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Flopper stoppers by their appearance. Not much in the way of topping lift structure.
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Adopo
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I always thought these were very unique. I'd call it a recreational fishing trawler. C18s, but still 10 to 12 knots most of the time.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2008-mikelson-nomad-8412819/
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2008-mikelson-nomad-8412819/
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Adopo
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This is sort of cool and very unusual. I assume it was modified after some calamity, but who knows. Forty-two Grand Banks.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1992-grand-banks-42-motoryacht-8411776/
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1992-grand-banks-42-motoryacht-8411776/
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Adopo
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This is interesting in the wording of the sales description, and that it is a repossession of some sort. Sign of things to come? I wonder what happened here...a deal to be had? I have a soft spot for the Grand Alaskans.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2000-grand-alaskan-64-8397827/
This vessel is a bank or similar institution repossession. We will forward to the appropriate officer any and all offers. The amount owed on the vessel is not relevant. Your offer may be for any amount you desire. You may make your offer subject to survey, mechanical inspection, or other conditions. You may receive a rejection, no response, possibly some negotiation and usually a very good value if you are successful. The asking price may not reflect the actual selling price. It may reflect a survey, appraisal or estimate of value. The final accepted offer may be greater or less than the amount shown in the asking price. The final accepted offer may be what the seller considers optimum and may take into consideration factors other than price alone. Lenders normally accept only all cash offers with no trade-ins nor do they provide financing. However, you are free to make that type of an offer if you desire. ALL OFFERS MUST BE RECEIVED IN WRITING on our Offer to Purchase form.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2000-grand-alaskan-64-8397827/
This vessel is a bank or similar institution repossession. We will forward to the appropriate officer any and all offers. The amount owed on the vessel is not relevant. Your offer may be for any amount you desire. You may make your offer subject to survey, mechanical inspection, or other conditions. You may receive a rejection, no response, possibly some negotiation and usually a very good value if you are successful. The asking price may not reflect the actual selling price. It may reflect a survey, appraisal or estimate of value. The final accepted offer may be greater or less than the amount shown in the asking price. The final accepted offer may be what the seller considers optimum and may take into consideration factors other than price alone. Lenders normally accept only all cash offers with no trade-ins nor do they provide financing. However, you are free to make that type of an offer if you desire. ALL OFFERS MUST BE RECEIVED IN WRITING on our Offer to Purchase form.
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Adopo
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This is an interesting boat in that it was cut and had 8 feet added to the middle. Something you can only do with metal.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1999-custom-long-range-cruiser-8401671/
1999 Custom Long Range Cruiser
"Pacific" is a custom US built "North Sea" style trawler with (4) staterooms, (2) heads, gourmet galley, comfortable salon, helm station with 360 degree visibility, and an engine room with plenty of room for all of the ship's equipment. An extensive 2-year refit was completed in 2006 which entailed an 8' hull extension (midship) and complete gut of the interior. Starting with a new engine and new generator, to a beautiful custom layout, to all new electronics - - and EVERYTHING in between. This (essentially 2006) steel yacht is ready to cruise the world. A proven LRC after cruising from the Northwest to New Zealand and back - before the refit improvements. Recent enhanced improvements by the current owner have further prepared the Pacific for reliable and extended cruising.
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1999-custom-long-range-cruiser-8401671/
1999 Custom Long Range Cruiser
"Pacific" is a custom US built "North Sea" style trawler with (4) staterooms, (2) heads, gourmet galley, comfortable salon, helm station with 360 degree visibility, and an engine room with plenty of room for all of the ship's equipment. An extensive 2-year refit was completed in 2006 which entailed an 8' hull extension (midship) and complete gut of the interior. Starting with a new engine and new generator, to a beautiful custom layout, to all new electronics - - and EVERYTHING in between. This (essentially 2006) steel yacht is ready to cruise the world. A proven LRC after cruising from the Northwest to New Zealand and back - before the refit improvements. Recent enhanced improvements by the current owner have further prepared the Pacific for reliable and extended cruising.
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Sailor of Fortune
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Done with fiberglass down east boats frequently in the Northeast... Most of the boat Finishers have experience with cutting/adding beam and or width. Canadian boat builders have been doing this for years.... Novi boats lengthened and widened
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Adopo
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Thank you was wondering about this once I posted it, thanks for adding this.
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Hard to comprehend why cutting and adding to a boat makes more sense than selling and buying a larger one. I gotta believe the former is much more expensive than the latter, but as usual I'm probably missing something.
Yeah, when I was up that way one of the guys showed me a boat where this was underway. They actually split it at the keel and widened it.
The problem is Canadian fishing restrictions are (or were, when I saw this being done) based on length. Everyone wanted a bigger, but shorter boat. No market for selling your older, narrower boat. So they split them down the middle and added a huge overhang at the stern, since length was measured at the water line. Result: a bigger boat which still met the requirements on length.
Government regulations can make for some funny looking boats.
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Note: The $61,200.00 price listed is for a 1/6th share and doesn't include tax. And the boat is listed as being in Sentosa, Singapore.
On the design, it MAY have been original. I put this out there because we owned a Grand Banks 36 in Hawaii, which was similar in layout. Everyone tells me I am crazy. Take a GB 36 classic, and remove the entire aft trunk cabin, and cover it with a big ass bimini, and you had our boat! They made a total of 6 of them, and called them "The Hawaii Fisherman". Ours was a 1972 (last year of the woodies), and came originally with a FL 120. Another one I've been aboard was powered with twin FL 120's. Not sure about the other 4. As far as I know, ours and the twin I've been aboard are still both on Oahu. One was supposedly on the Big Island, one went to Florida, and one went to Turkey. Never had any info about the last one.
They were custom built this way, they had the GB documentation and placard as well.
Our boat, with the large flat back deck, and big bimini was absolutely fantastic for fishing, or diving. We could fit 22 scuba tanks, and a LOT of other stuff in the two lazerettes.
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Priceless!
Adopo
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Was yours more like this?
https://www.thehulltruth.com/galati-yacht-sales/571111-1985-42-grand-banks-yacht-sale.html
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Nick14
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This is the first Nordhavn 41 I've seen for sale on the used market. It's a barely used new boat, but I find them 'interesting' (and would love to have bought one, if I could afford it)(which I can't).
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2021-nordhavn-41-8417210/
https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2021-nordhavn-41-8417210/
Nick14
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This isn't a 'trawler' but an interesting boat I saw yesterday, on the hard at Bristol Marine, Rhode Island. Looks like a 1950's Maine-built downeast ('lobster') boat. Wood, ofcourse. I couldn't find any identification as to what yard built it.
Can anyone identify the builder?
Can anyone identify the builder?
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From the ad "Current owner is upgrading to a larger Nordhavn, so this a perfect opportunity to purchase a like-new N41 without the long wait time."
What a load of BS! Guy bought it at pre-Covid pricing, took delivery and now is trying to flip it and put 100k+ or so in his pocket. But I suppose that telling the truth doesn't market too well. Ha
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I think you are right and I throw the BS flag too.
Nick14
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FWIW, I completely agree with both of you. The >$100k price premium over what he paid is kind of a giveaway of the true intentions.
You're right again, having a sales pitch of 'I'm greedy and want to make a quick buck flipping it' probably wouldn't be the best way to attract a buyer.
The ironic and funny thing is, if this was listed a few months ago, he most likely would have gotten it. Maybe even a bidding war to sell for over the inflated ask. Might happen now too, with the multi-year wait for a very desirable boat. But the cooling market and economy might mean either a long wait, or price cuts to come.
Then the real motivations will come out, if the person is actually 'upgrading' to a bigger Nordhavn after owning this beauty for 5 minutes, or if it was just a quick money grab.
Nick - I thought you're purchasing a new boat. Wouldn't cost of a new boat +/- equate to cost of used Nordhavn?
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Eric is well (thanks) and it seems Willy is well too. That would be Heather on the stern .. don’t see Rick. Willy is in good hands I’m sure.
Thanks for posting my old lady.
I heard through the seaweed beds that Willy may not be Willy anymore. There was chatter about a name change. I’ll be happy as long as the new name is not a joke.
And it seems Willy is already finding new ports of call. Never been to Eagle Harbor. Went by the west side of Cypress Is. many many times tho.
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Nick - I thought you're purchasing a new boat. Wouldn't cost of a new boat +/- equate to cost of used Nordhavn?
Yes, I am happily buying a new Helmsman, a new(ish) model, the 38 Sedan (covered in a separate thread).
But, 'the cost of a new boat +/- equate to the cost of a used Nordhavn'? :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Not hardly, and not even remotely close! Without getting into specifics, the cost of the new Helmsman I am buying, even with all the customizations, interior, power, and being a new model, and even after accounting for fully outfitting the boat, electronics, dinghy, etc., will be less than 2/3 what this guy wants for his Nordhavn.
To me, that is a massive amount of money and a huge (and completely unaffordable) price difference. Even if I could afford it (which I can't), it wouldn't be worth it to me compared to the Helmsman I'm getting.
A smart one! Love that hull! Bet she scoots right along.
Currently, 5 days a week, I have my masonry construction crew [often with me there too] working about 70' high directly above water edge of the coast on SF Bay. Waves lapping at the shore to each side and smacking the rocks below. Day long there are numbers of pleasure boats [all sizes of power and sail] as well as ferries and ships passing by. Even in-training long distance swimmers go past. Simply a Great Place to do Business!
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I want to get on board one of these before making my mind up. Looks like an awfully compact interior from some angles.
Perhaps some problem with the engines to be 100 hours/300 hours
I understand and agree!! Thanks for in-sight!
Nick14
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How one feels about the interior layout, like everything about a boat, is a personal matter. There is a lot in that space, two settees, two staterooms, separate shower in the head. 41 ft isn't all that big of a boat. With all that placed in there, it can't leave much wide-open space for dancing.
But I like it. A lot. More compact interior spaces, just means more to hold onto and less distance to get thrown around or fall in turbulent sea conditions (which the Nordhavn is certainly designed for).
Though, if I had a cost-is-no-object budget, I would want the boat with the single stateroom layout. That makes the master and the head both larger, plus adds a sizable walk-in closet. Nice!
https://nordhavn.com/models/n41/
I also like that it's twin engine. I completely get and agree with a comment someone made here (maybe it was @Art ?) to the effect of, 'It only takes one engine to get home, which is why I have two.'
I've been in the delightful situation of once having bought a well-regarded, well-known, premium-quality and priced (by my financial standards) trawler, and with less than 75 hours on it, had the single engine fail, making it interesting getting back to a dock.
The same brand new single engine boat, with less than 40 hours, had a complete loss of steering - while I was navigating a very narrow, very busy, commercial channel full of in and out-going fishing boats, with a 3+ knot current running through it. There was no time for any kind of 'emergency repair', I was without steerage at the mercy of the current, hurtling out of control towards larger and much more expensive, and unforgiving, fishing boats. In a twin engine boat it would have been simple to just maneuver using the throttles and gearshift along and the hell with the rudder. I didn't have that option.
But unfortunately (for me), the price, whether for this 'used' one, or a brand new one, is impossibly out of reach. Like most things in life, you get what you pay for.
Maybe I should have bought some lottery tickets. Missed that boat too.
