Hooper's Yachts was formed in 1986. We are dealers for J/Boats, Bavaria Yachts & Precision Boatworks. We also are one of the largest brokers in our immediate area of used sailboats, but sell boats nationwide, in Canada & sometimes abroad.

Our business also includes a full retail store of all major brand name products for sailboats, 5 acre boat yard, full service department, storage and transportation.

Many of our used boats are backed up to a dock on land where you can climb aboard Mediterranean style.

There's no better time to purchase a sailboat. Interest rates remain very low, we offer financing, great price reductions and the wind is free - gas prices won't slow you down. Contact us today for details.

Featured Boat 37' Little Harbor Yawl 1967 US$ 115,000 This is a rare and much sought after yacht. It all started in Grave’s Yacht Yard in Marblehead MA. With Finisterre’s dramatic win in the Bermuda Race, 5 Boston yachtsmen commissioned Ted Hood to design a similar wide (great form stability) and shallow center-boarder specifically for the next race, which predominantly is a reach. Dieter Empacher, of Germany, now living in Marblehead, was the head of the Hood design team and drew the design known as #633, created for Ted Hood, which answers to the famous “Finisterre”, a Sparkman & Stephens design. All were over built, as was the custom then, with almost 1-1/2” hull thicknesses found near the internally ballasted keel. Each had half-round fiberglass ribs constructed and glassed into the hulls to add strength and stiffness. Ted Hood’s family business, Graves, built 6 or 7 hulls of fiberglass of which the last was used as a plug for the Blackwatch 37. These Graves fiberglass hulls were shipped to Franz Mass in Holland where old world wood craftsmanship gave her everything but the hull itself in teak and mahogany and were called Little Harbor 37’s and then shipped back finished. ” Plainsong” (formerly “Happy”) was one of these vessels and looks exactly like a classic wooden boat from a distance of 10 feet, but without the bother that wooden hulls and planking can give. Initially, Ted Hood’s first boat “Robin”, called then, a Hood 37, won outstanding racing yacht of the year. The first production Hood 37 build by Graves became “Robin II” and the 6 or 7 hulls were built. Douglass & McLeod built the Blackwatch 37’s through hull #15 when one of their employees, Charles Britton, formed Tartan Yachts which continued the design naming it the Tartan 37 through the last vessel built (Hull #32). The Tartans, according to Hood, were built quite differently than the Little Harbor in that they were a simply finished boat and the Blackwatch 37’s were the same boat as the Tartans with more woodwork and fancier trim. “Plainsong” was built when craftsmanship meant something and the result was pride of ownership. The shallow draft and subtle hull form produce smaller bow and quarter waves than almost any boat and the hull feels as though it is gliding through the water, never pushing it. The 500# bronze centerboard easily lowers by winch to increase stability and draft to 10’, for increased windward performance. But, the current owners have sailed it board up all the 9 years they have owned her and even won two local windward races without ever lowering the board. He claims that the boat is sufficiently stiff and points very high with the board in the up position and unless you were interested in extreme windward performance, it is not necessary to lower the board ever – even in very stiff winds. She sails comfortably in 35+ knots with small “jib and jigger” (small headsail plus mizzen). It was sailed from Newport to Red Rock Harbor in Buzzards Bay in a strong sou-wester and the GPS recorded and AVERAGE speed of 9.2 knots! She may still hold the record for her class in the cruising Marion-to-Bermuda Race – legend saying it was a tad under 4 days? And, by the way the board’s pennant has been recently replaced with a new, larger diameter cable. The first owner was a tall man, so headroom in this boat was increased to 6’5” or 6’6” for his comfort. Their racing family designed the interior layout based on extensive offshore experience. You can still enjoy with this vessel, stored indoors and in excellent condition, now being sold by a discriminating owner who’s age is interfering with his sailing.