Island Packet 41 PY Crusier 2008 $269,000.00 CAD *

Description

2008 41-foot Island Packet  PY Cruiser...WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BOAT!!! ONE OF THE BEST BUILT BOATS IN THE INDUSTRY!!!

 
This is a very unique 41' long range cruising vessel. She has a single Yanmar 110hp diesel, generator, air contioning, two staterooms and a head with a shower. The pilothouse area has two helm seats and a dinette area. She has a covered aft deck and also a built in foredeck seating area. This high quality cruiser is available to be seen by appointment.

WINFALL is an elegant and distinctive 41-foot trawler built by Island Packet Yachts in Largo, Florida. Island Packet Yachts have built hundreds of sailboats for round-the-world cruising. The PY Cruiser is a blue-water capable boat that is certified “Category A Ocean Standards" by Lloyds of London. This  boat has the sheer and lines of a centre-cockpit sailboat. Her low profile, full-length, “Full Foil Keel” (still drawing only 3.5 feet) and 5,000 pounds of ballast make her self-righting - unique among powered boats of this size. She handles rough seas with ease. Her turbo-diesel, six-cylinder 110 HP Yanmar engine has yielded 12 miles to a gallon during the fourteen years the sole owners have sailed this trawler. No other motorized boat can match this mileage. Given today’s fuel prices, this fuel efficiency will keep cruising costs most affordable for either pleasure cruising or extended trips. The Great Loop, for instance, becomes very safe and affordable with a 2,500 mile range from her 215 US gallon fuel tank.
 
WINFALL includes virtually all factory available options:

• Two fore and aft heat-exchange units for air-conditioning, heating, air circulation and dehumidifying - perfect for both the tropics and northern climes.
• MasPower 8KW (1,800 RPM) generator with sound shield.
• Bow Thruster - Vetus 6HP with joystick control at the helm.
• Professional Radar system
• Electric anchor windlass package - Muir VRC 1250 with chain lrode.
• Full RayMarine instrumentation.
• Custom Extend Boom dinghy launch/retrieve system.
• Two Frigiboat 12V refrigerator-freezer compartments with digital controls.
• Removable teak tables for aft and forward cockpits.
• Deluxe Sunbrella cockpit cushions.
• Electric macerator pump for overboard discharge.
• Custom covers for all eight deckhouse windows.
• Microwave and propane oven.
• 12-foot fibreglass dinghy with year-old 2.5 HP Suzuki four stroke, warranted to 31 March 2028.

Interior surfaces are rich and elegent, a combination of low maintenance laminate surfaces and varnished, furniture quality Lyptus hardwood. Berber rugs cover all below deck surfaces. The spacious galley is designed for both live aboard and extended cruising: double sinks, two refrigerator/freezers, generous countertop surfaces, gimbaling two-burner propane stove with oven, large cupboards and four below-deck storage bins. The master cabin has a modified queen berth with spring mattress and two storage and two hanging lockers. Ventilation and natural light are excellent. The enclosed aft cabin has either two single berths or a double-bunk filler, with a good-size hanging locker and storage bins. The head is spacious, with a separate shower stall that avoids the "wet toilet and sink" problem of smaller yacht designs. The chart table area has excellent storage, ventilation and lighting.
 
The deckhouse has captain and first mate chairs that swivel to face the L-shaped settee and foldout dining table. The eight windows and aft door provide 360-degree visibility for secure motoring and docking, and for underway viewing. The six-person, recessed foredeck is cushioned and has a removable sun shelter. The covered aft cockpit is ideal for handy, sheltered usage, It contains four large storage bins and the backup,, manual rudder tiller.
 
Safety is designed into both the interior and exterior areas of the yacht with grab bars on all surfaces. The outer sidedecks are wide, allowing easy access forward, with full-length grab-bars and continuous stainless steel handrails and lifelines. 
 
WINFALL has been winter-stored indoors for all but two years, when she was shrink-wrapped.

The generator has only 25 hours on it, the engine 513 hours.
 

Specs

Year 2008
LOA 41'1"
Beam 12'9"
Draft 3'8"
Fuel Capacity (in Gallons) 215
Water Capacity (in Gallons) 130

 

Standard Power 1/100-mhp Yanmar 4JH4-HTE
Optional Power none
Controls Teleflex cable w/ Morse control head
Weight 23000 pounds
Steering Edson manual cable

Marine propulsion is undergoing a paradigm shift these days, mostly due to fuel costs and the need to address the problem with improved efficiencies. Diesel-hybrid systems, fuel-cells, injector technologies, even wind-powered, computerized kites—while the ways the shift is manifesting are diverse, many new developments are technical, often futuristic.

But there's one approach bucking the trend. Island Packet, heretofore mainly a builder of sailboats, is now selling the PY (Power Yacht) Cruiser, a modern, diesel-powered trawler that borrows from established sailboat design, adapts it to bluewater powerboat cruising, and with a nod to traditional styling, produces an attractive 41-footer with decent speeds and remarkable fuel efficiency.

The PY's a tricky sort of vessel. Coming, as she does, from the drawing board of naval architect (and head honcho of Island Packet) Bob Johnson, you'd figure her for a denizen of the full-displacement realm. After all, Johnson's drawn a host of savvy sailing vessels during his long career, and many have sported what seemed to be full-displacement underbodies. Yet Johnson maintains that most of the recreational vessels he's created over the years have really been semidisplacement specimens. And the test data I recorded while sea trialing the PY on the Manatee River near Snead Island, Florida, supports the contention.
 

Check it out—based on a manufacturer-reported length-on-the-waterline of 34'9" and using the formula: Hull Speed = the square root of 1.34 X length-on-the-waterline, the PY's theoretical hull speed works out to be 7.9 knots. But my radar gun clocked an average WOT velocity of 10.9 knots, topping theory by 38 percent! How does Johnson do this?

"There's some fuzziness to the process and maybe a little art," he notes before launching into an explication of the three design tweaks he used to make the PY both super efficient and speedy. The first, he says, entails boosting the hull's prismatic coefficient, a naval architectural term denoting fullness or bulk of the hull form. By carrying the PY's beam both farther forward and farther aft, Johnson was able to push the bow wave ahead and the stern wave astern, thus tricking Mother Nature into seeing more length-on-the-waterline and thereby more theoretical hull speed. The second entails flattening the PY's stern sections, a lift-generating measure that reduces hydrodynamic drag and minimizes bow rise. Evidence of this last feature, by the way, shows up in the running attitudes I measured. Notice that while the PY rides an even keel for the most part, she tilts forward at mid-range speeds, a phenomenon partly attributable to flat, lift-producing stern sections. The third tweak entails the installation of a 100-mhp Yanmar diesel (which will be replaced by a newer 110-mhp model on future PYs) that's got just enough juice to do the job!

The totality of the performance data arising from this mlange is striking. In an era when fast trawlers post slo-mo economies of 2 mpg or less, the PY offers velocities of 8.3 and 9.1 knots at operating efficiencies of 5.1 mpg and 4.0 mpg respectively. If you dial 'er back to a sedate 7.3 knots, running efficiency hits a wallet-warming 16.8 mpg!

Certainly, benign conditions on test day (including calm sea conditions, a scrupulously slick bottom, and little in the way of liquids and other weights onboard) contributed to all this wonderment but still, how many other vessels on the market today come even close to this?

A few foibles surfaced during the handling of the boat, however. Visibility from the wheelhouse helm station was excellent in open water, thanks to the absence of bow rise and an all-around assortment of windows and windshield panels. But while opening the door from the wheelhouse into the cockpit during docking maneuvers produced a helpful, over-the-shoulder view of the port quarter. 
 

Indeed, the PY's no lightweight. While she comes in at about half the 50,000-pound, full-load displacement of a Nordhavn 40, she still approximates the displacement of your average twin-engine express cruiser. Yeah, she's got a lean hull of solid, high-modulus knits and vinylester. But there's 5,000 pounds of ballast at the bottom of it all.

Even a brief sojourn onboard reveals more roominess than you'd expect from a sailboaty trawler. The wheelhouse is both spacious and, thanks to a dining table, Zwaardvis helm chairs, and an L-shape lounge, comfortable. Below decks, there's a beamy master forward, a guest stateroom aft and to starboard, and a full galley (with adjoining head with a separate shower stall) in between.

I've got two criticisms. First, while the machinery space under the inboard guest stateroom berth is solidly engineered, with top-notch equipment, jacketed fuel lines (with swedged and threaded ends), and seacocks installed on load-spreading fiber doughnuts, access is a stretch.

Then there's the structure molded into the coach roof just forward of the wheelhouse—the "forward cockpit." When I suggested that it detracts from an otherwise classic profile, Island Packet responded: "Owners love it—it's their favorite spot to relax."

I wouldn't finish with a one-two punch like this if I didn't think Island Packet's PY Cruiser could take it. Maybe this traditional-looking paradigm of conventional wisdom's not a purist's dreamboat, but considering the fuel-efficiencies she's capable of, and the roominess of her layout, most everybody'll love her anyway.

Disclaimer
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