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Boats for Sale

Featured Boat: Beetle Cat

  • Location: Lowell’s Boat Shop, Amesbury, MA

    Currently rounding the corner toward completion! This apprentice-restored gem of a sailboat comes with everything you need for 2025 summer fun.

    Beetle Cats can easily fit three adults or a pile of kids. Lovely boat with which to learn sailing.

    The restoration includes refastening, recaulking/putty, improving the fasteners for the cockpit sole, refreshing the centerboard trunk, new bottom paint.

    If you make an offer on this boat, we’ll paint her as you’d like and complete any other details you’d like before delivery.

  • $7,500

    Includes: newly varnished spars, standing rigging, running rigging, sail, and trailer.

Apprentice-restored, fun to sail, comes with a trailer and rig!

Haven 12 1/2

Call the shots on rigging and finishes.

  • Location: Amesbury, MA

    This Apprentice-built Haven 12 1/2 is currently in progress under the instruction of professional boat builders. Planking is cedar on oak with copper and bronze fasteners. The boat is on schedule to be completed during the 2023-24 school year (likely May) including hull and spars (possibly sails as well, we would prefer to have an owner prior to making sails).

  • Negotiable, starting in the range of $20 to $25 K

22’ Amesbury Skiff

Price reduced for this sweetheart of a pocket cruiser.

  • Click here for a video tour.

    Location: Amesbury, MA

    TUCKERNUT is a 21’ 10” Custom DownEast Skiff. The hull is cedar lapstrake over oak, and the cockpit is trimmed in teak and mahogany.

    The cabin has two single berths and forward storage. Finished “Herreshoff-style” with white painted overhead and varnished woodwork and detailed carved accents, the cabin feels larger than typical and is a pleasure to be in.

    She was the last boat of its type built by Lowell’s Boat Shop here in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

    Over the past eighty years the Lowell Amesbury Skiff, the inspiration for the TUCKERNUT, has earned a reputation for being an exceptionally stable, seaworthy, and rugged boat. An adaptation of the Surf Dory, it was initially developed for inboard power and is now modified to take advantage of today’s high-powered, lightweight outboard engines.

    The hull is flat-bottomed with flared, rounded, lapstrake sides, making these boats surprisingly dry and easy to maneuver.

    An early slogan was, “She’ll get you home in weather you had no business going out in!”

    TUCKERNUT is currently powered with a 90 HP Evinrude E-tech that has fewer than 10 hours since it was completely serviced. The engine sits forward of the transom in a well. There are 4 permanently mounted and individually linked 9 gallon gas tanks. She cruises comfortably at 16-18 knots with a maximum speed of 30 knots. Auto-pilot and trim tabs make for easy cruising.

    She has a bimini top and a custom-designed full canvas enclosure, comprised of 6 individual panels with isinglass and zippered screens, making her suitable for all manner of weather.

  • Reduced to: $18,000

    Started at $34,000

21’ Beachcomber Alpha Dory

Comes with everything you need to get out on the water.

  • Completed and launched in 2021, she has been stored indoors and paint is fresh. This traditional dory can carry up to 4 people and lots of gear. Great for camp cruising or day trips, exploring Maine coastal islands and lakes. This beautiful dory is a joy to row, responsive, very seaworthy and ready for your next adventure. Four rowing stations but can be rowed with 1 or 2 people. Tows easily on her custom trailer. 

    Has potential to carry sail rig and motor (not included).

  • Included with the boat:

    • 4 custom oars and oarlocks

    • custom trailer

    • custom rain/sun cover

    • docklines, 2 fenders, 2 beachrollers

    $5,800

15’ Lowell Sailboat

Your Swallows and Amazons moment.

  • Location: Virginia

    15′ Lowell Sailboat in like-new condition, built in 2013. Hull is planked with cypress, with locust timbers and hand-peened copper rivet fastenings.

    Mahogany transom and Sapele seating with bow and stern lockers, White Oak inwale and outwale. Sprit rigged. Interior is oil finished, which means easy maintenance.

  • $13,000

    Price includes:
    Oars, sail and sailing rig, rudder, tiller, and teak floorboards.

    Also available:

    Torqeedo Motor $1400
    Electric 1003 Long Shaft used 3 times, a total of 3 hours

    Trailer $900

18’ Lowell Surf Sport Dory

Unique! Comes with an outboard in a well and a trailer.

  • Location: Wisconsin

    This 1986 Lowell’s-built boat has always been stored in a climate controlled facility. As the new owner, you’ll have all of the original documentation, including advertising from the period and personal letters from Jim Odell.

    The outboard motor, set in a well, has recently gone through a complete service. The boat is ready for the water for you to enjoy.

  • $9,500

    Includes recently serviced Honda BF75-100 4-stroke motor, life jackets, fuel tanks, oars, lines, and galvanized trailer.

17’ Salisbury Point Skiff

She rows as nicely as she looks.

  • Location: Jamestown, RI

    17′ Mahogany on Oak Salisbury Point rowing skiff built in 1986, gently used and kept up in perfect condition, including the varnish. Lots of extras included for the price.

    Mahogany and Oak construction with no butt joints.

    A perfect boat for tandem rowing.

  • $7,850
    -$1,000
    $6,850

    Price includes:

    —Four pairs of 8’ Shaw & Tenney oars, two sets are longer with narrower blades
    —Bronze Wilcox Crittenden oarlock hardware
    —Painted blue bottom encapsulated in West System Epoxy and Fiberglass
    —Custom cover by Seacoast Canvas
    —Removable floorboards sit over a non-skid coated bilge

SOLD: 16’ Long Point Skiff

  • Location: South Shore Massachusetts

    Recently refinished 16′ skiff built by Lowell’s Boat Shop about 10 years ago.

    Okoume plywood hull, fiberglassed in and out.

    Price includes a 15-hp Mercury engine, oars, lines, fenders, and cushions.

  • $9,500

Plywood and fiberglass with classic lines.

Lowell 13 Sailboat

Ready for adventure.

  • Location: Amesbury, MA

    Here’s a video tour of this boat.

    Built at Lowell’s in 1996, possibly by Peter Gibb. Pine on oak, in great condition. Comes with everything you need: trailer, oars, rudder, daggerboard, rig, sail, and custom canvas cover.

    Could handle an engine. Great boat to use with beginners learning to sail and row.

  • $4,900

    Includes trailer, rig, sail, oars, and custom cover.