Morgan Out Island 41

Name: Morgan Out Island 41
Brand: Garage, Galley & Hangar
SKU: morgan-out-island-41
Price: 29 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Charley Morgan's Out Island 41 is a heavy, beamy, shoal-draft center-cockpit ketch that more or less launched the 1970s Caribbean bareboat-charter business and was built by the thousand in St. Petersburg. It suits a liveaboard or gunkholing cruiser who wants huge interior volume, two private cabins, and thin-water access, and who accepts modest windward speed in return. This reference is written straight about the signature polyethylene tanks buried under the liner, the ex-charter deferred-maintenance history, and the hull, rig, and structural details a hard survey must not miss.

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Specifications

Length overall	41 ft 3 in (12.57 m)
Beam	13 ft 10 in (4.21 m)
Displacement	24,000 lb (design; up to ~27,000 lb loaded)
Keel / Rig	Long shoal keel, ~4 ft 2 in draft, encapsulated lead; masthead ketch (sloop optional)
Engine	Usually Perkins 4-108 diesel, some Ford Lehman 120 or Westerbeke; often repowered to a Beta ~50 hp
Used market	~$40k to $90k, condition-driven

Known issues, covered honestly

The original polyethylene water and holding tanks were set in the hull before the deck was bonded on, they crack with age, and you cannot lift them out, so replacement means fitting several small tanks through existing openings.
Roughly a third of production went straight into charter service built down to a price, so deferred maintenance and lightly tabbed, self-tapped hardware are the baseline assumption, not the exception.
The molded liner pan hides the hull-to-liner bond, wiring, and bilge, inviting panel flex and oil-canning on the big flat sections and making the boat impossible to survey casually.
Chainplates and bulkheads that anchor the two-masted rig can pull away from the liner, and Morgan hulls of the era are notorious for severe osmotic blistering.

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