2001 Custom 24ft

2001 Custom 24’ (7.32m) – “Oriole”
Located in Port Dover.

Description

Original Design
Karl Stambaugh, Windward Designs
794 Creek View Rd., Severna Park, MD 21146
Pictured in Wooden Boat Magazine – Launchings, Nov.–Dec. 2001
Hull is a Chesapeake Bay Skiff

Professional Builder
Neil Kemmers, Kemmers Yacht Construction, Box 143, Smithville, ON, L0R 2A0

Above decks and cabin design by John Dickhout (owner) and Neil Kemmers
Construction was by builder and owner – approximately 1,400 hours

Name: Oriole
H.I.N.: ZKY23REDA101
Length: 23’6”
Beam: 8’
Draft: 12” (18” with skeg)

• All construction is of marine-grade mahogany

• Bottom hull is 1” – two 1/2” sheets laminated and screwed

• Side decks are 1/2”

• All are covered with 10 oz. fiberglass cloth and several coats of epoxy

• Frames are 2 layers of 3/4” x 4” mahogany on 24” centres

• Four bulkheads – fore cabin, mid-cabin, companionway, and lazarette – 2 layers of 1/2” mahogany plywood

• Slight V-bottom added to bow section

• Interior bulkheads are trimmed with grooved pine

• Side shelves from bow to companionway

• Interior is painted with 2 coats of top-quality white paint

• Interior trim is stained mahogany strips

• Bottom of hull received two coats of VC Tar prior to VC17

• Hull sides are painted with Awlgrip Blue

• White bootstripe

• Stern is stained and varnished like trim

• Bottom painted with VC17 antifouling – red

• Topsides are finished with white epoxy paint

Equipment

• 2001 15 hp 4-cycle Yamaha electric start engine with tilt

• Remote steering and transmission cable ready

• Steering – rack & pinion or rotary – Teleflex – post compatible with wheel – cable led to port side of hinge tube

• Steering wheel – Edson 602BR – 22” (521 US) or 24”; bushing is available to mate with 3/4” tapered Teleflex post 1/2”/20 thread – cost: $750

• Cap to screw onto post when mounting

• Note: There is a U-bolt mounted securely behind and underneath the steering post and another U-bolt mounted on the port side of the V-berth. This is for using a lock to secure the wheel when you are away from the boat, when cruising and exploring the port, or in the cabin when the boat is at its home berth. It is just too easy for an opportunistic thief to steal. – John

• Digital depth sounder with transom-mounted transducer

• Digital speed with transom-mounted paddle wheel

• AM/FM stereo with remote speakers – replaced new in 2024

• Barometer & clock

• Brass Cutty lamp

• Bell

• Sportech bimini canvas cover and screening

• Sportech screens for enclosing cockpit and cabin entrance

• Sportech covering for cockpit for occasional use when away from boat

• Cushions, cockpit cushions, and curtains custom made by Sitting Pretty

• Matching pillows

• Anchor Marine Welding for custom stainless steel awning fittings

• Teak & holly sole in cabin

• Grating for cockpit sole is mahogany

• 12V panel – 6 lighted circuits

• 12V lights in forepeak and cabin

• 12V accessory outlet in cockpit and cabin

• All-round/anchor light on top of awning structure

• Running lights on corners of awning structure

• Awning structure is of mahogany/oak bracing with white Sunbrella covering, mounted on stainless steel poles

• Deck hardware is bronze (where available), otherwise stainless

• Station 14 has 1/2” tongue & groove facing on fore and aft faces

• Station 20 has 1/2” tongue & groove facing on forward face

• 1/2” tongue & groove facing on inboard sides of cabin settees and bulkheads

• Rub rail on sides is approx. 3/4” x 2” oak

• Fore-hatch and companionway screens

• Ventilation – vents to cabin in lower cockpit seat coaming and vent forward on cabin top and waterboard vents

• Name on stern and registration numbers on bow: 47E 10140 Oriole – Port Dalhousie

• Burgee pole on bow

• Oversized flag pole on stern

• Canadian flag

• Chocks for anchor on foredeck

• 6” open bronze cleats – two on quarters

• Trailer eyebolt on bow and two eye-bolts on transom

• Wiscott trailer – double axle

• Sunshade awning stainless steel frame – ability to lower/dismount for trailering or winter storage

• 8 oversize fenders in “string” arrangement

• Aluminum/foam soundproofing in engine compartment

• Table for cockpit and cabin – like TV tray

• Transom is mahogany with stain and varnish

• Stain for trim is MinWax water-base Spice

• Paint for hull and topsides is Awlgrip G5003 Aristo Blue and G8022 Insignia White

• Bottom paint over 2 coats VC Tar Epoxy is VC 17m Red V107

• Two 5-gal. gas tanks – secured in aft bulkhead and ventilated section of port and starboard cockpit lockers

• Vents to gas tank compartments, then circular vents to engine compartment

• Vent (similar to above) in port side berth extension

• Forward anchor well with hawsepipe

• Danforth anchor chocks on foredeck

• Anchor rode – stainless chain and rode

• Interior access to anchor well in forward bulkhead (behind picture)

• Opening compartments on cushion platforms and sides of coaming below cushions

• Two small bilge pumps underneath cabin sole with above-water thru-hulls – switches are near DC panel – rarely used

• One below-water thru-hull with ball valve draining the forward cockpit drain – ball valve is located beneath portable ice box in forward starboard cockpit locker

• Aft cockpit drain

• Screens for enclosing fore-hatch and cabin entrance

• Covering for cockpit for occasional use when away from boat

• Longitudinal mahogany strapping along interior walls – to allow ventilation

• U-bolt behind steering wheel and in forward cabin port coaming for locking wheel for safety

• Cabin has a counter with a butane hotplate and storage

• Tray can be moved outside for picnic table use

• Underneath this counter is an accessible porta-potty

• Lower locker on port side in cabin contains a pullout drawer with a cutlery drawer which can also be moved outside

• AC fan in cabin

• Required safety equipment including flare gun with in-date flares, 2 fire extinguishers

• 6 mahogany plywood boards approx. 9” x 24” for use as inserts between seats in cabin or cockpit to serve as prep tables at galley and cockpit tables – one has a large hole meant for the cockpit to accommodate the tank for the portable barbecue

• Small “Force 10” stainless steel barbecue

• Portable cleat for docking

• All dock lines

• Custom wood and line boarding ladder

Power

• 15 hp 4-cycle Yamaha electric start engine with tilt

• Custom-designed stainless steel skeg added to increase steering ability

• Approximately 400 running hours

• Cruising speed: 6.5–7.5 pts per hour

• Two plastic 6-gal. gasoline tanks in port and starboard cockpit lockers with ventilation

• Yamaha engine controls in cockpit to starboard

• Two batteries (2022) mounted in port and starboard cockpit lockers

• Two small trickle chargers for batteries for winter storage (attached in lockers for dock charging)

• 15-amp outlet on cockpit lazarette area – powers extension cord to supply electricity at dock and is also connected to AC outlet in cabin – both chargers plugged into this outlet

• 4-position battery switch in lazarette: Off, 1, 2, Both

Cruising History

• Home: Dalhousie Yacht Club, St. Catharines

• Oriole was berthed for 3 seasons in Lower Buckhorn Lake

• It has cruised extensively:

  • Erie Canal

  • Muskoka Lakes

  • Lake Erie – Norfolk Shore

  • Chesapeake Bay – 4 cruises

  • Lake Ontario

  • The Thousand Islands

  • Rideau Canal – 2 transits

  • Trent-Severn Waterway – many cruises

  • Eastern Georgian Bay – 2 cruises

  • The North Channel – 2 cruises

• Over 2,000 miles

Winter Storage

For the past 20 years, the vessel has been stored inside for half of the time and outside (commercially shrink-wrapped) for the remainder.

Data Sheet

• HIN/IMO: RIV2025

• LOA: 23'6" (7.16 meters)

• Type: Power – Used

• Year: 2001

• Fuel Type: Gas/Petrol

• Hull Material: Cold Molded

Engine Make: Yamaha
Engine Model: 15

Contact Us

For more information about this vessel, please contact:

Bryan Milne
Bridge Yachts Ltd
Phone: 1-519-583-3199