1996 Herreshoff 34' (10.06 m)
Manchester, Massachusetts, United States
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Nathaniel Herreshoff’s Buzzards Bay 25 is widely considered to be one of the finest yacht designs of all time. Dramatically beautiful, extremely fast, yet easy to sail, with a large uniquely comfortable cockpit and just enough below to allow for the occasional over night or weekend cruise.
- Antique and Classics / Sloop
- Sail
- New
- Diesel
- Cold Molded Hull
- HIN/IMO: DAM00118F696
Description
Babb Yachts is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Brooklin Boat Yard. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel
Specifications
HIN/IMO: DAM00118F696
Official Number: 1106654
LOA: 34' (10.06 Meters)
Type: Sail- New
Year: 1996
Fuel Type: Diesel
Hull Material: Cold Molded
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Full Details
Principle Dimensions and Information
Designer: Nathaniel G. Herreshoff
Builder: Damian McLaughlin
Year Built: 1996
Hull Type: Keel / Centerboard
Hull Construction: Cold-Molded / Wood-Epoxy Composite
Rig Type: Fractional Marconi Sloop
LOA: 33’, 9”
LWL: 25’, 4”
Beam: 8’, 9”
Draft (Maximum): 6’, 6”
Draft (Minimum): 3’, 1”
Displacement: 7,400 lbs.
Ballast: 3,750 lbs.
Sail Area: 539 sq. ft.
Auxiliary Propulsion: Yanmar, Fresh-Water Cooled, 2-Cylinder Diesel
Engine Model: 2GM20F
Engine Horsepower: 18 HP
Fuel Capacity: 11.5 Gallons
Freshwater Capacity: 10 Gallons
Blackwater Capacity: 10 Gallons
Hull and Deck Construction
Hull is cold-molded wood-West System epoxy composite construction with Matterhorn White Awlgrip exterior finish. Exterior hull, centerboard and rudder below the waterline is coated with Green anti-fouling paint
Decks and housetop are marine plywood on fir deck beams overlaid with Dynel cloth set in epoxy with Light Buff exterior painted non-skid finish.
Trunk cabin sides, combings, toe rails, and companionway hatch, are solid teak with varnish exterior coating.
Cockpit benches and cockpit sole are solid teak.
Molded epoxy & fiberglass keel w/ 3,750 lb. lead ballast and centerboard trunk bolted to hull with stainless steel keel bolts, nuts and backing plates.
Wood-epoxy centerboard trunk w/lead ballast centerboard trunk in keel.
Composite marine plywood and West System epoxy centerboard w/integrated 200lb. lead
Deck Hardware
All deck hardware not associated with sail trim and handling is of cast or fabricated bronze construction. This to include docking line cleats and chocks, stem iron, backstay tang, chainplates, padeyes, turning blocks, jib club gooseneck, and deck fills.
Interior Accomodations
The Buzzards Bay 25’s are fitted out down below with just enough in the way of interior accommodation to allow for the occasional overnight or weekend cruise and for a few hearty sailors who don’t mind roughing it a bit longer cruises both in milage and days on the water.
Furthest forward is sleeping accommodations for two people with berths in a V-berth configuration and a “filler cushion” to turn the space into a true double berth if desired.
Under the V-berth “filler cushion” there is a fixed marine head plumbed for discharge either directly overboard or to a blackwater tank for later shore-side pump-out.
Aft of the sleeping accommodations are reading chairs both port and starboard.
Furthest aft (to port) is a galley area with a stainless steel sink basin with manually supplied cold freshwater and storage areas located under and outboard of the counter space.
Furthest aft (to starboard) is the engine area with engine located in a sound insulated engine box with a sliding top that when open allows complete access to the engine area and when closed provides for additional counter and food preparation space.
Since Eclipse is provided with a cockpit cover / boom tent the cockpit can easily become additional sleeping space for a couple more adult cruising companions or a whole pile of kids.
Spars and Rigging
Fractionally rigged, sloop configuration
Varnished Sitka spruce mast with fabricated bronze hardware and fittings.
Varnished solid Fir boom with custom fabricated bronze hardware.
Varnished solid Fir jib club with custom fabricated bronze hardware
Forespar aluminum whisker pole
Varnished Teak boom crutch.
Chainplates are bronze bar stock thru deck bolted to timber structure down inside hull sides.
Mast Step is solid wood step on keel.
Standing rigging (shrouds, jumpers, headstay & backstay) is 1x19 stainless steel wire with stainless steel swaged marine eye fittings and bronze open barrel turnbuckles adjusters.
Running rigging is low stretch braided halyards and control sheets in good condition.
Sails and Canvas
Downs Sails square-weave Dacron mainsail.
Downs Sails square-weave Dacron self-tacking jib
Downs Sails Dacron jib in new condition.
Mainsail cover Sage green Sunbrella
Club jib cover Sage green Sunbrella
Cockpit cover / boom tent Sage green Sunbrella
Interior seat and berth cushions
Sail Handling Equipment
Lewmar #16ST bronze single-speed, self-tailing sheet winches (2ea) on bronze bases port and starboard in cockpit.
Lewmar #16ST bronze single-speed, self-tailing halyard winches (2ea) port and starboard on cabin top.
Lewmar #6 bronze single-speed reefing winch on boom
Harken cam cleats and Herreshoff style bronze blocks on boom
Lewmar adjustable main sheet traveler, control blocks and cam cleats.
Multi-purchase mainsheet system with Lewmar blocks and can cleat.
Lewmar self-tacking club jib traveler
Lewmar self-tacking jib sheet and deck blocks
Winch handle
Navigational Equipment
Ritchie bulkhead mounted helm compass (2ea)
Auxiliary Propulsion and Fuel
1996, Yanmar, Model 2GM20F, 2-cylinder, freshwater-cooled, inboard diesel
Yanmar ignition panel with tachometer, and ngine status / warning lights and auible alarms
Engine Hours: Unknown, Assumed to be low as usage has only been for off and / or on dock or mooring.
Kanzaki, ModelKM2P transmission with 2.21:1 ratio
Vetus single lever throttle and transmission control
Stainless Steel 1” propellor shaft
Steel shaft coupling
Bronze/flax packing gland stype stuffing box
Bronze shaft strut with cutlass bearing
Maxprop bronze, feathering, 2-blade propellor
Tempo PVC fuel tank located in port cockpit seat locker
Fuel capacity: 11.5 gallons
Racor R12-S filter
USCG Type A1 and A1-15 fuel supply, return and vent hoses,
Electrical
Single Group 24 battery for both engine start and ship’s dc electrical systems
Battery located in secured plastic battery box under v-berth by mast step.
Perko rotary-style battery selector switch in engine space
Blue Seas DC circuit panel with voltage and amp meters
Blue Seas USB charging outlet
Marine grade insulated stranded copper wire, well-routed and supported to ABYC standards.
Battery charging by engine alternator
Fresh Water Plumbing and Sanitation Systems
10 Gallon freshwater stored in PVC water tank located under V-berth
Stainless steel sink basin in galley counter
Bronze manually operated hand pump
Jabsco manually operated MSD (toilet) located under V-berth filler,
10 Gallon blackwater tank located in forepeak
MSD system plumbed with Y-valve for discharge either overboard or by shore-side pump-out.
Ground Tackle
Danforth type anchor with appropriate chain and rode
Dewatering Equipment
Whale Supersub Smart 1100 in cabin bilge
Rule 500 with Rule-a-matic float switch in cockpit bilge
Edson manual in cockpit
Thirsty-Mate hand-held bilge pump
Safety Equipment
Type IV PFD’s / cushions (3ea)
Type III PFD’s / life jackets (3ea)
Fire Extinguishers (2ea)
Flares
Additional Equipment
Boat hook
Dock lines and fenders
Recent Work
2019: Complete removal and replacement of centerboard trunk.
2019: Engine removal, replacement of engine beds and engine area floor timbers, reinstallation, and alignment of engine
2020: Remove water damaged floor timbers in mast step area. Repair adjacent planking and bulkhead. Install new floor timbers. Install new mast step
Disclaimer
Brooklin Boat Yard offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.
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