Gayle Force Beneteau Yacht for Sale

I am extremely proud to offer Gayle Force, one of the original Oceanis 38's with the removable bulkhead.  This two-owner, private-use, two-cabin, one head cruiser/racer is probably one of the best 38 footers ever crafted.

She has been the pride and joy of her owners and their families and because of the meticulous professional maintenance this vessel has enjoyed, it really shows. 

Whenever I help someone find a choice boat in the previously-owned market, I am essentially looking for three things.  Once we decide on a desirable model, I am looking for a boat that is well equipped, modestly and privately used and very well maintained.  Gayle Force is the shining example of what I am looking for in a pre-owned boat.

*New Bottom Paint and Sail Drive Service -- 04/2025

If you see her, you will agree, she is very special.  Please call me for a private showing.

Main Description

SALON

• Headroom: 6’5’’ standard standard standard
• L-shaped salon bench seat
• Storage under bench seats
• High closed storage units (Salon - portside, Starboard)
• Chart table (with opening top)
• Shelves with wood fiddles
• 2 Panoramic windows - deckhouse
• 2 Hull ports
• 1 Opening deck hatch
• 1 Opening porthole in coaming
• 6 Overhead lights
• Salon table with one-piece wood top

COMPANIONWAY

• Headroom: 6’5’’ standard standard standard
• GRP salon companionway steps are coated with non-slip surface
• 2 Leather covered stainless steel hand rails

LARGE HANGING LOCKER - PORTSIDE

• Headroom: 6’1’’ standard standard standard
• Beam: 2’4’’
• 1 Overhead light
• 1 Opening porthole in coaming

FORWARD CABIN

• Headroom: 6’5’’ standard standard standard
• Central double bed (4’11’’ x 6’10’’ x 3’7’’)
• Glove box - Open shelving - Drawer under the bed
• 1 Flush opening deck hatch
• 2 Hull ports
• 2 Reading lights

PORT AFT CABIN

• Headroom: 6’1’’ standard standard standard
• Interior stowage space
• Wood cabinet standard standard
• Bulkhead with 1 access door
• 2 Reading lights
• 1 Overhead light
• Open shelving
• Padded upholstery along the hull
• Opening portholes: Roof & Cockpit
• Foam mattress density: 35 kg/m³
• Dimensions - Berth 5’5’’ x 7’2’’ x 6’9’’

STARBOARD AFT HEAD COMPARTMENT

• Headroom: 6’2’’ standard standard standard
• Access through salon
• 1 Sink, 1 Tap with cold water, Shower
• 1 quiet flush electric marine toilet
• Washroom cabinet, 1 Mirror, Toilet accessories, Hook
• 1 Opening portlight with curtains in side windows in the coaming
• 1 Overhead light
• 1 Mixing tap hot/cold water
• Separate Shower Room (Starboard Aft)

GALLEY - STARBOARD

• Headroom: 6’6’’ standard standard standard
• Laminated worktop - Taupe
• Stainless steel sink - 1 Rectangular stainless steel basin - 1 Mixing tap hot/cold water
• Cubby hole locker, Garbage bin
• 1 Lower cupboard:
• Fridge - 12 V - 130 L, front opening
• 1 All-round coachroof window
• Gas system: Gas cylinder locker - starboard aft cockpit - (10’’ x 11’’ x 15’’) - Regulator and solonoid
• 1 Stainless steel 2 burner gas cooktop / oven combo on gimbaled mounting
• Unit (Drawer & Cupboard units) 

Deck Equipment

RIGGING

• Standard mast 9/10 anodized aluminum installed on the deck, 2 sets of spreaders
• Anodized aluminum boom
• Discontinuous stainless steel standing rigging
• 1 Backstay: Bridle
• Rigid boom vang
• Genoa furling system with drum on the deck
• 2 Genoa tracks with piston adjusted traveller cars
• 2 Genoa sheet return blocks
• Rigging run back to cockpit (except boom topping lift)
• Complete running rigging: Main halyard, Genoa halyard with clutch on mast and cleat, Boom topping lift with cleat on mast, Mainsheet, 2 Genoa sheets, 4 Clutches, 2 Jamming cleats
• Fixed composite arch, with incorporated LED lighting
• 2 Blocks "Stand Up" - Mainsail sheet

WINCHES

• 2 Self-tailing genoa sheet winches (H40.2 STA)
• 2 Coach roof halyard winches self tailing (H35.2 STA)
• 2 Aluminum winch handles "Speed Grip", 2 Winch handle holders

SAILS

• Furling genoa with UV protective strip
• Furling mainsail (in-mast system)
• Asymmetric Spinnaker

MOORING - ANCHORING GEAR

• Self-bailing chain locker - Clench bolt - Hatch cover standard standard standard
• Stainless steel deck plates
• 6 Aluminum mooring cleats - Stainless steel deck line protection

COCKPIT

• Self-bailing cockpit
• 1 Cockpit locker • 2 Lockers in cockpit bottom - Side helm seats
• 1 Liferaft locker - aft cockipt (3’1’’ x 1’11’’ x 1’2’’)
• Cockpit benches (5’7’’ x 1’8’’) • 2 Steering wheel consoles: Stainless steel steering wheels - 2’11’’ Diameter - Leather covered - Steering gear at the helm station - Metal cable transmission system - Stainless steel handrail - Navigation instrument pod - Glass holder • 2 Steering compass • 2 Deck access points to tiller system
• 1 Emergency tiller
• Portside engine control and control panel
• 2 Hinged companionway doors - Sliding hatch
• 1 Swimming ladder
• Cockpit shower hot/cold water

SAFETY ON DECK

• 1 Open stainless steel forward pulpit, 2 Stainless steel aft pushpits
• 1 Ring lifebuoy bracket
• Double lifelines and stainless steel stanchions - Access to port and to starboard in lifelines
• Flag mounts welded on aft pushpit

SWIM DECK / STERN DECK

• Fully opening transom, convertible into swim platform (8’6’’ x 2’4’’)
• Manually operated with gas cylinder assist equipment
• 1 Stainless steel integrated telescopic swimming ladder

Engine

• Engine Yanmar Diesel 30 HP Sail Drive
• Engine control - Control panel in cockpit
• Engine compartment: Soundproofing foam - Ventilation: 2 air intakes and 1 powered air expulsion
• 1 Alternator - 12 V / 125 Ah
• 1 Rotomoulded diesel tank 34 US Gal - Electronic gauge - Low level alarm - 1 Deck filler
• Filters: Sea water - Diesel - Decanter
• Folding three blade propeller
• 1 Engine access through companionway (opening with 2 gas pistons) - 3 access to engine by the sides of the companionway

Electronics/Navigation

• Fusion stereo with Bluetooth
• 1 Display T41 Triton B&G
• Wind system B&G
• V50 VHF B&G, integrated AIS receiver function + Wireless handset
• Chartplotter Zeus 7
• B&G US Cartography
• B&G wifi module

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.