Restive - Alden 48'

February 09, 2018

Restive sitting peacefully at Cape Breton Boat Yard, Baddeck, NS – awaiting her owner to arrive.
Copyright 2016 Jamie Morrison. www.jamiemorrison.ca

restive

adjective

1(of a person) unable to remain still, silent, or submissive, especially because of boredom or dissatisfaction.

‘the crowd had been waiting for hours and many were becoming restive’

‘he reiterated his determination to hold the restive republics together’

"I think it's a corker of a name. Really conjures the image of the boat tugging at her mooring lines, wanting to be at sea with a fair breeze and a clear horizon ahead."

Presuming Ed in Cruising Anarchy

Restive is a 48' Alden, Niels Helleberg design, custom built by Brooklin Boat Yard and launched 2005.

Among the details, each successive oval cabin port going forward is slightly smaller than the last, to match the taper of the cabin top.

Behind all of the pretty is a tall carbon mast, deep fin keel with bulb, carbon spade rudder, and a most breathtaking raised panel Herreshoff interior.

She sails like the wind.

In Maine she's considered Spirit of Tradition. Performance wise, she is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

She will never be a dock queen, she's done 10 or more Bermuda's already, and been to the south coast of Newfoundland multiple times.