Morris Frances 26 For Sale

40 Old Powerhouse Rd.
Falmouth, ME 04105
United States

Price
$55,000.00
Length
26.00 SF
Beam
8.17 SF
Draft
3.83 SF
Year Built
0
Engine
Volvo Penta Marine Diesel 18HP
Manufacturer
Morris Yachts
Condition
Used

Description

Stormy, designed by Chuck Paine and built by Morris Yachts in Bass Harbor in 1987 in Maine, is a flush-deck cutter. Purchased by the current owner in 2022, Stormy underwent extensive restoration and upgrading, especially to accommodate short-handed sailing. The work took place at Yankee Marina in Yarmouth, ME where Stormy has also been stoored in a heated indoor building for the winter months. This is a true classic, and is in exceptional condition with over $100,000 invested in the restoration.

CONSTRUCTION & DETAILS

  • Double-ender with tiller steering
  • Solid fiberglass hull and deck with cored cabin top
  • Blue hull/white whale stripe, Awlgripped in 2019
  • Rudder replaced (1996)
  • Bottom stripped and repainted (2023)
  • All deck hardware removed and rebedded, non-skid on deck refinished (2023)
  • Teak toerail removed and replaced with new teak toerail (2023)
  • All teak on deck, including sliding hatch cover, removed and finished with 8 coats of varnish (2023)
  • Forward Lexan hatch removed/replaced with new hatch (2023)
  • Cowl vents replaced with Vetus cowl vents (2023)
  • Lifelines replaced with new lifelines and removeable backrests in cockpit (2023)
  • 2 Bronze mooring cleats installed on bow (2023)
  • Rub strakes installed at all 4 mooring cleat chocks (2023)
  • Bowsprit removed and replaced with new varnished douglas fir sprit (2023)
  • Instrument panel relocated to cockpit (2023)
  • Automatic bilge pump installed (2024)
  • Cabin floorboards refinished (2024)

ACCOMMODATIONS

  • 2 berth layout with large galley and full size chart table
  • Storage in cabin lockers, under berths, under cockpit seats, and forward in bow
  • Lavac head plumbed to 10 gallon holding tank in forward cabin area, upgraded by installation of macerator and overboard discharge seacock/thru-hull supplementing deck pump out (2023)
  • Sink with Fynspray pump. Sink was removed sink drain re-bedded and hose clamps replaced (2023)
  • Force 10 Seacook offshore cooking stove
  • Insulated ice box
  • Propane cabin heater (not operational)
  • 2 water tanks, one under each berth, total capacity 15 gallons

ENGINE

  • Volvo Penta Marine Diesel motor, model 2002 B8686H    18 HP
  • Engine Hours: 495 when boat was purchased in 2022. There is no hour meter on new engine panel, but boat has been used only sparingly since 2022.
  • Engine thoroughly inspected, overhauled and repainted, and hoses, belts, gaskets and clamps replaced (2023)
  • Exhaust elbow inspected, and gaskets and o-rings replaced (2023)
  • Stuffing box re-packed (2023)
  • Manual bilge pump hose replaced (2023)
  • Oil pressure guage bezel installed (2023)
  • Muffler removed, pressure tested, and painted. Exhaust hose and muffler fittings replaced (2023)
  • Coolant circular pump and related plumbing removed and cleaned (2023)
  • Old fuel tank removed and replaced with new 12 gallon fuel tank (2023)
  • Fuel guage installed (2023)
  • Sea strainer replaced (2023)
  • Primary fuel filter replaced with Racor (2023)

SAILS & RIGGING

  • North Mainsail and sail cover (2024)
  • North high-clew genoa (2025)
  • New Harken Mark IV Furler (2025)
  • New Inner forestay (2023)
  • Self-tacking North staysail on Harken furler (2023)
  • All running rigging replaced 
  • Installed Tides Marine sail track (2024)
  • Installed rigid Harken boom vang (2024)
  • Replaced cabin top mainsheet winch with Harken 20 STC winch (2024)
  • Reconfigured mainsheeting system, added traveler to bridgedeck (2023)

ELECTRONICS & NAVIGATION

  • Raytheon ST-2000 Tiller Pilot
  • New Instruments on swing-arm: Garmin GPS Chartplotter, Garmin GNX wind instruments (2023)
  • New Icom IC-M330 VHF (2023)
  • 2 new batteries (2024)
  • Removed radome, preserved radar wiring in mast (2023)
  • Replaced VHF cable (2023)
  • 4 cabin lights and navigation lights
  • Compass on varnished drop-board (2023)
  • Masthead Windex, nav light and VHF antenna

EQUIPMENT

  • Dodger with frame (not currently deployed)
  • Docklines
  • 3 covered fenders (2023)
  • 11 LB Lewmar anchor (2023)
  • Anchor rode/chain and rope (2023)
  • Throwable horseshoe (2023)
  • 2 fire extinguishers (2023)
  • Brass kerosene lamp
  • Safety equipment
  • Float cushions

 

 

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Tom Sitzmann
310 Magothy Rd.
Severna Park MD 21146
United States
 Tom Sitzmann
A lifelong sailor, Tom Sitzmann brings a broad range of sailing experience to Sail1Design. Tom has a great deal of dinghy and PHRF racing experience, competing successfully in the Laser, J/24, and J/22, winning several regional and district championships in those classes, both in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. While in Maine Tom also won several PHRF regattas aboard his J/24 & J/33, and more recently in his J/120 and J/145.
Also a lifelong educator, Tom has coached sailing and directed sailing programs from Maine to Annapolis, and was an assistant offshore & dinghy coach at the USNA, head intercollegiate coach at Bowdoin College, and currently head coach at Severn School, where he guided the team to a National championship, the first and only Chesapeake Bay school ever to win the prestigious Mallory Trophy and the Baker Trophy.
Tom ‘s offshore experience includes many distance races in New England, a transatlantic passage, a celestially-guided Marion-Bermuda Race, and most recently he brought his family to Bermuda aboard their J/120 Airwaves.
Tom's focus with Sail1Design is managing the Brokerage Marketplace, and Sail1Design's Career Center & Job Board. You can reach Tom at tom@sail1design.com
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