Bunker and Ellis 28' Downeast Bass Boat 1960

Traditionally built with cedar planking over oak frames, keel and deadwood. Oak toe rails. Her cockpit sole is teak with a step up into the wheelhouse. Side decks are teak also with a fiberglassed marine plywood cabintop. Her canvas wheelhouse top and sides offer out of the weather accommodations and can be rolled up for open air. The windshield has three windows with the starboard opening. The interior woodwork is built with plywood bulkheads painted white, gray sole, and varnished mahogany trim.

2012 8-cylinder Chevrolet gas engine, 350 HP, low hours, installed by Ernie Rice of Milbridge. Heat exchanger. Borg Warner transmission, 1 1/4" bronze shaft swinging a 4-blade bronze propeller. Prop. cage.

Fuel: 50 gallons in two tanks located under stern deck, port and starboard

Water: 10 gallon tank

Holding: 12 gallon plastic tank

Two 12V batteries, master switch 1-2-Both, Navigational lights, cabin lights consisting of reading lights over berths, one over the galley, and one in the head. Hand-held spot light, electric horn.

Cruising Speeds: 10 knots

Top Speed: 14 knots

In the forward cabin aft of the rope locker are two 7 1/2' long berths, port and starboard with 4" blue cushions. Lockers below and reading lights outboard, port and starboard. Aft to starboard is the galley with a stainless steel sink with pressure cold water, Formica covered counter with top-loading ice box, lockers below and shelves and cupholders outboard. A large stainless steel lined lift-top shelf is below the counter to house a portable stove. To port is the enclosed head with a wall-mounted sink with cold water, manual toilet with Y-valve to holding tank or OB discharge.

The entire cabin is painted white with varnished mahogany trim and a gray sole. A cabintop opening hatch and eight 6-inch round port lights, six opening with screens, offer good natural light and ventilation. The headroom is 5'4".

Up two steps to the wheelhouse with the helm to starboard with mounted instrumentation consisting of a 5" compass, electric horn, VHF radio, GPS, radar, depthsounder, engine gauges, and electrical panel. The starboard windshield window is opening and has an electric wiper. Two side windows, port and starboard. The wheelhouse is covered with a recent custom heavy canvas top and roll down sides supported by bronze hoops. The headroom at the helm is 6'1.

Engine access is under the wheelhouse sole.

The varnished teak side decks are 12" wide and lead to the foredeck with a stainless steel bowrail, bronze chocks & hawser pipe with a mounted Danforth anchor, chain & rode. Custom handrails are installed along the wheelhouse and on the cabin top.

Stepping down into the cockpit, there is a custom boarding ladder to starboard, a cushioned stern seat, and space for movable chairs. The stern deck is 36" wide with fuel tanks, port and starboard below with storage between. A teak swim platform is off the transom. The wheelhouse and cockpit measure 8'2" wide x 10' long.

Navigational:

6" Compass mounted on steering dash

VHF Radio

GPS

Furuno Radar

Depthsounder

General:

Automatic Bilge Pump

Manual Bilge Pump

Two Anchors, chain & rode

Several life jackets

Dock lines, fenders

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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