Nordic 44

This handsome powerful sloop-rig yacht, designed by Robert Perry and built in the USA by Nordic Yachts, was constructed to the highest standards and exacting detail.  Swift, balanced  and effortless under sail, she is easily single-handed or sailed by a couple.  A sailor's boat, the Nordic 44 is capable of smart performance in light airs and inspiring performance when the wind freshness.  Norumbega is ready for new adventures.

Norumbega has been lovingly maintained and upgraded over the years.  A circumnavigation veteran, she has been a live-aboard yacht in Vancouver BC for the past several years.

THE DESIGN

The Nordic 44 has a proven, efficient shape.  She has a fine entry with straight waterlines for speed on the wind.  Her firm midship bilges give her stiffness.  Her wide beam is carried well aft to extend her useful sailing length.  The design creates room for her large cockpit and extra interior space.

She boast a large rudder which is hung on a high-aspect-ratio skeg, a technique that produces superb steering and exceptional tacking ability.  Her keel is cast external lead, shaped in a laminar foil section which allows the lead ballast to be placed at the lowest 40% of her keel plan form.  The placement of ballast produces excellent stability and acts as a shoe to absorb the shock of an accidental grounding without endangering the integrity of her hull.

A PROVEN INTERIOR

Take a close look at her joiner work details!  Notice ... the use of laminated trims, sold teak cabinet framing and proper joint design for doors and drawers.

A unique feature of Nordic's interiors is the interface between glass hull and bulkheads. Most builders grind veneer off their bulkheads and cover the resulting glass overlay with heavy trim.  Nordic found a way to eliminate this bulky trim.  Nordic's method results in a stronger than normal structure and is more pleasing to the eye.

Other examples of "top drawer" execution are hull insulation, interior of lockers that are finished as if they were always exposed to view, solid teak framing around openings in the teak and holly cabin sole.  The molded fiberglass shower is unique and very practical.

Aside from subtle refinements and innovations, there is nothing extreme about the Nordic 44's open functional interior layout.  It is a well proven plan which you will appreciate.  She's a triumph.

ON DECK

The deck is  a text book example of how to make a deck efficient, safe and beautiful - all at the same time.  Everything required to sail has been considered and provided.  You see it in the molded bosses and recesses for hardware, hatches and ventilators.  Lines run aft to the cockpit.  The Nordic 44 can be easily handled by two persons and a good sailer will have no trouble single handing.

QUALITY - A REQUIREMENT

Nordic Yachts never built a yacht down to a price - always up to their standard.  The standard is the absolute best.

Each layer of fiberglass has the optimum ratio of glass to resin.  The hull is further strengthened by a network of longitudinal and transverse framing members to give the hull an extremely rigid backbone. Stingers, transverse frames, cabin sole, bulkheads and furniture were bonded in place with the hull in the mold.

The interior is built with the finest woods and seasoned lumber, to a standard expected only in the finest custom yachts.

 ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT AND FEATURES:

Wind Vane Self Steering - Monitor

NAVTEC Rod Rigging - Renewed 2000

Mast and boom - Stripped and painted 2000

Hydraulic Vang and Backstay Adjuster - Replaced 2004

Winches, Lewmar - Primaries (2) 65CST; Secondaries (2) 52CST;  Main Sheet 43CST; Halyards (4) 43SCT; plus 40CST & 30CST

 Running Rigging - Spectra (2013)

Engine Room Fire Extinguisher

Dripless Shaft Seal

Single Sideband Radio - ICOM w/ Tuner and Ground Plane

Gel Cell Batteries - (2011)

Separate Circuit Breaker Panel & Charging System for 240VAC / 50Hz 

Numerous Life Saving and Safety Outfit for Offshore Sailing

Numerous Spare Parts 

Complete Library of Manuals and Equipment Documentation

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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