1990 Cabo Rico 34

The Cabo Rico story is one of dedication, hard work and unique circumstance that started many years ago with a love for yachting, and flourishes today, because of a constant obsession with quality in true ocean-going yachts. Cabo Rico yachts are fast yet comfortable underway, safe and amazingly easy to sail. Balancing beautifully in light or heavy air, the hands off tracking ability combines with good pointing and a fine turn of speed.

In the popular 80's TV show Miami Vice, a 38 foot Cabo Rico was used in the pilot episode. The boat was called the St. Vitus Dance and it was the home of the main character, Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and his pet alligator Elvis.

In the mid 1960s, John Schofield started building sailboats in the corner of a little known British Leyland assembly plant in San Jose, Costa Rico. The location would provide a unique blend of talented craftsmen, superb climatic conditions, and access to the finest raw materials for yacht construction.  In the early 1970s, their first boat was a 36-foot ketch designed by William Crealock. In the late 1970s, the 36-foot design became the infamous Cabo Rico 38. In the mid-1980s, two Canadians, Fraser and Edi Smith purchased the company. Their first new design introduced was the 34’, a smaller sister ship to the 38’.  

One of the features that set Cabo Rico yachts apart from mainstream boat builders is the level of craftsmanship involved in each hand-made component and in the assembly of the vessel. It is claimed that they spend more time laying up the hull and deck than most builders spend on their entire completed boat. There are approximately 1800 man hours that go into the interior urethane and hand rubbed furniture finishes alone! There is a pride in workmanship that makes every Cabo Rico product that leaves the factory floor a true piece of art.

Excellence in design, comfort, style and performance, the Cabo Rico 34 provides for ample comfort and safety throughout. She has an uncluttered deck layout, spacious cockpit and stowage space. Inside she is surprisingly spacious with two large cabins, good headroom, a large galley and head. The warmth of the interior cabin is accentuated by outstanding joinery and honey colored plantation grown teak. Her cutter rig and full keel, with cut-a-way forefoot, give good sailing performance and a safe, stiff pointing ability.

This fine quality shorthanded blue water cruiser has everything for cruising the Caribbean or the world. Her secure cockpit provides the ultimate in safety at sea. A solid one piece hull provides ocean going sturdiness and offers excellent accessibility to points beyond. Her galley allows the cook to safely prepare meals at sea. Her berths can accommodate four in comfort. Her cutter rig provides almost limitless sail combinations for any wind condition. Singlehanded, a couple, or two couples- this boat fits all. The Cabo Rico 34 is a world class cruiser that can take you anywhere you desire to go. This classic Bill Crealock design is dry and comfortable offshore and nimble in protected waters. The Cabo Rico 34 will take you quickly and safely anywhere you want to go... and back again.

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Forward stateroom: Starting forward there is double-door access to the chain locker. A 6’4” long Pullman berth is offset and to port, with drawer storage beneath and is 48” wide at head and 36” at the foot. To the right of that is a changing seat with storage beneath and behind it. The fiberglass hullsides are white with teak staving; fiddled and divided shelves line each hullside. On the starboard hullside there is a locker with shelves and double louvered doors, with a drop-front door locker beneath that. Ventilation and lighting is provided by an overhead hatch, two opening ports, a Hella fan and a number of reading and overhead lights. A bi-fold louvered door stores neatly out of the way when not providing privacy to the space.

Head: Next aft and on port is the head. The head is directly ahead and the sink to the right as you enter the space. Storage is beneath the sink and three louvered door lockers are above the sink and behind the head. The sink has a pull-out shower wand. There are towel bars; a bevel cut mirrored teak medicine cabinet and a teak shower grate. An overhead hatch, an opening port and a Hella fan provide plenty of ventilation in this space.

Saloon: Moving aft into the saloon, there is a straight settee on starboard and an L-shaped dinette settee on port. The bulkhead mounted teak dinette table folds down and can also open up to serve either one or both settees. There is great storage behind it, with many compartments for assorted sizes of dishes, a utensil drawer, etc. Solid teak and holly cabin soles and varnished teak cabin sides compliment the white overhead. Five opening ports and two hatches, along with numerous overhead and reading lights, make this space truly bright and spacious feeling- as well as nicely ventilated.

On the port side, the L shaped dinette has storage behind the back cushions along the hullside. The settee seat slides out to form a 6'2" long double berth. Above and behind the settee is a fiddled shelf, with double louvered door lockers on either side of that.

On starboard there is a straight settee. A slide out can be pulled out to fill the space beneath the nav top to make this settee into a 6'8" long single berth. Beneath the settee are two drop-front louvered door lockers and there is storage behind the back cushion as well. Above that there is a fiddled shelf in the center, with louvered door lockers on either side of that.    

Nav station: Aft facing, there is a varnished nav table top with storage inside of that. Beneath is a louvered door locker with storage shelves inside. Electrical and electronics are located along the hullside and on the aft bulkhead behind the desk top.

Galley: Located at the base of the companionway on port, the galley is U-shaped and quite substantial for a vessel this size. As you face into it, the icebox is on the aft end of the space and the stove along the hullside. The forward facing countertop coming out from the hullside towards centerline has a large food storage bin cabinet with a teak cover, then a deep double stainless steel sink and then a fiberglass dish bin recessed into the countertop. Beneath the countertop is a stack of drawers and a locker. Above the icebox and along the hullsides is a generous amount of shelved storage space, with Plexiglas sliding doors. All in all a very seaworthy galley; well laid out and with good counter space for food prep.

Aft stateroom: The aft cabin is oriented to starboard and has a 6’8” long berth; a changing seat and a cedar-lined hanging locker with a fiddled shelf above that. There is a teak framed mirror above that shelf. The cabin has an overhead hatch with screen, two opening ports and a Hella fan for ventilation.   The cabin is illuminated by one overhead and one reading light.

• Teak and holly sole laminated on fiberglass panels to prevent moisture intrusion into the sole
• All drawer fronts are raised teak panels
• Cabinetry and cabin doors are all finely louvered teak
• High sculpted fiddles provide great hand holds along all counter top surfaces
• Teak house sides
• Gloss varnished golden teak finish throughout
• Five overhead hatches with integrated hinged teak screens
• Ten ABI stainless steel ports with screens
• LED lighting throughout

• Double stainless steel sink w/ varnished teak sink cover boards
• Single lever H/C water mixer
• Countertop dish bin with teak cover
• Countertop dry bin with teak cover
• Top loading 6 cu. ft. ice box
• Origo 6000 2-burner alcohol stove with oven
• Stainless steel oven safety bar
• Tasco 2 burner LPG stove w/oven (not installed; at owner's home)
• Primary and secondary propane lockers for two 10lb. bottles
• Teak spice racks

• Wilcox Crittenden manual head
• Huge 35 gallon holding tank
• Y-valve for overboard discharge
• Molded fiberglass head compartment for easy wipe down
• Fiberglass countertop with radius teak fiddle
• Single Stainless steel sink
• H/C water mixer with pull-out shower wand
• Teak shower grate
• Electric shower sump pump         
• Wrap around shower curtain track
• Radius framed teak medicine cabinet with beveled mirror door
• Stainless steel towel bars

• Hot and cold pressure water
• Raritan 6 gallon stainless steel hot water heater
• Engine heat exchanger
• Jabsco 3gpm diaphragm fresh water pump
• Par accumulator tank
• H/C cockpit shower
• Jabsco electric bilge pump
• Starnalarm high water alarm
• Henderson manual bilge pump
• Johnson deck wash-down pump (2014)

• Teak bowsprit w/double anchor rollers
• 35lb Bruce with w/ 5/16" chain & 150’ of ¾” nylon rode
• 35lb CQR anchor
• Maxwell 800 electric windlass w/up foot switch
• Foredeck anchor locker with teak grate hatches
• Hand laid one piece fiberglass construction
• Vinylester layup in the last four layers
• Full keel with cutaway forefoot
• Fully encapsulated lead keel- no external cracking!
• Skeg hung rudder
• Hull soda blasted, barrier coated and bottom painted (2014)
• White deck with contrasting non-skid
• Raised bulwarks with teak cap rail
• Bronze mooring line chocks mounted in raised bulwarks
• Bronze mooring cleats mounted on raised bulwarks
• Bulwark mounted 32” high stanchions
• Double vinyl lifelines
• Port, starboard and stern boarding gates
• Stainless steel swim ladder
• Teak cockpit seating and sole
• Teak stern rail seats
• Raised, removable curved fiberglass helm seat
• Bimini
• Dodger frame (needs canvas)
• Folding stainless steel davits
• Four teak grab rails

• Harken roller furler
• Cutter rig with Isomat self-tending boom
• Wire running back stays
• Schaefer staysail boom traveler w/single line control
• Isomat keel stepped single spreader aluminum spar
• Raised fiberglass and aluminum mast step is well out of the bilge
• 1x19 SS wire standing rigging w/external chain plates
• Rigging professionally inspected and serviced for offshore use (2012)
• Stainless steel mast steps
• Barient 2SP17CHST halyard winches on mast (2)   
• Barient 10CH reefing winch
• Mechanical boom vang
• Schaefer main sheet track & car
• Barient 2SP21CHST main sheet winch
• Barient 2SP27CHST primary winches (2)
• Doyle Dacron full battened mainsail w/3 reef points (good)
• Doyle Dacron 130% Genoa w/UV strip & foam luff (good)
• Doyle Dacron staysail (very good)
• Asymmetrical spinnaker (very good)
• Spare Genoa sheets (2012)

• Universal M35 30HP engine (S/N 3822509) w/2279 hours
• Good engine access with three doors and beneath the dinette seat (which also removes)
• Lead insulated engine compartment enclosure
• Racor 500 fuel filter
• Fuel pump rebuilt (2012)
• Injector nozzles replaced, fuel and wash return lines cleaned (2012)
• Injector pump rebuilt (2013)
• Parker FPM-050 electric fuel polishing module (2012)
• Heat exchanger serviced (2012)
• Raw water strainer serviced (2014)
• All raw water hoses replaced (2014)
• Exhaust and injection elbows replaced (2012)
• Starter motor replaced (2011)
• Spare starter motor- serviced and bench tested (2013)
• Engine hoses replaced (2013-2014)
• Edson steering pedestal with 32” stainless steel destroyer wheel
• Ritchie compass
• Spare stainless steel wheel with wooden spokes
• Vetus single lever throttle/shifter
• Aquamet 1 ¼” solid SS prop shaft
• 3 blade bronze prop
• Spare 3 blade bronze prop
• Vernalift muffler
• Electric oil change pump
• Dometic 15,000 BTU reverse-cycle heat/air conditioning (2012)

• 30A shore power connection and cord
• 120V Electrical panel
• 120V Amp and volt meters
• 120V receptacles throughout with GFCI protection
• 12v Electrical panel
• 12v Amp and volt meters
• Auxiliary 12v electrical panel
• Main electrical panel feed replaced (2012)
• 12v heavy system brought up to current ABYC spec (2012)
• Mastervolt 12/40-3 battery charger (2014)
• Three Deka Group 27 house batteries (2014)
• One Deka Group 27 starting battery (2012)
• Battery cables replaced (2014)
• 95 amp alternator (2011)
• Spare alternator serviced and bench tested (2013)
• Perco battery selector switches (2)
• LED cabin lights throughout (2013)
• LED spreader deck lights (2013)
• NoCo 15W portable solar panel
• 12v receptacles in cockpit and at nav station
• Hella fans throughout (5)

• Garmin 176C color chart plotter
• Maine to Chesapeake Blue Chart chip
• Raymarine ST7002 Auto pilot (2012)
• Raymarine X-10 Corepack (2012)
• Raymarine ST60+ wind (2012)
• Autohelm depth
• Autohelm speed and log
• Standard Horizon VHF with DSC at helm
• Insulated backstay antenna for SSB
• Firdell Blipper radar reflector

• Sea Eagle 8’ roll-up dinghy (2010)
• Evinrude 2.5HP outboard motor
• Cockpit cushions
• Seth Thomas chrome barometer
• Teak cockpit table
• Lifesling
• Emergency tiller
• Mast-Climber system
• Outboard motor mount

Owner’s personal effects and any items not specified in this listing

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.