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Susan - New Asking Price of $424,OOO!
A somewhat larger version of Captain Nat’s benchmark boat would be able to venture out in more open waters and provide more protection from the elements. She’d sail a bit faster and provide her crew with comfortable quarters, all while being a sensible and simple to handle, easily single-handed boat.
This idea has been answered in style, grace, and performance by the 34’ sloop Susan built and designed (with homage to NGH) by Brion Rieff Boat Builder of Brooklin, Maine, and offered for sale well below what it would cost to build today.
Learn more about Susan here.
Clover
Clover sails out of Center Harbor here in Brooklin, Maine, and has been featured in videos produced by Off Center Harbor. Clover is unique from most other Bridges Point 24s: while her hull was built at Bridges Point Boat Company, she was completed by her first owners along the Gulf Coast. Described as the perfect boat for Eggemoggin Reach, the 24’ Bridges Point Sloop is speedy, seakindly, and seaworthy enough to point its nose into Jericho Bay and beyond.
She is stored with us here at Brooklin Boat Yard for winter 2025-26 and is easily accessible for those wanting to make an inspection.
Windward
Windward was built by Brooklin Boat Yard in 1997 to the much-admired Center Harbor 31 design of founder Joel White. Under the names The Mantlepiece and Nipantuck, she had a very successful racing career sailing mostly out of the Boothbay/Mid-Coast Maine and Casco Bay areas.
In 2015, with all work done by Brooklin Boat Yard, she was refit to take on a completely different mission: to provide enjoyment to a new owner with physical disabilities who wanted to explore mid-western lakes and southeast Florida.
Windward is in extremely good condition and offered at a price well below fair market value for the highly prized Center Harbor 31s. Stored indoors in climate-controlled space, Windward can be seen easily no matter the weather.
Sparrow
The Brooklin Boat Yard designed and built Eggemoggin 47 Sparrow combines the classic elegance of yachting’s past with modern sailing performance. Sparrow’s extremely lightweight and incredibly strong hull is a composite construction of strip-planking cedar snd carbon fiber skins. Her decks, cabin, and cockpit are built with lightness and strength in mind, but the eye sees only Sparrow’s traditional laid teak deck and polished stainless steel deck hardware.
Sparrow is powered by a generous 846 sq. ft. sail plan set on a double-spreader, fractionally rigged carbon fiber mast with PBO standing rigging, Harken roller-furling headstay, and self-tacking jib. The well laid-out cockpit and deck plan make for highly effective crew work when in racing mode.
Integrity
Integrity has benefitted from diligent maintenance and significant upgrades under her current ownership, and as a result she presents as close to a new boat as can be imagined for her 50+ years of service. This boat can be stepped aboard complete and ready to go: a true turn-key operation.
Integrity has been meticulously maintained to the highest standards and stored with Hylan and Brown here in Brooklin, Maine, where she spends her winter in heated, covered storage.
Everbreeze
Everbreeze is a Wesmac-built 38’ hull custom designed by naval architect Donald Wilksinson and completed by David P. Bradley & Company to be a robust lobster boat-style cruiser with pilot house and cockpit simply equipped to “keep the decks clear,” allowing for uses running the gamut from sport fishing to sailing regatta support to end of day libations and conversations. She also provides her owners with cozy and comfortable quarters down below.
Fully found and ready to go, Everbreeze can provide days of use for Fall 2025 leaving her new owners champing at the bit for the return of warmer weather and the Spring 2026 boating season.
Jubilee
Sparkman & Stephens unveiled the design for the first Pilot class in Yachting’s October 1945 issue. Aage Neilson, a freelance designer working with S&S, drew the first Pilot class lines. In 1955 Hinckley purchased the design and created the “New Pilot” — “the ultimate in combining livability, seaworthiness and speed.” Constructed in wood, eight boats following these lines came off the production line, with only one rigged as a yawl. Hinckley wanted to build the boat for the “out-and-out cruising man and long distant racer.”
Around 1962, the dimensions were increased and the boats were constructed in fiberglass, and it was this design that became known as the Hinckley “Pilot 35,” built exclusively by Henry R. Hinckley & Co.
Pearl
Joel White’s adaptation of Herreshoff’s famous design in the 1980s sought to maintain the look of the original while reducing the draft by a foot, allowing their owners to adventure further into the shallows under sail and keep their shorts dry when wading ashore.
In the words of the designer himself:
“Let the credit for the excellence of these boats go where it is due – to the Wizard of Bristol, N.G. Herreshoff.” —Joel White
Lyceum
Quite often when preparing a listing for selling a boat, the yacht broker will get from the seller a lengthy and somewhat boring list of work historythat reads more like a timeline of when various bits of equipment came up for sale at the local marine store. Not so with Lyceum! Her work list is a detailed chronology of thorough, proactive restoration keeping Lyceum in good working order, not just for the next season but for generations of owners to come.
Normally, this yacht broker would place a boat’s work history towards the end of the listing description. But in the case of Lyceum, this information deserves to be positioned first in line to show the reader that what is being offered for sale here is fully found and ready to go with adventures just waiting to happen.
Learn more about Lyceum here.
Amelie - New Asking Price of $320,OOO!
Amelie is a classic Niels Helleberg designed Alden 50 sloop that under the current ownership has seen a major, multi-year refit by Brooklin Boat Yard, with significant upgrades to equipment, design, and rig to greatly improve appearance, dependability, and sailing performance.
Currently located in the Caribbean under the watchful eye of her professional captain, Amelie will be heading North during the Spring with a stop in Bermuda along the way and plans to spend the summer months here on the Coast of Maine.
Learn more about Amelie here.
Mystic - Price Reduction!
Mystic is a great sailing 1977 C&C 24 that makes for an easy-to-handle daysailer or single-hander and occasional overnight or weekend cruiser. Seriously for sale, Mystic is offered at a very reasonable asking price and any offers will be given careful consideration by her owners.
Learn more about Mystic here.
Fiona Too - Price Reduction!
The year 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the Beetle Cat, making it the oldest one-design that has been continuously produced out of wood and competitively raced for the past 101 years.
The Beetle Cat is a big part of New England’s history of sailing and wooden boat building. Its distinctive silhouette is known at a glance. The name brings back memories of first tries at the tiller and the smells of cedar, varnish, and pine tar. The Beetle Cat represents the art form of producing a sweet little boat from a living tree.
Fiona Too is a wonderful example of this much-loved craft and should be seriously considered for those with young ones learning to sail, or for the sailor getting on in years but still very much young at heart.
.Learn more about Fiona Too here.
Aura III - New Asking Price of $49,500!
Designed by Spencer Lincoln and built by Covey Island Boatworks in 1986, Aura III (formerly Annie J) is a fine sailing pilot house yawl with accommodations, equipment, and amenities that allow for extended cruising, a seasonal second home, or full-time live-aboard use.
Under her current ownership since 2005, Aura III has been stored indoors during the off-season and has benefitted greatly from her current owner’s efforts in annual maintenance tasks and thoughtful upgrades.
Learn more about Aura III here.
Vixen is a 15 square meter sloop originally designed by Knud Reimers and built by Oscar Schelin’s Kungsors Boat Yard in Sweden in 1937. She was shipped directly to the UK prior to the start of the Second World War. With the sail number K1, she was one of only a handful of elegant Square Meter Rule yachts sailing in the UK.
Vixen’s current owner had always admired the sleek looks and sailing qualities of square meter boats and wanted a wooden boat he could race in Maine and southern New England. Vixen had sailed across the North and Baltic Seas without sinking, which was as good a survey as needed, so he bought her sight unseen. The boat and all her equipment were shipped to Brooklin Boat Yard in the summer of 2011, with just enough time to be launched and raced in the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta.
Vixen’s current owner had already worked with Brooklin Boat Yard on a complete restoration of the Bill Tripp Jr.-designed Katrinka, so he looked to us again to restore Vixen. Many man-hours, floors, frames, planking, rigging, a whole new deck and cabin later, Vixen was back in the water and ready to race again with confidence, style, grace, and success.
Learn more about Vixen here.
Vixen
Katrinka
Designed by Bill Tripp Sr. and built at Bristol Boat Company in Rhode Island by Clint Pearson in 1969, Katrinka had the best pedigree from her time. Katrinka participated in races all around New England and won her class in the 1980 Newport-Bermuda Race.
Katrinka was sold in 1983 to Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from the band Talking Heads. The couple cruised and lived aboard with their two boys. Katrinka led a storied life until 2007, when the boat was found in a back corner of Journey’s End Boatyard in Rockland, Maine.
Her current owner was looking for just such a boat. He turned to Brooklin Boat Yard to take on the restoration project. Katrinka represents a prime example of taking a storied boat -- a piece of history -- and giving it another lease on life. Upon her launch here at Brooklin Boat Yard, Katrinka looked as if she had just left the builder’s yard in 1970, ready for another half-century of racing and relaxing.
Learn more about Katrinka here.
Chris-Craft
Chris-Craft comes to the Brooklin Boat Yard Brokerage with renewed and professionally restored mahogany hull and decks. Take a look at the Particulars for more information and then come see her in person.
Learn more about Chris-Craft here.
Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky is a custom-built Dictator-model fiberglass Friendship Sloop. Her first owner sailed her on Lake Michigan until selling her to Jarvis Newman, who used the boat (then named Tradition) as his personal boat, making improvements along the way and sailing her around Mount Desert Island.
In 2006, Tradition was sold to a summer resident of Brooklin, Maine who changed her name to Jabberwocky and kept her with the Brooklin Boat Yard, where the boat lives to this day. The current owner took possession of the boat in 2018 and has kept Jabberwocky in top shape with thoughtful upgrades and maintenance.
Learn more about Jabberwocky here.
Wagtail
This classic one-owner Newman 36 is the last one built by the Jarvis Newman Boatyard of Southwest Harbor, Maine, in 2000. Wagtail offers berth accommodations for five, a full galley, and enclosed head. The diesel Caterpillar engine has been professionally maintained and has only 1100 hours. Her open wheelhouse and cockpit offer space to enjoy the sights and fresh air of summer.
If you are in the market for a seaworthy and attractive traditional Downeast cruiser, Wagtail may be the boat for you.
Learn more about Wagtail here.
Prinkipo
Prinkipo is a very nicely kept and updated Beals Island 22 Bass Boat built to high standards by Bradley Boat Company . She’s a real multi-use boat, perfect as a day boat, camp cruiser, or island pick-up truck.
Learn more about Prinkipo here.
Walrus
Walrus seems to be the type of boat most suited to sailors who have seen and done it all and are now content to use their time comfortably cruising without schedules or agendas. Walrus’s cabin plan shows a sensible interior arrangement with private double berth with ensuite facilities, sleeping cabins fore and aft separated by galley/dining areas, and pilot house.
Walrus is a new listing for Brooklin Boat Yard. We will soon have more information on systems and equipment. In the meantime, pictures are worth a thousand words. We hope you’ll enjoy these photos of Walrus and especially the recent photos of her interior generously offered for our use by Onne van der Wal.
Learn more about Walrus here.
Petrel - New Asking Price of $24,900!
Built in 1973 in Portland, Oregon by Hank Chamberlin, Petrel is an outstanding example L. Francis Herreshoff’s Rozinante design. Petrel is available for those that wish to conjure up their own adventures in a classic double-ender that will slide thru the water in the lightest of breeze, gallop along when the wind becomes a bit frisky, and sit quietly in a secluded anchorage at the end of a perfect day.
Learn more about Petrel here.
Thistle
Thistle’s sea trials and first race were carried out on Lake Champlain in 15-25 knotw of wind. Thistle sailed a true up wind/down wind course approximately 30 miles beating and 30 miles dead down wind. She was comfortable and dry upwind and exhilarating off the breeze, easily planing with long surfing sessions in the waves. At the end of the day Thistle was on the podium with a sweet victory made even more satisfying given that she sailed with a crew of just three.
In spite of her successful reintroduction to the New England racing scene, Thistle has stayed hidden away like a hot rod stored in the barn and only driven on Sundays — except for the first Saturday every August, when she comes out of hiding to race in the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta.
Learn more about Thistle here.
Mean Jean
Never one to rest on their laurels, Ericson Yachts introduced the 35-3 in 1982, giving the model more interior volume and a lot more speed and making it the ultimate iteration of the Ericson 35 class.
Up front, the 35-3 has a good-sized v-berth, hanging locker, and a head with a separate shower. The main cabin has a sizable side settee and dinette that gives hungry sailors plenty of room for eating. Aft and to starboard, there is an ample galley with a gimbaled stove/oven, icebox, sink, and plenty of storage. To port, there is a quarter berth and a forward-facing nav station. Out on deck, all lines run to the cockpit, making single-handed sailing easier. It also has a roller furling jib.
This Ericson 35-3 is a great boat for a wide variety of uses, whether you will be cruising, club racing or, most likely, a combination of the two.
Learn more about Mean Jean here.
Aquila
From the drawing boards of Sparkman & Stephens (design # 1212) and one of the last yachts built at Tore Holm's yard in Sweden, Aquila is completely ready for an ocean crossing and equally ready to perform as a family cruiser, classic yacht racer, or extremely comfortable daysailer.
Aquila is in very good condition and very well equipped. Aquila is now hauled out for the 2024-25 winter and is stored inside, where she awaits your inspection.
Learn more about Aquila here.
Whitehall
Considered one of the most beautiful rowboats, Whitehall Gigs were designed to handle harbor chop and track straight. Speed was the key factor with these boats, as the first to the ship with the goods generally received most of the sales. Later, the shore patrol used these boats for customs, police issues, water taxi, and newspaper reporting.
Whitehalls in the early 20th century were a popular recreational boat and remain so today. This boat, offered with sailing rig and trailer, should provide its owners with a good stable boat that’s easy to row, can take advantage of a fair breeze, and can be easily stored and quickly moved to whatever body of water offers the most fun and adventure on any given day.
Learn more about Whitehall here.
Ms. Reilly
Originally built for the author of The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast , Roger Duncan, in 1961 by Reed’s Shipyard of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Ms. Reilly has spent the last 20 or so years day sailing off the Low Country of South Carolina.
Knowing they would be using this Sam Crocker schooner mostly for day sailing, upon purchase in 2004 her owners commissioned Crockers Boat Yard of Manchester, Massachusetts to put her in good working order. Work included getting the bottom re-planked, a new Edson worm gear steering system, new teak decks, and a major reconfiguration reflect her new principal use as a fast daysailer capable of carrying a crowd of family and friends.
Learn more about Ms. Reilly here.
Relish
Based on the earlier Chris Craft designs of wooden construction like the Sea Skiff, Open Dory, and Cavalier, the Chris Craft Cavalier Cutlass provides its owners with all the great characteristics and sea kindliness of wooden predecessors but in easy to manage and maintain fiberglass construction.
Relish is a wonderful example of the “CCCC” model that saw a major refit/rebuild/restoration of all aspects of the hull, deck, accommodations, soft goods, canvas, propulsion and fuel systems, electrical systems, and electronic equipment. Since that time, Relish has seen light, modest use and has been continually maintained in a fashion to keep her in near new and turnkey condition.
Learn more about Relish here.
Bellina - New Asking Price of $66,000!
Designed by Frederick Parker and built by EF Elkins Boat Builders of Christchurch, England in 1952, Bellina (under her current ownership) has been extremely well taken care of and thoughtfully upgraded to the point where new ownership will have little to do other than step aboard before heading off for the adventures of their new life on the water.
Learn more about Bellina here.
Mustang - New Asking Price of $500,000!
First introduced in 2001, Mustang and her sister W-46s have proven themselves to be more than equal to their intended tasks of being a visually stunning Spirit of Tradition style yacht for use by her owners as a lively daysailer, highly competitive racer, and/or comfortable cruiser.
Mustang underwent a comprehensive refit at Rockport Marine in which she was optimized for racing while still keeping all her classic characteristics and charm. Excellently maintained and equipped, Mustang is more than ready and raring to go for next year’s sailing season. A recent and dramatic reduction in asking price is all the more reason to give Mustang serious consideration.
Learn more about Mustang here.
Pleione - New Asking Price of $195,000!
Pleione was originally commissioned as an entirely custom design that could compete against the best 8-Metres in the world, but that will no doubt spend most of her life day sailing and coastal cruising.
Her owner and builder is a life-long sailor and highly successful racer who might be seen by some as something of a sailing reactionary in that he has little interest in modern, lightweight, snub-nosed sport-boats, or in high-sided, broad-beamed contemporary cruiser/racers.
Learn more about Pleione here.
Ellida - New Asking Price of $30,000!
Are you thinking about buying a truly classic sailing yacht? You should head up to the shores of Lake Champlain to see the 1958, Ohlson 35 yawl, Ellida that has just been reduced in price. Not only that but when Ellida is sold her seller will reimburse her new owners up to $500 to help defray the costs of their initial visit to come and see this well loved and well-maintained classic yawl. The leaves are starting to turn color. Contact us to arrange a showing of Ellida and plan your leaf-peeping, boat-buying weekend now.
Learn more about Ellida here.
Shanti
In 1970 Walter N. Howley, then a teacher at St Paul School, hired Lyle Harrington of Bradford, N.H., to build a John G. Alden designed 42-foot wooden yawl to be named Rondalay. In the four years it took to build this boat, Mr. Howley learned how to sail from books and from his St. Paul’s students, who would accompany the Hawley family on chartered boats.
Learn more about Shanti here.
Blue Jacket
Blue Jacket is one of several boats included in the personal fleet of a long standing and prominent summer resident of Mount Desert Island. All the boats in this ownership have been looked over by a dedicated fleet manager and worked on by only the best of artisans and craftsman available in and around Mount Desert Island, an area known for it’s “deep bench” of talent in the yacht services trades.
Designed and built at the shop of famed MDI boat builder Robert “Bobby” Rich in 1956, Blue Jacket has been the under current ownership since the early 1990’s and during this time has seen much in the way of proactive care and maintenance along with more major upgrade projects such as doubling of frames, replacement of floors, complete rebuilding from the deck up and most recently re-powering.
Learn more about Blue Jacket here.
Rip Snorter
In 2023 former Brooklin Boat Yard President, Steve White, purchased an unfinished lobster boat hull and deck from D&L Boat Works of Lewiston, Maine who have the reputation of designing and building some of the fastest racing lobster boats on the cost.
Over the course of 2023 and the spring of 2024 the crew here at Brooklin Boat Yard installed a high performance 8-cylinder gas engine, designed and built a new pilot house to protect her crew against the weather and spray, installed all the necessary systems, at the very last minute painted her out with her distinctive and eye-catching Gray, White and International Orange color scheme and gave her the terrific name of Rip Snorter.
Rip Snorter is now offered for sale and while we hope her next owners will continue to race her on occasion, we also hope they will use her for all kinds of adventures here on the coast and have as much fun with her as we have had building her.
Learn more about Rip Snorter here.
Nora Lynn
Nora Lynn is an ideal daysailer for deep water coasts, being roomy, comfortable, seaworthy, and good looking. She is specifically designed to contend with choppy water, and thus will be relatively dry and handy under a wide range of conditions on any coast.
Being a “sit down inside” boat, she is very reassuring for timid sailors, and young yachtsmen or for couples with small children. Like the 12 ½ she does not require a strong or athletic crew and can be easily single-handed.
Learn more about Nora Lynn here.
Jeanette
Jeanette is a 2012, Hadden Boat Company Loster Yacht / Cruiser, 36’ in perfect condition and completely ready for her next owners whoever they might be and wherever they would like to go. Currently in the water at her slip at Derector Robinhood Marine Center Jeanette will move to (inside) winter storage towards the middle / end of October.
Learn more about Jeanette here.
Little Dipper
Little Dipper is a 41’ LOA Starling Burgess cutter built by Joel Johnson in Bridgeport, CT in 1934.
With her plumb bow, slack bilges and sweeping sheer Little Dipper could easily be mistaken for a 19th century English cutter but her dynamic hull shape, beautifully tapered ballast keel, high ballast-displacement ratio and Bermudan rig identify her as a thoroughly modern, forward thinking 1930s yacht.
Learn more about Little Dipper here.
Bagatelle
Bagatelle is an Eric Sponberg designed, Rick Waters built cold-molded, wood-epoxy constructed fast day sailor /racer with an on-deck arrangement and accommodations below to allow for lots of friends and family along for an afternoon's romp, berthing space for the racing crew or a comfortable weekend (or longer) cruise.
Learn more about Bagatelle here.
Cedar
Cedar was designed and built by famed New Hampshire boat builder Bud McIntosh in his shop at Dover Point along the banks of the Piscataqua River and launched in 1965 under the name Go Go Girl. She spent many happy years under her first ownership sailing out of Chatham, MA and York ME before…
Learn more about Cedar here.
Drift
Drift is an International 500 Yawl, designed by Naval Architect Robert G. Henry and built in Bremen, Germany by Dutch yacht builder Johanne Dedood and Sohns. The International 500s are universally held in high regard as sea kindly and safe sailboats, large enough for a couple or small family to cruise in comfortably yet small enough to be a fun day sailor or weekender.
Learn more about Drift here.
Bat - Under Contract
The design and styling of Bat harkens back to the days of the Rum-Runners when speed and stealth were as valuable a commodity as the cargo that these boats carried. Very easily driven in any sea and economical to run at any speed Bat makes the perfect vessel for anything from a slow harbor cruise to longer runs towards destinations and adventures further afield.
Learn more about Bat here.
True Blue - Under Contract
True Blue was built in 1990 as a recreational boat with a center console steering station forward of the engine box as opposed to the launch style arrangement of helm station to port. True Blue was purchased by the current owners in 2019 and seeing that the boat needed attention commissioned Edgcomb Boat works to do an extensive refit / restoration that garnered the attention of Maine Boats, Harbors and Homes magazine and was featured in their July 2021 Boats of The Year issue.
True Blue has been under the care of Edgecomb Boat Works since that time and is in exceptionally good condition with no work apart from routine commissioning tasks and launching to be up and going for this year’s boating season.
Learn more about True Blue here.
RECENTLY SOLD BOATS
Kithera
The Alerion Class Sloop offered for sale named Kithera has been owned by the same family since first built and sailed sparingly on the waters surrounding Mount Desert Island (Maine) in the summer months only. When not in the water Kithera is stored indoors in a heated storage facility where she is watched over by a dedicated / full-time yacht fleet manager and with annual maintenance tasks and thoughtful upgrades attended to by only the best artisans, craftsman and technicians.
Kithera must be seen to be believed. Built in 1981, this boat has seen sparing use (sailing once or twice a season) while at the same time has been lavished with attention throughout her years of service. Kithera shows as a new boat with no work needed apart from spring commissioning to have her next owners out and sailing on a true classic.
La Luna
Designed by Doug Zurn and built by Matt Sledge of Samoset Boatworks the Marblehead 22 is an intriguing boat with several features that set it apart from its rivals in the day sailor market.
Most obvious is the unstayed carbon-fiber spar with its large square-topped mainsail and wishbone boom. This rig combines plenty of power with easy sail handling. Sail area to displacement ratio of 24 shows this boat is no slouch in light air and the automatic de-powering capabilities of the unstayed rig will keep her on her feet in a blow. Beam, at just 6ft 10in, is modest, and so is draft of 3’, 5” with a fixed fin / bulb keel and balanced spade rudder. The pretty hull has a near-plumb stem and a handsomely styled transom.
The Peapod
Joel White’s 14′ Maine Coast Peapod is a classic take on this timeless design, perfectly suited for both sailing and rowing. His design is intended for recreational boaters, not working fishermen, and has a deeper draft than a traditional workboat for better tracking during sailing. They are sleeker for better speed under oars,
As a bonus, this boat can be rigged to sail in about two minutes with the standard lug rig, which while not traditional for peapods, provides plenty of low-cost power. It is easy to make and sail; and the spars stow completely within the boat when not in use. The mast is unstayed-no standing rigging to kink, tangle, or snap.
If you are looking for a classic tender for a larger vessel or just want a nice little boat to row, tow or sail this Joel White designed and Landing School built Peapod would be just the ticket.
Aurora
Designed by Francis S. Kinney during his tenure with Sparkman and Stephens and the last boat to be built by famed boat builder Seth Persson, Aurora is a well found, well maintained and handy sloop. Just the right size to be a lively and easy to handle day sailor while at the same time having the type of features and accommodations that allow for comfortable cruising.
Aurora has benefitted greatly from a series of owners and stewards that have kept her in great shape. A 2022 Paul Haley (Capt. GW Full an Associates) survey found her to be in very good condition and wanting to keep up with his predecessors traditions her owner has attended to every item and suggestion made in the survey and continues to keep Aurora in the best of shape.
Learn more about Aurora here.
Katy D
The “Katy D” is a 31 foot lobster boat style Picnic Cruiser built in 1958 by Willis Rossiter on 700 Acre Island (Dark Harbor Boat Yard). She was built by the Charles Dana Gibson family (note 1), and named after Kate Dana Goodale (Katy D). After extensive cruising with the Gibson & Goodale Families, she served as a waterborne mail boat, ambulance, school bus, and private ferry between the islands of Islesboro & 700 Acre Island and Lincolnville Beach.
In September 2023, Brooklin Boat Yard stripped the hull, inspected and re-caulked seams, and painted the hull. The Captains Choice engine was inspected, compression tested, and a new upgrade alternator was installed.
The Katy D has been restored and continuously maintained with significant upgrades since 2016 and stored indoors from November to June every year. In summers, she sits at her mooring in Lincolnville Beach and is cruised locally . She is being reluctantly sold due to the age of the owners and their retirement plans.
Martha
There is perhaps no better illustration of this esteem for the work of Sam Crocker than the boat Martha having been built by Joel White for use by his father, the author, E.B. White. Martha has a very strong sheer, extended at the ends by her stayed bowsprit and boomkin; a big outboard rudder; a clipper bow; and a round-fronted cabin trunk which combines with a high coaming carried well aft. But for all the traditional detailing, the sail plan is a modern Marconi rig of manageable size giving credit to Crocker’s skill that he could set those sails on this hull and still keep it all in character Martha’s scantlings are substantial. Her keel, for example, is 7 x 9″ oak; other structural members are sized accordingly. Sam Crocker used the hull itself (particularly the heavy backbone) to ballast this boat, and thereby simplified construction by eliminating a ballast keel. Her down-low weight and wide body, plus some inside ballast and the sensible sail plan, make this a stiff boat in strong winds. Now comes the time for Martha to be passed along to a new generation and for her next steward to raise sail, drop the mooring and feel the little tug of the tiller as she begins to make her way.
Mirara
Mirara is a terrific example of the Dark Harbor 17’s. Previously under the care and ownership of Traditional Boat (Unity, Maine) founder and principle John Flanzer, Mirara benefited greatly from that association with a continuing 13 year (1996 to 2009) refit and restoration that included replacement of multiple frames and floor timbers, a new forefoot-stem section, replacement of iron backbone fasteners with bronze fasteners, replacement of multiple planks forward and most of the port garboard, new mahogany rudder with bronze pintles, gudgeons and rudder post, new toe rails and rub rails, new cockpit seating, new main bulkhead, new cockpit and cabin soles, replacement of standing, running rigging and bronze turnbuckle adjusters and finally a new set of Hunter and Gamble sails.
Top Speed
Top Speed is an excellent example of how the Cape Cod Bull’s Eye's continue to be a go-to-boat for sailors wanting a simple and easy to manage boat both on and off the water. Top Speed has been nicely restored and upgraded by her current and previous owner with features like a custom racing deck layout, complete Awlgrip paint work, North and Quantum racing sails, new Edson outboard motor bracket and Torqueedo electric outboard. making Top Speed more than ready for the 2025 sailing season whether as a casual day sailor or racing in One-design local fleet races and regattas.
Zephyra
Inspired by Herreshoff’s classic daysailer the Herreshoff 12 ½, yacht designer Chuck Paine designed some really elegant small daysailers such as the Paine 14 and Levant 15. Zephyra ( a York 18 also designed by Chuck Paine) is the natural evolutionary end point of this family tree and stunning example of what can be achieved when blending modern boat design and construction with classic lines and esthetics.
Henceforth is an impeccably kept, extremely well equipped, classic 1972 Lyman 26 Offshore with super low hours on a 2006, Crusader, 6-cylinder, 260 Hp power plant.
Professionally maintained and stored in a spotless boat barn during the off-season, Henceforth is all ready to go for season 2025 with no additional worked needed apart from launching and turning the key.
Henceforth
Salle Rover
Sam Crocker’s design work was highly regarded by his peers, and by those who built, brokered, maintained, or cruised his yachts. The yawl Sallee Rover, drawn in 1953, shows why this is so.
Crocker has recombined a remarkable assemblage of elements here into one small boat, but the result is so superbly proportioned that no one item overpowers the overall design. Joel White, who built the sloop version of this boat, aptly describes the hull, with its shallow draft and broad beam, as a cross between a catboat and a Muscongus Bay sloop.
Bella Figura literally translates from Italian to “good figure”, but it means much more. It’s an Italian expression for how you should live your life. Italians have this thing about representing one’s family, that you’re going to be a good representative of your family, you’re always going to dress neatly, and not look like a slob and that you’re going to always make a good impression. They call that “Bella Figura.”
The boat Bella Figura will always make a good impression. She’s is a round bilge runabout-style boat with firm deadrise, not too wide stern, reasonable flare forward and eye-pleasing tumblehome aft. The keel extends nearly the length of the water line, deep enough and stopping just forward of the propeller and rudder to allow for protection of these underwater appendages. She will not only be fast for the power installed but, of greater importance, an excellent performer in rough and smooth water.
Bella Figura
Just Right
Just Right is a venerable BHM32 hull and deck very nicely finished off to very high standards by Cranberry Island Boat Yard in 1994.
Offered at a very reasonable price Just Right will serve her new owners well operating equally well as a picnic / day boat, a summer cottage / coastal cruiser for a couple or small family or (as her current owner has twice done) an economical and comfortable boat on which to cruise the ICW or perhaps even further as she’d be a terrific boat to do the Great Loop.
Northern Rose
Northern Rose is a handy double-ended sloop designed by Joel White and built partially (hull) by a Mr. James Pearson who unfortunately was not able complete construction of what would be his dream boat. This hull was acquired by Brooklin Boat Yard who completed the project over the winter of 2014 – 2015.
Northern Rose was commissioned and launched in May of 2015 and was used by her original owner primarily day sailing here in Brooklin, Maine on the Eggemoggin Reach.
The Sloop Marta
At 26’ Marta is a nimble, fast, and easily managed daysailer / pocket cruiser. Her gaff mainsail and club jib are self-tacking, and may be raised and lowered from the cockpit. She is equipped with an electric inboard motor for quiet dependable power. The two, 48 volt batteries may be charged with a solar panel or plug-in when dockside. The cockpit accommodates six in comfort.
The Spartan interior is fitted with two berths, a galley counter to starboard, and a designated space for a head or porta-potti to port. She has plentiful storage both below deck and in cockpit lockers.
Marta is both elegant and simple. The varnished silver bally cabin sides, coamings and sliding hatch, are balanced with a painted deck and cockpit, and natural wood toe rails.
Duchess
Built by Brooklin Boat Yard Duchess (designed by Joel White & Bob Stephens) is a slightly larger version of Joel’s hugely popular CH31’s that shares her little sister’s classic good looks and sailing performance while offering her owners a bit more in the way of room both down below and in the cockpit.
Duchess can be seen in-person here at Brooklin Boat Yard.
Thunder Lizard
Thunder Lizard is an excellent example of a well-cared for Haven 12 ½. Under the same ownership since first built by Eric Dow (Brooklin, Maine) this boat was one of three Haven’s along with many other beautifully kept yachts watched over by a full-time fleet manager and attended to by only the best artisan and craftspeople available.
Sparingly sailed during in the summer months and stored inside during the off season Thunder Lizard is kept and shows as a new boat. Recent work of rebedding and refastening of keel, stripping and repainting bilges, replacing stop water, refastening stem joint and repairs to centerboard trunk ensure that Thunder Lizard will continue to stay in new boat condition for future generations to come.
Sanderling
Originally built by Vineyard Yachts, The Wasque 26 Sanderling is hull number 2 of the boats built by CW Hood and is a testament to the quality of construction and attention to detail shown by that company. Sanderling has been serviced by and stored (inside) with Brooklin Boat Yard for the last seven years and should be given serious consideration by anyone considering a handy and good looking down east style boat for next season. Call us to arrange a visit to Brooklin Boat Yard and inspection of Sanderling.
Panther
Panther is purpose designed as a shallow draft cruiser to be easily managed by a single individual, couple, or small family in search of cruising adventures and day excursions in waters not readily available to most cruising boats of her size. To this point, Panther under the command of her owner / designer / builder has circumnavigated South Florida via the Florida Keys, Everglades, Lake Okeechobee and ICW. Under the same single-handed command, Panther has cruised the entire US East Coast from Florida to Maine
Jimmy Steele Peapod
The first modern peapods made with plank-on-frame construction were built on North Haven Island, Maine, in the 1870s. The peapod has evolved in different ways in different places, but there is one fact that remains consistent through its history- it's a boat built and designed for utilitarian use.
During the summer months, these peapods are a familiar sight along the coast, whether accompanying the Maine schooner fleet or ferrying passengers to the dock from the handsomest yachts in the harbor. As someone once said, it’s the classiest way to travel. Built by Jimmy Steele in 1989 this Peapod includes a single-axle trailer with new tires, oars, and row locks.
Willow
Willow is a well-built, well-performing, Sparkman & Stephens designed cruising / day sailing / racing sloop perfect for a couple or young family. Well-maintained and thoughtfully upgraded over the years, Willow is ready to go for spring 2024.
Free Spirit
Free Spirit is a Concordia 33 Sloop the design of which it is agreed by sailors, designers, boat builders and yachting historians as the “first draft” of what would become the iconic Concordia 39 yawls.
Lena
First launched in 2001, Lena with her graceful good looks and blazing speed is the spark that ignited the resurgence of the classic yacht esthetic and the production of larger “Spirit of Tradition” type day sailors by major yacht manufacturers both in the United States and overseas.
Shimmer
Designed by Chuck Paine and built by a professional team of boat builders, seasoned sailors and systems experts, Shimmer is a beautiful cold-molded wood-epoxy 30’ sloop perfect for cruising or day sailing and fully capable of off-shore passages.
Promise is the day sailor version of the Bridges Point 24 with the distinctive Herreshoff-style cabin profile as can be seen on many of the Herreshoff day sailor designs like the Fish class, Alerion and Buzzards Bay 25’s. This version makes for a slightly longer cockpit allowing more family and friends to come along and enjoy the day.
Promise
Boldwater
1940, Casey Boat Building Company Cutter, 32’ LOD
How much would you expect to pay for a lovely, self-sustaining waterfront cottage? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?
How about $20K with unobstructed water views for a fraction of the cost on land. Boldwater is just the ticket for a couple or digital nomads looking for a life on the water.
Iris
Built in 2013 Iris has been primarily used for a few summer months each year day sailing here in the coast of Maine and occasionally racing in local mixed fleets and classic Yacht events like the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. When not being used Iris has been stored with some of the finest boat yards in downeast and midcoast Maine. Iris is in exceedingly good (near-new) condition with little (if any) work needed in order to be out on the water this season.
Designed by the offices of John G Alden Yacht design the Challenger Yawl was developed through a series of tank tests at the Stevens Institute model basin with the aim of producing a first-class seagoing sailing yacht to be built in the new FRP material, but in basic design and finish she was to retain the ‘style of the accepted first class sailing yacht’.
Muskrat
Pilgrim
Pilgrim is a favorite here at Brooklin Boat Yard so we and her owners hope she’ll stay local but if she needs to travel to continue to provide her new generations of sailors with all the joy she’s given all of us over the years we’ll raise a glass and wish Pilgrim and her new stewards all the best for the future, fair winds and following seas.
John Maxwell, Broker
John Maxwell grew up sailing, boating and just generally “being on the water” along the shores of southeastern Connecticut. Not surprisingly this led John to a career in the marine / yachting industries in which he held positions of increasing responsibility in service management and sales with well know yachting companies such as Kenyon Marine, J-World Sailing School, Tillotson-Pearson, Crosby Yachts, Little Harbor Marine, Hinckley Yachts and Morris Yachts.
John joined Brooklin Boat Yard in 2004. Using his expertise and experience in used boat brokerage sales he established a successful used boat brokerage operation. Also, in 2004 John started the development of a racing program for the Brooklin Boat Yard built 76’ Spirit of Tradition Goshawk resulting in podium finishes in the 2005 Marblehead to Halifax Race, the 2006 Newport to Bermuda Race and equally impressive performances in classic yacht regattas here in Maine and Southern New England.
John continues to race in local mixed fleet races and Classic Yacht Regattas mostly on boats built by Brooklin Boat Yard and notably as “the world’s oldest bowman” on the Brooklin Boat Yard built Eggemoggin 47 Lynnette from 2013 to 2021 and occasional guest appearances on sister-ship Lark.
Today, John continues to manage and expand the brokerage operation but can just as likely be seen out in the yard or on the water helping the rigging and yard crews in the busy spring and Fall launching and hauling seasons.