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Sea Pearl #1...built in 1979...  Dana Decker... Jacksonville , Florida...

Factory Features

• Sloop rigged
• White hull with yellow stripe
• Fixed rudder (does not kickup) barn door style
• Stern extends additional 10" and is not squared off
• No hull liner
• Plastic rubrail
• Originally leeboards retrofitted with centerboard by factory
• Cabin top intergrated with deck- changed in 11/99 to open decked
• Approximatly 97 sq. ft sail - New sails 130sq. ft
• Two bench seats one fore and aft of cabin-changed  11/99 to raised deck bow to stern
• Concrete ballast under floor boards
• dual wheel trailer

Custom items

• Kickup rudder with motor mount
• Reworked center board to foil shape ( was 3/8" steel plate)
• Great White 41 lb thrust trolling motor

Sea Pearl #39...built in 1983... Steve Anderson ... Ormond Beach, Florida...

Factory Features

• No hull liner or water ballast
• Aft cockpit seats even with center cockpit seats
• Wood gunwale
• Wood lug masts
• Leeboards can be lifted above gunwale
• Leeboards attached with wing nuts
• Teak cheeks on rudder, two separate rudder gudgeon and leading edge rounded
• Single center anchor chock
• Fixed main sheet jam cleat
• Center cockpit canvas tonneau cover has no wood centerbeam

Custom items

• Water ballast
• Wood boom jaws
• Stainless steel bow pulpit
• Aluminum marconi rig
• Cargo netting beneath seats for storage

Sea Pearl #102...built in 1986... John Gaynor.... Cortland, N.Y......

Factory Features

• manufactured with out ballast tanks
• old style goosenecks
• white hull
• Yellow and White sails.

Custom items

• Water ballast
• rotating goosnecks

Sea Pearl #117  .built in 1983 GK "Girl Kraut" Owner Tim Webber - Spring, TX   tbertw@tenbuckplans.com

Factory Features

• Dark Blue Hull
• Lee boards
• No ballast tanks



Sea Pearl #143 

Factory Features

• rapid reef goosenecks
• ballast tanks-no liner
• rudder motor bracket
•  tonneau cover
• convertible cabin
• 10' hollow (Piantadosi) oars
• halyard attachment on mizzen
• CG kit
• Full winter cover

 

Sea Pearl #199 Little Miss Magic aka Vesper Blue...Owner: Kevin Mart... Phoenix, AZ...  mvn4wrd@earthlink.net

Factory Features


• Cockpit seats not lower than deck
• Kick up rudder
• Aluminum marconi rig
• Swing keel, centerboard
• Rotating block main sheet cam cleat (Ronstan)  
• Fixed boom goosenecks

Factory options

• Sky blue and white sails
• Dark blue hull with Ivory Deck
• Side motor mount
• Hutch Trailer
• Oars and Oarlocks

Custom

• Ballast tanks (these were not yet available as an option when built)
• Paint- antifouling red bottom and silver pinstripe
• Compass
• Dual fore and aft cleats
• Anchor
• Hammock between masts for camping on board after sails furled
  
• Topping lift
  
• Teak and mahogany decking and rail added by second owner, Aaron Anderson
• Sail and winter covers
• Hull liner & water ballast
• Transom and dual hull drain and plug


Sea Pearl #204...Owner Donald E. Johnson... Wayne, Mi...

Factory Features

• No Hull Liner
• Cockpit seats not lower than deck
• kick up rudder
• Aluminum marconi rig (lug was available as an option)
• Leeboards cannot be lifted above gunwale
• Leeboards attached with regular nuts
• Rotating block main sheet cam cleat (Not Harkin)
• Canvas tonneau cover (for center cockpit) has center solid teak beam (not flexible). It had a wood crosspiece which broke the first time I removed the cover.
• fixed boom goosenecks
• single bow cleat

Factory options

• leeboards
• teak rub rail (thin, about 1 inch)
• burgandy and white sails (sails were the first my dealer saw without a leech cord)
• burgandy hull (which turned blue from the sun)
• Side motor mount (rudder mount became available soon after)
• Suzuki 2 HP

Custom

• Ballast tanks (these were not yet available as an option when built)
• oars
• Paint (bright burgandy, much redder than original gelcoat, with grey bottom and grey/silver pinstripe)
• Compass
• Cargo Nets
• Lightning Grounding System
• Cargo containers
• trailer mount for engine
• Used Pram top (blue)

Sea Pearl #228...built in 1987...

Factory Features

• Blue hull & cream deck
• Hull liner & water ballast
• Aft cockpit seats 2" lower than center cockpit seats
• Plastic rubrail
• Aluminum marconi rig
• Leeboards cannot be lifted above gunwale
• Leeboards attached with regular nuts
• Metal cheeks on rudder, one combination rudder gudgeon and squared off bottom leading edge
• Port and starboard bow chocks
• Rotating block main sheet jam cleat
• Canvas tonneau cover (for center cockpit) has center wood beam with fiberglass cross piece
• Swiveling boom goosenecks for reefing
• Small hatch in aft cockpit sole

Custom items

• Aft bimini
• Faired foil leading edge on rudder and leeboards
• Stainless steel block (pulley) for leeboard pennants
• 1"X2" wood screwed to aft bilge board to keep things from sliding beneath aft cockpit
• Additional transom drain below cockpit liner

Sea Pearl #260  built in 1988

Factory Features
 

• Dark Blue Hull , Ivory Deck
• Grey Bottom Paint
• Central Bow chock
• Two Stern gunwale cleats
• Water Ballast
• Tonneau Cover
• Hard Cover
• Gold Sails
• Cat Ketch Rig
• Lee Boards
• Hutch Trailer
• Oars and Oarlocks
• Rudder mounter Motor Bracket
• Camper Top


Custom Features

• Rotating Goosenecks
• 12" trailer tires


Sea Pearl #266... built in 1988... Owner Robert J. Clark II... Kingston, New York... Christened: The Big Guy

Factory Features

• Teak rails
• all bronze hardware including bow anchor cleat
• port and starboard bow chocks
• two stern gunwale cleats
• Offwhite (ivory?) hull & deck with brown pinstripping and Sea Pearl name
• Water Ballast
• Tonneau cover
• Soft cabin (camper) top
• Tanbark sails
• Cat Ketch Rig
• Lee boards
• Hutchins Trailer
• 9ft (?) Oars w/ bronze oarlocks
• Kickup rudder
• Rudder mounted motor bracket
• Rotating block main sheet jam cleat

Custom items

• New York State DMV registration numbers :-)
• 2.5hp Johnson outboard w/ 3 gallon external fuel tank
• Stainless steel fender cleats added along gunwales
• Two 8lb. danforth anchors with chains and rode
• Rotating boom goosenecks
• Portable, battery operated running lights
• Portable head
• Wind vane installed on top of mizzen mist
• Pennant mast installed on top of main mast
• Trailer jackstand

Sea Pearl #272 owner Roy Miller  Avon  Avon, IN 

Factory Features

• Hull is Blue with Teak rubrails
•  marconi rig tan bark sails
• convertible top
• water ballast
• oars
• motor bracket
• galvanized tilt trailer

Custom Items

• set of swivel goose necks
• factory custom boat cover


Sea Pearl #304...built in 1989...Owner Dana Gunnison...Silver Spring , Maryland...

Factory Features

• bronze hawse pipe with anchor holder
• water ballast
• rear cockpit foot drain
• No discernible liner
• Teak rub rail
• Navy blue color hull
• white sails
• removable motor mount for rudder
• tent and flat cockpit cover for trailering

Custom items

• Added small teak rowing seat reinforcements at molded seat mounts in main cockpit because the deck has weakened enough that seat slips out of molding
• Added Dick Shepherd's rotating goose necks on mast
• second bail on mizzen boom to ease problem of sheet fouling on motor
• second set of trailer lights mounted on metal angle bar which bolts onto rudder pintels
• Added block onto mizzen sheet bail to ease sheet when using shortened mizzen bail
• Added block onto end of main boom to use with doubled main sheet however decided that if wind was that strong, simply needed to reef main appropriately

Sea Pearl # 325 "Nutshell" Built 1990        "Bud" Tritschler   Clearwater, FL 
Ordered Nov.'89, Delivered Jan.'90
Factory items:

• teak rails
• leeboards
• ballast tanks
• storage racks
• detaching non-rotating goose necks
• all canvas
•  hard hatch covers

Custom item:

• two mooring cleats in place of bow chocks.
• no center cleat
• teak foredeck pad or chain pipe (clear foredeck)

Owner supplied:

• fore and aft headers to hold sole-boards in place.
• Heavy white sails with transparent UV block.  9.5 ft.
• Shaw & Tenny oars with laced leather sleeves and captive oar horns, uniquely secured.
• Two fluke-type anchors (2.5lb.Guardian with 12 ft.1/4" stainless chain & 8 lb.Deepset w chain, both with rode bags.)


Sea Pearl #340...built in 1990...   

Factory Features

• Herreshoff Package--including large teak rails, all bronze hardware including bruce anchor system with bronze hawse pipe.
• Green hull, buff deck and lighter green bottom paint.
• Water Ballast
• Soft tonneau cover.
• Bronze garboard drain.
• Tanbark sails and rotating booms w/boom vangs.
• Marconi Rig
• Hutchins Trailer w/spare/jackstand.
• Oars w/ bronze oarlocks
• rudder mounted motor bracket

Custom items

• 2hp motor
• Fitted canvas boat cover
• Hard fiberglass hold cover (completely seals hold area)
• Bilge pump (hand)

Sea Pearl #378   built in 1993 Owner Steve Churchill,  Maryland Heights, MO   2churchills@cablemo.net

It's original owner(Judith Dunnington) bought it new in 1993
and kept it in Baltimore, MD whereupon she sold it after a
couple of years to Lionel Shute of Easton , MD.  He sold it to me in August
of 2000 and we took it back to Virginia Beach, VA.  In November of 2001 we
moved to Maryland Heights, MO (near St. Louis) where the boat now resides.

The boat is #378 built in March of 1993.  It is black hull, with a white
boot top and the gray epoxy coating below the waterline.  The Marconi sails
are currently all white but I plan to buy some new ones this year and they
will have a color stripe. The cockpit cover is gray.  I don't have the pram
top but that again will be purchased soon.  It has the inner liner ballast
tanks, a Tohatsu 3.5 hp outboard that I mount on the rudder motor mount when
I use it, and the new type goosnecks that permit you to reef without takng
the booms off the mast.  The rails are teak with the teak pad on the
foredeck forward of the bronze chainpipe.  It also has the bronze bow anchor
chock and a Bruce anchor.  I have 10' white water rafting (fiberglass shaft)
oars, a Hutchins trailer with 12" wheels and a Harken swivel cam cleat
ratchet block for the main. The boat's name is "Silmaril" and is noted on
both stern quarters with 8" high multi-color-light-refracting letters.  I
also changed the gold stripe along the hull underneath the rail to a
multi-color-light-refracting stripe.



SeaPearl #398... built in Winter 97/98...Owner John Weiss...Seattle, WA... jrweiss@attglobal.net

It is one of the last ones Ron Johnson built in Tarpon Springs.

Factory features:

• Hull liner and integral ballast tanks
• Screw-out inspection port in aft cockpit sole
• Aluminum spars
• Cat-ketch rig; rotating goosenecks allow sails to furl around masts
• Leeboards (Fiberglass with lead shoes; pivoting with dacron pendants)
• Kickup rudder (steel plate with cast aluminum(?) cheeks)
• Swivel mainsheet cleat with Harken Hexaratchet
• Mizzen sheet has turning block & becket on tiller head for 2:1 purchase
• Hull color "Gulf Stream" (deep aqua)
• "Classic Pearl" package: Vertical battened, 166 sq. ft. (full roach), Tanbark sails Anchoring package (Bronze hawsepipe, chock, and cleat; Bruce anchor; chain & rope rode) Oars, bronze locks, rowing seat Heavy teak rub rail 2-tone deck color (white/bone) Epoxy bottom paint (gray) Tonneau cover (aquamarine) with longitudinal wood arch Teak cockpit seat back

Factory-added options:

• Tiller-mounted motor bracket
• Lighting package (demountable nav lights, utility outlet in cockpit, wiring)
• Compass (Nexus 70UN, demountable)
• Continental trailer (galvanized)

Owner-added:

• MinnKota 42EX electric motor
• 70 AH gel cell battery

Moved mizzen boom sheet bail forward ~13" so sheet clears lifted motor

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Mono's
#1   79        (cb)                   Dana Decker                     Jacksonville, FL        


#1  (Production No. 1)         Stan Jankowski                  Apalachicola, Fl

#3  Threesome(Tri)               David A. Hermanns           Staten Island, NY

#10                                       Jim Fletemier                     Harbor Beach, MI

#17                                       Lucien Rose                      Kingston, OK 

#18  82 OldYeller(Tri)          John                              Asheville, NC 

#23                                       John Adsit                        Orange Park, FL

#27        Sandpiper                John Zehmer                     Newport News, VA 

#28        Spartina                   Leslie Middleton                Charlottesville, VA 

#31                                        Kent Schenkel                 Wilmington, NC. 

#34        Last Cigarette           Carl Mills                          Rehoboth Beach, DE

#38   83 Osprey   (conv tri)    Terry Poling                      Havana,Fl. 

#39   83   Gwaihir                   Steve Anderson                 Ormond Beach, FL 

#50         Falkor                      Ken Krapp                        Fremont, MI

#70   85  Solar Too!               Mike Roberts                    Cocoa, FL 

#79   Daedalus                       David Dick  

#85                                        Hal                                   Galveston, Texas 

#102  86                                Jerry Hartman                    Tipton, IN 

#108       Circe                       William Saltzman                Framingham, MA 

#110 86   Over Easy               Bobby Lowe                      Augusta, Ga 

#115      Sea Robin                  Bill Harper                                 Vt 

#117     83 GK                         Tim Webber                          Spring, TX        tbertw@tenbuckplans.com

#120                                        Larry Hordy                       Gainsville, FL 

#126

#143

#154                                         David Thomasson                Oak Ridge, TN 

#156     (conv to tri)                   Lamar Entrekin 

#157         ZOE                          Phil                                       CT 

#177  86                                     Chuck Durgin                      Annapolis, MD 

#189        Figment                        Paul Budinger                    Downers Grove, IL 

#198                                            Sam Rogers                          Moorehead City, NC

#199 Little Miss Magic aka Vesper Blue...Owner: Kevin Mart... Phoenix, AZ... mvn4wrd@earthlink.net

#204                                            Donald E, Johnson                Wayne,  MI 

#206         Feather   (wrecked)     Brenda Bell                           Kalemazoo, MI  

#208        Kaselehlia                     John Scull

#211                                             Roger L 

#227  87 Woa Nellie                     Steve & Ceri Botts 

#228  87

#242         Baby Boomer                Jerry Delaney                       South Lyon, MI 

#255                                              Rex & Kathy Payne               Nashville, IN

#260                                            

#266  88   The Big Guy                  Robert J Clark                       Kingston, NY 

#272                                              Douglas Roller                        Indianapolis, IN  

#274                                              Tom                                        Texas 

#277         Magic Pearl                   Michael Scheibeck                Columbus, OH 

#27?         Vodex:Vextok                Brian Salzano                         NYC? 

#288         Shady Character             Kent Multer                           Carrollton, TX 

#293          Phantom                        James Lowe,                         Ft. Wayne, IN

#304  89   Happy Pappy                 Dana Gunnison                      Silver Springs, MD  

#310  90   Chessie   (cb)                 Michael & Becky Latta         High Point, NC 

#311   90  "Na Zdrowie"                  John Rysnik                           Wilton, NH 

#325  90 Nutshell                             Bud & Rhoda Tritschler         Clearwater, FL 

#329        Alciope                             Colin & Mary Hermans

#334

#335  90   Slipper                              Richard Bone                        Detroit, MI           


#340  90

#347  91   Parsimony                         Michael Binford                      Gainesville, FL. 

#348        Adventurous                      Peter Michael

#358                                                  Frank Stapleton                       Pine Island, Fla  

#374         Dreamcatcher                   Frank Adair,                           Memphis, TN

#378  93    Silmaril                            Steve Churchill                        Maryland Heights, MO  


#380





#385         Whisper                           Ron Hoddinott                         Largo, FL 

#398  98   DragonSong                    John Weiss                              Seattle, WA  jrweiss@attglobal.net

#399                                                 Ty Wessel,                              Grand Rapids, MI 

#402     Blue Heron,                          Godfred Hennig III                  Bilox, MS  
Tri's
#0        (Tri conversion)                     Norm Bailey                          Marathon, Fla

#2   95                                              Dave Bybee                      Racine, WI 

#3            Threesome(Tri)                  David A. Hermanns           Staten Island, NY

#6                                                      Doug Alexander 

#18         Simplicity(Tri)                      Bruce Badger,                  Allentown, PA

#38     Osprey                                    Terry and Dawn Poling     Tallahassee, Fla 

#216   CARPENTER'S KIT (Tri conversion)   Dick Shepherd, Cinti.,OH 

#494                                                Jerry Sullivan          Sebastian, FL  


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Sea Pearl 28

JoySea            Billy Vandeusen          Pine Island, Fl         
 

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Goerge & Mariana Wilke   
Jin & Pam Manning              Clearwater,FL 
Sweet Pea        Bob Vicery
Glass Slipper    John Glass
Pearl Ann         Steven Slyter                       Louisville, KY
       (cb)                 Hugh Horton 
Wag?s Folly      Paul & Dodie Waggoner
Sand Dollars     Jon & Sherry Simmons         Safety Harbor, FL 

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General info from owners

Note that by 10/97 Ron had given up on the carbon spars (initially offered on the Tri?) and only offered aluminum spars. Also, the Continental trailer was the "stock" one he supplied, and so far I think it's a great trailer. ...............................................
John Weiss

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Lug Rig

Do you mean lug rig? If so I'd be happy to tell you about the differences because I have both rigs and have used them both alot. Right now I'm back into the lug sail phase. In fact - I've been waiting for months for someone to ask the differences!!!! Thanks!

The lug sails are faster off the wind - (and quite beautify wing on wing )- they are slower up wind than the marconis - probably evens out in the end. They need some modification from the way the came from the "factory". A good two part downhaul is essential - otherwise the sail sets too flat. ( the "factory system" was a cleat and a line.) A down haul seems to increases the draft in the sail somehow.... certainly makes it set better. I've also added jaws to the booms so that I can use a boom vang - an important addition downwind. I've added a brailing line on each sail so it can be brailed instead of dropped into the boat where it's on top of everyone. (Tho on a windy day it's a lot of windage up there.) I've added a jiffy reefing line so they can be reefed very easily. Another intersting feature of a reefed lug sail is that you can set it anywhere on the mast. If the wind is really howling you can set it so low that the boom is a deck sweeper (you use a rope thimble on the yard to keep it close to the mast). My 11year old daughter can raise and lower the lug sails easily - she can't unfurl or furl the marconis. I don't camp in mine, but if I did and there was a thunder storm I would prefer the short wooden masts over the tall aluminum ones - they can also be taken down and stowed below deck or on deck- and it's easier to go under short bridges. All that wood is pretty and the best part of all is that they creak like a wooden boat.

Marconis are faster to set up - no need to varnish and by far better performing upwind - tho' I do believe that the standard lug sails were cut too shallow in draft and that a more fully cut sail would do much better upwind. I can roller reef the marconi's more easily ( my forearms are stronger than my daughter's) than the lugs ( but in either case it's not difficult). The maconis, of course, have infinite depth of reefs possible. I never like that aluminum banging around in the boat - the wood is less abrasive on my fiberglass.

If I had to have only one - it would be a hard choice. I'd probably pick the lug sails because i like to tinker with lines and I love the wood. Steve Anderson 

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Sea Pearl Tri's

Sea Pearl Tri-21 #2... Built in 1995... Owner Dave Bybee ... Racine , WI...

Factory Features

• LOA= 21 ft
• Beam, 14 ft (amas extended) 8 ft folded
• Draft; 6? leeboards up, 2 ft 6 ? boards down
• Displ; 950#
• Mast height; 22 ft
• Rigged, Cat Ketch , sail color; white with Green Logo ,Full roach with horizontal battens, SA= 196 sq ft
• Aluminum Spars
• Internal Halyards
• 4:1 Vangs
• Lazy Jacks
• Vinyl Rails
• Liner
• Hull, Amas, Teal
• Topsides Buff
• Kick-up Rudder
• Mast Boots
• Canvas tonneau cover (teal) with teak support
• Inspection ports; amas (4) and rear cockpit sole (1)
• Rear cockpit drain at water level
• Teak fabricated storage areas along hull liner
• Hatches installed on unused ballast tanks for storage
• Bronze hardware --- hawespipe, chocks and front and rear cleats

Factory Options

• 11# Bruce anchor, 12? 5/16? chain, 150 ft 3/8? nylon rhode
• Plug-in navigation Lights (Aqua Signal)
• 2-12 volt receptacles, forward and rear cockpit
• Aft Bimini (teal)
• Convertible Cabin (teal)
• Compass (Silva)
• Rudder mounted motor bracket
• 2 hp, 4 cycle Honda outboard
• Closed -cell interior cushions
• Porta-Potti
• Continental tilt trailer, 12? wheels with spare, lowered bed, bearing buddies

Additional Features

• Windex on main mast
• VHF Transceiver with antenna on missen mast; Humminbird/Metz
• All reefing lines and outhauls (2:1) brought to mast areas (camcleated)
• Down hauls (2:1) on main and missen (camcleated)
• Anchor/Steaming light (Aqua Signal) on missen flag halyard

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