Sandpiper is a ferro-cement vessel built in 1972 in Middle River, Maryland.

2015 Survey Value & 2024 Insured at $40,000

Welcome aboard 35ft LOD 38ft LOA 12-ton displacement, custom cruising ketch:
The Sandpiper. 

100% ready to go, fully operational, proper cruising yacht with nearly $40K of upgrades in the last two years alone.

Complete AC/DC electrical rewire $20k value, new batteries 2024. Brand new centerboard winch/cable + case/trunk 2023, diesel engine re-powered in 2010, sails still like new. Brand new bimini, dodger, sail covers, cushions, lee cloths 2023. Spacious and gorgeous live aboard accommodations, and the driest bilge on the east coast. Refrigeration, wind-generator, radar, lines led aft and more…

Cruising ready. This vessel is Coast Guard documented. Coastal and offshore proven to foreign ports. This is not a project boat. All modern vessel conveniences.

Completely restored, rewired, re-powered & ready to go. Cruised and meticulously maintained, updated & upgraded from 2005-2024. Re-powered with 35HP Yanmar in 2010. ABYC rewiring and grounding system 2024.

Stunning Accommodation

2024 Complete AC/DC Electrical/Power Distribution Rewire to ABYC Standard (all new panels, wires, breakers, fuses, battery power cables, new Victron Inverter and charging system, over charging and reverse current protection on alternator, new Diesel power cables, New grounding plate + grounding system, new panel finish plate. New electrical system ready to accept LiFePo batteries without any additional modifications. 

2023 New Dodger, Bimini, sail covers, cushions, lee cloths 

2010 Repowered Yanmar 35 HP Diesel Engine, only 1650 hours 2024

2023 New Center Board Winch Cable

2023 Bottom Paint

Completely outfit for offshore safety & comfort

Gorgeous, hardwood interior; bone dry bilge; 

Sails in excellent condition w/ crinkles

Over $25K in upgrades 2023-24

-Sails like new, heavy cruising Dacron, only used a few months per year and not used every year, no mold ever. Maintained + low hours/use, still crisp. 

– Brand new cushions settees / side berths, sea bunks with built in lee cloths, built in back rests, 5″ foam, full-cockpit Bimini, dodger with stainless steel frame, isinglass windows, mast and, radar, autohlem 

-Massive storage, long lasting cold refrigeration, solar , wind gen, inverter, shore power, classic oil lamps, LED, lots of bronze, 12v-fans for ventilation (no mold, ever), bronze port lights, dorades. 

-Force 10 safety-rated propane stove

-RE-POWERED in 2010 with Yanmar 35-HP, 3HM35F; all clean, new gear box, new coupling, new drive train. PYI dripless shaft seal 2022

-Rebuilt center board trunk 2007 as maintenance, heavily glassed; inspected

-Overhauled the centerboard trunk 2023, no significant degradation since rebuilt 15 years ago (Centerboard casing, cast into the ballast, made from black iron/carbon steel, and sheathed in polyester fiberglass, capped with 3/8″ glass and 1/8″ 316 stainless plate)

-Centerboard winch + system replaced 2022

-PYI dripless prop-shaft seal 2022

-2″ teak platform and 2 bow rollers integrated, rebuilt 2019

-2 kw battery charger, inverter, solar, wind gen, off grid + shore power, 5hp mercury dinghy motor, self steering wind vane and roller-furler aboard for installation.

Plath/Simpson Lawrence bronze windlass

Spare mast-mounted Lewmar halyard winches

Barlow self-tailing sheet winches

Two fuel tanks holding 40 gallons Three jerry cans with 15 extra gallons

Propane: Two Aluminium 20lb tanks, with cutoff sensor Propane isolator system

Three water bladders with capacity for 420 litres of water (extra water storage in jerry cans)

Holding tank 10 gallons, plastic

Jabsco manual head

Self-steering Navico/Raymarine WP5000 Wheel Pilot

(Unfitted) Hasler windvane
(Unfitted) Profurl roller-furling

Depth/Speed – Raymarine st60 Seatalk with repeater

GPS Garmin 210 plotter

SSB radio ICOM 600 with AT150 Tuner

Radar: Autohelm/Raymarine ST50

ACR Beacon

Standard Horizon GX2150 VHF with AIS

Standard Horizon HX890 Handheld VHF/GPS

Force 10 stove in galley two burner with grill and oven.

Force 10 stainless propane grill/barbecue on deck/pushpit.

Large capacity well-insulated ice chest (with 5 amp 12v Cold Machine Refrigeration)

45lb CQR, 35lb Danforth and a Mud/Maxx Anchor 200ft chain, 200ft of rode, Parachute Drogue/Sea Anchor, and 600ft of storm rode.

Two 75watt solar panels on stern

300w AirBreeze Wind generator

150w Solar panels

80amp alternator

110v 30A shore power system with breakers/outlets

600 house battery Amp hours

100 a/h starting battery

2 Kw Inverter

Solar charge controller

Sandpiper: History-Current

This Coast Guard Documented Vessel is an impressive sailing yacht commissioned to be built in 1972 by NASA Rocket Scientists/Engineers in the Annapolis area, the yachting center of the mid-coast Atlantic. Laid up by professional boat builders in Middle River, Maryland, during the height of the boat-building boom on the Chesapeake Ba. Enjoyed occasionally as a family cruising boat then sold to loving and capable Welsh couple for international sailing. Meticulously maintained; completely restored, re-powered, rebuilt, and outfitted to modern cruising specs and standards from 2005-2024. 

This well cared for custom sailing yacht’s circuit board boasts a few parts from NASA rocket ships. Sandpiper’s hull design is a Samson adaptation of the famous Sparkman & Stephens ocean racer ‘Finisterre’, incorporating Annapolis racer-cruiser innovation and traditional Skipjack lines of Chesapeake working sailing vessels. 

Ready-to-go as is for expedition, adventure cruising lifestyle and full-time live-aboard. The Sandpiper is truly a one of a kind vessel. Not an ounce of neglect from stem to stern. Dreamy bronze, round portholes. Bone dry and spotless bilge. Heavy displacement at 12T (22,000lbs) and 5,500lbs of lead ballast makes for a stable sea kindliness and cavernous cabin accommodations. 

Brand new canvas throughout the entire boat. Secure cockpit design. Safe and seaworthy ketch-rigged with like-new sails. Ship-like interior. Nine-foot centerboard and four-foot shoal draft make this long-distance sailing ketch the perfect boat for crossing the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas next season. 

The Sandpiper is presently docked in the hurricane hole of New Bern, North Carolina, safely tucked up the Neuse River and must sell due to obligations and responsibilities of owner’s which will prevent them from spending further, adequate time on boat. The Sandpiper just had a bottom job in April 2023, is literally turn-key and ready to pass the torch. 

From gunk-holing in the vessel’s home waters; to the Canadian maritime islands and Nova Scotia. Proven seaworthiness crossing the Gulf Stream to western Caribbean ports. The harbor’s of Cuba and cruising Mexico’s Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Tulum and Cancun beaches, and enjoying the east coast cruising of the United States. Well-cared for by owners for 21 years.

The Sandpiper is fit to be a world cruiser in every sense of the term. 

With stringers and compression post reinforcement throughout the bright and airy cabin, easy bilge and locker access, the structural integrity is notable. Marine plywood bulkheads covered in thick fiberglass are bolted to the boat’s frame and integral to the hull. All are rock solid and pristine. The hull and decks are ferro-cement and have shown no signs of degradation or wear and tear in 50 years. 

Many vessels constructed from ferro-cement have gone on to complete long-distance voyages on treacherous waters and are still cruising their home waters today. This construction method has been proven at sea. The Sandpiper was adapted and built for the Chesapeake Bay and the Bahamas specifically. 

The strength and integrity of the Sandpiper has been thoroughly upheld for 50-years. Inspected at least every three years on the hard since 2005.  

A full-service marine survey valued the vessel at $40,000 in 1972 and once again in 2015. The asking price is $40,000 as is where is. The vessel is currently insured for $40,000. Extensive maintenance and upgrade logs, tools, spares parts, all available. Survey from 2015 and 1972 available upon request.

Perfect for cruising couple or family. Seaworthy and conformable. Amenities and convenience balance with tradition to create a floating home feeling down below. Spacious ship conditions down below, seaworthiness above decks, well-canvased safe rig. Offshore proven. 

Specs.

Completely restored, rebuilt, and ready to go. Cruised and meticulously maintained, updated & upgraded from 2005-2024.

Measurements

Length Overall: 38’0″

Length on Deck: 35’0″

Beam: 11’3″

Draft: 3’11” (9’0″ with centreboard down)

Displacement: Net 12 T

Ferrocement Hull & Decks

Wide side decks give good access to the bow

Armature 0.225″ spring steel rods run longitudinally on 2″ centers

0.25″ high carbon steel rods run girth-wise on 3″ centers

1/4″ square mesh, 2 layers inboard, 1 layer outboard

Web Frames rod and mesh tack welded to armature

Engine Bed – ¼” steel plate self-contained custom bed, integral stringers lag-bolted to oak posts welded and glassed to armature.

Portland Cement with pozzolan.

General

Cabin and Cockpit 3/4″ marine plywood covered with fiberglass cloth

Keel-mounted skeg rudder, with lower cutless-style shoe (¼” 316). 316 stainless steel rudder jaws to 2.5″ rudder-post, with nylon upper bearing, stern-post sleeved in fibreglass inside galvanized tube

Drop-Keel Centreboard 5’0″ – fibreglass on ply with lead and stainless steel structure

Bow pulpit in 316

Mast 43’0″ aluminum, deck-stepped, Metalmast Marine

Chainplates 316 SS 1/4″ bar stock

Standing Rigging 9/32″ SS wire rope with 1/2″ SS turnbuckles

Asking $27,000

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