Nordhavn Motorsailer

Ata Marie is hull #2 of the Nordhavn Motorsailer series. The original buyer ordered her with the standard teak interior and added relatively few factory options to keep her simple and elegant. She was commissioned in 2009. The original buyer cancelled this order after arrival due to cash constraints, an unfortunate victim of the global financial meltdown. PAE immediately put her into our stock inventory and offered her for sale while also using her for some boat shows and sea trialing. Then another unfortunate situation occurred – when Motorsailer 5605 arrived in San Diego from Taiwan (maybe you have heard of this) she was dropped during offload and the resulting damage resulted in a total insurance write off. The owners of 5605 were given the use of 5602 while we built them a new boat (saying quite a lot about PAE’s integrity and honor towards our buyers! 5605 was custom ordered with several difference to 5602 (most notably she was the first Motorsailer built without the forward sailing cockpit and these buyers wanted to duplicate their order. So 5602 (which includes the standard forward sailing cockpit) is essentially a brand new boat that was loaned out for an extended shake down. She has enjoyed nearly a full year of cruising now…which means she has been put through her paces, had the usual new boat bugs worked out and test driven so she should be raring to go.