A very tidy well maintained example of type. A One design Cruiser racer designed, built and sailed on the East Coast. Competed in many races and Classic Regattas. Clinker wooden displacement hull. Brand new Collars mast 2020 ,New rigging. New navigation equipment. She has spent lockdown in a boatshed being refitted and fettled Owners are intent on putting her back into commission and on the water, "Ready to Sail Away". She has a GM10 auxiliary engine, new 2010. Set up for single handed sailing, self draining cockpit. 4 berths. Her owners are now both in thier 80's so i... read more

HISTORY and CONSTRUCTION: Most classic boats begin life with a good story, and the Stella One-Design Class is no exception. Early in 1959 A E ‘Dickie’ Bird, the then Commodore of the East Coast’s Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, asked ‘Sonny’ Cole of Tucker Brown’s yard at Burnham on Crouch, to come up with a cruiser-racer along the lines of a Folkboat but slightly bigger and beamier so as to give greater initial stability with more spacious accommodation. Quality was a must, but the Commodore wanted a straightforward approach to construction methods and n... read more