Silk Purse - An Historically-Inspired Trailerable Gaff Pocket Cruiser

Awarded “Best Owner Restored Sailboat” at Mystic WoodenBoat Show 2024. Owned for 47 years and trailer-sailed from the Chesapeake to Canada.

Restored from a 1955 A. R. True hull (cedar over oak, bronze fastened) and reconstructed with features from circa 1903 mid-Atlantic boats into a trailerable cutter-rigged gaff sloop. Has carried two adults and two children for up to a week.

23 feet on deck, 26 feet overall, 1 1/2 foot draft - 4 1/2 feet board down
8 horse Honda outboard hidden in tilt-up well
Main and 3 jibs
Can lower mast while under way for bridges
2 V-berths, 2 main berths, port quarter berth - all at same level
5-day ice box, slide-out sink with pump water, fold-down chart table, drop-leaf dining table, large Porta-Pottie
Standing headroom boom tent
VHF, Compass, Depth Sounder, Bruce and Danforth anchors
Galvanized trailer with 4-wheel disk brakes
7 1/2 foot Pearson dinghy
On mooring near Portsmouth NH.