Endeavour 32 CB Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a used Endeavour 32 means taking on one of roughly 600 boats built between 1975 and 1982, a Ted Irwin–derived cruiser-racer that Dennis Robbins modified in-house and that Endeavour Yacht Corporation produced as either a keel-centerboarder or a fixed shoal-keel model until the centerboard was dropped in 1979. The design is a straightforward coastal cruiser rather than a modern wide-beam racer, and the used fleet spans early Irwin-trunk boats through later tapered-trunk examples with varnished interior teak.
Layouts on the Used Market
The interior is a molded fiberglass unit finished in varnished teak with a teak parquet sole, arranged with a V-berth forward, head to port and lockers to starboard, and a main salon with a fold-up table where the port settee converts to a double and the starboard is a single. Aft to port is a pilot berth and to starboard the galley, originally with an icebox of about ten cubic feet and a gimbaled three-burner alcohol or gas stove with oven. There is no door between the main and forward cabin, though a privacy curtain was an option, and the biggest recurring interior complaint among owners is the absence of any navigation station or chart table. Headroom is about 6 feet 3 inches, the companionway has three drop boards and drops to seat height roughly a foot above the cockpit sole, and the stairs remove to reach the engine.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
All boats left with diesel power; the 1975–77 standard was a 12-horsepower Yanmar 1QM, with some period boats carrying a Westerbeke L-25 or Yanmar 2QM20, the bigger Yanmar standard from 1978 and a roughly 24-horsepower three-cylinder Universal optional late, then Yanmar's GM series replacing QM in the early 1980s. A two-blade 16-inch fixed prop was standard and a three-blade optional, on a 1-inch stainless shaft with a Vernalift muffler and no engine-compartment sound insulation. Rigging is a single-spreader masthead sloop with Kenyon spars, #32 Lewmar halyard winches on the mast and #40 self-tailers in the cockpit, and the standard battery pair was two 12-volt units charged by a 35-amp Hitachi alternator. Early boats had six opening and four fixed ports; later boats standardized ten Beckson opening ports and two Atkins-Hoyle hatches.
What to Inspect
Documented owner reports flag a higher than average number of gelcoat complaints, including one owner's flaking gelcoat inside the integral fiberglass water tank under the forward berths and another's extensive deck delamination, while a surveyor found loose tabbing around a forward bulkhead. Older boats have no deck fill for the forward water tank, and there are no deck scuppers on the design. Centerboard-version buyers should note several owner complaints about the exposed centerboard pennant, with about three feet of wire exposed and vulnerable below the boat when the board is fully extended.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Regional availability is not characterized by a defined market brief for this model. For a buyer, the practical checklist is short: confirm which keel configuration is present and whether the centerboard pennant and its wire are sound; check forward water-tank gelcoat and deck coring given reported delamination; verify bulkhead tabbing; and accept the missing chart table and forward-cabin door as design limitations rather than defects.
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