Northwind 68 •

Two cockpits have been devised so that the helmsman and perhaps a sailing mate can sit aft at the wheel and control the lines. The forward cockpit is for guests and those not on duty.

The rig is large and set up with hydraulic controls on the main and genoa reefing systems. Push a button to roll out or roll in the sails.

Down below the saloon is huge and offers seating around a large table and a unique chart table with bench seats on either side. The galley is the size of a kitchen in a small apartment and equipped with all of the modern conveniences. Sleeping cabins can be arranged to meet an owner’s requirements but are based around a large master cabin aft and two guest cabins forward. Each has its own head and shower.

Northwind has a reputation for installing very high-end systems and gear. The engine room is fitted out like that of a much larger yacht and will be a pleasure to work in.

The fit and finish throughout the boat is first class with pleasant mixtures of hardwoods, veneers and high-end fixtures. The satin and gloss varnished surfaces have mirror finishes and the depth of the varnish hints at the dozen coats that have been applied and then hand rubbed.

Northwind has a well-earned reputation in Europe for building the finest semi-custom yachts. The 68 will appeal to families who are looking for a unique and capable cruising boat that is well suited to living aboard for long periods in complete comfort.

Northwind 58 •

The morning departure from Barcelona was hurried as we scurried around the North Wind boatyard in search of spare parts, provisions and a rigger to help us get the in-boom furling mainsail adjusted correctly. Our deadline was the 11 a.m. opening of the drawbridge that would allow us to leave the port and head out into the Mediterranean. With gear still unstowed and the tachometer almost redlining, we power the new North Wind 58 away from the dock and quickly motored her through the nearby bridge’s open spans.

So it was that in our hurry we had not paid close attention to the fact that the wind, which had been moderate thus far that November morning, had clocked to the southwest and begun to build.

Our original plan had been to sail straight to the Balearic Islands, an overnight passage away, but a ridge of high pressure and stronger breezes had flowed in from the North Atlantic that promised to give us 30 knots of head winds for the return. Since this was to be a cruise, windward sailing into that much wind was quickly crossed from the route list. So southwest we headed.

The new North Wind 58, designed by Sparkman & Stephens, displaces 54,000 pounds over a 47-foot waterline, so she feels large and stable underfoot. As we motored clear of the channel and met the chop that was rising on the southerly breeze, the boat surged forward without fuss as she carried her way through and over the waves.

Sailing with my son Tim and me were two young sailors from the North Wind yard, Carlos and Jorge. The crew had been assembled by the Ribot family which owns and manages North Wind Yachts in Barcelona for the trial of the new 58 and the cruise had been left open ended through the long Thanksgiving weekend so we could really get a feel for how the boat behaves under sail, power and as a floating home. Luckily, with changeable weather along that coast in November we were able to see the 58 in all her guises.

We hoisted the main from the Leisurefurl boom without trouble and then rolled out the 130-percent genoa. With the diesel turned off, the boat lay over onto the starboard tack and steadily and powerfully began to gain speed. The sailing instruments showed a true windspeed of 28 knots, an apparent speed of 34 knots and boatspeed of just under eight knots.

All afternoon we beat southward into the square chop that was building into larger waves with the main reefed to the second full batten and the genoa rolled to the second reef. The 58 kept her shoulder down and powered steadily onward. We occasionally got wet as the bow cleaved a larger wave, but we were never troubled by the wind or worried by the boat’s performance. This was her ocean.

In late afternoon, we relented and made for shore, finding refuge in the large man-made marina at the tourist village of Sitges. We and the boat were caked with salt but none the worse for wear and exhilarated by a day of cool Mediterranean sun and fine sailing.

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
North Wind Yachts has been building high-quality, luxury cruising boats in Barcelona for a generation. The company was known for years as Ola Yachts but changed the name to North Wind several years ago as they expanded their sales efforts into Northern Europe and North America.

The current line of North Wind Yachts is designed by S&S in New York and ranges from 43 to 68 feet, with larger custom yachts available. The 58 we sailed in November falls in the middle of the range and is a great example of the quality and style North Wind builds into every one of their boats.

The 58 has a modern cruising hull with a long waterline, attractive bow with some flare but not a lot of overhang, and traditional transom. The visual effect is of a hull that has very fair lines and will ride easily through the waves—a point made fact by our bash south from Barcelona.

Under the water, the boat sports a large modern cruising spade rudder and a low aspect cruising fin keel. Wetted surface has been kept to a minimum with the underwater appendages, yet not to such an extent that the boat is fussy or skittish in any way. She tracks well and points high, even in a strong breeze. On our way to Sitges, we tacked regularly through 95 degrees, which is not bad in 30 knots of breeze. The boat will beat confidently off lee shores and will look after her crew in tight tacking situations.

The deck layout features a center cockpit, deck saloon design style yet with a very modern twist. In a boat of this size it is possible to lower the cabin profile, even the raised portion of the saloon, to make the cabin look streamlined. The 58’s hull and deck profile look balanced while the wraparound tinted windows of the saloon give the boat an elegant, European flare.

The 58 can be built in several configurations. One of the choices a new owner will have to make is whether to build the single or double cockpit plan. The single cockpit configuration is fairly standard, with the wheel aft
and a large table fitted in front of the binnacle.

The aft cockpit design is unique and useful. The helmsman sits at a wheel in a small foxhole cockpit aft of the main cockpit to which all running rigging is led. One sailor, using the autopilot and electric winches, can sail the boat in just about any conditions from this command center, which is exactly how we sailed during our bash south to Sitges. The benefit of the twin cockpit design is the crew can sit in comfort in the main cockpit while underway without having to deal with a tangle of sheets.
Down below, the 58 is roomy and very attractive. North Wind has created two distinct interiors for the boat, one a fairly standard raised deck saloon with the galley aft to starboard and the other a divided deck saloon style that places the galley and a small dinette forward of the saloon and down two steps.

In the custom 58 that we sailed, the saloon is wide and airy with a large dining area to port and a smaller dinette to starboard that includes the nav station. Forward there are two double cabins, each with a head, while aft lies the master cabin with a center-line double berth and ample storage and hanging lockers.

The layout of the boat’s engineering under the main saloon floor makes routine maintenance and repairs on machinery relatively easy and accessible. We were impressed with the quality of the equipment used aboard the 58 we sailed and the thoroughly seamanlike installations.

North Wind builds its boats the old-fashioned way—each one being a semi-custom creation for each new owner. The interior and deck joinery have the fit, heft and polish of fine furniture, while details such as fabrics, overhead liners, lighting and door fixtures have the elegance and quality you would expect in a yacht of this style and expense.

Yet the builders also have embraced modern hull building techniques. The 58’s hull and deck are vacuum-bagged fiberglass and foam-sandwich pieces that are both light and strong. The decks are overlaid with teak that is fixed to the fiberglass with polysulfide. Under the water the hull is covered with two coats of epoxy to prevent blistering and osmosis.

Because North Wind is not yet well known in North America, it is fair to offer comparisons to better known brands. In design and construction, the 58 we sailed and the other models we inspected fall into the same category as the best larger cruising boats on the market, albeit with a decidedly European flair.

UNDERWAY
We had three days of sailing to find out how the 58 performs under sail and power. In the blustery headwinds of the first day, the boat acquitted herself extremely well. The decks were wet, and we took the occasional saltwater bath in the cockpit, but the boat’s motion was solid and the ride soft as she stood up to the breeze. Occasionally, we would fall off the back of a wave and the bow would crunch down into the trough sending a deep shudder through the boat. But aside from one hinged mirror cabinet in a forward head that we had neglected to dog down securely, the boat rode through the rodeo without any damage to rig or gear.

Handling sheets through tacks and jibes from the aft cockpit, as noted above, was a one-person task as long as the autopilot, a Raytheon 7000 in this case, was handling the steering. The massive electric Lewmar winches meant one person could release the leeward sheet and trim the new sheet without standing up—or breaking a sweat. Even the job of rolling in a reef in the genoa could be handled by one person, although you have to plan the maneuver and be careful not to over crank the furler’s control line with the powerful winches. Only when rolling in a reef in the main was it handy to have a second pair of hands since the halyard and furling gear control line were led to an electric winch on the cabintop next to the companionway, which was 10 feet from the helm and the mainsheet.

The upshot of the sail plan and deck layout was that a solo watch-stander could feel very comfortable handling the boat by him or herself.

By any sailor’s standard, the 58 is large for a couple to manage and could be a handful should something go wrong, so the prudent use of electric winches and modern roller-furling sails, and a cautious approach to reefing early, will mean that the boat can offer the speed and comfort of a large yacht while being controllable by a small crew.

Under power the 58 was able to maintain seven knots into a chop and could surge ahead to almost 9.5 knots in flat water. Around the docks the large rudder was a real boon, as we had to perform a few pirouettes and K-turns to get her in and out of tight Med-moor situations. A bow thruster in a boat of this size, especially if sailed by a couple, will be a valuable aid.

LIVING ABOARD
Boats like the North Wind 58 are not usually owned by weekend sailors. A blue-water boat like this has been designed and built to cross oceans and travel far in style, comfort and speed. And it is meant to be lived aboard
for extended periods both at sea and on the hook.

With that in mind, the 58, like the other boats in the North Wind stable, offers her crew large sleeping cabins with wide, comfortable berths and plenty of storage. Privacy will rarely be an issue aboard, even with a full complement of six crew. Each cabin has its own en suite head and shower.

The galley on the standard 58 (and on the double deck saloon model) is large enough to prepare a three-course meal if so inspired but tight enough to work in while at sea.

The main saloon was big enough for three couples to tango at the same time, something we didn’t try. The L-shaped dinette to port was equipped with a nifty pneumatic table that performed as a coffee table while underway and then could be raised with a whoosh to become a dining table. Captain’s chairs were stowed in the aft passage to allow seven adults to sit at a formal meal.

The nav station to starboard, which doubles as a small dinette, was fitted out with the latest onboard computing gear, electronic charting software, a stand-alone chart plotter and modern high-seas radios. The table itself had a hinged top that opened into a sundry drawer on one hand and a large chart storage drawer on the other. If we had one issue with this otherwise excellent nav station it was simply that the seat did not allow a person to wedge himself in while on the starboard tack. Once we were jettisoned from the seat and onto the saloon floor. A seat belt or folding arm brace would solve the problem.

One of the details that caught our attention was the pneumatic companionway hatch. The heavy Lexan hatch, stowed in a pocket behind the companion stairs, could be raised and lowered with the push of a button. During our wet ride to Sitges, the ability to close the companionway up tightly was a real boon to comfort below decks.

The master cabin aft was large and comfortable. In the double cockpit model, the steering cables are routed through two bedposts so the big double berth is effectively a four-poster. The aft cabin is a good seagoing space with plenty of handholds, comfortable places to sit and plenty of stowage.

With 260 gallons of water plus a watermaker and 210 gallons of diesel, the 58 carries enough essential supplies and fuel to be entirely self sufficient for weeks on end. The three-cabin plan works well for a family of four or a couple who enjoys cruising with one or two other couples.

BWS THOUGHTS
North Wind prides itself on building high quality semi-custom cruising boats that are capable of taking their owners wherever their dreams lead them. The 58 we tested was a thoroughly modern and graceful ocean-crossing boat that sailed well and handled easily. You can picture her stern to the quay in Portofino with her crew enjoying a lobster lunch under the broad awning. Or you can picture her sailing hard under reefed main and staysail through the williwaws of the Beagle Channel. She can do both.

The boats are constructed and commissioned in Barcelona so trips to Spain are part of an owner’s process of building a new boat. For sailors who want
to cruise Europe, this will be no hardship. For those who want their boats delivered to North America, the North Winds normally come across the Atlantic on their own bottoms, so when you take delivery you have a boat that has been thoroughly sea tested and the inevitable new-boat kinks ironed out. For those with time, a transatlantic shakedown will be the best way to really get to know the new boat.

The North Wind 58 is a truly modern semi-custom passagemaker and liveaboard home that comes with a generation of boat building tradition and a family’s pride built into it. You see North Winds cruising everywhere in the Mediterranean and, we suspect, we will soon see them all along the coasts of North America.

LOA 57’4” (17.48 m.)
LWL 47’6” (14.50 m.)
Beam 16’5” (5.02 m.)
Draft 8’8” (2.65 m.)
Displ. 54,000 lbs. (24,620 kg.)
Ballast 18,768 lbs. (8,513 kg.)
Sail Area
Aluminum Rig 1,448 sq. ft. (134.5 sq. m)
Carbon Rig 1,506 sq. ft. (139.92 sq. m)
Water 264 gals. (1,000 ltr.)
Fuel 210 gals. (800 ltr.)
SA/Displ.
Aluminum 16.21
Carbon 16.87
Displ./Length 224
Ballast/Displ. 35%
Ballast/Length 30%
Base price $1,150,000

North Wind Yachts Inc.
2170 SE 17 Street, Suite A
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316
Ph: 954-462-2772
E-mail: info@northwindyachts.com

Northwind 43 •

The Spanish sailing heritage embraced the age of seaborne empire and the unveiling of the New World, but it didn’t end there. Given the Med to the south and east, and the Atlantic by way of the notorious Bay of Biscay to the west, Spain geographically and culturally throughout its history has always enjoyed a unique perspective on the world as an ocean event. In Barcelona, boatbuilder North Wind Yachts has turned a contemporary Sparkman & Stephens design into a capable passagemaker with typically astute sailing smarts and a distinctive European flair. It is the North Wind 43, a great midsize cruiser well recognized abroad, and in the past two years making noise on the American market.

BWS took a look at the North Wind 43 in the April 2002 issue, and although our time aboard the yacht was limited, we came away with a positive impression of the program behind the design and the potential of the vessel in oceangoing conditions. The 43 is the smallest in the North Wind line of semi-custom and custom cruising boats. Hardly designed as a race boat, nonetheless this capable S&S design is perfectly suited to ARC-type offshore events and it combines this performance edge with a comfortable interior that favors a couple, not a crowd. We noted last spring, “The 43 is very much intended to be a couple’s boat able to be handled by a lone watchkeeper in a wide range of conditions.” Significantly, 43 feet is an ideal size for the achievement of these goals.

In the modern-day European vernacular, the North Wind 43 features a center-cockpit, raised deck/saloon cabin element atop a moderate fin-keel, spade-rudder cruising hull. It was our contention that the yacht is long enough and carries enough fullness in the hull to enable her designers to give her a relatively stylish, low-profile appearance. The ability of S&S to blend volume, good looks and performance in a single package is formidable. “The resulting design,” we suggested, “shows a modern canoe hull form with enough rocker fore and aft to give the hull an easy motion in a seaway and enough volume for the required 6’4” headroom throughout.”

Performance is (hopefully) ev-erybody’s issue. We found the 43 to accelerate more quickly than anticipated and to balance on a whim. “In 15 knots and sailing at 45 degrees true, the boat heeled to about 15 degrees, and shot forward to seven-plus knots. We had hit the boat’s best upwind groove in our first attempt.”

In the end, it is the quality of construction and the efficacy of the design that combine to determine the success of a vessel offshore over the long haul. The North Wind yard has built more than 500 commercial and pleasure craft over the years with a good, established track record; certainly the S&S legacy speaks for itself. To our way of thinking, “The 43 we sailed was meant to be sailed in all conditions, meant to be taken across oceans, meant to be lived aboard by a competent sailing couple and their friends, and meant to be maintained by her owners in the easiest and simplest way possible.”

LOA 42’7” (13.1 m.)
LWL 36’9” (11.3 m.)
Beam 14’0” (4.3 m.)
Draft 6’4” (2.0 m.)
Ballast 8,500 lbs. (3,840 kgs.)
Displ. 25,000 lbs. (11,390 kgs.)
SA (100%) 1,070 sq. ft. (100 sq. m.)
Ballast/Displ. 34%
Displ./Length 225
SA/Displ. 20.0
Fuel 90 gals. (360 ltr.)
Water 145 gals. (650 ltr.)
Auxiliary 56-hp Yanmar
Designer Sparkman & Stephens

North Wind Yachts (USA)
100 Second Avenue South
Suite 2005
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Ph: 727-895-7444

Northwind 43 •

Over the years, we have sail tested hundreds of boats, but we never really know in advance what moment of a sail test will crystallize our thoughts about the vessel we plan to inspect. Sometimes it is the moment we step aboard, sometimes the moment when the sails first fill
and the boat reacts or fails to react to the breeze, sometimes the moment we flop into the dinette after a brisk sail to share a beverage with our hosts. But it always comes.

In general we prefer to sail a boat some distance offshore to see how it behaves in a wide range of conditions and how it works for living aboard. But extended boat tests are not always possible. For our trial of the North Wind 43 (new in 2000), we had to forego a long-distance sail in favor of a five-hour excursion in Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway and out in the Gulf Stream waters off Palm Beach.

Like several other European imports now on the market in the U.S., the North Wind 43, designed by Sparkman & Stephens (New York), sports a center- cockpit, raised-deck/saloon cabin design on top of a moderate but modern fin-keel, spade-rudder cruising hull. The combination – seen in Oysters, Hylases, Moodys, Wauquiez’s, and several other designs – works aesthetically with varying degrees of success. As a rule, the larger the boat, the easier on the eye the layered topsides and expansive windows. Conversely, the smaller the boat, the more the design style conveys the look of a wedding cake.

Happily, at 43 feet the North Wind is long enough and carries enough fullness in the hull (for headroom below) to enable her builders to give the boat a stylish, low-profile appearance. On first sight, the 43 looks ele-gant and comfortable, sleek and power-ful – every inch a thoroughly modern blue-water cruising boat for the new
millennium.

THE CONCEPT
The 43 is the smallest in the North Wind line of semi-custom and custom cruising boats. But, being the little sister, she still had to live up to the company’s basic premise that its boats be safe, comfortable, and easy to handle offshore. The onus that fell on the shoulders of the S&S designers was to fit all the required interior comfort into a 43-foot package that would sail well and stand up to a breeze.

The resulting design shows a modern canoe hull form with enough rocker fore and aft to give the hull an easy motion in a seaway and enough volume for the required 6’4’’ headroom throughout. Displacing over 25,000 pounds, the 43 has the bulk to ride easily through waves and to move with grace in confused and crossing seas. The bulb-fin keel carries 8,444 pounds of ballast (in the standard configuration), which translates into a middle-of-the-road ballast-to-displacement ratio of 34 percent. In fact, because the ballast is carried deep, the boat feels stiffer under foot and under a press of sail than the 34-percent ratio might otherwise indicate. Both the rudder and keel are modern shapes that provide the lift and the surface area needed for a solid grip on the water.

On deck, the cockpit layout and sail-plan were created for simplicity, ease of handling and efficiency. The 43 is very much intended to be a couple’s boat able to be handled by a lone watchkeeper in a wide range of conditions. With a roller-furling headsail and an in-mast or in-boom furling main, the boat can be trimmed, reefed and controlled from the cockpit – which is a huge benefit on dark and stormy nights at sea.

The layout has been drawn to provide the 43’s owners with a comfortable private cabin aft and a pleasant guest cabin forward. Both cabins have ensuite heads. Instead of turning the boat’s ample interior volume into multiple sleeping areas and toilets, the 43 concentrates on making two couples extremely comfortable, with the after cabin being one of the roomiest and most livable we have seen on a boat of this size. The head aft has a full shower.

The concept of the 43 – cruising safety and comfort combined with excellent sailing performance – can be a high bar for designers to hurdle. S&S has done a fine job in this instance not only by clearing the bar but also by doing so with grace and imagination.

CONSTRUCTION
Built in Barcelona, Spain, North Wind cruising boats are constructed to the European Union’s Category A (Ocean) CE regulations. Like the ABYC standards established for North American builders, the CE regulations set standards and practices for boat-builders to follow, then award category certifications according to how well a builder meets the regulations in certain categories. The Category A (Ocean) rating is the highest a boat can receive.

Although relatively new to the North American market, North Wind has been building cruising boats in Spain since 1973 when the company was formed in a joint venture with Spain’s largest shipbuilder and boatbuilder Astilleros Viudes (founded in 1940). To date, North Wind has built more than 500 commercial and pleasure craft that range from 40 to 121 feet.

The 43’s hull is a hand-laid composite laminate of vinylester and polyester resins, glass-fiber matt and roving around a PVC foam core; a layer of Kevlar cloth is added to the exterior to mitigate collision damage. The laminate is vacuum bagged and cured under constant temperature. To prevent osmotic blistering, the exterior gelcoat is an isophthalic resin and the underwater area of the hull is coated with an epoxy barrier coat.

North Wind uses building techniques that are state of the art for semi-custom builders and provides owners with boats that are both extremely sturdy and of moderate weight. The hull deck joint, for example, is secured both with stainless steel bolts and a full fiberglass laminate, yet the deck piece has been built as light as possible with high-tech coring and vacuum bag techniques.

The keel-hull attachment, like the hull-deck joint, is both mechanical and composite, as the keel is first fastened to the hull with stainless steel bolts and then the whole structure is laminated to the hull. The rudder, a foam-core composite, is built around a stainless steel web frame and a solid, conical stainless steel rudder shaft. North Wind’s philosophy is to build the boats tough but to concentrate the weight where it will do the most good.

PERFORMANCE
We sailed the 43 on a pleasant December day along Florida’s east coast. In every way it was a day designed for sailing – plenty of sun, a good easterly breeze of 12 to 15 knots, a responsive boat and the company of good sailors. Naturally, the day started with yours truly driving the 43 hard aground on a sand bank just off the channel. We rolled out the genoa, throttled ahead full and proceeded to drive the boat’s bulb keel farther onto the bank. Plan B worked better. We threw the 56-horsepower Yanmar into reverse, wiggled the rudder from side to side as the Max-Prop bit the water and, hey presto, the 43’s keel broke free, the boat slid back off the sand bank and we were under way again.

We deployed the main as we cleared the cut leading seaward and as soon as we passed the first sea buoy rolled out the genoa and cut the engine. As the sails filled, the first reaction of everyone aboard was a subtle “wow” because the 43 accelerated much more quickly than we had anticipated. In 15 knots and sailing at 45 degrees true, the boat heeled to about 15 degrees (quite stiff) and shot forward to seven-plus knots. We had hit the boat’s best upwind groove in our first attempt.

Trimming a little tighter and working on the mainsail’s shape, we were able to get the boat to sail closer to the wind – about 42 degrees true – but her speed dropped off to six knots. Easing the sails slightly and increasing the twist in the main as we fell off to 50 degrees gave her a real boost and we were back over seven again and soon creaming along at a happy eight knots, a speed the boat carried from about 60 degrees to about 140 degrees off the wind.

Without downwind sails, we were not able to test the 43 on a real reach or a dead run. But judging from the hull’s slipperiness at closer angles and the design’s powerful stern sections, the 43 promises to be a trade-wind screamer that, given a spinnaker or two and enough crew motivation, should be able to knock off 200-mile days in the company of many 50-footers.

We had a lovely sail out to the Gulf Stream and back and never bothered to crank up the engine as we sailed in the cut to the ICW. The breeze died off as we sailed farther inland, yet the 43 kept up a good pace. Trimming sails in the puffs and seeking out patches of wind pressure, we were able to keep her moving nicely in a breeze that fell to under six knots. For those of us who love to sail, a boat’s ability to keep moving in light air is a performance characteristic most endearing.

As noted at the top of this report, we never know when our overall view of a new boat will crystallize during a sail test. As we ghosted north along the ICW, that moment arrived. The 43, we realized, not only stood up well to a breeze and offered elegant living accommodations below (with the concomitant weight), but also had that rare quality among blue-water boats of sailing well in the full range of breezes. That’s real pedigree.

Under power the 43 did what it had to do without fuss or bother. Getting off a sand bank had been no problem, once we figured out the drill, and maneuvering in and out of the marina slip in tight conditions and with a cross breeze happened without sweat, incident or a raised voice. The boat steers in reverse like a sports car.

BWS THOUGHTS
The Spanish family (two generations) that owns and runs North Wind yachts is full of dyed-in-the-wool cruising sailors who build boats for like-minded people. With their friends and their customers, the builders often sail overnight from Barcelona to the Balearic Islands for a weekend of cruising and friendly racing. Two years ago they sailed one of their new boats across the Atlantic just for fun.

Having a vocation that is also an avocation is one of the happiest life situations a person can find. The builders of North Wind yachts have managed just that and the results show in every boat and every detail of their boats. This attention to detail is reflected in the very complete list of standard equipment that comes with every North Wind yacht.

The 43 we sailed was meant to be sailed in all conditions, meant to be taken across oceans, meant to be lived aboard by a competent sailing couple and their friends, and meant to be maintained by her owners in the easiest and simplest way possible.

LOA 42’7” (13.1 m.)
LWL 36’9” (11.3 m.)
Beam 14’0” (4.3 m.)
Draft 6’4” (2.0 m.)
Displ. 25,000 lbs. (11,390 kg.)
Ballast 8,500 lbs. (3,840 kg.)
Sail area 1,070 sq. ft. (100 sq. m.)
Fuel 90 gal. (360 l.)
Water 145 gal. (650 l.)
SA/D 20.0
D/L 225
B/D .34
Engine 56-horsepower
Yanmar diesel

North Wind Yachts (USA)
100 Second Ave. S., Ste. 200S
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Ph: 727-895-7444
E-mail: jawood@northwind.es