Hudson 44

Owner's comments

We purchased the boat in 2018 to sail around the world. In 2019 we hauled it out and began a complete restoration/refit. I am a offshore sailor with 30,000 miles of Pacific ocean experience and a shipwright by trade. This boat is a perfect blue water cruiser that is heavily built and very stable to take you anywhere in the world in comfort. The boat is no slug either, can easily sail at 7 knots.

There is an intense amount of teak inside and out with 1” thick solid cabinetry. No one could afford to build this boat again and the original teak is impossible to find anymore. The good part is all the teak is in excellent condition!

I have been going to La Paz every 6 months to work on the boat for a month at a time. I have only used the very best materials and have overseen all the work or have done it myself. No expense has been spared with this refit and all the major work has been finished already. I hired a very experienced crew to rebuild the deck and they did an excellent job! Unfortunately, I am selling the boat because our plans have changed. I am now permanently living in the Philippines building a beach resort and cannot find the time to sailed it across the Pacific. I am not just losing a ton of money, time and effort but also a big part of my heart. This was truly a work of love. Whoever gets this gem will be very lucky and fortunate to have one of the best boats around.

Items needed to complete refit:

• Cabin ceiling needs repaired and reinstalled in places. 
• Forward cabin needs floor installed Needs new Dodger
• Needs new main anchor (Was stolen)
• Solar panels need permanent mounting frame. Could modify the dingy davits to mount the solar panels. The DC cabin wiring needs replaced
• The boat has lots of spares and extra parts such as rigging hardware, fishing gear, bronze valves, through hulls, electronics, extra 220v breaker panel, toggle switches, electrical connectors and supplies, nuts and bolts, full set of hand tools, power tools, etc. Basically, everything you will need to finish the boat and get her sailing!

Navigation and electronics

• All working and excellent condition; when removed, in boxes
• Raymarine 18” Digital Radar dome
• Raymarine E-120 Multi Function Display
• Raymarine through hull Sonar
• Raymarine Sonar 130 module
• Older VHF Radio

Electrical

• All new in Feb 2023
• 2 Solar Chargers
• 2 200w Solar Panels
• 4 100amp 12v house Batteries
• 1 Engine start batteries
• All new cables and inline fuses
• New 80 amp Alternator
• 2000w portable gas generator, very quiet. new in Feb 2003
• House Electrical system
• The AC and DC cabin wiring needs replaced. Panel is ok. 

Mechanical

• New fresh water pump installed with new hoses.
• 100 gal. water tank flushed out
• All new fuel hoses
• 100 gal. Fuel tank was removed, cleaned and reinstalled
• New fuel filters and spares.
• The Ford 80hp Lemans Diesel Engine and gear has been completely serviced (2024)
• Prop shaft was removed and new dripless seal installed
• 3 bladed bronze prop is in excellent condition

Deck and hull

• Deck was stripped to frame and new fiberglass/marine plywood sandwich core installed
• 2 layers of woven plus 1 layer of matt underneath and 4 layers woven, 3 layers matt on top. All deck penetrations were epoxy sealed. Deck is professionally installed and is VERY solid!
• New nonskid and polyurethane painted.
• Topsides all sanded and resurfaced with polyurethane 2 part paint
• Bottom was stripped to fiberglass, ground out all blisters, filled and epoxied with West System. An additional 2 seal coats of epoxy primer was applied. Just needs bottom coat to finish.
• Newer inflatable dingy. 9.9 outboard needs serviced.
• Lots of ground tackle and extra rigging. There is currently no anchor.

Sails and rigging

• New standing rigging 2023
• Masts were stripped to bare wood, epoxy sealed with West system and top coated with epoxy paint. Both masts are very solid and sound.
• Front spar was removed, stripped to bare wood, epoxied and top coated. All new fasteners, and installed.
• Samson posts were replaced with ironwood and epoxied in place.
• Halyard sheeve block was rebuilt and bolts replaced.
• Main mast support post was removed, lower and upper support blocks were replaced with hardwood and epoxied in place, then reinstalled.
• All new 316 stainless chainplates and bolts installed
• All new 1X19 wire standing rigging professionally swagged.
• New halyards
• Sails are older but in good condition, all stored inside cabin: Main, Jib, Genoa, Mizzen and some backup sails.

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.