1947 Eldredge-McInnis 47' Cutter

Prowess is a 47’ Eldredge-McInnis designed cutter built by the Stockden yard in Detroit, MI in 1947.  Her hull form is shared with Eldredge-McInnis’s Eastward schooners, but she was built with a tall Marconi cutter rig to suit the predominantly light winds on the Great Lakes.  Her current owner found Prowess, then called the Bonne Homme Richard, languishing in the Cleveland waterfront in 1984 and brought her east to Cape Elizabeth, ME to be restored by a team that would become Portland Yacht Services.    

It was a complete, three-year, refit.  The ballast was dropped, deck, cabin house, and interior removed for access.  Much of the framing, planking and backbone was replaced.  She received a new deck, a new wider cabin house, updated interior, new engine, and modern systems and rigging.  Prowess has been stored with Portland Yacht Services since and has been very well cared for, thoughtfully and regularly updated.  She looks great, sails beautifully and is in turn-key condition.  Prowess is stored on the hard at Portland Yacht Services in Portland, ME and ready for showings.

Dimensions:

LOA: *47’0”

LWL: *38’0”

Beam: *11’0”

Draft: *6’6”

Gross Ton: 22

Construction:

Mahogany planking, hatches, and cabin house

White Oak backbone timbers, floors, frames and deck beams

Laid tead deck

Bronze fastenings

Iron Ballast keel

Electronics:

2 x Garmin GPSMap 5208 Plotter

Garmin GPSMap 5212 Radar

ICOM IC-M604 VHF

MOTOROLA M800 Sat Phone

ACR 406 EPIRB

Garmin GMI 10 cockpit displays

Propulsion:

Westerbeke 64A-FOUR 64 hp diesel (700 hrs. 2006)

Hurth HBW 250 Reduction Gear

Stainless Shaft

Bronze 3 blade feathering prop

Deck Hardware

2 x Barient 32 primary winch

4 x Barient 21 winch

1 x Harken electric winch

Furlex Jib Furler

Harken staysail furler

Varnished wooden blocks

Bronze deck hardware

Systems:

2 x 12V Rule electric bilge pumps

Engine driven Jabsco crash pump

12V Jabsco Macerator head

Luke 3 burner propane stove and oven

Freezer mate refrigeration system

Newport Dickinson Propane cabin heater

Tank Tender system

Bronze thru-hulls

Hydraulic Windlass

Sails:

Yankee

Staysail

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