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Nordhavn 41

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N41-running-2 — Nordhavn / Pacific Asian Enterprises

Summary

41.3 ftLOA4.7 ftDRAFT13.9 ftBEAM
Motor MonohullInboard DieselCE A
Length overall
41.3 ft
Beam
13.9 ft
Displacement
42,615 lb
Engine power
115 hp
Cabins
1–2

* A standard reference image, not the actual boat — shown to help visualise this model's published dimensions.

Best Suited For

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.

Power to weight

Total engine power per tonne of published displacement — more means livelier acceleration for the hull. Drawn for motor yachts.

11.9 hp/t

2 × 115 hp · 19.3 t

Tanks

Fuel and water on one scale: a tank twice the height holds twice as much.

  • Fuel900 gal
    Water300 gal

Design Category

Certified CE design category A (Ocean): the wind and waves the EU Recreational Craft Directive says this boat is designed to take.

  1. D

    Sheltered waters

    Wind
    up to Beaufort 4
    Waves
    up to 0.3 m
  2. C

    Inshore

    Wind
    up to Beaufort 6
    Waves
    up to 2 m
  3. B

    Offshore

    Wind
    up to Beaufort 8
    Waves
    up to 4 m
  4. AThis boat

    Ocean

    Wind
    above Beaufort 8
    Waves
    above 4 m

Design limits set by the EU Recreational Craft Directive (2013/53/EU), in significant wave height. A category covers the conditions of those below it. It is the limit the boat was designed to, not a promise that it is safe in any conditions within it — that judgement stays with the skipper.

Dimensions

LOA
41.3 ft (12.6 m)
Hull length
—
LWL
40 ft (12.19 m)
Beam
13.9 ft (4.24 m)
Draft (min)
4.7 ft (1.42 m)
Draft (max)
—
Air draft
—
Displacement
42,615 lb (19,330 kg)
Ballast
—
Cabins
1–2
Heads
—
Berths
—

Performance

Maximum speed
—
Cruising speed
—
Range
—
Guests
—
Crew
—

Engine and Tanks

Engine
115 hp (Nanni)
Engine count
2
Engine manufacturer
Nanni
Propulsion type
shaft
Fuel capacity
900 gal (3,407 L)
Fresh water capacity
300 gal (1,136 L)
Black water capacity
70 gal (265 L)

Construction

Hull material
—
Deck material
—
Rudder type
—
Steering wheels
—

Builder's Own Figures

Main engines
Machinery 1 Engines- Twin Nanni Diesel 115 BPH @ 2600 RPM 70amp 12v alternator heat ex
Beam at waterline
13′ – 4 1/2″ / 4.08 M
Gray water tank
70 GALLONS / 265 L
Displacement basis
printed metric tonnes
Engine power basis
per engine as printed in the Machinery specification (standard main engine)

Figures read fromnordhavn.com/models/n41/· Specificationsread 9/18/2026

Layouts & Drawings

4 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

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.

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The Nordhavn Range

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

  1. Nordhavn 6868 ft
  2. Nordhavn 62564.6 ft
  3. Nordhavn 6062.5 ft
  4. Nordhavn 6362.5 ft
  5. Nordhavn 59 Coastal Pilot58.8 ft
  6. Nordhavn 5254.3 ft
  7. Nordhavn 5150.8 ft
  8. Nordhavn 47547.5 ft
  9. Nordhavn 41· this model41.3 ft

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