Main Description
The Gozzard 37a is a classic design that is built for both performance and comfort. The attention to detail and the superb construction is a testament to the dedication and skill of the craftsmen at Gozzard Yachts. LIBERTY is has been meticulously maintained with no expense spared from the immaculate bright work outside to the engine compartment below. She spent three years sailing in Bermuda and the Caribbean and then could be found in the fresh waters of the Chesapeake before making her home in Eastern NC. She is a classic beauty that any owner can be proud to sail and do it in safety and comfort.
Some examples of her most recent maintenance and updates include:
- Rebedded Four Port Lights in the Galley and Nav Station Area (June 2023)
- New Running Rigging (May 2021)
- Sails Inspected (2021)
- New Batteries (May 2020)
- Fresh Bottom Paint (April 2020)
- Two New Fuel Tanks (2019)
Accommodations
The interior is both elegant and cozy with a beautiful cherry finish, Ultrasuede upholstery, and innovative open concept design. LIBERTY has the A plan layout that includes a two-place dinette with a separate nav station and a freezer over refrigeration box arrangement.
The forward cabin/salon easily converts from a large centerline queen size berth to dining for 6 at the large table, to a comfortable settee area with coffee table. Behind the settee backs are storage areas with room for the large dinette table. Additional storage is aft of the seats both port and starboard. The midship bulkhead is hinged to easily convert the forward salon into a private stateroom.
Moving aft, to port is the forward-facing navigation station and the refrigeration/freezer cabinet. On the starboard side is the dinette followed by the L-shaped galley. Aft on the port side is the head with a separate shower stall. A Raritan Lectra/San electric head with fold down seat in the shower stall. Just inside the privacy door is a vanity with stainless steel sink, Corian countertop, storage cabinet, two drawers, and a 110V outlet below the sink, a cabinet and opening portal above the sink, and a mirror on the bulkhead beside the vanity.
Aft on the starboard side is the aft cabin with a king-size berth, additional locker for clothes, and convenient access to the engine compartment behind the lifting companionway steps.
Ports and hatches have built-in screens. All of the ports have white curtains. Canvas hatch covers protect the hatches from the sun and keep the interior cooler. The companionway has an overhead sliding screen and separate companionway screen doors (fold-in). Night courtesy floor lights illuminate passageways.
Ventilation is provided by:
- Two 24" x 24" hatches
- Two 8" x 14" hatches
- Six 7" x 14" opening ports
- Four 5" x 12" opening ports
- Two teak dorade boxes with 4" cowl vents
- Three 3" solar ventilators
- Five cabin fans
Galley
The galley features a large, deep stainless steel sink with standard hot and cold faucet, a dedicated faucet with a Seagull IV water purifier, and a manual fresh water pump (new in 2016). The Avian countertops offer plenty of workspace and the unique dish locker keeps dishes secure in any seas. Additional features include:
- 11 gallon hot water heater (engine and 110V)
- Nova Kool freezer and refrigeration compartments with extra insulation
- LG Microwave oven
- Force 10 stainless steel two-burner gimbaled stove with oven and broiler
- Pur 40 watermaker (pickled and not used by current owner)
- Pots and pans including a multifunction cookware set
- Additional Galley ware
Electronics
- Wireless weather station
- Fluxgate compass for autopilot located in locker below galley sink
- Handheld VHF
At the Nav Station:
- Raytheon ST60 multi repeater
- Raytheon Pathfinder RL70C color radar and chart plotter
- ICOM 502 VHF
- ICOM 710 SSB with tuner/ground plate and insulated back stay
At the Helm Station:
- 4.5 inch Ritchie compass
- Autohelm ST6000+ autopilot
- Raytheon RL70 Pathfinder radar and plotter
- Raymarine ST60 Tri-data
- Raymarine ST60 wind
- Fuel gauges for main and reserve tanks
- Engine gauges
- Remote anchor windlass control
- VHF remote full function ram mic
- 12V outlet
- Sidepower bow thruster controls
- Lovely single lever engine throttle and transmission/gear controls
Electrical
- 30 Amp 110 V system with shore power inlet and cord
- 12V DC system
- Fischer Panda 5kW generator (120 hours)
- Sidepower 7HP bow thruster
- 16K BTU reverse cycle air conditioner and heat
- Bass AC/DC Master electrical panel at the navigation station
- 12-volt outlets at the helm and nav. station
- 110-volt outlets throughout the cabin
- 1500 W, 75 Amp Inverter and three-stage charger
- Two 180 amp hour deep cycle house batteries
- One Group 24 starting battery
- Heart Interface Link 2000R DC monitoring panel
- Two Rule automatic bilge pumps
- Raritan Letrosan waste system
Mechanical
- 2001 Westerbeke W63B 4 cylinder, naturally aspirated, marine diesel engine, 63 HP (1,414 hours)
- Engine instruments: Tach, hour meter, water temp, oil pressure, voltmeter, fuel gauge
- 2.7:1 transmission
- Vetus flexible Bullflex coupling to reduce engine noise and vibration
- Sherwood main engine raw water strainer with winterizing/flushing port
- 1.25 inch shaft with PSS seal
- 18 inch x 12 inch RH 3 blade bronze propeller
- Racor 500 fuel filter with water/fuel separator
- Engine compartment insulated with aluminum trimmed sound deadening foam
- Engine compartment blower
- Edson cable steering
Deck and Hull
- Bowsprit with anchor rollers for two anchors
- Delta and Fortress anchors
- Lewmar vertical electric windlass with foot switches and helm control
- Fold-down walk-through transom/swim platform with stainless steel ladder
- Built-in hot and cold cockpit shower
- Stainless steel dinghy davits and outboard lifting crane
- GPS antenna mounted on dinghy davits
- Closed cell cockpit cushions
- Full cockpit enclosure with screens
- Hard windscreen with dodger
- Bimini top with connector to dodger
- Five additional custom hand holds in cockpit and on sides of dodger
- Cockpit table with fold down side leaves
- Control line bags in cockpit
- Two bronze Gozzard dolphins built into the raised aft bulwarks
- Foredeck wash-down pump
- Binnacle/center console with 32-inch traditional teak wheel
- Lightning protection with shrouds, mast, pulpits, lifelines all grounded with tin copper braid to the keel and Dynaplate
- Fully bonded for electrolysis with zinc anode aft and also on the prop shaft
- 27 inch high double lifelines with gates port and starboard
- Six custom bronze mooring chocks/cleats
- Four cockpit hatches to access lazarette storage with under-lid storage for winch handles and emergency tiller
- Manual bilge pump in the cockpit
- Midnight blue hull
- Full length fiberglass rub rails with stainless steel striker
- External cast lead ballast
Sails and Rigging
- Traditional cutter rig
- Selden mast and boom, deck-stepped with a fiberglass compression post
- Double spreaders
- Selden in-mast furling
- Schaefer roller furling staysail and genoa with sun covers
- Asymmetrical spinnaker with sniffer
- Custom curved athwart ships staysail traveler just forward of mast
- Electric cabin top Lewmar winch
- Rigid boom vang
- 1x19 3116 stainless steel rigging
- All control lines led aft to cockpit through Spinlock rope clutches at the forward part of cockpit on both port and starboard cabin tops
Tankage
- Two Fresh Water Tanks, 121 gallons total, one forward, one aft
- Two Fuel Tanks, 75 gallons total, 55 gallons aft, 26 gallons auxiliary tank forward
- One Holding Tank, 25 gallons, with deck pump-out or overboard discharge
- Tank tender
Additional Features
- 9 foot 1 inch AB rigid hull inflatable dinghy with Mercury 8HP outboard (2003)
- Owners manuals and current owners’ maintenance records convey
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.
Additional Units Included
- 2006 AB Inflatable 9 feet
