Member Boats

ALBATROSS

GP 14 #6718
Designed by Jack Holt 1960, Built by Chris White
Owner Kristin White
LOA 14’ Beam 5’0”
Draft 7”/ 3’0” Sail Area 102’ sq. ft. + spinnaker

Albatross was launched in 1966. She has been sailed on the south shore of Long Island, Tom River, NJ, the northern Chesapeake Bay and now mid-Bay out of the Severn River. Her construction is of marine mahogany and mahogany dead wood and trim. She is still mostly original with only replacement parts added when needed.

BAILEY B and LANDSEER

Whitehall pulling boats
Built by Shew and Burnham, South Bristol Maine
Owners: Virginia and Chris White
LANDSEER: 12’, built 1983
BAILY B: 16’, built 1988

Both boats are lightly-built clinker-fastened white cedar planks fastened to white oak frames. They have Herreshoff-shaped white oak rub rails and transoms, and mahogany seats. BAILEY B is a modern replica built to the lines of the 1850 Whitehall boat pictured in Chapelle’s American Small Sailing Craft. As he notes, these boats were used as livery boats in and around the ports of Boston and lower Manhattan, hence the name “Whitehall.” Both these boats are excellent pulling boats, the 16-footer more so as she closely represents the true historical length.

GENEVIEVE

Friendship Sloop
Built in 1980 by Emmet R. Jones, Vista, CA
Owners: Stacy Spaulding and Rayned Wiles
LOD 25′ LOA 33′
Draft 4’6″ Beam 8’6″

This is a cold molded, strip planked replica of S/V PEMAQUID built in 1910 in Bremen, Maine. GENEVIEVE is built off lines drawn by Howard Chapelle. Once ubiquitous along the coast of Maine, the iconic Friendship Sloop was used for lobstering and coastal trade from about 1880 to 1920. One Maine old-timer has described these boats as the “F-150s of the 1910s.” When lobstermen turned to motors and modern equipment, many of Maine’s seasonal residents acquired these sloops for summer adventures, thus beginning the Friendship Sloop’s long association with “yachting.” GENEVIEVE has sailed Pacific and Atlantic waters, and now resides in Baltimore, Md.

INTERLUDE

Luders 36 by Cheoy Lee
Owners: Virginia and Chris White
LOA 35’6” Beam 10’3”
Draft 5’3” LWL 25’
Sail area 596 sq. ft.
Commissioned 1970

INTERLUDE was designed in the early 60’s by A.E. Bill Luders Jr. to the CCA measurement rule. She has a full keel with a slight forward cut away and carries 5250 lbs. of outside lead ballast. Her fiberglass hull and cabin top is set off by teak decks and teak cabinetry down below. We purchased Interlude in 1992 in Maine and sailed her back to the Chesapeake that spring. We have cruised aboard her in every river on the bay, as well as a cruise around the Delmarva and a one-month cruise back to Maine revisiting Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor. In the 30+ years we’ve owned her, we have been continuing to replace and up grade her equipment in keeping with the style of the original design.

JOLLY DOLPHIN

Three sail bateau
Built in 1958 by James B. Richardson on LeCompte Creek, Dorchester County, MD
Owner: Jack Zuraw
Homeport: Magothy River
LOD 42’ LOA 64’
Draft 3’4” Beam 13’10”

The Jolly Dolphin is modeled on the Chesapeake Bay oyster dredgers and built for recreational use. Custom built for a family in Delaware, it passed into the hands of a half dozen owners from 1964 until 2007, the last of whom abandoned her ashore. The current owner, Jack Zuraw, found her and undertook a multi-year restoration journey. See more about the restoration process at thejollydolphin.com.

PANTHER

Brigantine Schooner
Owners: Peter & Kate Gentry
USCG Doc.# 1127771, MARAD waiver issued for approved foreign hull use due to historic past and construction methods.
Builder: Van Praet & Van Damme Shipyards, Baasrode, Belguim
Built and launched: 1930-1933
Hull material: Black iron plate riveted, steel decks
Weight: 75 tons
LOA: 65' LOD: 54'
Beam: 15' Draft: 7'

Panther was one of four sisterships (Panther, Leopard, Tiger and Löwe, or Lion) built in Baasrode for the German Navy to act as small sail training ships for naval academy cadets and midshipman. As a Typ Drei (Type 3) vessel, she would have given the younger and less experienced service members experience not only in basic sail handling and seamanship but also experience climbing rigging to prepare them for the larger Typ Zwei(2) and finally Typ Eins (1) vessels such as the Horst Wessel (now the USCG Barque Eagle). During the Second World War all were militarized and cruised as radio transmission, aircraft spotter and air sea rescue vessels. Two survived the war, Panther and a sistership that sails out of Oslo, Norway. Panther was discovered by Peter and Kate in Venezuela and sailed to the U.S. where she was surveyed and cruised along the East Coast and the Chesapeake Bay while restoring her rig and topsides to original configurations. She is currently involved in a complete gut and interior refit in Cambridge, Md., so that she will have another 90 years of sailing.

REBEL

Formerly: ISLAND BELLE and VIRGINIA BELL
Owner: C. Dean Worcester (1915-1995)
LOA 65' LWL 51'
Fixed keel draft 5'10 Centerboard draft 10'

Rebel was designed by Wirth Munroe and built at Gingras Boat Works, Cocoa, FL. Her hull was Florida pine and she was designed and built to cruise to the Bahamas, which is why she had a centerboard. Dean had seen her on the cover of a sailing magazine when she was new and vowed to some day own her, which he did in 1961. Originally all three sails were gaff rigged, but Dean tired of his weekend charter crews dropping the mizzen mast gaff on his head, so he had a new Marconi sail built to replace it. Rebel raced in the first ever Governors Cup Race, the ASTA Norfolk - Baltimore Race (1st Cruising sailboat - 1st Schooner - 1st Gaff Rigged Vessel) and in several ASA October Schooner Races held at Mystic Seaport. On July 15, 1983, a lightning strike at the John M. Williams Company in Hall Quarry (Bar Harbor) started a fire that "destroyed buildings, boats and equipment" with Rebel being one of them.

SEA WOLF

Pearson Vanguard hull #244
Designer: Phillip Rhodes
Builder: Pearson in 1965
Owner: Michael Brown

SEAWOLF has been in the family since my Father purchased her in 1969. I grew up aboard SEAWOLF sailing her with Dad on the Chesapeake from 1969 on and became her caretaker when he passed away in 2005. Living on the Severn River, she’s been used mostly as a weekend cruiser on the upper Chesapeake with the occasional race with other slow boats tossed in here and there just for fun. She even won her class in the 2019 GOBR. Good Old Boat magazine featured SEAWOLF along with two other Vanguards with similar history in their story Growing Up Vanguard.