Herreshoff Nereia Sailboats for Sale

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull Type

Monohull · long

Rig

Ketch

LOA

36.5' · 11.13 m

Disp.

23,000 lbs · 10,433 kg

First year

1947

The Herreshoff Nereia stands as a monument to a bygone era of yachting, representing the design philosophy of L. Francis Herreshoff at its most romantic and practical. First introduced to the public in 1947 through a series of construction articles in the respected publication The Rudder, the Nereia (Design No. 87) was conceived as a "proper little ship". It was built to be tackled by skilled amateur builders or small, professional wooden boatyards. Modeled loosely after the sweeping, majestic lines of larger Herreshoff masterpieces like Ticonderoga and Tioga, this 36.5foot clipperbowed ketch was a deliberate counterweight to the increasingly sterile, racingoriented designs that began to dominate the postwar era.