60' Crealock designed custom built raised cabintop stays'l schooner

$185,000 | 1997 | Belvedere-Tiburon, CA
  • Sailing yacht Crealock custom 1997 navigating open sea under clear skies.
  • Crealock 1997 custom-built schooner sailing near rocky island under clear blue sky.
  • Crealock 1997 custom-built raised cabintop schooner sailing on open blue sea.
  • Line drawing of a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with wood finishes and cushioned seating.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner with cozy seating and wooden finishes.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with wooden table, cushioned seating, and nautical decor.
  • Interior of a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner with cozy seating and nautical decor.
  • Interior of a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner, featuring wood accents and seating.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with wooden table, cushioned seating, and nautical decor.
  • Interior of a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner, featuring wood finishes and nautical equipment.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with wooden cabinetry and cushioned seating.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with nautical clock and barometer on wooden panel.
  • Control panel of a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner, featuring gauges and switches.
  • Electrical control panel on a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner.
  • Electrical control panel on a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner with wooden finishes and cozy layout.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with compact kitchen and wooden cabinetry.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with wood accents and compact kitchen area.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with wooden cabinetry and navigation equipment.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with colorful bedding and wooden cabinetry.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with colorful bedding and wooden cabinetry.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with twin beds and wooden cabinetry.
  • Bathroom interior of 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner, featuring wood accents and compact design.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with colorful bedding and wooden cabinetry.
  • Cozy cabin interior of 1997 Crealock schooner with vibrant rainbow bedding and wooden accents.
  • Cozy cabin interior of 1997 Crealock schooner with vibrant rainbow bedding and wooden accents.
  • Cozy cabin interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with colorful bedding and wood accents.
  • Cozy cabin interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with colorful blanket and storage.
  • Cozy cabin interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with colorful bedding and warm lighting.
  • Interior of 1997 Crealock custom schooner with woodwork and storage area.
  • Cockpit of 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner, docked at marina.
  • Crealock 1997 custom schooner deck with ropes and mast details.
  • Crealock 1997 custom schooner deck with rigging, docked in a scenic marina.
  • Mast and rigging of 1997 Crealock custom schooner against blue sky.
  • 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner docked, featuring a white deck and red cover.
  • Compass and helm of a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner.
  • Storage area inside 1997 Crealock custom schooner with organized blue crates and equipment.
  • Crealock 1997 custom-built raised cabintop schooner docked at marina.
  • Engine room of a 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner.
  • Engine room of 1997 Crealock custom-built raised cabintop schooner, showcasing mechanical components.
  • Engine room of 1997 Crealock custom-built schooner with wiring and mechanical components.

Description

One of two steel custom schooners built by the highly regarded Peacock Boat Co. in Wilmington, CA  to a William Crealock design, Shellback is a magnificent cruising platform the likes of which one rarely sees. Designed by William Crealock (who's penned literally hundreds of renowned cruisers over the years) as a supremely capable long-distance cruiser, this vessel means BUSINESS! A veteran of passages to Hawaii, Mexico, French Polynesia, New Zealand, and thru the Panama Canal to the Caribbeean, she's now lying in Tiburon, CA awaiting new owners and further adventures.

William Crealock is best known for his fiberglass production sailboats (like the Westsail 32, the Pacific Seacraft 34 and 37, all the Cabo Ricos, etc) but his real passion was for larger custom heavy-displacement steel vessels designed for serious ocean voyaging and he was a MASTER at it. His design philosophy was that a boat must first take care of her crew, and his designs are both seaworthy and seakindly--he famously aimed to create boats that could be handled by "an emaciated skipper and a mildly mutinous spouse."

The keel was laid and hull built (reportedly of nickel steel, which is stronger, lighter, and much more corrosion resistant than mild steel) in the late 1980s by the Peacock Boat Co, best known for their rugged no-nonsense steel fishing boats and finished out in situ there by the original owner and first launched in 1997. Not surprising given both her designer and builder, Shellback is a workmanlike vessel that will take her crew safely and comfortably wherever in the world they want to go.

Powered by a 115 hp Cummins naturally aspirated diesel engine, she surveyed out well in June, 2025 and a copy of this survey can be made available to interested parties.

This unique vessel really must be seen to be appreciated. Shown by appointment, please.


Disclaimer: West Coast Yachts is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. The boat is centrally listed by Marotta Yachts of Sausalito.

Contact

West Coast Yachts
949-673-2060
sales@wcyachts.com
Engines
Number of Engines 1
Engine Model designed custom built raised cabintop stays'l schooner
Engine power (total) 115 hp
Engine hours (port/starboard) 3452
Drive Type Direct
Dimensions
LOA 60 ft
Beam 14.75 ft
Accommodations
Tanks
Fresh water tanks 160|gallon
Fuel tanks 1000|gallon
Holding tanks 35|gallon
Accommodations and Layout

From center cockpit down four easy steps into spacious, light filled salon large raised dinette with great lines of sight port side, J shaped settee across to starboard and almost 7' of headroom centerline.

From salon, down two steps forward to galley port side, big nav table/food prep area and storage area starboard. Continue forward to head with manual pump toilet port side, giant forward stateroom with V berth far forward, note there's about 6' 3 headroom even here!

Back up to the salon then two steps down aft to companionway with pilot berth outboard, inboard access to engine room then far aft to master stateroom with king size berth and ample storage, ensuite head that currently serves as a work room but could quickly be converted back.

Note Herreshoff style interior is light, bright, and totally charming!



Galley and Head

Well laid out and very usable galley down.with Corian counter tops, deep stainless steel sink with hot/cold pressure water and one-touch faucet (Raritan six gallon hot water heater), gimballed three burner LPG stove with oven, built in top loading ice box with 12V cold plate freezer/refrigeration, Edge Star upright freezer. Manual pump toilet.


Electrical

110V AC / 12/24V DC. Thirty amp shore power service and Markon New Age International BL19-E genset, four 8D AGM batteries house bank with Charles Industries Solid Power 12V/50 amp battery charger, Group 27 engine starting battery, two 12V batteries with dedicated charger/monitor for 24V windlass and bow thruster.


Electronics

Simrad AP20 autopilot, Simrad windspeed/direction indicatorIcom IC-M802 SSB radio, Standard Horizon VHF radio. Fusion stereo with multiple speakers.


Deck and Hull

Electrically welded plate steel round bottom hull with longitudinal stringers and transverse bulkheads,  raked clipper stem, long deep fin keel with lead ballast, skeg hung rudder, and flat transom. Side Power 24V electric bow thruster, two 75 lb. CQR anchors on bow roller, Lighthouse 1501 heavy duty electric windlass with ample 3/8" chain rode.


Sails and Rig

Staysail schooner rig with aluminum spars and roller furling head, jib and stays'l. Single spreader masts with 1x19 316 stainless steel standing rigging and aluminum booms, Dacron full batten mainsail in Stack Pack, numerous other sails. Four Maxwell self tailing primary winches, numerous Anderson self tailing secondaries, mainshheet with traveller.


Disclaimer: West Coast Yachts 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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