Cutter W/Bowsprit Endeavour 37 Buyer's Guide
The Endeavour 37 is a 37-foot cruiser built between 1977 and 1983, with 476 hulls produced by Endeavour Yacht Corp. She is a shoal-draft, heavily built Florida boat whose simple rig and roomy interior have made her a common liveaboard and charter candidate. For a buyer walking a brokerage dock, the appeal is structural simplicity and volume; the risks are concentrated in a known set of fixture and finish defects rather than the hull itself.
Layouts on the Used Market
Two interior arrangements reach the used market. Plan A drops the forward berths for a large U-shaped dinette and keeps a divided forepeak for chain and sails, with a starboard galley, midships head, and twin aft double quarter berths—sleeping six, with standard hot and cold pressure water and a shower. Plan B is the conventional layout: forward V-berths, saloon settees, a pilot berth that most owners have closed off for stowage, an aft galley, and a private but stuffy port quarter cabin that sleeps seven as designed. Both plans keep chart tables and the teak parquet sole. The aft cabin is cramped on either layout, and tall buyers should note the V-berths in Plan B stop short of six feet.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Most boats carry the standard 50-hp Perkins 4-108 diesel with 2.5:1 reduction and about 65 gallons of baffled fuel, plus 101 gallons of water—a robust cruising baseline. The late-1970s standard three-burner alcohol stove and oven often remains, though some galleys were reworked. The class invites energy and sail-handling upgrades, but the most consequential used-market changes are the ones owners made to correct factory weaknesses: sea-cock replacements for gate valves, top-loading ice boxes in place of side-loading refrigerators, and new forward hatches. A bowsprit and optional tall mast or ketch rig appear on some hulls; the simple masthead sloop rig is the prevalent setup and the easiest to assess.
What to Inspect
On any specific hull, start at the hull-to-deck line and topsides for the gelcoat crazing that numerous owners reported. Check the through-hulls: original gate valves should have been replaced with sea cocks, and any still present are a deferred-maintenance flag. Open the Isomat spar for pumping at the mast, and trace the electrical runs for the inaccessible wiring that complicates later upgrades. Below, measure the berths against a six-foot owner, confirm whether water and holding-tank placement has left the boat with a persistent list, and test the plastic Vetus hatches for crazing and dripping. Where a side-loading refrigerator remains, expect it to have been or to need conversion to top-loading.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The Endeavour 37 is a Florida boat.
- Confirm sea cocks replace all gate valves
- Check Isomat spar for pumping
- Check Vetus hatches for crazing and leaks
- Measure berths against six-foot height
- Note any persistent list from tank placement
- Verify refrigerator conversion to top-loading
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