Pearson 10M

Back in 1973, Pearson wrote "Our new Pearson 10M is 33 feet of company talent coming together in a boat that has been designed and executed to fill a specific role: offering more boat for the money than anyone could imagine possible in today's inflationary economy at absolutely no sacrifice in Pearson quality standards." After 50 years, we again have an inflationary economy, and the classic Pearsons are way better built (and sail better on the Bay!) than a lot of the modern boats.

This particular example was repowered in 1999 with a Yanmar diesel, which is a huge benefit given that the 10Ms were originally gas powered. The boat is equipped with an oversized Harken roller furler and is lying in a potentially transferable downtown Sausalito slip—all in all, a nice inexpensive turn key package.