1925 Staysail-Schooner TED GEARY Used Classic Wooden Boat For Sale in Port Townsend
This Boat has been Sold
Mast
- Mast Configuration
- Two Mast
- Single Mast Type
- Two-Mast Type
- Schooner
- Hull Configuration
- Sail Handing and Equipment Comments
-
New Sails 2007 Main Fore Staysail Jib Genoa
- Spars and Rigging Comments
-
Masts were rebuilt in 2007 and are Sitka Spruce
- Ballast
-
14,000lbs Cast Iron
Overview
- Price
- 109000.00
- Type Of Boat
- Make
- Staysail-Schooner
- Model
- TED GEARY
- Year
- 1925
- LOA (feet)
- 68
- Deck Material
- Burmese Teak
- Hull Material
- BurmeseTeak over Oak
Location
- City
- Port Townsend
- Province/State
- Washington
- Country
- United States
Engine
- Engine Make
- Detroit
- Engine Model
- 453
- Engine Year
- Horsepower
- 140
- Cooling
- Fuel Type
- Diesel
General
- Boat Survey
- Yes
- Survey Date
- Trailer
- Yes
- Trailer Make
- Trailer Model
- Trailer Year
- Cradle
- Yes
- Winter Cover
- Yes
- Dinghy
- No
- Dinghy Make
- Cabins (number)
- 3
- Head
- Manual Head
- Yes
- Electric Head
- No
- Fire Extinguisher
- Yes
- Color of Canvas
- Biege
- Dodger (Forward)
- Closure (Vertical)
- Bridge Cover
- Bimini (after)
- Camper Back
- Sleeps (Number of People)
- 9
- Holding Tanks (total number)
- Water Tanks
Further Comments
Suva is 58'on deck,68'LOA,45'LWL with 14'Beam and 6'6Draft. Designed Ted Geary for Franks Pratt Jr of Pratt and Whitney Engines as a Yacht specifically for use in the Pacific Northwest(hence the pilothouse). She has benn cruising Puget Sound, San Juan Islands and British Columbia's Inside Passage for 87 years(Pratts Estate was on Whidbey Island). Built in Hong Kong 1925 almost entirely of Burmese Teak(Hull,Deck,Cabin exterior and interior). Her construction is not only beautiful but immensley strong with 2thick Teak Planking on Oak Frames. Her deck and cabin side also of 2thick Teak. Originally Gaff Rigged, in 1960 Ben Seaborne designed her current Staysail Rig. Her masts are laminated Sitka-Spruce(rebuilt 2007)and Bowsprit and Boomkin replaced with Purpleheart in 2007. Standing rigging is 1x19 also replaced in 2007. Also in 1960 her Aux power was converted from the original gas(Lawson-Scott) to her existing diesel(453 Detroit).These are known to go 30,000 hours before needing an overhaul. This one has less than 4,000 hrs and running Great! At cruising speed it drinks 1.5 gals per hr. Best-Offer!
This Boat has been Sold