START YOUR CRUISE IN PANAMA.BUY A GREAT BOAT AT A GREAT PRICE AND START IN PARADISE! The Gulfstar 50 was the best boat Gulfstar ever built and also the most popular, with 172 hulls launched during a six-year production run that ended in 1980. Designed by Lazzara himself, the GS 50 boasts superior interior joinery, generous accommodations, robust construction, and a well proportioned hull and rig.
The Gulfstar 50 Ketch is a big blue water sailing yacht with classic good looks, tons of room and teak interior. Built to carry you where-ever you want to go comfortably, safely and in style, she has served her owner well and is ready to be cruised by a new owner.
BLOW ME AWAY features a large deck with extended bow pulpit, anchor with chain and windlass. The spacious center cockpit has ample seating, pedestal with wheel, and bimini top with dodger. She is designed to look good and sail well with graceful lines and solid build.
The interior features teak bulkheads and trim. Amidships is an open salon with facing settees, convertible dinette, and dining table. There are teak cabinets to store everything you need for an extended cruise or the necessities for living aboard. There is a nav station with chart table. Across from the dinette is a full galley with pass through.
This 50 has two private staterooms and shop/storage room. Forward is the guest stateroom with v-berth, captain's cabin to starboard has been converted to a shop and storage, and aft is the master stateroom with queen berth.
This 50' Gulfstar is designed for circumnavigation with the room to live aboard. BLOW ME AWAY was actively cruised by the current owners for the past 20+ years and now lies in Panama waiting for her next owner to continue the dream.
Please contact Wayne Goldman at 510-759-8481
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Boat Name
BLOW ME AWAY
Specs
Designer: Vince & Richard Lazarra
Flag of Registry: United States
Keel: Other
Hull Shape: Monohull
Dimensions
LOA: 50 ft 0 in
Beam: 13 ft 8 in
LWL: 39 ft 8 in
Maximum Draft: 5 ft 6 in
Displacement: 35000 lbs
Ballast: 10500 lbs
Engines
Total Power: 85 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Perkins
Year Built: 1980
Engine Model: 4-236
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Hours: 4000
Drive Type: Direct Drive
Engine Power: 85 HP
Introduction to BLOW ME AWAY
Charles Doane of Sail Magazine calls the Gulfstar 50 "An affordable Big Boat". Now a sailing classic, the Gulfstar 50 is known for its sailing qualities, a fast hull shape and capable offshore in heavy seas. It's solid fiberglass construction and versatile ketch rig and affordable price point make it an ideal and popular world cruiser. The interior layout and finish is perfectly suited for life at sea offering ample storage for long journeys and all the comforts of home.
Transitioning to a life at sea as a live-aboard is a process and transforming the yacht can be a long process of trial and error. BLOW ME AWAY has been modified and upgraded by its owners after twenty years at sea, constantly updating and improving the home on the water. Comfort, storage, efficiency, safety, security, stability, these are the concerns of every sailor as they live and travel on the water. Preparing the yacht to meet these concerns is a painstaking and costly process with many hidden circumstances, making it difficult to get it right the first time. BLOW ME AWAY is about as well thought out a yacht as you will find with many clever modifications above and below decks.
ACCOMODATIONS
The Gulfstar 50' Ketch is a 3 cabin / 2 head layout featuring a forward "V" berth cabin with a forward head and an aft owner's cabin and head. The owners have made numerous modifications to increase storage space and improve functionality of the life-aboard boat.
Enter from the cockpit down the companionway, the galley is situated to port with the nav station to starboard. There is a large U-shaped convertible dinette with a drop leaf table to the portside of the salon and a straight settee opposite.
Moving to the bow, the forward head with manual head, washbasin and wet shower is to port with doors from both the salon and the v-berth. There is an abundance of storage throughout - two huge hanging lockers in the salon plus rattan-faced lockers and shelving above both the dinette and settee. The v-berth forward has two hanging lockers and numerous drawers and a large opening hatch above the berth.
Moving aft past the galley via the walkthrough is the master cabin which boasts a full-width berth and ensuite bathroom with manual head, vanity and stall shower. Again, lots of storage, lockers and drawers.
Access to the engine room is available from below the companionway and from the walkthrough. BLOW ME AWAY has teak and holly sole and beautiful wood throughout.
Named by Cruising World Magazine as one of the top 40 all-time best sailboats. This Gulfstar 50 Ketch has completed been regularly cruised throughout the Caribean and now lies in Panama. Throughout the voyage and ownership, the yacht has seen many updates making it an ideal live-aboard and offshore capable adventurer. Life aboard and life at sea have different demands and requirements and this yacht has experienced the transformation from a coastal cruiser to a blue-water world voyager.
The owners have enjoyed their 20+ years at sea and adventures around the globe and are now ready to re-acclimate to life ashore. This is a great opportunity to benefit from their years of experience by purchasing a yacht that has been fully prepared for life at sea and begin your own adventure and voyage
New Upholstery (2019)
Installed Lee Cloth on the starboard settee for offshore sailing.
3 Electric Fans
2 Reading lights
2 Cabinets with Doors
Bookshelves
Huge storage locker
Additional interior features:
Hot and cold pressure water system
Varnished teak bulkheads and trim
Solid teak hanging locker doors with wicker
Cedar lined hanging lockers
Solid teak paneled stateroom and head doors
New teak sole in master stateroom
Galley The galley is a large "L" shaped space with lots of counter space, a double stainless-steel sink, stove with oven and large refrigeration and freezer.
New Corian countertops
Dinnerware
Silverware
Glassware
Stainless steel 2 basin sink
Water filter on galley sink faucet
Large storage locker under the sink
Gimbaled3 burner stove with oven
Two - 10 gallon propane tanks in stern locker
Crosby 110v refrigeration and freezer (recently re-insulation)
200 gallon water storage
ELECTRICAL
5kw Northern Lights diesel generator 120 volts
AC and DC electrical panel with switches and breakers.
Batteries, new 2001
Shore power cables
Wiring upgraded
120 volt 30 amp Shore Power
House batteries four 6volt golf cart batteries (2016)
Engine and windlass batteries 12volt (2018)
Heart Freedom 20 Inverter/battery charger
Meters for volts and amps
ELECTRONICS
Garmin chartplotter (2018)
Simrad autopilot (2018)
Simrad wind instrument
Garmin depth sounder
Standard Horizon VHF
ICOM 710 Single Sideband Radio (inop)
VHF
Windex masthead wind indicator
Danforth Constellation 5" binnacle compass
ENGINE and MECHANICAL
The Engine Room (yes, engine room) is located under the center cockpit with an access door in the port passageway to the aft cabin as well as fore and aft access panels. This is a spacious engine room providing not only great access to the engine, systems and water-maker but also tons of storage for tools and extra parts.
Perkins 4-236 diesel 85 Hp
Crosby 110v refrigeration
Sea Recovery 30 gal water-maker (located in shop needs work)
BLOW ME AWAY is the popular ketch rigged Gulfstar 50 This is the perfect sail plan for offshore, offering endless versatility for whatever the weather and seas bring you.
This ketch rigged vessel is rigged with aluminum main and mizzen masts and booms. The masts and booms are painted white. The booms have upgraded boom wings to catch the sails on both main and mizzen. There are Hood roller furlers on both the jib and staysail. The running rigging has been replaced as needed.
The sail plan is not particularly large. Still, the GS 50 is not exactly a slouch when it comes to speed, though it does like moderate to heavy weather better than the light stuff. It?s not hard to keep the boat moving at 7 knots or better under working sail if the wind is blowing over 12 knots. Below that, you?ll need to break out spinnakers and mizzen staysails to maintain good speed.
Sail Inventory:
Dacron mainsail
Dacron 90 jib
Dacron 135 genoa
Dacron mizzen
DACRON Mizzen staysail
Asymmetrical spinnaker
Storm jib
Storm trysail
Winch inventory
2 Barient 32 self-tailing primary winches
1 Harken 28 halyard winch at mast
1 Barient 21 halyard winch at mast
1 Barient 21 vang winch at mast
2 Barient #18 at mizzen mast
DECK and HULL
The hull of the Gulfstar 50 is solid fiberglass. The deck is fiberglass with a balsa core. The deck has a no-skid surface. There is a bow pulpit and push pit with solid stainless-steel lifeline rails and 30" stanchions around entire boat. On the stern is mounted a specially designed dingy davit to handle an AB 11' rib with a 30HP Tohatsu outboard.
Perma-Glass dodger and hardtop ? upgrade
Electric Lofrans Tigres bi-directional anchor windlass (new 2016)
Anchor rollers on the bow sprit upgraded with 3/8? stainless steel
All hatches replaced with Lewmar Offshore hatches. New hatch above galley upgrade.
Ports upgraded to Newfound metal with hurricane shutters, six out of 10 have stained-glass
Cleats and chocks for bow lines
Port and starboard gates
Inner and outer jib track
Saltwater deck washdown
Spreader lights
Cockpit table for 2 that folds open for 4
4 stainless-steel dorades and boxes
Stainless-steel Davits
Garhauer crane to lift dinghy motor on aft deck
Stainless-steel boarding ladder
2 - 120 Solar panels on top of davits
Snug Harbor dinghy on foredeck used for storage with davits to raise and lower
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
This yacht is outfitted with the following offshore safety equipment:
Lifesling MOB recovery system
Safety harness
Life jackets
EPIRB
18' sea anchor
MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT
AB 11' rib with a 30HP Tohatsu outboard
Horseshoe ring
EPIRB
Awning with side curtains
Screens for all Hatches
Water & fuel jerry jugs
2 solar panels
Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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