Eldridge McInnis 47 Cutter Prowess
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$ 90,000 USD
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PROWESS HAS BEEN DONATED TO MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION AND OFFERED FOR CHARTER WITH OPTION TO PURCHASE
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Prowess has been stored and maintained at Portland Yacht Services for many years. She has received regular and thoughtful updates over the years, ensuring that she remains in above average condition. Her appearance is impressive, she sails gracefully, and she is now in turn-key condition, and ready for new adventures on the water.
44 Bay View Street
Camden ME 04843 United States
Official Number: 950077
LOA: 47' 0'' (14.33 Meters)
Type: Sail- Used
Year: 1947
Beam: 11'
LWL: 38' 0''
Draft Max: 6' 6''
Heads: 1
Fuel Type: Diesel
Hull Material: Wood
Fuel Tank: 40 Gallons (151.42 Liters)
Holding Tank: 30 Gallons (113.56 Liters)
Designer: Eldredge McInnis
Prowess is a 47-foot cutter designed by Eldredge-McInnis and constructed at the Stockden yard in Detroit, Michigan, back in 1947. Although her hull design is similar to Eldredge-McInnis's Eastward schooners, she was uniquely equipped with a tall Marconi cutter rig, which was tailored to better handle the Great Lakes sailing conditions. Originally known as the Bonne Homme Richard, Prowess made her way to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, from Cleveland, Ohio in 1984 for a comprehensive three-year restoration project.
During this extensive refit, the vessel underwent a significant transformation. The process involved removing the ballast, dismantling the deck, cabin house, and interior to provide access for the restoration work. A substantial portion of the framing, planking, and backbone was replaced to ensure structural integrity. Prowess received a brand-new deck, an expanded and improved cabin house, updated interior furnishings, a new engine, and modernized systems and rigging.
"The vessel was built in 1947, but it had a very major rebuild at Portland Yacht Services in 1986. During this rebuild the vessels interior was removed and frames and floor timbers were replaced. Any poor planking was replaced and the vessel has all new fastenings. The vessel's deck and house were totally removed. Than all the deck beams were replaced along with the deck and house. When the hull rebuild was completed the interior was replaced along with all new systems. With this work the vessel became a new boat. The workmanship is of very high quality.
Prowess is cutter rigged with a box constructed Sitka spruce mast that is stepped through the cabin and stepped on a mast step atop the floor timbers. The chain plates pass through the deck and are bolted to the hull.
The vessel is designed with a spoon bow, round bilge full keel with attached rudder and transom stern. The hull is constructed with carvel planked mahogany over steam bent oak frames. The caulked decks of the vessel are laid teak over oak deck beams. The superstructure is a long trunk cabin constructed of planked mahogany followed by an aft cockpit." ~ George Gallup, SAMS/AMS #733, Accredited Marine Surveyor
Aft Deck
Large open cockpit with full perimeter seating, electronics, and engine instrumentation:
Weather Decks
Cabin Top
Foredeck
Standing Rigging
Running Rigging
Winches
Sails
Stepping down the companionway steps to starboard is a dinette/navigation area with forward and aft facing bench seats and a varnished teak table:
Continuing forward to Starboard in the main salon is a settee berth and pilot berth. Below the berths are general storage and inboard is a drop leaf table:
Staying to starboard and moving forward is the ships head:
The forward cabin with access to the chain locker is all the way forward. This cabin has a vee berth with drawer and general storage below forward:
Turning aft and moving down the port side back in the salon is a cabin heater forward followed by a settee berth with pilot berth above:
Continuing aft to port is the large galley:
Inboard of the galley and behind the ladder is the engine room with a door behind the ladder and a hatch in the cockpit bridge deck.
12-Volt system
110/120-Volt system
Cockpit
Helm
Interior
Miscellaneous
Diesel
Freshwater
Blackwater
2004 - 2005
2005 – 2006
2006 - 2007
2007 - 2008
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We look forward to working with you!
44 Bay View Street
Camden ME 04843 United States
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