Construction and Layout
This sloop is one of six 19-footers built of the Ahern design by New England Yachts in Boston. A solid fiberglass hull with inside lead ballast. The deck assembly is wood that has been upgraded the winter of 2022-23 with enlarging the cockpit and refinishing the woodwork and repainting the hull. Tiller steering, large rudder. A new bilge pump and hose is currently being installed.
The cockpit seats 4-6 people.
The spars are varnished fir and consist of the bowsprit, mast, boom, and gaff. There is a main sail but no jib.
Standing rigging is stainless steel shrouds with traditional blocks and deadeyes. Running rigging is traditional 3-strand Dacron.
There is a bronze outboard motor mount for the transom.
This sloop is small Friendship Sloop that sails with the stability these former work boats boast. She is a Maine classic!
