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Trawler Yacht 585 AFT CABIN
BUILD FROM PLANS AND FULL SIZE PATTERNS IN WOOD / EPOXY
Small Craft
17' Gardner Nahant/Swampscott Rowing Dory
Built by owner in 2023 to lines and offsets in The Dory Book by John Gardner. Sapele ply planking Alaskan cedar framing, all epoxy bonded with bronze and 316SS fastenings. New 3-hp. Tohatsu outboard. Custom oars and new trailer. All in new condition. Price $7,000.
Free Boats
1960 16' Thompson Seacoaster
1960 16' Thompson Seacoaster w/ 1963 Evinrude 40-hp Big Twin outboard. Boat damaged by tree – repairable but more likely best to just strip hardware and salvage any mahogany. Engine last ran (and ran well) in 2012 then winterized.
Sailboats
Atkin 30' Gaff-Cutter WindRose 1979
Cedar on Oak. Entirely new Systems, Solar, Refrigeration, all wiring fully redone, New Westerbeke starter and wiring harness & LED lighting.
Extensively sailed in Maine, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland 2023-24
$35,000 USD
Power Boats
1950 Chris Craft 18' Utility 4 Project or Parts
Asking $1,250. No trailer, engine or transmission.
CLC Kaholo 12-6
A fun and easy winter season build of the Chesapeake Light Craft Paddleboard from plans and a frame kit. I really wanted some colours that popped, hence the orange patterned cloth and blue grip pads. Total build time was probably less than 75 hours.
BONITO
Built in Berrys Bay Sydney Australia by WM Boatbuilders in 1925 Now moored in Prince of Wales Bay Marina, Hobart Tasmania