"LE GOELAND", this 33-foot cutter, was the 82nd design to leave the board of Eric Joslyn Steinlein (now deceased) of Galesville, Maryland. This custom wooden classic is a pleasure to see and a joy to show. Her lines, teak decks and wooden cleats all add to the feel of a true blue-water sailing ship.

Built by Abbott Boat Works in Sarnia Ontario, construction covered a four year span and has remained Abbot's biggest wooden boat project, the sole owner has lovingly maintained her to the original design. LE GOELAND is framed of locally grown white oak. She is planked with Alaskan Yellow Cedar and her deck is of Burmese Teak. Her interior and deck structures are of Honduran Mahogany and spars of British Columbian Sitka Spruce. She?s strip-built of 1 3/8ths square planks edge-nailed and Resorcinol glued and screwed to the frame timbers.

Originally configured as a gaff cutter, she was converted to Bermudan rig by Brooklin Boat Yard in Brookline, Maine in 1996. For the wooden boat enthusiast, it is interesting to note that Brooklin is the home of the Wooden Boat School. While preparing the drawings for the conversion to Bermudan rig, it was recalled by the designer that in the loft of the school building there hung a mast that might be suitable. Sure enough...the mast and its shrouds and stays were a perfect fit to LE GOELAND. It turned out that the mast in question came out of the Concordia sloop owned by Jon Wilson, the founder and publisher of Wooden Boat Magazine!

Through the years, the owner has added features such as Autohelm and a seawater washdown pump. She was repowered in 1992 with a Yanmar 38hp closed-cooling diesel engine that has less than 1000 running hours. There is a traditional V Berth forward, with head to port, galley forward and to starboard with good storage, dinette / settee to port, and two quarterberths. The cockpit is roomy and the weatherdecks are wide and flat.

Over the 38 years of association between the sole owner and this beautiful cutter, the owner confesses that it was not truly he who looked after LE GOELAND - it was she who looked after him. She is now looking for another owner to head out with her for new adventures and to begin a new association.