MYSTERY Yacht for Sale

MYSTERY is a custom Ted Fontaine–designed pilothouse performance cruiser built by Lyman-Morse in Thomaston, Maine. Conceived for fast, comfortable offshore cruising with a small crew, she combines a shoal-draft keel/centerboard configuration with a protected center cockpit, extensive powered sail handling and a true inside steering station.

Her centerboard arrangement provides a draft range from 6' 6" with the board raised to 14' 2" with it lowered, combining access to shoal cruising grounds with additional lateral resistance when sailing upwind. Her carbon rig, hydraulic furling systems and cockpit-centered sail controls are configured for efficient short-handed operation.

Since 2023, MYSTERY has undergone an extensive Maine-based program of renewal encompassing her electrical, navigation, propulsion, rigging, sail handling, HVAC, plumbing, safety and domestic systems. Major work includes a 33.1 kWh Epoch/Victron lithium electrical system, Raymarine Axiom 2 Pro electronics, 2023 Quantum sails, factory-overhauled Reckmann furlers, a 2024 ZF transmission, a 2024 retractable hydraulic bow thruster, and extensive engine service in 2024 and 2026.

Her maintenance and presentation are consistently high, as confirmed by a recent survey.

Below, Fontaine's Herreshoff-inspired interior combines painted panels and overheads with extensive varnished mahogany and teak joinery. Three private cabins and three heads provide eight individual berths, all fitted with leecloths; in practical cruising use, MYSTERY comfortably accommodates three couples. A generous main salon, protected passageway galley, pilothouse salon and unusually accessible machinery space complete the arrangement.

For a buyer considering a contemporary custom build, MYSTERY offers Fontaine design, Lyman-Morse construction and Maine craftsmanship on a proven and extensively modernized platform — without the cost and lead time of commissioning a new custom yacht.

• Fontaine / Lyman-Morse custom pedigree — Thomaston, Maine build

• 6' 6" – 14' 2" centerboard draft range

• Protected center cockpit and true pilothouse steering station

• Extensive 2023–2026 modernization of electrical, electronics, propulsion, rig and domestic systems

• Teak decks replaced in 2019 by Teakdecking Systems at Hinckley, Portsmouth, Rhode Island

• Carbon rig; Navtec rod standing rigging replaced 2021

• Reckmann furlers factory-overhauled 2024; Quantum sail wardrobe new 2023

• 33.1 kWh Epoch / Victron / Wakespeed electrical system (2024)

• 2024 Raymarine Axiom 2 Pro / LightHouse 4 navigation system; FLIR thermal monitoring; Starlink

• 2024 ZF transmission; 2024 retractable hydraulic bow thruster; extensive 2024–2026 engine service

• Spacious dedicated machinery room with exceptional service access

• Three cabins, three heads, eight offshore berths; approximately 900 nm calculated motoring range

Designer: Ted Fontaine, Fontaine Design Group (formerly chief designer of Ted Hood's Little Harbor Custom Yachts). Builder: Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, Thomaston, Maine — more than 35,000 hours of construction guided by 2,300 hours of design work. Hull laid up in 2000; documented/model year 2001; completed and delivered in 2002.

The brief: a yacht able to go anywhere with a high level of performance and comfort — shoal draft, exceptional machinery access, tankage for extended passages. Three careful ownerships — as AMELIA, YOUNG AMERICA and now MYSTERY — and currently measured under ORC, CRF and the NYYC Cruising Rule (all valid for 2026).

Executed over three winters in heated indoor storage, rigged out, organized by system:

• ELECTRICAL (2024) — 33.1 kWh Epoch/Victron lithium electrical system with managed charging and monitoring; generator autostart; mast rewire; LED lighting; new start batteries (2026)

• NAVIGATION & ELECTRONICS (2024) — Raymarine Axiom 2 Pro / LightHouse 4 system throughout, with radar, autopilot, AIS, cameras and FLIR engine-room monitoring; Starlink; new wind instrumentation and mast camera (2026)

• PROPULSION & MECHANICAL — New ZF 68A transmission (2024); major engine service programs 2024 and 2026; new retractable hydraulic bow thruster (2024); shaft seals and cutlass bearings renewed (2024, 2026); raw-water systems serviced (2026); generator serviced (2024, 2026)

• RIG & SAIL HANDLING — Rod rigging (2021); Reckmann furlers factory-overhauled (2024); Marlow running rigging (2024); winch fleet serviced (2025–2026); new lifelines (2026); steering overhauled (2025–2026)

• SAILS — Quantum wardrobe new 2023; Doyle service 2024 and 2026

• PLUMBING — Pressure system rebuilt (2025–2026); watermaker membranes (2024); new accumulator, macerator and vented loop (2026)

• HVAC (2024) — Three new Dometic variable-speed units with ElectroSea raw-water treatment; Espar diesel heater

• DECK & HULL — Portlights replaced (2024); Freeman hatches rebuilt (2025); toe rails refinished, hull polished, bottom paint and PropSpeed (2026)

• INTERIOR — Upholstery and soft goods renewed (2023); washer (2024); cabinetry rebuilt

• SAFETY — New liferaft (2024); EPIRB/MOM8 service, Fireboy re-certification and engine-shutdown control (2026)

SCRIMP vacuum-infused FRP construction with Core-Cell structural foam and vinylester resin, incorporating an infused structural grid. The cast-lead shoal-draft keel carries 22,000 lbs of ballast in an externally cast bulb and houses the centerboard trunk. The centerboard is solid fiberglass (approximately 500 lbs), hydrodynamically shaped, and retracts fully into the keel trunk on an electric captive-reel winch; it is normally raised under power and deployed under sail, where it principally adds lateral resistance upwind.

The spade rudder is SCRIMP-infused fiberglass on a carbon stock with self-aligning needle bearings. The deck is a foam-cored sandwich overlaid with glued and laid teak, replaced in 2019 by Teakdecking Systems at Hinckley, Portsmouth, RI. Topsides are Awlgrip, dark green. Keel bolts have been inspected and re-torqued under current ownership.

• Teak decks (2019, Teakdecking Systems); varnished teak cap rail, pilothouse nosing and laminated teak stern rail on an otherwise low-maintenance deck

• Custom polished stainless dual anchor rollers at the stem (rebuilt 2024); stainless stanchions with all-new lifelines, Hayn fittings, pelican hooks and gate eyes (2026)

• Three Freeman flush lazarette hatches, rebuilt 2025 with new hardware and gas springs; fixed portlights replaced 2024; opening hatches with interior screens/shades (factory-refurbished Dometic skyscreens)

• Full canvas: dodger, bimini and covers (2023); cockpit shower; deck washdown fore and aft

• Protected center cockpit developed from the Little Harbor line — primary sail controls concentrated near the helm; full vinyl cockpit cushions; varnished cockpit table with insulated cooler

• Edson stainless wheel on custom pedestal, elkhide grip; cable steering comprehensively overhauled 2025–2026 (cables, sheaves and rudder gear); emergency tiller aboard

• Dual-station engine controls (cockpit and pilothouse); bow-thruster joystick (2025); Axiom 2 Pro 9 display, p70rs autopilot head, five i70s instruments and Ray73 handset connection at the helm.

Interior overview:

• Lightly painted beadboard panels and overheads trimmed in glossy varnished mahogany with intricate perimeter beading on every door and drawer

• Teak-and-holly soles

• LED lighting throughout

• Upholstery, mattresses and curtains renewed in 2023 by S&S Fabrics with linens by Leontine Linens

• Air conditioning and diesel heat throughout.

• Eight individual berths, all fitted with leecloths.

Forepeak

• Gear storage and chain locker, accessed from the port forward head and on deck.

Guest Cabins & Heads (2)

• Symmetrical port and starboard guest cabins, each with upper and lower single berths

• Hanging locker, and the shared-centerline bureau arrangement developed aboard Fontaine's Little Harbors

• Each connects privately to its own head with shower (starboard: Headhunter freshwater vacuum flush; port: manual raw-water flush).

Main Salon

• Three steps down from the pilothouse:

• U-shaped dining settee to starboard whose table folds away into a cocktail table

• L-settee to port, abundant stowage.

• Hanging brass lantern and gallery lighting.

Galley

• Protected port passageway

• Sculpted Corian counters

• Force 10 four-burner gimbaled propane range outboard

• GE Advantium convection/microwave

• Twin Sea Frost refrigerator/freezer boxes (compressors rebuilt 2025, raw-water pump 2026)

• Double under-hung stainless sink

• Cream-painted joinery with classical ventilation rosettes

• Storage for extended passages.

Owner's Stateroom & Head (aft)

• Oversized double sea berth to starboard, day berth/settee to port

• Hull ports and deck hatches

• Private companionway to the aft deck

• En-suite head with Corian counter, Headhunter freshwater vacuum-flush toilet and separate stall shower with watertight door into the

• engine room.

Pilothouse

• Low enough to see over and narrow enough to see around from the helm, with elevated seating flanking a recessed centerline walkway keeping sight lines clear whether seated or standing

• Seats six with dining for four

• Two opening hatches and two removable aft windows

• Inside helm with repeated electronics

• Heated

• Air conditioned and naturally ventilated.

A spacious dedicated machinery room provides standing access and generous working clearance around the main engine, generator, watermaker, freshwater pressure system, and hydraulic equipment, with room for multiple technicians to work simultaneously.

Access is through watertight doors from the galley passageway and the owner's shower.

• Westerbeke Century Series A-6BG1T six-cylinder turbocharged diesel, 172 hp, maximum rated speed 2,200 rpm; ~6,940 hours as of 7/2026; freshwater-cooled with heat exchanger.

• 2024 program — Full 1,000-hour service; all six injectors serviced; starter rebuilt; both alternators rebuilt; all cooling hoses and drive belts replaced; heat exchangers cleaned; engine mounts serviced.

• 2026 program — New turbocharger; new heat exchanger (removed unit rebuilt and retained as spare); all six injectors serviced, with three rebuilt injectors carried as ready spares; new thermostat, pump impellers, fuel shut-off solenoid, temperature sender and oil-pressure sender; engine oil and filter changed; primary and secondary fuel filters changed; belts inspected; engine repainted.

• Owner-observed cruising performance is approximately 8.3 knots STW at 1,500 rpm and approximately 2.4 US gal/hr, with the centerboard raised. On 260 US gal of fuel, this equates to a calculated full-fuel range of approximately 900 nm before reserve.
  Transmission: ZF 68A (new 2024) with new damper plate and Drivesaver (2024); dual-station mechanical controls.

• 1.5" Aquamet shaft — pulled and inspected 2024 and 2026, no issues found; PSS shaft-seal components renewed 2024 and 2026; cutlass bearings replaced 2024 and 2026; new Spurs line cutter (2026); Flexofold 27×20 four-blade folding propeller (2023), PropSpeed 2026.

• Bow thruster: Max Power R200/8 retractable hydraulic, installed new 2024, replacing the original unit; control/joystick replaced in 2025.

• Spares aboard: starter, belts, thermostat, rebuilt injectors, rebuilt heat exchanger, senders, and an extensive, documented engine spares kit.

• Northern Lights 9 kW, 120/240V single-phase, in sound enclosure; approximately 6,050 hours (7/2026)

• Full 1,000-hour service in 2024; new wet-exhaust mixing elbow and exhaust seacock/thru-hull in 2026

• Dedicated Optima AGM start battery (new in 2024, tested normal in 2026)

DC System

• 24V primary DC. House bank: six Epoch 12V/460 Ah lithium batteries (2024), arranged as three parallel strings of two in series — 1,380 Ah at 24V, approximately 33.1 kWh nominal stored energy; Victron Lynx distribution/BMS

• 12V service via Victron 100 A 24-to-12 V DC-DC converter; engine start: two Optima AGM batteries (new April 2026); generator start:

• Optima AGM (2024)
   

AC System

• Single 50 A 120/240V shore inlet (receptacle 2024) via A-Sea isolation transformer; Blue Sea main breaker

Inverter/Chargers & Charging

• Two Victron Quattro 24/5000/120 inverter/chargers in parallel — 10 kVA total (2024); Mastervolt 150 A main-engine alternator with Wakespeed WS500 CAN-bus regulation; second engine alternator serves the start bank; generator charging
   

Monitoring

• Victron Cerbo GX with Touch 70 and remote monitoring; Raymarine YachtSense digital monitoring; Maretron tank and fuel monitoring; bilge-cycle counter

Raymarine Axiom 2 Pro navigation system running LightHouse 4 software, installed in 2024.

Helm

• Raymarine Axiom 2 Pro 9 MFD; p70rs autopilot head; five i70s displays; Ray73 handset connection; thruster and engine controls

Pilothouse / Nav Station

• Raymarine Axiom 2 Pro 16S MFD; Alpha 9 performance display; p70s autopilot head; i70s displays (pilothouse and master); Maretron DSM410; Yacht Devices digital barometer

Sensors & Autopilot

• Raymarine EV-1/ACU-400 Evolution autopilot with SmartController remote; RayStar 150 GPS; calibrated Airmar DST810 speed/depth/temperature; new wind transducer and mast wiring (2026); Quantum 2 doppler radar

Cameras

• Three mast/spreader CAM300 cameras (mast unit new 7/2026) integrated with Raymarine ClearCruise functions via the AR200 sensor — AIS traffic, marks and waypoints overlaid on live video; FLIR AX8 engine-room visual/thermal monitoring

Communications

• Ray73 VHF with hailer; AIS700 Class B transceiver (AIS350 receiver retained as spare); Starlink primary satellite connectivity (custom enclosure); Iridium GO! backup satellite communications paired with a PredictWind router; handheld VHF with GPS

Entertainment

• Garmin Fusion Apollo four-zone audio: two RA770 touchscreen heads, speakers in cockpit, pilothouse, salon and aft cabin

• GMT 84' carbon-fiber keel-stepped mast with triple carbon spreaders and carbon boom; discontinuous Navtec rod standing rigging replaced in 2021 (first season 2022); synthetic running backstays.

• Reckmann hydraulic in-mast mainsail furling and headstay furler — both factory-overhauled in Germany in 2024, swivels/bearings serviced in 2026; Reckmann hydraulic power pack; Navtec hydraulic backstay and vang (overhauled in 2023).

• Complete Marlow D2 running rigging (2024); GMT carbon spinnaker pole on Antal mast track (rebuilt in 2026); chainplates inspected, deck pins cleaned and polished (2026).

• Antal winches: four 24V-powered primaries/secondaries and three powered halyard winches; two manual traveler winches; two manual mast winches — all stripped and serviced 2025–2026.
   

• New Antal traveler track, Spinlock power clutches, rebuilt deck turning blocks and stainless genoa cars (all 2024)

Mainsail and yankee serviced by Doyle (Salem, MA) in 2024 and 2026. Storm sails stored ashore. UMS measurement certificates on file.

• Sea Recovery 800 GPD watermaker, well maintained and functioning properly; membranes and filters renewed in 2024.

• Headhunter Mach 5 AC pressure pump (factory-rebuilt 2025) with rebuilt spare aboard (2026) + Jabsco Par-Max 24V backup pump; new accumulator tank (2026); Isotherm 20-gal water heater, AC/engine (new elements in 2023).

• Heads: Headhunter freshwater vacuum-flush aft and starboard; manual raw-water head forward to port; Jabsco 24V sealed macerator discharge pump (new 2026, spare aboard); new vented loop (2026); Type III holding with overboard discharge properly secured.

• Separate grey-water tanks serve the galley and showers/sinks (sumps renewed 2024); two 24V electric bilge pumps with cycle counters + two Edson manual pumps; high-water alarm; Reverso oil-change pump; fore and aft washdown.

• Three Dometic 16,000 BTU variable-speed reverse-cycle units, all installed new in 2024, with digital controls — salon ×2, master ×1; ElectroSea ElectroStrainer anti-fouling raw-water treatment (2024).

• Espar diesel forced-air cabin heater (2024); engine-room ventilation (fan renewed in 2024).

Maretron tank monitoring at nav station.

• Primary: CQR 60 lb on 400' of 3/8" chain (re-marked 2024); secondary: Bruce 30 kg; spares: Fortress FX-37 and Yachtsman; swivels, three anchor bridles + tow bridle; kellet.

• Maxwell 3500 24V vertical windlass — rebuilt by Maxwell Service Center 2024, full service and re-bed 2026, new Dyneema bitter end; saltwater washdown at bow.

• 2024 AB Inflatables 10 VS RIB, foredeck-stowed on Softchock chocks with cover, slings, and lifting bridle; 2026 Yamaha F15 four-stroke outboard; stainless outboard lift davit; 50' floating painter.

• Switlik OPR 6-person hard-canister liferaft in deck cradle (new June 2024; next service 4/2029); ACR GlobalFix Pro 406 GPS EPIRB (battery to 2/2028) + second EPIRB in ditch bag; Switlik MOM8 (hydrostatic service in 2026).

• Two Fireboy fixed clean-agent engine-room systems; aft system repaired and re-certified in 2026 with new engine-shutdown control; six Kidde extinguishers (tagged in 2026); fire blankets (2); smoke and CO detectors aboard.

• Six inflatable harness PFDs with strobes and tethers; spectra jacklines; Lifesling; two horseshoe buoys with strobes; SOLAS offshore flare kit (current); heaving lines.

• Two boarding ladders aboard (removable rigid + roll-up emergency ladder, stowed in the lazarette); high-water alarm; propane sniffer; radar reflector; emergency tiller; bolt cutters; soft plugs at thru-hulls; extensive medical kit.

• 2026 — Launched, commissioned and sea-trialed; rig stepped and tuned; bottom paint and PropSpeed; toe-rail varnish rebuild; hull and deck machine-polished; extinguisher certification.

• 2025 — Winter service program (winches, windlass, furlers, steering, rudder); sails to Doyle; heated indoor storage.

MYSTERY is supported by an unusually complete documentation package: owner and yard maintenance records; work orders and invoices for the 2023–2026 renewal program; equipment manuals (full paper set aboard); systems documentation; sail and rating certificates (UMS measurement certificates; ORC, CRF and NYYC-CR 2026); and a detailed 256-line systems and spares inventory.

Engine-condition monitoring is documented: 2023 and 2024 laboratory oil analyses both reported normal wear-metal readings with no identified fuel, water, or antifreeze contamination, and the 2024 compression record is on file.

Artwork and the owner's personal effects are not included in the brokerage offering. A definitive inclusion/exclusion list will be appended to the purchase agreement.