1962 Chesapeake Rhoades 32

Complete professional restoration completed in 2025

Over $150,000 invested in refit and modernization

New Beta 20 HP diesel engine and new fuel tank

Standing rigging and boom replaced new (2025)

Decks re‑cored with ½” Airex core material

All interior bulkheads replaced with marine‑grade plywood

Entire AC and DC electrical systems replaced

Smart charger installed with two AGM batteries

New pedestal steering with GPS, wind & depth sensors

New compass installed

Head replaced and holding tank added

Electronic tank level gauges (fuel, water, waste)

Two automatic bilge pumps with float switches

Survey notes vessel as “better than new” condition

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.”

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.

In fact, when you ask owners why they own one, the word beauty is usually in their first sentence. They often mention how proud they are rowing away from a mooring. “Beauty of proportion,” is Perry’s technical explanation. Only later do owners admit to limitations, and high among them is maintaining that beauty.

New wheel and cable system

RAILINGS & SAFETY CABLES- S.S. bow and stern pulpits with double lifelines and boarding gates.

MOORING CLEATS- Bronze cleats located at port & starboard bows and stern, good secure condition.

ANCHOR STORAGE & DEPLOYMENT GEAR- S,S, anchor shoot and roller

PROPELLER- Three blade bronze prop in good secure condition.

Bronze Thru-hulls

Internal Lead Ballast in the Keel

New marine sanitation head

Holding tank installed

Interior bulkheads replaced with marine‑grade plywood

V berths forward with locker storage

Enclosed head compartment with marine head to port

Single settee and bulkhead table to port

Single settee/ berth to starboard

Full galley with propane stove to port

Aft quarter berth to starboard.

New Beta 20 Hp Fresh Water Cooled diesel engine (replacement during refit)

Engine instrument Pannel

New 25 Gal. fuel tank

Rascor Fuel Filter

New Exhaust Stystem

Fuel System

Propane Stove and Oven

Pressure water system

Ice Box

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