Home Port: Port Madison, Bainbridge Island, WA
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Year Built: 1956
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LOA: 42'
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Beam: 10'6"
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Owner: David Gray
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Designer: Sam Crocker
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Design: One-off
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Type: Ketch
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Macaw is a Presto-type gaff-rigged centerboard ketch. Designed by Sam Crocker and built by his son S. Sturgis Crocker at Crocker Boat Yard in Manchester, MA in 1956. She was originally designed for cruising in the Bahamas. She has a very large cockpit, flush decks, a large cabin for her size with a large companionway hatch and lots of fuel and water tankage. LOA is 42’, Length on Deck is 36’, Beam is 10’6”, Draft is 2’6” with the centerboard up. Frames are 2×2 white oak on 12” centers. Hull is mahogany above WL and Eastern pine below.
Current owner purchased Macaw in 1993. Macaw was extensively rebuilt by Haven Boatworks in Port Townsend with new decks, new house, lots of replaced planks, and new transom. Owner did all the paint and varnish work. Main, foresails and mizzen are by Carol Hasse of Port Townsend.
Macaw was originally sailed out of Boston. A description of her sailing in a hurricane is written in Vincent Gilpin’s book, “Good Little Ship” and in “Sam Crocker’s Boats : a Design Catalog,” by Sturgis Crocker. In the 1970’s she was trucked to the Pacific Northwest and sailed out of San Juan Island for many years. The current owner keeps her on Bainbridge Island, WA and lives in Columbus, Ohio.
