The 30' Yawl PLEASURE 9

The 30' Yawl PLEASURE 9

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 view is looking down at the centerboard trunk bedlogs which are part of the lead ballast keel casting as are the projecting stubs. It's a most unusual and sophisticated casting and, for strength, had a higher-than-normal percentage of antimony added to the lead. Wooden floor timbers were bolted to the stubs, the idea being to provide a stronger hull in way of the centerboard slot. PLEASURE is now preserved at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. - Maynard Bray 2022