52' Sparkman & Stephens Yawl (1977) - KAY OF GÖTEBORG

Double planked with 3/4” teak on laminated oak frames with copper rivets. The offset planks are face and edge glued with bronze screws joining the planks from the inside. Bronze and white oak floors.

The main mast step and chain plates are joined and reinforced with three stainless steel ring frames. Webbed hanging knees at all frame to deck beam joints. The keel, backbone and rudder are Iroko. The rudder is clad in copper sheet.

Kay is rigged as a Yawl with her original Sitka Spruce spars.

Designed for high latitude Arctic sailing complete with a cast iron coal burning stove, Kay has been sailed extensively throughout the Baltic and Mediterranean seas and crossed the Atlantic several times. She spent many winter seasons in the Caribbean before transiting the Panama Canal prior to being sailed across the Pacific to Hawaii and then single handed to California. She has twice won the San Francisco Bay Classic Boat Championship.