Peter - Willard are nice FD, canoe transom boats! Beam is rather narrow and draft a bit deep. Stateroom sleeping??
In 11th photo there's a 40' Tollycraft sedan to right side [seen in later photos two].
Willards are classic designs with a 3:1 length to beam ratio. The first production design - the Willard 36, came off the drafting board of Wm Garden, one of the three great West Coast naval architects of the day (Monk and Defever being the others). The first Willard 36 splashed in 1961; the last was 39-hulls later, mine was the last in 1970. To my eyes, she was the first production displacement fiberglass trawler ever - predates the GBs (a great looking boat but a semi-displacement that didn't start fiberglass until 1973) and Nordhavn by over a decade.
Just as older cars are not for everyone, older boats are not either. The 1964
Willard 36 that just hit Yachtworld at $80k has bunks for four, just as older Hinkley sailboats do in the salon. She does not have a stall shower. But she has an amazing aft deck and an elegance that is not repeatable in any modern boat. It clearly is more akin to a classic sailor-cruiser than a later-in-life powerboater seeking the conveniences of a condo. At the tail end of my delivery career, I really had negative reactions to the $200k in electronics folks were installing - and this was 15+ years ago. I felt it was a distraction from developing seamanship skills: so much can be ascertained by simply looking out the window without consulting an LED display. So I moved in the other direction, to a more simple approach. But few do that - most seem to layer on more gadgets which is fine, but not a comfortable fit for me. I'm an analog type of guy.
For me, much as I love really nice boats, I find the condo-equivilent with multiple ice-makers a distraction. When I'm on the water, I crave simplicity - a throw-back to a time long ago. I find that in the Willard, and I appreciate what Bill Garden designed into the hull. I have a strong sense of nostalgia and seamanship. It's the right boat for me.
That said, I'm almost done with a major refit/retrofit. We did not find the pullman style berth workable as we age because one of us gets up a couple times a night to pee (who shall remain nameless). So we converted the head in the forepeak to a vee-berth and moved the head aftward. Labor is around $6k in Mexico, plus materials. And we've done some other modifications. She's still an old boat, but with a few updated conveniences.
A Willard is really about cruising in a time gone by. I have mimeographed newsletters from the 1960's and 1970's from all owners of the time. More or less, the earliest "TrawlerForum." These folks went down Baja fishing long before there was commonly available VHF radios let alone Radars. One fellow - an attorney from Portland OR who purchased Hull #4 went to the Galopogas Islands. All well before watermakers, GPS, etc.
Willards aren't for everyone, but I am surprised there aren't more older, experienced ex-sailors who still seek a more simple approach to cruising than 4x black-box displays and such.
Oh well.
Peter