Nevins 6 Metre Class

LOA: 36.00′ / 10.97m – LOD: 36.00′ / 10.97m – LWL: 24.00′ / 7.32m – Beam: 7.33′ / 2.23m – Draft: 5.00′ / 1.52m – Displacement: 7600 lbs./ 3447 kgs – Sail Area: 472 sq ft / 43.85 m2 – Hull Number: 12 – Hull material: Wood construction – Rig: Fractional Sloop – Designer: Philip Rhodes – Built by: Eden Boat Works, New Westminister, B.C. – Year Built: 1947 Inboard engine: Lombardini 18hp

Perseveren–Leo 1947 Evergreen Class hull no.12 designed by Philip Rhodes, racing class commissioned by The Seattle’s Corinthian Yacht Club for the North Pacific coasts like the One Design Rhodes 33 project for Californian yacht clubs. With the Evergreen Class, Philip Rhodes managed to create a pure racing machine, which was the inspiration in double size of “Weatherly,” the red 12-meter winner of the 1962 America’s Cup.

Since 2017, a complete two-year restoration of the hull, deck, and rigging has been undertaken by the new owner, implementing the hull in Canadian cedar with epoxy resin to reduce future maintenance. The restoration also includes the interiors with two berths in the dinette, chart table, two-burner kitchen, complete electronics, and a full set of 4 self-tailing winches, a furling jib, and a roller mainsail on the boom, a wonderful day-sailer with exciting performance.

Accessories and works:

2017/18 complete restoration of the hull and deck, extensively documented with epoxy treatment. mast and boom

2018 Kitchen with 2 burners

2018 Inboard Lombardini 18 hp with two-blade propeller

The racing sloop Perseveren Leo is a 36 feet long sailboat built in 1947 following the design “Evergreen class” by the naval architect Philip Rhodes, from New York. Hull number 12 of 12 units built, the Perseveren has been then restored in the 1980ies and has graced Lake Washington and the Puget Sound, winning both races and beauty contests. In 2005 the boat was sold and then transported from the USA to Italy, in a shipping container. Here she founded a new house in the Venetian lagoon, where we found it, in quite critical conditions, in 2014. We bought it from its previous owner and since January 2015 we started to plan its conservation and enhancement - to bring it back to its original shape. After we scraped away all the layer of plaster and paint that covered the hull and we brought it back to the timber planking, outside and inside, we realized how valuable and precise the construction of the hull was. Completely built with carvel planking in Canadian red cedar timber - and fastened with bronze screws - the hull aged very well, but all the timber structure needed to be dried, examined and consolidated. The restoration works endured for almost 2 and a half years and took us through several processes: starting from the consolidation of the structural elements with several very light applications of epoxy resin, to the reconstruction of the bronze case of the rudder, and so on to the refitting of the interior furniture to the disassemble, polishing and reassembling of all the deck sailing hardware.