47' Hand/Covey Island Motorsailer (1989) - CHANTEY II

CHANTEY II was completed construction in 1989, being built at Covey Island Boatworks, Nova Scotia. The owners worked alongside for most of a year in the shop during construction.
Length on Deck: 47’8″
Length Overall: 51′
Load Waterline Length: 43′
Beam: 13’8″
Draft: 5’0″
Displacement Weight: 50,400 lbs

The hull construction describes why she is so solid and not thought of as a wooden boat sitting in water: Chantey II is of wood-epoxy, strip plank on laminated frame construction. Planking, laminated frames and sheer clamps are douglas fir. Nominal dimensions are: Planking 2″x2″, Frames 2″x3″, and Sheerclamps 6″x6″. Deck beams are 3″x3″ laminated pine. Scantlings are very close to the original design. However, the rigid, composite construction produces a much stronger, stiffer, tight, leak free hull. West System Epoxy was used exclusively. The hull exterior is Epoxy-Fiberglass coated, for additional tightness and abrasion protection. The hull interior is epoxy coated.

CHANTEY II is built to an original 1933 design of William Hand, Jr. who is often referred to as “the grandfather of motor sailors.” This particular design was for the Wheeler Shipbuilding Company and meant to be used by owner, friends and hired hand for offshore sword fishing. A complete set of plans was obtained from the Hart Nautical Museum of MIT and rights to produce one vessel to these plans were negotiated. The original drawings were followed as closely as possible (re; lines and scantlings) but as opposed to traditional plank on frame construction, modern cold-molded strip-planking materials and techniques were used throughout the hull construction and the interior layout was changed to reflect CHANTEY II’s use as a comfortable long range cruising vessel.
CHANTEY II’s owners stepped aboard for the first time in 1989. Since then they have cruised extensively all along the US Eastern seaboard, The Canadian Maritimes and The Great Lakes with winters spent in the Bahamas and Florida’s East Coast.
In 2017 circumstances required that CHANETY II’s owners move ashore to follow a different path in life but CHANTEY II was not forgotten and has remained in the water under careful watch and regular maintenance provided by a professional yacht captain and maintenance contractor.
Today CHANTEY II is now being reluctantly offered for sale. It is the hope of her sellers that she will become the property of yet another adventuresome couple who will continue her voyages and care.

CHANTEY II is listed with a broker in Nova Scotia. To schedule a viewing or questions please contact Sales@coveyisland.com or call 902 640-3064. Main ad is listed at coveyisland.com under ‘brokerage’.