Nordhavn 120

Summary

Best Suited For

• Bluewater Cruising

  From the published figures: explorer

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Speed, Power & Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

120.6 ft (36.75 m)

Hull length

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LWL

108.3 ft (33.02 m)

Beam

27.9 ft (8.51 m)

Draft (min)

9 ft (2.74 m)

Draft (max)

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Air draft

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Displacement

848,933 lb (385,070 kg)

Ballast

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Cabins

5

Heads

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Berths

—

Performance

Maximum speed

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Cruising speed

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Range

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Guests

—

Crew

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

965 hp (MTU)

Engine count

2

Engine manufacturer

MTU

Propulsion type

shaft

Fuel capacity

17,500 gal (66,244.7 L)

Fresh water capacity

2,800 gal (10,599.2 L)

Black water capacity

185 gal (700 L)

Construction

Hull material

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Deck material

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Rudder type

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Steering wheels

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Builder's Own Figures

Main engines

MTU Series 2000 M72 HP: 965 each @ 2,250 rpm News VIDEO: N120

Gray water tank

190 gals. / 720 L

Draft basis

9’0” / 2.74 M (full load)

Displacement basis

printed metric tonnes

Engine power basis

per engine as printed in the Machinery specification (standard main engine)

About Nordhavn

Semi-custom

The full-displacement passagemaker brand of Pacific Asian Enterprises, Dana Point, California — nineteen models from the 12.6-metre Nordhavn 41 to the 36.8-metre Nordhavn 120, built in Taiwan and Xiamen since the first Nordhavn 46 of 1989, with more ocean crossings and circumnavigations than any other production motor yacht.

Jim Leishman and Dan Streech met in 1973 at a yacht dealership in Dana Point, California, and when it closed in 1974 they formed a small brokerage with Joe Meglen that grew into Pacific Asian Enterprises, importing CT boats and, from 1976, the Transpac 49 from Taiwan and working with the builders there to raise their quality. By 1977 PAE set out to own its own line: designer Al Mason drew the Mason sailboats that PAE developed and Taiwan yards built. When the cruising-sailboat market declined in the late 1980s, Jeff Leishman's design for a 46-foot passagemaking powerboat became the next project; named Nordhavn, Norwegian for 'north harbour', for its trawler-like look, hull number one of the N46 shipped in early 1989, at a time when it was still believed that only a sailboat could cross oceans. The last Mason was built in 1995, offices opened from Rhode Island to the UK and Australia between 2001 and 2007, the N55 and N64 arrived in 2004 with the Nordhavn Atlantic Rally, and in 2008 the 21-acre Xiamen factory, able to build Nordhavns of up to a thousand tons, was completed as work on the N120 began.

The Nordhavn Range

Every model Nordhavn publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Nordhavn 120· this model120.6 ft
2. Nordhavn 100100.9 ft
3. Nordhavn 9696.6 ft
4. Nordhavn 8686.6 ft
5. Nordhavn 8082.3 ft
6. Nordhavn 7676.2 ft
7. Nordhavn 75 Expedition Yachtfisher74.4 ft
8. Nordhavn 7174 ft
9. Nordhavn 7272.2 ft

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