PILGRIM

1937, Herreshoff 12 1/2 Sloop, 16'

PILGRIM is a well-kept 1937 Herreshoff 12 ½ offered for sale with lots of extras and a Triad trailer 12 ½ boat trailer with all the bells and whistles included in purchase price. PILGRIM has been stored with and maintained by Brooklin Boat Yard since 2012 and her on deck varnish work has already gotten next years (2024) coat.

Optional / additional equipment available for separate purchase include a Walker Bay dinghy with oar locks and oars along with a 12 ½ mooring in Center Harbor / Brooklin Maine available to local residents who will keep PILGRIM in her home waters.

PILGRIM is a favorite here at Brooklin Boat Yard so we and her owners hope she’ll stay local but if she needs to travel to continue to provide her new generations of sailors with all the joy she’s given all of us over the years we’ll raise a glass and wish PILGRIM and her new stewards all the best for the future, fair winds and following seas.

Principle Dimensions and Information

Designer: Nathanial G. Herreshoff

Builder: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company / Bristol, RI

Year Built” 1937

HMCo Hull Number: 1435

LOA: 15.83’

LWL: 12.50’

Beam: 5.83’

Draft: 2.50’

Displacement: 1,250 lbs.

Ballast: 735 lbs.

Sail Area: 140 sq. ft.

Rig Type: Marconi Sloop

Hull and Deck Construction

Full keel with transom hung rudder underwater configuration

Carvel planking

Cedar planking over White Oak frames, floors, stem, keel, deadwood and transom.

Bronze screw fastenings

Varnished, molded White Oak sheer strake.

Bronze ½ round guard on sheer strake

Varnished White Oak toe rails, cockpit coamings, cockpit seats and transom.

Painted cedar cockpit sole boards.

Decks are marine plywood over fir deck beams with an overlay of canvas cloth set in epoxy and finished with Buff Tan paint

Fore and aft cockpit bulkheads are of marine plywood with White painted finish

Transom hung White Oak rudder with bronze pintails and gudgeons and varnished White Oak tiller.

Exterior color scheme: Green bottom, Red boot stripe, White topsides, Varnished sheer strake and transom. White fore and aft decks

Interior color scheme: White hull interior and bulkheads, Buff Tan cockpit sole boards.

Deck and Cockpit Hardware

Bronze bow chocks and bow cleat

Bronze stern cleats

Bronze pad eyes for jib sheet fore deck blocks

Bronze main sheet traveler

Bronze pad eye for main sheet block

Bronze swivel cam cleat for main sheet

Bronze chain plates and stem iron

All running rigging blocks are of bronze construction

Bronze halyard cleats

Spars and Rigging

Fractional Marconi rigged sloop configuration

Varnished Sitka Spruce mast, boom, jib club and spinnaker pole

Varnished teak boom crutch

Stainless steel 1x19 wire standing rigging (shrouds and headstay) with chrome bronze turnbuckle adjusters

Sheets (main, jib and spinnaker) of traditional 3-strand Dacron line.

Halyards (main, jib, spinnaker and topping lift) of traditional 3-strand Dacron line

All jib and mainsheet turning blocks of bronze fabrication

Stainless steel sail track on mast

Bronze sail track on boom

Bronze spinnaker pole end fittings

Windex (wind direction) at masthead.

Sails and Canvas

Main Sail (Center Harbor Sails)

Jib (Center Harbor Sails)

Triradial Spinnaker with bag and sheets

Older / spare main sail and jib

Canvas covers for main and club jib.

Electronics and Navigational Equipment

Garmin GPSmap 765 hand-held chart plotter

Uniden Atlantis hand-held VHF radio

Ritchie Voyager helm compass with bracket mount on forward bulkhead

Small Ritchie helm compass

Ritchie hand-bearing compass

Eggemoggin Reach Regatta chart

Parallel rules

Water proof storage bag for navigational equipment and electronics

Ground Tackle

Danforth anchor with coated chain and appropriate length of Nylon rode

Ground tackle storage bag

Dewatering Equipment

Hand-held electric bilge pump

Milwaukee battery and charger

Extra bilge pump hose

Bucket

Sponge 

Triad Trailer

Single axle Triad H12 ½ trailer with optional equipment

Spare tire

Tongue extension

Bow stand

Mast storage rack

Rear stabilizing jacks port and starboard

Additional Equipment

Varnished paddles (2ea)

Danforth anchor with chain and rode

Aluminum boat hook

Dock lines and fender

Diver’s knife

Spare bronze blocks, shackles and cam cleat

Tool and sail repair kit

Air Horn

MOB strobe light

Optional Equipment Available For Separate Purchase

Walker Bay dinghy

Disclaimer

Brooklin Boat Yard offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.