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Hughes 38/Northstar 38 Registry

Please email roberthess@hessmarine.ca if you would like to include your boat in the registry or change your existing entry

Yahoo Hughes 38 Owners Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hughes38owners/

Transport Canada Ship Registry (English): http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/m.aspx?lang=e

yachtworld.com Classifieds: htttp://ww.yachtworld.com

Messages

 Hi

I know that this maybe a long shot. I am researching my father's sailing career. He had a dealership for Hughes in Port Huron, Michigan in the late 1960s, called International Sails, then Carroll Yacht and Marine. They had a demo Hughes 38 named La Vite. Any ideas where I can find information on it? Year built or where it is now?

Thanks,

Stan Carroll, SKICARROLL@aol.com

Technical

Hughes 38 Keel Bolts

The Hughes 38 has 9 cast in stainless steel keel studs with a 5/8” NC thread. They cannot be removed because they were formed in a “J” shape and cast into the lead/antimony keel at the time of manufacture. When the keel was bolted to the bottom of the fibreglass hull the joint and studs were sealed with polysulphide sealant. The studs are fitted with heavy stainless steel flat washers, and stainlesss steel 1 1/8” wrench size nuts. We believe the correct torque for the nuts when the threads are coated with stainless steel (not copper) “Never-Seize” lubricant is 120 ft lb.

Since it is impossible to remove the studs for examination, and dropping the keel simply to examine them is a very big job, we suggest that the studs can be “proof-tested” by removing the nuts and applying lubricant to the threads, ensuring the heavy flat washers are in place, and then torquing them to 120 ft lb. If they don't break they are probably in good condition. (Because the lead keel is too soft to hold tapped threads, if one was to break the most reasonable repair would be to “sister” the studs by adding more [new] studs... by drilling a hole down through the fibreglass section at the bottom of the hull into the lead keel about a foot or more, and then cross drilling into the keel to meet the end of the new stud so that a “T” section cross-piece can be added to the end of the new stud.)

Opinions

Classic Plastic Cruising Boats

The Hughes 38 is included in a list of reasonable older cruising designs: http://www.landlpardey.com/?p=616

Beautiful Boats – Specs & Photos

Dust Devil

Dust Devil is a 1972 Northstar 38 Mk II

New Equipment:

• Yanmar 3GM30 diesel

Work in Progress:

before work began

Galatea V

Galatea V was raced extensively by the previous owner from Shelburne, Nova Scotia all along the Nova Scotia coast and the New England states. She was fitted with a replacement keel because the original builder of the kit used a non-standard lead-filled welded steel construction. The present owner feels the new keel is heavier than the original design specification, but probably makes the boat sea-friendly in the open ocean.

New Equipment:

• 14” Maxprop (feathering)

• keel

Work in Progress:

Galatea V

Wyndancer

Wyndancer was sailed in the Bahamas for a year, and had a complete refit a few years ago. The original Universal Atomic Four Stevedore engine has had the intake manifold restrictor plate removed to put the engine back to standard Atomic Four specification of 30 hp @ 3,500 rpm.

New Equipment:

Work in Progress:

Wyndancer

Dreamwalker

Dreamwalker was cruised extensively in South Florida and South America before 1994, but now is retired to the Tennessee River in Kentucky.

New Equipment:

In Progress:

Sorry, no photos yet

Serena

New Equipment:

• mast & rigging

• cabin-top traveler & mid-boom sheeting

• Awlgrip 2 epoxy paint (dark blue)

• head & holding tank

• IsoTemp hot water heater

• Cold-machine refrigerator

• Simrad AP24 autopilot

• Raytheon radar & chartplotter

• JRC GPS

• full deck hardware rebedding including toe rail removal & powder coating

In Progress:

• Navpod instrument relocation

• wind instruments

• air conditioning

• interior redesign

• teak & holly sole

Sorry, no photo yet

Kiskadee

Kiskadee was sailed out of Toronto and Midland, Ontario before 2005, then in 2006 she was moved to Halifax, NS, and in 2008 to Victoria, BC. She may have been sailed south sometime before that.

New Equipment:

rebuilt Atomic Four UJR & fresh-water cooling

Racor primary filter/water separator

interior lighting

navigation lights

running rigging

Force 10  3 burner stove with oven/broiler

teak & holly cabin sole

upholstery & cushions

ProFurl C350 furler

head, holding tank, plumbing

Uniden VHF radio/hailer/fog horn

through-hulls & valves

pumps & plumbing

In Progress:

mainsail

standing rigging

12v breaker panel

Kiskadee

Water Lily

Water Lily is a west-coast boat, originally registered in Victoria, British Columbia as “Butterscotch Ripple”, and now sailed out of Delta, British Columbia where the owners live aboard during the spring and summer. Last summer it was sailed around Vancouver Island. It had a major refit in 2006.

Sailing Water Lily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVaDSwWgMs&feature=channel

New Equipment:

• upsized 316 grade Protech stainless steel standing rigging (swaged)

• Sampson Rope running rigging

• Protech boomvang/preventer on new boom bails

• Harken Mk I cruising furler

• Blue Seas 12v/120v panel & all wiring

• Heart galvanic isolator

• La Fabrica dodger & bimini with solar panel pivoting mount on bimini frame

• Royal City Bedding interior mattresses & upholstery

• Jabsco head & holding tank & plumbing with mascerator pump

• Wolfe 30 litre/hour (8 US gallons/hour) watermaker (engine driven pump)

• 2006 Universal M35B diesel with ZF10 2:1 gear (with oil cooler) & Aquadrive CV thrust joint coupling

• Campbell Sailor 2 blade prop (13” X 9” two blade)

• 100 amp Leece-Neville alternator with 3 stage Xantrex regulator & Blue Seas charge relay

• 1500 watt Heart inverter & BlueSeas fuses

• 2 x UAP/Napa Group 31 deep cycle batteries & Group 24 cranking battery

• Force 10 propane stove, 3 burner with oven

• double galley sinks with shower box pumpout drain

• Cape Horn Jean du Sud windvane

• Viking 4 person Liferaft, deck mounted in canister with auto-release

• ACR EPIRB

• hot water heater

• Nova-Kool 12v toploading freezer/refrigerator

• Autohelm wheel autopilot

• Furuno radar

• SeaTel sat phone with data link (data link has never worked)

• smoked plexiglass hatch lenses (Sikaflex UV9500 sealant leaked… so did 3M5200, recommend using factory-made preformed rubber inserts to seal lenses)

• Seimans 100 watt solar panel & regulator

• Standard Horizon 800i chartplotter/fishfinder running C-Map Max

• Standard Horizon speed & depth instruments

• rebuilt Cinkel wheel steering pedestal & ruddershaft quadrant

• rebuilt Sigmar 750 diesel heater

• 6 x 12v turbofans

• rebuilt Whale manual bilge pump & hoses

• Standard Horizon VHF radio/hailer/fog horn

• ICOM HF 776 Mk II amateur/SSB marine radio with automatic tuner & insulated backstay antenna & 2” copper foil ground plane

• Lofrans mechanical windlass

• 2 x 150’ nylon rode + 150’  5/16” HT chain rode

• propane sniffer & alarm

• propane solenoid & aluminum 20 lb tank with external mount

• 17.5 kg (39 lb) Northstar plow main anchor with swivel & backup Danforth 20 lb anchor

• rebedded stanchion bases with new throughbolted stanchion tubes

• bare stainless steel lifelines

In Progress:

• Rocna anchor

• new anchor rode locker under V berth with straight drop from windlass

• J-Prop 2 blade feathering propeller

• Buck Algonquin 3 bolt bronze through-hulls/valves with emergency bilge drain feature

• teak & holly sole

• relocate VHF hailer/foghorn speaker to spreader from radar pole

• remote radar dish angle adjuster

• interior varnish (Interluxe matte varnish on flat surfaces with Interluxe gloss varnish on trim)

• Interluxe Interprotect hull coating (after lifting and drying hull)

• self-aligning rudder bearings

• Jossa mechanical wheel steering (or maybe hydraulic)

• Simrad or Autohelm below-deck autopilot (hydraulic)

• 2  x 2,000 gph (US gallons) bilge pumps with remote vacuum sensors

• Lewmar hatch in deck over head

• rebuilt propane valve box

Water Lily – 2007

Wild Card

Wild Card is an early-model Hughes 38 owned by Cruising World magazine writer Cap’n Fatty Goodlander and his wife Caroline. It is on its second circumnavigation, and is presently in the South Pacific.

Cap'n Fatty has an interesting website with information on his travels and his Hughes 38 at http://www.fattygoodlander.com

You can read some more about Cap'n Fatty and ham radio at http://www.qsl.net/vu2msy/fatty_goodlander.htm

New Equipment:

• Monitor windvane

• staysail

• Perkins engine

• HF SSB marine radio

• integrated dodger/bimini

• Harken furling

Wild Card