1981 Cape George 36' (10.97 m) 36' Cutter
Shoreacres, Texas, United States
Bay Girl
This is a very rare find proven world cruiser! The Cape George 36 Cutter is a traditional, heavy-displacement offshore cruising sailboat built by Cecil Lange & Son. This is a particularly good blue water sailboat. In 2023, South African sailor, Kirsten Neuschäfer, won the Golden Globe race around
- Cutter
- Sail
- Used
- Diesel
- Fiberglass Hull
- HIN/IMO: JA0000111H79
| FEATURES: |
|---|
| Hull and deck Painted |
| Harvest Moon 1st Place Winner |
| 9 Sails |
| Air Conditioning |
| New bottom 2024 |
| Date Listed: 08/01/2026 |
$ 110,000 USD
€ 95,606 Euros
$ 154,479 CAD
£ 81,943 GBP
Description
The Cape George 36 was designed primarily for offshore passagemaking and heavy-weather cruising. Its long Full keel provides excellent tracking, directional stability, and a comfortable motion at sea. It is known for being exceptionally seaworthy, forgiving, and capable of carrying heavy cruising loads. It is widely considered one of the classic Pacific Northwest-built cruising sailboats and remains sought after by sailors looking for a serious offshore cutter.
Data Sheet
HIN/IMO: JA0000111H79
Official Number: 638979
In Stock: Yes
LOA: 36' (10.97 Meters)
Type: Sail- Used
Year: 1981
Beam: 10' 6''
LWL: 31' 5''
Draft Max: 5' 4''
Cabins: 2
Heads: 1
Fuel Type: Diesel
Hull Material: Fiberglass
Fuel Tank: 60 Gallons (227.12 Liters)
Fresh Water: 150 Gallons (567.81 Liters)
Displacement: 23300
Engines
Engine 1
- Engine Make: Volvo
- Engine Model: MD 17
- Engine Type: Inboard
- Power HP: 30.00
- Power KW: 22.37
- Fuel Type: Diesel
Full Details
Galley
- Propane range with 3 cooktops. Two propane tanks in cockpit
- Double sink, with hot and cold water
- Refrigerator/freezer
- Storage cabinets, stocked with plates, large and medium bowls, mixing bowl, cutting boarts, sauce pans, coffee pots, skillet, utensils, trays
Accommodations
- Sleeps 5 – two bench seats in main cabin, aft berth, V-berth, all cushioned
- Large cabin table w/fold-down leafs
- Air conditioned cabin when on shore power.
- Heavy gauge bronze porthole windows
- Bronze dorade air vents, changeable to lower profile plastimo dorade vents
- Head with toilet, showerhead with hot and cold water
Sails and Rigging
Staysail boom – attacheable – enables tacking without re-trimming the sheets
Nine Sails:
- Main
- Jibs
- No. 1 (North) – 17 ½’ foot
- Yankee (Banks) – Med-heavy weight 22’ foot
- Reacher / Drifter (North) light weight 28 ‘ foot
- Storm jib 13’ foot
- Jib top sail 15 ½’ foot
- Staysail (De Witt) (for cutter-rigged sailing) 13’ foot, staysail
- Spinnakers
- Symmetrical 24’ foot
- Asymmetrical (Quantum 2015) 30’ foot, girth 28.93
- 18’ carbon fibre spinnaker pole
- Telescoping whisker/spinnaker with piston fitting at both ends
- Self-steering windvane – in storage can be attached when needed
- Cutter rigged, with easily removable inner forestay to enable sailing as a sloop.
Racing
- Maintained GBCA PHRF Certificate : 2025 Spinnaker Rating 189, Non-Spinnaker: 208
- Several top three finishes in Houston Yacht Club PHRF races
- LYC Galveston – Pensacola Race – First Place (Pre-2008)
- LYC Harvest Moon Regatta
- Cruising Non-Spinnaker Class – First Place 2013
- PHRF Bacardi Fleet (27 boats) 13th place 2012
- PHRF Spinnaker Division – 3rd Place 2011
Additional
· Anchors: Two anchors, each with own line, including one CQR plow anchor with 200’ chain.
· Marine CB radio, Garmin GPS and radar, AIS transponder, AM- FM Receiver, Depth sounder
· Dual cockpit compasses
· Cockpit canvas bimini canopy and foreward acryllic dodger
· Air conditioned cabin when on shore power.
· Heavy gauge bronze porthole windows
· Bronze dorade air vents, changeable to lower profile plastimo dorade vents
· Canvas:
- Cockpit bimini and dodger
- Covers for main, skylight, bowsprit, forward hatch and dorade boxes
· Cutter rigged, with easily removable inner forestay to enable sailing as a sloop.
· Dyer fiberglass dinghy, 8’ long, 4’ beam, mounts on cabin top rack, has 7 ½’’ mast and sail and rudder
· Self-steering windvane – can be attached
· Varnished 6’ boat hook
· Mosquito screens for companionway and forward hatch
· Safety
- 4 Fire Extinguishers
- First aid kits
- Tossable bouy, life ring and 5 seat cushion throwable floats
- Life preserevers/vests: 5 offshore inflatable LP’s with recharge bottles + 7 orange LP’s
- Emergency ditch bag with: Ssignal flares, floating electic signal flashing light, orange flag, horn, whistles
- Floating safety flag
· Spotlight – plug in
· Flag pole –aft mount
· Flag pole –backstay mount
· 6 fenders
· Stainless BBQ pit – mounts on stern railing
· Oil lanterns for in-cabin use
· Built in charcoal heater in cabin
· Long string of colored pennants – runs from bow to masthead to stern
· Bosun’s chair/seat
· Shroud tension guage
· Bins with spare blocks, stainless steel misc screws, pins, light bulbs, fuel filter, oil filter, spare belts, etc
· Bottom cleaned, including through hull openings cleared and zincs checked/replaced every 90 days
· Repairs
- 2014 Meeh Boatyard haul out, full boat fiberglass inspection/repair, paint topside and hull
- 2018: Batteries, power monitor, alternator, power cords
- 2023 Estevan’s / True North Marine – haulout - complete bottom job/repaint entire exterior, various mechanical refurbishes
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Contact Us
For more information about this yacht please contact Tony Smythe.
We look forward to working with you!
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Sea Lake Yachts is owned and operated by Doug and Angela Hughes, a couple with not only a passion for boating but for helping buyers and sellers alike have the very best experience possible when purchasing or selling quality New and Brokerage boats. Doug has over 34 years in the business of professional yacht sales, has served six terms as the President of the local Gulf Coast Yacht Brokers Association and is now serving as a board member on the Certification Advisory Council Board for the prestigious CPYB (Certified Professional Yacht Broker) program where he served two years as the chair of that program.
Tony Smythe
Yacht Broker
1500 Marina Bay Drive
Bldg. 112
Kemah TX 77565 USA
Office: 1-281-549-4724
Cell: 713-542-0521
Email: tony@sealakeyachtsllc.com
Tony was born into a sailing family and began sailing at the age of six and was a charter member of the Ragnots, the HYC youth program. He has raced ever since throughout the years In his own one design boats including Blue Jay, Corinthian, Dragon, Soling, Etchells and Sonar. He attended TCU and graduated from the University of St. Thomas. While working in the commercial maritime industry he and his wife, Lynda, lived in New Orleans where he raced a 26ft Luders Class at Southern Yacht Club and won the Luders International Championship at Chicago YC. He raced in the 5.5 Meter Class in the US and abroad, winning the US Championship at TCYC and has finished on the podium in other national and world championships as crew and skipper at home and abroad. Tony served as Commodore of the Texas Corinthian and the Houston YCs and has chaired several national and international regattas. He is co-author of the TEXAS/LOUISIANA COASTAL CRUISING GUIDE. He has owned and cruised his Grand Banks 42 (2) extensively throughout the Bahamas and up and down the Eastern Seaboard as well as extensively along the Gulf Coast. He owned a Caliber 40 and sailed her throughout the Caribbean down to South America. Over the years he has raced/cruised roughly 100,000 miles on blue and brown waters.
