In 1999, working from a Sparkman & Stephens design, the Lyman-Morse shipyard in Maine built the 55-foot flybridge motoryacht Nighthawk.
The boat has remained in the same family ever since, cruising with the owner-operators between Maine and the Caribbean, and returning to the shipyard for professional maintenance. She received a refit in 2009.
Now, Nighthawk is being offered on the brokerage market for the first time, at an asking price of $935,000.
Nighthawk has twin 600-horsepower Caterpillar 3196 engines that give her a cruising speed of 17 knots and a top speed of 21 knots, according to Lyman-Morse. The interior is satin-varnished cherry wood with raised panels and Herreshoff-style white bulkheads. There are two staterooms with three heads, accommodating as many as five people overnight. A dumbwaiter runs up to the flybridge, and custom-designed Thos Moser chairs are in the salon.
What kind of electronics are in the pilothouse and on the flybridge? Mostly Raymarine and Simrad, including chart plotters and autopilots.
Where to learn more: visit lymanmorse.com
