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.
Particulars
- See This Boat's Main Listing on the Web
- 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