1997 Covey Island Boat Works 49'

14.94 m
$ 280,000 USD
Center Harbor Road, , 04616USABrooklin ME 04616 USA
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1997 Covey Island Boat Works 49'

  • 14.94 m
  • Diesel
  • Sail
  • Motorsailers
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
In Stock #2839339

1997 Covey Island Boat Works

49' (14.94 m) WALRUS

Designed by L. Francis Herreshoff and built by Covey Island Boat Works WALRUS is the perfect motor sailor

Newport, Rhode Island, United States
   Vessel ID: 2839339
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1997 Covey Island Boat Works 49'

  • 14.94 m
  • Diesel
  • Sail
  • Motorsailers
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
In Stock #2839339

$ 280,000 USD

$ 386,156 CAD*
242,255 Euros*
£ 211,135 GBP*
*estimated foreign exchange

Description

Judges Choice For Best In Show

2025, WoodenBoat Show, Mystic CT

WALRUS

As taken from L. Francis Herreshoff’s Sensible Cruising Designs with some slight editing and updating.


Here is a design (Walrus) for a twin-engine power vessel with enough sail area and lateral plane to get where she wants to go under sail alone if that is her owner’s need or wish. She is a 50 / 50 cruiser or motorsailer, but she really seems to be a power craft with auxiliary sails. This makes a fine type of cruising vessel, for she will make good passages in any ordinary weather and her rig will keep her steady, add to her speed on many runs and make her far more interesting and fun to handle than is the out-and-out power craft.


She is easily handled by a cruising couple, and offers full privacy for a second couple. Walrus has a beautifully appointed wooden interior, yet her fiberglass/epoxy exterior and aluminum rig require the same maintenance level as a fiberglass vessel.


Her hull lines are easy throughout, and she is an excellent sea boat with a smooth motion. The rig is versatile and easy to

handle. Her power is a pair of 75 hp. Perkins diesels turning Luke feathering propellors and these send her along at a comfortable cruising speed of 7.5-8 knots which when combined with her easily managed sail plan should provide excellent fuel economy.


Walrus’s cabin plan shows a sensible interior arrangement with private (double berth with ensuite facilities) sleeping cabins fore and aft separated by galley / dining areas and pilot house. Even more berthing space can be had (if needed) by making use of settees located in the forward cabin and pilothouse or by converting the galley dinette into another double berth allowing for sizable family gatherings / cruises made all the more sweet a memory when the added crew has gone back home or to school and serenity returns onboard.


Walrus seems clearly to be the type of boat most suited to sailors (men and women) who have mostly “seen and done it all” and are now content and perfectly satisfied to use their time comfortably cruising without schedules or agendas.


Walrus is a new listing for Brooklin Boat Yard. We now have more complete information as regards systems and equipment (see below). Pictures (as they say) are worth a million words and we hope you’ll enjoy these photos of Walrus and especially so the recent photos of her interior so generously offered for our use by Onne van der Wal

LOA48'

LOA Inch6''

LOA14.78''

TypeSail

ConditionUsed

Specifications

Name

WALRUS

HIN/IMO

QLU48065F797

48'6" (14.78 Meters)

Sail-Used

Year

1997

Fuel Type

Diesel

Hull Material

Cold Molded

Full Details

Principle Dimensions and Information

Designer:: L. Francis Herreshoff

Design Type: pilot house ketch

Builder: Covey Island Boat Works

Year Built: 1997

Construction: Strip-planked wood / epoxy / FRP composite

construction

LOA: 48.5’

LWL: 44.0’

Beam: 13.8’ (14’-2” with rub rails)

Draft: 5.2’

Displacement: 40,000 lbs.

Ballast: 18,000 lbs.

Sail Area: 900 sq. ft.

Propulsion: Perkins model 4.236 / 72 hp. Diesel (2ea.)

Fuel Capacity: 480 gals. (240 x 2)

Freshwater Capacity: 412 gallons (247 + 165)

Hull Construction

Wood/epoxy/fiberglass composite.

Laminated Douglas Fir centerline and frames, with Sitka Spruce strip planking covered by three layers of bi-axial fiberglass andepoxy. The interior is heavily coated with epoxy and the frames are filleted to the planking.

Paint is Quantum two part compoundable polyurethane.

Deck, Cabin and Pilothouse Construction

Decks and houses are fir marine plywood covered in fiberglass cloth and epoxy.

All exterior trim (cap rails, eyebrows, hatches, benches, Dorade boxes) are teak

Interior Accommodations

All accommodation bulkheads show v-grooved staves or raised panels painted white. Trim is varnished mahogany. Doors have mahogany frames with caned centers or white painted raised panels. Pilothouse sole is cherry, Stateroom soles are Sapele. Deck beams are painted white with varnished mahogany bottom laminated.


Accomodations (fore to aft)

Large lined chain locker, aft side forms a watertight bulkhead. Forward head, has a composting toilet, mahogany vanity with sink and a separate and spacious stall shower with teak seat and floor grating. Three opening bronze ports plus an overhead teakb hatch provide abundant ventilation. Forward stateroom with large double berth, ample lockers, shelves, drawers, hanging locker, and settee. Four bronze opening ports, two bronze opening hatches.

Pilothouse (with engine room under). 360 degree visibility with a ship-like feel. Cozy when it’s cold or wet, and extremely well ventilated in the heat, it really will spoil you! The helm is a cast bronze fisherman style wheel from Lunenburg Foundry in NS. The port after end forms an L shaped dinette around a beautiful mahogany table, while the starboard side houses a Luke soapstone and brass woodstove.

Engine Room: The engine room is well laid out with a central work area beneath the wheelhouse.

Dining area and Galley- open space to the top of the wheelhouse gives the U shaped dining area a spacious feel. The table can be replaced with an insert to form a third double berth if needed. The U shaped galley has a custom stainless countertop and backsplash, a three burner Force 10 propane stove with oven, new in 2021. The Sea frost fridge and freezer systems were new in 2023. There is ample ventilation including opening ports and overhead hatch.

*Aft stateroom and Head- A second cabin with total privacy has a large double berth and it’s own enclosed head with vanity, sink and composting toilet. An aft companionway ladder leads to the seating area on the afterdeck. There is a small dressing settee opposite the berth. Large caned lockers flank the ladder.

Lazarette- a second watertight bulkhead forms the large full width Lazarette, capable of holding fenders, buckets and mops,

spare lines, diving gear, folding bikes or whatever!

Spars and Rigging

Tapered aluminum masts, aluminum booms, all spars were reAwl gripped white in 2023. All standing rigging, turnbuckles

and some running rigging replaced in 2023.

Harken sail tracks and a Pro Furl Genoa furler.

Sails and Canvas

Sails and Canvas

All sails in very good condition.

Cream colored Dacron working sails by Port Townsend (WA) sailmakers.

Main and mizzen have full length battens on low friction Harken “Batt cars” and lazy jacks.

Main has 2024 Doyle stack pack cover.

135% masthead Genoa on Schaefer furler.

Asymmetrical cruising spinnaker hoists in a sock for easily controlled deployment and retrieval.

Full winter cover.

Covers for cap rails, Dorade boxes, and hatches.

Easily set sun awning with side panels for after deck.

Sunbrella shades for all 16 pilothouse windows.

Mosquito nets for doors and hatches.

Electronics and Navigational Equipment

All electronics are Raymarine Axiom, new in 2021.

12” Axiom pro MFD with GPS.

Depth, speed, water temperature.

Wind speed and direction.

AIS class B transponder.

Doppler Radar (color).

Evolution “smart” autopilot with new pump and ram.

VHF (Standard Horizon “Eclipse” with GPS)

Auxiliary Propulsion

Two (2) Perkins 4.236 naturally aspirated diesel engines with ZF mechanical transmissions.

CV joints mounted on heavy duty stainless steel brackets take the thrust from the twin Luke 3-blade feathering propellers.

Fuel Systems and Equipment

480 gallons of diesel fuel in two 240 gallon tanks. Each tank feeds one of its own two Racor filters.

Dipsticks are used for reliable metering

Electrical Systems and Equipment

680 Watts of walkable solar panels on pilothouse rooftop.

Individual controllers for each panel in engine room.

Two (P&S) 200 amp AGM engine starting batteries.

Three parallel 2023 LFP 300 amp each (900AH total) house batteries.

2024 30 amp shore power cord.

Xantrex 3000 watt inverter/charger.

Freshwater Plumbing and Sanitation Systems

Groco heavy duty bronze freshwater pump And Whale PEX water lines.

Engine or 115V water heater.

Composting toilets

Ground Tackle Systems and Equipment

100lb.Manson (NZ) bower anchor.

300’ of 7/16 type 4 hot dipped galvanized chain. (New 2021)

Bruce secondary anchor.

Nylon webbing style drogue.

Powerful Maxwell windlass with chain gypsy and rope drum.

Spare rope rode.

Recessed salt water washdown hose.

Dewatering Equipment

Three electric bilge pumps

Safety Equipment

Eight life jackets

Flares

Bell

Horn

Anchor light and ball

Four fire extinguishers

Engine room fire suppression system

Remote solenoid propane shutoff valve

Propane sensor in galley bilge

Life sling

Additional Equipment

2023 Espar hydronic three zone diesel heating system.

2023 Highfield 11.5’ aluminum bottom RIB with Tohatsu

5HP propane outboard motor.

2022 dinghy davits.

Contact

For more information about this yacht, please contact John Maxwell We look forward to working with you!

For more information about this yacht, please contact John Maxwell. We look forward to working with you!

For more information about this yacht, please contact John Maxwell.

WALRUS 49ft Covey Island Boat Works Yacht For Sale
John Maxwell
Broker

Center Harbor Road

Brooklin ME 04616 USA