1939 Kettenburg 32' (9.75 m) Pacific Class
San Diego, California, United States
Refit Year: 2021 Jewel
Jewel – Kettenburg Pacific Class Hull #35 Meticulously restored and twice renovated, Jewel is the finest surviving example of the 83 Kettenburg Pacific Class sailboats. Winner of SDYC’s 2025 Best Maintained PC, she’s turnkey and race-ready with over $250K invested and modern upgrades throughout.
- Sloop
- Sail
- Used
- Other
- Epoxy Composite Hull
- HIN/IMO: WAZ7641F
- Stock #: 35
| FEATURES: |
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| The Jewel of the surviving PC fleet |
| New Quantum Racing Sails: Main, Jin & Asym |
| Winner 2025 Best Maintained PC |
| Over $250K Invested in Restorations |
| Turn-Key and Ready for Racing or Cruising |
| Notable Upgrades: Full structural rebuild by Clark’s Custom Boats, AwlGrip epoxy finish, new rigging and hardware, lithium battery system with Victron charger, Raymarine tiller pilot, upgraded racing controls, and 2024 Petit Vivid Black bottom paint. |
| Toys: Electric Ouboard included |
| Date Listed: 10/08/2025 |
Over $250K invested - now just $25,000
$ 25,000 USD
€ 21,435 Euros
$ 34,892 CAD
£ 18,740 GBP
Description
Jewel - Kettenburg Pacific Class Hull #35
Jewel is the pride of the Kettenburg Pacific Class fleet and perhaps the best condition example still floating worldwide of the 83 boats produced. She has been restored twice and was the winner of the San Diego Yacht Club best maintained PC on opening day 2025. She is in turnkey condition with over $250k invested in the renovations. Jewel needs a new caretaker to enjoy this exceptionally maintained sailboat.
History
Launched in 1939, (formerly, Irene) she was the last of the pre-war Pacific Class boats built by Kettenburg Boat Works. Over her long life she had had a number of owners but her most recent saga began as a donation to the woodworking class at Port Townsend High School on Puget Sound. A marine surveyor was asked to consult and deemed her a bit much for a high school woodshop-level project so she was sold. She was retrieved by local San Diego boatbuilder Bill Clark who relocated her to San Diego and began a total boat restoration.
Renovations done by Bill Clark, Clark's Custom Boats, San Diego, CA
● All ribs were replaced with a five-stave, 1 1/4” by 1/4” ash laminate bonded together and encapsulated using West Systems Epoxy inside and outside.
● All deck and house beams were replaced with sapele mahogany.
● All seams reefed out and resawn to a “vee” contour, then splined with matching epoxy saturated mahogany staves.
● Any weak planks replaced and her entire hull saturated in and out with West Systems epoxy resin.
● She was completely refastened with bronze screws.
● New bronze chainplates thru-bolted with beefy non-original laminated ash reinforcements.
● Deck and house lid replaced with 7/16” Baltic birch ply covered in eGlass set in epoxy.
● Cabin and cockpit coaming replaced with flame-grained mahogany.
Renovations done by former owner: 2021
● Hull and deck repainted with primer and topcoats using AwlGrip’s epoxy system.
● All new stainless standing rigging
● All new running rigging using New England Rope vintage look ropes.
● Extensive use of new custom-fabricated hardware
● Petit Vivid Black anti-fouling in 2021 by Koehler Kraft.
● Aft cabin bulkheads were rebuilt.
● New weatherboards in grain-matched sapele.
● New interior with storage cabinetry, v-berth, porta-potty, etc.
● Cap and toe rails replaced with new sapele mahogany.
● Cockpit seating and sole replaced with sapele mahogany to match cockpit curvature.
● Boom crutch, traveler riser, and all small parts from sapele.
● Custom laminated tiller with bronze rudder stock cheek plates.
● New bronze self-tailing winches on coaming-mounted mahogany pedestals.
● All blocks are ash with Zytel bearing sheaves & 316 L stainless hardware.
● Comfortable cockpit and v-berth cushions covered in Sunbrella fabric.
● New Quantum sails in German cream-colored fabric in a vintage, period-correct pattern.
● New symmetrical spinnaker
● All bright work finished with a minimum of eight coats of Epifanes varnish.
● Full rain cover.
Renovations done by current owner: 2025
● New Quantum racing mainsail and jib
● New asymmetric spinnaker
● New code zero
● All running rigging updated to racing low-stretch lines. Largely 8mm warpspeed.
● Rigging converted for racing, hidden purchase under decks for backstay, downhaul, and traveller. Traveller control lines were rerouted mid cockpit for mainsail trimmer control.
● Mainsheet control from the forward boom or the rear cockpit with dual cleats.
● Spinnaker pole renewed
● New 83-pound thrust trolling motor. Maximum power is 4 knots for approximately 2 hours
● New Raymarine tiller pilot autopilot
● New 24-volt lithium battery in the bilge
● Quick disconnect port for trolling motor power hidden in aft cockpit.
● New Victron 24-volt lithium battery charger
● New Victron voltage converter 24v to 12v to step down power the main electrical panel
● Interior LED lighting added
● Tactick compass
● Petit Vivid Black anti-fouling in November 2024 by Koehler Kraft. 3 coats at the waterline, 2 coats on the bottom
● New Phifertex sheet bags and interior storage wall bags
● 4 new lifejackets hidden under cockpit benches in New Phifertex custom “hammocks”
● All USCG safety equipment is current
● Jewel has a current ORC racing handicap rating.
Data Sheet
HIN/IMO: WAZ7641F
Official Number: CF 0200 UE
Stock #: 35
LOA: 31' 10'' (9.70 Meters)
Type: Sail- Used
Year: 1939
Refit Year: 2021
Documented Year: 1939
Beam: 6' 7''
LWL: 21'
Draft Min: 4' 6''
Fuel Type: Other
Super Structure Material: Wood
Hull Material: Epoxy Composite
Hull Finish: Paint
Hull Shape: Monohull
Displacement: 5000
Designer: George Kettenburg Jr.
Builder: Kettenburg Boat Works
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