topside-  (backstay tension line is probably the one needing replacement the most, and the traveller line will need replacement )  the rest of the lines and sheets are in great shape stored in the Garaged totes.   

I removed the old mahogany  multilayer wood motor mount block on the original motor mount insert, and installed a new plastic mount pad instead.  It fits perfectly,  and it’s ready for any long shaft outboard motor you choose to buy.  The new 6HP Tohatsu I have fits, but it also fits my new West Marine Dingy and neither are included without additional $ in the deal ($2200 for motor and $1200 for inflatable). 

I thought we had a failing bilge pump as we were cleaning and rinsing out the interior, so I bought a new pump. When I received the new bilge pump, I removed the old one and I found the old one only had a small piece of knotted nylon line stuck in the diaphragm causing the old pump not to work, cleared the junk, and the old pump still works great, so Gusto comes an extra new bilge pump still in the box.  (thought this would be a good thing to stow on Gusto for offshore trips as a safeguard. 

Unfortunately, our kids were too active with their sports to allow us to get Gusto sailing again. 
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