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Power Boats
Always Draws a Crowd - Fully Restored and Modernized 1963 Chris-Craft Futura 33'
This one is ready for the grandkids or a dinner cruise. 90 mile range, Van Ness custom powerplants with Velvet Drives. At 9000 lbs. she is huge and roomy but only drafts 18". 33 knots on flat water. Sleeps 4-6. Asking $54,900.
Sailboats
LEGACY 1956 K. Aage Nielson 50' Yawl
LEGACY is a 1956 K. Aage Nielson designed example of a full keel, bronze centerboard wooden Yawl. Manufactured by the renown boatyard of Paul Luke in East Boothbay, Maine during the heyday of the custom designed built yachts of the 1950s.
JANINA OF DORSET
1948 yachting world 5-tonner
commissioned and built in Bombay india
by colonel Francis Seymour Williams
now my home
Sailboats
24' Peter van Dine Tancook Whaler
One of a couple dozen built in the 1970’s. Featured in Fourth Book of Good Boats. Fiberglass hull, wood deck and cabin sides. Lovingly restored and improved over the last 20 years.
THELMA
THELMA is an 11’4” cedar strip canoe with Douglas Fir gunwales and Ash stems. She is the first boat built by cousins Tristan and Tom and was made under a tarpaulin shelter at the end of their garden in Southampton, England.
Power Boats
2018 Wooden Seaskiff
Custom built at Madisonville Maritime Museum. 2019 19' magic tilt galvanized trailer. Yamaha 50 hp 4 stroke engine. Low miles. Always garage kept.
$11,500
Stella Rose 6.5′ Flat-Bottom
Build Your Own Mini Electric Wooden Boat – Perfect for Intermediate-Level DIYers and Boat Enthusiasts
Check out detailed product demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEY7kIRA39c
Small Craft
Fast Ocean/Coastal Double
Ken Bassett-designed Firefly2 open water rowing shell. L23', B38", 120lbs. 4mm Joubert ply and Sitka, with S-glass. Dreher carbon seats and titanium hardware. Has won her Blackburn division and the 2018 Monterey Crossing. Fast, seaworthy.
Asking $4,200