Yacht designer Steve Seaton has teamed with Seattle Yachts to relaunch Northwest Yachts as a series of semidisplacement power cruisers from 52 to 58 feet. The first model to land stateside from an Asia-based yard is a 55 that was recently delivered to the builder’s headquarters in Anacortes, Wash., for final commissioning.
Northwest bases each model on a 17-foot, 2-inch beam and offers a semicustom build process with a choice of two or three staterooms, interior finishes and John Deere power plants in single or twin configurations up to 750 hp apiece. Expanded tankage from the standard 1,200-gallon fuel capacity is another option.
Commonalities on all models are wide, walkaround side decks, a dedicated pilothouse with a Portuguese bridge, a roomy flybridge and a boat deck with a Steelhead davit. Hull No. 1 is powered by twin 300-hp Deere 6068s, which the builder says give the 55 a 10-knot cruise and an approximate 1,000-nautical-mile range with a 20 percent reserve. northwestyachts.com
