Yacht Detail
1938 Custom 65' (19.81 m) Chesapeake Bay Buyboat
Saint Michaels, Maryland, United States
Refit Year: 2024 Choptank
1938 65' O.W. Payne Chesapeake Bay Buyboat
Flag of Registry: United States
- Motor Yachts / Antique and Classics
- Power
- Used
- Diesel
- Wood Hull
Description
Choptank is for sale! She is a 1938 65' O.W. Payne designed and built Chesapeake Bay Buyboat. Choptank underwent a major rebuild from 2011 to recent and has been maintained since by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's experienced and knowledgeable local shipwrights. The museum stopped the rebuild at the point where she can be completed as a commercial vessel with a COI or as a pleasure vessel. You could hire the museum to complete the project or complete her elsewhere or by yourself to your final design and specs.
The rebuild included extensive re-planking, new running gear, new Cummins 410 HP main engine, new Onan 21.5 kW generator, all new wiring, plumbing, seacocks and systems and a new pilothouse constructed. Her cargo holds were converted into unfinished staterooms, so that the final fit out can be chosen by her new owner.
This is one of those rare once in a lifetime opportunities to own a historic and unique vessel!
Aspire Yacht Sales is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Curtis Stokes & Associates. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel
Specifications
Official Number: 237830
LOA: 65' (19.81 Meters)
Type: Power- Used
Year: 1938
Refit Year: 2024
Beam: 18'
Draft Max: 5' 5''
Draft Min: 5' 5''
Cabins: 3
Sleeps: 6
Heads: 1
Maximum Speed: 9 Knots
Cruise Speed: 7 Knots
Fuel Type: Diesel
Hull Material: Wood
Hull Finish: Paint
Fuel Tank: 250 Gallons (946.35 Liters)
Fresh Water: 55 Gallons (208.2 Liters)
Photos click to view all
Engines
Engine 1
- Engine Make: Cummins
- Engine Model: QSL9410MDIKC
- Engine Year: 2024
- Engine Type: Inboard
- Drive Type: Direct
- Power HP: 410.00
- Power KW: 305.74
- Fuel Type: Diesel
- Hours: 442.00
- Hours Date: 11-03-2025
- Serial Number: 73758998
- Engine Location: Middle
Generators
Generator 1
- Generator Make: Cummins Onan
- Generator Model: MDKDR-1423645
- Generator KW: 21.50
Full Details
Choptank Accommodations
The former cargo holds have been partially completed to allow a stateroom amidships and forward and crew quarters all the way forward. There is also a benchseat in the galley that could serve as a single size berth. The head and shower are on the main deck aft in the pilothouse.
Choptank Galley
The galley is aft of the raised pilothouse helm area.
- 4-burner electric cooktop and oven
- Sharp Carousel microwave oven
- Stainless steel sink
- Stainless steel countertop
- Storage cabinets and drawers
- Wood sole
- Opening wide windows
- Opening skylight
- Benchseat/berth with storage
Choptank Pilothouse
The pilothouse offers a side deck access door on each side, wood sole, benchseat on each side, engine room access, electronics as detailed in the electronics section in this presentation, Glendinning electronic engine control, Mercury/Cummins VesselView7 engine systems display, Vetus steering system, Carlisle & Finch searchlight, Mastervolt inverter control panel, Bass Products electrical panel, Tides Marine Smart Seal shaft seal alarm panel and Dometic reverse cycle air conditioning/heating system.
Choptank Aftdeck
The aftdeck offers a non-skid deck, same-level side deck access, lazarette access and a wood & glass door to the pilothouse.
Choptank Electronics
- Garmin Radar
- OceanSat Class A AIS
- Garmin GPSmap 7612 xsv multi-function display
- Garmin autopilot
- Garmin Multi-data display
- Simrad RS35 VHF
- Icom Commandmic VHF
- Kelvin-White magnetic compass
Choptank Electrical System
- Cummin Onan MDKDR-1423645 21.5 kW generator
- Mastervolt 3500 watt inverter/charger
- Mastervolt 40 amp battery charger
- Charles 12 KVA isolation transformer
- Victron Energy Orion-Tr 24/12-20 isolated DC/DC converter
- 8 X Lifeline GPL-4DL AGM batteries
- 50 amp shore power cord
Choptank Engine/Mechanical Equipment
- Single Cummins QSL9410MDIKC 410 HP main engine with approximately 442 hours (2024)
- ZF 286A gearbox
- Mercury Cummins VesselView7 engine systems display at the helm
- Glendinning electronic engine control
- Tides Marine dripless shaft seal with a Smart Seal alarm panel at the helm
- Vetus steering system
- Dual Racor 751000MAX fuel filters with a vacuum gauge for the main engine
- Racor 500 fuel filter for the generator
- Dometic 16,000 BUT reverse cycle air conditioning/heating system
- Kuuma stainless steel 11 gallon water heater
- Vacuflush head
Choptank Deck Equipment
- Maxwell HWC2500 anchor windlass
- Rocna Vulcan anchor
- Stainless steel anchor roller
- Painted wood decks and rails
- Foredeck storage lockers
Choptank Safety and Fire Protection
- Fireboy-Xintex Novec 1230 engine room fire suppression system
- Fire extinguishers
- Rule bilge pumps
- Carlisle & Finch searchlight
- Liferings
Choptank Exclusions
- Shipyard's tools
Choptank Disclaimer
The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.
Engine hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing brochure.
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