Description
Baby Blue, Sail No. 249 in the Friendship Sloop Society, was built in 1983 by the Jarvis Newman Company of Southwest Harbor, Maine. She is the last Newman Pemaquid built to date and a beautiful example of a traditional Maine sloop with modern amenities. Her hull is hand-laid fiberglass, and she has a one-piece molded fiberglass deck assembly with teak overlay. Her current homeport is Falmouth, Maine, but for many years she was on Lake Champlain. Her recent two owners have given her excellent care and upgrades as necessary. For the buyer who appreciates Maine's own classic sloop with proven stability, Baby Blue may be your sloop!
Panacea Yacht Group is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Newman Marine Brokerage. 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
Full Details
Construction
Baby Blue is Hull #18, and was built by the Jarvis Newman Boatyard in Southwest Harbor, Maine, along with her fiberglass deck assembly. She was finished by the Malcolm Pettegrow Boatyard also in Southwest Harbor in 1983. Her hull is solid hand-laid fiberglass. One-piece molded fiberglass with balsa core deck assembly with self-bailing and watertight cockpit, coamings, cabin ports, companionway hatch, and oiled teak overlay on cockpit seats and sole, and side decks. Varnished teak covered companion way boards and trim, toe rails, handrails, and coamings. External 2000-lb. lead keel fastened with bronze keel bolts. Deck and cockpit scuppers piped overboard. Custom bronze hardware. Edson wheel steering. A large cockpit and bridge deck that seat six comfortably.Topsides are awlgripped in Empress Blue.
Engine
Westerbeke 17 HP, FWC diesel. Hurth transmission. 2003 1" SS shaft swinging a 2-blade bronze prop. Single-lever Morse controls in cockpit. 750 engine hours. Good access to engine through cabin door under companionway.
Sails and Rigging
Main: Fortune 1983
Jib: Roller furled Vermont Sailing Partners, 2005
Staysail: Roller furled by Vermont Sailing Partners, 2012
Total sail area: 432 sq. feet, plus topsail and flying jib by Fortune, unk. year, very good condition
Varnished solid sitka spruce spars--boom, gaff, staysail boom, topmast--and Douglas fir bowsprit. 2014 New Douglas fir laminated, hollow mast with electrical wiring by Paul Rollins of York, ME. SS standing rigging and Lignum Vitae deadeyes. Dacron running rigging. Custom bronze hardware includes main gooseneck, boom bail, and eagle billet head.
Speed
6 knots under power
Electrical
12V battery w/master switch, 1-2-Both, and a circuit breaker panel for accessories, which include navigational lights, cabin lights, bilge pump.
Accommodations
Baby Blue sleeps four in cabin with 2 vee berths forward and 2 quarter berths aft, 4" thick blue cushions for all berths (6'6" long). Galley consists of 2-burner CNG stove, SS sink with cold water hand pump, and ice box. Formica countertop, lockers and shelves outboard and below. The manual head is located between vee berths, plumbed to holding tank. Hanging shelves and storage beneath berths. White ceiling and bulkheads, varnished teak cabinets and trims, and varnished teak and holly cabin sole. Electric lighting, six fixed port lights and companionway opening w/screen for good light and ventilation.
Cockpit seating for 6+. Oiled teak seats and bridge deck overlay, and cockpit teak sole. Varnished teak companionway hatch, slats and trim, coaming cap, toe rails and hand rails. Bronze deck hardware and bronze & teak gallows frame aft. The decks were recalked in 2018. Blue Sunbrella covered cockpit cushions.
Equipment
Compass
Depth Sounder & Speed Indicator
Danforth Anchor #12, chain & 200' rode
Manual & Electric Bilge Pumps
Fire Extinguisher
Horn
Dock Lines and Fenders
Bronze gallows frame for boom
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.