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- Cruising Speed: 28 kn
- Maximum Speed: 33 kn
- Beam: 12' 6''
- Hull Material: Composite
- Max Draft: 2' 0''
- Displacement: 18,000 lb
- Fuel Tank: 2 x 150|gallon
- Fresh Water: 1 x 65|gallon
- Holding: 1 x 28|gallon
- Cabins: 1
- Heads: 1
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"Nancy Lynn" is a beautiful example of this classic Downeast cruiser. With one careful owner since new, she has been lightly used and professionally maintained, and embodies the perfect blend of timeliness elegance and effortless performance.
Combining Little Harbor/Hinckley aesthetics with modern jet technology, the Whisper Jet is one of the most versatile and elegant 38-footers of its era.
With her sleek deep-V hull and Hamilton waterjet drives, the Whisper Jet 38 delivers a remarkably smooth, quiet ride—capable of gliding into shallow waters where traditional propeller boats can’t venture. Twin Yanmar diesels provide confident cruising in the high 20-knot range, while her responsive handling makes docking and maneuvering a breeze.
A focal point of the 38 is the large and comfortable cockpit salon featuring an L-shaped settee with casual seating for four. The interior accommodations are both straightforward and commodious. The owner's stateroom forward includes a large V-berth with two 36-inch-wide berths that can be converted into a double with a filler piece. Further aft, the layout features a large galley and head to port, a luxurious dinette to starboard and abundant storage lockers. Cabin soles are varnished teak and holly.
The main engines are surrounded by a carefully engineered, soundproofed compartment, making the raised salon a comfortable, quiet place while underway, even at high speeds. The water jet system is located well aft for easy access via hatches through the aft deck. The water jet configuration eliminates the need for external shafts, props, and rudders, thereby removing a substantial amount of running vibration. The resulting shallow draft also allows one to safely gunkhole shallow waters off-limits to most boats of this size.
As a final benefit, the water jet provides superior maneuverability in tight quarters utilizing a twin jet configuration. The Hamilton Jet Model H274 is one of the most successful and widely used commercial waterjet propulsion units ever produced and remains common in 1990s-2000s patrol craft, fast workboats and high-speed recreational vessels.
"Nancy Lynn" has been impeccably maintained by a team of professional marine technicians and was brought to the Pacific Northwest via truck from Massachusetts by her current owner.
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"Nancy Lynn" is in the water in Port Townsend and available for immediate showings.
VESSEL DESCRIPTION:
HULL & CONSTRUCTION:
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INTERIOR ACCOMMODATIONS:
From the bridge deck, down teak companionway steps is the open salon/cabin.
GALLEY:
To port, amidships is the very spacious, functional linear galley:
HEAD:
Aft of the galley, to port, a Cherry louvered door provides access to the enclosed easy to clean fiberglass, formica and Corian head with cherry trim and padded vinyl overhead with a fiberglass molded-in floor with shower sump for easy cleaning.
V-BERTH:
Forward are the V-berth sleeping accommodations finished in Cherry trim and cabinetry with flush panel doors. There are Cherry battens on the hull sides, upper hanging lockers with lower storage lockers port and starboard, and outboard shelves forward at the hull sides.
DINETTE:
The dinette to starboard faces the galley and has bench style seating forward and aft with a varnished teak table. There is outboard shelving and an aft, cedar-lined hanging locker.
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Design Background:
Ted Hood was an innovative thinker who made his name in the sailing world, but he also felt that he could design and build a better waterjet-powered Downeast-style cruising yacht. Hood had spent a lifetime rethinking everything from sail cloth to sail and sailboat design and he’d helmed the 12-Meter Courageous in a successful defense of the 1974 America’s Cup. After 40 years of racing and building well-regarded racing and cruising sailboats, he nimbly crossed the boundary from sail to power in the 1990s.
He started with an excellent base design, one created by Ray Hunt for Luhrs Marine Group that eventually became the Black Watch 30 in 1986, a sportfishing powerboat that was one of the Ted Hood Company’s model lines. According to Winn Willard, president of Ray Hunt Design, “Ted was more interested in cruising than fishing, so he began to develop the Little Harbor WhisperJet from that 30-footer.”
Hood extended the dimensions of Hunt’s deep-V design across a range of four twin-diesel, waterjet-powered boats ranging in length from 36 to 52 feet.
Hood gave the WhisperJet 38 a well-raked stem with a significant flare for dry running in open waters, three pairs of lifting strakes, and long planing runs aft that terminated in 17 degrees of deadrise at the transom. The foredeck and cabin trunk were cambered slightly for optimal runoff, and welded stainless steel handrails along obstruction-free decks made anchoring and line-handling more secure.
To keep the boat light and strong, Hood specified a hybrid Kevlar reinforcement in the hull lamination, as well as closed-cell coring for the hull and deck. Powered by either twin 350-hp Yanmar diesels turning Hamilton waterjet drives, the WhisperJet 38 could attain cruising speeds in the high 20-knot range and top speeds in the low 30-knot range. With a maximum depth of 1 foot, 10 inches and no running gear protruding below the surface, the boat could be safely navigated through fields of crab or lobster pot markers or be used to explore shallow waters unreachable by boats with traditional drivetrains.
Denison Yachting is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Olympic View Yachts.
Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but can’t guarantee the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal from that yacht market without notice. She is offered as a convenience by this yacht broker to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a specific yacht for sale.
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