Name:	"Prime Time"
Model:	Nordhavn 50
Type:	Long range passagemaker
Designer:	Jeff Leishman
Builder:	Pacific Asian Enterprises/Taiwan
Year:	1999
Hull Material:	Solid Fiberglass
Speed:	Cruise 7.5-8.0 knots Max. 10 knots
Range:	3000 + miles at 7.5 knots
LOA:	52’ (incl. custom swim step)
LWL:	44’-2”
Beam:	16’
Draft:	5’-4”
Displacement:	80,000 lbs.
Ballast:	6,600 lbs.
Engine – Main:	Lugger Model #6108/300hp (3432 hrs.)
Engine – Wing:	Yanmar 3GM 30/27 hp. (100 hrs.)
Fuel:	1,320 US gals.
Water:	300 US gals.
Holding Tank:	50 US gals.
Generator:	Northern Lights 20 kW (1053 hrs.)
Stabilizers:	Naiad mdl.# 252 active fin
Location:	Bellingham, WA
Price:	$835,000
Salesman:	Don Kohlmann

OVERVIEW:

The Nordhavn 50 is a venerable model in the Nordhavn line with a very attractive look and profile that is favored by many.   Prime Time is a very desirable flybridge model.  She has the Nordhavn bulbous bow and the optional three-stateroom layout, featuring two sleeping cabins forward that share the forward guest head. 

The hull was painted “Nordhavn Gray” in 2006, and has very nice gloss.  In general, a linear polyurethane finish is a custom finish with color and gloss retention more durable than gelcoat.

Together with the proven transoceanic capability of the Nordhavn 50, Prime Time’s specifications make her a great family cruising yacht well suited for cruising Alaska and the Northwest, as well as warmer regions.  The seasoning of such a durable boat along with the accumulation of very serviceable equipment makes Prime Time a very attractive buy on the brokerage market. 

Owners’ Comments:

In the process of looking for a boat, we considered many others in the trawler class.  The attributes of the Nordhavn 50 that appealed to us included the feeling of solidity and sturdiness, the wonderful view from the pilothouse, the ability to see over the bow from the flybridge, the twin staterooms – especially on those excursion with just a bunch of guys – although we could also accommodate two other couples, and the direct access to the master stateroom from the galley and salon area.

Some of the ideas that we incorporated into the layout that worked very well for us were: the two refrigerators- one in the galley and one in the starboard side of the salon where we could keep drinks and other handy items so guest could help themselves, a nice big chest freezer in the pilothouse, our wet locker design just inside the aft salon door (which was subsequently built into other 50’s), and the extended rigid frame cover over the cockpit – a perfect addition for year around use in the Northwest.

 

Interior Layout - General:

Prime Time has the popular asymmetrical layout wherein the interior space in the salon and galley benefits from the port cabin side extending to the port rail.

Tour -

Enter the salon through the cockpit/aft salon door.  The dinette table and settee are to port, with a U-Line icemaker at the forward end of the settee. 

To starboard just inside the aft door is a locker for convenient jacket storage.  Just forward to starboard is a “Stressless” Ekornes chair and foot stool.  Forward of that is cabinetry that provides storage and houses the second Sub-zero refrigerator.

At the forward end of the salon to port is the galley with generous counter space, a double bowl sink comfortably located at the outboard corner of the galley, and lots of drawer and locker storage.  The terraced galley counter with two bar stools make is great for casual dining.  The raised section blocks the view of dishes on the work counter from the dining area.

Just to starboard of the galley and down a few steps is direct access to the master stateroom.  The engine room access door is in the aft bulkhead of the master stateroom.  The master has an athwartship double bed with hanging lockers fore and aft, drawer storage under and beside the bed, and a large dressing mirror on the forward bulkhead.

Access to the master head with its separate stall shower, is to starboard inside the master stateroom.

To starboard and outboard of the master cabin steps, are steps up to the pilothouse.  The pilothouse steering station has an impressive electronics console forward of the helm chair.  Aft of the helm chair are a large settee and dinette table, making it a comfortable gathering area underway. There are pilothouse doors port and starboard for deck access.

Forward and to starboard in the pilothouse are steps down to the forward door of the master stateroom, and access to the port and starboard guest staterooms.  Each of the two staterooms has over and under bunks.  Both staterooms have access to the guest head forward.

Deck Layout - General:

The transom has a very useful swim step – with a custom extension - and transom door to the cockpit.  From the cockpit there is ladder access to the boat deck.  There is access to the foredeck via the starboard side deck.  There is a boarding door in the bulwark of the starboard side deck about halfway forward.  At the forward end of the sidedeck are steps up to the pilothouse doors, Portuguese bridge, and foredeck. 

The foredeck is a well-designed working surface.  Just forward of the Portuguese bridge is a storage locker for lines and electrical cords among other gear.  All the way forward is the ground tackle handling area, where the windlass and anchor roller channels are situated in an area of the deck that is designed to contain mud and debris.  All decks drain to the waterline to prevent streaking of the hull with residue.   

Following the Portuguese bridge to port allows access to the port pilothouse door and steps up for access to the boat deck from forward.  On the boat deck are the tender and davit.  There is a lot of room on the boat deck for additional deck box storage and lounging.

Salon:  

• Hi-lo teak table with folding leaves converts between coffee table and dining table
• 4ea. opening windows with insect screens
• Cloth curtains
• Teak and spruce floor
• Bound edge carpeting over the teak and spruce floor
• Sliding aft salon door
• Two bar stools for seating at the galley counter
• “Stressless” Ekornes reclining chair with foot stool
• U-Line icemaker (with carbon filter on supply line) to port, forward of dinette settee

Galley:

• Corian terraced counter top with serving level and prep level
• Two large bowl, stainless steel sinks at outboard corner of galley
• Garbage disposal
• Grohe faucet with removable crane/sprayer
• Princess 3-burner propane stove and oven (2ea. 20 lb. propane tanks in cockpit locker)
• Two Sub-Zero refrigerators – one in galley and one to starboard forward in the salon (chest freezer in pilothouse)
• GE Microwave/convection oven
• Broan Trash compactor
• Teak and spruce flooring
• Oval opening port outboard
• Upgraded work lighting

Pilothouse

The pilothouse on the Nordhavn 50 seems to come from a much larger yacht, and so functions well for extended periods of operation.  There is plenty of room for instrument placement on the console, and Prime Time’s electronics complement makes good use of it. 

• Bulkhead mount stainless steel destroyer wheel
• Bow thruster control
• Remote windlass control and chain counter
• Pompanette adjustable helm chair with arm and foot rests
• Settee with dinette table
• Teak and spruce floor
• Side doors port and starboard
• Plath steering compass
• Large stowage locker with shelves
• Overhead vent hatch with insect screen
• Book shelves with fiddles
• Bound edge carpets over teak and spruce sole
• 7 cu. ft. chest freezer aft of dinette settee
• Perko 1.5 million candle power searchlight control
• Floscan fuel monitor system
• Remote watermaker control panel
• (Also see “Nav/Com Electronics below)

Master stateroom

• Queen size bed
• 8ea. Drawers beneath bed
• Hanging lockers fore and aft of bed
• Teak planked hull ceilings
• Custom mattress
• 2ea. Opening ports above head of bed
• Large dressing mirror
• Teak and spruce floor
• Bound edge carpet over teak and spruce floor

Master Head

• Corian vanity top
• Tecma fresh water flush head (new in 2007)
• Large stall shower with seat and Grohe fixture
• Locker stowage in shower stall

Port and Starboard Guest Staterooms

• Bunk beds – two in each cabin
• Oval opening port with deadlight and insect screen in each cabin
• Hanging locker in each cabin
• Each cabin has access to forward guest head
• Port cabin has a night stand with drawer storage

Guest Head

• Corian counter top
• Stall shower
• Grohe sink and shower fixtures
• Shower sump and exhaust fan
• Tecma fresh water flush head (new in 2007)
• Deck hatch overhead

Engines/Engine Room/Fuel System:

• Main Engine: Lugger Model #6108, 300 hp (3432 hrs.)
• Combination dry and wet exhaust:   Keel cooler for engine cooling jacket which keeps saltwater from contact with any engine component, then a Gilkes pump mounted on the aft engine PTO directs water to both: (1) a mixing elbow to cool a lift can muffler and exhaust section aft, just prior to exhausting overboard through the hull, and (2) a heat exchanger for cooling the Naiad stabilizer system.
• Pyrometer at main engine exhaust water-injection elbow
• 3:1 ZF reduction gear
• Main engine has two alternators:  130-amp for charging house bank, and 90-amp for charging engine start battery
• Mathers electronic engine controls for main engine in pilothouse, on flybridge, and at transom
• Wing Engine – Yanmar 3GM 30 (27-hp) with 1-1/4” propeller shaft and Martec folding propeller – providing a redundant propulsion system rather than a second source of propulsion linked to the main shaft. 
• 2ea. 560 gal. engine room fuel tanks with sight gauges, and 2ea. 125 gal. reserve tanks
• Racor duplex #75-900 fuel filters with vacuum gauge for main engine
• Fuel transfer system with in-line Racor 900 filter (with vacuum gauge) is used for moving fuel from one tank to the other for trim, or for filtering contaminants.
• Modified fuel manifold with air bleed valve
• Reverso oil-changing system – plumbed to main engine, reduction gear, and generator engine
• Fresh water spigot in engine room
• AC fluorescent lights in engine room
• Spare engine closed cooling system pump
• Spare Gilkes raw water cooling pump (aft mount on engine)

Mechanical Systems:

• Marine Air  - air-conditioning/heating system (4 compressors) and SMX controls
• Hurricane hydronic 65,000 btu diesel heater with multiple zone controls
• 110-volt electric baseboard heat  in pilothouse, salon, and master stateroom
• Naiad #252 stabilizer system with 7sq.ft. fins (suitable for 60’ yachts per Naiad specs.)
• ABT hydraulic bow thruster
• Hydraulic pumps mounted on main engine and 20kW generator to power all hydraulic functions
• Hynautic hydraulic steering
• Emergency tiller
• Asko washing machine and dryer
• Village Marine 400 gal./day watermaker (110-volt)

Electrical Systems:

• Northern Lights 20 kW generator in sound enclosure (1053 hours) – has hydraulic pump fitted to power all hydraulic functions: windlass, thrusters, etc.
• Six UL16 Interstate house batteries (prox. 1200 amp-hrs. in house bank, new in 2007)
• Main engine Interstate 8D starting battery new in 2007
• Link 10 battery monitoring system
• Blue Seas multimeters for shorepower input and genset output
• Trace 2500 watt inverter/charger system
• Perko 1.5 million candle power spotlight with control in pilothouse
• “Buddy plug” for outputting 110-volt 30-amp service to power another boat
• 2ea. 50’ - 30-amp shore power cord
• 2ea. 50’ – 50-amp shore power cord
• 1ea. 25’ – 30-amp shore power cord
• Various cord adapters:  15 to 30-amp, 50 to 30-amp, etc.

Nav/Com Electronics:

• SeaCas AIS system (receive only)
• Furuno FR7062 64 mile radar with ARP-10
• Interphase Probe depth sounder with forward-looking feature
• Furuno GP-36 GPS
• ACR RapidFix 406 EPIRB
• 2ea. ICOM VHF radios
• Standard Horizon CP500 chartplotter
• C-Map Max NT electronic charts from Alaska to Panama, and Caribbean
• Datamarine depth, speed, and wind instrument
• ComNav 1101 autopilot
• Laptop interface cables for navigation software

Audio-visual equipment:

• Bose “Wave” AM/FM/CD player (table top)

Plumbing:

• New Headhunter pressure water pump
• 3ea. water tanks – port and starboard upper tanks gravity feed to lower tank on centerline for a total of 220 gals
• Tank-tender connected to all water tanks
• Edson manual bilge pump with 2” hose, operable from aft end of main salon
• 2ea. Jabsco electric bilge pumps
• Sealand electric holding tank pump-out
• Saltwater wash spigots bow and stern
• Freshwater wash spigots bow and stern
• Village Marine 800 gal/day watermaker (110-volt)
• 20 gal. water heater
• Plumbed for cockpit shower – no fixture installed

Deck Gear and Features:

• Mathers electronic main engine control in cockpit and on flybridge
• Lighthouse 1501 hydraulic windlass – horizontal format with a capstan and chain gypsy on each side
• Nick Jackson 1500 lb. hydraulic davit
• Rocna 88 lb. anchor (new 2008)
• 400’ of 3/8” high test chain
• Cockpit console with sink and freshwater faucet
• Cockpit to boat deck ladder access
• Transom swim ladder
• L-shaped transom handrails
• Extended swim step
• Canvas cover for pilothouse windscreen
• Canvas covers for transom and portuguese bridge bulwark caps
• Fresh water washdown faucet bow and stern
• Saltwater washdown faucet bow and stern
• Custom stainless steel framed canvas cockpit cover extension

Miscellaneous Equipment:

• Bullfrog 10’ rigid tube tender with 15-hp Honda, electric-start outboard
• Tender mounted on stainless steel chocks on boat deck
• SeaBQ propane grill
• Propane crab cooker
• 150’ x 1-1/4” double braid towline
• Engine spares and filters
• Nordhavn Owner’s Manual and individual component manuals
• Complete maintenance log

Safety Equipment:

• ACR “RapidFix 406” EPIRB with current certification
• Firebuoy auto/manual fire suppression system in engine room

Exclusions:

• Clock and Barometer
• Nobeltec software and laptop
• Coffee maker
• Tools
• Artwork
• Personal gear

 

ASKING:  $835,000
LOCATION: Orcas Island, WA

DISCLAIMER     

Specifications are provided for informational purposes only.  Data was obtained from sources believed reliable but is not guaranteed by owner or brokers.  Buyer assumes responsibility to verify all speeds; capacities, consumptions and other measurements contained herein and otherwise provided and agree to instruct his agent/s to confirm such details prior to purchase.  Vessel subject to prior sale, price and inventory changes and withdrawal from market without notice.