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Small Craft
17' Pete Culler Design Sharp Wherry
This beautiful 17 ft. Sharp Wherry, designed by Pete Culler was built by Geoff Burke of Chocorua BoatWorks in New Hampshire in 2012. She is beautifully constructed of White Cedar on White Oak and has been used very lightly . The boat comes with two sets of oars and a trailer.
Power Boats
1936 ELCO, 32', CRUISETTE
Chrysler Crown, flat head 6 cylinder. Solid hull, numerous repairs and replacements over 40 years. Three berths below, galley, head. I've made the Sterling my life's work. Time for me to pass the torch.
$4,000.
PADDLE CAT
The boat was designed and built in the spring and summer of 2024. The hulls are made of 1/4 inch birch plywood. Construction is tape and glue with 4 ounce fiberglass clothe overlay. Mahogany deck is from all salvage and recycled materials. The boat paddles very easily and is also very stable.
Power Boats
BEN GARVEY SKIFF 14'4" by Hylan & Brown
14' 4" Ben Garvey Skiff designed by Doug Hylan and built by master boatbuilder Matt Elwell at Hylan & Brown. Like new 25-hp Yamaha, custom tractor seats, cloth rubrail, solar panel, bilge pump, 2017 Load Rite trailer. Boat masterfully painted by Thomas Townsend, Mystic Boatbuilder.
Sailboats
Herreshoff 12 1/2
Hull #1092 1928 restored; with new stem, starboard planking, stern post, frames (11), enlarged mast step, Okoume Dynell decks, vanished/epoxy mahogany, teak sole, bulkheads.
Power Boats
21' lobster style
21' Benson hull design
90-hp E-TEC
Vertical grain fir hull cove and bead exterior fiberglass
with expoxy Epifianes 2 component polyurethane.
$35,000
Located CT
Small Craft
Rare 1990 Abaco Dinghy 13'
“Banana Jo” 13.5’ X 5’; <2’ draft; 21’ mast
Hand built in 1990 by Joe Albury on Man-O-War Cay of Madeira frames, Cedar planking, Mahogany trim, and Spruce mast.
All photos from 2024; located at Man-O-War Cay.
Showing from May-July 2025.
Other
Great Wooden Boats Available for Sale & Charter
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