72′DeFever Yachts for Sale
11 DeFever yachts currently listed from 40′ to 72′, $36K to $500K. Lying in Florida, Ohio and five other states, across 9 models, built between 1978 and 2004. We will shortlist the yachts worth your time and be aboard for every showing.
About DeFever
Arthur DeFever spent the 1950s designing long-range tuna clippers out of San Diego: working boats that stayed at sea for weeks. Sailors watching those hulls go out in weather that kept everything else in port asked him to draw them a pleasure yacht on the same lines. Six were built to start with, and the trawler yacht as we understand it followed from there. More than 3,800 vessels were built to his designs before he died in 2013, buried at sea.
A DeFever is not a model; it is a design bought by a series of yards: the early Passagemaker 34 and 40 came out of Jensen Marine in California, most of the rest from CTF and Sen Koh in Kaohsiung, and later hulls from mainland China. They are semi-displacement, so they will hurry if you ask, but the point is that they will keep going all day at eight knots on very little fuel. Which yard built her matters as much as the model number: ask, and survey accordingly.
- Founded
- 1960
- Shipyard
- San Diego, California · built in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Status
- Built in small numbers · the designer died in 2013
- Construction
- Fiberglass (GRP)
- Builds
- Passagemaker trawlers, Long-range cruisers
- Worth knowing
- Arthur DeFever drew commercial tuna boats first. More than 3,800 vessels were built to his designs, and the trawler yacht as a type is largely his invention.
DeFever models for sale
| Model | For sale | Years | Length | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeFever 53 POC | 2 | 1986 to 1988 | 53′ | $135K |
| DeFever 40 OFFSHORE | 1 | 1985 | 40′ | $36K |
| DeFever 42 | 1 | 1978 | 42′ | $60K |
| DeFever 53 Performance Offshore Cruiser | 1 | 1988 | 53′ | $500K |
| DeFever 72 | 1 | 1986 | 72′ | $395K |
| DeFever CPMY | 1 | 2004 | 49′ | $425K |
| DeFever Raised Pilothouse | 1 | 1984 | 49′ | $175K |
| DeFever RPH | 1 | 1983 | 49′ | $149K |
| DeFever Tri-Cabin | 1 | 1987 | 48′ | $195K |
Current DeFever listings
View all 11 →72′
53′
53′
53′Under contract
49′
49′
49′
48′
44′
42′
40′Under contract
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