Vancouver Vancouver 34 Pilot House Boat for Sale

• Manufacturer: Vancouver
• Price: £84,950
• Location: Nr. Dartmouth
• Year: 1995
• LOA: 34'3" (10.44m)
• LWL: 27'7" (8.40m)
• Displacement: 6800kg
• Colour: cream and white
• Designer: Robert Harris
• Beam: 10' 10'' (3.30m)
• Berths: 6
• Draft: 1.47
• Keel: Long keel
• ID no.: 171694

• Cabins: 3
• Heating: yes
• Heads: 1
• Showers: 1
• Engine Make: Yanmar
• Horsepower: 30hp
• Drive Type:
• Fuel Type: Diesel

Broker Remarks

Da Draga of Dart is a well-equipped 1995 Vancouver 34 Pilot House built by Northshore, a design renowned for its offshore and coastal waters capability, traditional craftsmanship and exceptional all-weather cruising comfort. Purchased by her current owners in September 2022, she has benefited from substantial investment and careful maintenance, with major upgrades to her rigging, sails, engine systems, navigation equipment and onboard comfort. Documentation includes Builder’s Certificate, Bills of Sale, proof of VAT status and evidence of UK location at Brexit. A current Gas Safety Certificate is valid until the end of 2026. 

The desirable Pilot House configuration offers excellent visibility from the internal helm station, complemented by Raymarine autopilot controls at both the cockpit and pilot house. Additional cruising features include a bow thruster, electric anchor windlass, Hydrovane self-steering system, Eberspächer heating, solar panels, hot water, inverter, battery charger, built-in refrigerator and a full cockpit enclosure. The Pilothouse is light and airy with good alround visibility, generous seating to port and starboard with extendable wooden dining table, blinds to windows and two openable hatches in the deckhead. Large chart table with storage. There is a large chart table with storage with a Raymarine repeater display alongside GPS and radar displays.

Da Draga presents as a capable long-distance cruising yacht with many of the major maintenance items already completed, making her an attractive proposition for sailors seeking a proven blue water cruiser.

Accommodation

The Vancouver 34 Pilot House offers a warm, secure and practical cruising interior with the significant advantage of an internal steering position, ideal for passagemaking in challenging conditions. The layout provides accommodation for up to six berths in three cabin areas, together with a comfortable saloon, practical galley and dedicated navigation/pilot house area. The traditional timber interior creates a welcoming atmosphere for extended cruising. Information supplied by the owner indicates three cabin spaces and six berths. 

Comfort upgrades completed during current ownership include:

• Eberspächer heating with renewed duct insulation
• Hot water supplied by engine and shore power
• Heads compartment basin with H&C water and also a Shower
• Built-in refrigerator
• New freshwater plumbing components
• New freshwater pump pressure switch
• New cockpit enclosure
• Replacement sprayhood glazing
• LED lighting throughout
• Holding tank cleaned
• New Jabsco heads pump
• New sanitation hoses and siphon-break valves
• Blakes seacocks serviced with new locking pins. 
• Galley : twin burner gimballed stove with grill & oven, crash bar and fiddes.
• Twin sinks, with hand cold and electric pumped hot & cold water
• Assorted crockery, cutlery & saucepans
• Labcraft LED White & Red lighting
• Black water tank under forecabin bunk and heads with sanitation hoses having been replaced
• Grey water tank

Da Draga of Dart represents a well-maintained example of the highly respected Vancouver 34 Pilot House, benefitting from significant recent expenditure and ready for her next cruising adventure.

Mechanical and Rigging

Engine & Mechanical

Powered by a reliable Yanmar 3GM30F diesel engine driving through a shaft drive fitted with a Bruntons Autoprop. Extensive mechanical work has been completed during current ownership, including:

• New fuel lift pump
• New alternator
• New engine water, fuel and calorifier hoses
• Heat exchanger removed and professionally cleaned
• New RACOR fuel filtration system
• New Vetus seawater strainer and seacock
• New engine mounts (x4)
• New stern gland and greaser
• New shaft and R&D flexible coupling
• New deck wash system with seacock, pump and hoses
• Routine engine spares various
• NASA battery monitor display

Rigging

Major rigging renewal carried out since 2022:

• New standing rigging
• New rigging screws with shroud covers
• New forestay
• New Harken Ocean jib furling system
• New gas cylinder within boom vang
• New halyards for jib, staysail, spinnaker and topping lift
• New mast sheaves fitted. 
• Spinnaker pole with mast track
• Lewmar sheet with halliard and self tailing winches, spin lock clutches various

Sails

• New Sanders Yankee
• Two staysails in as-new condition (reaching and self-tacking)
• New mainsail batten cars
• New mainsail cover by McKillops. 
• Storm jib
• Furling Genoa
• Light weather Gennaker with snuffer
• Mainsail fully battened with 2 x single line reefing and lazyjacks.
• Staysail can be self - tacking

Inventory

Navigation & Electronics

• Garmin chartplotter at helm
• Furuno radar
• Raymarine autopilot with controls at cockpit and pilot house
• NASA EML2 log and display
• Raymarine ST60 depth, wind and speed instruments
• New VHF aerial cable
• New masthead mounting arrangements
• New tricolour, steaming and deck lights. 

Deck Equipment

• Electric anchor windlass
• Bow thruster
• Hydrovane wind vane steering
• Solar panels
• Sprayhood
• Full cockpit enclosure/tent
• Genoa and mainsheet tracks serviced with new sheaves and rubber end stops
• Two drop-down boarding ladders
• Webbing jackstays
• Midships guardrail access openings fabricated. 
• 35lb CQR main anchor with galvanised 10mm chain, kedge anchor with chain & rope
• Lewmar hatch to foredeck
• 2 x Dorade ventilators
• Dertachable cockpit table
• Liferaft new in 2023 with service due
• Mast mounted radar reflector
• Emergency tiller for the rudder
• 2 x manual bilge pumps, 1 in cockpit and 1 in Pilot house.
• 4 x safety harness points in the cockpit
• 2 x gas bottles in cockpit lockers

Safety Equipment

• Ocean Safety 4-person liferaft (service due before next season)
• Gas alarm
• Carbon monoxide alarm
• Fire extinguishers
• Automatic engine compartment extinguisher
• Gas Safety Certificate valid until end of 2026. 

Electrical

• 4 x 110Ah domestic batteries
• 1 x 110Ah engine start battery
• Shore power battery charger
• 1000W inverter
• Solar charging system
• LED lighting conversion throughout. 
• NASA battery monitor display