With a traditional full keel, cutaway forefoot and integral rudder, AGAVE is the epitome of the word “classic.” With a lower-profile hull and long swooping, graceful sheerline, she is truly beautiful to behold.

Designed by famed Hinckley Bermuda 40 designer Bill Tripp, the LeComte 38 was built in Holland to very high standards. She’s a great looking, great sailing boat with a yawl rig -- a rarity in today’s mainstream market.

AGAVE’s traditional layout starts at the forepeak with the chain locker, followed directly by the V-berth with filler insert cushion. An overhead hatch and opening port add light and ventilation to this space. Ample lockers and drawers provide storage.

Just aft to port is a head with manual marine toilet plumbed to a holding tank, a sink with hot and cold pressure water and shower. Across from the head is a wet locker.

The galley is aft to port with a two-burner propane stove with removable cover, stainless steel sink with pressure hot and cold water and a large icebox with Frigiboat refrigeration. Built-in storage for plates and cups adds a lovely woodworking detail.

• Balmar smart regulator (new 2013)
• 12 V DC breaker panel under companionway
• New inverter (2013)
• Balmar 60-amp alternator (new 2013)
• (3) Group 31 batteries (new 2013)
• All lights LED
• (3) GFI outlets
• Navigation lights

• Raytheon SL 70 radar (new 2013)
• Autohelm 4000 ST wheel autopilot  (new 2013)
• Datamarine speed
• Datamarine depth
• VHF radio with cockpit mike (new 2013)
• New Raytheon chartplotter
• (3) New Hella 2-speed fans

• Westerbeke 40 hp diesel
• Hurth vee-drive transmission
• New valve gasket
• New head gasket
• Exhaust system rebuilt (2014)
• New heat exchanger
• Cutlass bearing, stuffing box, and shaft (2007) (pulled and inspected 2012)
• Sea strainer
• 3-Blade prop
• Wheel steering
• Refrigeration in galley

• Hot and cold pressure water
• New fresh water pressure pump
• Manual marine toilet with holding tank
• New electric bilge pump
• Manual bilge pump

Rigging:

• Yawl rig provides excellent balance and versatility for short-handed sailing
• Mast with single wooden spreaders
• Masts pulled, all new electrical wiring (2012)
• Spruce boom
• Harken roller furler for genoa
• Standing rigging (new 2013)
• Recent running rigging (2007)
• Genoa sheets (new 2013)
• Ash rigging rollers

Sails:

• Mainsail with original boom roller furling
• Recently replaced genoa (2007)
• Mizzen
• (2) Mizzen staysails
• Main and mizzen sail covers – tan

Winches:

• Barient primary and secondary winches

The hull is solid fiberglass, hand laid with structural floors fore and aft. The hull Gelcoat was peeled and barrier-coated (2004) by Jamestown Boatyard in RI. The cabin was given three coats of primer then painted with a non-skid pattern, as before. The deck is fiberglass with Airex core and marine plywood core in high-load areas where deck hardware is installed. The interior structural bulkheads are isolated from the hull with Airex and secured with heavy secondary glass tabbing. The keel is externally hung lead. This is a heavily-laid hull with a soft entry so she won’t pound in a seaway. Several years ago, the hull was damaged while sailing in the Bahamas, but she sailed back on her own bottom to Florida where repairs were made professionally. Hull is Carinthia Blue Awlgrip by Hinckley in RI (2013) with painted cabin top and single white boot stripe.

• (6) New stainless steel opening portholes
• (4) New large fixed windows
• Bow and stern rails and double lifelines (new 2015)
  
• Teak toe rails

• Anchor windlass with cockpit remote
• CQR anchor with chain and rope rode
• Danforth anchor for second
• Anchor roller
• Compass in original binnacle
• Fenders
• Docklines

• Dodger
• New cockpit awning
  
• New hatch covers
• Tan vinyl cockpit cushions
• Main and mizzen sail covers – tan

Sometimes referred to as a “B-40 for the buyer on a budget,” the Tripp-designed LeComte 38 is a true classic.

A knowledgeable and traditionally-oriented yachtsman will appreciate the special character AGAVE offers.

AGAVE’S owner has purchased a larger sailing yacht and is anxious for offers. The price reflects this desire and the fact that AGAVE is not a new boat.