Classic Sail Yacht

Schooner LIBERTY

for Sale

l924 John Alden design #248B Malabar VI Schooner
Commissioned as Troubador by M.W. Haskell, Blue Hill, Maine
Built by Hodgdon Brothers, East Boothbay, Maine

Classic; Historically significant; manageable maintenance; numerous sail combinations;
powerful and fast; beautiful.

LOA: 70'
LOD: 52'
LWL: 39'
Beam: 12'
Draft: 7'6"
Gr.Ton.: 16

2005 Perkins M65 Diesel engine

Requesting $180,000 US

Plank on frame
Screw fastened
Full keel iron
Keel hung rudder
Wood spars

1999 Complex overhaul
New Standing rigging
Stainless steel
Norseman fittings

2004 Sails: Barbados Traditional by Doyle Sailmakers:
Marconi main, gaff fore, forestaysail, large jib.
Also, large fisherman by UK Sails; small fisherman, small jib, gollywobbler.

In 1975 Ret. Cmdr. Charles Pitts, Sr. and his son Fletcher Pitts found Liberty neglected in Hampton Roads,Virginia. Charles, and Fletcher with his brothers Mitch and Chip, restored Liberty in wood, mahogany planking monel fastened. She sailed as a family yacht on the Chesapeake Bay.
In 1985 Pitts and Sons, Inc. boatyard employed the Vaitses method to lay eleven layers of fabmat under the keel and continuous fiberglass over the topside and cabin tops, mechanically fastened to the wood hull with 1 1/2" stainless steel screws every 4" to preserve Liberty.

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