Sea Bird 37

Status: under investigation

A long-keeled 37-foot cruiser with centre-cockpit and aft-cockpit versions, rigged as a ketch or a sloop. It was designed by Vancouver designer Stan Huntingford with Hardin and first built by Cooper Enterprises in Canada. Builder databases also list Hardin International as a builder. Variant: the Sea Bird 37 MS motorsailer (Cooper, new pilothouse deck by Forbes Cooper, masthead sloop, 560 sq ft, Perkins 50 hp, 100/100 gal tanks) [SBD-SB37MS]. We have not seen documents that show how many Sea Bird 37s, if any, came from Kaohsiung.

years

From 1973 (Cooper Enterprises, Canada) [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]; built by Hardin International in Kaohsiung 1977-1988 [WP-SB37, citing builder databases]

number built

Unknown

rig

Masthead ketch or masthead sloop [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

loa

36.75 ft / 11.20 m [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

lwl

32.50 ft / 9.91 m [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

beam

11.50 ft / 3.51 m [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

draft

4.00 ft / 1.22 m [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

displacement

18,000 lb / 8,165 kg [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

ballast

6,000 lb / 2,722 kg [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

sail area

551 sq ft [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]; mast 41 ft above waterline [SBD-SB37]

fuel

100 US gal [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

water

80 US gal [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

engine

Perkins 4-108, 40 hp diesel [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

designer

Stan Huntingford and Hardin ('Harden/Huntingford') [SBD-SB37, WP-SB37]

builder

Cooper Enterprises, Canada [SBD-SB37]; Hardin International, Kaohsiung [WP-SB37, SG-BUILDER]

Sources: SBD-SB37; SBD-SB37MS; WP-SB37; SG-BUILDER