The 30' Yawl PLEASURE 13

The 30' Yawl PLEASURE 13

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 likely the stuffing tube for the propeller shaft of the once-installed inboard engine. PLEASURE is now preserved at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. - Maynard Bray 2022