CINDERELLA: 1936 Concordia 35 Custom Sloop
October 13, 2026:
Concordia Company has acquired the very special, one-of-a-kind 1936 Concordia 35 Custom Sloop CINDERELLA, and has begun a restoration that we hope will be completed in mid-2027. She was previously restored by Concordia in 2017, before falling on some hard times. We hope to have her back in action soon, and stay tuned for more updates!
“She’s in pretty good shape overall, a great looking boat,” said Concordia Foreman Eric Parker. “We are looking at shoring her up, generally. We’ll re-caulk her, replace some planks, drop the ballast, and re-fair that whole keel area. We have custom carpentry projects on deck, and she’ll get a full paint and varnish job. Down below, she doesn’t need much, but we will upgrade the fuel tank with a better, custom tank. We will also likely remove the rudder to look hard at the stern post and see if anything needs to be done. So far, it’s going well.”
From Waldo Howland’s A Life in Boats, Vol. II:
CINDERELLA was a fast-sailing 35-footer built to Ray Hunt lines, which had been influenced by the shape of the famous Stephens yawl DORADE. Cinderella is shown here fitting out at the Peirce and Kilburn yard, where she was built.
CINDERELLA’s acommodations were spartan as called for: the simplest galley possible with shelf for small stove to starboard and counter with slide-out basin to port; early versions of our folding Concordia berths to sleep on; and an open fo'c's'le forward for the throne. Special patterns were made in order to cast the special deck fittings wanted. A small Gray Sea Scout engine drove an off-center propeller, to avoid an aperture in the sternpost.
As on Weepecket, the watertight cockpit seats were low to allow for comfortable seat backs. (This arrangement accomplished its aims, but gradually I could see that it complicated good construction and had some other disadvantages. For one thing, it was time-consuming to shape the deck framing and fit the curved seat backs. For a second, both backs and seats were wide flat surfaces and tended to shrink, causing leaks. And finally, with the boat heeled, the leeward seat naturally pocketed water and, thus, had to be carefully scuppered by pipes into the cockpit well. In later boats I modified the detail with no great loss of amenity.)
More updates coming soon!
