Nevins Motorsailer

Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:

Beautifully finished interior accommodations for up to 6 plus crews quarters in a Herreshoff Style interior with varnished Mahogany trim on white flat panels with a varnished teak and holly sole.  With her 3 large hatches, dorades, and large wheelhouse windows, and ports fitted in the hull, she is a bright airy, and comfortable boat in a wide range of conditions but when necessary, there is a Dickinson Newport propane cabin heater mounted in the Salon that will allow extended season cruising or take the chill off on a foggy morning.  Headroom in the Salon and Galley area is in excess of 7'-10"  and 6'-4" at the fwd end of the Salon and in the Master Stateroom.  110 volt DC lighting throughout.

Starting forward in the Fo'c'sle is the separate Crew's Quarters with single berth to starboard, with lockers below and hanging locker and shelves to port.  A ladder allows private access from the fore deck.

Next aft is the Master Head (which may be accessed from the Fo'clse) featuring to port, a manual Groco W.C. plumbed overboard, porcelin sink with H&C pressure water with locker outboard, and additional stowage in a locker with shelves, opposite to starboard is a large hanging locker.

Immediately aft is the spacious Master Stateroom featuring wide single berth P&S with several large drawers below each berth.  Above the berths there are shelves with fiddles and there is a bureau aft and to port with drawers and a locker.

Continuing aft one finds the Main Salon which is especially spacious and well laid out.  To starboard and forward there is a dining settee with thwartship bench seats with storage under.  The table may be dropped down to make this up into a comfortable double berth.  Outboard of the settees there is storage in shelves and lockers.  Adjacent to the fwd settee is a small bureau with drawers while aft of the settees is a handsome bureau with drawers above which is a leaded glass front china closet.

Opposite to starboard there is forward most a large hanging locker followed outboard by a pilot berth with storage below, then inboard a deep settee which may be made into a berth, a bureau aft affords more storage in drawers and the previously mentioned cabin heater is adjacent.

Furthest aft on the lower deck, one finds the Aft Head with separate stall shower compartment, Groco manual W.C. plumbed via a Y valve to the holding tank, porcelain sink with H&C pressure water and thoughtfully laid out storage in 3 different lockers.

The Galley is furthest aft and to starboard and is again properly laid out and functional as well as spacious.  The Galley features a large deep stainless steel sink with H&C pressure water, stainless steel counter surfaces, and excellent stowage in several lockers and drawers.  Cooking is handled from her traditional Shipmate 4 burner propane stove and overhead mount propane oven.  Aft is a 15 cu ft GE stainless steel 110 Volt refrigerator freezer original but completely trouble free!  Included is a duplicate low hour unit that came off another yacht.

The companion way ladder swings up to provide access to the "crouching standing room" engine compartment (mechanicals detailed below).

Up 5 steps to the Deck House with P&S side doors as well as a door leading to the aft deck with 6'-5"+ head room.  The helm station is to port with a swivel seat on a bronze pedestal.  Aft and to starboard is an L-Settee and drop leaf table for dining.  There is a drop down mahogany serving table to port that easily stows away when not in use.

 Exiting the aft door of the deck house you access the inviting aft deck with transom seat, bench seats P&S (with storage under) and bench seat forward below which there is storage in a locker.  Tons of additional space for deck chairs and the like should one desire.  Wide side decks with bulwarks and railings lead forward to the open foredeck with another decks storage box.

• Xintex propane sniffer and electric solenoid
• Dickinson propane cabin heater
• Chelsea Brass Ships Clock
• Chelsea Brass Barometer
• Cooking utensils, flatware, crockery & glasses included
• Screens for all hatches & ports as well as sliding doors
• "Tell tale" compass over port berth in Master Stateroom

All electronics are located within easy reach of the helm post side of the deck house.  A space for charts and chart storage is to starboard of the companionway opposite the helm.

• Raytheon R-40 Radar
• Garmin 545 GPS plotter
• New MacBook Pro and Nobletec Navigation
• Furuno LS-6100 depth
• Icom M-127 VHF
• Kelvin White 8" magnetic compass in 12" chrome binnacle
• 1 manual windshield wipers
• Cunningham Air Horn
• Plains & Wessex 406 mhz EPIRB

Wired for both 12 Volt DC and 110 Volt AC service.  A Phasor 2.5 kw genset provides adequate 110 volt service off the dock.

12 Volt DC

• Switch panel with breakers in the engine room
• Ten Rolls T-16 lead acid house batteries 2005 reconditioned 2008
• Two Group 31 engine start batteries
• 2 50 amp alternators 1 each for house and starting bank
• Davidson Marine heavy duty 50 amp 110 volt DC alternator

110 Volt AC

• Switch panel with breakers in engine room
• Phasor 2.5 kw genset
• Outlets throught the interior
• Battery Charger
• 30 amp shore power inlet
• 50' 30 amp shore power cord

GM 6-71 fresh water cooled diesel showing 2406 hours when listed, turns a 36X28 right handed Nibral wheel on a 2 1/2 inch monel shaft through an Allison 3:1 reduction gear.  The engine and gear were new in 1962 and have been maintined in apparently excellent condition.  These naturally aspirated straight forward mechnical diesel engines have been known to run for up to 20,000 hours between re-builds.

BURMA cruises at 8.5 to 8.7 kt. at 1450 RPM burning less than 4 gph.  Hull speed of 9.4 knots is achieved at 1650 RPM.

The fuel tanks are coated Iron and water tanks are Monel.

• Morse engine controls
• Edson mechaincal steering
• Manual release engine room CO2
• Racor fuel filter with vacuum guage
• Rule 3700 electric bilge pump
• Jabsco 110 Volt DC service pump plumbed to shower sump and to bilge
• 1 Edson manual diaphram bilge pump
• Paloma on demand propane water heater with numerous spare parts

Varnished Sitka Spruce hollow mast and boom with 1X19 stainless steel wire rigging.  Both sails have been lightly used and are in very good condition.

• Downs Sails loose footed Mainsail or Trisail 307' sq. ft. 1995
• Downs Sails loose footed jib  255 sq. ft. 1995
• Standing rigging replaced in 1999
• Heavy Merriman bronze turnbuckles & hardware
• Merriman bronze #7 geared main sheet winches forward of the deck break for heavy weather sheeting
• Lewmar #30 bronze self tailing winch on the aft end of the house for normal main sheet use
• Merriman #3 jib sheet winches on trunk roof
• Merriman bronze geared reel type jib and main halyard winches with stainless steel wire halyards
• Storm trisail track

Construction: Double planked with 1 1/8" Honduran Mahogany over 1/2' White Cedar using Bronze fastenings on 2 2/4" X 2 5/8" White Oak frames which are steam bent forward and sawn aft.  White Oak keel, deadwood, and floor timbers.  Lead keel fastened with 1 1/4" Silicon Bronze keel bolts which were replaced in 1998.  The keel is covered with a 1/2" thick bronze keel shoe running from the stem to the skeg.  Bolderon ice sheathing from boot top to app 1' below the waterline in 1993.

Heavy teak fore and aft decks with break at the fwd end of the house were re-fastened in '87-'89 and all seams re-payed at that time.  Mahogany trunk and deck house with Mahogany plywood house tops recovered with Dynel and Epoxy in 1987.

In 1998 while at Rockport Marine in Rockport, Maine the yacht was surveyed by Paul Haley of Capt. G.W. Full & Associates all tanks were removed, the bottom was refastened and keel bolts were replaced, tanks were then re-installed after cleaning, with new hoses and fittings.

• Ideal 110 Volt DC Anchor Windlass
• Hawse pipes P&S
• 2 65 lb Danforth anchors with 200' rodes of 7/8" nylon & 3/8" chain
• Deck storage aft of whellhouse and P&S in cockpit
• 12 Type I & Type II PFDs
• 3 Safety harnesses & ajck line
• Revere Coastal Commander 4 man liferaft insp 2011
• 2 liferings
• Flare kit
• 5 fire extinguishers
• Bell
• Emergency tiller
• Mahogany folding boarding ladder
• Hand held searchlight
• 8 docklines, 4 fenders
• Spreader lights
• Bow docking lights built into hull (rebuilt 2008)
• White fore and aft deck covers
• Fitted Sunbrella cushions for bench seats on aft deck
• White sail covers
• Vivatrex custom winter cover and door with take apart wood frame
• Many spare parts inlcuding $700 worth of 40 watt bulbs for incandescent fixtures below

We have always been impressed by BURMA and our personal inspection of her has proved our thoughts of her to be well formed.  Both her construction and care are  impressive. She will appeal to those who appreciate craftsmanship in a wonderfully wholesome vessel.

We have prepared a  CD with over 60 high resolution photographs of this special yacht and will gladly mail you one upon request.

The lapstrake yacht tender and assoc. chocks shown in some of the photographs is specifically excluded.

We have known BURMA for many years, her distinctive good looks make her a head turning standout in any harbor.  Her designer, R. O. Davis drew many of the lines for the well know Hand Motorsailers including NOR'EASTER while in the William Hand office from 1927 through 1941 before becoming the principal designer at the Henry B. Nevins Yard in 1942.   She was profiled in WoodenBoat issue #97 (Nov./Dec. '90).

Originally built for Frank Bissel (NYYC member #1)who specified that she be a comfortable and capable sea boat. He owned her for 32 years ran her by himself for some 30,000 miles before donating her to a non-profit which immediately sold her to a party that owned her for just 1-2 years prior to the current owner purchasing her.  Her current owner, an experienced yachtsman and seaman has meticulously cared for her throughout his ownership.

Her design and construction as well as her care has been flawlessly attended to so that she has never required any extensive re-fit and a personal inspection will prove as much!