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Highlights & Features
Classic pedigree meets modern reliability in this Rhodes Chesapeake 32. Recently refit with over $150K invested, including new engine, systems, decks, and rigging. Surveyed better than new, professionally maintained, and ready to sail with timeless beauty and confidence.
About This Yacht
DH Yacht Sales is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Little Yacht Sales. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel
Full Details
Notable Upgrades
Complete professional restoration completed in 2025
Over $150,000 invested in refit and modernization
New Beta 20 HP diesel engine and new fuel tank
Standing rigging and boom replaced new (2025)
Decks re‑cored with ½” Airex core material
All interior bulkheads replaced with marine‑grade plywood
Entire AC and DC electrical systems replaced
Smart charger installed with two AGM batteries
New pedestal steering with GPS, wind & depth sensors
New compass installed
Head replaced and holding tank added
Electronic tank level gauges (fuel, water, waste)
Two automatic bilge pumps with float switches
Survey notes vessel as “better than new” condition
A Quote From a Review of the Chesapeake 32
Robert Perry was a high-school sophomore taking mechanical drawing when he spotted a sailboat on the cover of Popular Boating magazine. It was a Chesapeake 32, designed by Philip Rhodes. “I had never seen anything quite so beautiful designed by man,” he would later write. “To my eye there was not an ugly line on that boat. This design is the specific design that made me determine to become a yacht designer. I wanted to design things that beautiful; Still trying.”
Perry, a celebrated yacht designer in his own right, still speaks with awe at the memory of Rhodes’ pinup. Like a model with all the right curves, the Chesapeake 32 reportedly has been used in ads to sell Top-Sider shoes, Rolls-Royces and Hawaii’s Crazy Shirts, and has even graced the cover of Vermont Life.
In fact, when you ask owners why they own one, the word beauty is usually in their first sentence. They often mention how proud they are rowing away from a mooring. “Beauty of proportion,” is Perry’s technical explanation. Only later do owners admit to limitations, and high among them is maintaining that beauty.
New wheel and cable system
RAILINGS & SAFETY CABLES- S.S. bow and stern pulpits with double lifelines and boarding gates.
MOORING CLEATS- Bronze cleats located at port & starboard bows and stern, good secure condition.
ANCHOR STORAGE & DEPLOYMENT GEAR- S,S, anchor shoot and roller
PROPELLER- Three blade bronze prop in good secure condition.
Bronze Thru-hulls
Internal Lead Ballast in the Keel
Accommodations
New marine sanitation head
Holding tank installed
Interior bulkheads replaced with marine‑grade plywood
V berths forward with locker storage
Enclosed head compartment with marine head to port
Single settee and bulkhead table to port
Single settee/ berth to starboard
Full galley with propane stove to port
Aft quarter berth to starboard.
Mechanical
New Beta 20 Hp Fresh Water Cooled diesel engine (replacement during refit)
Engine instrument Pannel
New 25 Gal. fuel tank
Rascor Fuel Filter
New Exhaust Stystem
Fuel System
Galley
Propane Stove and Oven
Pressure water system
Ice Box
Listing MLS by Yachtr.com
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