1984 Ta Shing -Panda - Upgrades - TEAK!

** Now in Annapolis**

 ** Rugged Cruising Design ** Cutter Rig ** Extensive Recent Upgrades ** Beautiful Teak Joinery ** Solar; Wind-gen ** Watermaker ** Proactive Maintenance ** Many $10s of 1000s invested... **

With her beautiful teak joinery and rugged construction, the revered Panda 38 is considered by many to be the epitome of the elegant cruising yacht.  LILA, with her excellent maintenance and many upgrades, certainly ranks among the most desirable yachts in her class to be offered on the brokerage market. 

Excerpt from Ship's Log (Oct. 11, 2017):  ....just pulled in to Beaufort from a 400 mile offshore run from New Smyrna. Two things are reconfirmed: weather experts sometimes get it wrong; and when it does pipe up in the ocean, the Panda 38 excels at making her way comfortably."

**ADDITIONAL INFO AND PHOTOS WILL BE POSTED SOON **

• Rugged cutter rig; Cruising spinnaker
• Beautiful teak
• Extensive recent upgrades
• Watermaker; Liferaft; Steering vane
• Air conditioned
• Wind generator; Solar panels; LED lighting
• Upgraded Yanmar diesel
• Sea-tow membership
• Much more....

• Standard Horizon chartplotter -- at helm ('15)
• Yanmar diesel maintenance ('14)  --see below
• Raymarine plotter relocated to nav-station
• Deck prisms replaced
• Port light glass and seals replaced
• Sump pump replaced
• A/C water pump replaced
• Thru-hulls replaced for AC, galley sink, exhaust 
• Stack pack mainsail flaking replaced
• Dodger and canvas, sun shields, hatch covers, lee cloths
• Refrigeration refit: water pump, fans, thermostat (spare included)
• Airbreeze wind generator
• Kyocera solar panels
• AmpLStart installed (start battery protection)
• Balmar voltage regulator installed
• Max-prop refurbished (spare zincs and grease)
• Batteries, 4 house one start, 420 amp hours
• Duragrid mattress vent pad
• Lavac toilet with single pump routing for tank and discharge (spares included)
• Dometic holding tank monitor installed
• Propane regulator replaced
• Chain plates replaced; Standing rigging replaced
• Running rigging replaced
• Aqua signal LED tricolor light
• Seaward water heater installed
• Garhauer outboard hoist
• High water alarm
• Light activated anchor light switch
• Plexiglass for companionway slider
• Galley faucet replaced
• LED bulbs and light fixtures throughout 
• Hose for bilge, fuel, water (spares included)
• Davit lines replaced
• Smoke and CO detector installed
• Magma grill with sun cover added
• Revere Offshore Commander 4 person liferaft
• Hydrovane self-steering (spares included)
• Factory refurbished Raymarine auto pilot linear drive
• 20 gallon/hr engine driven water maker (spare filters, belts included)
• Upgraded ground tackle 
• Teak deck seams rebedded
• Extensive rebedding of deck hardware - with hardware replacement

Throughout:

• Insulated hull;
• 16k BTU AC conditioner
• Excellent light and ventilation via: 12 bronze opening ports; 3 large Bomar opening hatches -w/ screen and covers, 6 deck prisms, 4 dorade vents; LED lighting
• Signature Panda teak-framed, cathedral-style, cabintop;  Varnished teak joinery with vertical staving;  Louvered Teak & holly sole; excellent access to systems etc via cabin sole hatches.

Walk-thru:

• Forward is the main berth that is extremely spacious and comfortable. The new mattress forward is custom made with a split in the middle from front to rear so the mattress can "hinge up" to gain access to the spacious storage beneath.  There are hanging lockers and a settee adjacent to the bunk for easy dressing and additional storage below.
• Aft of the forward cabin are hanging lockers to port
• Head -w/ separate shower to starboard.  Lavac head ('16)
• The main saloon is bright an open. The varnished teak dinette table to starboard is handcrafted with the signature Ta-Shing "starburst."  There is a settee to port which pulls out to make a double and has storage both behind and below to port and starboard.  The louvered cupboards are plentiful along both the port and starboard sides. 
• Aft to port is an efficient U-shaped galley --see below
• Aft to starboard is the dedicated, sit-down nav station,

• Mariner Princess gimbaled 2-burner LPG stove -w/oven and broiler
• Adler-Barbour 12V refrigeration and freezer (refurbished '14)
• Deep, double SS sinks - hot and cold pressure water (faucet raised neck '15)
• Filtered drinking water system
• Freshwater foot pump
• Ample drawers, cabinetry -- and counter space - including sink covers
• Additional LED lighting ('16)
• Custom spice rack

• Full-batten UK mainsail -w/2 reefs and stakpak ('11)
• Harken battcars on mast; Harken batten-traveler ssytem
• Housley 135% furling genoa; Harken furler
• Staysail
• Bierig asymetrical cruising spinnaker
• Housley storm trysail
• Standing rigging replaced ('15)
• Mainsheet, main halyard oversize jib sheets (replaced '15)
• Schaefer 4-part preventer

9 Lewmar 2-speed, self-tailing winches: 2- 48CST primary;2- 30CST staysail self-tailing sheet; 40CST mainsheet; 30CST main halyard; 40CST jib halyard; 2 (single speed), 16CST staysail halyard & reefing

• Raymarine 6000 autopilot - (complete refit '14)
• Standard Horizon chartplotter ('14)
• E-80 Raymarine chartplotter - at nav-station
• Autohelm Tri-data (depth,knot/log)
• Autohelm wind (AWI, WS)
• Furuno 1721 MkII 24 mile radar
• Furuno FS1501 SSB transceiver -w/ insulated backstay antenna and counterpoise
• Icom IC-M502 VHF transceiver -w/ RAM mic
• AIS receiver
• Alpine CDA-9827 CD/stereo -w/ MP3 , XM-ready; cabin and cockpit speakers

• 12V "ship's system" - w/ 4 Group-31 AGM  batteries ('15)
• 12V Group-31 AGM engine start battery ('15)
• Blue-Seas selector switch ('15)
• Amp-L Start battery maintainer ('15)
• Magnum MM-RC 1200W inverter/charger -w/ remote ('15)
• Victron BMV-600 battery monitor ('15)
• Kyocera 280W solar panels - with Outback Flex-Max 80 controller ('15)
• AirBreeze Marine 12V wind generator -w/ damping pole ('15)
• LED cabin lighting;
• LED tricolor - at masthead
• 110V shorepower -w/ 30A 50' cord; 50A adapter
• Plumbing and wiring - for future genset installation

• Dodger -w. connector to bimini

• Custom fixed-frame bimini -w/ view windows and detachable sunshades

• Edson pedestal and wheel -w/ Ritchie compass and folding teak table
• Custom solid-rail, wrap-around stern pulpit
• Cockpit cushions
• Hydrovane steering vane
• Varnished teak and bronze boom gallows
• SS dinghy davits
• Garhauer outboard hoist
• SS folding swim ladder
• Revere Offshore-Commander 4-person liferaft ('14)
• Jacklines; 10 padeyes for harnesses
• Lashing-board for jerry jugs
• Raw water deckwash; Fresh water deckwash
• Whale hot water cockpit shower
• Magmas bbq LPG grill
• Custom deck lighting system
• Service manuals for most equipment
• Simpson-Lawrence SL-555 2-speed windlass -w/ rope and chain gypsies
• Bruce 35# anchor -w/ 100' chain and 125' nylon rode
• Delta 50# anchor -w/ 100' chain and 150' nylon rode
• Fortress FX-16 stern anchor -w/ chain and rode

• Maxprop 3-blade feathering prop
• Engine mounts replaced
• Shift and throttle cables replaced
• Racor 500 fuel filter with vacuum gauge (spare filters included)
• Lift pump replaced (spare included)

The respected Ta Shing Yard in Taiwan built the Panda 38 in the 1980s for Bob Berg and the Quicksilver Corporation. It was designed to be a lighter, faster, and smaller sibling to the Panda 40 while retaining the solid offshore capability for which Berg's boats were known.

Designer Gary Grant gave the Panda 38 traditional lines that are accentuated by generous applications of teak used on the wide caprail, bronze-capped rubrail, grabrails, and cockpit coaming. Most of the boats were cutter rigged as a factory option and were fitted with a generous bowsprit. A vented teak platform attached to the bowsprit accommodates dual bronze anchor rollers.

Ta Shing's interior teak joinery and craftsmanship is legendary. Aboard our Panda 38, Restless, we feel as though we live in a fine piece of furniture. The bulkheads are vertical teak staving; the overhead, between the laminated beams, is made of removable panels of laminate or spruce staving; locker doors are louvered teak. A teak grate at the foot of the companionway drains through a pan into the bilge.

The roomy and seaworthy U-shaped galley is to port of the companionway. On the starboard side, the forward-facing navigation station has adequate room for instrumentation and ample space in which to work. In some boats, the layout of galley and nav station was reversed.

The main saloon provides a generous area for living and entertaining, with a settee/sea berth to port and, to starboard, a U-shaped dinette that seats four comfortably. The master stateroom, in the bow, has a king-size V-berth. Aft of it, on the starboard side, the head has a marble countertop and a separate shower. Aft of the navigation station is a quarter berth.

Twelve old-school bronze opening ports, four cowl vents on teak dorade boxes, a forward-opening teak hatch in the V-berth, and an elegant teak butterfly hatch over the main cabin provide excellent airflow throughout the interior.

While the standard engine was the Universal 40-hp. diesel, some boats, including ours, have a Universal 50. The V-drive transmission leaks notoriously and has been replaced on many boats. Access to the engine area under the cockpit is outstanding.

Generous tankage permits extended cruising: A black-iron tank under the saloon sole carries 75 gallons of diesel, and two stainless-steel tanks under the settees hold 140 gallons of water between them.

The Panda 38's teak decks are laid on top of a fiberglass sandwich. When we removed hardware to recaulk the deck, we found that the deck core is made of individual 2-inch balsa squares with resin barriers between them, which limits core damage when a leak occurs.

A moderate performer under sail, the P38 goes to weather pretty well even in light air. The boat will turn in 150 miles in 24 hours with 10 knots or more forward of the beam, but if it's aft of the beam, the Panda needs more wind to perform in any significant sea state. The more wind, the more the 38 likes it. The boat has a sea-kindly motion and modest weather helm. The bathtub cockpit is rather small. We feel tucked in and safe when passagemaking, but it seats only four to six people comfortably at anchor.

Our Panda 38 has proven to be a strong and solid sailboat and a comfortable home. Ta Shing built 29 of them during the early 1980s. They're rare; expect asking prices between $100,000 and $125,000, depending on equipment and whether the abundant teak is in a gray "natural state" or in show condition.

Potential purchasers should assume that any items on the vessel at the time of viewing, but not specifically listed on this specification sheet, are not included with the sale of the yacht. These specifications are believed to be correct but cannot be guaranteed. Specifications are provided for information purposes. Data was obtained from sources believed reliable but is not guaranteed by owner or brokers. Buyer assumes responsibility to verify all speeds, consumptions, capacities and other measurements contained herein and otherwise provided, and agrees to instruct his/her agents or his/her surveyor to confirm such details prior to purchase. This vessel is subject to sale, price and inventory changes or withdrawal from market without notice.