Our Boats 1960-2024
This is our history. It is told through our boats and the people that built them.
Kiandra 2025
Designer: Mark Fitzgerald
When the family decided to custom-design a cruising sailboat, they wanted reliability and comfort along with amenities geared toward their hobbies, so Kiandra was equipped with family-oriented perks like a dive tank and surfboard storage. Kiandra was built using cold-molded construction techniques.
Wheeler 55 2024
Designer: Wheeler Yachts
The new Wheeler 55 is the second luxury wooden yacht Brooklin Boat Yard has built for the Wheeler Yachts company after building Legend in 2021. This new, larger Wheeler is inspired by a 1930’s Wheeler Playmate.
Jax 2023
Designer: Botin Partners
Jax is a 43’ wood and carbon hybrid racing boat, and is the third Botin-designed boat built by Brooklin Boat Yard following Toroa and Outlier. Jax’s features include: a cold-molded hull, a foam and carbon deck, carbon-reinforced chain plates and keel sockets, and first generation Harken winches.
Harper 2023
Designer: Will Sturdy, Brooklin Boat Yard
Harper is the latest Eggemoggin 47 plus launched by Brooklin Boat Yard. The Eggemoggin 47 plus is an updated version of the popular Eggemoggin 47.
Tink is an updated Eggemoggin daysailer aptly named the Eggemoggin 47 plus. This newer version features about 30 percent more righting moment with more beam, a different rig and different foils. The hull is constructed out of carbon fiber and wood for light displacement. The standing rigging and mast are all carbon, and she has an 8-foot, 6-inch fin keel with a long spade rudder.
Tink 2022
Designer: Will Sturdy, Brooklin Boat Yard
BBY 32 Runabout 2022
Designer: Peter Kriessle & Will Sturdy, Brooklin Boat Yard
The newest powerboat designed and built by Brooklin Boat Yard is a 32’ Center Console express cruiser.
Aroha 2021
Designer: Peter Sewell
When Aroha came on our radar, the entire Brooklin Boat Yard crew found a new boat to fall in love with. As easy on the gas as she is on the eyes, she is classic yet contemporary. Above all, she is remarkably seaworthy in a variety of conditions. Aroha’s modern, lightweight construction and minimal 38 horsepower diesel power plant allow her to live on a trailer, be towed to a variety of destinations, and burn next to no fuel underway. Her fuel consumption numbers are .26 gallons per hour at 7.5 knots and 2.1 gallons per hour at 17 knots.
Marcy 2021
Designer: Peter Kriessle & Will Sturdy, Brooklin Boat Yard
At 31’8”, Marcy is a compact and accommodating express cruiser with an ample cabin. She is equipped with twin 250 hp Mercury outboards and weighs 6,500 pounds. Her hull was constructed using a cold-molded process.
Equipoise 2020
Designer: Jim Taylor
Some people have an inkling what equipoise means, but most have to look it up. It means what it sounds like, a blending of factors of comparable high importance. Brooklin Boat Yard has done just that with Equipoise, blending an equal amount of art and science. In the very first all-electric motor ever built for a sailboat, Brooklin Boat Yard swapped out diesel power for electric which can be charged via solar panels or from the shore. Nearly every winch is electric as are the back stays and vang.
Legend 2021
Designer: Bill Prince & Wheeler Yachts
There is perhaps no better synthesis of boat-building history and modern technology than the new Wheeler 38. Like her famous predecessor, Pilar, she’s crafted from wood, but using completely modern epoxy cold-molded construction techniques not available in the early 20th century. This makes her mahogany hull and cabin immensely strong and incredibly beautiful. The custom interior is an idyllic place to spend a weekend away, or simply kick back with a good book.
Rascal 2020
Designer: Jim Taylor
This 50-foot, Jim Taylor-designed, racing / cruising sloop draws its lineage directly from previous Jim Taylor 49-footers Dreadnought and Blackfish. Rascal is an evolution of this design with even more focus on ease of sail, comfort and cruisability. Rascal sports more head-room below decks and a well laid out cockpit with all sail control lines close at hand. Although Rascal emphasizes comfort and ease of sailing, don’t be surprised to see her at the top of leaderboards on race day.
Outlier 2019
Designer: Botin Partners
Built primarily for nearshore racing in New England and the Caribbean, Outlier’s look above the waterline is decidedly traditional, with a roomy cockpit, closed transom and classic housetop. Built of wood, carbon fiber, foam and epoxy composites, the boat has a hull shape and sail plan similar to modern racing boats but with interior accommodations and amenities that allow her owner to cruise the oceans in comfort and speed.
Sonny III 2018
Designer: Bruce Johnson & Brooklin Boat Yard
Designed by Bruce Johnson and the Brooklin Boat Yard design office, Sonny III is a 91-foot custom cold-molded sloop built for a repeat customer. She’s a larger replacement for the owner’s current 70-foot yacht, also built by Brooklin Boat Yard. Sonny III is a high-performance cruising yacht designed for daysailing and blue-water passages. Construction on Sonny III took 18 months.
Toroa 2017
Designer: Botin Partners
Named for the northern royal albatross indigenous to the South Island of New Zealand and about as high-tech as is possible for a modern sailing yacht to be. Toroa is as innovative below the waterline as she is above. The helm controls linked twin rudders set well aft. Most impressive is the hydraulically-controlled lifting keel that increases the boat’s draft from about 8 feet to just under fifteen feet when lowered.
Foggy 2015
Designer: Frers and Gehry
Bring together an internationally famous architect, a world-class superyacht designer, and a renowned Maine builder of wooden boats, and the result is a yacht that is as striking in its aesthetics as it is innovative in its engineering. This 74-foot yacht, built of wood over a carbon core, was designed by Argentine naval architect German Frers with input from architect Frank Gehry.
Blackfish 2015
Designer: Jim Taylor
Blackfish is a custom-designed 49-foot cold-molded racer/cruiser based on another Brooklin Boat Yard boat, Dreadnought, that launched by Brooklin Boat Yard in June of 2014. Brooklin Boat Yard teamed up with designer Jim Taylor of Marblehead, MA, on this very successful design. Blackfish launched in May 2015.
Eggemoggin 47
Designer: Brooklin Boat Yard
Lynnette 2013
Iris 2013
Lark 2012
Lena 2001
Isobel 2011
Designer: Stephens Waring Design
Isobel is a 75-foot performance cruiser and racer designed by Stephens Waring, capable of average speeds of 10 knots or more. The boat is spacious and easy to sail.
Bequia 2009
Designer: Stephens Waring Design
In the early summer of 2009, Bequia was lowered into the waters of Center Harbor to join the fleet of wooden boats built under the direction of the White family.
Scotty-Two 2009
Designer: John Hacker
Sam Dunsford must have loved boats because he surrounded himself with all kinds- runabouts, fast boats, commuter boats, speed boats. Dunsford commissioned John Hacker to build a racer for the 1929 racing season on Lake Winnipesaukee. Brooklin Boat Yard was charged with a complete restoration.
Eight Bells 2007
Designer: Geerd Hendel
The Boothbay Harbor one-design is a particularly handsome boat that has proven itself in the choppy waters off Boothbay and Pemaquid, Maine. It’s an easy boat to sail, while being both maneuverable and fast, and its design is the product of some of the best boat minds of the 1930s.
Marjorie 2007
Designer: Robert Stephens, Brooklin Boat Yard
Marjorie is a serious Spirit of Tradition cruising boat that also boasts an impressive turn of speed. Only the highest quality, proven materials were used in her construction; she has carbon spars, custom all-bronze hardware, and top-quality timber in her hefty cold-molded wood hull. Marjorie also incorporates a layer of Kevlar within her hull layup to protect against collisions with flotsam. With a fully-equipped interior in mahogany and oak, she’s ready to deliver true sailing adventures.
Goshawk 2005
Designer: Robert Stephens, Brooklin Boat Yard
This 76’ Spirit of Tradition sloop was built by Brooklin Boat Yard and launched in 2005 just in time to participate in the Centennial running of the Marblehead to Halifax Race where she garnered line honors (first to finish) in IRC Class.
The following year, Goshawk took part in the Newport to Bermuda Race in where she placed second in the highly competitive St. David’s Lighthouse Trophy class.
Hoi An 2003
Designer: Robert Stephens, Brooklin Boat Yard
Hoi An is the perfect combination of day sailing ease and cruising comfort
Tendress 2001
Designer: Robert Stephens, Brooklin Boat Yard
Tendress combines classic good looks, lightweight wood-composite construction, modern rig, and underbody in a delightful new package. Her displacement of less than 8,000 pounds gives her lively performance with a big-boat feel. All lines lead to the cockpit for effortless single-handing.
Wild Horses 1998
Designer: Joel White, Brooklin Boat Yard
Wild Horses is the last boat Joel White designed before he died. She is the first of her kind, a 76’ W Class.
Wild Horses represents a true Spirit of Tradition boat- appearing traditional in her lines but very modern in her performance.
Dragonera 1997
Designer: Joel White, Brooklin Boat Yard
Dragonera was Joel’s largest design when he began working on her drawings in spring of 1992. Client Bruce Stevens said he wanted a fast and easily-handled boat of about this size, and essentially left the other decisions to Joel.
Center Harbor 31
Designer: Joel White, Brooklin Boat Yard
Flirt 2002
Glissade 2002
Astrid 2002
Mantlepiece 1997
Pudding 1997
Linda 1996
Grace 1996
Aurora 1992
Designer: Bill Tripp
Aurora, built in 1992, is a racing machine that has done Transats, Fastnets, Bermuda Races and Round The World Race and taken home trophies for more than three decades. Her hull is cold molded, her decks are S-glass with foam core and her spar is carbon.
Sweet Olive 1991
Designer: Joel White, Brooklin Boat Yard
Joel’s design #37, Sweet Olive, was launched in 1991. Despite being designed as a cruiser, her moderate displacement and sweet hull form would make her an excellent racer.
Vortex 1990
Designer: Knud Reimers
We’ll save the ugly nitty-gritty of finessing the Spirit-of-Tradition principles into the constrained square-meter rule at the heart of this boat for another day. But still, we’ve sailed Vortex a lot. And we can honestly report, of all the Spirit-of-Tradition boats we’ve sailed and designed, the Swede 55 is as pure a modern-classic as any vessel afloat. The Swede 55 may be from another era, but she still matters today.
Maine Idea 1982
Designer: Joel White, Brooklin Boat Yard
At the time of her design, the 50’ Maine Idea was the largest boat Brooklin Boat Yard had ever built.
Maine Idea still calls the Blue Hill Peninsula home.
Lady Jeanne 1982
Designer: Joel White, Brooklin Boat Yard
Jeanne and Joe Merkel had owned eight powerboats of widely varying description before they approached Joel about their ninth, so there was no shortage of experience on the part of the client. Likewise, Joel had designed and built several wooden power cruisers and lobsterboats, so ample experience also rested with the designer/builder. The result became the lovely Lady Jeanne, now named Woody in the hands of her most recent owner.
High Time 1976
Designer: Joel White, Brooklin Boat Yard
High Time is a picnic boat designed along the lines of a Maine lobster-boat with only minimal cruising accommodations. Knowing that his own yard would do the building, Joel drew only a lines plan to establish the hull shape and an abbreviated construction drawing just for yard use.
Dovekie 1974
Designer: Bud McIntosh
Designed by Bud McIntosh and built by Brooklin Boat Yard in 1974, Dovekie is a ketch commissioned by the Bancroft family of Brooksville. The Bancrofts planned to live and sail on Dovekie for several years. following her launch.
All Builds 1960-2022
Gerry Wherry (1982)
Bangor Packet (1981)
Alisande (1981)
Lady Jeanne (1980)
My Ocean (1980)
Mary Elizabeth (1980)
Kimberly T. (1979)
Tanzy (1979)
Connemara Bay (1979)
Leeway (1978)
Marie C. III (1976)
High Time (1976)
Dream On (1976)
Mary Noreen (1976)
Kristy Leigh (1975)
Thetis (1975)
Interport (1975)
Myrna & Sandra (1974)
Lulu (1973)
Jericho Queen (1973)
Nannook (1972)
Nasket II (1971)
Cachlot (1970)
Brilliant (1969)
Clearwater (1969)
James Adger II (1969)
Mary H. (1968)
Martha (1967)
Amita (1967)
Surfing Seal (1966)
Daisy (1965)
Manana (1964)
Kishti (1963)
Miss Caroline (1962)
Astrid (2002)
Zingara (2001)
Lena (2001)
Sonny (2000)
Va Pensiero (1999)
Kells (1999)
The Mantlepiece (1997)
Pudding (1997)
Tango (1997)
Grace (1996)
Tomahawk (1996)
Linda (1996)
Pride (1995)
High Cotton (1995)
Rosie B. (1994)
Lucayo (1993)
Lamb (1990)
Homer (1988)
Caution (1988)
Ellisha (1887)
Quarter Moon (1987)
Vintage (1986)
Trouble (1985)
Shearwater (1984)
Nutshell
Sarah's Swallow
Restless
Lucy Bell (1983)
Center Console 32’
Marcy
Northern Rose (2015)
Dreadnaught (2014)
13 (2014)
Steely Ann (2013)
Sonny (II) (2013)
Iris (2013)
Lark (2012)
Duck Soup (2012)
Isobel (2011)
Racehorse (2010)
Rembrant (2010)
Marjorie (2007)
Anna (2007)
Geranium (2006)
Pandl (2006)
Restive (2006)
Va Pensiero II (2004)
Quark (2002)
Glissade (2002)