The schooner Suva is for sale. She’s one of those historic yachts that has had the good fortune of remaining intact for a good many years, including more recent work by Port Townsend Shipwrights Coop.
Designed by Ted Geary and built in China in 1925 for Robert Pratt (of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engines fame), she’s presently seeing service for day and multi-day sails and private charters out of Port Townsend. Suva is 68 feet in length with a 14 foot beam. She’s for sale with an asking price of $159,000. Any takers?
You have a nice, colorful, sharp composition here, Kay. Did you know that Pratt & Whitney was founded here in Hartford, is still headquartered here, and has a big manufacturing plant here? Compare this nice but still relatively small yacht with Larry Ellison’s $200 million 400+ foot yacht. Today’s captains of industry lack modesty.
Some people have all the fun. . .all the money, and all the fun!
Thanks to your post and google, I now know the fine distinctions between schooner, boat, ship and yacht.
thats much cheaper than a house in amsterdam (even a shitty house in not a too good location), but still too expensive for me!!