More photos and longer description coming soon. It was raining crazy today and couldn't get good deck and interior pix. Supposed to be good weather Sunday and I'll try to take more photos then. Main photo is this boat a few years ago when it was being sailed. Mast is currently un-stepped and boat is ready to be moved by boat mover. Boat must be moved from private residence by professional boat mover before July 7. Please factor the cost of that into your purchase. Payment due in full within 24 hours. These boats are very sought after world cruisers, considered by many the best hull and keel design ever created for world cruising, FAST, TOUGH, STABLE and not too deep. Feel free to call me with any additional questions: William 970 319-4361Bill Atkins is thought by some to be the greatest boat designer of all time, and nearly everyone who knows boats would at least say he is one of the top ten boat designers of all time. Cecil M. Lange was the builder of the hull and is considered on of the greatest boat builders of all time. The interior was hand built by a master professional cabinetmaker as his personal labor of love and took him 5 years to complete the vessel from a bare hull with all the teak detailing. Boat needs unknown motor work, new cushion covers sewn and some weekend carpentry projects and have the mast re-stepped before it is ready to sail. I am the second owner. You will be the third owner. This is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity, no joking. These 40 ft Cape George Cutters are very sought after and almost never come on the market as project boat where you can pick one up for under $150,000 and invest your own sweat equity instead of having to get a bank loan. This is truly a NO RESERVE auction with a ridiculously low starting bid, so someone is going to get a very good deal I am sure. I got estimates from one surveyor and two yacht brokers about the boat's value in its current condition. The consensus is that it is currently worth somewhere between $50,000 to $80,000 market value in its current "project boat" status. With a year of weekends of mostly detail work and not much more out of pocket expense other than getting the motor fixed or replaced you could easily have a boat worth $150,000 to $250,000 depending on your skills and detail of finish.Until I get the rest of the details typed up and the additional photos you can read a little bit of the description of these boats from the classic Ferenc Mate' book "BEST BOATS TO BUILD OR BUY." You can buy a copy of the book on Amazon like I did. Photos of this very same vessel "Distant Song" are featured in the book in the pictures of the Cape George 40 under construction at Cecil M. Lange's famous Cape George Boatyard in Port Townsend WA. They are still in business and you can go tour the factory. They also have a website you can find online with other Cape George boats for sale in the Yachts for Sale section. Bare hulls for this vessel sell for aprox $60,000 from the boatyard before the $28,000 worth of lead is put in the keel. Start adding up the numbers and you see why this will be an incredible deal for anyone if it sells for less than $50K, and below that price it is a total steal if you don't mind investing a bit of sweat equity bringing it back to life. The keel and hull shape of these vessels makes them more desirable than nearly any other similar size boat. I will go into the detail explanation of the physics of that later on, but in a nutshell they have incredible stability, perform incredibly well in both gale force winds and very light airs, point like a race boat and are built to survive the toughest sailing conditions on Earth. The keel has an airfoil shape like the shape of an airplane wing, and amazing tumblehome in the topsides, both features that do not exist in any other 40 foot yacht made of fiberglass. Most full keel boats have either a rectangular keel shape from the bow with a cut-away 1/3 back from the bow such as Morgan Out-Islands and Vagabonds, Voyagers, Seafarers, Formosas Ta Chiao, CTs, Passage's and many others. Those are also great boats but much much slower than Cecil's Cape Georges because they lack the air-foil keel, taller cutter rig and heavier lead ballast to balance out the taller rig.Here is a bit of how the boat is described in the book. Bear in mind that the 31, the 36 and the 40 are all identical hull designs  drawn from the same Bill Atkins blueprints but built to a different scale, making for the different size yachts. This description is of the 36 foot version, so the 40 foot, which is this actual boat for sale is even slightly larger than the 36 but all other details are the same. Since there was nowhere to cut and paste the text from the web I had to type this out by hand directly from the book, and its a long chapter. This is just the opening of it I will try to add the rest of the Chapter about Cape George Yachts when I have more time to type up the rest of it. From the Book Best Boats to Build or Buy by Ferenc Mate' Chapter 17, The Master Builders, The Cape George Yachts. Cecil M Lange, Boatbuilder, is not a young man anymore, his work-hardened hands show the years, and so does his grey hair, but his eyes and his voice and his movements are quick, so quick I could hardly keep up with him down a long wharf. We walked past many old wooden boats, lovingly designed and beautifully kept, then we stopped beside a simple, rugged-looking cruising-boat, moderate and honest in every way, and Cecil M,'s eyes lit up and he said “That's her.” She was a true yacht, with high bulwarks and broad teak decks, a low elegant house, and a spacious safe cokpit, a gentle sheer and wineglass transom, and a massive aft hung rudder. She looked like she could not only take you anywhere in the world, but would love going there with you. There were touches of elegance everywhere—in the gently curved cockpit coaming and the beautifully made hatches, and even in the large skylight, solid and shaped like the old ones (but made in one piece and hinged like a hatch to keep it from leaking like the old ones) with bronze rods and acid-etched glass panels that show the vessel's name, and bespeak only one thing—that not only does Cecil M. Lange and Son build fine yachts, but they love building them. The boat we were looking at was called The Cape George 36, but all three boats in the family, the 31 and the 40 being the other two, had the same ancestry inasmuch as they are all variations on the same timeless notions of William Atkin. The lines of all three are what Bill Atkin called “Atkinized,” in that “all sections have a perfect continuity, a feature which produces an unusually well-balanced underwater and abovewater form. The hulls are designed to bring the athwartship sections in very exact continuity, and this feature undoubtedly accounts for the exceptional speed and ability of the Atkinized hulls; for, despite a very generous displacement of nearly 22,000 lbs., and a modest spread of sail of approximately 750 square feet, these are fast yachts.” Atkin received many letters from owners of boats of his design, some of them reprinted in his Of Yachts and Men. In one letter a Mr. Gamwell of Seattle, Washington, owner of Venture, wrote: “As for speed she will outrun boats twice her length in light and medium airs. Reaching and beating she is also excellent. The remarkable thing about the boat is the fact that she will drift in extremely light going, and when a breeze freshens she continues to hold her own. Venture is consistently good in any kind of going. Most of the boats here that are very good in light weather, fall down in fresh breezes. These boats sail about even with us in real light going, but when it breezes up we walk away from them,” prompting Atkin to say, “All of which goes to prove that a high coefficient of fatness does not necessarily mean a woefully slow moving yacht.” And as one who owns a boat whose lines were drawn by Bill Atkin, I say, “hear, hear.” The Cape George Yachts are what Atkin would call “a chunk of a boat.” The 36 displaces 23,300 pounds and has 10,500 pounds of lead ballast in her. The draft is typically held down to only five feet, which will get into most cruising grounds. Her beam of 10.5 feet is modest by today's standards, which on average are a foot beamier, but her beam is carried well fore and aft so there is no loss of accomodation or power, since with the beam carried aft, she has full bottocks to help her carry more sail longer. Her waterline length is indeed 31.5 feet which in spite of her great displacement gives her a displacement-to-length ratio of 333 which shows that, although heavy, she is no ton of bricks. Her keel is full, as any blind man can see, and her rudder large and effectively deep. Her entry is on the moderate side and her bow flares substantially at the sheer which, along with her bulwarks make her a rather dry boat. All the Cape Georges have spoon bows and just enough tumblehome to give them an elegantly finished look, as opposed to hulls whose beams keep increasing and increasing right to the rails and hence look as if they are about to fall apart. This of course, has very little to do with structural reality, but tumblehome is, at least to me, very pretty and it's a pity that so few modern designers besides Frers use it. On deck, the 36 is a beauty. Her cockpit will sit eight for day sailing, and her coamings, which are twelve inches high and sloped, make the seats very comfortable, and what's most important, the seats are long enough to sleep on. I didn't measure them, but I lay down and it was long enough for me and I'm six feet plus a bit. There are two lockers in the cockpit, and a good broad, deck-height bridgedeck, which makes for a single dropboard companionway opening only 12 inches high. This is about as small an opening as you can get unless you buy a Swan, which is top opening. The visibility from the cockpit is very good. To make the deck safe, 5 inch high bulwarks rise above them, onto which the stanchions and chainplates are attached, but more about both of these later under Construction. The side-decks are 22 inches wide all along, and they are perfectly parallel, as they should be, for this makes the laying of teak decks much easier, allowing full-width pieces to be run without the necessity of painstaking nibbing (tapering the planks) to fit a narrowing deck. This is a very important point, for a single nib can take a good couple of hours to plane and fit, and if you have four nibs per side as we do on Warm Rain, then that's a couple of days of extra work, which could have been prevented if the designer had thought ahead. The foredeck is small but clean, and it sports a monstrous samson post with a windlass forward of it mounted on a bowsprit. The house is kept to a low 14 inches with uncomplicated lines. This is probably due to the fact that it is built out of wood so it has to be simple, but whatever the reason, it is pretty. The house has grabrails running its full length, and for nonskid the Langes used the best non-skid ever – finely ground walnut shells mixed into the paint. The main hatch did not have a cover on the boat I saw, but the hatch is of such a low profile, that one could be fabricated quite easily. The gallows have bronze end-fittings and are located well aft and out of the way. The main winches are mounted not on mediocre pads but on huge bases made of ½ inch stainless steel, which has been designed to base a cleat as well. In general, standing or sitting at the tiller, you have the distinct feeling that you are aboard a well built ship. This does not come from the fact that there is much wood around, for that can be found on many an oriental floating rec-room, but it's the simplicity and integrity of construction which create this feeling, and I'm afraid I am not an able enough writer to convey that. You will just have to go and see for yourself.