Tendress

 

TENDRESS 

 35 ft LOA  Custom Spirit of Tradition Sloop

Price: $338,000

Design: Stephens Waring Design, Inc.

Built by: Brooklin Boat Yard, 2001

Classic Style. Modern Performance. Boutique Craftsmanship.

Tendress is a rare blend of timeless elegance and contemporary performance—a yacht that turns heads in the harbor and thrills on the water. Designed with classic lines and constructed in lightweight wood-composite, she delivers a spirited sailing experience with the poise and presence of a much larger vessel. Weighing in at under 8,000 pounds, Tendress is remarkably responsive yet confidently stable, offering exhilarating performance without sacrificing comfort.

Every detail speaks to thoughtful design: all lines lead aft for easy, confident single-handing, while the generous cockpit—centerpiece of the boat—is nearly nine feet long, with beautifully sculpted teak benches that invite sunset entertaining or spirited day sailing. Below deck, the traditional cuddy cabin provides well-appointed accommodations for overnight adventures, including a compact galley, enclosed head, and vee-berths.

Her coaming and sheerstrake are finely varnished in the Herreshoff tradition, a nod to her classic heritage, while her underbody and rig are thoroughly modern—designed for those who appreciate both beauty and performance.

Lovingly maintained by her original owner for over 20 years, Tendress has recently received fresh topside paint and varnish, making her as striking today as when first launched. Compared to her smaller cousins in the Center Harbor lineage, Tendress’ design offers enhanced performance and a more commanding presence on the water. Among boutique daysailers, she stands apart one of a kind—not just for her pedigree, but for the soul she brings to every sail.

Deck and Cockpit:

Deck is painted with Awlgrip, non-skid. Exterior joinery is varnished Anigre, including toe rails, cockpit coamings and cabin trunk, companionway slide and drop-boards. Bronze winch plinths. Custom cast bronze chocks at bow and stern. Chainplates of custom-fabricated silicon bronze.

Cockpit is self-bailing with painted non-skid Awlgrip. Engine hatch in forward end of cockpit sole. Four opening cockpit seat lockers offering capacious storage for sails and gear. Waldron footwell sides and cockpit sole of laid teak– storage cubbies outboard of seats for winch-handles and other small gear. Cockpit seats are quarter-sawn  teak over laminated cored plywood substarte for stability and light weight, raked and carved to shape for comfortable seating. Curved laminated varnished Mahogany tiller. Lazarette accessed through aft deck hatch.

 

Interior and Accommodations:

The roomy centerline companionway provides easy access below and leaves an airy space over galley area. The enclosed head provides privacy for using the vacuflush marine toilet. The galley offers stainless steel sink with fresh water via hand pump, counter space for prep or cooking using a single-burner free-standing butane stove, and cabinets for dish and dry-goods storage outboard.

Next forward, two upholstered seats face each other, carefully crafted for comfortable sitting, with storage outboard. Forward of the seats is a vee-berth. An open area forward of berth provides space for extra sails and other gear, anchor is located in aft deck locker.

Interior finishes:

• Varnished Anigre walls, trim, doors.
• Solid Cherry cabin sole.
• Off-white painted finishes.
• Ultra-leather cushions

 

Construction:

The hull is built of wood/epoxy composite construction. Hull skin is 5/8-inch thick strip planking of western red cedar, epoxy-glued and fastened to laminated frames with bronze screws. The strip planking is sheathed on the inside and outside with one layer 9 oz uni-directional carbon fiber @ 90 degrees to planking lines, vacuum-bagged to strip planking. All is thoroughly epoxy-coated. Frames are laminated Port Orford Cedar. Floor timbers are 1-1/2 inch Port ORford Cedar. Bulkheads and longitudinal panels are 9mm Meranti marine plywood. Sheer clamps and deck beams are laminated clear Port Orford Cedar, varnished. Deck is 9mm (3/8-inch) marine plywood, sheathed on top with Dynel and painted with Awlgrip. Keelson is laminated Port Orford Cedar. Cabin sides are laminated Anigre, varnished inside and out. Cabin top is laminated of three layers of 6mm mahogany marine plywood, obviating the need for beams.

 

Deck Hardware:

All sailing hardware Antal equipment.

Stemhead chainplate: fabricated, bronze, includes attachment points for asymmetrical spinnaker tackline (outboard).

Forestay chainplate: Bronze, set inboard of stemhead, attachment for jib furler.

Bow cleat: 10-inch bronze Herreshoff pattern.

Self-tacking jib track: Antal traveler, on cabin top, curved, with car and sheet running up mast to exit block near first spreaders.

Mast Collar.

Shroud chainplates: bronze, set inboard of rail for tighter genoa sheeting angles.

Jib sheet tracks: Antal black anodized aluminum, pinstop, set inboard on cabin trunk.

Cabin Top Winches: Antal polished bronze, w28.

Cabin Top clutches, lines leading aft: turning blocks to lead halyards and control lines aft to cockpit.  Antal, 3 each side.

Deck Ventilation : 4 in. dia. ABI, bronze cowl.

Primary Winches: Antal, polished bronze, w40

Main traveler: Antal track and car. Mainsheet 6:1 purchase with fixed swivel block/cam cleat at centerline. Traveler purchase 4:1.

Spinnaker sheet blocks: Antal stand-up.

Stern cleat: bronze 8-inch, ABI, P & S.

Flagstaff socket: flush bronze.

 

Spars and Rigging:

Mast: Carbon, GMT Spars, painted Awlgrip.

Boom: Aluminum, Metalmast, painted  Awlgrip.

Spreaders: aluminum, painted Awlgrip. Two sets.

Standing Rigging: stainless steel rod, discontinuous.

Backstay: composite, adjustable below-deck with 12:1 system.

Furler: Harken Unit 0 above-deck, line led aft on port side.

Carbon Spinnaker pole, stowed below.

 

Sails:

Mainsail: North 3di molded, full-batten, 2020

Genoa: North 3di molded, 120% LP, 2020.

Self-tacking jib: North 3di molded, 2020

Asymmetrical spinnaker A2: Doyle, 2001

Symmetrical spinnaker A2: Doyle, 2001

 

Mechanical:

Engine: Diesel, Yanmar 2GM20 SD25. Freshwater-cooled, 1500 hrs..

Shaft and propeller: Sail Drive 25, 12 in. dia folding propeller

Exhaust: wet exhaust, Vetus waterlift muffler discharging through counter.

Furnace: Espar Diesel heater

Toilet: Vacuflush, discharge through Y-valve: overboard or to holding tank with deck pump-out access.

Electric bilge pump: Rule 1000 gph in main bilge

Manual bilge pump: Jabsco Amazon 11 gpm mounted in cockpit side.

 

Electrical:

12-volt, 2 x group 24 batteries: engine start and house bank.

12-volt panel with volt meter

Main panel with main breaker, 110-volt outlets, and battery charger. Outlets available when shore power connected.

 

Electronics and navigation:

Raymarine suite including 9-inch plotter and four 4.3” x 4.3” displays, masthead sensor, digital compass, through-hull transducers.

Raymarine VHF radio and wireless remote hand-held mic, 2022.

Raymarine tiller-mount autopilot with lift-away feature (stow when not needed).

Stereo: Sony head with Bluetooth and Sirius XM.  2 speakers in cockpit, 2 speakers in cabin, 1 subwoofer forward, 1 subwoofer aft.

 

Gear and equipment:

6 Type II PFD’s in cloth cases.

Ensign and staff

Fire extinguishers

Cockpit cushions

Mainsail cover

Docklines and fenders

Boat hook

Extension tiller

Drop boards and screens

 

For sales inquiries contact:

info@stephenswaring.com

207-338-6636

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.