ARCHIVED PROJECTS

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  Buzzards Bay 25: 2004 Construction
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  11’ Yacht tender: 2004 construction: Nat Benjamin design
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  22’ Zobell Sea Fox : 2004 Repair
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  21’ “Vineyard 15” – “Antelope” : 2004 Repair
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  30' Alden gaff sloop
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  Ilona, a 29' power boat
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  Buzzards Bay 15 Restoration
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  September, 26 foot Alerion
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  38' sloop Here and Now
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  Zephyr, 22' Sharpie design
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  16' Whitehall
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  Fler, Herreshoff 12 1/2
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  21' Handy Billy
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  32' power boat
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  Leviathan, 34' lobster boat
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  Pilgrim, 45' S&S yawl
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  Dixie, 35' Ballentine Downeast
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  Three tenders
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  Charlotte, 50' schooner
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  16' Peapod
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  The catboat Gul Rose
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  Jono, 14' pond boat
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  Summer Moon, 22' Pulsifer Hampton
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  24' Catboat Christine
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  Interior of Juno, 65' schooner
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  Catboat Compass Rose
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  22' power dory

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: 2003

2 “Bella” class
Nat Benjamin design
This is a popular daysailer for families and friends. At 21’ on deck, the “Bella” is well suited to Vineyard waters. She can handle the chop and the gusty southwest wind of Vineyard Sound and accommodates four adults comfortably in the cockpit. She is rigged as a gaff sloop and carries a lead ballast keel of 1,300 pounds on her 3’ draft keel.
LOD: 21’ LWL: 16’ DRAFT: 3’3” BEAM: 7’2” SAIL AREA: 267 sq. ft

2 “Quitsa” class
Nat Benjamin design
This 14’ beamy centerboard gaff sloop is ideal for kids or adults in the protected bays and ponds. She is easily handled and can be sailed onto the beach.
LOD: 14’ LWL: 12’7” BEAM: 6” DRAFT: 12’ SAIL AREA: 113 sq. ft.

“Celeste” 28’ keel centerboard gaff sloop
Nat Benjamin design
“Celeste” was designed for coastal cruising and day sailing in shoal waters. Her accommodations provide ample space for two in a cabin with a galley sink, ice box, camping stove, hanging locker, porta potti and two large berths. Table leaves hinge against the centerboard trunk.

A one-cylinder Yanmar diesel will push her along in a calm quite effortlessly.
The cockpit is comfortable for four adults with bench seats set belowthe deck level and nicely canted coamings for your backrest.

The gaff main can be easily tended by the helmsman, and two self-tailing sheet winches help bring home the jib.
“Celeste” was traditionally built in our usual fashion with an angelique backbone and white cedar planking over steam bent white oak frames, bronze fastened. The lead ballast keel is slotted to accommodate the centerboard. The cabin sides, coamings and trim are varnished silver bali; spars are hollow eastern spruce.
“Celeste”: LOD: 25’ LWL: 25’ BEAM: 8’3” DRAFT: 3’ SAIL AREA: 394 sq .ft DISPLACEMENT: 9,489 pounds (For more information, see Wooden Boat No. 178, Designs Department)

“Juno” 65’ schooner for ocean sailing
Nat Benjamin design
This powerful vessel was designed for a family and crew intent on world cruising. She is a big sister to a previous G&B schooner, the 60’ “Rebecca,” launched 2001 (See “Wooden Boat” No.168; “Soundings” February 2004).
“Juno” is ruggedly built with an angelique backbone, double sawn frames, double wana planking and diagonally bronze-strapped hull and deck with silicon bronze fastenings throughout. The deck and deck structures are old growth Burma teak.

Below deck are accommodations for 11 with (from forward) a chain locker, foc’sle, galley, main saloon, owner cabin, guest cabin and navigation cabin. There are three heads (two with showers).

“Juno” is equipped with a small D.C. generator, watermaker, two refrigerators, VHF, satellite telephone, radar, GPS fathometer and wind indicator. Auxiliary power is a 200HP Yanmar diesel.

Her spars are hollow Sitka spruce and rigging is hand spliced 7x7 stainless steel wire rope to bronze turnbuckles. Mast and deck hardware are custom cast or fabricated bronze.

“Juno”: LOD: 65’ LWL: 52’ BEAM: 15’6” DRAFT: 9’2” DISPLACEMENT: 93,000 pounds SAIL AREA: 2,000 sq .ft in four lowers. (For more information, see Wooden Boat No. 176, “Around the Yards.” Also, Wooden Boat No. 178, Myles Thurlow feature)