1963 Rhodes Chesapeake 33

Current owner is 4th and is selling due to a job relo to the West Coast.  He has owned it 8 years.

Philip L. Rhodes, born in 1895,  was a prolific and versatile boat designer, whose career spanned more than five decades from 1919 until his death in 1974. 

His range of design was amazing, from 123'  motorsailers to 7' dinghies, from hydrofoil racers to giant motor yachts. 

His clients ranged from Rockefellers to Sears and Roebuck.  His 12 Meter Weatherly won the America's Cup in 1962.  And, in addition, he designed a wide range of commercial craft.

Robert 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.

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."

This boat was built at Dan Boat in Denmark.

The Chesapeake 32 is a similar Sistership to the Rhodes...

Interior

Ice Box

Double Basin S/S Sink w/Pressurized Water

Sea Water Pump at Galley

Marine toilet manual

Electronics

Datamarine Depth

Datamarine Log

Datamarine Wind

Garmin 188C GPS

JRC 2000 Radar

VHF Radio

Radar Reflector

Masthead Windex

Compass

Electrical

Nav Lights

Deck Light

2-12 volt batts w/master switch

Elec Bilge Pump

Cabin Heat (propane)

Solar Panel w/controller (2015)

Safety Gear

Life Jackets

Docklines

Fenders

Boat Hook 

Horn

Fire Extinguishers

Primary Anchor: Fortress w/50' chain and 15' nylon

Anchor #2: CQR

Sails

Conv Mainsail w/Battens and 3 Reef Points

Storm Jib

Furling Genoa with Furlex Drum

Spinnaker

TriSail

Rigging

Deck-Stepped Aluminum Mast Single Spreader

Single Backstay

Boom Vang

2 30B Winches at Mast

2 ST Lewmar Genoa Sheet Winches at Cockpit

Deck

Wheel Steering Upper/Lower Lifelines

Lifeline Gates 

Teak Cockpit seats

Cockpit Cushions

Coachroof Dorade

Cockpit Table

Canvas

Dodger - off white 2016

LOA: 33' 0"

LWL: 23' 3"

Beam: 8' 11"

Draft: 4' 10"

Displacement: 11,500-lbs. (approx.)

Ballast: 3,750-lbs.

Current owner purchased in 2012. Purchase Agreement at that time indicated the engine was completely rebuilt in 1999 and had only approximately 195 hours on the engine when current owner purchased in 2012.