Principle Dimensions and Information

Designer: Joel White (design #29)

Builder(s): James Pearson / Brooklin Boat Yard

Year Built: Launched May 11, 2015

LOA: 29’ 4”

LWL: 23’ 7”

Beam: 9’ 2”

Draft: 4’ 2”

Displacement: 10,525 lbs.

Sail Area: 430 sq. ft.

Auxiliary Propulsion: Beta 25 Diesel Inboard

Fuel Capacity: 20 Gallons

Fresh Water Capacity: 35 Gallons

Interior Headroom: Standing

Interior Accommodations and Features

Under her first ownership Northern Rose was used exclusively for day sailing here in Brooklin, Maine. Reflecting this intended use the interior accommodations were quite simple and straight forward with little in the way of unnecessary extras. 

Her current owner wanting to feel comfortable going further afield has made some thoughtful upgrades to Northern Rose such as adding a helm compass, GPS chart plotter, teak handrails below decks and installing an Airhead composting toilet (replacing the previous bucket).

Coming down the companionway from the cockpit there is a simple galley space to port and an open / wet locker space to starboard. Next forward is the main saloon area with settee berths port and starboard with shelf space above and outboard of the settees and a bulkhead mounted table that folds down to provide dining space for up to four people. 

The galley and main saloon areas are nicely finished off in the Herreshoff style of white painted bulkheads and joinery accented by satin varnished Mahogany trim. The cabin sole is teak board left bare / natural finished and the area is well lit and ventilated by four bronze opening ports (with screens) in the cabin sides.

Going forward from the main saloon one enters the forward cabin. This space houses the Airhead composting toilet immediately to port and there is a raised platform forward underneath which is housed a 35-gallon water supply tank. If the next owners of Northern Rose so desired it would be quite easy to convert the forward cabin to a private sleeping cabin with the addition of bunk either in a V-berth configuration of an off-set Pullman-Style double berth. Furthest forward is the storage area for anchor chain and rode. As in the main saloon area there are (two) bronze opening ports in the cabin sides to provide for light and ventilation and the cabin sole is teak board left (bare) natural.

When first designed and drawn by Joel White, this boat was to be equipped with a galley stove, galley sink, ice box cold storage, a freshwater system plumbed for (manually pumped) supply and (overboard discharge) drain. With the exception of a galley sink none of these features are currently installed aboard Northern Rose but there is the space and design work already done for installation either by a boat yard or the skilled amateur

Hull and Deck Construction

Double-ended, full keel with cut away fore foot and keel hung rudder configuration.

Raised cabin house and deep self-bailing cockpit

Large sail /seat lockers in cockpit with additional lazarette storage areas aft of cockpit. 

Stem, backbone, stern post and deadwood are of mahogany.

Hull is strip planked with 1 1/8” x 1 1/8” northern white cedar with an external layer of 1202 fiberglass cloth set in epoxy.

Locust shear clamp and deck beams.

Decks and cabin top are of marine plywood over-laid with Dynel cloth set in epoxy and painted with a non-skid surface.

House sides, front and back, cockpit coamings and sides are marine plywood with painted surface.

Varnished Mahogany used for cabin eyebrows, companionway drop boards, hatch slide and trim.

External lead ballast keel and internal trim ballast in bilge.

Bulwarks, topsides, cabin sides and cockpit painted Semi-Gloss White

Boot stripe is painted Jade Mist Green color

Bottom painted with Pacifica anti-fouling paint / Green color.

Decks and cabin top are painted (Awlgrip) / Desert Sand color.

Interior surfaces are painted semi-gloss white with satin finish varnished Mahogany trim.

Deck Hardware

Bronze stem iron, backstay tang and chain plates

Bronze bow chocks

Bronze chain pipe to ground tackle locker 

Bronze Sampson post / mooring bit

Bronze hawse holes aft

Bronze docking cleats aft

Bronze lifeline stanchions with gates port and starboard

Double (upper and lower) stainless steel wire lifelines

Bronze self-tacking jib traveler

Bronze main sheet traveler

Bronze cleats for mainsheet, jib sheet and furling line.

Bronze opening ports in cabin sides (4 each port and starboard)

Spars and Rigging

Fractionally rigged, single-spreader with jumper-strut sloop configuration.

Varnished Sitka Spruce mast, boom and jib club

Stainless steel wire standing rigging (shrouds and stays) with bronze turnbuckle adjusters.

Bronze mast hardware, halyard sheaves and blocks

Bronze main sail track

Varnished Ash cheek and bronze sheave mainsheet and jib sheet blocks

Merriman bronze single-speed main and jib halyard winches (P&S on mast)

Roller-furling / self-tacking jib

Harken roller-furling headstay 

Sails and Canvas

Doyle Sailmakers 2015 (lightly used)

Mainsail with deep (jiffy) reef

Roller-furling jib

Mainsail cover

Auxiliary Propulsion

Beta Marine, 3-cylinder, fresh water cooled, diesel, 20 HP

Beta Marine ignition panel with tachometer, hour meter and engine alarms.

Kobelt single-lever, bronze, throttle and transmission control

Stainless steel propeller shaft

Fixed, two-blade bronze propeller

Groco raw water filter

Engine access from cockpit lockers (port and starboard) and behind companionway stairs.

Fuel Systems

Bronze fuel fill fitting in cockpit sole

Fuel tank located aft of engine under cockpit sole.

20 Gallon aluminum fuel tank

Parker R201 water and fuel separator primary fuel filter

Plumbing and Sanitation Systems

35 Gallon poly water supply tank located in forward cabin with gravity fed supply faucet.

Airhead composting toilet

Electrical Systems

Single 12-volt marine battery in secured storage in port sail locker.

Two position (on-off) primary battery switch

12-volt outlets (2) in galley area

Electronics and Navigational Equipment

Helm compass

GPS chart plotter

Ground Tackle

Danforth anchor storage in secure chocks in starboard sail locker

Anchor chain and 3-strand nylon anchor rode stored in ground tackle storage area forward.

Additional Equipment

Fenders with dark green fleece fender covers

Docking lines (4)

Boarding ladder

Boat hook

Fire extinguisher

Electric / automatic Rule Mate 500 GPH bilge pump