Prowess47' Custom Eldredge McInnis-McInnis 47 Cutter 1947

Prowess History

Prowess is a 47-foot cutter designed by Eldredge-McInnis and constructed at the Stockden yard in Detroit, Michigan, back in 1947. Although her hull design is similar to Eldredge-McInnis's Eastward schooners, she was uniquely equipped with a tall Marconi cutter rig, which was tailored to better handle the Great Lakes sailing conditions. Originally known as the Bonne Homme Richard, Prowess made her way to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, from Cleveland, Ohio in 1984 for a comprehensive three-year restoration project.

During this extensive refit, the vessel underwent a significant transformation. The process involved removing the ballast, dismantling the deck, cabin house, and interior to provide access for the restoration work. A substantial portion of the framing, planking, and backbone was replaced to ensure structural integrity. Prowess received a brand-new deck, an expanded and improved cabin house, updated interior furnishings, a new engine, and modernized systems and rigging.

Construction

   "The vessel was built in 1947, but it had a very major rebuild at Portland Yacht Services in 1986. During this rebuild the vessels interior was removed and frames and floor timbers were replaced. Any poor planking was replaced and the vessel has all new fastenings. The vessel's deck and house were totally removed. Than all the deck beams were replaced along with the deck and house. When the hull rebuild was completed the interior was replaced along with all new systems. With this work the vessel became a new boat. The workmanship is of very high quality.

   Prowess is cutter rigged with a box constructed Sitka spruce mast that is stepped through the cabin and stepped on a mast step atop the floor timbers. The chain plates pass through the deck and are bolted to the hull.

   The vessel is designed with a spoon bow, round bilge full keel with attached rudder and transom stern. The hull is constructed with carvel planked mahogany over steam bent oak frames. The caulked decks of the vessel are laid teak over oak deck beams. The superstructure is a long trunk cabin constructed of planked mahogany followed by an aft cockpit." ~ George Gallup, SAMS/AMS #733, Accredited Marine Surveyor

Hull

• Carvel planked mahogany hull
• Conventional transom
• Varnished teak bulwarks inboard/outboard
• White topsides
• Black cove stripe
• Black boot stripe
• Red antifouled bottom

Deck/Deck Hardware

• Teak decks
• Bronze stanchions
• Single vinyl covered stainless steel wire lifeline
• Bright wood rails

    Aft Deck

• (2) Bronze stern cleats
• (2) Bronze chocks
• Flagstaff fitting
• Antennas
• Traveler

    Large open cockpit with full perimeter seating, electronics, and engine instrumentation:

• Varnished teak combing
• Helm station
• Teak wheel steering
• Suite of electronics (see Electronics)
• Wifred D. White Compass
• Westerbeke engine panel with analog gauges
• Single lever throttle/shift controls
• Teak decking cockpit sole
• Cockpit drains
• Sliding companionway hatch and two drop boards

   Weather Decks

• Bronze deck infills
• Bronze deck fittings with blocks

    Cabin Top

• Varnished teak turtle
• Varnished teak swim ladder
• Varnished teak butterfly hatch
• Varnished teak boarding steps
• Varnished teak hand rails
• Turning blocks
• (2) Cowl vents on varnished teak dorade boxes
• Bronze halyard deck bar
• Heater vent with cage
• Varnished teak deck hatch with bronze port
• Bronze framed portlights on both port and starboard sides

    Foredeck

• Varnished teak deck hatch with bronze port
• Foredeck Bollard
• Ideal windlass
• Bronze anchor guide with roller

Rigging and Sails

   Standing Rigging

• Keel stepped Sitka Spruce mast
• Sitka Spruce boom
• Bronze mast partner
• Double spreaders
• Stainless steel wire stays and shrouds
• Chromed bronze open barrel design turnbuckles

    Running Rigging

• Furlex foresail furler with aluminum furling foil over the forestay and a single furler line
• Harken MK IV 3 staysail furler with an aluminum furling foil over the forestay and a single furler line
• Colored yacht braid halyards
• Block and line controlled traveler
• Manual backstay adjuster
• Double rope clutch on cabin top

   Winches

• (4) Barient 21 bronze self-tailing winch
• (2) Barient 32 bronze self-tailing winch
• Harken 600 self-tailing electric winch on cabin top
• (2) Bronze winches on mast
• (2) Barient 30 bronze self-tailing winch on mast

   Sails

• Mainsail
• Genoa
• Staysail

Interior

    Stepping down the companionway steps to starboard is a dinette/navigation area with forward and aft facing bench seats and a varnished teak table:

• (2) Opening bronze portlight outboard and aft
• Reading light with shade
• Electronics (see Electronics)
• Electrical panel (see Electrical Systems)
• Locker storage aft
• Handheld compass in bracket
• 12-Volt outlet
• Bilge pump controls/alarms
• Poly-Planar MR45S radio receiver
• Shelf and locker storage outboard
• Light blue upholstered seats with red piping

    Continuing forward to Starboard in the main salon is a settee berth and pilot berth. Below the berths are general storage and inboard is a drop leaf table:

• Butterfly hatch overhead
• (1) Bronze opening portlight
• (1) Bronze fixed portlight
• Reading light with shade
• Weems and Plath ships clock
• Weems and Plath barometer
• Gimballed kerosene lamp
• Light blue cushions with red piping

    Staying to starboard and moving forward is the ships head:

• Opening portlight
• Vanity mirror outboard above sink
• Light with shade
• Fixed towel rack
• Single basin sink
• Dual control pressurized hot/cold fresh water mixing tap
• Marine toilette
• Locker and drawer storage below sink/counter

    The forward cabin with access to the chain locker is all the way forward. This cabin has a vee berth with drawer and general storage below forward:

• Overhead opening deck hatch
• Hanging locker to port aft
• (1) Fixed bronze portlight
• (1) Opening bronze portlight
• Gimballed kerosene lamp
• (2) Reading lights
• Shelf storage outboard
• Chain locker access doors forward
• Light blue cushions with red piping
• Drawer storage below bunks

    Turning aft and moving down the port side back in the salon is a cabin heater forward followed by a settee berth with pilot berth above:

• Dickinson Newport heater with deck vent
• (2) Fixed bronze portlights
• (1) Opening bronze portlight
• Reading light
• Credenza with three drawers forward to port under heater
• Light blue cushions with red piping

    Continuing aft to port is the large galley:

• Overhead lighting
• EPIRB mounted overhead
• (2) Opening bronze portlights outboard and aft
• Stainless steel counter tops
• Fold-up cutting board
• Single deep basin sink
• Dual control hot/cold pressurized fresh water tap
• Built-in plate and storage bins outboard and forward
• Top loading storage below counters forward and outboard
• Luke Heritage 3-burner gimballed stove
• Top loading fridge compartments aft
• Coldplate
• 110 Volt outlet
• Xintex S-2A propane/CNG fume detector and control system
• Hart Systems tank tender 4 tank monitoring system
• Windlass breaker
• Drawer and locker storage below counters

    Inboard of the galley and behind the ladder is the engine room with a door behind the ladder and a hatch in the cockpit bridge deck.

Electrical Systems

12-Volt system

• DC distribution panel
• Marine grade batteries
• Marine grade DC wiring and connectors
• DC electrical ground system through engine
• Rotary marine grade battery switch
• Analog battery condition gauge on the DC distribution panel
• Engine mounted alternator

110/120-Volt system

• AC distribution panel
• 30 Amp - 120 Volt shore power
• Shore power inlet in cockpit
• 30 Amp shore power cord
• Shore power breaker
• GFCI outlets

Mechanical Systems

• Westerbeke four-cylinder diesel engine
• Racor primary fuel filter
• Bronze alloy seacock ball valves installed on all underwater thru-hull fittings
• Marine grade rubber hoses marine grade stainless steel clamps

Electronics

   Cockpit

• Garmin GPSmap 2312 multifunction display
• (3) Garmin GMI 10 data displays

   Helm

• Garmin GPSmap 5208 multifunction display

   Interior

• Icom IC M-604 marine VHF

   Miscellaneous

• Standard Horizon Floating HX300 handheld VHF
• Handheld ships compass

Tankage

    Diesel

• Stainless steel 40-gallon tank located under cockpit sole
• Bronze deck infill
• Tank tender monitor

   Freshwater

• Stainless steel tank
• Bronze deck infill
• Tank tender monitor

   Blackwater

• Stainless steel 30-gallon tank

Safety

• (2) Rule bilge pump 3-way rocker switches with an individual BUS fuses
• Fireboy engine shutdown system
• Navigation light
• Lifesling rescue system
• CQR #35 plow anchor

Restoration Work

2004 - 2005

• New engine
• Restoration of engine room
• Complete upgrade of all systems
• New radar and navigation electronics
• New jub boom
• Bronze anchor roller system

2005 – 2006

• Topsides stripped
• Hull repaired and repainted
• New cockpit cushions

2006 - 2007

• New interior cushions

2007 - 2008

• Stripped and restored exterior varnish
• Stripped and restored the bottom
• Re-caulked the deck
• Painted the coach roof

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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