1981 Norseman 44' (13.41 m) 447
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
SeaQuel
Solidly built cruising yacht, built by Ta Shing in Taiwan and designed by Robert Perry, featuring an aft cockpit, cutter rig with new standing rigging (2023), and an inviting interior with two cabins, two heads, and lots of storage.
Tax Paid
Flag of Registry: United States
- Cruisers
- Sail
- Used
- Diesel
- Fiberglass Hull
- HIN/IMO: NYR44141081
$ 135,000 USD
€ 116,011 Euros
$ 186,349 CAD
£ 100,155 GBP
Description
The Norseman 447 is considered one of Robert H. Perry’s top cruising yachts. Built by Ta Shing in Taiwan, recognized for craftsmanship and strong offshore builds, the 447 unites performance, comfort, and capable passagemaking.
Its solid fiberglass hull, extended fin keel with encapsulated lead ballast, skeg-hung rudder, and moderate displacement offer stable, forgiving motion at sea. The cutter rig adds versatility and easy sail management in varied conditions. Wide side decks, a secure cockpit, and a thoughtful deck layout support safety and confidence for short-handed, long-range sailing.
Below deck, SEAQUEL features a warm, hand-crafted teak interior and quality joinery, creating an inviting living space. The practical layout includes two private cabins, two heads, a spacious main salon, and an efficient offshore-ready galley with ample storage.
SEAQUEL offers solar power for energy independence, a bow thruster for easy close-quarters maneuvering, and a full suite of cruising equipment. Generous tankage, abundant storage, and integrated systems make her ideal for long-range cruising.
Whether passagemaking or coastal cruising, SEAQUEL is a proven, dependable platform ready to take her next owners wherever they choose.
- Bow Thruster
- Monitor Wind Vane self-steering system, stainless steel mounting brackets to the transom
- Standing rigging replaced in 2023 and inspected in 2025.
- Stable and sea-kindly blue-water cruiser with 12,000 lbs of ballast (44% ballast to displacement ratio)
- NEMA 2000 Network (New in 2025)
- Furuno GP1870F chartplotter at the helm - New in 2026 with updated East Coast charts
- Raymarine i‑TriData depth/speed (New in 2026)
- Raymarine wind instruments (New in 2026)
- AIS Class B - EM-Trak 8953 (New in 2026)
- An insurance survey from November 2025 is available upon request
Data Sheet
HIN/IMO: NYR44141081
Official Number: 649742
LOA: 44' 7'' (13.59 Meters)
Type: Sail- Used
Year: 1981
Beam: 13'
LWL: 37' 6''
Draft Max: 6' 4''
Draft Min: 6' 4''
Cabins: 2
Heads: 2
Fuel Type: Diesel
Hull Material: Fiberglass
Hull Shape: Monohull
Bridge Clearance: 63'
Fuel Tank: 100 Gallons (378.54 Liters)
Fresh Water: 200 Gallons (757.08 Liters)
Displacement: 28000 lbs
Ballast Weight: 12000 lbs
Imported: Yes
Designer: Robert H. Perry
Builder: Ta Shing Yacht Building LTD.
Multimedia
Engines
Engine 1
- Engine Make: Lehman/Indenor
- Engine Model: XDP 4.90
- Engine Type: Inboard
- Drive Type: V
- Power HP: 61.00
- Power KW: 45.49
- Fuel Type: Diesel
General Arrangement
Norseman Manufacturer's Brochure
Full Details
Interior
Seaquel features a two-cabin, two-head layout with a comfortable salon, a functional galley, a dedicated forward-facing navigation station, and a separate mechanical area. Excellent headroom throughout the salon and galley, combined with abundant natural light and ventilation, creates an inviting and comfortable interior environment.
The teak joinery is beautifully crafted, giving the vessel a warm, classic feel. Storage space is plentiful throughout the boat, and multiple fans provide excellent airflow and ventilation. While Seaquel is not equipped with air conditioning, numerous opening hatches, ports, and fans keep the interior well ventilated underway or at anchor. Equipped with a diesel heater.
Stepping below decks, Seaquel immediately feels safe, secure, and comfortable—a yacht designed for capable cruising and an enjoyable time aboard.
Forward Cabin:
- Raised V berth
- Teak-lined lockers
- Deck hatch
- Private access to the forward head
Aft Cabin:
- Large berth
- Teak-lined hanging locker
Main Salon:
- C-shaped settee to port with a teak dining table that drops down to create a berth
- Starboard side settee with a lee cloth
- Teak-planked sole
- LED lighting and rotary fans
Heads:
- Two Raritan PHII manual heads
- Forward wet head
- Aft head with a separate shower compartment
Navigation Station:
- Full-size chart table
- Electrical panels
- Electronics
Galley:
- U‑shaped offshore galley to port
- Dual stainless sinks
- Fresh & raw water foot pumps
- Technautics CoolBlue 12V top-opening refrigeration/freezer
- Seaward Marine 3‑burner LPG stove/oven
Hull, Deck, and Cockpit
Hull:
- Stable and sea-kindly blue-water cruiser with 12,000 lbs of ballast (44% ballast to displacement ratio)
- Encapsulated fin lead keel with a skeg-protected rudder
- Green ablative bottom paint (good condition at 2025 haul-out)
- Wind vane
Deck:
- Stainless steel stem fitting with two anchor rollers
- Anchor locker with deck and forward cabin access
- Windlass: James Nilsson windlass with foot controls
- Manson 65 lb primary anchor with 200' 3/8" chain
- Secondary Fortress FX-37 fluke-style anchor stored in aft locker
- Anchor safety cables
- Boarding Ladder: Stainless steel ladder at the starboard side gate.
- 30" high lifelines
- Teak decks re‑caulked in 2023
- Teak‑capped toe rails
- Stainless bow & stern pulpits
- Custom stainless steel mast pulpit
Cockpit:
- A well-protected U-shaped cockpit with several storage lockers, and stbd outboard seating gunwale stowage.
- Teak Edson cockpit table
- Binnacle pod with electronic navigation equipment, center line cockpit.
- Sunbrella dodger, bimini, and cockpit enclosure (green)
- Cockpit cushions (tan)
- There are four large lazarette lockers in the cockpit. One LPG storage locker. One for storage and access to steering, and two for storage.
- Steering: Edson cable quadrant steering system with a 32" wheel.
- Emergency tiller
- Wing seats at the stern
Sails and Rigging
- Cutter rig
- Painted aluminum, keel stepped, double spreader, Forspar mast
- Painted aluminum boom
- Standing rigging replaced in 2023 and inspected in 2025
- Running rigging replaced in 2023
- Harken furlers (genoa & staysail)
- Lewmar Winches: Cockpit combing primary #55 ST, secondary #42 ST. Coach deck port #42 ST, #30 ST, and #44 ST starboard #42 ST. Cabin outboard deck winches, port and starboard #42 ST and #43 ST. Mast-mounted #30 ST.
- SailTec hydraulic backstay & vang
- Spinnaker pole
Sail Inventory:
- Mainsail - serviceable condition
- Genoa - UK Sailmakers - Heavy-duty offshore sail in fair condition
- Staysail - serviceable condition
- Gennaker/UPS - very good condition with a dousing sock
- (2) Reaching spinnakers - very good condition
Mechanical
- 61 HP, 4-cyl, Lehman/Indenor XDP 4.90 diesel engine
- Borg Warner Velvet Drive V drive
- Propeller: 3-bladed bronze feathering MaxProp, prop cone zinc. Forward prop shaft line cutter.
- Alternator: Balmar model:621 100 SR IG, Marine Smart Ready AMPS:100 volts.
- Bow Thruster: Vetus, 12 VDC motor with a control at the helm
- Monitor Wind Vane self-steering system, stainless steel mounting brackets to the transom
Electronics and Entertainment
- NEMA 2000 Network (New in 2025)
- Furuno GP1870F chartplotter at the helm - New in 2026 with updated East Coast charts
- Furuno radar (INOP)
- Raymarine i‑TriData depth/speed (New in 2026)
- Raymarine wind instruments (New in 2026)
- Raytheon/Neco autopilot (INOP)
- AIS Class B - EM-Trak 8953 (New in 2026)
- Icom M324 VHF + Icom M73 handheld
- Ritchie compass
- TV: Insignia LED TV
- Stereo: Boss Bluetooth stereo with two cockpit speakers (New in 2026)
Plumbing
- Fuel:100 gallons
- Water: 200 gallons stored in 4 stainless steel tanks, supplying all onboard water fixtures. Per the manufacturer's brochure, the tanks are removable.
- Water Heater: 10.5 gallons (INOP) TO BE REPLACED BEFORE THE SALE
- Freshwater Pump: West Marine 12-volt electric pump.
- Water Filtration: Seagull IV water filtration system installed at the galley sink, filtering water drawn from the main supply (2023).
- Bilge Pumps: 2 electric bilge pumps and 2 whale manual bilge pumps.
- Bilge high water alarm
- Updated plumbing hoses and components.
- Toilets: Two Raritan manual-flush toilets (2023). The forward head is connected to a blackwater holding tank. The aft head discharges overboard.
- Blackwater Tanks: MSD U.S.C.G. Type III. FRP 30-gallon holding tank for forward head and 20-gallon poly bladder for aft head.
- The macerator pump for the forward head enables discharge from the forward holding tank.
- The holding tanks can be pumped out through deck fittings or through hulls directly overboard.
- Greywater System: Water from the galley and head sinks drains directly overboard, while water from showers drains to a sump, then is pumped overboard by a Jabsco pump.
- LPG system, dual cylinder FRP locker to port stern cockpit seat hatch with a 20lb steel tank. The system has a tank valve, a pressure regulator, an on-off tank valve pressure gauge, and a 12 VDC solenoid
Electrical
- 12V DC / 120V AC
- Battery Bank 1: (6) Fullriver AGM (DC250-6) (750 Ah)
- Battery Bank 2: (2) Fullriver AGM (DC250-6) (250 Ah)
- Xantrex Digital EchoCharge 12/24V 15A, allotted to Battery Bank 2. Xantrex System and 2 Victron Energy Blue Power BMV-700 digital battery monitors.
- Victron BMV‑700 battery monitor
- Alternator
- SmartPlug 30A shore inlet with a 30A shore power cable
- (3) SolarFlexx 120W solar panels (360W total) + MPPT controller
- Air Breeze Wind Turbine Generator
- Inverter: Xantrex Freedom XC200 Inverter (New in 2025)
- Various V.A.C. outlets are available throughout the vessel
Safety Equipment and Extras
- Liferaft: Viking 6-person liferaft (inspected and repacked in 2025)
- EPIRB: McMurdo, SmartFind Plus, GPS Satellite EPIRB, 406 & 121.5 MHZ, Batt expires Nov 2029
- Jacklines
- LifeSling 2
- SOS Dan Bouy man overboard module with stern case
- Multiple PFDs (Type II, III, IV)
- Flares, bell, air horn
- High‑water bilge alarm
- Fire extinguishers (dated 2014)
- Outboard: Tohatsu 9.8 HP outboard (3V2/MFS9.8A3) - Not registered or titled
- Dinghy: Achilles LSI-330E Inflatable dinghy - Not registered or titled
- Awning
- Bosun's chair
- Galerider Drogue
- Magnum Grill
- Teak Flagpole
- Dock lines, fenders, tools, spare parts
- Spare parts for the engine
Disclaimer
The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.
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Contact Us
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We look forward to working with you!
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