BOATS FOR SALE

SALT MARSH DORIES- Charles Burnham built the first salt marsh dory in 1971 as a tender for his first boat MARIA. In the early 1980’s we started after building several more as tenders we started the SALT MARSH DORY COMPANY and went into production of the type. Although we don’t turn them out like we used to we still find them to be the best tender we know and we still build one or two hear and there for our own use or our customers who like them. Rite now we have the SALT MARSH DORY #28 for sale. We built this one last summer and only used it briefly on as an extra tender on our Maine trip in the MAINE.  We are asking $1900 for it with oars and oarlocks ready to go. That is our normal price for and unfinished boat. 

MARIA-22 ½ foot friendship sloop built by Charles Burnham in 1971 and named after his wife. This boat was purchased in 2007 by BURNHAM BOATBUILDING for $2000 the same price it was sold for in 1973 and is for sale for that price to a good home as is where is. Although the deck, rig, and engine need to be replaced the rest of the boat is in relatively good condition as the vessel only spent 5 or six seasons sailing and spent most of its time ashore well protected in a barn. We would be glad to do some or all of the work to her that needs to be done in order to put her back in the water and there are a lot of options as to how it gets done and what the cost will be. More than anything we want this boat to go to a good home.

IRENE- IRENE is a 38’ real class A original sloop, she was built around 1917 or by Charles A. Morse. She looks to have been built on the same molds of the famous C. A. Morse sloop Lizzy M.  (that beat her way out of Rockland and ran down to Portland to fetch a fair price for her load of fish) and later cleaned up year after year in the Mass. Bay raceing circuit.

      Anyway IRENE herself has had quite a long history as a charter boat and family boat. She has sailed all along the coast, down to the Bahamas and rode out the storm in the made famous by the book FATAL FORCAST; and by all reports is one nice comfortable sea kindly boat. 

      Unfortunately she needs to be completely rebuilt. We got her off the Internet from a man who had paid a dollar for her. After several frustrating years trying to rebuild her he had finally decided to cut her up. When we called him we mentioned that we were thinking of building a similar boat might use some of the gear off of her. He said he would pay us to take her at which point we explained that that would probably not be necessary. Of course when we saw her we asked how much and settled on a deal that worked for both of us. 

      After we got her back to the shop we took her lines and we would be glad to give her to any one who would hire us to rebuild her. We figure this would cost about the same amount of money as it would cost to build replica. Truth be told, about all we could save from IRENE is her heart, sole and fine sailing qualities. Never the less we would argue that if one had the resources to rebuild her and wanted a large original friendship sloop, you could not find a beater one than IRENE.