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Featured Boat :: “MAYAN” – 59′ Alden 356-B CENTERBOARD SCHOONER – $750,000
MAYAN is a distinctive and elegant John Alden designed centerboard schooner built in Honduras in 1947 and rebuilt by the master shipwright Wayne Ettel in 2005.
The rebuild involved the replacement of approximately 75% of the hull frames,all of the deck beams and the hull planking from the keel to the shear.The original construction was traditional single layer carvel planking caulked with cotton while the rebuild incorporated epoxy glue double planking with kapur wood below the waterline and Douglas fir over Port Oxford cedar above the waterline.
Her owner, David Crosby, has maintained her to the very highest standards.
A current survey (9/2/2011)is available to interested parties.
Who We Are
David Jones Yacht Brokerage specializes in the marketing and sales of classic wooden boats – from traditional schooners, blue water cruisers, cutters, yawls, ketches and sloops to more modern replicas. We concentrate on our favorite designers such as Alden, Crocker, Fife, Herreshoff, Hinckley, Rhodes, Stephens and White. We also represent and market boat builders and new wooden boats.
David Jones Yacht Brokerage is located in Camden, Maine and has associates in Italy, France and New Zealand as well as strong relationships with leading brokerage firms throughout the world. We have a choice and limited selection of boats which allows us evaluate the vessels as if we were the prospective purchaser. We welcome inquiries.
David Jones has had over 50 years sailing experience from Long Island Sound, the Chesapeake Bay, the North Sea, the Caribbean and the gulf of Maine. As a youth, he participated in national and world racing championships, as well as the 1972 Olympics in Kiel, Germany. In 1994, he obtained his 100 ton US Coast Guard Captain’s license and operated a charter business with his Friendship sloop in Rockland, Maine. He has taught sailing at The Wooden Boat School in Brooklin, Maine and has continued to race in an Etchells fleet in the summer and in a year round Laser fleet. David has been operating as an independent Yacht Broker since 1997 and he enjoys specializing in traditional wooden boats of every size . He has a global network of friends and colleagues who can be called upon to address the particular requests of those preparing to go bluewater voyaging.
Justin McAnaney 
grew up around boats on Long Island, New York and spent more than a decade as a corporate lawyer working in New York and London, England before relocating to mid-coast Maine to pursue a life focused on boats and the sea. Justin is particularly interested in classic wooden boat design and construction. He completed a course in wooden boat restoration at the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis, England and volunteered as a trainee at Henwood & Dean Boat Builders in Henley-on-Thames, England. He also completed the Rockland Apprenticeshop’s 2-year course in traditional wooden boat building. Justin has sailed off of the United Kingdom and in the British Virgin Islands. He gets out on the waters of coastal Maine as often as possible with his wife and three dogs. As a yacht broker, Justin combines his commercial legal background and enthusiasm for boats. He has been working with the David Jones Yacht Brokerage as an independent yacht broker since winter 2010.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is to give all parties to a transaction, trustworthy and reliable information with regard to listing, buying or selling a vessel. We endeavor to make the experience as satisfying as we can. We view our role as the intermediary, transferring the craftsmanship, history and tradition of classic vessels to those who will preserve and appreciate them.