The boat kit was received as a large cardboard envelop filled with flat pieces of mostly 3mm Okoume plywood. The stitch and glue process on a 21 foot long boat forced me to be satisfied with slow incremental progress. Fortunately the well illustrated builders manual was excellent.
TYPE VESSEL: 32' Colin Archer style Auxiliary Cutter. Year Built 1969. LOD 32', Beam: 11', Draft 5', Displacement: 10 tons. Hull materials: cedar over laminated oak frames. Engine: needs rebuild/replacement.
Classic boat. Built at Lee’s Boat Shop, Rockland, ME. Cedar on oak with spruce spars, bronze fittings, and traditional deadeyes. Baldheaded gaff rig with new Oceanus sails. Yamaha F4 gas & Torqeedo Cruise 2.0 outboards. Lying: Wickford, RI. Asking: $19,500.
Fully restored ,including an extensive cold molded bottom that was installed in 2020. Meticulously maintained by her current owner, for over 25 years. “Miss Caroline” a custom classic Eastern North Carolina flybridge cabin cruiser.
Needs new fuel tank and motor. Free to a good home. Stoutly built 5/4 Honduras Mahogany with Monel fasteners. Many bronze fittings, built to original design with 3.5” triple sawn white oak frames. Teak decks and blue water specs throughout.
SOAR, launched November 2023. 8′ tender, glued lap construction, butternut thwart, western red cedar floor boards, cast bronze knees.
Needs fuel tank and motor to complete. Built to original design of best materials. 5/4 Honduran Mahogany planking, Monel fastened, teak decks, bronze fittings, massive white oak triple sawn frames 3.5” wide. Interior is in shambles, needs a good cleaning, all mahogany.
Restored in ME by Jonathan Minott (seen in WB "Launchings" July/Aug 2009). Includes new yoke, decks, gunwales, seats and caning. New Shaw & Tenney oars and locks. LOA is 16', 42" beam. Flag Blue topsides with porch ceiling blue inside. It's a beauty. Used only a few times.
1996 36 x 11 x 4 , picnic cruiser double ended. Cedar on oak bronze fastened.