1997 Covey Island Boat Works
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WALRUS
49' Covey Island Boat Works 1997
Covey Island Boat Works 1997 For Sale in Newport, Rhode Island
$280,000
Newport, Rhode Island
Dimensions
- Length Overall: 49'
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General Description
Judges Choice For Best In Show
2025, WoodenBoat Show, Mystic CT
WALRUS
As taken from L. Francis Herreshoff’s Sensible Cruising Designs with some slight editing and updating.
Here is a design (Walrus) for a twin-engine power vessel with enough sail area and lateral plane to get where she wants to go under sail alone if that is her owner’s need or wish. She is a 50 / 50 cruiser or motorsailer, but she really seems to be a power craft with auxiliary sails. This makes a fine type of cruising vessel, for she will make good passages in any ordinary weather and her rig will keep her steady, add to her speed on many runs and make her far more interesting and fun to handle than is the out-and-out power craft.
She is easily handled by a cruising couple, and offers full privacy for a second couple. Walrus has a beautifully appointed wooden interior, yet her fiberglass/epoxy exterior and aluminum rig require the same maintenance level as a fiberglass vessel.
Her hull lines are easy throughout, and she is an excellent sea boat with a smooth motion. The rig is versatile and easy to
handle. Her power is a pair of 75 hp. Perkins diesels turning Luke feathering propellors and these send her along at a comfortable cruising speed of 7.5-8 knots which when combined with her easily managed sail plan should provide excellent fuel economy.
Walrus’s cabin plan shows a sensible interior arrangement with private (double berth with ensuite facilities) sleeping cabins fore and aft separated by galley / dining areas and pilot house. Even more berthing space can be had (if needed) by making use of settees located in the forward cabin and pilothouse or by converting the galley dinette into another double berth allowing for sizable family gatherings / cruises made all the more sweet a memory when the added crew has gone back home or to school and serenity returns onboard.
Walrus seems clearly to be the type of boat most suited to sailors (men and women) who have mostly “seen and done it all” and are now content and perfectly satisfied to use their time comfortably cruising without schedules or agendas.
Walrus is a new listing for Brooklin Boat Yard. We now have more complete information as regards systems and equipment (see below). Pictures (as they say) are worth a million words and we hope you’ll enjoy these photos of Walrus and especially so the recent photos of her interior so generously offered for our use by Onne van der Wal
Bluewater Yacht Sales is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Brooklin Boat Yard. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel
Principle Dimensions and Information
Designer:: L. Francis Herreshoff
Design Type: pilot house ketch
Builder: Covey Island Boat Works
Year Built: 1997
Construction: Strip-planked wood / epoxy / FRP composite
construction
LOA: 48.5’
LWL: 44.0’
Beam: 13.8’ (14’-2” with rub rails)
Draft: 5.2’
Displacement: 40,000 lbs.
Ballast: 18,000 lbs.
Sail Area: 900 sq. ft.
Propulsion: Perkins model 4.236 / 72 hp. Diesel (2ea.)
Fuel Capacity: 480 gals. (240 x 2)
Freshwater Capacity: 412 gallons (247 + 165)
Hull Construction
Wood/epoxy/fiberglass composite.
Laminated Douglas Fir centerline and frames, with Sitka Spruce strip planking covered by three layers of bi-axial fiberglass andepoxy. The interior is heavily coated with epoxy and the frames are filleted to the planking.
Paint is Quantum two part compoundable polyurethane.
Deck, Cabin and Pilothouse Construction
Decks and houses are fir marine plywood covered in fiberglass cloth and epoxy.
All exterior trim (cap rails, eyebrows, hatches, benches, Dorade boxes) are teak
Interior Accommodations
All accommodation bulkheads show v-grooved staves or raised panels painted white. Trim is varnished mahogany. Doors have mahogany frames with caned centers or white painted raised panels. Pilothouse sole is cherry, Stateroom soles are Sapele. Deck beams are painted white with varnished mahogany bottom laminated.
Accomodations (fore to aft)
Large lined chain locker, aft side forms a watertight bulkhead. Forward head, has a composting toilet, mahogany vanity with sink and a separate and spacious stall shower with teak seat and floor grating. Three opening bronze ports plus an overhead teakb hatch provide abundant ventilation. Forward stateroom with large double berth, ample lockers, shelves, drawers, hanging locker, and settee. Four bronze opening ports, two bronze opening hatches.
Pilothouse (with engine room under). 360 degree visibility with a ship-like feel. Cozy when it’s cold or wet, and extremely well ventilated in the heat, it really will spoil you! The helm is a cast bronze fisherman style wheel from Lunenburg Foundry in NS. The port after end forms an L shaped dinette around a beautiful mahogany table, while the starboard side houses a Luke soapstone and brass woodstove.
Engine Room: The engine room is well laid out with a central work area beneath the wheelhouse.
Dining area and Galley- open space to the top of the wheelhouse gives the U shaped dining area a spacious feel. The table can be replaced with an insert to form a third double berth if needed. The U shaped galley has a custom stainless countertop and backsplash, a three burner Force 10 propane stove with oven, new in 2021. The Sea frost fridge and freezer systems were new in 2023. There is ample ventilation including opening ports and overhead hatch.
*Aft stateroom and Head- A second cabin with total privacy has a large double berth and it’s own enclosed head with vanity, sink and composting toilet. An aft companionway ladder leads to the seating area on the afterdeck. There is a small dressing settee opposite the berth. Large caned lockers flank the ladder.
Lazarette- a second watertight bulkhead forms the large full width Lazarette, capable of holding fenders, buckets and mops,
spare lines, diving gear, folding bikes or whatever!
Spars and Rigging
Tapered aluminum masts, aluminum booms, all spars were reAwl gripped white in 2023. All standing rigging, turnbuckles
and some running rigging replaced in 2023.
Harken sail tracks and a Pro Furl Genoa furler.
Sails and Canvas
Sails and Canvas
All sails in very good condition.
Cream colored Dacron working sails by Port Townsend (WA) sailmakers.
Main and mizzen have full length battens on low friction Harken “Batt cars” and lazy jacks.
Main has 2024 Doyle stack pack cover.
135% masthead Genoa on Schaefer furler.
Asymmetrical cruising spinnaker hoists in a sock for easily controlled deployment and retrieval.
Full winter cover.
Covers for cap rails, Dorade boxes, and hatches.
Easily set sun awning with side panels for after deck.
Sunbrella shades for all 16 pilothouse windows.
Mosquito nets for doors and hatches.
Electronics and Navigational Equipment
All electronics are Raymarine Axiom, new in 2021.
12” Axiom pro MFD with GPS.
Depth, speed, water temperature.
Wind speed and direction.
AIS class B transponder.
Doppler Radar (color).
Evolution “smart” autopilot with new pump and ram.
VHF (Standard Horizon “Eclipse” with GPS)
Auxiliary Propulsion
Two (2) Perkins 4.236 naturally aspirated diesel engines with ZF mechanical transmissions.
CV joints mounted on heavy duty stainless steel brackets take the thrust from the twin Luke 3-blade feathering propellers.
Fuel Systems and Equipment
480 gallons of diesel fuel in two 240 gallon tanks. Each tank feeds one of its own two Racor filters.
Dipsticks are used for reliable metering
Electrical Systems and Equipment
680 Watts of walkable solar panels on pilothouse rooftop.
Individual controllers for each panel in engine room.
Two (P&S) 200 amp AGM engine starting batteries.
Three parallel 2023 LFP 300 amp each (900AH total) house batteries.
2024 30 amp shore power cord.
Xantrex 3000 watt inverter/charger.
Freshwater Plumbing and Sanitation Systems
Groco heavy duty bronze freshwater pump And Whale PEX water lines.
Engine or 115V water heater.
Composting toilets
Ground Tackle Systems and Equipment
100lb.Manson (NZ) bower anchor.
300’ of 7/16 type 4 hot dipped galvanized chain. (New 2021)
Bruce secondary anchor.
Nylon webbing style drogue.
Powerful Maxwell windlass with chain gypsy and rope drum.
Spare rope rode.
Recessed salt water washdown hose.
Dewatering Equipment
Three electric bilge pumps
Safety Equipment
Eight life jackets
Flares
Bell
Horn
Anchor light and ball
Four fire extinguishers
Engine room fire suppression system
Remote solenoid propane shutoff valve
Propane sensor in galley bilge
Life sling
Additional Equipment
2023 Espar hydronic three zone diesel heating system.
2023 Highfield 11.5’ aluminum bottom RIB with Tohatsu
5HP propane outboard motor.
2022 dinghy davits.
Listing MLS by Yachtr.com
