2009 150hp Cummins Diesel
“Dolores Catherine” is a beautiful wooden vessel that was originally built in 1936 as a shrimper by the Covacevich yard in Biloxi Mississippi. She is a trawler, but a specific style and layout known along the Gulf Coast as a Biloxi Lugger. She is fuel efficient for long passages through coastal water, but her roots are in the barrier islands of the Gulf Coast. The Chandeleur Islands are the most famous of these.
2009 150hp Cummins Diesel
“Dolores Catherine” is a beautiful wooden vessel that was originally built in 1936 as a shrimper by the Covacevich yard in Biloxi Mississippi. She is a trawler, but a specific style and layout known along the Gulf Coast as a Biloxi Lugger. She is fuel efficient for long passages through coastal water, but her roots are in the barrier islands of the Gulf Coast. The Chandeleur Islands are the most famous of these. This bird sanctuary has been in place long before humans, and it is teeming with redfish, trout and flounder. The nearby Biloxi Marsh is a fisherman and duck hunters paradise. These Biloxi Luggers have traditionally been commercial fishing boats or motherships for small fishing skiffs that are carried on the roof or daisy chained in tow. These Luggers are just as comfortable traveling up and down the coast for a simple joy ride, family picnic, or anchored for the weekend as an escape from modern distractions! “Dolores Catherine” turns heads wherever she goes and is a wood boat festival award winner!
This Biloxi Lugger/Chandeleur boat was purchased by its current owner in 2008, and he immediately went to work on an extensive refit to her hull and systems including an ElectroScan system for waste treatment and Cummins factory re-man four cylinder diesel engine for reliability. Extensive hull work has been completed and seller has recommendations for future hull work. Our goal is to find the right buyer who is willing to continue proper upkeep on her and preserve a beautiful piece of Gulf Coast boat-building heritage.
Hull/Deck/Restoration
- Old growth cypress frames
- Old growth cypress planking
- Galvanized fasteners- due for refastening on original planks
Restoration from:
- Quarter sawn KDAT (Kiln Dried After Treatment) pine planks
- - dried to 10% moisture content for stability. Very tight grain
- Stainless steel fasteners
- House is tongue and grove treated pine
- Roof is 3/4” marine ply
- Fwd cabin top fiberglass over 1/2” Coosa composite
- New Interior cabinetry is cypress
- New interior flooring is same pine as new planks
- New planking from rear of engine to rudder post
- New shaft log, dead wood, and stern post
- New planking out two boards from keel on both sides
- New topside planking above rub strake
- New deck beams
- New cap rail
- Herreshoff pocket windows drop down for air flow
- Bahamian slide windows in below deck areas
- Metalark windows
- Sherman Williams paint throughout including “SuperDeck"
- Fortress FX-37 Anchor w/ 25’ chain and 300’ line
- JD Customs Davit on Roof
Vessel Walkthrough Electrical/Electronics
- Garmin GPSmap 541S
- Standard Horizon VHF radio
- Re-wired during restoration
- (2) 12v starting/house batteries
- 110v outlets throughout vessel
- 12v cigarette plugs throughout vessel
- LED 12v interior lighting
- Navigation lighting
- High water alarm
- (2) 2000gph bilge pumps
- 30amp shorepower system
- Battery charger
- Inverter (only runs the fridge)- needs replacing
- Water heater- needs replacing
- ElectraScan needs a wiring module replaced
Accommodations
- Galley up to starboard
- Helm to port
- Removable table to port and aft
- Steps down to lower cabin and head
- Head to port
- Large berth to starboard
- V-berth all the way forward
- Pine flooring
- Cypress cabinets and walls
- MagicChef refrigerator
- Ample storage
- Stainless sink
- (2) Burner propane stove
- Knife/spice rack
- Dockline storage aft
- Shower on aft deck bulkhead
Mechanical
- 2009 Cummins Re-man 4cyl diesel w/ 840 hours
- ZF transmission
- Large access hatches in salon floor for excellent mechanical access
- Rudder stops recommended by seller
- Ample room below deck in engine space for adding a marine generator and air conditioning systems
- Ample room on roof top and forward cabin to add more economical roof top/RV air conditioners and portable generator
Mechanical Disclaimer Engine and generator 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.
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.
