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Browse Engines & Trailers Marine Servicenter - Anacortes Sales Center
(360) 982-8164
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700 28th St.
Get Advice On: Anacortes, WA 98221
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Class Sails Accommodations Dimensions

Category Center Cockpit Large Comfortable Owners Cabin: aft, entrance from Nominal Length 50
center cockpit or engine room/ Length Overall 53
Year 1975 port and starboard, which can be made up athwart- Length on Deck 50
ships forming large double berth. Max Draft 9.5
Make Herreshoff Number of storage areas, counter and storage Beam 14.17
shelves for charts and maps, etc. behind
Length 50' center cockpit bulkhead (adjacent to Navigation Accommodations
Station). Enclosed head is port with SS
Propulsion Type Other
sink and a shower, both with hot and cold water Cabins 2
system. Sump pump for shower pan. Heads 2
Hull Material Fiberglass
Manual marine head. Cabinet and 2 storage areas in
Head. A very comfortable and
Fuel Type Diesel
inviting environment.
Location Anacortes, WA Main Salon: Aft of Guest Cabin with privacy door.
Convertible U-shaped dinette table
makes into a comfortable berth portside and a
cushioned seating area (with swing up
back) can become a berth starboard. Numerous teak
cabinets and drawers for storage.
small TV with video capability, sound system and
speakers. Two electric fans. Beautiful
teak wood and two SS nautical oil lamps create a
lovely atmosphere in the salon.
Galley: Separated from salon by bulkhead with no
door. Built-in sliding opening above
sinks for passage of food and drinks. Large stainless
steel (SS) top-loading freezer and
front loading SS refrigerator both with cold plate
refrigeration. Large counter space for
the cook. Gimbaled three burner propane range and
oven. Two SS sinks with pressurized
hot and cold water and manual fresh and raw water.
Numerous teak cabinets for storage,
teak built-in cabinet for plates, bowl and cups, plus 2
wine cabinets. All make up a very
functional and fun galley.
Head is starboard to galley: Manual marine toilet; sink
with hot and cold water plus
shower with same pressurized system. Electric sump
pump for shower.
Center aft is ladders 5 steps to large self-bailing
Center-cockpit with comfortable seating
for 10, port and starboard. Helmsman seat against
the aft bulkhead behind wheel and
Companion way starboard aft of head leads from
galley to engine room/shop. Between
room entrance and head is hanging closet and
cabinet above 2 drawers and cabinet under
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plus cabinets and workbench with
mounted vise. Also a Prowatt 1000 Inverter and 1300
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generator, 20 amp per/hr battery charger. Force 11
Find gal. water heater. Two large
commercial starter batteries and 2 large commercial
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Two over and under berths
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starboard and a fold up berth port over sink with hot
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Browse Engines & Trailers hot and cold water system is pressurized). And set up
for 3rd marine head (removed)
Storage drawers and cabinets (alternative private
Resources entrance from deck.)

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Navigation Equipment
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center cockpit helm.
Boating Center cockpit/Helm: Simrad CE33 (map and chart
Read sounder); Garmin GPS map and
chart sounder; Standard Horizon Depth Sounder;
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Datamarine Knotmeter; Datamarine
Windpoint and Speedmeter; Sestral 5-inch
Cardmagnet compass; Cetec- Benmar
autopilot controls.
Navigation Station: Simrad IS15 (records Simrad
CE33); Garmin CPC, Map76C (Handheld
Garmin map and chart sounder); SR Marine
knotmeter; ICOMVHFFM marine
transceiver; ICOMVHFICM88; Furuno Radar (can
swing out to be seen at helm) Chelsea
Barometer; Seth-Thomas Chronometer; Kongo-Hatta
Sextant.
Engine Room/Shop: Cetec-Benmar autopilot and
related compass (Walker Taffrail logstored)

Machinery and Equipment

 
Perkins 6 cylinder 138 HP diesel engine
Manual twin disk transmission
SS shaft drives new bronze three-bladed propeller
Fuel: 2 black iron tanks with 225 gal. capacity
Shut-offs provided at tanks
Fuel taken from top on side deck
Vented overboard
Fresh water: 2 SS tanks below cabin sole with 225
gal. capacity
Nilssan vertical windless on the foredeck
2 Barlow 32 sheet winches; 1 Barlow 24 winch, 1
Barlow 16 winch
Barlow No. 2 cable drum winch on mizzen mast
Baron 7 winch on mizzen mast
Barlow 15, Barlow 26, and Baron 7 winches on main
mast.
Barlow 5 cable drum winch on main mast
Downhaul winch in center cockpit for centerboard
Swim ladder, boat hook
Cockpit dodger and totally enclosed cockpit awning
8 ft. fiberglass dingy mounted on SS davits at
transom

Rigging and Sails

 
Aluminum extrusion mast and booms are supported
by one by 19 stainless wire
rope to SS turnbuckles with bronze studs and SS
toggles and chain plates.
Standing rigging and running rigging in great
condition.
Sails: Large self-furling jib, Main, Mizzen.
Separate bagged: 150 Genoa; 90 Jib; Storm Jib;
Mizzen staysl;
extra Main, spinnaker; Sea Anchor.
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Safety Equipment
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Find SS bow and stern pulpits with double SS lifelines port
and starboard
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Running lights; masthead and spreader lights;
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floodlights
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Browse By State 8 Life preservers and man overboard equipment
Fiberglass box enclosed 4 man life raft and survival
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4 chemical fire extinguishers various locations
Resources Commercial fire prevention system in engine
room/shop
Get Advice On: Shut-off valves in galley and a propane tank
Buying All through-hull fittings equipped with bronze
seacocks
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Reviews Hull: One piece hand laid fiberglass in female mold;
glassed in tubular longitudinal
stringers in bilge and integral joiner work for stability.
Deck: 5/8 inch teak over fiberglass
Cabins: Fiberglass and solid teak Liner: Teak and holly
sole
Bulkheads: Teak and teak ply. Keel: Integral lead and
centerboard.
Interior: Above water line is polyurethane foam
insulated covered with painted solid

Disclaimer

The Company 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.

PROPULSION

Engine Make Perkins

Engine Model 6 CYL

Total Power 138hp

Engine Type Other

Fuel Type Diesel

1975 Herreshoff Ketch

Owner's career forced relocation.  Boat must go!

This Herreshoff 50 is a classic clipper style ketch with a large center cockpit, robust construction and fully equipped for live-aboard or offshore cruising. 
She has been lovingly taken care of and is in exceptional condition.  This boat is a rare find.  There were only twelve of these vessels made.

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