Norseman 400

Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:

The companionway entrance is appropriate for offshore use as it is narrow and has sufficient hand holds.  The four short steps are wide and deep for good footing while heeled.    The u shaped galley is to port with corian countertops, custom double stainless sinks and a gimbaled propane 3 burner stove with oven.  Well insulated refrigerator and freezer compartments are located outboard and were custom designed by Sea Frost.  Locker space is more than sufficient and the u shape allows the chef to cook safely on either tack.

 There is a large fully enclosed aft cabin to starboard with lockers and drawers and engine access panels.  To port is a cabin featuring over under bunks perfect for crew or kids.

 The athwart ships Nav station/ ships office is to starboard and utilizes a swiveled seat on a sliding track that is both comfortable for the navigator and can be rotated 360 degrees.  A long straight setee with navy ultra leather is to starboard with a U shaped settee  to port.  The head is located to port just forward of the mast with a hanging locker opposite.  The forward berth is oversized and wide enough at the foot (bow end)  to allow two adults to sleep comfortably without playing footsy all night.  There is a pair of repeaters located on the forward bulkhead of the divided chain locker that provides real-time information about depth speed and wind at a glance.

Mascot was refit  from 2003 to 2005 she received a complete refit with an new bottom, new rigging, new leisurefurl system, new engine, new sails, and new systems throughout.

•  New Yanmar 75HP engine
• New shaft
• New Max Prop
• New Racors Fuel Filters and Strainers
• New Engineroom installations (not your typical cheap foam stuff)
• Genset
• New Sidepower 7.5 HP bow thruster
• New Cruiseair 18,000 BTU Airconditioning system
• Espar diesel furnace
• New pedestal and engine controls
• New steering system
• New Seafrost Refrigeration and separate freezer
• New 12v system with 600 AH of new Lifeline batteries and Heart inverter charger
• New Anderson electric winches
• New awlgrip on hull, cabin house and cockpit with everything rebedded on deck and topsides
• with new rubrail
• Cabinhouse windows replaced with Lexan
• Mast pulled and painted
• New Leisurefurl boom
• Cabon fiber downwind pole
• Custom carbon fiber bow sprit and Code Zero sail
• New standing rigging and running rigging (ALL running rigging is properly whipped
• New Quantum Hydra Net sails
• Interior: all revarnished, new ultra leather, new fixtures, new counters, new stove
• New navigation and communications 2005, 100K of Furuno, Northstar, KVH and B&G
• New canvas
• Teak Decks were completely rebuilt, reglued, and refastened
• A redesign the stern/hull adding 2 feet to the stern for more waterline and a sugar transom
• A redesign of the rudder; a new composite spade rudder and rudder post was added
• Custom stainless steel stem head and self launching anchor system
• All new stainless steel deck hardware with new bow and stern pulpits
• New incredible stereo and sound system
• Custom built-in Toolbox
• New interior lighting through-out
• Custom Stern Antenna Post & Mount with custom outboard lifting crane
• New electric toilet, custom galley and bathroom sinks and faucets
• A redesigned weight study, repositioning the genset to vessel centerline for better
• performance, taking the weight out of the ends
• New Swiflik raft and Epirb

• Hull is hand laid up solid fiberglass alternating mat and woven roving.
• Deck is hand laid up molded fiberglass cored with end grain balsa.
• Flush mounted deck fills are provided for each tank.
• Teak side decks are in excellent condition.
• Perforated aluminum toerail
• Custom pushpit
• Custom Pulpit
• Custom bow roller
• Custom Radar pole
• Custom Balanced rudder
• Custom sugar scoop
• Custom oversized stern cleats
• Anderson electric primary winches
• Anderson electric jib furling winch on aft cockpit coming
• Internal lead ballast
• Bulkheads are fiberglassed to hull and deck with tapered edges and foam compression pads against the hull.
• The overhead is made up of removable panels with access for wiring or backup plates.
• Cabin sole is solid teak and inlaid spruce laminated to marine plywood.
• All hatches edged with solid teak.
• Flush SS hatch lifts are provided.
• Cabin sole is satin finished.
• All chain plates are accessible

• Sloop rig with removable inner forestay for storm jib
• Under the direction of notable Northeast Rigger-Joe Mello, complete redesign and installation of deck hardware and running rigging.
• Mast sanded and painted
• Leisurefurl boom
• Navtec hydraulic vang and backstay adjuster,
• Three Anderson electric winches,
• New rigging blocks with oversized Harken ball bearing blocks,
• New custom Harken traveler,
• Spinlock clutches on all mast halyards.
• Reorganized leads for all sail control for ease of singlehand sailing
• Mainsheet lead aft to comming within reach of helmsman on dedicated Anderson electric winch
• Mainhalyard, leisurefurl furling line lead to common oversized Anderson electric winch on cabin top under dodger
• Jib furling line lead to opposite coming from mainsheet within reach of helmsman
• Anderson electric winch on this coming set up to use for jib furling line, tender towing line and hoist for tender outboard.

• New Quantum Hydra Net full batten main sail.
• New Quantum Code 0 on Harken continuous line furler
• New Schaefer 2100 jib furler on headstay.
• New Hydra Net 110 Quantum Jib.
• Custom Kevlar removable inner forstay installed for storm sail.
• New Quantum 75% storm jib.

12V Specifications

• 600ah Lifeline AGM battery bank under main salon dinette seating.
• All new cabling and distribution
• New battery monitoring panel at navigation station.
• New Balmar high output alternator installed on Yanmar along with multiphase controller. .
• Dedicated engine/generator start battery and charging system installed.
• Electrical distribution for 3 Anderson electric winches incorporated into power grid.
• New Sea Frost refrigeration
• Nav lights
• New bow thruster - Side Power 7.5 hp

110v AC Systems:

• New Heart invertor charger
• Shore power system
• Rebuilt Fischer Panda 4KW generator
• New Marine Air 16000 BTU airconditioning system

The engine compartment under the companionway has incredible access from three sides. It was stripped of all machinery repainted and sound proofed under the consultation of Soundown.  The increase in horsepower allows the boat to motor against any tide or headwind with confidence.

• New Yanmar 4JHTE 75hp engine in 2005
• New shaft
• New three- blade Max Prop.
• New racor filters and sea straners installed
• New new fuel lines and exhaust hoses
• Espar diesel heater

The Navigation and Communications Area/ship's office, with a pull out drawers, a swing out seat, full sized chart table, angled data repeaters all within easy sight of the navigator.

Fully integrated navigational instrument suite installed by Electra Yacht of Portsmouth RI.  System is PC based with Furuno black box instruments, B&G, Simrad, and KVH equipment seemlessly integrated.

• Toshiba Tablet PC mounted inside navigation station
• Furuno 1834CBB 4W 36 mile color Radar Antenna
• Furuno GPS/WAAS
• Furuno Class A AIS
•  Color Nav Station Display
• Furuno NavNet VX2 BB cockpit display in custom housing under dodger
• MaxSea Professional Software with all Add-on Modules and all US Charts
• KVH Fleet 33 Satcom
• Lynksys Wireless Router
• Five B&G Hydra 2000 Multi Function Display, with in forward sleeping cabin two at
• Navigation station, and one over cockpit companion way in Navpod housing
• Two B&G Analog wind displays over cockpit companionway in Navpod housing
• Simrad AP22 Autopilot at helm in Navpod housing
• Northstar 952 GPS color plotter at helm in Navpod housing
• Horizon Blackbox VHF with remote microphones at helm and nav station
• Electronic tank monitor for all water/fuel/waste tanks
• Helix cable used for all antenna wiring
• Remotely mounted 3 watt wireless cellular phone amplifier
• Remote optical drive for computer
• Wireless keyboard and mouse for computer
• Remote Cat 5/USB ports for computer

The following is excerpted from the July 1987 issue of Yachting magazine.
Author: Chris Caswell

"Descriptions of yachts are like those blind dates - you often learn more from what you aren't told. If, for example, you hear that the yacht has a wonderful interior, then you usually can be assured that she is so fat and tubby she can barely move. On the other hand, a so-called 'high performance cruiser' often means good speed but a dark cramped interior.

The problem with the Norseman 400 (and a pleasant problem, in deed) is to decide how to describe a yacht with fine attributes all-round. From a sailing standpoint, I can't find a fault: she sails magnificently in heavy as well as light breezes. The interior is open, airy and perfectly laid out for both offshore work and dockside living. And the builders have obviously spent a considerable amount of time thinking about all of the little details that make an exceptional yacht. perhaps you've already broken the code: I liked this yacht.

The Norseman 400 is the second design (third, if you count two deck layouts on the 44-footer) from Norseman Yachts, a Southern California-based builder/importer. President Wally Freeman started the company in the late 1970s, when he saw a need for an offshore cruising yacht with higher performance, more roomy interior and better aesthetics than were first available. The first yacht, the 447, started life with an aft cockpit, followed by a center-cockpit version, and now the slightly smaller sister, the 400.

But the Norseman 400 doesn't need to apologize to anyone for being 40 feet long. Not when you get an after stateroom with enough floor space so that you can actually stand and get dressed normally, or a full-sized nav station (complete with a swivel chair) that doesn't intrude on the saloon.

Freeman, with naval architect Gary Grant, came up with a clever idea in the arrangement of the forward cabin and head area. By reversing the usual head/shower arrangement, the forward stateroom has its privacy, while the shower is still available to the rest of the crew.

Certainly the most pleasing feature of the Norseman 400 is the visual openness that has been achieved without wasting space. the living areas offer an airiness both from the layout and from some innovative thinking. The protective sea hood for the main hatch slide is a skylight, so there is plenty of light even with the hatch open. besides, with six opening hatches, seven opening ports, four dorade vents, and two light prisms in addition to the fixed cabin windows, there's no shortage of either fresh air or sunlight in this yacht.

Construction, at the Shing Sheng yard in Taiwan, is top caliber. freeman has a full-time quality control supervisor to assure exacting standards as well as to answer any questions that might crop up during construction. The hull utilizes hand-laid fiberglass with Airex coring and a heavy stringer framework to prevent oil-canning and to carry the rigging loads. The deck is also hand-laid, with a core of end-grain balsa for strength as well as lightness. Recesses are provided in the hull for the portholes, so that the frame and glass is fully protected, and all the through-hulls are flush mounted. The deck mold must be a masterpiece of engineering because it has been so carefully, allowing the mounting bases for winches, vents and other deck gear to be molded in the correct position. The keel is internally ballasted, and a sturdy skeg protects the rudder from any cruising misadventures.

On deck, the nonslip surface covers every area where a crew member might step, and a teak deck is optional. Wheel steering is standard, and the helmsman has an arched seat for comfortable sailing at all angles of heel.

The lazarette area are immense, with sealed space for gas bottles, and a cavernous area that easily solves the problem of sail stowage and provides enough room for a generator as well.

Power is supplied by a Westerbeke 46hp diesel through a Hurth V-Drive to a two-bladed prop. The engine compartment is heavily insulated and, with 70 gallons of fuel, there is a good cruising range under power.

SAILING, SAILING
Under sail, the Norseman 400 has all of the attributes of a thoroughbred with none of the twitchiness of many performance cruisers that can't be left unattended for a moment. Steering is light but positive, with enough sensitivity to satisfy the sailor who wants to feel the balance of the yacht. light-air and heavy-air performance are equally strong; this is a yacht obviously designed for fast, easy passages.

OFFSHORE AMENITIES
It's no surprise that Freeman and his team have spent a lot of time offshore, because the entire yacht is engineered for usability. The overhead panels, for example, are easily removed for installation or repairs to wiring and electronics. The galley is supplied not just with pressure hot and cold water, but also with a saltwater pump, a water purifier and even a built in soap dispenser.

The icebox is better insulated than I've seen on a production yacht, and a block of ice should be a long term investment even in hot climates. There's even a fiberglass trash bin hidden under the galley counter.

Obvioudly, the Norseman 400 is one blind date that you can look forward to meeting."