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Harris & Ellis Yachts is honoured to present the renewed RED JACKET for sale. She is a veritable Canadian sailing icon. This is a rare chance to own a remarkable piece of Canadian sailing history. She is in exceptional condition and ready to race with many upgrades and refits throughout the years. In fact, her most recent refit has been through the winter of 2024/2025 where over 1000 man-hours have been spent restoring her to her original (if not better than) beauty. RED JACKET truly is launch-ready and able to start a new season of racing with little to no prep. She has also been measured for ORC 2024 and her safety equipment is ORC compliant. RED JACKET also boasts a very favourable appraisal survey from 2025.
As background, in 1965 Canadian yachtsman Perry Connolly commissioned Cuthbertson and Cassian to design a custom 40- foot (12m) racing sloop. Connolly requested the meanest, hungriest 40 footer afloat. The boat, named RED JACKET, was built by Bruckmann Manufacturing in fiberglass with a balsa core; the resulting structure was and still is strong, stiff and significantly lighter than the wood or solid fiberglass yachts that were sailing at the time. RED JACKET is considered to be the first sailboat engineered with a cored hull. She was launched in May 1966 and took 11 out of 13 starts that summer on Lake Ontario. That winter RED JACKET headed south and won the famed SORC (Southern Ocean Racing Circuit) competing against over 85 of the best racers of the day. RED JACKET was the first Canadian boat ever to win the SORC.
RED JACKET has an aft cockpit and a fractional rig and the fin keel is lead. The hull has been refinished in white Awlgrip with a double blue boot top stripe and a gold sheer accent. The decks and superstructure are also white (refinished) with a tan non-skid texture on horizontal surfaces. The layout of the vessel is, from forward, an open forepeak. Next aft is the head to starboard with a chest locker opposite to port. The saloon comprises a settee, pilot berth, chart table and quarterberth to port with a settee, pilot berth and galley to starboard. The Pathfinder diesel engine with v-drive is under the companionway and steering is by wheel. The cockpit has a deep seat locker to port with incorporated LPG locker.
We invite you to read through the listing and her specs and you will be impressed with all the work that has been completed over the last 12 months. We then invite you to make an appointment to come aboard this truly iconic yachtbe prepared to be amazed.
Specifications
SPECS
MEASUREMENTS
ENGINE(S)
TANKS
Accommodations
Engine and Prop
General Equipment
Galley
Safety Equipment
Red Jacket is Category 3 Offshore Compliant
Deck
Cabin top has been stripped, epoxied all bolt holes, new non-skid, varnished, new hardware, everything reinstalled winter 2024/2025
Windows were removed, rebedded and reinstalled in 2025
Winches Self-Tailing and Standard:
Cabin
Electronics
In Cockpit
Nav Station
Canvas Info
Rig and Rigging
Hull
Sail Inventory
The race sails have been measured for ORC 2024 (Race Sails are all Evolution)
Race Genoas and Jibs
Spinnakers
Delivery Sail and Spares
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.
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