MER-NA

Although MER-NA is capable of sleeping six, she's a small 36- foot cruiser with only a 9-foot beam. We find her perfect for a cruising couple. Wherever she goes, she draws a crowd. Although we haven't campained her on the boat-show circuit in recent years (we'd rather be cruising!), in the past she's won her share of honors, including "Best Classic Yacht " in Seattle's Opening Day Parade. And "Best Power Vessel" in the in the Victorian Boat Festival... MER-NA, as it Aturned out, was the last Blanchard Dreamboat to be built, since the depression hit as her keel was being laid. MER-NA is one of the finest examples of early raised deck cruisers - by any builder... For more than six decades beginning in 1907, the N.J. Blanchard Boat Company produced some of the finest motor yachts, sailboats, and small tenders to emerge from the Pacific Northwest….. including two dozen "Lake Union Dreamboats" that became a trademark of the company. MER-NA was launched in 1930 (hull #25) and is the last..