This Olin Stephens designed 6-metre racing sloop is for sale for the first time in 50 years. Built by Henry Nevins, Black Rose is a true classic. She boasts an impressive racing heritage with decades of winning performances. 

Black Rose is Sparkman & Stephens Design #5, the first 6-metre designed by Olin Stephens. Many more successful designs were to follow, but Black Rose began over 60 years of 6-metre development.

This vessel is one of 37 “sixes” that Sparkman & Stephens constructed over the years, and she was launched the year the firm incorporated.

Very shortly after she was built, Olin Stephens, along with his brother Rod, was at the helm of this very boat in the International Six Metre Championship in Bermuda.

Black Rose has been maintained to high standards by a particularly knowledgeable owner over the years and is well-known, specifically on Lake Champlain.

Price – US$50,000 firm

For contact information and specifications, please visit:  https://www.olinstephens6metre.com/

Sailors, Oslo II built in 1926, needs a new home. She arrived in Seattle in 1937, after my parents saw her forlorn shape in Oslo Harbor, while on their honeymoon.

Oslo II was designed and built by Anchor and Jensen for Prince Olav, who raced her for a time, winning her first Regatta, the Cowes Regatta.

She has cruised throughout Puget Sound and into B.C., with our family aboard, and won many races in those waters over decades, including the Sir Thomas Lipton Cup, four times.

Oslo was one of the first 6’s in Seattle and is now the oldest. In the 1960’s the Seattle Six Meter fleet was a world renown fleet of Champions.

The Giese family has maintained her through the years, with the help of a local boatbuilder, Anchor Jensen. Oslo has had extensive repairs through the years, in 1996 in Port Townsend and 2012 at the Jesperson Boatyard. The iron floors were replaced with bronze, several planks were replaced, with bronze fasteners, the rudder pintles were replaced with bronze, the rudder shaft was turned into stainless, and oak frames were added. Repair records are available. The deck was replaced and fiberglassed.

The mast is original and in beautiful shape, as is the tiller. The mast was dry stored every winter for several decades and always varnished annually. The boom was replaced in 1972. The sails are well used ; main, genoa, drifter, storm jib, spinnaker.

Oslo II still sails like a dream. In hot summer the planks shrink and there is some leakage whilst heeling. An honorable home is what she needs most, a satisfactory price is of secondary importance”.

Price reduced – Euro15,000 – Now Euro 5,000

For further information please contact:
Capt. Peter Giese
5633 SW Spokane St.·
Seattle, WA 98116
+1-206-604-5766
peterg4@comcast.net