32' Atkin Cutter (1937) - BLUE

Originally named HellaBella she was built as a gaff cutter. Along the way someone shortened the bowsprit and boom and threw away the gaff, changed her rig to jib headed, and changed her name to Taruga. When she came to her present owner she was sadly in need and no doubt the name didn’t help. There was a little bronze plaque in a locker that stated she’d been named after a square rigged trading vessel, lost off the coast of Tunisia in the 1700s with all hands lost. Time for a new name, along with new keelbolts, frames, floor timbers, planks, deck, mast step, engine bed, systems, interior, cabin sides, bowsprit, gaff, stretch the boom, and new rig. Other than that she’s original right down to the restored 1920’s anchor windlass; and she sails much better as a gaffer. She spent WWII working as part of the Civil Maritime Patrol and took a family from the San Juans to the South Pacific and back in the 80s.