True Blue

1990, Oldport Marine Center Console Runabout, 26’

 

True Blue

The Oldport Marine 26 is a full-keel, Down East-style boat with a sharp entry and built-in spray rails. Originally built for use as yacht club and harbor launches these versatile boats are highly maneuverable and will turn in either direction in its own length. Oldport Marine of Newport (RI) built the first of the 26’s in 1984 for their own purposes ferrying folks around Newport Harbor and quickly began building more for the commercial launch trade and recreational boating.

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.

Asking Price: $60,000

Location: Southport Island, Maine

Edgecomb Boat Works Refit / Restoration Projects
New (larger) fuel tank, fuel lines and filters
New wiring and electrical equipment
New electronics
All new water-tight Lewmar aluminum deck hatches
Rebuild / reconfigure /  center-console
New varnished Teak stern seating
New varnished Teak, sound-insulated engine box
New varnished Teak hem and console seating
Remove transom name board and hardware
Repaint transom
Clean and gelcoat interior hull and bilge areas
All new engine paint, gaskets, coolers, etc.
New engine beds and aluminum engine mount brackets

Hull and Deck Construction
Full keel with prop protective strut underwater configuration
Solid / hand-laid fiberglass hull construction below the waterline
Mat-cored fiberglass hull construction in topsides
Molded FRP spray rails
Balsa-cored fiberglass deck and cockpit sole construction
Molded fiberglass toe rails and cockpit coamings
Black PVC guard rails with stainless steel guards
Custom fiberglass construction center-console steering station.
Self-bailing cockpit
Custom varnished teak full-beam stern seat, engine box and helm seat,
AwlGrip finished topsides, decks, cockpit sole and center console
Medium Blue anti-fouling paint bottom finish
Pidgeon Blue topsides and transom finish
Decks are White with Light Gray non-skid finish
Cockpit sole is Light Gray non-skid finish
Center console is White finish
Hull interior finish White gelcoat

Deck Hardware and Features
All deck hardware is polished stainless steel
Dock line cleats port and starboard at bow, stern and mid-rail
Dock line chocks port and starboard at bow
Folding pad eyes port and starboard side decks (2ea / side)
Engine air intake clam shells port and starboard side decks
Deck chain pipe
Fortress anchor storage chocks and anchor at bow
Burgee staff socket at bow deck
Ensign staff socket and aft deck
Varnished Teak coaming cap rails
Varnished Teak taff rail
VHF antenna on starboard side deck
Cockpit interior boarding ladder with brackets port and starboard
Cockpit boarding grab post with brackets port and starboard
Fuel deck fill on aft deck


Cockpit Hardware and Features
Anchor locker access door with varnished Teak trim furthest forward
Polished stainless steel anchor locker vents
White AwlGrip finished center console with varnished Teak seat forward, custom compartment for fire extinguisher to port, custom compartment for electrical systems to starboard, Yanmar ignition panel, steering and engine controls aft.
Round, aluminum Lewmar deck plates in cockpit sole port and starboard of center cockpit
Sound-insulated. Varnished Teak engine box with integral helm seat
Large, aluminum, rectangular Lewmar deck plates on center line of cockpit sole for access to under deck equipment and bilge areas.
Forward deck plate for access to shaft, stuffing box, raw water intake sea cock, raw water strainer, exhaust lines and muffler, bilge pump and bilge area.
Aft deck plate for access to hydraulic steering ram and rudder post.
Polished stainless steel cockpit drains port and starboard aft in cockpit
Full bean, varnished teak stern seat with polished stainless steel venting for fuel tank

Propulsion and Drive Train
Yanmar ignition panel with tachometer, engine hour meter, engine status gauges and audible alarms
Seastar single lever throttle and transmission control
Engine / fuel shut-off at helm
Engine: Yanmar model 4LH-THE, 140HP, FWC diesel
Engine Hours: 286 Hours (May 2025)
1 ½” Stainless steel propellor shaft
Last Drop stuffing box / shaft seal
Line cutters
Bronze 3-blade propellor

Steering Systems and Equipment
Polished stainless steel, 6-spoke, Destroyer style steering wheel
Seastar Solutions hydraulic steering system
Bronze rudder post and rudder blade

Fuel System and Equipment
Fuel Capacity: 40 Gallons
Fuel deck fill on aft deck
Fuel tank located under stern seat
Parker primary fuel filter / fuel water separator
Secondary Yanmar fuel filter
Fuel gauge at starboard center-console compartment

Electrical System
12-Volt DC ship’s systems
Two (2) heavy duty 12-Volt marine batteries in secured battery boxes under center console
Separate battery banks for engine start and ships DC systems
Blue Seas 4-position (Off-1-Both-2) rotary style battery selector switch
Blue Seas circuit panel with six (6) individual circuits
Scanstrut ROKK water-proof, fast-charge USB sockets (2ea) helm and stern seat locations

Electronics and Navigational Equipment
Garmin GPS chart plotter
Garmin VHF radio
Garmin GHS 11 remote VHF handset

Cushions and Canvas
Custom Sunbrella covers for center-console, helm seat / engine box and stern seat

Ground Tackle Equipment
Polished stainless steek deck chain pipe
Foredeck anchor storage chocks
Fortress and anchor with appropriate chain and rode
Under-deck chain locker with access from cockpit forward

Dewatering Equipment
Johnson electric / automatic bilge pumps with float switches (2ea)
Bile pumps located forward and aft of engine area
1100 GPH rate for each pump
Johnson high bilge water alarm

Safety Equipment
PFD, Type IV, life ring
Emergency boarding ladder
Port and starboard running lights
Stern light

Additional Equipment
Fenders with fleece covers (7ea)
Dock lines (6ea)
Varnished Teak ensign staff and ensign