Lucayo — Brooklin Boat Yard 48 | Custom Cold-Molded Offshore Cruiser

Maine-Built Offshore Capability — Cold-Molded Precision, Proven Blue-Water Range.

Some boats are built to a specification. Others are built to a conviction. Lucayo belongs to the second category.

Commissioned by an experienced offshore family and designed by Roger Marshall, whose name is synonymous with fast, capable, long-range cruising yachts. She was constructed at Brooklin Boat Yard with a mandate that has aged remarkably well: go anywhere, in any conditions, with confidence. She has spent the decades since making good on that promise, logging serious blue-water miles from Newfoundland to Venezuela, crossing the North Atlantic, and finding her way to harbors that most boats never reach.

Her cold-molded, wood-epoxy hull reflects a construction philosophy that Brooklin Boat Yard has long championed: structurally uncompromising, intelligently weighted, and built to age with dignity when properly maintained. Below the waterline, a substantial fin/bulb keel and skeg-hung rudder provide the tracking stability and forgiving offshore manners that serious passage-making demands. The result is a hull that inspires confidence in the open ocean and remains responsive and precise in close quarters.

Above deck, Lucayo’s rig is organized for short-handed efficiency without sacrificing performance. Twin headstays, Solent-style, with electric roller-furling, a staysail, and a full-battened main give her the versatility to manage changing conditions offshore. All lines and controls are led aft to the cockpit, where electric primary winches handle the load. Reefing and all sail handling can be executed without leaving the security of the cockpit, a considered decision that reflects the seriousness of her original design intent.

Her hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system was ahead of its time at build and remains a genuine differentiator today. A 144-volt DC system, powered by a Fischer-Panda generator with automatic controls, drives twin Homewood electric motors on a common shaft. Under sail, those motors can run in reverse as regenerative sources, replenishing the battery bank. The system offers extended range, reduced fuel consumption, and a remarkably quiet motoring experience, paired with a Side-Power bow thruster for confident docking. Also, a full walk-in, stand-up machinery room is a luxury in a vessel this length.

Below, Lucayo’s two-cabin, two-head interior offers comfortable offshore accommodation for six. The layout — forward V-berth cabin, double settees in the main salon, aft queen cabin with adjacent nav station, and a walk-through galley — is both practical and livable. Craftsmanship throughout reflects Maine boatbuilding at its most considered: purposeful joinery, excellent storage, and a spatial logic that rewards time aboard.

She is, in a word, capable. And capable boats have a way of finding capable owners.

What Lucayo presents today is something increasingly rare: a genuine custom-built offshore hull, with proven offshore range, available at a fraction of her original build cost. For a buyer who understands what they’re looking at — and has a clear vision for what she could become — the opportunity is significant. With the right design partner, her next chapter could be as distinctive as her first.

A Designer’s Perspective (draft copy – work in progress)

Bob Stephens, Principal — Stephens Waring Design

Lucayo represents something we don’t see often enough in the brokerage market: a genuine custom-built hull, designed with real offshore intent, available at a fraction of what she cost to create.

What makes her interesting from a design standpoint is the gap between what she is and what she could become. The structure and sailing systems are the foundation — and it’s a strong one. Where a thoughtful new owner has the opportunity is in the interior: refreshing the aesthetic, modernizing select systems, and making the space feel like it belongs to them rather than to her original brief. That kind of focused, intentional upgrade work is precisely what we do. The result is a boat that doesn’t try to hide her provenance — it celebrates it.

For a buyer willing to think creatively, Lucayo is a rare thing: a performance cruiser with real bones, real history, and real potential.

Additional Information

Construction

— Cold-molded wood-epoxy hull construction
— Marine plywood and epoxy subdecks with teak deck overlay
— Fin/bulb keel with skeg-hung rudder
— Massive stainless steel plate across interior stringers supporting keel bolts and loads
— Custom polished stainless steel knees supporting chainplates
— Teak toerails, teak decks, cabin top and cockpit sole

Deck Layout and Ground Tackle

— Stainless steel bow pulpit
— Stainless steel double lifeline stanchions with Dyneema lifelines
— Stainless steel stern rail(s) with opening gate
— Custom stainless steel stem fitting with double bow anchor roller
— Chrome bronze chocks and docking line cleats port and starboard
— Hard dodger with removable isinglass windows
— Spacious aft cockpit with wheel steering helm station
— Large cockpit locker to starboard; cockpit table
— Open transom to spacious swim platform
— Custom arch over cockpit for instrumentation
— Dinghy davits mounted to arch
— Rocna 33kg (73 lb) primary anchor with all-chain rode; electric windlass

Rig, Sails, and Rigging

— Keel-stepped masthead double-spreader sloop/cutter rig
— Aluminum mast and boom, painted black
— Rod rigging
— Bamar electric roller-furling inner and outer headstays
— Removable inner forestay (1×19 wire) with adjustable Highfield lever
— Lewmar self-tacking jib/staysail traveler
— Halyard winches: Lewmar 48, 2-speed self-tailing (port and starboard of mast)
— Primary sheet winches: Harken 60, 2-speed self-tailing electric
— Secondary sheet winches: Lewmar 58, 2-speed self-tailing
— Main sheet winch: Lewmar 54, 2-speed self-tailing
— GMT Composites carbon fiber spinnaker/whisker poles
— Selden vang
— Full-battened mainsail (Mack Sails) with Mack Pack cover
— Inner roller-furling jib, outer roller-furling genoa, staysail (all Mack Sails)

Accommodation and Domestic Equipment

Forward Cabin: Spacious V-berth with storage aft to starboard
Forward Head: Composting toilet and vanity with shower wand
Main Salon: Port and starboard settees with flip-up backrests; centerline drop-leaf dining table; ample storage outboard; full-size washer/dryer concealed to port
Forward Companionway: Deck access to main cabin without disturbing off-watch crew
Systems Room: Full-height aft to port; houses electrical systems, watermaker, batteries; good engine compartment access
Galley: Aft to starboard; Broadwater Marine 4-burner LPG stove and oven; double stainless steel sink; 12v SeaFrost fridge and freezer; Corian counters; ample storage
Aft Cabin/Nav Station: Large queen berth aft to port with access to aft companionway; full nav station with complete electronics suite forward
Aft Head: Composting toilet and vanity with shower wand

Mechanical and Propulsion

— Hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system
— 144-volt DC system with bank of 12 x 12-volt, 100 amp-hour AGM batteries
— Fischer-Panda 18kw generator with automatic controls (Vessel Monitoring, Inc.)
— Two 4.5kw Homewood Products drive motors on common shaft; saildrive with folding prop
— Batteries rechargeable via shore power, onboard generator, or regenerative sailing
— Side-Power bow thruster

Electrical

— 12v DC ship’s systems
— 110v AC shore-power system
— AGM batteries
— Victron battery charger, inverter, battery management system, and isolation transformer

Navigation and Communications

— Ritchie helm compass
— Garmin chartplotter/radar display; Garmin radar (arch-mounted); Garmin 3006C GPS
— Raymarine ST6001 below-decks autopilot
— Vesper Marine Watchmate AIS; CSB Class B AIS transponder
— Icom IC-M602 VHF; Icom SSB radio
— KVH/Sail Comp sailing instruments

Plumbing and Domestic Systems

— Hot and cold pressure water to forward head, aft head, galley, and washer
— Village Marine watermaker
— Kuuma 6-gallon stainless steel electric hot water tank
— Airhead composting toilets (forward and aft)
— Diesel-fired cabin heater; 12v fans; clock and barometer

Safety Equipment

— MOB pole, horseshoe life ring, Lifesling 2, MOM 8-A
— Emergency tiller; ship’s bell
— Sea anchors; MOB strobe light; throw rope
— Manual and electric/automatic bilge pumps
— Emergency VHF radio antenna wire

Specifications

Designer: (TBD)
Built by: Brooklin Boat Yard, 1993
LOA: 47 ft 11 in (14.6 m)
LWL: 40 ft 3 in (12.3 m)
Beam: 13 ft 5 in (4.1 m)
Draft: 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m)
Displacement: 32,000 lbs
Hull: Cold-molded wood-epoxy
Propulsion: Hybrid diesel-electric
Generator: Fischer-Panda 18kw
Cabins: 2
Heads: 2
Berths: 6

Disclaimer

Stephens Waring Design offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

For sales inquiries contact: brokerage@stephenswaring.com · 207-460-0461

Listed in co-brokerage with Sailboats Northeast