SANDPIPER
Winthrop Warner Designed Auxiliary Ketch:
Length on Deck: 34’-8” LWL: App.28’ Beam 11’–0”
Draft 5’-8”
Headroom 6’-3” Displ: App.22,000lb.
Builder: Gordon Swift of Kensington, NH, with final completion, spars
& rigging by Bill Page, Camden, ME. Completion date 1979
Construction:
Eastern white cedar carvel planking over white oak frames;
copper rivet fastened. Long leaf yellow pine garboards, broad strakes
and shear strakes. White oak backbone. Long leaf yellow pine rails,
trunk sides & coamings. Two layers fiberglass over 5/8” marine
plywood deck. Cabin overhead is ½” laid pine w/vee groves,
covered with 3/8’ marine plywood and two layers fiberglass. Locust
rail caps, hand rails, skylight & hatch risers, Virginia cedar fw’d
and companionway hatches – all beautifully finished with AWL-BRITE
PLUS. Self-bailing cockpit with raked coamings which are curved in plan
view aft to form very comfortable seating. Teak seats with stowage lockers
beneath. App. 6700 lb. lead ballast keel; also some inside lead ballast.
Engine:
Westerbeke “40” diesel, 40 H.P. F.W.C. through
heat exchanger. Hurth 2:1 gear. 17”X11” three blade wheel.
Engine extensively gone over in 2002 – new injectors and hi pressure
& return fuel lines, new coolant circulation pump, heat exchanger
cleaned and ends replaced, new exhaust elbow, valves adjusted, all hoses
replaced, and entire engine cleaned and repainted – looks like
new.
Tanks:
App. 36 gal. SS fuel tank.. App. 70 gal.
water in two stainless tanks. Recent 25 gal. SS holding tank.
Electrical:
12-Volt system – Two H.D. 12-volt
batteries w/master switch. Batteries new Spring 2005. Also, a 110 Volt
A.C. generator driven from the 12 Volt system. Recent battery charger.
Accommodations:
Rope locker in forepeak w/2 bins.
Vee berths fw’d w/shelves outboard and lockers beneath. An enclosed
head is next aft to port w/stainless fold-up wash basin, linen lockers
and shelves, etc. Hanging locker and chest of drawers are opposite to
stb’d – with a Force 10 LPG cabin heater. The main cabin
has a settee and pilot berth on each side – the pilot berths were
designed and built to extend inboard to a wide comfortable width in
a manner similar to the well known “Concordia” berths. There
are stowage lockers beneath the pilot berths outboard of the settees,
and a well-made cherry drop-leaf dining table w/long silverware drawer
is on center. An opening skylight provides excellent ventilation and
light, and there are four deck prisms fw’d. The Galley
is aft: to port is a stainless sink w/a Concordia made bronze hand pump,
stainless refrigerator w/engine driven Sea-Frost unit installed 1988,
dish racks, and, stowage lockers beneath the varnished cherry counter.
Opposite to stb’d is a Luke-Heritage 3 burner LPG gimbaled stove
(1988) w/oven, ample stowage lockers, followed by a good sized quarter-berth
aft. The interior is nicely finished in satin varnished pine bulkheads
with locust and butternut joinerwork and trim. Off-white painted hull
sealing, overhead, and trunk sides, locust cabin sole and companionway
ladder. Two bronze opening ports fw’d and one aft. All berth and
settee cushions recently replaced - new foam, and Sunbrella covering
- like new condition. (SANDPIPER’S Interior was featured in the
book “Classic Yacht Interiors”, and in “Matter of
Detail” section of Jan/Feb ’87 issue [#74]
of “Wooden Boat” magazine.)
Sails and Rigging:
Main, Mizzen, and Roller Furling Genoa
– All New by Nat Wilson 1999 – Like New Condition. Harken
Roller Furling System. Khaki colored sail covers. Stainless standing
rigging w/Merriman bronze turnbuckles. Stainless halyards with dacron
tails. Considerable custom-made bronze hardware & fittings. Hollow
box section Sitka Spruce spars – finished w/Intertlux Grand Banks
Beige. Bowsprit is easily removable.
Equipment:
60 lb. Yachtsman’s Anchor –
stows in deck chocks; 50 lb. and 42 lb. Yachtsman’s anchors –
stow on bowsprit from roller chocks each side; two nylon Rodesw/chain
leads – anchors and chain recently regalvanized; boat hook; Whale
Gusher diaphragm bilge pump; emergency pumping capability from engine;
new Rule elect bilge pump –not yet installed; recently rebuilt
Ritchie 5” spherical compass mounted in custom made bronze binnacle/pedestal;
nylon dock lines; five nearly new 8” dia. fenders; fire extinguishers;
four genoa sheet snatch blocks; life preservers; life sling; life lines
w/custom cast bronze stanchions & bases; bronze 2 speed manual anchor
capstain; two #2 and one #3 bronze halyard winches; two Barrient #27
two speed self-tailing bronze genoa sheet winches (1989); bronze and
locust main boom gallows frame; two “Jiffy Reefing” systems
rigged for main and one on mizzen; lazy jacks for mizzen; lignum vitae
wood shell blocks; Boston Chelsea clock & barometer; dishes &
glassware w/butternut racks; tableware; Garman “MAP 235”
GPS and Sounder; Icom-59 VHF.
Comments:
SANDPIPER was custom built to high quality
standards by Swift Custom Boats of Kensington, NH with final completion
work, spars, rigging, custom hardware, and other finishing details in
Camden, ME by Bill Page.
SANDPIPER is a classic Winthrop Warner
traditional design and has proven to be an able and comfortable cruising
vessel which, with her ketch rig, is easily handled and has an especially
easy motion. She was built for our own personal use, and we sailed her
for 9 seasons before passing her on because of building another boat.
The accommodations are very comfortable, and give one a “warm”
and spacious feeling when stepping below.
For the past eight years SANDPIPER has been lovingly cared for and continually
upgraded by a most meticulous owner – I have personally just inspected
her and found her to be in outstanding condition. She is being offered
for sale only because of a change in her owners circumstances and it
is most important to him that she goes to another caring owner who will
fully appreciate the boat, and preferably, bring her back to salt water.
I shall be pleased to furnish further details.
NOW SOLD
All listings subject to prior sale, withdrawal,
or change in price without notice.
Particulars believed correct, but not guaranteed.
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