SPARROW

Daysailers SPARROW

SPARROW: A Brief Description

The Brooklin Boat Yard designed and built Eggemoggin 47 SPARROW is very much a wolf in sheep’s clothing combining the classic elegance of yachting’s past with the spirited modern sailing performance. Sparrow’s extremely lightweight and incredibly strong hull is a composite construction of strip-planking cedar sandwiched between inner and outer carbon fiber skins with an aggressive underwater profile of a fin/bulb keel and deep, balanced spade carbon fiber rudder. Her decks, cabin and cockpit are built with lightness and strength in mind, but the eye sees only SPARROW’s traditional laid teak deck, varnished brightwork and shining, polished stainless steel deck hardware.

Aloft SPARROW is powered by a generous (846 sq. ft.) sail plan set on a double-spreader, fractionally-rigged carbon fiber mast with lightweight PBO standing rigging, Harken roller-furling headstay and self-tacking jib. Most halyards and sail control lines are led back to the cockpit making single or short-handed day sailing a breeze while the well laid-out cockpit and deck plan make for highly effective crew work when in racing mode.

As befits a “Modern Classic” SPARROW’s elegantly finished interior spaces makes one think they have stepped back in time to the days of gentlemanly yachting and while primarily a day sailor SPARROW is fitted out down below with a main saloon laid out with two settee / sleeping berths and galley arrangement and additional (more private) sleeping quarters forward.

Built in 2013 SPARROW under her previous ownership SPARROW (then named LYNNETTE) had an active racing program competed as a part of the Spirit of Tradition class in Maine based regattas such as the Camden Classics Cup and Eggemoggin Reach Reggatta along with weekly fleet races in her home waters off Mount Desert Island with trips to the podium for garnered silver a regular result.

While success on the race course is one way to take measure a boat perhaps the truest measurement is how often they are used for the pure joy of sailing and all the while during her racing days her then owner would sail all the other days of the week either by himself or with friends enjoying the sights, sounds and a boat that just loves to stretch her legs.

When not being used SPARROW has been stored with some of the finest boat yards in downeast Maine. SPARROW is in exceedingly good condition and ready to go for her next owners.