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"NIRVANA III" 1965 Danish sloop
"NIRVANA III"
Vindhausen design
Naestved built
Mahogany on oak, copper riveted
New electric motor, shaft, prop, deck, bottom
Laying Chesapeake Bay
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"NIRVANA III"
Vindhausen design
Naestved built
Mahogany on oak, copper riveted
New electric motor, shaft, prop, deck, bottom
Laying Chesapeake Bay
40' over all, 13.5 foot beam, 4' 8" draft.
Estimated 11 ton displacement.
Hull: cypress on Southern pine.
Rub rail: Alaskan yellow cedar.
Cap rail: white oak.
Deck: southern pine okoume plywood glassed over.
Raised deck aft: hackmatack.
This vessel is a 65' custom-design, custom-build Chesapeake Bay Oyster buyboat. Choptank’s draft ranges from 5' to 5' 6".
"MAKOTO" profiled in WoodenBoat magazine Issue #232, is for sale!
1929 Stephens Bros. Trunk cabin cruiser.
LOA: 34' Beam 9' Sleeps 2 comfortably
Built in Stockton, CA Spring 1929
(Likely Hull Number 561)
Gaff-rigged catboat. 12'9" LOA. 6' beam. Custom-designed and built. Nantucket in 2011. Cedar on white oak. Includes trailer spars, sails, 2-hp electric outboard, battery, bilge pump. Well-built; sound condition. Needs cosmetic refresh. Photo taken on launch day 2011.
Beautiful boat once restored (2016) Unfortunately neglected since. Sails like a dream when in its prime. Epoxy bottom sound, needs work above waterline. Has rebuilt running diesel motor. Sleeps 4-6. True piece of history. Call for more info.
Hull #27 of the Grand Banks 36, and as best we can determine, the first twin-engine 36 ever built. Mahogany carvel planking on oak frames. Teak-planked decks. Built by American Marine Ltd., Hong Kong, 1965.
19.5' Teak planked and deadwood. Copper riveted. Hull is tight, sound and pretty. Decks, cabin top and coming in epoxy covered plywood. Original Volvo Penta MD1 engine. Sail and spars in fine condition. Cheoy Lee fittings and hardware are unique.
Cruising sharpie designed and built by Karl Stambaugh Chesapeake Marine Design, LLC
Length on Deck 24ft- 0in
Beam 8ft-6in
Draft 1ft-6in board up, 4ft-0in board down
Construction is plywood and epoxy
Electric auxiliary inboard
Sleeps four
1958 White 20' power boat with trailer. Low hours 60 mercury engine. Head with custom sink. Boat must be seen. $20,000 or best offer.
KESA is a modern 17' LOA Cape Split peapod based on the Cape Split peapod design at Mystic Seaport. Very fast and seaworthy, KESA is a veteran of multiple Small Reach Regattas. Strip-planked with fiberglass and epoxy below the waterline. Topsides are glued-lap sapele planking.
Built in the Vic Franck's yard in Seattle, Washington, Mariner III is 47 ft long, 13 1/2 wide, 6 ft draft with 1 3/8 red cedar planking over 2 x 2 1/2 bent oak frames on 10 inch centres. Solid Sitka spruce spars (original) with new Spectra standing rigging.
A 39' sloop designed & built by Bud McIntosh in 1962. She is the featured boat in Bud's classic book "How to Build a Wooden Boat." Mahogany on oak & apitong frames, lead ballast keel. Mainsail and 4 jibs in good/ very good condition. Hollow spruce mast with recent Awlgrip.
Built in 2019, this little boat is a real looker. Sleeps two with a small galley. 60 horse E-tec
2015 Maine Landing School 17' runabout, unique, only four built, hand crafted wood/fiberglass mat, 50-hp E-Tec, ~225 hrs fresh water only, with trailer.
San Francisco Bay birthed 1946 Fellow & Stewart Island Clipper, "NIRVANA" (44 ft LOA, 9 ½ beam, 7 ½ draft, fractional rigged sloop) is available. The boat is in the water. Douglass fir on white oak frames with mahogany trim. Galvanized fasteners.
“Sea Dream”
Customized Hugh Angleman Sea Spirit Gaff Ketch
LOA 40'
Beam 11'6"
Bellina, 1952 Parker/Elkins 44’ on deck, 5’ draft, 11.5’ beam, 19 tons. Extensively refurbished and upgraded during the last 25 years. Including all new systems, tankage, engine etc. Keel bolts replaced 2016. Everything is well maintained and ready to go.
1958 Fenwick Williams 18' wooden catboat with tender and new 2023 galvanized trailer with stainle
Built by owner to specifications A Chesapeake Marine Design 16’ x 6’ wide.
This is a beautiful Viksfjord wooden Norwegian built 2014 dory (snekke in Norwegian) which I impo
Over the winter of 2025-26, Andrew Green from Pewaukee, Wisconsin built his third Wee Lassie ceda