Fall Price Reductions

We have seller's who are serious about moving their boats this Fall;

28 Bristol Channel Cutter to $135,000

29 Back Cover '07 to $162,500

32' Judge to $99,000

Bristol Channel Cutter

"Jolie Brise", the 1984 Bristol Channel Cutter is getting some TLC on our display deck in anticipation of the Annapolis Boat Show. The owners are fortunate to have connected with my friend GlenRoy who has developed a sterling reputation in Annapolis for his skills with the varnish brush. His clients include the owners of Masons, Flemmings, Eastbays, and Grand Banks Yachts. Great boat and a great worker!

Steel Boat Project

Living and working around boats you see some amazing "happenings". I peeked under a tent at Bert Jabins Marina earlier this summer to see the early stages of a steel boat refit by Southbound Cruising Services,LLC. a local rigging company. In this time frame it was a scary movie with sandblasting being the primary focus of the restoration team. This is hard brutal work that was ongoing under a tent with 90 degree temps outside of the tent. It was as though they were "baking" a new boat!

Brian Duff is the project manager with numerous refits under his belt and the know-how that goes along with being a rigger who has come up through the ranks...

When I stopped by this morning I could not believe my eyes. This would most typically have been a multi year project with the likely scenario of never achieveing a launch but rather passing it along to the next sailor with a dream. Not this project; this baby is going in the water and to deeper latitudes pronto!

Amazing effort on the part of Southbound Cruising Services. If you are looking for help with your boat, drop me an email and I will connect you to Brian.

Bristol Channel Cutter (on deck!)

The newest addition to our brokerage display deck is a head-turner named "Jolie Brise". Built as a labor of love by Sam Morse in California in 1984, she recently sailed into Annapolis by owners who are offering the boat for sale. She is one stout boat inspired by the Pilot Boats of the eighteenth century. Lovely yacht!

Tugboats

There is nothing like a Tug....over the Holiday Weekend, my family was invited to help deliver a tugboat back to it's slip at the head of the Severn River. I have never seen so many smiles and waves directed at a "character boat". Even to the point of a passenger in a Whaler shouting out "I want your boat!".

Our friends Alice and Andy Mutsch have enjoyed this boat for several seasons following ownership of a Dickerson 37 Cutter.

Hinckley Bermuda 40's

I had a spectacular sail this morning from the Rhode River to the National Sailing Hall of Fame Docks as guest aboard "Bramare", Al Boersma's 1964 Yawl. We had about fourteen to sixteen knots of breeze out of the NE and smooth water. This good old boat can flat out sail upwind in part due to a nice fresh suit of North Sails....The B40's are celebrating their fiftieth birthday with a Chesapeake Cruise and are happy to have the first and most recently built boats in attendance.

The Hinckley name carries so much cache in the world of boats that preceptions develop about the owners of these classic yachts. No doubt there is a minority that may be motivated to own a Hinckley simply for bragging rights? I have developed a completely different viewpoint, that there are a number of owners who are still sailing their beloved boats actively and even hard, including a Chesapeake couple who are completing a circumnavigation....

Great day on a great boat!