Dark Harbor Sloop

Mirara (Polynesian for fly fishing) has been owner and restored by the owner of Traditional Boat, LLC over a 15 year period, as his personal boat. Her restoration has included multiple new frames and floor timbers, a new forefoot-stem section, replacement of iron backbone fasteners with bronze ones, replacement of multiple planks forward and most of the port garboard, new  rudder, cast bronze gudgeons, bronze rudderpost, molding, toe and rub rails, fashion piece, cockpit benches and bulkhead, cockpit and cabin soles, restoration of her bronze hardware, a new jib club, complete interior and exterior refinishing, replacement of some of her standing and running rigging and bronze turnbuckles and new set of sails.

Dark Harbor 17 ½

Gaft Sloop

LOA 26'

LWL 17’ 6”

Beam 6’ 3”

Draft 4’ 3”

Designer BB Crowninshield

Builder Rice Brothers

Built 1914

List Price: $26,000

Construction

Type – Carvel

Planking – Cedar

Frames – White Oak

Deadwood – White Oak

Floor Timbers – White Oak

Fastening – Copper rivets/bronze screws

Deck – Planked/canvas

Trunk Cabin – White Oak

Cabin Roof – White pine planked/canvassed

Deck Trim – White Oak

Cockpit – Mahogany benches and bulkhead, trim

Ballast - Lead

Colors - White topsides, red boot top, green bottom, beige deck

Vessel Rebuilt – Yes, John Flanzer/Traditional Boat 1996/2009

Other: Cockpit sole is reclaimed old growth long leaf yellow pine, oiled. Tiller – Black locust. Rudder is Honduras mahogany. Gudgeons are cast bronze. Keel bolts are bronze.

Electrical

Solar Panel Charger

Ventilation

Hatches & slides and Companion way slide – Mahogany

Sails

Main and Jib - new (used last season only) Gambell and Hunter

Gaff Rig Sloop

Rigging

Standing - stainless

Turnbuckles – Merriman Bronze

Halyards - Dacron

Sheets – Dacron

Spars – Solid Spruce

Mast Stepped on Keel

Ground Tackle

Anchor – Danforth

Equipment

Bilge Pump – Electric

Life Preservers – 4 Adult

Docking Lines – Yes

Boathook – Yes

Fenders – 3

Sail cover – New main cover – pending

Winter cover - Canvas