Tag: "Jim Leishman"

Nordhavn 75 EYF Without Flybridge

Nordhavn Offers Flybridge-Less 75 EYF

Pacific Asian Enterprises said on its website that it has developed a version of its 75 Expedition Yacht Fisher (EYF) without the expansive flybridge common to most sportfishing battlewagons. The change acknowledges the cruising half of this split-personality ocean-going yacht and gives it a more conventional “Norhdavn look.” I took the liberty of scanning a [...]

P.A.E. Artist's Rendering of New Nordhavn 78 With Blue Hull

P.A.E. Announces New Contemporary Look Nordhavn 78

Pacific Asian Enterprises, Inc., today announced that it was building a new 78-foot yacht that fuses traditional Nordhavn passagemaking design with “European” styling.  The project is already underway and the first hull will be complete in 2011, according to P.A.E.  First public reveal of the new project is planned for next week, with a press [...]

N6301 Hull With Maintenance Strake Highlighted -- Original Photo Courtesy of PAE

Boat Design: A “Maintenance Strake” on the Nordhavn 63

The new Nordhavn 63 features a unique hull feature that adds room around the engine and actually reduces drag. We examine this feature in some photos and learn what the inspiration for it was.

Milt Baker's Bluewater en route to Horta

Boat Stabilizers: A Smooth Ride

This post is derived from an article that I wrote recently for Mad Mariner.  ******* It was mid-morning on June 18, and Milt Baker was enjoying a nap.  His wife, Judy, was at the helm of their Nordhavn 47, Bluewater, when a low-pressure system overtook their little “Med Bound” fleet while it was nearly mid-way [...]