Classic Wooden Boats on Sale and Display

Five traditional boats, tools, and maritime equipment will be for sale on Saturday when the East End Classic Boat Society holds its annual fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hartjen-Richardson Community Boat Shop at 301 Bluff Road, Amagansett, behind the East Hampton Town Maritime Museum. 

Each year, the nonprofit society builds and raffles a craft of classic design to help defray expenses. This year’s project, a 12-foot, 10-inch Pooduck sailboat, will be on display, and the winner of the raffle, to be announced in December, will also receive a LoadRite trailer. Also to be displayed on Saturday are plans and templates for the society’s next project, a 10.5-foot Sunshine Tender sailboat.

Pierce Hance, the society’s vice president, said the five boats to be sold are being offered at “heavily discounted, attractive negotiable prices.” They include an Old Town canoe, an American Trader canoe, a 12-foot Bevin’s skiff, a 19-foot, two-masted sharpie, and a new Sailfish with a dolly. 

Visitors to the fair also can tour and learn about the restoration efforts under way in the society’s workshop for a 1955 Dunphy runabout with a deck that now glows with eight coats of varnish and a 1921 Herreshoff 12 1/2 sloop, which the club is bringing back from a state of near-total decay. 

The society welcomes new members. Annual membership is $35 for an individual, $45 for a family. The boat shop is open Wednesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.