* Price reduced on 11/2/2024 to $1,575,000.00.*

Perry 61' Ketch: An American designed and US built Classic: 

Don't be confused by the year of construction on this beautiful NEW yacht! Her hull was laid up in 2016 and she has a few items to be still completed before she is ready to launch for her first commissioning from the factory to make her a 2024 model year for her first owner of record! Seller will warrant mechanical and electrical systems for a period of 6 months after final yacht acceptance, post commissioning and sea trials completed. Pacific Seacraft will warrant construction and structural components for a period of one year after purchase.

Call, text or email us for a just completed (11/1/2023) out of the water, comprehensive survey. 

The Perry 61 Ketch was conceived by Paul Serini, designed by Robert Perry, engineered by Ivan Erdeviki, and built by Pacific Seacraft. The major drivers in the design were safety, superior strength, heavy weather capability, performance under varied conditions, shorthanded operation, ample storage for gear, water, and fuel, practical functionality, and timeless, elegant traditional beauty. The Perry 61 Ketch is all of this, and more. 

This is a beautiful head turning yacht! She is long and lean, and safe under way, designed for a quality minded, adventurous cruising couple with occasional guests or crew. With her high bulwarks, custom rails, narrow beam thoughtful handholds, and protected hard–dodger, she’s built to go out in confident comfort when most others cower in the inlet. She is heavily reinforced and boasts multiple water tight honeycomb chambers, to survive hard groundings and collisions – something we all hope is never tested.

Her modern underwater design, 7 foot draft, modified flared fin keel, and monoque carbon fiber rudder grant her access to most cruising grounds yet permit her to heave to when needed, all without so much wetted surface that she becomes sluggish under sail, or when backing up under the power of her fuel-sipping John Deere marine diesel engine and 5-blade feathering Max Prop.

She was designed to sail in comfort as far north or south as 65°. Sail handling systems assume a crew of 2 to 3, with a split rig with modest sail sizes and reefing capabilities that provide a huge range of sail combinations and sizes, allowing 1 to 2 people to raise, douse, and reef sails in safety. Her sleek, narrow frame will allow her to sail in light air, and then spring to her feet in moderate to heavy winds.

No expense was spared in her construction, with all specified materials and components being the Best of the Best. From the cast lead ballast keel with nineteen 1.25” Aqualoy bolts, to the custom hand laid tapered carbon spars and custom furling booms, to her massive bespoke Ideal windlass, everything about her exudes quality.

The custom interior is as unique as it is spectacular. Craftsman built Honduran mahogany trim, black walnut and mahogany furniture, a custom teak and stainless watertight butterfly hatch, and rare 18th century, clear vertical grade antique heart of pine for the sole, all make her truly one of a kind. The unapologetic jet-black hull, teak decks, and varnished trim mean she’ll turn heads in any setting, and put a proud smile on your face when you approach her at dock.

For that unique and discriminating person, the Perry 61 Ketch will fulfill the wildest of cruising dreams, and become a cherished heirloom for many future generations.

Custom Robert Perry 61 Ketch:

By Pacific Seacraft.

Designer                               Robert Perry

Engineer                               Ivan Erdevicki

LOA                                          61’-0”

LOD                                          69’-0”

LWL                                          49’-2”

Beam                                         15’-6”

Displacement                     50,000 lbs (lws)

Ballast                                  16,500 lbs

Draft                                       6’-10”

Bridge Clearance            65’-0” + Aerials

Sail Area                               1,518 sf (496 main, 364 mizzen and 658 head)

Water                                    200 gal

Fuel                                         230 gal 

STYX rating: Call for complete analysis.              

GENERAL:

• Custom designed, engineered, and built for world cruising in a variety of harsh environments.
• Modern construction and underbody with timeless classic design and details
• Dual cockpit with line handing and helm at stern cockpit, halyards and reefing at center cockpit
• Center cockpit table and seating
• Hard dodger/integrated pilot house aft
•  Built with an open checkbook and the best of everything.
• Unique custom cabinetry and woodwork throughout in Burmese Teak, Honduran Mahogany, Black Walnut, and stunning Antique Heart Pine.
• Designed for shorthanded operation, with practical sea-berths, and a proper ocean-going layout.
• Two staterooms with three additional sea-berths (sleeps 8)
• Classic Hereshoff interior
• Custom drop-down integral boarding steps aft

CONSTRUCTION:

• Female molded hull and deck for minimal fairing requirement
• 100% vinylester resin used in hull construction
• Stitched bi-axial E-glass with Kevlar reinforcement in lower hull and stem
• DIAB Divynicell high density closed cell foam core vacuum consolidated
• Heavy overbuilt construction with robust grid structure
• Carbon fiber spade rudder with oversize Jefa top and bottom roller bearings
• Oversized waterjet-cut 316 stainless chainplates bolted through continuous heavy structural ring frame. 
• Did we ever add the connectors for a Jordan Drogue?
• External lead ballast with nineteen 1.5” Aqualoy keel bolts with full backing plates
• Custom high-end metalwork throughout.
• Black Awlgrip Hull with gold cove

Mechanical:

• John Deere 4045TFM50 (130 hp) auxiliary propulsion engine
• Easy stand-up access to engine room
• Custom workbench and tool storage
• Two primary fuel tanks with day tank in engine room
• Reverso Fuel polishing system with transfer manifolds
• 5-Blade feathering MaxProp for drag reduction and improved reversing
• Jefa mechanical gear-driven steering
• Sea-Chest for most raw water consumers, accessible and able to be cleared in-water.
• Jefa direct drive gearbox autopilot
• 36k total btu Domestic air conditioning and heating system (2 units)

ELECTRICAL:

• 110 V AC Electrical System with Transformer for European operation
• 50 amp shore power inlet
• 7 kw Northern Lights AC Generator
• Dual 200 amp alternators (12 and 24V)
• 24 and 12 V DC systems

PLUMBING:

• Two heads
• Large separate shower in master with teak and glass shower door.
• Grohe fixtures
• Hand-hammered, nickel plated, vessel sinks in heads
• Large undermount stainless sinks in galley
• Saltwater washdown system
• Hot and cold freshwater cockpit shower

DECK HARDWARE:

• Harken Italian stainless 24 electric winches
• Harken and Antal deck hardware
• Custom Ideal stainless windlass
• Custom fabricated aluminum box-frame davits with 24V powered hoists
• Custom railings and stanchions in heavy gauge 1.25: stainless tubing
• Custom stainless bow pulpit/sprit
• Custom stainless bow pan for anchor washdown
• Ultra 100 lb stainless anchor

HATCHES, PORTLIGHTS & VENTILATION:

• 16 Newfound Metals opening portlights
• Hood/Pompanette stainless deck hatches
• 3 Newfound Metals round opening hull ports
• Custom Freeman Marine watertight deck hatch on foredeck.
• Classic Vetus stainless dorade cowl ventilators
• Custom teak and stainless butterfly hatch
• Large dry storage locker in bow
• Oversized stowage in aft cockpit

SAILS & RIGGING:

• Custom fabricated carbon rig by Offshore Spars
• Custom fabricated carbon furling booms by Offshore Spars
• 24V DC powered boom furlers by Bamar
• 24V electric Reckmann headsail furler
• Navtec hydraulic boom vangs
• Full suite of custom UK offshore sails including mermaid logo spinnaker and mizzen staysail

Saloon & navigation station:

• Custom two position teak table seating for 8
• Raised Pilot berth to port
• Custom walnut bar and wind storage
• Full sized Navigation station

GALLEY:

• Honduran Mahogany contertops
• 5- burner GN Espace gimballing LP range with custom stainless exhaust hood
• Large undermount stainless sinks
• Top-loading refer with 24V cold plate refrigeration
• Top loading chest freezer under workbench with 24V cold plates
• Stainless commercial 110V trash compactor
• Stainless microwave
• Custom lighting fixtures

* Call Central Agent John Kaiser for further details and to arrange your personal inspection in Washington, North Carolina.