Ms. Reilly — Sam Crocker Schooner

Originally built for the author of The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast (Roger Duncan) in 1961 by Reed’s Shipyard of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Ms. Reilly has spent the last 20 or so years under the current ownership day sailing off the Low Country of the South Carolina Coast.

Knowing how they would be using this Sam Crocker schooner (mostly day sailing), upon purchase in 2004 her owners commissioned Crockers Boat Yard of Manchester, Massachusettts, to put her in good working order with bottom re-planked, a new Edson worm gear steering system, new teak decks, and a major reconfiguration of the deck house and  cockpit. This project shortened up the cabin house and greatly increased the size of her cockpit to reflect her new principal use as a fast day sailor capable of carrying a crowd of family and friends.

Since that time, Ms. Reilly’s owners have kept her in great shape, paying attention to annual maintenance tasks and making the occasional upgrade or new equipment installations to keep up with the times with new Nat Wilson Sails in 2014, the addition of a cockpit Bimini, and other such projects and purchases. Most recently (2022-2023), Ms. Reilly had a major systems overhaul with new engine and drive train, new fuel systems, new electronics, and new electrical system installed.

With all this work done, Ms. Reilly is more than ready for at least another half-century of providing her next owners with many days of fun fast sailing and continuing to turn heads wherever she may roam.

Hull, Deck, Cabin and Cockpit Construction

• Underwater configuration is that of a partially full keel vessel with centerboard and rudder seated to aft end of skeg extending aft from keel.
• Oak stem, keel, deadwood, floors, frames, bilge stringers and sheer clamp
• Oak stem new 2012
• Cypress 1” x 8” Carvel bottom planking
• Bottom planking new 2004
• Cedar (?) 1” x 8” Carvel topsides planking
• Bronze fasteners
• Fir deck beams and carlins
• Marine plywood sub-decks with laid Teak overlay
• Varnished Mahogany cabin sides
• V-match marine plywood cabin top with FRP overlay and painted finish
• Painted and varnished exterior finishes
• Red anti-fouling bottom paint
• Green topsides and transom
• Gold rub rails port and starboard
• Black gunwale stripe at sheer with Gold filigree at bow and stern quarters

Deck, Cabin and Cockpit Hardware and Features (fore to aft)

• Bow sprit furthest forward
• Bronze anchor roller on bow sprit starboard side
• Double (upper & lower) vinyl covered stainless steel wire life lines port and starboard
• Bronze life line stanchions port and starboard
• Raised gunwales / toe rails with white painted interior and varnished Mahogany cap rails port and starboard
• Bronze docking line chocks port and starboard at bow
• Varnished Mahogany and Bronze pin Samson post centerline on fore deck just aft of bow sprit
• Ground tackle windless next aft on center line
• Varnished Mahogany opening hatch with bronze dorade cowl vent (next aft on center line) for forward sleeping cabin.
• Bronze pad eyes for jib sheet turning blocks on center line and leading aft to cockpit
• Bronze foremast partners on center line just forward of cabin
• Bronze eye bolts and pad eyes port and starboard outboard of cabin (forward) on side decks
• Bronze circular opening ports with screen on cabin front (2ea.)
• Bronze oval opening ports with screens on cabin sides (3 ea. port and starboard.
• Varnished Mahogany, Bronze and glass Butterfly opening hatch on centerline of cabin top forward
• Varnished Mahogany grabrails port and starboard on cabin top
• Bronze mushroom-style cabin ventilator to port on cabin top aft
• Varnished Mahogany sliding companionway hatch offset to starboard on cabin top aft
• Centerboard control winch on centerline of cabin aft bulkhead
• Bronze main mast partner on center line of bridge deck (aft of cabin)
• Bronze dorade vents cowls port and starboard (outboard) at aft end of bridge deck
• Bronze deck fill (Fuel) port side deck outboard of cockpit
• Water-tight opening hatch to engine area at forward end of cockpit
• Seat lockers port and starboard under cockpit seating
• Varnished Mahogany cockpit coamings port and starboard
• Engine ignition and status panel to starboard (aft) in cockpit
• Throttle and transmission control to port (aft) in cockpit
• Steering wheel on center line furthest aft in cockpit
• Varnished Mahogany helm seat / opening hatch with access to steering gear
• Varnished Mahogany mainsheet cleat to port outboard of helm seat
• Bronze pad eyes for main sheet blocks aft of helm seat
• Varnished Mahogany, and Bronze pin samson posts port and starboard at aft quarters
• Bronze docking line chocks port and starboard at aft cap rails
• Bronze and varnished Mahogany main boom gallows
• Varnished Mahogany taff rail
• Bronze ensign staff socket on taff rail

Interior Layout, Accommodations and Features

• As a vessel used primarily for day sailing Ms. Reilley has spartan interior accommodations as compared to other vessels of her size but enough in the way of equipment and creature comfort to spend a night or two aboard in rustic style.
• Enter interior spaces by way of companionway ladder offset to starboard.
• Mahogany centerboard on center line.
• Navigation station and storage space for a large cooler located to starboard.
• Enclosed head area and vanity counter to port.
• Forward of centerboard trunk are the sleeping accommodations (2 persons) in a V-berth configuration.
• Forwardmost in the below decks areas is the ground tackle locker accessed by way of an opening door in forward bulkhead.

Auxiliary Propulsion

• 2023, Yanmar diesel, Model 4JH7, FW-cooled, 4-cylinder, 57 HP
• Yanmar ignition panel with tachometer and engine status gauges.
• Kanzaki KM35P reduction gear / transmission
• Single lever control for transmission and throttle (New 2023)
• Stainless steel (1 1/8”) propellor shaft
• Flax-packing style stuffing box
• FRP shaft log (New 2023)
• Cutlass bearing
• Bronze, 3-blade feathering propellor
• Bronze raw water intake thru-hull
• Raw water strainer
• Raw water / fresh water heat exchanger on engine
• Waterlift muffler (new 2023)
• Flex exhaust water line (new 2023)

Fuel System and Equipment

• Fuel Capacity: 50 Gallons (2 -25 Gallon aluminum tanks)
• Tanks new in 2022
• USCG approved fuel and vent lines
• Fuel lines and vents new in 2023
• Fuel manifold and valves in engine space
• Racor primary and Yanmar secondary fuel filters

Steering System and Equipment

• 6-Spoke Bronze steering wheel with Teak spoke handles
• Edson Bronze worm-gear steering
• Bronze rudder post
• Bronze and wood rudder
• Electrical System and Equipment
• 12-Volt DC ship’s systems
• Three (3) Heavy duty 12-Volt, AGM-type marine batteries with two (2) batteries for ship’s lighting and one (1) battery for engine ignition.
• Rotary style master battery selector switch
• Blue Seas 12-Volt distribution panel with DC master switch
• DC circuits for interior lighting, navigational lighting, interior 12-Volt outlets, exterior 12-Volt outlets, VHF radio, electronics and three (3) spare circuits
• Battery charging by engine alternator
• Simple 110-Volt AC shore power system for battery charging
• 20-Amp, Guest Charge-Pro battery charger

Sanitation Systems and Equipment

• Enclose  head area with Type III MSD (marine toilet).
• 10 Gallon Holding tank
• Head plumbed for discharge overboard or to holding tank for later shore side pump-out.

Electronics and Navigational Equipment

• Ritchie helm / binnacle compass
• Standard Horizon VHF radio (New 2023)
• Remote VHF Mic (2023)
• Raymarine depth sounder (New 2023)

Spars and Rigging

• Two-masted, gaff-rigged schooner sail plan configuration
• Varnished spruce, main mast, foremast, main boom & gaff, foremast boom & gaff, jib boom and bow sprit
• Bronze chain plates
• 1 x 19 Stainless steel wire standing rigging (shrouds and stays)
• Deadeye and lanyard shroud adjusters
• Running backstays for main and fore masts
• Dacron 3-strand rope halyards and sheets
• Halyard cleats on foremast
• Halyard pin-rail at main mast
• Halyard pin-rails port and starboard on shrouds
• Varnished Ash shell blocks
• All blocks and deadeyes refinished 2023

Sails and Canvas

• Sailmaker: Nat Wilson / 2014
• Mainsail and cover
• Foresail and cover
• Jib and cover

Ground Tackle Systems and Equipment

• Bronze anchor roller
• CQR plow anchor with appropriate chain and rode
• Ideal 12-volt electric windlass (New 2022)

Dewatering Equipment

• Rule electric / automatic bilge pumps with float switches

Safety Equipment

• PFD’s, Type II, (4ea.)
• PFD’s, Type I, (1ea.)
• Fire extinguisher, Type ABC, (2ea.)
• Hand-held search light
• Ship’s horn
• Ship’s bell