From collection Maynard Bray Collection
The 30' Yawl PLEASURE 3
The 30' 0" keel / centerboard yawl PLEASURE designed by N.G. Herreshoff and built in 1925 by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, Rhode Island The yawl PLEASURE's interesting backbone/ballast keel which is cast lead amidships in way of the centerboard trunk and conventional wood (oak) forward and aft of it. The boat's centerboard bedlogs are also part of the cast lead ballast keel and has projecting stubs for attaching the floor timbers. This is looking down and slightly forward into the bilge. At the lower part of the photo, you can see where the lead ballast keel and the timber keel join in a clothespin type of splice. A pair of frame heels joined together by a great riveted floor timber come next with a beam above them that supports the platform. There's another floor timber before the aft part of the centerboard trunk comes into view at the top of the photo. PLEASURE is now preserved at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. - Maynard Bray 2022
