Zebra — W-Class W-46 Sloop

Zebra is one of those rare yachts that stops you in your tracks. A W-Class W-46 built in the Spirit of Tradition, she is at once a love letter to the golden age of yacht design and a thoroughly modern performance sailboat — and she wears both identities beautifully. Designed by Bob Stephens and built by Rockport Marine in Rockport, Maine, in 2000, Zebra’s lines speak for themselves. Long, sweeping overhangs fore and aft, a classic deck layout, and elegant house profiles echo the iconic cruising and racing yachts of a bygone era. Yet look below the waterline and aloft, and the picture shifts: modern foil shapes deliver the kind of performance that turns heads on the race course, while a carbon-fiber rig keeps weight low and responsiveness high. Zebra is as quick as she is graceful. Whether you’re slipping away for a lively afternoon on the water, lining up at the start of a club race, or settling in for a comfortable weekend cruise, Zebra rises to the occasion.

Deck and Hull Construction

• Cold-molded, wood-epoxy hull construction
• Marine plywood decks with teak decking over lay
• Varnished teak toe rails and taffrail
• Varnished teak cabin sides, front and back
• Marine plywood cabin top over laid with Dynel cloth set in epoxy and painted traditional Buff color
• Varnished teak handrails on cabin top
• Varnished teak companionway hatch, trim and drop boards
• Fin keel with trailing ballast bulb
• Balanced carbon fiber rudder
• Topsides: Black with Gold cove stripe and no boot stripe 2019
• Bottom: White anti-fouling paint. Major bottom overhaul 2019

Deck Hardware and Features

• Teak deck, cockpit seat tops, helm seat and cockpit sole
• Decks sanded and refurbished 2023
• Cast bronze chocks forward, midships and aft
• Cast bronze docking cleats forward, midships and aft
• Cast bronze bow / anchor roller
• Stainless steel bow pulpit
• Stainless steel double lifeline stanchions with opening gates port and starboard
• Stainless steel lifelines with opening gates port and starboard
• Stainless steel shroud chainplates
• Stainless steel stem iron with head stay attachment point under deck
• Lewmar hatch on foredeck (to head area below decks)
• Bronze deck fills (water) port and starboard midships
• Stainless steel backstay fairlead to under deck hydraulic ram

Auxiliary Propulsion and Fuel Systems

• Yanmar 3GM30 diesel, 30 HP
• Engine Year: 2000 rebuilt 2017
• Current Engine Hours: 333 as of March 2026
• Yanmar engine ignition panel and gauges
• Single lever engine throttle and gear selector control
• Sail Drive unit new 2017
• 2-Blade bronze Max Prop
• Cast bronze deck fill (Fuel) in cockpit sole

Auxiliary Propulsion and Fuel Systems (continued)

• Fuel tank capacity: 30 Gallons
• Parker / Racor water separator fuel filter
• Groco ARG-50 raw water filter

Steering

• Edson pedestal with stainless steel binnacle guard and Richie compass
• Edson cable and quadrant steering system
• Custom W-Class varnished teak steering wheel

Plumbing and Waste Systems

• 60 Gallon freshwater capacity stored in tanks located under main cabin settees
• Cold fresh water supplied to galley sink basin by manual hand pump.
• Marine toilet plumbed for overboard discharge or to holding tank.
• Holding tank plumbed for shore side pump out or overboard discharge offshore
• 25 Gallon holding tank capacity

Electrical Systems

• Lighting batteries, 2 each / 12-volt, starboard sail locker
• Engine start battery, 1 each / 12-volt, port sail locker
• All batteries new refit 2023
• Guest 4 position master battery selector switch
• 12 Volt DC circuit panel
• 12 Volt outlet
• AC outlet at navigation station
• Battery charging by engine mounted alternator and Xantrex Freedom X inverter / charger Lightning ground system

Spars and Rigging / Sails and Canvas

• Hall Spars carbon fiber mast
• Hall Spars carbon fiber boom
• All spars clear coated 2021
• Rig removed and inspected annually 
• New stainless steel rod standing rigging by Maine Marine Rigging installed by Rockport Marine in Spring of 2024
• Harken headsail roller furling system
• 3 Harken #40 self-tailing halyard winches 
• 6 Harken #48 self-tailing cockpit sheet winches
• Hydraulic backstay, vang and outhaul controls

Spars and Rigging / Sails and Canvas (continued)

• Harken continuous line main sheet traveler
• All turning blocks Harken

​​New Doyle Stratus Carbon Blade Jib 2024

• Mainsail Dacron new 2018
• Headsails 2000
• Kevlar #1
• Kevlar #2
• Kevlar #3
• Dacron #3
• Asymmetrical 
• Running rigging
• All new halyards 2019

Ground Tackle

• Claw anchor in chain locker forward with chain and rope rode
• Muir electric anchor winch

Dewatering Equipment

• Whale Gusher manual bilge pump
• Rule 2000 GPH electric automatic bilge pump

Safety Equipment

• 12 PFDs
• Fire Extinguishers 3
• 2 Life Rings
• Life Sling man overboard retrieval system 

Electronics

• Furuno radar
• Sony Bose CD player radio
• B&G Hydro 2000 System with readouts at nav station, cockpit and mast
• Icom IC-M127 VHF radio