NOW SOLD – 1998 Victoria 38

Grabau International is delighted to announce its successful sale of the 1998 Victoria 38 ‘JOCARA’.

One of just a handful of Victoria 38’s built between 1997 and 1999 to designs by Chuck Paine and with interiors by Bob Hathaway, JOCARA has had just two loving owners since new. Commissioned for experienced owners with a semi-custom build including Kevlar bow reinforcement, cutter rig, shoal draft keel and upgraded engine, JOCARA was used lightly in her first ownership, laid up ashore under cover every winter and seeing use around UK and Northern France waters. After six enjoyable years of ownership, her owners stepped up to a ‘larger model’ with a Hoek 50 and Grabau International’s Alex Grabau sold her to her current Southern Ireland-based owners in the December of 2004. The following seasons have seen JOCARA used for cruising around Southern Ireland and sailed around Irish sea and up to Scotland with a light refit in 2022 including new topsides paint, stripped antifouling, Sikkens, canvas work, stove and so on. After 20 years of enjoyable and 100% reliable ownership, JOCARA’s owners are now looking to step up in size, so a unique opportunity now exists to acquire one of these exceedingly rare, utterly capable, and timelessly beautiful Chuck Paine designed bluewater cruisers.

JOCARA’s specification highlights include:-
• Chuck Paine design (shared with Morris 38)
• Solid laminate GRP construction with Kevlar reinforcement to bow areas
• Shoal draft lead ballast keel with skeg-hung rudder
• Upgraded 40hp Yanmar engine fitted in 2015
• Professionally repainted with International 2-part paints in 2022
• Teak laid side decks
• Selden sloop/cutter rig with keel-stepped mast
• Hood sails
• Yankee and staysail
• MPG and telescopic spinnaker pole
• Lewmar self-tailing winch package
• Edson wheel steering system
• Lofrans electric anchor windlass fitted in 2023
• Sprayhood
• American Cherry interior joinery
• Up to 7 berths in two double cabins plus saloon
• Dickinson Newport diesel-fired heating stove in saloon
• Pressurised hot & cold fresh water supplied with additional manual fresh water supply to galley and heads
• Heads with holding tank
• Gimballed stove with oven and grill
• Raymarine/Raytheon/Autohelm navigation instruments with radar, chart plotter and autopilot
• Icom VHF with DSC
• Outboard engine for tender
• Liferaft

We wish her new owners fair winds and following seas.

For those that missed out, Grabau International has many other similar yachts available for sale, including:

Rustler 42 – full details here

Malo 40 – full details here

Morris Yachts M29 – full details here

Do you have a yacht like this to sell? Grabau International are always looking for new high quality cruising yacht listings both in the UK and internationally. For further information about our tailored brokerage services, please look here or feel free to contact us.