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Cat Ketch Sharpie flat bottom centerboard Munro “Egret” w/ trailer - $5,000 (berkeley)
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The interior has varnished floorboards. There’s a chimney for a cooking stove that has since been disposed of) and another vent hole forward that has the appearance inside indicating it might have been installed for a heating chimney. Multiple vents and zero rot. There’s also a chain locker right forward.
The sails are essentially brand new, brown, with rings and grommets sized for the sliding around the masts. The rig is triangular with sprit booms - very simple. It needs a pair of masts. The sprit booms are strong, of a single piece, with no rot but they have black splotches, so you might prefer to paint them. I put a thick coat of Tokinois varnish on them. I know a designer who can design new masts, or you can use the plans, which I bought from WoodenBoat. You could also use bamboo masts, which were used on the 28’ junk rigged sharpie Scintilla. I would confirm bamboo scantlings with a designer.
There are eyebolts on deck for block and tackle. The boat still needs mooring cleats and a windlass for hauling up the centerboard and one for the ground tackle. Anchor and chain are included. Forehatch is built; it needs a hatch cover. A few other hatches, circular and polygonal need covers; some are included. There are a number of dorade vents.
The boat was never sailed very much - the bottom paint is totally clean. The topside fiberglassing was an afterthought to a well built plywood boat and gel coated hull. There are a couple well built, attractive, varnished boom/mast gallows that fit into the mast steps for transporting the spars. Egret has beautiful lines that will be shown off by the rub rail and sheer strake when you paint them your colors, and is a boat of absolute shoal draft that is fast, and on top of that, seaworthy in heavy weather. The type was used for ferrying the U.S. mail up and down the eastern seaboard. You know the mailman’s motto, of course. See designer Reuel Parker’s book “The Sharpie Book.”