The  FLEET LOG is now accepting submissions.  Please see below for instructions on how to enter your boat into the Fleet Log.

The original Fleet Log was begun around 2004, and became a great resource to share information about one’s self and his boat as well as an invaluable historical resource for future owners and the fleet in general.. Those original entries are included in this new Fleet Log . There are entries for SS23, SS28, SS30, and SS34 fleets.

The new format for each entry is the same as the old format. We hope that with each new owner will come updated contact and location information as well as more history.

To submit a new listing, copy the following form, paste it into an email, fill the form out, and if desired attach a picture of your boat.

To update an old listing, do the same thing.

Then send your email to Greg Raleigh at:      gwrhbo@gmail.com

Here is the form:

Hull Number and name:

Type:

Year:

Owner:

Hailing Port:

Contact:

Info:

FLEET LOGS

23′ FLEET

#152 “KINGS RANSOM”          Formerly known as “APSARAS” and “SEA BONES”

Type: SS23 Daysailor

Year: (?) 1964 per Certificate of Title and RI Registration

Owner: Tarlrton H. Watkins

Former Owner: Bob Rude as “APSARAS” 2012-2021 Bristol, RI

Former Owner: Mary Dondero as “ASPARAS” 1998-2012 Warren, RI

Original Owner:  Ronald Manley as “SEA BONES” ?-1998 Peterborough, NH

Hailing Port: Bristol, Rhode Island

Contact: thwat13@gmail.com

Info: 

The boat was improved and maintained at Bristol Marine, fall 2021 through summer 2022. It has not been in the water since fall 2021. Currently stored at Bristol Marine “in the yard” and under custom cover. Ready to go in the water spring 2023. All work performed by Bristol Marine, Bristol Yacht Rigging and Thurston Quantum Sails.

IMPROVEMENTS – since fall 2021; New standing rigging and gooseneck, new Harken furling system and headstay, bottom paint, custom teak breast hook with new bow chocks, new custom mahogany and birch tiller, New 135% crosscut, Dacron furling genoa, new custom-made winter cover, new hull stripe and “Kings Ransom” name application, mainsail cleaned and repaired, repair of damaged coaming and toe rail.               

Updated 1-21-2023

#220 “ZARA”

Type: SS23 Daysailor

Year: 1965

Owner:  Chuck Roscoe

Hailing Port: Bristol, RI

Contact croscoe65@gmail.com

Info: .

Updated 4-16-2020

#240 “ROBIN”

Type: SS23 Daysailor

Year: 1967

Owner:  Lou Kimball

Hailing Port: Harpswell, ME

Contact loukimball@mac.com

Info: Robin will be my last Alberg boat. I’m retired now, but raced Ensigns for 25 years, got a Commander for the waters of Casco Bay once I stopped racing, but have now settled on the Sea Sprite, since my wife and I did not end up cruising. She sails like a dream, best of the three Alberg’s I’ve owned. I have a jib boom on her, so she’s self tacking, a dream to single hand. Just the slightest weather helm as she sails to windward, but with a quick adjustment to trim she will literally sail herself.

Updated 7-25-2022

#338 “SAILAWAY”

Type: SS23 daysailer

Year: 1972

Owner: John Holscher   

Hailing Port: Warwick, RI

Contact: stonewood1866@gmail.com

Info:
Builder; Dave Moore’s response to my post “who built my boat” on the SS23 forum was that it was his company “Sea Sprite Inc, which built some 42 of the SS23 Sea Sprites in North Kingstown, RI before they sold it to Wickford Shipyard.  They built some of the 200 series and most of the 300 series .”  

I bought the boat in April of 2018 in reasonable condition and over the past year and a half have undertaken numerous projects including making a new tiller, replacing all standing rigging, installing new traveler and main sheet tackle, converting roller reefing main to slab reefing, running main boom downhaul, halyard and reefing lines into the cockpit, and plenty of sanding, painting and varnishing. A new wooden sliding hatch cover is my next project.

Updated 11-5-2019

#526 “STIMULUS”          Formerly known as “KIROS II”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1973

Owner: Greg Raleigh

Former Owner: Steven Gadow

Hailing Port: South Shore Yacht Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Lake Michigan)

Contact: gwrhbo@gmail.com

Info: There is no hull identification number on this boat.  The only markings of any kind found on the boat was located on the chainplate for the backstay.  It is stamped WSY, 526, 1073.  Hull ID numbers became a requirement in November of 1972.  Because this boat does not have a stamped HIN, I believe that the hull was completed prior to Nov 1972 and the rest of the boat completed after that.  The Wisconsin registration form from the previous owner lists the serial number as WSY2461073 and the year as 1969.

Updated 10-31-2019

#537 “FIREFLY”          Formerly known as “RED RED” and “COQUETTE”

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Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1974

Owner: Andrew and Caroline Stifler

Former Owner: Dejan Radeka as “FIREFLY”

Former Owner: Robert Frink as “RED RED”

Former Owner: John Gilbert as “COQUETTE”

Hailing Port: Charlotte, VT – Lake Champlain

Contact:

Info:  FIREFLY currently sails Lake Champlain, and is owned by Andrew and Caroline Stifler, who purchased her from Dejan Radeka, in Rhode Island, in 2017, keeping her name.  Dejan Radeka performed a multi year refit including many custom features, of the deck, rig, cabin, hardware, and sails from 2009 – 2013 and FIREFLY also benefited from spending her off season time on a custom Triad trailer that was also purchased in 2009.  Dejan Radeka purchased FIREFLY in 2009, from Robert Frink of Noank, CT; who had christened her “RED RED.”  Robert Frink purchased RED RED from John Gilbert of Rhode Island, who had christened her Coquette.

Updated 11-4-2019

#544 “HETEPHERES”          Formerly known as “NIGHT CALL”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1974 (?)

Owner: The Hale family

Former Owner: Frederick A. de Peyster

Hailing Port: MacMahan Island, Maine

Contact: halestephenf@gmail.com

Info: Purchased in 1983

Updated 6-29-2021

#554 “WAYFINDER”          Formerly known as “NORTH STAR”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1975

Owner: Jonathan Stevens

Hailing Port: Pawtuxet, RI

Contact:  old.shipmate@gmail.com

Info:  Sailed out of Coasters Island Harbor Marina since 2014, and out of Montauk NY before that. Purchased her in November 2023. Will be day sailing and light cruising out of Pawtuxet Cove RI.

Updated 7-18-2024

#557 “Ms LYNNE G”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1975

Owner: Joel Schuman and Lynne Gilson

Hailing Port: Ephriam, WI

Contact: joel.schuman@gmail.com

Info:  Restoration by Tim Lackey. 

https://lackeysailing.com/archived/mslynneg/mslynneg.html

Updated:  3-18-2021

#591 “CAROLINE”          Formerly known as “QUODDY”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1974

Owner: Paul N. Williams/Eileen Kiernan

Former Owner: Ken Easley  2008 – 2019

Former Owner: Jacqueline Slaker 2007 – 2008

Original Owner: Cushing “Cush” S. Lane

Hailing Port: Marblehead, MA

Contact: paulw40351@gmail.com

Info: C.E. Ryder build, originally sold by Eric Woods of Mass Bay Yacht Sales

Updated 4-13-2020

#604 “CHARLOTTE”          Formerly known as “AVENTURA”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1977

Owner: Nancy Moore

Former owner: Peter Krause, MacMahan Island, ME.  xxxx- 2022

Hailing Port: Toronto, Ontario

Contact: inancym@gmail.com

Info: I bought this boat in 2022 because I knew Tim Lackey had done a beautiful job of “substantially restoring” her. I had the boat trucked to Ontario and have enjoyed sailing this beauty. Please see the log of restoration on Tim’s website, lackeysailing.com  Age has caught up with me. I wish I had found this boat 6 years ago when I mistakenly took a jog into the dark side with a wooden power boat. (Boring.)

Updated 9-26-2023

#616 “DESTINY”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1977

Owner: Joe Picard

Hailing Port: Bristol, RI

Contact: Jjpicard1234@comcast.net

Updated 7-19-2021

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year:1978

Owner: Ted Brown

Former Owner:  Jim & Marcia Stone

Hailing Port: MacMahan Island, Maine

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year:1978

Owner: McDougal Family

Hailing Port: MacMahan Island, Maine

#704 “ARIEL”          

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1984

Owner: Brett Leppan 2014 – present

Former Owner: Steve Hodder 2009 – 2014

Former Owner: Simon Deller 2006 – 2009

Hailing Port: Cowichan, BC

Contact: stevenhodder@gmail.com

Info: 

Updated 5-2-2023

Updated 11-25-2019

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year:1983

Owner: Carter Hall

Hailing Port: Bristol, RI

 

#774 “PLEASURE SEAS”          Formerly known as “LITTLE MAULY”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1983

Owner: Thomas Ciantra

Hailing Port: Galesville, MD

Contact: tciantra@gmail.com

Info: We purchased “Pleasure Seas” nee “Little Mauly” in 2015 and sailed her from City Island YC in New York.  Having since moved to the DMV, she will now be sailing the Chesapeake from Galesville, Maryland. 

Updated 2-14-2021

#777 “SWEET PEA”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1984

Owner: C. Scott Free

Former Owner: Paul Lambert

Hailing Port: Bristol RI

Contact: cscottfree@gmail.com

Info: She has lots of original details with new main, jib, rigging, and some electronics. 

Updated 8-14-2023

#780 “TRINKET” 

Type: SS23 Daysailor

Year: 1984

Owner: Bill Martin

Hailing Port: Prince Edward Island, Canada

Contact: billmartinpei@gmail.com

Info: Purchased October 2020.

Updated 12-21-2020

#785  “OASIS”          

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1986

Owner:  Robert Rude

Hailing Port: BRISTOL, RI

Contact  rrude1@me.com

Info: This is the fourth sailboat I’ve owned in my career.  (Not counting Penguins, Lasers, and Sunfish.) The first was a Pearson Ensign, Hull #162.  I bought the boat without knowing what kind it was…I just liked the Alberg lines.  My second boat was a J30.  We cruised and campaigned this boat for almost 20 years.  While still owning the J30, I discovered a neglected Sea Sprite daysailer which I bought and restored.  Every time I sailed this boat some nearby sailor commented on what a beautiful boat it was.  New paint, new hardware, new sails.  But beneath it all were the beautiful Alberg lines.  I recently purchased a Sea Sprite Weekender and sold the J30.  This Sea Sprite was one of the last built.  I’m in the process of restoring it so it looks “factory fresh.”  So far, I’ve had the bottom soda blasted, installed a new Harken furler system, installed Lewmar self-tailing winches, and a new Harken traveller system.  During the spring of 2022 I’ll strip and revarnish all of the brightwork and roll on some barrier coating and new ablative bottom paint.  Then, add some new sails.  Of all the boats I’ve owned, this one is the sweetest sailing.  I can trim the sails and take my hand off the tiller and sail for ¼-1/2 a mile. 

Updated 12-5-2021

#Unknown  “DARCY”          Formerly known as “RED KNIGHT”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1968

Owner: Charles Sewell

Hailing Port: Portland, Maine

Contact: charles.sewell@gmail.com

68 Main Street, Hollis, ME 04042

Info: 

Updated 5-15-2020

#Unknown  “RACKETY TAM”          

Type: SS23 Daysailor

Year: 1963

Owner: Ship Densmore

Former Owner: Dudly Baker

Hailing Port: West Falmouth, MA

Contact: Shipherd53@gmail.com

Info: Builder C.E.Ryder 

Updated 5-18-2020

#Unknown  “SEEKER”       Formerly known as “WEETAMOO”

Type: SS23 Weekender

Year: 1969

Owner: Ian J. G. Cozzens

Former Owner: Dewey Thompson

Hailing Port: Edgewood, RI

Contact: secretdoorprojects@gmail.com

Info:  I purchased Seeker, f.k.a. “Weetamoo”, from Dewey Thompson in Adamsville, RI in fall 2020. He & his family had been sailing her out of Westport Harbor since 2008. He didn’t have any info about her ownership prior to that. After “spring” projects, I launched her in Pawtuxet Cove in August 2021. We sail out of Edgewood Yacht Club & this fall have been bouncing around the Providence River and upper Narragansett Bay. We made it to Bristol Harbor for (part of!) the 2021 Hog Island race. Hopefully the coming winter/spring will involve removing the defunct head through-hulls, replacing the seized sink seacock, and possibly also the “chainplate project”: oh boy. See you out there next year! 

*She has no hull number or sail number, 1969 was before standardized state hull numbers (her registered hull number is a “Massachusetts homemade boat” number which gives no info as to her production order…)

Updated 10-26-2021

#2 “ADONIA”          Formerly known as “LIANA”

Type: SS28

Year: 1980

Owner: Deb & Dave Webb

Hailing Port: Rockland, ME

Contact: 

Info: Purchased in Deale Maryland in 2016 and shipped to Kittery Maine where she underwent upgrades and repairs that the survey recommended. She was then sailed to her mooring in Rockland harbor.  She has been renamed “Adonia” which means “beautiful lady”  in Greek

Updated 7-20-2020

#40 “GOOSE”          Formerly known as “DANSE DE LUNE”

Type: SS28

Year: 1982

Owner: Lance Y. Olshovsky

Hailing Port: Houston, TX

Contact: Lance001@hotmail.com

Info:  I am the proud, and third owner, of this SS28. Purchased in Sept. 2021, my primary sailing is done on Galveston Bay. From what I know, the boat originally came from Bristol, RI, to her first owner in Louisiana and was named, Vahalla. She was then owned for 25 years, or so, prior to me purchasing her with the name of Danse de Lune. Wanting to put my “stamp” and personality behind her, I named her “GOOSE” as she looks (colors, etc.) like a domestic Goose, and plus, I like saying the name… I also enjoy seeing everyone’s expressions when I tell them what her new name is. Their facial expressions make me laugh. 
Looking forward to years and years of sailing on this well-cared-for and extraordinarily beautiful Sea Sprite

Updated 7-25-2022

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30′ FLEET

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#3 “Sand Dollar”
	Type:	SS30
	Year:	1982
	Owner:	BUD INGRAHAM
	Hailing Port:	ROCKLAND, ME
	Contact:	showerbuddy@prexar.com
	Info	I purchased Sand Dollar three years ago (2003) down in Norfolk Virginia. She is currently moored in the Town of Owls Head, Maine in Rockland Harbor. When I went to Virginia to look at the boat before purchasing, I could see a faint outline of the boats original hailing port, Owls Head, ME. At that point I figured it was meant to be. I did a lot of research before deciding on the Sea Sprite 30 and have not been disappointed, she is a wonderful vessel. My wife Lisa, our two young children and I spend about 5 weeks of the summer, cruising the coast of Maine. She has proved to be as seaworthy as she is beautiful. I am beginning the fourth year of a five year upgrade plan, having just stripped the bottom paint off in preparation for barrier coating in the spring. I was pleased to find no evidence of blistering under the many years of old paint. The list of upgrades completed is a long one, and there seems to always be something to add to the upgrades to do list, but it is a labor of love. Fair Winds

# 8 “NEDAVERA”

Type:  SS 30

Year:  1984

Owner:  Dejan & Mary Radeka

Hailing Port:  Middletown, Rhode Island

Contact:  dradeka@cox.net

Info:  NEDAVERA was purchased by Dejan Radeka, from Gary Brink of Old Saybrook, CT in 2017, when she was called RADIANCE.  Dejan Radeka has replaced all of the deck hardware, running rigging, sails and all canvas.  All of the hardware layout has been re configured for single handed sailing with all control lines lead aft on the cabin top to the cockpit.   A Selden rigid vang was added, and the topping lift deleted.  The rig had been pulled in approx 2014/15 and was inspected again in 2018.  She runs a Hood Seafurl roller furler.  New self tailing #40 primary winches were added as well as a Sea Tiger windlass and all chain ground tackle.  She came well equipped with a suite of integrated Raymarine electronics.  She did require an upgrade to the autopilot control unit and VHF. Amazingly, she came equipped from the factory with a hydraulic autopilot drive system directly connected to the rudder quadrant, and this was easily integrated with the new Raymarine EV 200 autopilot in 2018.  She is still running her original Universal M-18 diesel engine, though this unit’s hours are unknown and her performance is down.  The engine was pulled and resealed, and the mounts and injectors replaced, in 2015/16.  The glow plugs were replaced in 2017.  The prop was reconditioned in 2018 to Class 1 specs and re-pitched to 14×8.  Our best guess based on some paperwork and the age of certain newer equipment is that Gary Brink purchased RADIANCE from her original owner, John F. Haley of Boston, MA in the late 90’s or early 2000’s at which point it appears he replaced sails, canvas and some electronics.   He later fitted the Raymarine suite as well as a new propane oven/stove at some point during his ownership.  Based on the available paperwork the original owner, John Haley, traded in a Sea Sprite 23 and commissioned the Sea Sprite 30 from Clarke Ryder of Ryder Yachts in September, 1983 and took delivery in the Spring of 1984.  Her name under John Haley’s tenure is unknown, though based on older paper charts found onboard it appears that she was sailed extensively north of Boston – Marblehead.  She currently enjoys romping around Southern New England waters and especially long daysails in any conditions outside the Sakonnet River as well as cruising to Buzzards Bay, Cuttyhunk and Martha’s Vineyard.

Updated 11-1-2019

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# 9 “SNOW GOOSE”

Type:  SS 30

Year:  1984

Owner:  Leah M. Davis

Former Owner:  Matt Sammartino  2011 – 2024

Hailing Port:  Salem, MA

Contact:  leah.davis.esq@gmail.com

Info:  Purchased in January 2024.  Snow Goose is our first sailboat.  We are upgrading and outfitting her, and plan to sail her off the North Shore of Boston, and eventually to Maine, Cape Cod, and beyond.

Updated 4-26-2024

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#10 “PANACHE”
	Type:	SS30
	Year:	1984
	Owner:	RICHARD F. CHARETTE
	Hailing Port:	WADSWORTH, IL
	Contact:	RICHARD.CHARETTE@HP.COM
	Info	Panache has been in the Great Lakes all her life and six years ago (2001) a keel up restoration was started. She will be returning to the water in Sheboygan, WI in May of 07. Panache has been outfitted with a bowsprit, bow thruster, windlass, an entertainment center, air-conditioning, heat, refrigeration, along with the latest in electronics. In addition, she sports a custom made teak helm to match the teak on the cabin exterior.

#11 “SEASPRITE”

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Type:  SS 30

Year: 1984

Owner:  Dale R. Davis

Hailing Port: Outer Banks

Contact: SVSEASPRITE@HOTMAIL.COM

Info:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPAFVdxGAE&list=PL5UKt9LjyLzmUaBhy_RRBqhFsGlN1vkE6

Updated 11-4-2019

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#13  “Galatea”

Type: SS30

Year: 1984

Owner: Steven Selckmann

Hailing Port: Baltimore Md

Contact:shselckmann@gmail.com

Info: New to me in 2018, looking for a owners manual 28,30,34?

Updated 12-31-2019

#14 “SELKIE”          

Type: SS30

Year: 1984

Owner: John Hacunda

Hailing Port: Noank, CT

Contact:  john1hac@gmail.com

Info: SELKIE was purchased in Spring 2022 in City Island, NY and sailed to Noank,CT.  Later that summer she did a 2-week trip up to Gloucester, MA.  Nice seaworthy boat to sail.

Updated 1-28-2022

#19 BELLA

Type:            SS30

Year:             1985

Owner:         Carter Hall

Hailing:         Westport Harbor, MA.

Contact:       carter.hall115@gmail.com

Updated:      9/13/2022

Info:               Sue and I bought Bella from John Hamilton in Harpswell, Maine, in the Fall of 2019. He had

                        owned her for 20 years. She came with a lightly used 2Y Yanmar replacing the old

                        Universal, new rigging, and new awl grip. We bought new sails, Sue replaced all the

                        cushions, we added new gps, radar, and AIS to deal with the lovely conditions of Buzzards’

                        Bay sailing, we replaced the traditional salt water head with a composting toilet (we

                        will never go back!!), replaced the galley plumbing and sinks, and replaced the original

                        stove with a new Dickinson stainless steel cooktop. A complete take-down of the toenail to

                        hardwood and many coats of clear Cetol along with much sanding and varnishing of the

                        rest of the brightwork spiffed her up. She is looking pretty good.

                        We sail out of the Westport River into RI Sound with many trips across Buzzards’ Bay

                        to Cuttyhunk Island. It is a beautiful sailing venue.

#47 “PRINCIPESSA”          

Type: SS34 

Year: 1985

Owner: Christopher C Twomey  2024 – present

Hailing Port:  Noank, CT

Contact: thetwomeyfamily@yahoo.com

Updated 9-3-2024