About Southern Star – Southern Star

Southern Star is a Nordhavn 47, hull #18. She was built by an American company, Pacific Asian Enterprises (P.A.E.) She was commissioned in 2004, named “Borealis”( means Polar Northern Lights) and lived on the Columbia River in Oregon, USA. She was sold in 2006 to a Kiwi named Peter Mott.

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Peter and a skipper sailed her down to Mexico where she was freighted to Auckland, New Zealand. Peter and his wife Angela, renamed her “Southern Star”. She lived in the Viaduct Harbour Marina until Robbie and Jo brought her in August 2013. She is registered as a New Zealand vessel, registration number NZ1264.

After Robbie and Jo Ashton purchased Southern Star in Aug 2013, they sailed her most of the rest of the way around the world, and in Dec 2016, Ted and Jenny purchased her and took her over in Florida. They are now cruising her off the US East Coast and the Bahamas, with a loose plan to return to NZ with her over time.

Southern Star weighs about 45 ton when she is fully loaded with fuel and water, she is 47′ long, her beam is 16′ and her draft is 6′. She carries 5,600 litres/1600 US gallons of fuel and 1514 litres/400 gallons of water. Her range is approximately 3,000 nautical miles, depending on cruising speed. Her average cruising speed is around 6.5 knots per hour. Her hull is constructed of hand laid laminated fibreglass.

Southern Star has two staterooms (bedrooms), two bathrooms, a galley( kitchen), saloon (lounge room), pilot house with a stidd Captains chair, a daybed and small table and lots of electronics. She has a flybridge and a large upper deck which houses a centre console RIB and hydraulic davit (crane) to lift it on and off.

The engine room is spacious, with stand up room all round the main engine. She has two engines, the main is a Lugger (John Deere) 174 hp, model LP668T Turbo charged keel cooled with a dry stack exhaust. The wing (backup engine) is a Yanmar model No 3JH3E 40 hp continuous duty. This is a fully independent engine with its own fuel tank and fold up propellor.

Southern Star is well set up with a lot of electronics, safety equipment and very comfortable living spaces. Some of her equipment includes:

Mechanical

•Yanmar 40HP wing engine with folding Martec propellor

•American bow thruster 24V bow thruster

•American bow thruster 24V stern thruster

•Kabola B Tap 12 diesel boiler to heat accommodations and hot water

•MarineAir air conditioning, 5 zone, including reverse cycle heating

•Fireboy fire suppression system for engine room and lazarette

•Spurs line cutter on main engine propellor shaft

•Reverso oil changer for main, wing and generator

Electrical

•Trace 2500VA pure sine wave inverter with battery charger

•Marinco TV/Phone inlet

•Northern Lights 12KW generator

•Mastervolt 80A (x2) house battery chargers

4x Sun Power Solar Panels- SPR-E20-320 (320 watt each- 1280 Watts total Feb 2019)
2 x Victron SmartSolar MPPT controllers 100/50

•Lifeline size 8-D 255 Ah each 12volt (x6) AGM batteries for house bank

Dedicated 4D main engine AGM start battery

Dedicated 8D AGM generator and wing engine start battery

2 seperate 24 volt 8D AGM battery banks for stern and bow thruster and anchor winch.

• Stern shore power connections – duplicates of standard inlets forward

• 50A shore power lead (x2)- Boat connectors upgraded to Smart Plug Connectors

• 20A shore power lead (x1)

• Reverse Y shore power adapter

• Miscellaneous shore connections and splitters

•Magnafire 12V HID deck lighting for boat deck and foredeck

Bauer Jr dive compressor 220v-

Galley, Laundry and Plumbing

• Fresh water deck wash down at bow, stern, engine room and boat deck

• Saltwater wash down on bow and stern

•Scandvik cockpit shower

•Spectra Newport 700 2600 litres per day DC water maker

•Meile dishwasher with varnished teak face (new June 2016)

•Bosch clothes washer (new Sept 2019)

•Meile clothes dryer

• Upgraded General Electric microwave with convection oven

• Backsplash on galley counter

• Redundant house fresh water pump

• Upgraded water pressure system

Pilothouse

•Simrad AP-48 auto pilot NAC 3 with P-9 upgraded compass and rudder angle indicators (new Jan 2019)

Simrad AP-24 2nd auto pilot

•Simrad autopilot is interfaced with radar, GPS and chart plotter

•Simrad RFC 15R fluxgate compass (backup to SC-60 satellite compass)

•Simrad rudder feedback upgrade

•Simrad FU80 followup lever (pilothouse and flybridge new Jan 2019)

•Furuno 1943C/NT chart plotter with 4ʼ 6KW open array radar

•Furuno GP 1700C/NT 7” display on flybridge

Simrad 12″ chartplotter (stand alone) on Flybridge

•Laptop based navigation system using Coastal Explorer and C-Map New Zealand, Australia East Coast, South Pacific charts for 1943C and GP1700, USA, Caribbean and Central America

•C-Map US West Coast chart for 1943C and GP1700

•Furuno blackbox sounder with 1KW transducer including temperature sensor

•Furuno blackbox weatherfax

•Furuno SC-60 satellite compass

•Furuno GP30 GPS (to backup SC-60 for position data)

•Furuno FR2117BB commercial black box radar system

•Furuno 6.5ʼ 12KW open array for FR2117

•Furuno FA-150 commercial AIS transponder

••Infra-red engine room camera and cockpit camera and monitor

•Eizo 1280×1025 LCD display for FR2117

•Icom M-602 all channel VHF radio

•Icom M502 remote mic on flybridge

•Icom M802 HF/SSB transceiver with 23ʼ whip

•Iridium Go satellite receiver/hotspot, connected to external antenna

Garmin In Reach Explorer satellite tracker and SOS

•Speco loud hailer

•B & G H1000 system, analogue display, digital multi, ultrasonic speed, depth.

•Fusion marine stereo system (XM satellite components), IPOD/bluetooth, McIntosh Power Amp, Bose Speakers in salon, Fusion speakers in Flybridge, Alpine Speakers in Pilot house