Stravaigin is a wonderful example of the Lyle Hess-designed and Sam Morse-built Bristol Channel Cutter!

She was a hull and deck version that was purchased by a Maine schooner Captain who planned to finish her off himself. She was trucked across to Maine but sat in storage for a year. The Captain never accomplished his dream and the boat was purchased by her present owner in 2007.

The boat was completed by Apache Marine under the direction of shipwright Bill Buchholt.

The boat was completed to Morse factory levels and launched in 2009.

She was the last hull done at the Morse factory in Costa Mesa. Everything needed to finish the boat was supplied by Cape George Marine, the company that bought the Morse molds when Morse folded.

The original owners sailed the boat from Maine to Grenada and around the Caribbean islands and back to Florida. The owners only used the boat for 3 months a year.

She is presently on the hard in Indiantown all ready for a new adventure!

She has a lightly used Yanmar 3YM diesel engine with approximately 1,125 hours. High output Balmar alternator, double fuel filters. She has a 16" max prop too.

The bottom has the ten-year copper coat on it. A light sanding and it's good year after year.

All the canvas is in good condition, the varnish was just done, engine serviced, just a well-maintained and loved pocket cruiser.

She also has the unique Morse self-steering system that works off a trim tab on the rudder.

I could go on about Stravaigin because she is such a cool boat.

Key Features:

• Last one built by Sam Morse Company
• Rebuilt Yanmar Diesel with 1,125 hrs

• Sleeps 3 in a quarter berth plus a pullout double
• The forward cabin has a head with a holding tank plus a sink and storage area.
• Access to the anchor locker which has a lot of storage
• There is a door that closes adding privacy when using the head.

Interior Styling and Additional Features:

• Pull-out double to port
• Seven-foot standard salon berth to starboard
• Aft quarter berth for crew or storage
• Separate forward cabin with head, sink, vanity, and mirror
• A privacy door that divides salon from foreword head
• Functional galley to port
• Refrigeration starboard

• Sleeps three in three different berths
• Large opening hatch for air, light, and ventilation 
• Numerous opening ports
• Fold down table that seats three
• Storage outboard in the salon
• Refrigerator top doubles as navigation table

The galley is to port and features :

• Diesel stove and oven
• Refrigeration and freezer
• Double SS sink with hot and cold water
• Lots of storage for a boat this size
• Lockers and drawers
• Corian counter tops
• Hot water heater
• Dishes and flatwear
• Pull out garbage holder

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

• VHF radio
• Compass
• Autopilot
• Depth sounder
• GPS
• Wind speed and direction
• Log-speedometer

• 29 hp Yanmar diesel engine with 1125 hours 
• Double Raycor filters
• 28-gal fuel tank

HULL, DECK, COCKPIT

• Forespar mast and boom
• Fiberglass decks with non-skid pattern
• Lewmar 12 v electric windlass, ABI classic bronze windlass
• 35 lb CQR and 35 lb in stainless steel cradle on the bowsprit
• Collapsible Fortress in Lazzerette
• 250' of 5/16 chain
• 6 opening bronze ports in the salon, 2 nonopening in the forward cabin
• Opening hatch forward and butterfly hatch over the main salon
• Lifelines with bronze stantions
• 2 X dorade vents
• Bulwarks and brightwork have all been recently done and are in excellent condition
• Bronze boom gallows
• Comfortable cockpit
• Good canvas dodger and hatch covers
• Black locust tiller
• Wind steering vane
• 2 X Solar panels
• 2 X Self-tailing sheet winches
• Tiller steering
• Mainsheet winch
• Seating for four
• 2 x Solar panels
• 2 x self-tailing sheet winches
• Boom gallows
• Cockpit cushions
• Cockpit table

• High cut Yankee
• Staysail
• Triple reefing mainsail
• Asymmetric spinnaker  (Never used)
• Spinnaker pole attached to mast and fully rigged
• Both headsails are on Schafer furlers that lead back to the cockpit.
• Genoa cover and staysail cover
• Mainsail cover
• Dodger
• Hatch covers

ENGINE AND MECHANICAL

• Yanmar 3 cylinder diesel engine, 29hp, 1,125hrs, directdrive
• Recently removed from the boat and totally serviced and reinstalled
• Three blade bronze Max Prop
• Simpson-Lawrence manual anchor windlass
• 12v Lewmar electric windlass  

PLUMBING AND TANKAGE

• Fuel: 28 gallons
• Fresh water: 68 gallons

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

• 12v electrical system
• Complete electrical panel
• Balmar alternator with external regulator
• Domestic and engine start batteries
• 12v fans
• 12v lighting
• Shore power cord

AUDIO/VISUAL AND ENTERTAINMENT EQUIPMENT

• Main salon stereo with cockpit speakers

• 4-man Zodiac life raft (needs service)
• Flares and lifejackets
• LED navigation lights

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.