From collection Maynard Bray Collection
The 30' Yawl PLEASURE 14
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. At the forward end of the cockpit hard against the cabin bulkhead, each side, was a halyard box. This is the starboard one. With their covers off, the boxes held the halyards as the sails were pulled up; covers on, and they became a step from the cockpit seat to the cabin top, easing the path forward. PLEASURE is now preserved at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. - Maynard Bray 2022
