1999 Nordhavn 46

Northern Ranger I is a proven Nordhavn 46 that has been beautifully cared for. She is hull 61 (out of 83), delivered to her original owners in 2000 and christened Reidiviva. She was photographed for the cover of the Nordhavn 46 brochure that is now out of print (a copy comes with the vessel).

After her importation into Canada, her third owners spent nearly a decade plying the pristine Pacific Northwest waters, taking her to Alaska every summer. Avid fishermen, they took advantage of her stout Yanmar wing engine to optimize trolling speeds. Her fourth (and current) owners purchased her in late 2013 specifically for long-range voyaging; after cruising in the Pacific Northwest for a year she underwent a refit in preparation for voyages south, leaving in the summer of 2015 for San Diego and then Mexico on the 2015 CUBAR rally. After cruising the Sea of Cortez she was brought back up from La Paz to Ensenada, where she now awaits the start of the next chapter in her life under new owners. She is Canadian flagged, ideal for a buyer from Canada, but could also be easily re-imported to the US.

Northern Ranger I features the master stateroom forward layout (Plan B) with a large walk-around island berth up front. There is a centerline hallway that divides the lower level providing two heads (each with a shower) to starboard and the guest stateroom amidships to port. There is a nearly unanimous consensus that the Nordhavn 46 is the best-looking design penned by Jeff Leishman; the first Nordhavn design, the 46 has accounted for more circumnavigations than any other production trawler.

Entering the saloon through the aft sliding door from the cockpit you are welcomed by a large living area that merges the saloon aft with the galley forward. Her custom reverse-L-shaped settee to port has a custom teak table for dining and faces seating with a teak built-in stand that houses a flat screen TV lift to starboard. The galley is entered from centerline, with the aft custom granite counter creating a spacious surface for transferring meals to the table.

There are steps that descend to the lower-level staterooms and another flight that ascends to the pilothouse. The down steps lead to a hallway that runs forward to the master stateroom which features a large island berth. Along the starboard side of the hallway are two separate heads, one for the master, the other for guests, each with its own sink, head and shower. The clothes washer/dryer is forward to port in the hallway. The guest stateroom is immediately to port and has two bunk beds outboard with a desk and book shelves inboard, with a Nordhavn 50 "large" engine room door for entering the machinery spaces. The pilothouse feels much larger than a typical Nordhavn 46 because there is no forward stairway.

The main saloon is very inviting with great views of your surroundings, a wide selection of places to sit, and a gorgeous teak table for dining. On the starboard side there is a small built-in settee, a teak island which houses entertainment appliances and includes a flat screen television on a lift, and a separate armchair. Custom shade blinds complement the interior.

• Custom blinds; custom dining table with folding leaf (slides at 45-degree angle)
• Carpet over teak and spruce soles; overhead stainless-steel hand rail
• Starboard aft storage locker and built-in upholstered seat
• Starboard amidships entertainment locker with tambour rolling slat doors
• Samsung Smart TV on a custom television lift; Bell HD-TV receiver; Samsung Blu-ray DVD player
• KVH Mini-VSat modems and control units for satellite telephone
• Black leatherette armchair
• Cruisair SMX-II air conditioning control; V-Tech telephone for the Mini VSat sat phone
• Forward locker cabinetry with louvered doors
• Air conditioning and heat

The galley is almost an extension of the saloon, as the dividing counter makes it easy to pass food to the table. The current owners made the galley a top priority and remodeled this area to install a gourmet propane stove and oven, Isotherm stainless drawers for cold storage, tile decorating above the stove, and granite counter tops.

• Custom granite counter tops; custom tile backing above stove
• GE Sensor convection microwave oven
• Bertazzoni X244GGVX Pro-style gourmet four-burner propane stove and oven; LPG breaker
• (2) Isotherm DR-160 drawer fridge/freezer combos — a bank of four individual chilling drawers (2 refrigerator, 2 freezer)
• Pentek 2-micron filter on galley water system
• Large single basin stainless steel sink centered on aft counter
• Carpet over teak and spruce soles; assortment of lockers and drawers; appliance barn; slide-out trash bin

The guest stateroom is conveniently located to port at the beginning of the hallway, with the guest head directly across the hall. There are two bunk beds which pull out to provide larger sleeping areas. Inboard facing center is a built-in desk with book shelves and a chair. The aft bulkhead features the large door access to the engine room. The soles are teak and spruce, the bulkheads white laminate, and the hull side is lined with teak slats.

• Sleeps two on comfortable cushion mattresses; opening port lights; Hella 2-speed fan; Dorade vent
• Book shelves, hanging locker, drawers, office desk with chair, mirror
• SeaTel satellite TV controls
• Air conditioning and diesel heat
• Guest head across the hall: Surrell counter top with under-mount sink, medicine cabinet with mirror, shower with curtain and built-in seat, Tecma fresh water electric toilet, Hart Tank Tender system

The centerline hallway is a short flight of steps down from the galley area and is easy on your knees. The master forward has a hallway door that can be closed to allow for a private ensuite head and cabin arrangement. The laundry appliance is located forward to port, the guest head is to starboard and the guest stateroom is to port.

• Splendide 2000S combination clothes washer and dryer
• Forward hallway door to close off master stateroom and head

Northern Ranger I has a very spacious stateroom forward for the owners. There are hatches overhead and portlights outboard for light and ventilation. The bed has a custom mattress. There is a large cedar-lined hanging locker to starboard and a smaller one in the port aft corner, plus five storage lockers with louvered doors. To port is a small settee and aft is a bureau with eight drawers and a mirror.

• Queen-sized island berth with HMC custom innerspring mattress and bed linens
• Opening port lights and opening hatches with screens; Dorade vent; Hella 2-speed fan
• Air conditioning and heating; hanging clothes lockers, lockers and drawers; teak and holly soles
• Sony TV and DVD player; Bell Canada HD TV receiver
• Repeater for Datamarine depth sounder; V-Tech telephone for sat phone
• Sealand T Series electric holding tank pump under settee; batteries and bow thruster under bed
• Master head to starboard at the base of the steps with a sliding pocket door: Surrell counter top with special-order white sink, mirrored medicine cabinet, Tecma electric freshwater toilet, shower with curtain and built-in seat, opening port light

Access to the engine room is through the Nordhavn 50 style larger engine room door from inside the guest stateroom (you can also drop down from the saloon). You can work your way aft around the engine on center. In the aft end of the engine room the wing engine is to port and the generator to starboard. The starboard forward corner includes the fuel manifolds, water maker, fuel transfer pump and improved engine room air intake fan. Forward to port you have easy access to strainers, the inverter, hot water heater and more.

• Lugger L-688D 143 HP main engine (continuous duty rating), keel cooled, dry stack, with new custom exhaust blanket and Twin Disc transmission
• Balmar high-output 12V 210-amp alternator with Balmar ARS-5 multistage voltage regulator
• Dual lever engine controls; PSS shaft seals (main and wing shafts); shaft brush on main
• Yanmar wing engine
• 9 kW Northern Lights generator in sound shield with water-lift muffler
• Dual Racor 75/900 FGX fuel filters for main (metal bowls, Canadian requirement) with water detectors
• Four fuel tanks with color-coded valves and sight glasses; fuel supply, return and transfer manifolds; fuel transfer pump with Racor 500 filter
• Upgraded engine room ventilation — Delta-T 9" axial fan (750 CFM) intake, Delta-T Lil' Champ 350 CFM stack exhaust, plus original Dayton 170 CFM exhaust blower
• Sealand T Series electric holding tank pump (aft holding tank)
• Oil change system plumbed to main and generator
• Seaward S1100 water heater (11 gallon)
• Magnum MagnaSine MS2812 2500-watt charger/inverter with inverter bypass
• Jabsco Parmax 52700 salt water washdown pump
• Fireboy engine room fire suppression system; LED engine room lights
• Spectra Newport 400 Compact water maker (12V, 400 GPD)
• Lewmar electric bow thruster
• Cruisair air conditioning — 32,000 BTU (saloon, pilothouse, staterooms); Hurricane hydronic diesel heater
• Robertson autopilot pump
• Rule 4000 GPH emergency bilge pump; Jabsco 36600 Series 8 GPM bilge de-watering pump; Edson manual bilge pump; Ultra Pumpswitch sensors
• Batteries: house (4) Discover 8D AGM 280 AH (2015); main engine start (1) Discover 4D AGM 245 AH (2015); wing/generator start (1) Discover 4D AGM 245 AH (2015)

The pilothouse on Northern Ranger I is outfitted with a great assortment of the most popular cruising navigation and communication gear. Built without the forward steep staircase, the forward full-width built-ins allow for a much larger inventory selection, as well as two long drawers ideal for charts to starboard. There is a custom, moveable helm chair just inboard of the chart surface. The stainless-steel destroyer wheel is on centerline and the dash includes Morse lever controls for the main and wing engines. To port, the cabinetry houses the electrical breaker panel and the generator and wing engine start displays. The aft section has an athwartships settee with a teak table and a watch berth behind, with a wet locker at the starboard end.

• Zwaardvis portable (5-spoke base) helm chair; stainless steel destroyer wheel
• Lugger main engine panel and Yanmar wing engine panel with Morse dual lever controls; Northern Lights generator panel
• Motorola Iridium 9500 satellite phone with base station and external antenna
• Sirius XM satellite radio receiver; Alpine CDE9873 stereo with 2 speakers
• Icom IC-M424G and Icom IC-M504 GPS VHF radios; Standard Horizon HX851 portable VHF
• Furuno 1942 Mark-2 radar with MARPA; Furuno FCV-600L color depth sounder; Furuno GP-32 GPS-WAAS
• Simrad Robertson AP20 autopilot
• Fireboy engine shutdown system; Lewmar bow thruster with Max control lever
• Danforth Constellation compass; Datamarine CW360 anemometer; Datamarine D3001 offshore depth sounder (repeater in master)
• Acer T232HC LCD monitor with Island Time 12V PC running Coastal Explorer
• Magnum inverter/charger ME-BMK remote panel; Spectra MPC-3000 watermaker controller
• Maxwell Auto Anchor 560V2 windlass controller with digital chain counter
• Vesper Watchmate Vision AIS
• Pilothouse defrost system (Heatercraft); ITR Hurricane heater control panel; Cruisair SMX-II A/C control
• Charles 12 KVA isolation transformer; Coastal Marine Wi-Fi; Perko search light grip control
• Sliding doors port and starboard; white mesh Textilene window screens; (2) pilothouse window fans

The Portuguese bridge creates a safety barrier in front of the pilothouse; the bulwarks are tall and secure. Moving through the Portuguese bridge door grants access to the windlass, Rocna anchor and a large fiberglass storage locker. Northern Ranger I also has a Freeman hatch just aft of the windlass that provides a view of the chain locker below.

• Propane locker with (2) Trident fiberglass 20 lb. propane tanks with gauges and selector valve
• Portuguese bridge deck with varnished teak cap rail; shore power connections on port side
• Freeman hatch access to chain locker (storage shelves, line storage, extra lighting, spare paravane fish)
• Maxwell 3500 electric windlass
• Rocna 44 kg anchor with 350' 5/8" chain; Danforth and CQR 35 lb. spare anchors
• (4) custom stainless fender holders
• 50' 50-amp and 50'/30' 30-amp shore power cords and adapters
• Fresh water and sea water hose bibs; anchor retainer; Lewmar opening hatches; two Dorade vents; fiberglass deck box

The 10' Bullfrog tender is mounted on the starboard side of the boat deck. The mast supports the dry stack exhaust and the boom is used for deploying the tender. There are two paravane outriggers with full stabilization rigging attached.

• LP-painted mast and boom; Rule electric boom winches with remote (boat deck and cockpit)
• Paravane stabilizers with LP-painted aluminum outriggers and spreaders, stainless chains, galvanized fish (rigging redone 2015); spare paravane fish and shock cords
• 2014 Bullfrog 10' yacht tender with cover, Danforth anchor, side console rotary helm, 3-gallon fuel tank, starting battery (2017)
• 20 HP electric-start Honda outboard with cover
• Sea Freeze of America custom freezer (120V AC, 5 cu. ft.) top loading with cover
• Perko Solar Ray 1900 searchlight; spreader lights
• Furuno open array radar antenna; wind anemometer; Vesper, Sirius and Shakespeare antennas; Ongaro dual trumpet air horns
• Coastal Marine Wi-Fi booster; Maretron GPS-200 antenna; Sea Tel satellite TV antenna; TracPhone KVH-3 Mini VSat antenna
• (2) 24" life rings with heaving lines; Lifesling 3; Zodiac 4-person life raft (SOLAS A pack); large fiberglass storage box

The aft deck cockpit of Northern Ranger I has three boarding entries — port, starboard and aft. The cockpit has teak decking that extends forward along the starboard side deck. There is also a swim platform stainless grid with teak planks that includes a hinged swim ladder, ideal for SCUBA diving and for getting in and out of the dinghy. The starboard side deck has an inboard stainless hand rail and is covered overhead.

• Swim platform — teak slats over stainless steel; stainless paravane holders on swim step; hinged swim ladder
• Teak decks — cockpit and starboard deck (new 2015)
• Opening transom door to swim platform; side door on port side of cockpit; midship boarding door to starboard
• Freshwater and seawater hose bibs
• Cockpit set up for Scotty electric downriggers/pot pullers and rod holders; custom fish cleaning tray
• Varnished teak caprail; sunshade for cockpit
• Magma Catalina stainless propane barbecue; folding teak table with two folding teak chairs

In addition to easy access to the steering components, the lazarette has convenient storage for extra gear — storage bins, the ITR Hurricane diesel heater, fish rod storage racks, spare fluids, mechanical spares, and the emergency tiller.

• Many LED lights; louvered locker doors; Ultraleather upholstery; carpeting throughout
• Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors; numerous spare parts; canvas covers for external teak
• Storm plates for three port saloon windows; stainless-steel screens for all opening ports; blinds and sunscreens on windows
• Zodiac 4-man life raft; Lifesling 3 on boat deck
• (4) 5 lb. dry chemical fire extinguishers (saloon, guest, master, engine room)
• All USCG/Canadian requirements; Racor fuel filters with metal (not glass) bowls per Canadian safety requirement