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$140,000
1957 Sparkman & Stephens-Tore Holm 43 ft Yawl 1957
Price:
$140,000
Financing:
Summary:
Used 1957
Location:
Alabaster, AL
Description:
AQUILA exudes the air of well-found attractiveness a professional mariner and skilled shipwright brings to ownership. This wonderfully preserved FINISTERRE development yawl is a very well-travelled and proven yacht, with pedigree second to none: from the drawing boards of master designers Sparkman & Stephens, and one of the last yachts built at Tore Holm's famed Gamleby yard in Sweden. In the words of a recent survey: " AQUILA is completely ready for an ocean crossing" and she will be equally ready to perform as a cherished family cruiser and occasional racer. Sparkman & Stephens Design No. 1212 It is rare for a yacht owner to have known his vessel for almost half a century, but it is so with AQUILA. In 1976, when she was named OTIAS and owned by Peter Reiner from Nantucket, he was part of her delivery crew for a transatlantic passage to the Azores, and then purchased her in Greece the following year. After extensive Mediterranean cruising he sailed AQUILA to the West Indies and sold her in 1982. But AQUILA held a special place in his heart and he again purchased her in 2014 at Seal Cove Boatyard on Penobscot Bay, Maine, where she had been stored and maintained for the previous 20 years, five or six of them inside. Since then she has enjoyed his shipwright skills in maintenance and blue water experience in use, sailing extensively: down to the Bahamas and further south in 2014 and to the Bahamas again in 2018. In testament to her oceangoing abilities, for a reasonable fee the present owner is prepared to deliver AQUILA to her new owner. The story prior to the mid 1970s is a little unclear. At some point in her life she was named FARAWAY - but she is believed to have been commissioned as AQUILA by a member of the Ellis Drier Co. family of Chicago; possibly Hubert C. Ellis, a member of Chicago Yacht Club. A previous AQUILA owned by Ellis was the 1929 Tore Holm designed and built 30 Square Metre Skerry Cruiser known (also as AQUILA. Still available at ListedBuy!
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Posted:
March 26 on ListedBuy
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