Key Specifications
Weight & Displacement
Accommodation
Introduction
Next Dimension is in exceptional condition, well maintained with low hours and light use. She is hull 56 in this popular Nordhavn 40 series. This design has generous interior accommodations — saloon and galley on the entry level, raised pilothouse and two staterooms with one head on the lower level — and a seakindly ride through the water.
Next Dimension was ordered with the optional flybridge, which provides an excellent outdoor area above the pilothouse for taking command underway or relaxing when at rest. The saloon is spacious because it is pushed out on both sides, with no wasted space filled with rarely used walking side decks. The entry level merges the saloon into the galley, with a set of stairs up to the raised pilothouse or down to the accommodations deck. The owner stateroom is forward, there is a shared head and shower, and the guest stateroom has two bunk berths.
The engine room is surprisingly spacious, benefitting from the proprietary "maintenance strakes" in the hull mold that provide additional headroom on both sides of the main engine. Systems and equipment are selected and installed for reliability and service ease. The pilothouse is arranged for optimal operation with good sight lines and easy to reach controls. The flybridge adds a second command station, and the tender is mounted on the boat deck, launched by the mast and boom. For stabilization, she has both paravane outriggers and active fin stabilizers.
The Nordhavn 40 is a full displacement trawler that was designed and built to transit oceans. A sistership completed a 26-week circumnavigation in 2001. The Nordhavn 40 design is the smallest passage maker built by PAE and boasts a 3,000-mile range. Next Dimension is a second generation (MK II, built in China) Nordhavn 40 — hull 56. When the original California builder faltered at hull 44, PAE/Nordhavn shipped the tooling to the Nordhavn yard in China to continue production starting with hull 45, differentiating the two versions as Mark I US made and Mark II China built.
Cockpit
- Swim platform
- Three boarding doors — aft, port and starboard
- Two built-in seats with cushions aft, facing forward (port side doubles as propane locker)
- Hot and cold freshwater shower
- Air vents for engine room
Lazarette
- Prosine 2.0 inverter/charger with inverter bypass
- Lifeline batteries
- Village Marine SPW "Squirt" 600 GPD water maker (has not been operated since 2014)
- Hydraulic steering ram and autopilot
- Whale 10-gallon hot water tank
- Fresh water accumulator tank
- Emergency tiller
Saloon
- Teak flooring
- Fixed dining table port side
- Upholstered settees port and starboard with storage under
- Slide windows with screens and blinds
- Teak magazine storage rack
- Entertainment cabinet with flat-screen TV
- Fusion stereo with speakers
- Controls for air conditioning
- Ship's clock and barometer
Galley
- Light-colored granite countertops
- 3-burner propane stove with oven
- Xintex propane control panel
- Stainless steel deep double bowl under-mounted sink
- Grohe mixer faucet with removable sprayer head
- Sub-Zero below counter refrigerator
- Sub-Zero below counter freezer with icemaker
- Microwave oven
- Trash compactor
- Teak flooring
- Two opening port lights
Pilothouse
The pilothouse is arranged for optimal operation with good sight lines and easy to reach controls.
- Tilt-up chart table port side
- Ultraleather upholstered settee
- Lewmar hatch with screen overhead
- Angled wheel with speed knob
- Watch berth with settee
- Teak flooring with micro-grooves
- Side doors are split "Dutch doors"
Navigation and Electronics
- Furuno 10.4" Navnet VX2 display with 4 kW radar in pilothouse and 4' open array antenna
- Furuno 7" Navnet VX2 display on the flybridge
- Furuno Navnet NTSC video input with "Engine Room" and "Stern" cameras
- Icom M-802 SSB radio
- Furuno 3000 VHF radio with remote handheld for flybridge (remote replaced July 2025)
- Simrad AP 26 pilothouse and AP 26 flybridge (overhauled July 2025); Simrad AP 27 pilothouse handheld
- Furuno FA-50 AIS class B
- NUC computer running TIMEZERO Navigator networked to Furuno VX2 system (August 2025) with 18" touchscreen monitor (August 2025)
- Maxwell windlass controller and rode counter
- Wesmar stabilizer controller
- Village Marine water maker controller
- Ritchie compass
- Bow thruster control
- Clarion M608 AM/FM, Bluetooth, satellite Sirius XM in pilothouse (August 2025)
- Bose subwoofer and speakers in saloon
- 24-inch TV in saloon with Apple TV
- Starlink standard antenna kit (not installed but on boat)
Guest Stateroom
- (2) bunk bed berths
- Combination exterior vented Splendide washer/dryer behind louvered door
- Upholstered changing seat
- Two oval opening ports with deadlights and screens
- Engine room access through gasketed, dogged and insulated aluminum door with window
- Hanging locker
- Dorade vent inlet
- Custom made bed linens from Yacht Bedding (September 2025)
Engine and Mechanical
The engine room is surprisingly spacious, benefitting from the proprietary maintenance strakes in the hull mold that provide additional headroom on both sides of the main engine.
- Main engine Lugger LP668 130 HP with Twin Disc MG5050 3.0:1 transmission and 2" propeller shaft
- Dry stack exhaust; closed cooling system circulates through an external keel cooler
- Yanmar 3YM30V 27 HP wing engine with Kanzaki KM3 V-drive transmission and Martec folding propeller
- Northern Lights M753K 8.0 kW generator
- Prosine 2.0 2000-watt inverter/charger with control panel in pilothouse
- SeaFire FE241 fixed firefighting/suppression system
- 140-amp main engine alternator
- Fuel transfer and polish system with isolated wing engine fuel tank
- Racor duplex #75-900 fuel filters with vacuum gauge for main engine
- Reverso oil-changing system plumbed to main, wing and generator engines
- Wesmar stabilizers, keel cooled (full service and seals replaced August 2025)
- Dual 30-amp shore power electrical service with four 50' power cords
- Six Lifeline batteries (replaced May 2025)
- Spurs line cutter
Head and Shower
- Granite countertop vanity
- Cabinet and locker storage
- Clear glass bi-fold shower door
- Grohe sink and shower fixtures
- Shower sump and exhaust fan
- Shower seat and storage locker inside
- Sea-Land Tank Watch to monitor holding tank
- Groco K saltwater flush head (overhauled August 2025; manual only, electric control inoperable)
- "Y" valve and manual discharge pump to allow pump-out of holding tank when offshore (replaced July 2025)
Owner Stateroom
- Centerline bed with drawers below and access to stowage space beneath
- Upholstered changing seat
- TV
- Hanging lockers port and starboard
- Teak cabin soles with micro-grooves
- Overhead hatch with screen and shade
- Opening ports port and starboard, plus two opening up and aft into the Portuguese bridge; all ports have screens
- Dorade vent inlet
- Custom made bed linens from Yacht Bedding (September 2025)
Deck Gear
- Trawler mast and boom with Warn electric winches (DC-1000) for dinghy (Warn winches replaced August 2025)
- Boom/mast winch cover (replaced November 2025)
- Boom winch control plugs on boat deck and in cockpit
- Boom Dyneema and dinghy Dyneema lines (replaced August 2025)
- 2019 Zodiac dinghy with Honda 15 HP four stroke engine
- Maxwell 2200 electric anchor windlass with remote in pilothouse and flybridge
- Bruce anchor with 400' of 3/8" BBB anchor chain
- Second anchor, Fortress with chain
- Additional anchor chain guide in anchor roller channel
- Hot and cold cockpit shower
- Freshwater wash down fore and aft
- Spurs line cutter
- Sunshade window covers
Flybridge
- Flybridge with two Todd helm chairs
- Flybridge Bimini
Service Notes & Notable Updates
Service notes (additional records available upon request):
- Oil changes done every 200 hours consistently
- Replaced seawater pump impellers on generator and wing engine (April 2025)
- Replaced A/C circulation pump (August 2025)
- Bottom painted and Prop Speed on running gear (November 2025)
- Hull waxed annually; topside waxed twice per year
- Professional captain in Beaufort; scheduled diver and detailer
Notable updates:
- 2015: Replaced main engine muffler
- 2016: Replaced the 10K BTU A/C unit in pilothouse
- 2025: Dropped keel cooler, painted behind cooler, re-bedded cooler; full bottom job including Prop Speed (November); stabilizers removed and resealed with hydraulic system flushed and filter replaced (August); numerous minor/cosmetic gelcoat repairs during haul out (August); hull buff and wax (July)