Kadey Krogen 48 Whaleback Whale Rider

Kadey-Krogen 48 Whaleback Overview

The Kadey-Krogen 48 Whaleback is a robust and thoughtfully designed long-range trawler, perfect for adventurous mariners seeking comfort and efficiency on extended voyages. With its distinctive profile featuring a full-beam salon and expansive living spaces, the 48 Whaleback offers a remarkable combination of stability, fuel efficiency, and luxurious accommodations. Built for serious cruising, this vessel showcases the craftsmanship and seaworthiness that Kadey-Krogen yachts are known for, making it an ideal choice for those who appreciate both performance and timeless design. Whether navigating coastal waters or embarking on offshore journeys, the Kadey-Krogen 48 Whaleback stands as a testament to practical elegance and uncompromising quality.

Whale Rider Features

• Proven Cruising History - Whalerider has completed the Great Loop after being purchased in Stuart, Florida, by a previous owner, a Pacific Coast cruise to Mexico, and then Alaska before returning to San Francisco Bay. Upon purchase, the new owner brought Whale Rider from San Francisco to her current home in Channel Islands Harbor, CA.


• Full Displacement Hull: Designed for long-range cruising with excellent fuel efficiency and stability.


• Portuguese Bridge: Enhances safety and provides a commanding view from the pilothouse.


• Spacious Interior: Beam-to-beam living spaces with a single-level main deck, offering a comfortable and ergonomic layout.


• Reliable Engine: Powered by a Caterpillar 3208NA engine, delivering an economical cruising speed of around 8 knots.


• High-Quality Construction: Solid fiberglass bottom with Kevlar reinforcement for durability.


• Advanced Navigation & Electronics: Furuno Radar/Chartplotter, Simrad AP 26 Autopilot, SEA225 SSB, and Tracvision Satellite TV.


• Comfortable Accommodations: Three staterooms, two heads, and a separate dining area with 4-zone heat and air conditioning provide for liveaboard or extended cruising.


• 2500-Mile Capability: 1020 gal of fuel, 540 gal of water tanks, a 12kw Northern Light generator, and a 600 gal per day Village Marine allow for extended voyages.


• Stabilized for Cruising Comfort – Wesmar hydraulic stabilizers and a steadying sail provide a smooth passage.


• Tender – A Zodiac RIB tender with a 40 hp Yamaha outboard is easily launched from the aft upper deck with the MarQupt davit.

Whale Rider is built for serious cruising and offers a blend of practicality, comfort, and seaworthiness. It is ready to embark on its next cruising adventure.

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Accommodations

The Kadey-Krogen 48 Whaleback is a long-range trawler designed for comfortable cruising. Its accommodations are thoughtfully laid out for extended stays aboard.

Spacious Deckhouse—The main living area features two L-shaped settees and a separate dining table with folding leaves, creating a cozy and functional space. The upholstery, cockpit salon, and tables were all replaced in 2019.

Galley: Positioned forward to starboard, the galley is well-equipped with a refrigerator/freezer, microwave convection oven, LP gas range/oven, and a trash compactor. There’s ample storage and a deep stainless steel sink.

Guest Accommodations—Whalerider features a guest head with a stall shower, a guest stateroom/den/office that sleeps two, and a second guest stateroom with two single berths.

Master Suite: The master stateroom is forward and features an oversized centerline berth with plenty of lockers and storage space. The master head includes a tub/shower combo.

Pilothouse & Upper Deck: A curved stairway leads to the enclosed bridge/pilothouse, which has Dutch doors opening to the upper side decks and Portuguese bridge. There’s an L-shaped settee with a dining table and a wet bar with an icemaker.

Cockpit & Swim Platform: The aft deck has all the necessary tracks to be enclosed with EZ2CY panels, which protect it from the elements. The swim platform allows easy access to the water for activities like diving or snorkeling.

Boat Deck: Surrounding the pilothouse is a massive boat deck with abundant space for personal watercraft and cross-country bikes and loads of free space to handle dock lines comfortably. For optimum, limitless cruising, the Whaleback 48' takes you confidentially and comfortably to your destination with fuel economy every knot of the way.

Construction, Hull and Deck

Below the waterline, a solid hand-laid PPG combo mat fiberglass is used, and a closed-cell P.V.C. sandwich core is used on the topsides. Vinylester resin is used in the first two laminates below the waterline.

End-grained balsa-cored superstructure, pilothouse, and boat deck. Core mat is also used to reduce print-through in marine plywood bulkheads. Mahogany stringers and frames are glassed in place and encased in fiberglass. Decks and pilothouse roof are 1 1/2" end-grain balsa core.

All Windows are tempered glass. The pilothouse front windows are 3/8" thick and all others are 3/16" thick with aluminum framing.

Besides the Architectural Integrity of a Kadey-Krogen, the hull design is perhaps the most critical reason why seasoned mariners are attracted in the first place and also why so many come to love the brand. Each Krogen yacht begins with Kadey-Krogen’s exclusive Pure Full Displacement ® (PFD) hull- a masterpiece design for full-displacement pleasure yachts, created in the 1970s by James S. Krogen. This is a hull form with ideal displacement-to-length ratios, a fine entry, and characteristic end-to-end symmetry, including the signature “wineglass” transom, all producing a ride that is truly without equal.

Krogen is singularly focused and only builds this proven, reliable, seaworthy, sea-kindly cruising hull form. The Pure Full Displacement hull design does what it does so well that cruisers are ensured a safer and more comfortable time aboard than vessels built upon other hull forms. Only the pure full displacement hull provides stability and comfort, plus ample room for the fuel and supplies needed to make long passages or cross an ocean. Only the exclusive Kadey-Krogen hull form allows us to perfectly combine the elements to deliver capability and livability.

Hydrostatic Data

• 2000NM Range @ 2000rpm making 9kts burning 1.5gph


• Displacement/Length Ratio (D/L) 269


• Above/Below Water Area Ratio (A/B) 2.6


• Primatic Coefficient (PC) .60


• Pounds Per Inch Immersion 2600lbs


• Moment-to-trim One inch 6390 ft. lbs


• Longitudinal Center of Buoyancy (LCB) 51.8% (Aft)


• Longitudinal Center of Floatation (LCF) 55.8% (Aft)

Mechanical Systems

• Original Caterpillar 3208NA 210hp @ 2800rpm - 7694 hrs


• Naturally-aspirated (104 liter) 636 cu in displacement with 45in bore and 5.0 in stroke, four-stroke cycle, 8 cylinders, 90-degree, V-design engine


• Twin Disc Caterpillar transmission Model# MG 506 - Gear 2.96: 1 ratio


• Shaft: 2 "AquaMet" S/S direct drive


• Fiberglass shaft log


• Brass with inner rubber cutlass bearing


• Left-hand 30in x 22in pitch three-bladed bronze propeller


• S/S rectangular rudder


• S/S skeg (foot) secured to the bottom of the rudder


• 125A Alternator


• Dual Racor fuel filters with vacuum gauge


• Fuel polishing system


• Wesmar hydraulic stabilizers


• Wesmar hydraulic bow thruster


• Vickers hydraulic pump with Wilkes & McLean noise suppressor


• Village Marine 600GPD watermaker


• 4 Zone Ocean Marine reverse cycle air conditioning


• Reverso oil change system


• Racor Fuel Filters


• Sight gauges on fuel tanks


• Fuel tanks (3) black iron epoxy


• Fuel transfer pump


• Fireboy automatic fire suppression system


• (2) Water tanks S/S


• Galley Maid anchor and deck washdown


• Fresh water pump with accumulator tank


• Air compressor with aft deck connector


• Bonding system


• 20 gal water heater


• Fiberglass battery boxes


• Spur line cutter

Electrical Systems

• 12kW Northern Lights Generator w/sound shield (4964 hrs)


• (4)8D house Batteries (new 2023)


• (1) Engine Start Battery (new 2023)


• (1) Gen. Start Battery (new 2023)


• (2) 50A Shore Power receptacles (foredeck & cockpit)


• 2500W Magnum Inverter/Charger

Electronics

• Furuno 48mile Radar


• Simrad AP26 Autopilot


• Garmin GPSmap 182C


• Furuno RD30 Display


• Depth & Speed


• Raymarine Tri-Data Autohelm Series


• Tracvision Dish Network Satellite TV Dome


• Horizon with DDS VHF


• Standard LH10 hailer/intercom


• SEA225 SSB


• Electronic cards for West Coast, East Coast, Great Loop & Bahamas

Additional Equipment

• Full USCG Safety Gear


• Diesel Furnace


• All-new upholstery, custom salon & cockpit tables (2019)


• Turkish-inspired "Gullet" custom cockpit couch


• Custom lazarette & master cabin bilge storage shelving


• Window covers & new boot stripe


• Steadying sail


• Zodiac Dinghy with 40 hp Yamaha outboard


• New Groco Paragon Water Pump (2024)


• New Vacuflush Pump for Owners Head (2024)


• New Vulcan 88lb anchor (2024)

Excluded Equipment

Owner's items are excluded. Exclusions include, but are not limited to, Seller's possessions, loose items, binoculars, handheld radio(s), charts, tools, fishing equipment, spare parts, clothing, foul weather gear, galley equipment, linens/bedding, and any items not specifically listed on the equipment list specifications sheet.

Additional Excluded Items:

• Dinghy on the transom and the outboard motor


• Artwork


• Tools


• Bedding


• Chelsea clock and barometer in pilothouse


• EPIRB


• Kitchen items