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Passe Partout is a beautiful example of a Robert Perry designed offshore cruiser. She is easily handled by a couple, is equipped  for extended cruising in all types of weather, is rigged for short-handed sailing, and is a comfortable live-aboard. She is the perfect first offshore cruising boat for a couple or small family. 

Below are some scans of the original Valiant Esprit 37 brochure courtesy of Valiant Yachts. For examples of other Valiants on the market, see Yachtworld.

Some items that separate Passe Partout from other Esprits on the market:

Accommodations

There is a V-berth forward with filler making a very comfortable double berth. Above are shelves with netting for offshore storage. Below there is a huge storage space separated into three compartments. Aft to port is a chest of drawers, opposite a closet with shelves, and a large hanging locker. There is a brass lamp on gimbals as well as two reading lights, a telltale compass, and Hella fan. There is an small opening hatch directly over the V-berth for excellent ventilation, a deck-plate for a SS cowl vent, and a large opening hatch aft in the forward cabin for ventilation and emergency egress.

Vee Berth

Port aft of the forward cabin is a head compartment with separate shower stall. There is storage throughout including extra space created below the shower seat with a waterproof access cover.

In the main cabin are two settees P & S, both with storage outboard and behind the back cushions.. Starboard, forward of the settee is a "low boy" counter surface with two sets of closet shelves, upper and lower. The stereo is here. There are reading lights for both settees, as well as many overhead lights including a red/white overhead light on rheostat. 

Starboard Settee with book storage

On both sides there are extra shelves with retainer shock-cord  above the settees providing ample easy-access for offshore storage of food, books, and other items. A dinette with storage behind folds down to seat 6 comfortably.

Dinette

Port side storage

On the port side aft of the settee, is a well thought out sea-going galley. Extra storage has been created inside the cockpit coaming and accessible from the galley.

"Cubby hole" storage in galley and other galley shots

To starboard is the forward-facing nav station with extra shelves for equipment and books, and rigged for day/night sailing. Behind the nav station is the quarter berth with extra chart storage for both rolled and folded charts.

Quarter Berth

Navigation Table

There some more storage pictures here.

Deck

Various pictures of rigging and the deck

Mechanical and Electrical

Electronics

Galley and Plumbing

Sails and Rigging

More external shots

Condition

Passe Partout is in overall very good shape and is almost ready to go long range cruising. A new owner might consider addressing some of the following points:

Blisters

Passe Partout is a Uniflite boat, hull number 137 (the number is a "probably"; the exact records have been lost over time), and was built with fire retardant resin. A complete Osmosis repair job was done on her over the winter of '94-'95. She was custom-peeled and dried out under heat lamps and space heaters, then built back up with matte and vinylester resin and finished with an Interprotect 2000/2001 epoxy barrier system. There have been zero (0) blisters below the waterline since this work was performed, and this includes a winter in the Caribbean The work was done at Kingman Marine.

There are a few blisters in the topsides and deck, but all are cosmetic, not structural.

Spares

There are many, many spares for almost all systems, too numerous to mention here. All equipment currently on the boat (Fall '02) and the spares specific to Passe Partout are included with the boat. There is very little to get in this area before going offshore.

A complete inventory, a work-in-progress as of 1/2/02, is available but should not be construed as final at this point in time. A finished inventory describing what goes with the boat will be available before the sale.

Passe Partout may be viewed in central Massachusetts by calling 508-529-6053 and leaving a message, or by e-mailing "paul sears a t charter d o t  n e t" (please copy the string in double quotes, paste it into your mail client, and then fix it up to resemble a real e-mail address. While we eat Spam, we don't want it in e-mail).

Disclaimer
We offer the details here 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.