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SeaTrial Kadey-Krogen 48 A WEST COAST-FRIENDLY CRUISER WITH RANGE TO SPARE BY MIKE WERLING WHEN RON INBERG WAS LOOKING for a new boat to replace his 44- foot Kadey-Krogen, he knew he wanted to do two things: live aboard and visit distant places. Happy with his 3-year-old 44-footer, he stayed in the family and ordered the Kadey-Krogen 48 at the 2009 Seattle Boat Show — with a little help from his then-fiancée, Jan Hirsch. She grew up in a boating family, so living aboard a boat wasn’t a difficult proposition for her, provided some tweaks could be made. Those tweaks could easily be accommodated, so Jan was on board. Ron was a happy man; never before had saying “Yes, dear” felt so right. The couple is now married. In a demonstration of their commitment to the cruising lifestyle, and maybe as a test of their patience with each other, they took their boat from Shilshole Marina in Seattle up to Roche Harbor for the ceremony, a “short” 10-hour jaunt — with most of the invited wedding guests aboard. That’s just one trip out of many the Inbergs plan to take aboard their 48- foot home, Sisu III — a journey to see the world 7 knots at a time. Sisu is a Finnish word that means guts and perseverance. I joined Ron and Jan for a cruise down to the Seattle waterfront and back on a hot July Friday, a round trip of about 12 miles. Hardly a challenge for this passage-making vessel, but an interesting trip nonetheless with container ships heading for the shipping lanes, fast ferries shuttling people to and from the city, and the small cities we call cruise ships weighing anchor and moving to the next port of call up Alaska way. Touring a boat that is someone’s home always feels different than touring a boat that is still dealer-owned or even one that is privately owned but not lived on. Nothing you see is a prop. Everything is there because it has value to the owners; it all means something. I boarded the boat on the aft deck. It is covered, enclosed and comfortable. It is one of four gathering spots on the boat, and enclosing it makes sense for a liveaboard couple in Seattle, for a couple of reasons. One, during the winter the area stays warm and inviting, especially with the addition of the electric “fireplace.” Ron says he can sit on the aft deck in December and watch football games on the salon TV through the aft 38 SEA / SEPTEMBER 2010
doorway. Southern Californians may opt to leave the area covered but open, because a small heater would be enough to make the space usable during the winter. The second reason it makes sense for a Pacific Northwesterner to enclose the aft deck is because the flybridge is open for those days when you’d rather be outside. An Inside Look INSIDE & OUT The salon is the second gathering spot. A large L-shaped settee is to starboard, with a fold-out high-low teak table. The Inbergs have two reclining, rotating chairs to port, but a small sofa is an option. A flat-screen TV is built into the salon-side face of the galley’s half wall. That half wall, thanks to one of Jan’s tweaks, is 3 inches farther into the salon than it is on other Krogen 48s. Jan wanted a full-size oven in the galley, which wasn’t on the options list. But the folks at Kadey-Krogen took a look, decided that a mere 3 inches would accommodate the bigger appliance and made the adjustment. The galley also has a full-size refrigerator/freezer, a microwave, Corian (or granite) countertops, and optional dishwasher, trash compactor and ice-maker, which Ron and Jan loaded up on. They knew this wasn’t going to be a weekend galley. A large bookcase and storage unit sits forward of the salon and to port of the galley, at the base of the steps to the pilothouse and at the top of the steps to the staterooms and heads. Belowdecks is the master stateroom in the forepeak. Its queen-size island bed sits atop a large storage area, with pneumatic lift struts. The room has a bureau and three hanging lockers — hers, hers and hers on this particular boat. The en suite head has a VacuFlush toilet with a status panel and a molded fiberglass shower enclosure with a bi-fold door, as does the second head. The washer and dryer are located in the second head. The starboard-situated second stateroom doubles as an office or den. It has a desk and a large settee that converts to a double berth. It also TESTER’S OPINION “There is a lot of boat packed into a 48-foot hull. The layout options are such that the boat should appeal to boaters up and down the West Coast, whether they’re looking for an open, airy vessel in the warmer climates, or they need more indoor space to make the boat year-round usable.” A look at the 48 from the salon, galley, pilothouse, head and master stateroom. Billy Black SEAMAGAZINE.COM 39
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