1983 Jarvis Newman Friendship Sloop "BABY BLUE"

Baby Blue is Hull #18, and was built by the Jarvis Newman Boatyard in Southwest Harbor, Maine, along with her fiberglass deck assembly. She was finished by the Malcolm Pettegrow Boatyard also in Southwest Harbor in 1983. Her hull is solid hand-laid fiberglass. One-piece molded fiberglass with balsa core deck assembly with self-bailing and watertight cockpit, coamings, cabin ports, companionway hatch, and oiled teak overlay on cockpit seats and sole, and side decks. Varnished teak covered companion way boards and trim, toe rails, handrails, and coamings. External 2000-lb. lead keel fastened with bronze keel bolts. Deck and cockpit scuppers piped overboard. Custom bronze hardware. Edson wheel steering. A large cockpit and bridge deck that seat six comfortably.Topsides are awlgripped in Empress Blue.

Westerbeke 17 HP, FWC diesel. Hurth transmission. 2003 1" SS shaft swinging a 2-blade bronze prop. Single-lever Morse controls in cockpit. 750 engine hours. Good access to engine through cabin door under companionway.

Main: Fortune 1983

Jib: Roller furled Vermont Sailing Partners, 2005

Staysail: Roller furled by Vermont Sailing Partners, 2012

Total sail area: 432 sq. feet, plus topsail and flying jib by Fortune, unk. year, very good condition

Varnished solid sitka spruce spars--boom, gaff, staysail boom, topmast--and Douglas fir bowsprit. 2014 New Douglas fir laminated, hollow mast with electrical wiring by Paul Rollins of York, ME. SS standing rigging and Lignum Vitae deadeyes. Dacron running rigging. Custom bronze hardware includes main gooseneck, boom bail, and eagle billet head.

6 knots under power

12V battery w/master switch, 1-2-Both, and a circuit breaker panel for accessories, which include navigational lights, cabin lights, bilge pump.

Baby Blue sleeps four in cabin with 2 vee berths forward and 2 quarter berths aft, 4" thick blue cushions for all berths (6'6" long). Galley consists of 2-burner CNG stove, SS sink with cold water hand pump, and ice box. Formica countertop, lockers and shelves outboard and below. The manual head is located between vee berths, plumbed to holding tank. Hanging shelves and storage beneath berths. White ceiling and bulkheads, varnished teak cabinets and trims, and varnished teak and holly cabin sole. Electric lighting, six fixed port lights and companionway opening w/screen for good light and ventilation.

Cockpit seating for 6+. Oiled teak seats and bridge deck overlay, and cockpit teak sole. Varnished teak companionway hatch, slats and trim, coaming cap, toe rails and hand rails. Bronze deck hardware and bronze & teak gallows frame aft. The decks were recalked in 2018. Blue Sunbrella covered cockpit cushions.

Compass

Depth Sounder & Speed Indicator

Danforth Anchor #12, chain & 200' rode

Manual & Electric Bilge Pumps

Fire Extinguisher

Horn

Dock Lines and Fenders

Bronze gallows frame for boom

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