Regardless of age you won't find a better equipped or better maintained cruising boat in this size range than Drifter. Drifter is one of the great sailing yachts fully outfitted and rigged for cruising. A new survey backed by receipts and logs shows a cruising boat fully equipped and maintained to the highest standards. Standing rigging has been replaced. Engine has been replaced. Watermaker refurbished just last year puts out an amazing 48 gallons per hour! 950 watts of solar power! Wind generator. 6 Trojan 6 volt batteries in house bank. AIS receiver and transponder and much more. The whole boat was re-wired in 2001.
Don't let the age fool you. This boat isn't old. And it was built in the fast, safe sailing tradition of Columbia Yachts. This boat will be cruising long after you're gone.
Drifter is in Puerto Rico, already in the best cruising ground in the world. No sales tax is due. Flying in to Puerto Rico is easy and inexpensive. Once you're there provisioning is easy with no customs to deal with, shopping at stores like WalMart, Costco, West Marine. Sailing to anywhere in the Caribbean or even back to the US is a piece of cake.
Boat Name
Drifter
Specs
Builder: Columbia Yachts
Flag of Registry: United States
Hull Shape: Monohull
Dimensions
LOA: 36 ft 0 in
Beam: 10 ft 8 in
LWL: 31 ft 0 in
Maximum Draft: 6 ft 3 in
Engines
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Yanmar
Engine Model: 3YM30
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Propeller: 3 blade propeller
Engine Power: 30 HP
Tanks
Fresh Water Tanks: Fiberglass (100 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: 2 Fiberglass (30 Gallons)
Holding Tanks: (17 Gallons)
Accommodations
Number of single berths: 1
Number of double berths: 2
Number of heads: 1
Electrical Equipment
Electrical Circuit: 12V
Outside Equipment/Extras
Electric windlass
Just three steps take you down from the cockpit to Drifter's comfortable and efficient saloon. To port is a roomy dinette that serves six and converts into a roomy double berth. Square corners offer comfortable where you can lean back, put your feet up and read. Opposite the dinette is the in line galley with refrigerator forward, double stainless steel sinks next and the stove aft. Just aft of the galley is a forward facing nav station. Aft of the nav station is a comfortable quarter berth.
Forward of the dinette to port is a roomy head with shower and electric head. Forward of the head is the owner's cabin in the vee berth.
Sleeping accommodations for 5Dining accommodations for 6Numerous hatches for light and ventilationOpening stainless steel ports for light and ventilationComfortable settee cushions in like-new conditionComfortable forward-facing nav station immediately adjacent to the companionway