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Ellida - New Price - $33,500
FALL LEAF-PEEPING BOAT SALE SPECIAL!!!
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.
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.
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NOW $500,000
Mustang — New Asking Price of $500,000!
Brooklin Boat Yard is pleased to offer the 2001, W-Class Yachts, W46 Mustang for sale at this time.
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Panther - New Asking Price of $99,500!
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
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Bagatelle - New Asking Price of $75,000!
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.
Lucayo - New Price $200,000
Lucayo was designed by Roger Marshall and ruggedly built by Brooklin Boat Yard to act as a high-performance, long-range cruising boat for an experienced yachting couple and extended family. Under the same ownership since first launched Lucayo has proven herself to be exactly what she was meant for allowing her owners and crew to extensively cruise the North Atlantic with trips north to Newfoundland, east to the Azores.
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Aura III - New Price $60,000
Designed by Spencer Lincoln and built by Covey Island Boatworks in 1986, Aura III (ex Annie J) is a fine sailing pilot house yawl with accommodations, equipment and amenities that allow for extended cruising, seasonal second home or full-time live aboard use.
Under her current ownership (since 2005) Aura III has been stored indoors during the off-seasons and has benefitted greatly by her current owner’s efforts in annual maintenance tasks and thoughtful upgrades as noted below.
Learn more about Aura III here.
Uncle Roy
In 2017, what would become Uncle Roy was trucked to the Brooklin, Maine shop of boat builder Eric Dow where over the course of almost two years the boat was taken down to its bare bones, then painstakingly restored to the highest standards of traditional wooden boat construction and brought into the future with thoughtful design improvements and state of the art equipment all while retaining the look and feel of a classic motor yacht that would be equally at home back in 1929 or into the future another lifetime from now.
Learn more about Uncle Roy here.
Petrel
Built in 1973 in Portland, Oregon by Hank Chamberlin, Petrel is an outstanding example L. Francis Herreshoff’s Rozinante design and 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.
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.
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Aloft
Aloft (ex: Eight Bells) designed by Ted Hood and constructed by Tor Yachts of Japan has seen much in the way of recent work and equipment upgrades and as such is very much ready for her next owners to step aboard and be sailing away with nothing apart from normal commissioning between them and their new sailing life aboard this extremely well-kept Tor 40.
Comfortable for extended cruising to far off locations, Aloft is also highly competitive in classic yacht races as attested to by numerous podium finishes in the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta here in Brooklin, Maine
Aloft is currently stored in her own boat barn at her owners residences in Southern Maine.
Learn more about Aloft here.
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.
Learn more about Duchess 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 day sailor. Aquila is in very good condition and very well equipped. Aquila is now hauled for the 2024-25 winter (stored inside) and awaits your inspection.
Learn more about Aquila here.
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.
Learn more about Zephyra 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.
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.
Pirate
Pirate, was built at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1929 for Harold Keith, originally sailing out of Quissett Massachusetts where S-Boats still regularly race. She has sailed in Narragansett Bay since the 1950s. Pirate’s current owner of 25+ years has thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of her ownership be it racing, day-sailing, or maintenance and has been very well-maintained over the years.
Learn more about Pirate here.
The Sloop Marta
In the spring 2023, the Gannon and Benjamin Boatyard in Vineyard Haven, Mass, launched its 85th vessel, built to Nat Benjamin’s design No. 100.
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.
Learn more about Marta here.
Bat
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.
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Fabrile
The Concordias 39 yawls, first built 76 years ago in 1938, have cruised and raced themselves into the imagination and emotions of their owners to remain the biggest one-design of large boats in the world, with all but one of the 103 boats still in existence. The curvaceous spoon bow, sweet sheer on a slim hull accentuated by a midships tumblehome, yawl rig and sexy counter stern have led many good sailors to succumb to the Concordia charm over the years.
Ruddy Turnstone
Designed and built by the legendary Southwest Harbor (ME) boat builder and National Endowment of the Arts Hertiage Fellow Ralph Stanley Ruddy Turnstone has been under the same ownership since first built in 1992. Built as a lobster yacht and never fished Ruddy Turnstone has seen relatively light use over her 32 years and has been professionally maintained since day one.
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.
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…
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Bellina
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.
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.
No News is good news for those looking for an easy to sail, well maintained, frequently updated cruising sailboat with amenities not found on boats of her size and accommodations allowing for family and friends to come along on the cruise.
Learn more about No News here.
No News
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.
Learn more about Willow here.
Coriolis
The Herreshoff H-12½ has been referred to as the best small boat design ever.
Perfect proportions coupled with expert construction equal a timeless design and a boat that lasts for generations.
Her hull shape and external lead keel provide stability through the water and her cockpit provides plenty of comfort for 6 adults.
Learn more about Coriolis here.
Mystic
Mystic is a great sailing 1977 C&C 24 that makes for an easy-to-handle day-sailor / single-hander and occasional over night 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.
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.
From Away
From Away is an excellent example of the Jeanneau Sun Fast 3200, a boat not commonly found in the United States but hugely popular in Europe and the UK. From Away is in extremely good condition with new (2022) North Sails mainsail, jib and asymmetrical spinnaker and a host of factory options. This Daniel Andrieu design provides effortless speed and is most definitely fun. Built using the latest technology to ensure the best strength-to-weight ratios, this boat is uniquely adapted to performance cruising and racing. The Sun Fast 3200 is particularly impressive while sailing off the wind.
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.
Gharial
Gharial would be an excellent choice of boat for the aggressive and self-confident beginning sailor who desires high performance for day sailing or club-level racing as well as for reasonably comfortable short-term cruising.
The family with two children will find it a comfortable cruiser. Sailors with friends who enjoy spirited sailing will also find it a good choice for day sailing and local racing.
Offered at an extremely affordable price Gharial is well fitted out and ready for your Fall cruise now.
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.
Shimmer
Promise
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.
From Away
From Away is an excellent example of the Jeanneau Sun Fast 3200, a boat not commonly found in the United States but hugely popular in Europe and the UK. From Away is in extremely good condition with new (2022) North Sails mainsail, jib and asymmetrical spinnaker and a host of factory options.
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.
Island Maid II
The Island Maid II is a beautiful example of a BC salmon boat converted to pleasure, and so far as I know is the largest of these boats on the East Coast. She is an ideal liveaboard boat for cruising the Maine coast and is quite the head-turner in every harbor where she’s anchored.
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.
Muskrat
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’.
BBY -32 Runabout
This express cruiser is the latest design build from Brooklin Boat Yard. With her “Fighting Lady Yellow” paint scheme, plenty of forward flair and a sheer line swooping aft, this yet to be name center-console is a real head turner!
Step Lively
Designed by Sparkman and Stephens and built by Derecktor Shipyard the Gulfstream 30 series was originally purposed as the boat that could do it all as both a comfortable cruising boat for small families and a competitive racer easily handled by a small crew in round the buoys and near coastal racing.
Fiona Too
The Beetle Cat is a big part of New England history, sailing, wooden boats and wooden boat building. The year 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the Beetle Cat sailboat. Fiona Too is a wonderful example of this much loved craft.
Nepeta
The Nonsuch represents good value for money. This design offers high re-sale value, ease of sailing and, with marina charges always based on a price per foot of length, owners get maximum cockpit and interior volume for their 30 feet.
Abino
The Tartan Fantail DS (day sailor) sloops area terrific mix of classic styling above the waterline with modern underwater appendages and hull lines making for a very pretty boat with a great turn of speed. With her large cockpit and simple sailing systems Abino makes for a great single-hander with enough room for all the family and friends to come along and join the fun.
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.
Bravo
This design by Nathanial Greene Herreshoff was originally built out of wood by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island and in later years (also in wooden construction) by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard in Quincy, Massachusetts and was / is known to generations of sailors as the Herreshoff 12 ½. In 1938 the design was given an above-transom tiller and renamed the Fishers Island Sound Bull's Eye.
Loyal
40’ Loyal combines the best of Spencer Lincoln’s lobster boat hulls with the quality cold-molded, wood-epoxy construction and craftsmanship of Covey Island Boatworks to create a perfect cruiser fully capable of handling a good-sized family with rambunctious kids yet easy to handle by a cruising couple or solo voyager.
Eider
Eider is the offspring of the well-proven Sisu 22 hull with the talents of the custom builders at Forsberg’s Boat Works all wrapped up in center console styling and Down East practicality. Her open center console layout makes her perfect for all sorts of activities and with her large dodger forward with drop-down privacy curtain protecting extra-long settees, Eider just as easily can provide her owners with all that’s needed to convert her to an Aqua-Camper on which to cruise the coast wherever that might be.
Sprite
The Rozinante is one of L. Francis Herreshoff’s most popular small cruising boat designs, and with good reason. She features a relatively light and very sleek hull form compared to English canoe yawls, and her hull lines are regarded by many as some of the most beautiful ever drawn, in any genre.
She has a correspondingly large rig to push her along well in light air, as befits a boat that was originally intended to be engineless. A great performer in a wide range of wind strengths, she is regarded as an exceptionally sweet-sailing boat.
Peapod
This peapod built by The Landing School in 2014 has never been launched! Also included with the sale is a 2014 Load Rite single axle trailer that has a been used only once to transport the boat 169 miles to it’s current owners home where it is is stored indoors. All this offered at a price substantially lower than what this boat and trailer combination would cost in 2023 dollars.
Zebra
Zebra is a visually stunning Spirit of Tradition style yacht that has been under the same ownership since her first launching in 2000. Zebra has been very lightly used by her (original) owners during summer months for day sailing on the waters surrounding Mount Desert Island (Maine). When not in use by her owners Zebra has been stored annually with and maintained by a well known and extremely well-regarded yacht yard in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Rumbly Rox
Designed by Doug Hylan (Hylan and Brown) and built in collaboration with John Dunbar (Benjamin River Marine) for a long-standing, multi-generational family of Brooklin, Maine summer and year-round residents, Rumbly Rox is a classic runabout with lots of flare forward, just enough tumblehome aft, shining varnished mahogany brightwork…
Thetis
Thetis was built by the Beetle Cat Boat Shop in 2009. The artisans at Beetle used the same exacting methods and materials used by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company to produce Nat Herreshoff’s personal boat of the same design Alerion III.
Ariel
Ariel was designed by Edwin A. Boardman. Ariel is one of the original Marblehead boats and after coming to Maine was very competitive for many years until finally moving away from the Northeast Harbor Fleet to a new home off Hancock Point off Frenchman’s Bay just north of Bar Harbor.
Tore Hund
Bergeson along with his son Henry built Tore Hund in his barn situated on the North River in Norwell, MA. and she was launched in the spring of 1986 at the site of the Wanton Shipyard. The following year (1987) Bergeson and Tore Hund participated that year’s cruise of the New York Yacht Club. Her debut performance in this most prestigious yachting event.
Lorelei
Lorelei is a very nicely equipped and well maintained full-keel cruising / day sailing sloop perfect for a couple or small family.
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.