Trade Winds is a Lavranos 36 built In Cape Town South Africa by the Golnix Yard. It was a small semi custom production run of approximately 50 boats. Designed by Angelo Lavranos a well respected Naval Architect who worked for Sparkman and Stevens and later Bruce Farr. The boat was designed and built for offshore racing and cruising and won its class in several Cape Town to Uruguay races with the return journey via the Southern ocean.
The hull and deck are solid glass with a fiberglass over foam reinforcing grid making it extremely strong and impervious to rot. The hull to deck joint is an inward flange thru-bolted and completely glassed on the inside. All bulkheads are glassed to the hull and deck as are all furnishings. The interior was completed by a professional shipwright who worker on several other L36s. The boat is currently rigged as a sloop but was originally rigged as a cutter and could be converted back.
I purchased the boat from the original owner 2 years ago. He ran a boat yard in Solomons Maryland that his brother owned. He sailed the boat the the US in 1984. I cruised the Chesapeake for a few months before sailing to Florida and living aboard in St. Augustine while working as a Charter Captain. I am a licensed 100 ton captain. I am selling the boat because I recently bought a house with my girlfriend.
For questions regarding the the boat please call or to schedule a visit to the boat please contact the listing agent at POP Yachts https://www.popyachts.com/sloop-sailboats-for-sale/lavranos-l36-in-green-cove-springs-florida-233919?showfull
Equipment:
Volvo Penta 27hp 800 hours Rocna 33lb primary 50ft ⅜ chain 250ft rhode CQR 35lb secondary 50ft chain 50ft rhode 15lb fortress Anchor Double Bow roller New Main Fair Genoa Fair Spinnaker Fair Trysail Furlex Roller Furler Lewmar 44 Self Tailing Primary winches Raymarine Wheel Pilot 2x100w flexible Solar Panels 2yo 20amp pwm charge controller 2yo 3x100ah AGM Batteries 2yo 70ah dual purpose starter battery 4yo Natures Head Composting Toilet Eno 3 burner Gimballed Stove With Oven 1000w Inverter Whale Gusher Foot Pumps Rigging 5 years old Professional repaint with gelcoat 4 years ago New bottom paint