From collection Maynard Bray Collection
The 30' Yawl PLEASURE 15
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. View of the aft end of the starboard coaming which terminates in an ogee. The two eyes forward of the ogee are for a stanchion which was often rigged, along with three others to support an awning on hot days in Florida. N.G. Herreshoff used PLEASURE there for about three years beginning in 1925. PLEASURE is now preserved at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. - Maynard Bray 2022
