Restless is a steel fifty-foot pilot-house cutter built by Bob Kingsland of Scituate, Massachusetts. Restless is a custom design done by Ted Brewer in 1979, and has been under construction ever since— 28 years from the day the keel was laid in May 1979 until first launched on June 16, 2007— and she's still not finished. She is, however, quite functional at this stage, and a joy to all who have been aboard.
I realized very quickly that I could either build a rough but operative boat, or build the best boat I could figure out how to make— and I chose the latter, no matter how long it took. One of my primary objectives was to see something that made me smile every place my eye came to rest. As a result, not a square corner exists anywhere in the boat, neither in the metal work nor woodwork.
Restless by the Numbers
50 feet overall
46.5 feet on deck
3.5 foot bowsprit
14 foot beam
6 foot draft
40,000 pounds (20 tons) displacement
1,150 square feet of sail
85 horsepower Perkins diesel engine
71 foot cutter rig
340 gallons storage space for water
240 gallons storage space for diesel fuel
28 years
15 stairs in the shop climbed dozens of times almost every day
100 man hours to complete companion-way hatch
100 man hours to complete pilot house handrail at deck edge
30 rolls of duct tape to mask off for installation of foam insulation
100 rolls of masking tape used to Awlgrip
60 man hours to unmask the deck after Awlgripping
3,250 linear feet (0.6 mile) of electrical wire
35 miles of welding wire
30 panels in overhead (excluding aft cabin)
75 individual pieces of teak in forward cabin overhead alone
9 coats of varnish on entire interior (using thousands of varnish brushes)
350 grinding disks (and countless sandpaper squares)
200 gallons of epoxy in the coach work
18 inlaid stars (5 in curved locking scarfs in the caprail on the port side, 5 in curved locking scarfs in the caprail on the starboard side, 5 in curved locking scarfs in the cockpit coamings, 3 in curved locking scarfs in the caprail on the bow)
38 louvers (14 in forward cabin, 8 in saloon (at the moment), 5 in galley (at the moment), 1 in head and 1 on door, 5 in pilot house, 8 in aft cabin)
35 cupboard doors
18 light fixtures onboard (at the moment)
15 pull-out drawers (6 in forward cabin, 4 in galley, 1 in pilot house, 4 in aft cabin)
14 electrical outlets onboard
15 portholes (12 in hull and 3 in pilot house)
10 ½-inch Lexan pilot house windows
6 bunks (6 people can sleep comfortably aboard, plus 2 on saloon seating)
5 circulatory localized fans
4 feature articles in the Boston Globe
3 drop boards
2 doors
2 quarts of Artic White for every 1 gallon of Stars and Stripes blue paint
2 comprehensive efforts for an ideal round hull shape
2 light switches in saloon and galley with brightening and dimming capabilities
2 diamond plate floorboards, lined with teak, in engine room
1 of a kind
0 square corners
This website attempts to chronicle a little bit of her history.