Off Center Harbor's Remarks

When it comes to buying a wooden boat nearly seven decades old, it’s the owners over her lifetime that tell the tale of present value. Without question MISTY has been a lucky boat. We know her well because she is berthed in the summer nearby on the Benjamin River. Furthermore, she has been maintained by the Strouts Point yard in South Freeport and, more recently, Brooklin Boat Yard right here in town. You can’t get better than those two. In today’s wooden boat market, Concordia Yawls represent the gold standard. Quietly elegant and fun to sail, it’s the details of their construction both above deck and down below that make them so distinctive and timeless. MISTY surely embodies the best of these qualities.

Description from Boat's Main Listing

Owner’s Comments:

Misty, a classic 39-foot Concordia yawl, #66 (of 99 Concordias built at Abeking and Rasmussen) was shipped from Bremen, Germany in 1959, and immediately left New Bedford for Chicago via the Erie Canal with the owners, the MacIntosh family. She remained on the Great Lakes for 45 years in the care of the same family. During that time, she competed in distance racing, and even won the Chicago-Mackinaw Race in the early 80s. Her racing equipment reflects their commitment to boat speed and ease of handling. She was kept in showroom condition at the Palmer Johnson Yacht Yard.

In 2006 Misty returned to New England and received a major update including new Yanmar engine, plumbing, electronics, and new standing rigging, at the Concordia Yard, and at Strouts Point Wharf in Freeport Maine.

Fresh Paint and Varnish have been professionally applied every year. Garboard Planks have been replaced, and sister frames have been placed as necessary. In 2010 she received a new rudder and rudder heel fitting, both fabricated at Strouts Point Wharf.

For the last ten years, she has appeared regularly at the WoodenBoat School, Maine, as an exemplar Concordia classroom, teaching adults in “the Craft of Sail,” and the fine points of sailing a traditional yawl. She has also raced regularly in the famous Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. Misty’s current owner is long experienced in the care and management wooden sailboats; she has moved on to a larger boat in the Mediterranean.

Boat Name
MISTY

Specs
Builder: Abeking and Rasmussen Lemwerder, Germany
Designer: C Raymond Hunt
Flag of Registry: United States
Keel: Full

Dimensions
LOA: 39 ft 10 in
Beam: 10 ft 2 in
LWL: 28 ft 6 in
Maximum Draft: 5 ft 8 in
Ballast: 7700 lbs
Dry Weight: 19000 lbs

Engines
Total Power: 40 HP

Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Yanmar 3JH4E
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Power: 40 HP

Accommodations
Number of heads: 1

Comments:
Broker comments:

Misty is a “sailor’s Concordia”, and as outlined below, the two previous owners appreciated her and gave her excellent care. Her third and only other owner is an especially competent yachts woman, and this is her second Concordia yawl. Recently repowered and updated, and with a large sail inventory, Misty has had loving, knowledgeable care, and is highly recommended.

Construction:
Typical Concordia construction with tight seam African mahogany planking bronze screw fastened to steam bent oak frames and sisters. Oak backbone and floors. Iron ballast keel. Painted canvas over mahogany deck with mahogany deck structures and locust trim. Iron ballast. Keel hung rudder ant heel fitting recently replaced. Misty is painted with Epifanes #27 grey enamel topsides paint with goldleaf cove stripe, white boot top and red bottom.

Engine:
2005 Yanmar 40 HP 3J4HEFWC 3 cylinder diesel engine with app 700 hours as of 9/10/18

Two blade fixed prop in aperture

App 6 knot cruise

Tankage:
60 gallons water in 3 copper tanks

20 gallons fuel in copper tank

Holding tank 10 gal bladder

Electrical:
!2 volt DC and simple 110 volt AC systems with Bass AC/DC circuit panel

Two 12 volt batteries

Amp meter

55 amp alternator

30 amp shore power hookup

20 Amp Guest battery charger

Accommodations:
Misty has the standard Concordia layout with rode stowage right forward followed by stowage under 2 pipe berths with head next aft to port and hanging locker opposite. The head is fitted with WC (Y-valve to holding tank), SS sink with manual fresh water, and stowage. The main cabin centers around the drop leaf locust table with settees port and starboard fitted with drop down Concordia backrests/berths. Cast iron Concordia stove is forward. The galley is aft with SS sink (manual fresh water) and SS lined ice box to port and two burner non pressurized Origo cook top to starboard. There is ample and cleverly designed stowage, and finish below is varnished raised paneled bulkheads with locust trim, withe paint and bare teak cabin sole. Ample ventilation is provided with two opening hatches, the companionway, opening ports, and ventilators with screens for portholes and hatches

Sails and Rigging:
Masthead yawl rig with roller furling jib.and varnished sitka spruce spars.

682 sq ft sail area

Varnished sitka and aluminum spinnaker poles.

Sails:

All in good-to-excellent condition and appropriate for the boat

2 Mainsails: one cruising main with Dutchman furling system, 2 + 2 battens: one racing main with large roach, 2 + 2 battens

Mizzen, built by Roy Downs

Light #1 Genoa

#2 Genoa, built by Roy Downs, roller furling

#2 Genoa Spare

#3 Working Genoa

Asymmetrical Chute with snuffer

1.5 oz Chute

.75 oz Chute

.5 oz Chute

Storm Trysail

Storm Jib

Spinnaker staysail, Dazy

Close Reach Mizzen Staysail

Broad Reach Mizzen Staysail

Mizzen Spinnaker

Mizzen – spare

Original Club Jib – with varnished spruce boom

All standing rigging (spliced terminals new 2006) and lifelines recently replaced.

4 original varnished ash shroud rollers

Spectra and Dacron Sheets and lines…

Barient and Harken winches

Harken main sheet traveler with fine tune

Harken pole lift

Numerous snatch blocks

Electronics:
Raymarine E120 GPS and Radar, on extending armature, with Analog Wind Angle, Digital App wind and True wind, Depth, and Digital Boat speed readouts.

110v outlets placed in wooden cases — 3

110v Shore Power plug

30ft Shore power cord

Autohelm Autopilot with tiller arm

Icom VHF Radio mounted below, antenna at masthead

LED masthead light with tricolor and anchor light

Boston clock and Barometer

Inventory:
4 cabin cushions, 4 berth mattresses

Sunbrella covers for sails and hatches

Concordia dodger with bronze bows

Screens for portholes and hatches

2 CQR 35 lbs., and 2 nylon rodes, with 10 feet of chain

Original Locust Deck drying grate for anchor rode

Thru-deck hawse for below-deck storage of rode

Harken mainsheet blocks with traveler with fine-tune tackle

4 Original Ash Shroud rollers

US Flag with staff

6 Green fitted Cockpit cushions

6 Life jackets

Two safety harnesses

3 Fire extinguishers

Bronze Bell mounted on mizzen mast

3 Fenders

6 Docklines

Spectra and Dacron Sheets and lines

Cockpit Awning

Spare cleats and blocks for Concordia, varnished

Spare 5 gal. fuel tank

2 Horseshoe life rings

Weather cloths

Jack lines and 2 harnesses

Radar Reflector

Engine spares

Bilge blower

Boxes of spare parts and lines

Spare set of spliced standing rigging

Spare wood and trim pieces, shelves, Locust boom crutch, 2 pinrails

Spare cutting boards (2) fitted to galley sink

Original running backstays and related

Canvas Forehatch ventilator and original bronze bows

2 Pigsticks

Removable Locust brackets for Dyer Dinghy mount on cabintop

Original Oak Bosun’s chair

Original US Ensign from date of launch 1959

Polished Silver dollar–1959, embedded at the maststep

Spare glass chimneys for oil lamp

Original corduroy cabin cushions

Two manual (Edson and Henderson) and one automatic electric bilge pumps

Dyer Sailing Dinghy, 7’11” with sail and spars, oars, daggerboard and rudder.

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Particulars

Length:
39 ft
Type:
Sail
Hull Material:
Wood
Designer:
Concordia Co.
Builder:
Abeking & Rasmussen
Year Built:
1959
Power:
40hp Yanmar 3JH4E Diesel
Asking Price:
$98,000
Name:
MISTY
Location:
Brooklin, ME, US
Contact Name:
Jim Payne - Yachting Solutions
Contact Phone:
207-518-8177