2014 Kadey Krogen 44AE

Sweet Ride is a widebody Kadey Krogen 44AE. The AE designation is for Advanced Ergonomics: the port and starboard boarding doors are at cockpit sole level, and the engine room has two accesses including the lifting staircase. The current owners have cruised her extensively from the Bahamas to Maine each year. She is equipped with a suite of navigation, communication and entertainment electronics that one would expect to find on much larger yachts. Sweet Ride cruised the Bahamas including Eleuthera and two months in The Exumas; her water maker and dive compressor added to her ability to be self-sufficient in remote areas.

Sweet Ride has an excellent layout for an active owner-operator couple. Her size is large enough for full-time live aboard and hosting occasional guests, but small enough for economical ownership and maintenance. Her interior layout features two staterooms and a single head. The raised pilothouse with flybridge above, both with Stidd helm chairs, provide two options for commanding her underway. The entry level has a comfortable saloon featuring two Ekornes Stressless chairs, an L-shaped settee, and an ideal offshore gourmet galley, with Ultraleather upholstery, neutral colored curtains, and Corian counters.

The cockpit provides an enclosed outdoor space for relaxing with a cocktail or enjoying a meal. Open the enclosure for fishing underway or at anchor. Enter the cockpit from the aft swim platform or from either side boarding door. You have hatch access to the lazarette below. There are shore power connections aft and forward, and a cockpit shower is built into the transom. The starboard side deck transits from the cockpit to the foredeck. Access to the interior is through her double weather-tight aluminum Diamond SeaGlaze saloon door.

The saloon has a comfortable L-shaped settee to starboard in Ultraleather, two Stressless chairs with ottomans to port, and a fixed-mounted high-low teak table. The interior is bright and contemporary with satin-finished cherry and teak and holly floors. An icemaker was added in 2015.

The gourmet galley has been laid out with all of the essentials including a deep basin Corian sink, a purified water tap, and a GE refrigerator and freezer. There is overhead storage and ample drawers for glasses, dishes, utensils and silverware. For preparing meals there is a convection microwave oven and a Viking four-burner propane range and oven. Additional storage to port handles pots, pans and wine glasses.

The pilothouse offers excellent visibility all around from the Stidd helm chair, and a bench seat that pulls out to a full-size off-watch berth. There is an impressive assortment of Simrad (2017) navigation/communication electronics with controls for the bow thruster, engine and generator. The electrical panel is installed in an easily accessed panel to port with clearly labeled breakers and digital displays. Two aluminum Dutch doors open outboard to allow access to the side decks — the port door provides entry to the foredeck or aft to the boat deck and flybridge, the starboard door provides access to the foredeck or aft to the cockpit.

The master stateroom features an island queen forward, two hanging lockers to port and starboard with six large drawers under the berth, and an eight-drawer dresser aft with mirror above. Deep storage is available under the berth with a hydraulic lift. A flat screen television is mounted aft to starboard.

You can enter the engine room by lifting the stairs to the saloon or through a hatch in the sole of the saloon. The John Deere main engine is mounted on centerline. The aft section of the engine room has a Northern Lights generator on center. The aluminum main fuel tanks outboard are plumbed to the main, generator and ESI fuel polisher/transfer system with supply and return. The engine room is protected by a Fireboy fire suppression system. Batteries are divided into three banks: house bank of four AGM 8D (2017), engine start AGM 8D, and generator start AGM 4D (2017). Two Magnum inverter/chargers offer redundancy and faster charging. The Automatic Generator Start (AGS, 2018) ensures the batteries are charged properly even if the vessel is unattended.

Accessed via the cockpit hatch, the lazarette provides ample storage space for fenders, cleaning supplies, fishing gear, scuba tanks, dive compressor and dive gear. The 700-gallon-per-day water maker and steering gear are also located within.

The foredeck on the Krogen 44AE is high off the water, making for a dry, comfortable ride, and has a Maxwell 2500 hydraulic windlass with chain rode to a Manson Supreme 80 lb. anchor and a Manson Boss 40 lb. anchor with chain and 300 feet of double braid rode. Chain locker access is through the painted Freeman hatch on deck. Shore power and dock water connections are installed on the foredeck and in the cockpit.

Proceeding aft from the port side brings you up to the boat deck and flybridge. The boat deck has a mast and boom for launching and retrieving the tender via two Warn electric hoists. The dinghy is a Highfield aluminum bottom center console with a 40 HP Yamaha (2017) and has been actively used. With the tender launched, the boat deck provides a large outdoor deck space. Additionally there are two bicycle mounts with matching canvas covers.

Equipped with a Stidd helm chair forward, seating to starboard, an L-shaped settee to port, two Simrad MFDs, and electronics, stabilizer and anchor controls on the dash, all under the protection of a folding Bimini top. Whether docking, anchoring, or operating the vessel inshore on beautiful days, the flybridge offers commanding views and control. Sweet Ride has been lovingly maintained and upgraded; service records for all major equipment are dutifully logged aboard.

• Hull and superstructure molds from high-grade female tooling
• Hull construction with USA-made Cook gel coat; hand-laid Knytex fiberglass with closed-cell PVC sandwich core in topsides; solid fiberglass below waterline with blister-resistant vinylester resin on the first two laminates, with aramid fiber/FRP reinforcements
• Superstructure includes end-grain balsa core and Knytex surface mats for print-through reduction
• Teak aft and side decks; boat and fore decks have GripTex non-skid finish; bulwark has molded plank lines with gel coat finish
• Polyurethane marine sealants used at hull-to-deck, boat deck joints and exterior fittings
• Marine-grade plywood bulkheads with molded fiberglass hat-section stringers
• Interior finished with handcrafted solid cherry and veneers

Pilothouse:

• Simrad NSO evo2 marine processor unit with embedded Insight cartography
• OP40 wired remote controlling up to four processors
• (2) MO16-T 15.6" widescreen high-definition monitors
• 4G broadband radar for Simrad NSO/NSE/NSS series
• Broadband sounder module (BSM-1)
• Autopilot pack with AC42 computer, RC42 rate compass, NMEA 2000 network interface, RPU300US 12V drive unit
• WR20 wireless remote commander system
• (2) RS35 DSC VHF marine radios with (2) ICOM SP-24 remote speakers and HS35 wireless handset
• (2) IS40 digital displays; Simrad AP24 autopilot control head
• GoFree WiFi wireless module
• GS25 antenna with built-in rate compass
• Airmar SS270W "wide beam" 1 kW HD digital sounder
• Maretron DSM-250 NMEA 2000 data repeater, ALM 100 warning sound system, WSO 100 ultrasonic wind and weather
• AMEC Class A AIS transponder

Flybridge:

• MO16-T 15.6" widescreen high-bright multi-touch monitor (1000 nit)
• NSS 12" chart plotter
• (2) IS40 digital displays
• OP40 wired remote

• 700 GPD Watermakers Inc. water maker
• KVH M5 satellite TV system; (3) Samsung LCD TVs; (2) HDTV Dish Network black box systems; over-the-air HDTV antenna
• Yamaha receiver with full 5-channel hi-def surround sound; Harmony remote; (6) high-end KEF speakers with subwoofer
• Pep Wave MAX HD2 Ethernet router (2018) with over-the-air WiFi system and outside antenna
• Remote-controlled spotlight
• Asko full-size clothes washer and dryer
• (2) Ekornes leather chairs in saloon; TV lift system for saloon TV
• Full ship air conditioning and heating systems
• ESI fuel polishing system
• 9 kW Northern Lights generator in sound shield
• Oil change system plumbed to main, transmission and generator
• ABT hydraulics package including TRAC stabilization, hydraulic Maxwell windlass and 15 HP bow thruster
• Forward shore power inlets
• Maretron holding tank monitor
• Twin Magnum inverter/chargers set up for redundancy and high-capacity charging
• Remote Racor fuel filtration gauge in pilothouse
• (2) rudder angle indicators (pilothouse and flybridge)
• Custom mast/gooseneck system with two electric hoist winches
• All LED lighting including running lights
• Stidd helm chairs in pilothouse and flybridge
• Maxwell chain counter
• Custom butcher block insert in galley counter; (2) Seagull water purification systems
• Transom-mounted blue underwater light; additional blue/white LED deck lights
• 80 lb. Manson Supreme primary anchor with all 3/8" chain rode; 40 lb. Manson Boss secondary anchor
• Highfield Ocean Master aluminum RIB center console tender with 40 HP Yamaha electric-start outboard
• Dive compressor
• Engine room fire suppression system
• EPIRB mounted on flybridge; Winslow 6-man life raft; Lifesling
• Safe; spares for main engine and generator
• Canvas covers for tender, outside seating and bikes (2017); cockpit enclosure (2018)
• Balmar 270-amp alternator; Charles isolation transformer with 208V/240V switch
• Magma rectangular grill; (4) custom trolling rod holders; (3) stainless rod holders overhead in cockpit
• Fusion audio system with Sirius XM; satellite weather to all four Simrad monitors
• Snubber lines and anchoring bridle with snap shackle