PROJECT DETAIL

Rebecca of Vineyard Haven

60' GANNON AND BENJAMIN AUXILIARY SCHOONER

   Year: 2001

   British registration number:  905177

   Current price:  price upon request

   Located in Cannes, Frances

   Hull material:  wood

   Engine/fuel type:  Yanmar turbo charged diesel, 120hp

ADDITIONAL SPECS, EQUIPMENT AND INFORMATION:

    Designer: Nat Banjamin

    Builder: Gannon and Benjamin, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts

    Radar, VHF, GPS with chart plotter, inverter, watermaker,         depthsounder, pressure hot and coldwater, refrigeration, Max-prop

DIMENSIONS:

   LOA: 75' (sparred length)

   LOD:  60'

   LWL:  45'

   Beam:  14'8"

   Draft:  8'6"

   Displacement:  76,000 lbs (34 tons)

   Lead ballast:  26,000 lbs

   Sail area: 1,800 sq. ft. in 4 lowers

   Fuel:  120 gallons

   Water:  180 gallons

CONSTRUCTION:

   Angelique backbone, angelique and white oak framing, angelique and silver balli planking,  laid silver balli deck, teak deck furniture, bronze fastenings and keel bolts.  Custom cast bronze hardware.

   Spars:  hollow Sitka spruce, stainless steel rigging, bronze turnbuckles, Dacron running rigging.

   Bermudan mainsail, gaff foresail, staysail, genoa, yankee blade, fisherman topsail, trysail.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

    Sleeps 8 in 4 cabins (1 double). Two heads (one with shower).

For more information: See www.gannonandbenjamin.com (design gallery); email gandb@gannonandbenjamin.com  or kirkhouse@compuserve.com

 PHOTOS from left: Allison Shaw, Benjamin Mendlowitz, Allison Shaw.

 

Hope, 28' gaff yawl

     Hope is the third of four Tern class boats designed by Nat Benjamin, whose design was inspired by the Herreshoff ketch Rocinante.  Using a similar profile, Nat designed all the Terns for coastal cruising and daysailing by adding about 18" of beam, fuller sections, a larger cockpit and cabin, and close to 1,500 pounds of additional displacement.

    Down below, Hope has two V-berths, a galley area and a PortaPotti.

    Hope was built by Gannon & Benjamin in 2001.  The boat has an angelique keel and steam-bent white oak frames.  The canoe stern, fore keel and stem are grown (naturally curved) pieces of black locust lock-scarfed together.  The planking is Atlantic or Eastern white cedar save for the sheer strakes and garboards which are full length wana.  Angelique and wana are tropical hardwoods from Surinam, South America.  The deck and cabin top are marine plywood covered with Dynel cloth and painted. The cabin sides, cockpit coamings and toe rails are silver balli, also from Surinam.  About 3,400 pounds of cast lead ballast is secured to the keel with 3/4" bronze bolts.  All other fastenings are bronze.

    Specifications:

LOD:  28'3"   LWL:  24'2"  DRAFT:  3'10"    BEAM:  7'6"

Displacement:  8,000 lbs  Ballast:  3,400 lbs   Sail Area: 357 sq.ft.

    Rig:  gaff main and Marconi mizzen. Spars are Douglas fir. Standing rigging is hand-spliced stainless.

    All steering and deck hardware are bronze.

    Price:  $69,900

    Hope is located in Vineyard Haven, MA.

    For more information, write gandb@gannonandbenjamin.com or call 508: 693-4658

   

 

 

Epiphany, 32' gaff sloop

The Buzzards Bay 25 designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff is known for its speed and agility. The keel/centerboard gaff sloop Epiphany was built by Gannon and Benjamin to the original design in 2004

Epiphany is planked in white cedar over steam-bent white oak frames and fastened with bronze screws.  The backbone is white oak, locust and angelique. The ballast keel is lead, fastened with bronze keel bolts.  Floors are angelique, locust and white oak, bronze fastened.   The cabin trunk, cockpit coamings and toe rails are silver balli.  The deck, cabin top and cockpit sole are marine plywood covered with Dynel and painted.   Fastenings used throughout are bronze. Hardware is bronze, some custom cast.

Accommodations below:  two berths, as originally designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff.

Spars are Douglas fir and spruce, varnished.

Running rigging:   Dacron

Standing rigging:  7x7 stainless steel with spliced ends.   Cleats made of locust.

SPECIFICATIONS:

LOA: 32’   LWL: 25’   BEAM: 8’9"  DRAFT 3’.

Location:  Epiphany will be in Vineyard Haven harbor by Labor Day 200o.

Price:  $170,000 

Brokers: 

   Ged Delaney, 508: 563-7136, Ext. 43

   Steve Corkery, 631:  749-0700

   Cannell, Payne & Page:  207: 236-2383

Rightmost picture coutesy of Louisa Gould

Tern, 28' gaff yawl

     Built by Gannon & Benjamin in 1995, Tern is the first of Nat Benjamin's Tern class design, and she is identical in every way to Hope (see above), with two exceptions:

     Hope does not have an inboard engine. The owner, however, offers a choice of outboards to accompany Tern:  a Honda 2hp or Yamaha 5hp.

     And, Tern's deck has Dynel over marine plywood and a cabin top covered in canvas, whereas Hope has both deck and cabin top covered in Dynel.

     The boat is located in Vineyard Haven, MA.

     See Hope, above, for a full descripton of the boat.

     Price:  $49,000

    For further information, write gandb@gannonandbenjamin.com or call 508: 693-4658.