1977 Restored William Garden Classic Blue Water Fiberglass Yacht / Sailboat

Description

HARDIN SEAWOLF
CURRENTLY IN LOS CABOS B.C.S.MEXICO
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She is a strong vintage fiberglass blue water cruiser with classic styling but updated for passage well equipped and enhanced with tons of new equipment and modern appointments. ready to cruise or make passage.
condition: restored
engine perkins 4-108
engine hours (total): 342 (since rebuild)
length : 42 feet (on waterline)
gross tonnage 24
make / manufacturer: Hardin
model name / number: Seawolf 40
propulsion type: sail , ketch
hull /fiberglass (heavy duty)
full keel (more stable and safer overall)
year manufactured: 1977
est value: ,000
(7,000 invested in restoration and upgrades)
She is an amazing well known classic bluewater cruiser. Designed by the famous marine architect William Garden and built by Bill Hardin in his Khaosung Taiwan shipyard in 1977. I am the 4th owner, she was purchased by me in October 2018 and been under restoration over the past 30 months including spending 40 days in the shipyard in Ensenada b.c. mexico.
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THE FOLLOWING IS
NEW NEW NEW
EQUIPMENT & UPGRADES INSTALLED IN 2019/2020/2021
TOO MUCH TO LIST!
full wrap-around golf backstop safety netting
rail board racks
sunbrella sail boom covers
sunbrella cushions exterior & interior
8 foot lapstrake dingy custom painted to match the ship
2019 mercury 4 stroke 2.5 hp (12
hrs)
Fuel tanks professionally cleaned
3” stainless steel davits
isotherm 5212 magna refrigeration system & rebuilt cabinets
double braid halyard lines
complete solar system blue sky & renogy parts two 220 watt hours renology batteries & two 160 watt renogy solar panels
yellow top starter batterey spring 2021
two rhule 1500 gph bilge pump system
whale submarine pump
new bronze thru hulls & valves
nmea transponder
new led spreader lights & spotlight
complete electrical panel rewired
12 gauge wiring & 10 new a/c outlets
B&G nmea navigational system with remote monitor
engine inspection & new water pump
two vhf's simrad & icom
three antennas (vhf & wifi)
160 hours of new alexseal premium topcoat paint topside & interior
Bluewater copper pro spx bottom paint
masts refinished varnished totalboat totalboat gleem varnish 9 coats
67 hours epiphanes varnish interior & topside
Marey hot water heater, hot showers !
Inflatable life vests harnesses and sets of misc safety gear headlamps, flares medical kits etc
back up pumps and parts worth 2,000.00
extensive tools sanders and equipment
72 cans and bottles of solvents sprays chemicals resins
gallons of paints varnishes and chemicals
jim bouy life saver
600 feet of new lines
250 feet of 1-1/4" 12 strand dock lines
restored original heavy duty block pulleys (10x better than modern)
new ronstan line brakes
new 6” 10” 4” cleats
6 " mooring chocks
new perkins pre & primary fuel filters
new oil change & filter
new electrical outlet conversion for dc wall outlets in galley & berth
new door hinges
new wifi system
new chain winch breaker
pure sine wave inverter Xantrex 2000 high efficiency pure sine wave solar power inverter 12v 120v 60hz power converter led display 2020
L-com HG2415U-PRO 2.4GHz 15dBi Omnidirectional Antenna N- wifi antenna
Ubiquiti BULLET-M2-HP Outdoor 802.11 B/G/N M2brentHP
ASUS RT-N12 N300 WiFi Router 2T2R MIMO Technology, 4K HD Video Streaming, VoIP,Up to 300 Mbps,Black
dc powered poe driven wifi system
dc powered and ac powered fans
added new sail track grommets & cars to main sail boom
brightwork refinished every 6 months
new bilge system with two ruhle pumps and alarm
whale submarine punp back up
new ceiling light fixtures
new fishing rod holders
rigging system redone with new line and brakes and cleats
new boom sailtrack cars and bits (2020
new ampco 125/108 alternator
ampco 5700 regulator
new water pump
starter completely rebuilt
new jabsco toilet pump (2020
new jabsco macerator pump (2020
SOME OTHER FACTS
Extensive and beautiful teak wood interior.
Custom upholstery and old map table top, recently sealed.
spacious head with comfortable enclosed shower and on demand hot water heater.
Galley & breakfast nook and table, salon with 2 bunks, berth with
large master bunk slide out
and a small bunk forward
Four burner propane stovetop and oven with 2 xlarge propane tank box on deck
Alexseal paint & epiphanes varish appointed throughout
00.00 in extra parts equipment solvents (70 containers) paints tools rigging 1,000 feet of bagged lines.
Every tool needed to fix and maintain the vessel
B&G Vulcan 7 nmea navagation system, simrad RS20 & Icom VHF radio IC-M422, Radar Raytheon R20XX, GPS Garmin 76Cx, Autohelm 3000
The engine is a Perkins 4-108 fully rebuilt in 2012 and only around 342 hours
two 70 gallon fresh water tanks.
100 gllon diesel fuel tank cleaned in 2019 and maintained since with bio
Quiet flush electric head W/ BIDET !
60lb CQR anchor, 20lb CQR anchor 3 additional anchors, extra crated 180' chain, electric windless with new breaker
Bowsprit was built New 2016.
Garhauer blocks and brakes
New rigging lines
Fully buttoned mainsail, jenoa, jib, mizzen.with second used set bagged
Standing rigging replaced in 2012, inspected in 2021, checked and adjusted in winter of 2021
heavy duty Steering system rebuilt with stainless steel 2017
EXPLANATION OF THE HARDIN SEAWOLF 40 (technically 41.6 on water incl bowsprint 54')
I am somewhat familiar with the Hardin 45's, having been an importer for the boats from 1977 until the
factory was closed in the mid 1980's. My wife and I owned a Hardin 45 for about 1 1/2 years in 1980/81 and another for 10 years from 1990 to 2000.
I have had boats built in six different yards in Taiwan and China over the past 29
years and have visited dozens more yards in Taiwan and China. I have never seen that phenomenon. Every yard
that I have worked in has had its own full time employees ranging from 75 to 200 workers depending on the size of the yard and the volume demand at the time. Work forces did go up and down with business,
much like they do here in the USA in any industry.
I personally knew Bill Hardin and my wife and I had dinner with him at the Hong Kong Yacht Club in 1981,
and then visited Hardin 45, Hull #100 which he kept for himself at the club in Hong Kong harbor. He was
born in 1926 and studied naval architecture and engineering at Long Beach City College under Prof.
Aldenberg (rated in the top 3 in the US at the time). Bill Hardin worked with fiberglass as early as 1948 and in fiberglass boat building in Japan in
1959. He died in the Vancouver, BC area in the1990's.
Bill Hardin, Bill Crealock, Ernie Chamberlain and William Garden were the pioneers of Taiwan boat building for the American market. They were the ones
who really got the industry rolling in the late 1960's and 1970's. Bill Hardin started the CT (Ta Chaio) yard with two Chinese partners in the Taipei area (northern
Taiwan) with the original Wm. Garden designed Sea Wolf 40, the Sea Sprite, and the original Garden designed Force 50. He left CT soon after, taking his Sea Wolf
molds with him. But his Sea Wolf 40 was copied by many yards and sold as CT41, Island Trader 41, Yankee Clipper 41, Sea Tiger 41, Transworld 41, etc., a very
popular traditional ketch. The Force 50 molds were taken to Hudson Boat Company in the Taipei area, but
the Force 50 was also copied as an Island Trader 51, Formosa 51, etc. This copying problem is why it was nearly impossible to get a set of drawings from a
Taiwan builder.
Bill Hardin moved to Kaohsiung, Taiwan (southern end) and built a new factory where labor and overhead costs
were lower - around 1970. The company was called Hardin International Co. Ltd. That is where he designed and built the Hardin 45. They built an all fiberglass construction and they were the only builder
of the Hardin 45. The boats, finishes
and in the case of some yards, the scantlings and design modifications for any original design. They could then import the modified design under their own
name or a new model name. This was a common practice with some small yards that were building in the early1970s, and using copied designs. Large importers who
could not fill their orders from a single yard, would contract with several different yards for their particular brand name of boat. This accounted for some
of the quality variation between boats sold under the same model name, and why it is difficult to generalize about quality of a given model boat that may have sold
hundreds of boats in the 1970s and 1980s.
A total of about 130 Hardin 45s were built by the time the factory closed in the mid 1980s. There were a couple of partially completed boats at that time that may have been finished later and imported into the USor Europe.
The Hardins are great cruising and live aboard boatsand Bill contribution to the boat building industry their work will live long into the future.