Info on '1969 Stevens ketch'

[Doug Tutty]

I'm looking for any info on a boat listed for sale as '1969 Stevens ketch 37 feet'

http://brnwlsn.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ketch.jpg

http://brnwlsn.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ketch2.jpg

I'll try to get info from the owner or surveyor; the broker doesn't know sailboats.

I'm looking for any info/pics at all.

This boat is currently at Bluferd park marina in Scarborough (Toronto).

Thank,

Doug.

[Ron Williamson]

Do you mean Bluffers Park?
What kind of money?
R

[TR]

That would probably be Stevens Boatworks in Lunenberg, NS.

Tad

[Doug Tutty]

Yes I mean Bluffers (still have a splint on my left pointer).

$20,000 CDN.

I put an offer on it today, conditional on, among other things, survey and Jane's ability to tolerate it.

The surveyor' wife has a company called "The Surveyor's Wife", does cleaning and that sort of thing. After removing 22 60# lead ingots from the bilge, she then wet-vac'd 8" of ooz/slime. The owner had put water in the bilge to keep the planking moist during the year-long refastening. We followed that with bilge soap. Unfortunatly, with no battery aboard and no AC bilge pump, all the water we hosed in had to be wet-vac'd out. For now, it just has to be good enough for Jane to tolerate it.

It will be surveyed this week.

Then, since its dry and has no anti-fouling, apparently it has to go in the water for a few days to take up, then be hauled again to be painted, then launched again for winter. Somewhere in there, the Atomic IV has to be removed.

This is our first boat, and we're starting by living aboard for the winter. First sailing lesson will be how to sail from the slip to the pump-out dock with no motor. ;)

I'll see if I can Google my way to Steven's boatworks.

Thanks all.

Doug.

[reddog]

Here ya go Doug:
http://www.stevensboatworks.com/index.html
It's actually located in The Village of Chester,Nova Scotia.Under new ownership since'99.
The Stevens family was a large and very prolific boatbuilding clan here on the South Shore.Many well known and some famous boats were built by various Stevens'.
Earl

[Doug Tutty]

Thank,

I emailed them to see if they could reference it based on the registration number carved into it. Since it was just repainted, there's no name on the transom. I wanted to know if they had plans including the sail plan, and if it is their boat, what their consulting fee is (insetead or using a local marine archetect if needed re balasting after pulling the engine, transfering the movable balast (1800 lbs) to side-bulbs on the main keel, that sort of thing.

Their web site doesn't have a photo gallery or info on boats they've built. Anyone know of one, or an owner's club, etc?

[reddog]

Doug;
I know of no official association of Stevens boat owners.There are a number of Stevens built schooners in the N.S.Schooner Association:
http://www.nsschooner.ca/
If your boat is one of their own designs it may have been built from a half model.Although quite capable of building to a set of plans and offsets a lot of the builders were intuitive and would carve out a model of what they wanted and build to that.
Give Trond at stevens Boatworks a shout and I'm sure he will help you if he can.MMD on this forum may also have some information.
Earl
PS A nice looking boat.What are her specs?

[ 10-19-2003, 08:04 AM: Message edited by: reddog ]