1984 Olson Custom 40

"FLITE" is the last hull of the popular Olson 40 pedigree and has a number of custom features that make her unique, including the custom interior, higher cockpit coamings, deeper keel and more. "FLITE" has benefitted from ongoing care and upgrades, and is now available. New to the market and actively for sale.

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Beginning forward is a large double berth with small settee aft and to port, followed by a large hanging locker. Opposite to starboard is a cabinet which also houses the holding tank. Just aft of that is the head compartment with electric head, vanity with sink and manual water. Storage lockers are above the vanity. There is a common door for the head and forward cabin from the salon. Next aft is the salon, with an L-shaped settee to starboard, and there is a double leaf dinette table that lowers down form the bulkhead mounted locker. Opposite to port is  a straight bench settee, followed by the aft-facing nav. station. Just aft of the nav. station is what originally was the aft head, since converted to a very useful storage area for safety gear, water heater, etc. Aft of the starboard settee is the L-shaped galley with double s/s sink, refrigeration and stove with oven. This is further followed by the aft cabin, a double berth that has an opening port into the cockpit for communication and ventilation, ready access to the steering cables, idler gears, rudder quadrant and rudder post tube and the autopilot linear ram. Additionally, there is storage at the forward end of the cabin for hanging sheets, foul weather gear, etc.

Storage below and outboard of settee berths

Lee cloths for port & starboard settee

Hebei diesel heater (2010)

Water badder below starboard settee

Storage beneath forward and aft cabin berth platforms

Interior hatch covers drilled out for lightness, ventilation

Overhead s/s handrails in salon

Custom dinette cabinet/table bolted to main bulkhead w/double folding leafs, storage

The L-shaped galley is at the base of the companionway to starboard and across from the nav. station. It is equipped with 12Vdc refrigeration, 2-burner stove w/oven, asymmetrical sinks with pressure water, storage below sinks and in a small drawer bank as well as above and outboard of galley counter tops.

Hot/cold pressure water

Fresh & salt water at galley sinks

Frigoboat 12Vdc refrigeration 

Force 10 2-burner stove w/oven, gimbaled

Small built-in liquor cabinet at inboard end of galley 

The aft facing nav. station is at the base of the companionway to port, facilitating easy communication between cockpit and navigator. Included here is a VHF radio, GPS, nav. instrument repeater, stereo, battery monitors for house and engine start battery banks,, and electrical breaker panel. There is a peg board below nav. desk for essential tools to be at the ready, storage below seat and also is a small drawer bank.

Nexus sailing instruments (2003)

Nexus Multifunction in cockpit bulkhead

Nexus wind speed/direction in cockpit bulkhead

Nexus Multifunction at nav. station

Nexus autopilot control at helm (2005)

B&G rudder reference transducer

B&G hydraulic linear pump for autopilot

ICOM VHF radio, AIS ready (2011)

Raymarine  Hybrid Touch MFD at helm

Raymarine 18" 4Kw radar on Scan Strut mast tube

Garmin GPS below at Nav. station (2003)

Equipped with 120Vac & 12Vdc systems, breaker panel

30 amp 120Vac shore power inlet, shore power cord

Pro Watt 800 watt inverter

Heart battery monitor, house, engine banks (2000)

(2) Gel house batteries (2009)

(1) Gel dedicated engine start battery (2009)

Mobile Marine circuit panel w/breakers (2003)

New electrical wiring (2003)

New Volvo 55hp 4-cylinder diesel engine (2008)

Sail drive propulsion

3-blade folding prop (2008)

New engine & transmission control cables (2008)

Sparcraft double spreader keel stepped aluminum mast, black anodized

In-column spreaders w/continuous rod rigging

Mast secured to mast step via stainless steel strap

Check stays

1x19 s/s wire rope backstay w/insulators (2000)

1x19 s/s wire rope forestay (2000)

Harken genoa furler (2005)

Mast is reported to be 2" taller that standard Olson 40 mast

Mast rewired (2000)

Tides Marine "Strong Track" & slide system (2005)

Spinnaker pole track, cars on mast

Doyle full batten Kevlar mainsail (2009)

Double set ref points

Doyle Kevlar 100% jib (2009)

130% genoa (serviceable)

150% genoa (serviceable)

Storm Jib & storm tri sail

Harken end boom mainsheet system

Harken adjustable traveler w/Hexarachets & cam cleats

Halyards & check stays are 1/2" Spectra to nylon tails, reduced weight, no stretch

Aluminum spinnaker pole

Aluminum whisker pole & reaching strut

Outboard, mid-deck & inboard genoa/jib tracks

Track mounted carbon sprit for asymmetrical chute

(2) Barient 28 2-sp AST primary winches

(6) Barient 21 2-sp winches

Navtec hydraulic backstay, boom vang

Tricolor/anchor/strobe light (2000)

Foredeck & steaming light (2010)

Windex 15 wind indicator

"FLITE" is hull #29, the last of the Olson 40s built, and has some custom features by the original owners. The hull and deck were purchased while in the mold and moved to Bremerton, WA, where builders Jim Wirght and Ted Moreau finished the project. In addition to the standard lateral hull bracing that one sees in the hull of the boat,  on "FLITE" the bulkheads and furniture pieces are glassed in to the hull to further increase the lateral and torsional stiffness of the boat. The bulkheads and furniture is foam cored, GRP wrapped, creating a very light and strong structure. The hull and deck themselves are end grain balsa cored construction, with an internal hull flange that the deck is then thru-bolted to, further enhancing the stiffness and rigidity of the design. 

The deck is custom in that the coamings are higher than standard, offering a somewhat drier experience. Coaming lockers are also incorporated here, affording places to stow winch handles, sail ties, etc. The traveler is mounted at the aft end of the cockpit seats and is adjacent to the helm, as are the traveler controls. Most sail control lines return to the cockpit to sheet stoppers and 2-sp. winches. The handrails along each side of the cabin top serve double duty in that they also serve as fairlead tubes for the genoa furling line and the  spinnaker foreguy control. There is a removable hard dodger to keep the spray down and the cockpit drier, and there are port & starboard grab rails on the dodger for a safer transition exiting or returning to the cockpit. 

Merriman/Yacht Specialties pedestal

Stainless steel destroyer wheel

Plastimo compass (needs new oil)

Double s/s lifelines

Port & starboard bow-to-stern jack lines

Welded s/s bow & stern rails

Split stern rail with fold down boarding ladder

Wide weather decks with inboard chainplates

Mainsail cover (2009)

Wheel & pedestal cover

Danforth-type anchor w/chain, rode, padded storage bag

New deck nonskid (2008)

New carbon fiber rudder and carbon fiber rudder post (2010)

Carbon fiber emergency rudder & tiller (2000) never used

New hard dodger (2008)

Dodger cover (2008)

(4) layers epoxy barrier coat (2000)

Bottom paint (2010)

Deeper keel, 7'  6" draft

Taller mast

Extended cabin top approx. 12"

Taller coamings with built-in storage lockers

Destroyer wheel

Custom interior

Bulkheads glassed into hull

Custom hard doger

"FLITE" is a great dual purpose boat; fast yet comfortable, racing offshore or around the buoys, or cruising, and "FLITE" has been well taken care of from her short list of owners. Please call to make an appointment to come inspect "FLITE" for yourself. New to the market and actively for sale.

Excluded from the sale of "FLITE" is the owner's personal effects, foul weather gear, safety equipment, tools, navigation charts, laptop computer and monitor and any items not specifically mentioned in this listing.