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SeaTrial<br />

<strong>Kadey</strong>-<strong>Krogen</strong> 48<br />

A WEST COAST-FRIENDLY CRUISER WITH RANGE TO SPARE<br />

BY MIKE WERLING<br />

WHEN RON INBERG WAS LOOKING for a new boat to replace his 44-<br />

foot <strong>Kadey</strong>-<strong>Krogen</strong>, he knew he wanted to do two things: live aboard<br />

and visit distant places. Happy with his 3-year-old 44-footer, he<br />

stayed in the family and ordered the <strong>Kadey</strong>-<strong>Krogen</strong> 48 at the 2009<br />

Seattle Boat Show — with a little help from his then-fiancée, Jan<br />

Hirsch. She grew up in a boating family, so living aboard a boat<br />

wasn’t a difficult proposition for her, provided some tweaks could<br />

be made. Those tweaks could easily be accommodated, so Jan was<br />

on board. Ron was a happy man; never before had saying “Yes,<br />

dear” felt so right.<br />

The couple is now married. In a<br />

demonstration of their commitment<br />

to the cruising lifestyle, and maybe<br />

as a test of their patience with each<br />

other, they took their boat from<br />

Shilshole Marina in Seattle up to<br />

Roche Harbor for the ceremony, a<br />

“short” 10-hour jaunt — with most<br />

of the invited wedding guests aboard.<br />

That’s just one trip out of many the<br />

Inbergs plan to take aboard their 48-<br />

foot home, Sisu III — a journey to<br />

see the world 7 knots at a time. Sisu<br />

is a Finnish word that means guts and<br />

perseverance.<br />

I joined Ron and Jan for a cruise<br />

down to the Seattle waterfront and<br />

back on a hot July Friday, a round<br />

trip of about 12 miles. Hardly a<br />

challenge for this passage-making<br />

vessel, but an interesting trip<br />

nonetheless with container ships<br />

heading for the shipping lanes, fast<br />

ferries shuttling people to and from<br />

the city, and the small cities we call<br />

cruise ships weighing anchor and<br />

moving to the next port of call up<br />

Alaska way.<br />

Touring a boat that is someone’s<br />

home always feels different than<br />

touring a boat that is still dealer-owned<br />

or even one that is privately owned<br />

but not lived on. Nothing you see is<br />

a prop. Everything is there because<br />

it has value to the owners; it all means<br />

something. I boarded the boat on the<br />

aft deck. It is covered, enclosed and<br />

comfortable. It is one of four gathering<br />

spots on the boat, and enclosing it<br />

makes sense for a liveaboard couple<br />

in Seattle, for a couple of reasons. One,<br />

during the winter the area stays warm<br />

and inviting, especially with the<br />

addition of the electric “fireplace.” Ron<br />

says he can sit on the aft deck in<br />

December and watch football games<br />

on the salon TV through the aft<br />

38 SEA / SEPTEMBER 2010


doorway. Southern Californians may<br />

opt to leave the area covered but open,<br />

because a small heater would be<br />

enough to make the space usable<br />

during the winter. The second reason<br />

it makes sense for a Pacific<br />

Northwesterner to enclose the aft deck<br />

is because the flybridge is open for<br />

those days when you’d rather be<br />

outside.<br />

An Inside Look<br />

INSIDE & OUT<br />

The salon is the second gathering<br />

spot. A large L-shaped settee is to<br />

starboard, with a fold-out high-low<br />

teak table. The Inbergs have two<br />

reclining, rotating chairs to port, but<br />

a small sofa is an option. A flat-screen<br />

TV is built into the salon-side face of<br />

the galley’s half wall. That half wall,<br />

thanks to one of Jan’s tweaks, is 3<br />

inches farther into the salon than it<br />

is on other <strong>Krogen</strong> 48s. Jan wanted<br />

a full-size oven in the galley, which<br />

wasn’t on the options list. But the folks<br />

at <strong>Kadey</strong>-<strong>Krogen</strong> took a look, decided<br />

that a mere 3 inches would<br />

accommodate the bigger appliance<br />

and made the adjustment. The galley<br />

also has a full-size refrigerator/freezer,<br />

a microwave, Corian (or granite)<br />

countertops, and optional dishwasher,<br />

trash compactor and ice-maker,<br />

which Ron and Jan loaded up on.<br />

They knew this wasn’t going to be a<br />

weekend galley.<br />

A large bookcase and storage unit<br />

sits forward of the salon and to port<br />

of the galley, at the base of the steps<br />

to the pilothouse and at the top of<br />

the steps to the staterooms and heads.<br />

Belowdecks is the master stateroom<br />

in the forepeak. Its queen-size<br />

island bed sits atop a large storage<br />

area, with pneumatic lift struts. The<br />

room has a bureau and three hanging<br />

lockers — hers, hers and hers on<br />

this particular boat. The en suite<br />

head has a VacuFlush toilet with a<br />

status panel and a molded fiberglass<br />

shower enclosure with a bi-fold door,<br />

as does the second head. The<br />

washer and dryer are located in the<br />

second head.<br />

The starboard-situated second<br />

stateroom doubles as an office or den.<br />

It has a desk and a large settee that<br />

converts to a double berth. It also<br />

TESTER’S OPINION<br />

“There is a lot of boat<br />

packed into a 48-foot<br />

hull. The layout<br />

options are such that<br />

the boat should<br />

appeal to boaters up<br />

and down the West<br />

Coast, whether<br />

they’re looking for an<br />

open, airy vessel in<br />

the warmer climates,<br />

or they need more<br />

indoor space to make<br />

the boat year-round<br />

usable.”<br />

A look at the 48 from the salon,<br />

galley, pilothouse, head and master<br />

stateroom.<br />

Billy Black<br />

SEAMAGAZINE.COM 39


<strong>Kadey</strong>-<strong>Krogen</strong><br />

48<br />

SPECIFICATIONS<br />

LOA<br />

53 ft.<br />

Beam<br />

16 ft., 8 in.<br />

Draft<br />

5 ft.<br />

Weight<br />

30 tons<br />

Fuel<br />

1,000 gals.<br />

Water<br />

400 gals.<br />

Engine John Deere 6068 TFM 201 hp diesel<br />

STANDARD EQUIPMENT<br />

GE refrigerator and microwave, Viking stove,<br />

Hynautic steering and controls, dual Racor fuel<br />

filters, 4 bilge pumps, saltwater anchor<br />

washdown, Maxwell 2200 HWC dual chain<br />

wheel and single rope gypsy, Ritchie compass,<br />

Imtra windshield wipers, teak wheel, 40 amp<br />

battery charger, copper water piping, 20-gallon<br />

water heater, VacuFlush toilets, Corian<br />

countertops, GE stack-unit washer/dryer,<br />

Jabsco continuous duty blower in engine<br />

room, and much more.<br />

OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT<br />

Glendinning Cablemaster w/remote, 1,000-<br />

pound Steelhead davit, air conditioning,<br />

hydraulic bow thruster, 12 kw generator<br />

w/sound shield and water/exhaust separator,<br />

fuel-polishing system w/transfer pump, oil<br />

exchange system for main engine, gear and<br />

generator, dishwasher, trash compactor, icemaker,<br />

fire-suppression system for engine<br />

room, and much more.<br />

BUILDER<br />

KADEY-KROGEN YACHTS, Stuart, Fla.;<br />

(800) 247-1230; kadeykrogen.com<br />

WEST COAST DEALER<br />

<strong>Kadey</strong>-<strong>Krogen</strong>, Seattle; (206) 453-5631;<br />

kadeykrogen.com<br />

40 SEA / SEPTEMBER 2010<br />

contains a large hanging locker (that<br />

Ron’s clothes call home). This office<br />

space is invaluable to liveaboards. A<br />

three-stateroom configuration is<br />

available in the widebody model,<br />

which is what the Inbergs have, though<br />

they opted for just two staterooms.<br />

Up the steps from the galley/salon<br />

area is the amply sized pilothouse,<br />

with a centerline helm station and<br />

teak wheel. There is room at both<br />

sides of the helm console for paper<br />

charts and pretty much anything else<br />

a captain might like to have close at<br />

hand. Aft of the captain’s chair and<br />

to starboard is a large settee — or<br />

watch berth — with a teak high-low<br />

table. The area converts to a double<br />

berth. Visibility from the pilothouse<br />

is excellent forward and to both sides.<br />

Opening the watertight doors to port<br />

and starboard allows the captain easy<br />

access to view the goings-on aft of<br />

his sightlines. This is the third<br />

gathering spot on the boat.<br />

Out the port-side pilothouse door<br />

and up a set of molded steps is the<br />

flybridge, the fourth — and on a<br />

beautiful Seattle day, best — gathering<br />

spot. Ron pointed out that his boat<br />

is the first 48 with an offset helm<br />

station on the bridge. Moving the helm<br />

to starboard opened up the port side<br />

for a five-person settee and table.<br />

“There is a lot more room for<br />

eating and entertaining,” Ron said.<br />

There is also room for a barbecue<br />

grill, two outdoor lounge chairs and a<br />

couple of kayaks. Aft of all this is the<br />

dinghy, situated on the roof of the rear<br />

deck. The helm station and settee/table<br />

are covered by a Bimini top.<br />

ON THE GO<br />

Let’s be honest. A boat like the<br />

<strong>Kadey</strong>-<strong>Krogen</strong> 48 is built for cruising.<br />

It’s made to slow down and get there,<br />

wherever there is. With a top speed<br />

of about 9 knots and optimal cruising<br />

speed between 6 and 7 knots, owners<br />

aren’t all that worried about how<br />

many gallons per hour they’re<br />

burning. It’s more about how far they<br />

can go. The John Deere 6068 TFM<br />

201 hp diesel is meant to fire up<br />

quickly, which it did, and run for<br />

hours and days on end. And it does<br />

its job relatively quietly, even in the<br />

salon, which is right above the<br />

engine room. The loudest area was<br />

the aft deck, and even there a<br />

conversation could be had with<br />

barely raised voices.<br />

At 6 knots, the 1,000 gallons of<br />

fuel give the boat enough energy to<br />

go more than 4,600 miles. The<br />

distance is cut to just over 3,000<br />

miles at 7 knots — still a formidable<br />

number. Bump it up to 8 knots, and<br />

you can expect to get a little less than<br />

2,000 miles. At 9 knots, top speed,<br />

range is about 1,350 miles, maybe<br />

a little more. All of these figures are<br />

with a 10 percent reserve. For<br />

comparison, Seattle to Honolulu is<br />

about 2,700 miles.<br />

Out on Puget Sound there was<br />

only a slight chop to the water. Our<br />

biggest challenge was a couple of<br />

ferry wakes, and the 48 stayed<br />

solid. We came off the wake without<br />

any shuddering and were back to<br />

level and steady in no time.<br />

The full-displacement hull is<br />

solid below the waterline with<br />

blister-resistant vinylester resin in<br />

the first two laminate layers, and<br />

it is hand-laid Knytex fiberglass with<br />

closed-cell PVC sandwich core<br />

above the waterline.<br />

One of the boat’s highlights from<br />

Ron’s perspective, and something<br />

boaters in the Northwest will<br />

appreciate, is the hydronic heating<br />

system. He said it takes a load off<br />

the generator when the heat is<br />

running while the boat is at anchor,<br />

and, as an added benefit, it provides<br />

great hot water.<br />

There is a lot of boat packed into<br />

a 48-foot hull. The fit and finish is<br />

very good, and the woodwork is solid<br />

and tight. The layout options are<br />

such that the boat should appeal to<br />

boaters up and down the West<br />

Coast, whether they’re looking for<br />

an open, airy vessel in the warmer<br />

climates, or they need more indoor<br />

space to make the boat year-round<br />

usable. Enclose the aft deck, or don’t.<br />

Cover the flybridge with a Bimini top,<br />

or don’t. Add the third stateroom if<br />

you like. It all depends on how and<br />

where you’re going to use it. And no<br />

matter where you berth the vessel,<br />

you can shove off for a 4,000-mile<br />

journey of a lifetime or make your<br />

favorite 20-mile roundtrip for dinner<br />

200 times. It’s all in your sense of<br />

adventure.

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