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Said to be among Nathanael Herreshoff’s favorite designs, the Buzzards Bay 25 sloop POSH is a Ferrari of a daysailer. And the fact that she was cold-molded by the Brooklin Boat Yard means that her annual maintenance will be relatively minimal over many years.
Description from Boat's Main Listing
(Was $130,000) POSH (formerly PRIDE) is one of three cold-molded Buzzards Bay 25s built by the Brooklin Boat Yard during the late 90’s to Nat Herreshoff’s beautiful and innovative 1914 design. Much like their plank-on-frame counterparts, these modern Buzzards Bay 25s have all the qualities of an exceptional daysailer. They’re beautiful to look at and have the speed and sailing characteristics to match. They differ in so far as they offer a maintenance regimen and conveniences a lot of potential boat owners will be more comfortable with.
POSH was built in 1996, received a significant refit at Brooklin Boat Yard in 2016 and has been exceptionally well-maintained since. Her Torquedo electric pod-propulsion is quiet, handy, unobtrusive to the interior and doesn’t require trips to the dock for fuel. POSH has a beautiful raw teak cockpit, a clean, painted hull interior and a simple cuddy for sail storage and ducking out of the weather. On deck her hardware is a practical mix of modern and period-correct and her sails, standing and running rigging have all all recently replaced. POSH will be getting new topsides paint, bottom paint and varnish for 2020. She is competitively priced and ready for showings in Belmont, ME.
The Buzzard’s Bay 25 Design:
The Buzzard’s Bay 25 is a one-design class designed by Nat Herreshoff 1914 for the Beverly Yacht Club to suit the prevailing conditions in their new location in Marion on Buzzard’s Bay. The new design would have to be shoal draft, able to sail in both light airs and in the strong sea breeze and wind-over-tide chop frequently found there. They were hybrid centerboard/ballast keel sloops sporting more beam, shorter overhangs and higher aspect rigs than his earlier designs. The resulting hull is stunning and said to be one of the designer’s favorites from his extensive body of work. Its beauty, simplicity and versatility make it a perfect candidate for a contemporary build of a classic design.
Hull Construction:
All layers laminated with West System epoxy
Inner layer: ¾” White cedar strip planking
Middle and Outer : 1/8” diagonal meranti veneers
Marine Plywood deck sheathed in epoxy-saturated Dynel cloth
Laminated deck beams and centerline timbers
Varnished Mahogany trim
Rigging and Sails:
Sails – North Sails main and self-tacking Jib in 2017, Pope Sails Asymeteric Spinnaker in 2019
Laminated Sitka Spruce spars: mast, main boom and jib boom
Keel stepped mast with a bronze collar at partners
Bronze gooseneck, turnbuckles, and spar hardware, mast and deck cleats
1/4” stainless 7×19 shrouds and headstay replaced in 2017
3/16” stainless 7×19 running backstays with Dynema purchases
All running rigging replaced in 2017-2019
Lewmar 60 series Airblocks
Propulsion:
Torquedo Sail Pod – mounted Stb’d side
13×9 folding 2 blade bronze prop
Electronics:
Two Torquedo Li-Ion batteries under cockpit seats
House battery at mast step for lights, bilge pumps and 12v phone chargers, panel in cockpit
Battery charger and 110v charger plug-in in cockpit
Solar Panel
12v Rule 900 GPH bilge pump
Additional Inventory:
Manual gusher bilge pump plumbed through centerboard trunk
Fenders
Docklines
Canvas sail cover
18lb Danfourth anchor and nylon rode
PFDs
Boathook
Particulars
- See This Boat's Main Listing on the Web
- Length:
- 32 ft 3 in
- Type:
- Sail
- Hull Material:
- Wood
- Designer:
- N.G. Herreshoff
- Builder:
- Brooklin Boat Yard
- Year Built:
- 1996
- Power:
- Torqueedo Sail Pod
- Asking Price:
- $125,000
- Name:
- POSH
- Location:
- Belmont, ME, US
- Contact Name:
- Rockport Marine Brokerage
- Contact Phone:
- (207) 236-9651
- Contact Email:
- [email protected]