News from Brooklin Boat Yard
BLACKFISH Launch and Sail
Watch a video of the christening, launch and inaugural sail of BLACKFISH, the Jim Taylor-designed 49-foot yacht launched by Brooklin Boat Yard in spring 2017.
Aerial Footage of Brooklin Boat Yard
Aerial footage of Brooklin Boat Yard taken in May 2017.
You Can’t Get There From Here
In early August when Sailing Anarchy’s editor tried to journey to Brooklin, Maine, from San Diego, he had flight delay issues that wouldn’t allow him to make the event. The plan was to race AURORA in the famed Eggemoggin Reach Regatta and its two feeders. Here’s how the weekend went.
Botin Flip
[rev_slider botin] In the last week of March 2016, we flipped the hull of the new Botin 22m sloop under construction. The hull-turning went well and the Botin is back in the shop on her bottom. While we had her in the slings we had the opportunity to put her on...
Taylor 49 Racer/Cruiser
Brooklin Boat Yard is teaming once again with designer Jim Taylor of Marblehead, MA. This 49-foot racer/cruiser is a variation of Jim’s very successful design DREADNOUGHT, launched by BBY in June of 2014. The owner is an experienced New England yachtsman with a keen interest in racing.
Botin 22m Sloop
Brooklin Boat Yard is constructing a new 22-meter yacht designed by Spanish firm Botin Partners. In hull shape and sail plan the Botin 22 will be very similar to many of today’s modern racing boats.
Building the Frers 74
Watch time-lapse footage of the Frers 74 hull construction at Brooklin Boat Yard. Video by Billy Black.
Brooklin Boat Yard Builds 28′ Naval Cutter Replica
Brooklin Boat Yard has been contracted to construct a replica of a 28’ Naval Cutter which will be presented to Culver Military Academy as a memorial to the former cadets and faculty of the Culver Military Academy who played an heroic and lifesaving role in the Great Easter Flood of 1913.
DREADNOUGHT Under Sail
DREADNOUGHT is a Jim Taylor-designed 49-foot sloop launched in June 2014.
Make it Faster!
Brooklin Boat Yard has now built three boats for the owner of VA PENSIERO II (launched in 2004) with the newest of these three being DREADNOUGHT, the Jim Taylor designed 49’ Spirit of Tradition Racing Sloop launched this past (2014) spring. This owner was so impressed...
DREADNOUGHT Launches
[rev_slider dreadnought] Brooklin Boat Yard launched DREADNOUGHT, a 49-foot cold-molded custom sailboat, on Monday, June 9. Designed by Jim Taylor, the yacht is a lightweight, performance-oriented sloop with a traditional aesthetic above the waterline and a...
Update from BEQUIA
16.48 North, 62.01 West To: Steve White and the Boys of the Brooklin Boat Yard. Some seven years ago, [we] commissioned the Brooklin Boat Yard to build a 91′ yawl. In the early summer of 2009 Bequia was lowered into the waters of Center Harbor, and as a wooden boat,...