40' Endeavor
 

I am looking at this boat. It is a 1984 and in great shape.
Can anyone give me some views on this boat???

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40' Endeavor
 

"Boots Crofoot" wrote in news:1155172055_4151
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I am looking at this boat. It is a 1984 and in great shape.
Can anyone give me some views on this boat???



Slow and stable, the way a proper cruiser should be. I sail with a friend
on his 1981 Endeavour 35, A-style. He's got quite a few blisters, but
nothing threatening, just a nuisance. The hull is solid. There was some
issues around the through-hull fittings and his rudder post was overhauled.

The rainwater comes down the inside of the mast and always ends up in the
bilge, which is always wet, of course.

Been in 18' seas in the 35 and she's a handful of helm that will tire you
out in heavy following seas, but I never felt threatened.....well, until
"SOMETHING", probably a whale broached with a crash about 90 miles off
Georgia at 2AM with me all alone in the cockpit. I was wide awake
then!...no coffee necessary!

Great boats made of REAL fiberglass. Keep an eye on the chainplates. We
pulled a couple loose on the 35. Hope you like sanding, varnishing and
polishing wood...(c;

40' Endeavor
 

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http://www.endeavourowners.com/boats/e40/e40specs.html

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Can anyone give me some views on this boat???

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We have a 37' built in 1980. Very solid hull, no blisters. I think all the
rigging is original and it is in good shape. Perkins 4-108 is a workhorse
the harder I run it the better it runs.
Best info is at http://www.endeavourowners.com/ . But don't focus too much
on the problems others are having. We have not had any of the problems
others seem to have had.
- Allen

40' Endeavor
 

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I am looking at this boat. It is a 1984 and in great shape.
Can anyone give me some views on this boat???

A friend has a 40. We have an O'Day 37. How much difference do three feet
make? A world of difference. His boat seems ten times the size of ours. And
all that neat woodwork. A very comfortable boat though slow in anything but a
half gale. He had to repack the rudder shafy and the wheel is very stiff.
Can't really get a feel for how she is responding. Engine is fine. He
installed an anchor windlass, but too small a one. Amazing a boat that size
and that heavy would not have a windlass as standard equipment.

40' Endeavor
 

On 9 Aug 2006, "Boots Crofoot" wrote:

I am looking at this boat. It is a 1984 and in great shape.
Can anyone give me some views on this boat???

I agree with the person who summarized it as "slow and stable, the way
a proper cruiser should be" and with a "solid" hull, etc., but (alas!)
also with a cautionary that may be suggested by that poster's related
comment that" rainwater comes down the inside of the mast and always
ends up in the bilge" -- namely, that a dockmate who has one, and who
had believe it, too, was in "great shape" and who seemed otherwise
very pleased with the pleasurable and otherwise reliable use it had
provided on many cruises, learned (mostly by accident but, luckily,
before it was too late) that that intruding water of the sort referred
to apparently resulted in - anyway, he discovered - the corrosion to
the point of almost total degredation of the chainplates (not readily
visible behind the inside walls/furniture) which (putatively)
supported and attached the shrouds (seemingly) holding up the mast to
the hull.

Standing alone, this possiblity ought not be a reason not to make a
purchase, but (obviously!) it underscores the need for a very thorough
surveyor's inspection (unless, of course, you are looking at the
particular boat my dockmate had repaired/rebuilt in this respect).