Support the Museum and our programs by buying a boat from us! We sell refurbished powerboats, sailboats, and wooden boats that have been donated, as well as our own handcrafted wooden boats. Scroll down to see the most up-to-date list of boats available to buy or skip down to a category:
Paddling & rowing boats
17′ Sharp Wherry designed by Pete Culler
Price: $12,000 $8,000
Selling location: Small Boat Exchange
This beautiful 17 ft. Sharp Wherry, designed by Pete Culler was built by Geoff Burke of Chocorua BoatWorks in New Hampshire in 2012. She is beautifully constructed of White cedar on White oak and has been used very lightly . The boat comes with two sets of oars and a trailer.
16′ 6″ Cedar & Canvas Canoe
Price: $2,500
Selling location: Small Boat Exchange
This cedar and canvas canoe was beautifully built by a local Vermont boat builder and is in like-new condition.
Old Town Canadienne Canoe
Price: $1,200
Selling location: Small Boat Exchange
This canoe was just beautifully restored by the team at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Chester Yawl
Price: $4,000
Price with Trailex trailer: $4,800
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
This beautifully constructed 15′ rowing boat is in like new condition and comes with a pair of spoon blade oars. It was built from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. Learn more about the kit here.
Whisp
Price: $1,000
Price with trailer: $1,500
Selling location: Small Boat Exchange
This Steve Redmond designed , 15’7” WHISP was beautifully built, barely used and donated to the museum by a local craftsman. It sits on a trailer and is in excellent shape. The boat weighs approx. 70 lbs and has a capacity of 400 lbs. You can put a small electric transom mounted engine on it if desired.
Coquina
SOLD
This carefully built bare hull was designed by NG Herreshoff in 1889 and adapted for plywood epoxy construction by Doug Hylan and Maynard Bray. The hull comes with a set of plans to complete the project. Learn more about this hull and boat here.
16′ 1908 Old Town Canoe
Price: $3,000
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
This canoe is a classic 16′ cedar and canvas Old Town canoe, beautifully restored at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. After researching its serial number, we believe it to be hull #7384, finished on January 29, 1908. Click on any image to open a larger gallery view.
18′ 1924 Old Town “Guide Special” Canoe
Price: $3,000
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
This beautiful Guide Canoe has been painstakingly restored and will be ready for delivery in early summer 2023. As noted in the builder’s file (see photo), it was sold to Camp Chickewah in Harrison, ME in 1924. If you are looking for a fully functional, antique, traditional cedar and canvas caboe that has the capacity for expeditions, this boat is for you. Click on any image to open a larger gallery view.
11′ Shellback Rowing Dinghy
Price: $1,600
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
This brand new 11’2 inch shellback rowing dinghy was designed by Joel White and beautifully built by a local craftsman. It comes with a set of oars and oar locks
16′ Piscataqua River Wherry
Price: $2,000 ($2,500 with trailer)
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
This river wherry was build in a class with boat builder Geoffrey Burke in 2003. A beautiful and capable rowing boat, it was restored by the team shown here at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and tested right in our harbor. Click on any image to open a larger gallery view.
Yachts & sailboats
1989 Catalina 22 Capril Sailboat (with trailer)
Price: $4,800
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
19′ O’Day Rhodes 19 Sailboat
Price: $1,800
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
2013 Chesapeake Light Craft Passagemaker Dinghy
SOLD
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
This handy boat can be rowed, sailed, and powered with up to three adults aboard.
This is the perfect dinghy for folks with larger boats. Are you tired of moving heavy, traditional dinghies that weigh 200 pounds, or struggling with a limp, awkward inflatable that can’t be rowed or sailed? With a 650-pound payload, the Passagemaker can haul the entire crew in one go, or ferry blocks of ice and jerrycans of drinking water from the quayside to the mothership. The sailing rig components store flat inside the 11’7″ hull. Hoist up the mainsail and you’ve got a fast, fun, stable sailing dinghy that will please even the most ardent and discriminating sailing enthusiast.
Motorboats
25′ Dusky 252 Cuddy
Price: $32,000
Selling location: Small Boat Exchange
A 2001 25’ Dusky 252 Cuddy Side Steering with dual 2015 Suzuki 115HP Engines. This boat is a great package for boaters looking for space and speed. The cabin offers protection from weather and sun. Comes with a full enclosure, full wash-down station, trolling motor, down riggers, multiple bottom finders and a trailer in great shape. This would be a perfect charter boat or leisure fisherman. The boat is in mint condition. Use this link to look at the factory web-site details.
19′ Ben Garvey
Price: $22,000 $15,900
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
This beautiful interpretation of Doug Hylan’s 19′ Big Ben Garvey is a one of a kind opportunity. It was built of high quality marine plywood and epoxy in 2011 by Geoff Kerr of Two Daughter’s Boatworks and has been very lightly used. No expense was spared. It comes with a like new trailer and 70-hp Yamaha 4-stroke engine.
Engines & motors
1938 Palmer YT Marine Engine (includes original manual)
Price: $1,500
Selling location: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum