The Sea Force IX 56.5 is a whole new take on the center console.
The Sea Force IX 56.5 Center Console “Inboard Diesel” Sport Yacht is the second launch in the line of cutting-edge center consoles from the Palmetto, Florida-based builder.
Hull No. 1 of the Sea Force IX 56.5 is scheduled to hit the water later this year.
She is equipped with twin MAN D2862LE436 marine diesel engines offering 1,400 horsepower. When equipped with the big MAN engines, the boat is expected to run at a top speed of approximately 48 knots and cruise at 40 knots. Additionally, the boat has a 1,400-gallon fuel tank.
The 56.5 Sport comes standard with a 900-gallon-per-day watermaker, carries 150 gallons of fresh water and has a 30-gallon holding tank. The boat is loaded with standard features such as a 23kW generator and cabin air conditioner.
Forward cabin accommodations include fully functioning head, compact galley, dinette/single berth, and a double berth. The custom double-helm pedestal seating includes four more riding seats mounted to the prep center and full powder-coated aluminum pipework.
The Sea Force IX 41.5 Sport Center Console is a tournament-ready boat that is equally suited to be a yacht tender.
Big center consoles often must fill many roles—one day a serious sport fisherman, the next a shuttle tender to a yacht, then a pleasure cruiser and, after that, a dive boat with easy reboarding access. Fortunately, owners of the Sea Force IX Sport Center Console have everything they need for those multiple roles already built into the boat.
Designers of the 41.5 Sport are accustomed to drawing up much bigger vessels for the team to build at the Palmetto, Florida, facility. The Sea Force IX model lineup starts with the 41.5 Sport (41’8″ LOA, 12′ beam) as the first in the new Performance Sport Outboard center console line and climbs up to the 131.5 Luxury Performance Skybridge Sport Yacht (131’8″ LOA, 26’10” beam).
“This is the smallest boat we have ever built,” explains Rick Hyer, design engineer at Sea
Force IX, during the launch of the boat at the 2017 Fort Lauderdale International Boat
Show. “Our primary market is from 81 to 94 feet with inboard sportfishing boats. Now we have ventured into this larger center console market, with a 55-footer next. The construction is all composite, all vinylester resin.”
Powered by triple Yamaha 350-hp four-stroke outboard engines, the Sea Force IX 41.5 Sport is a wave crusher and offers a smooth ride in rough conditions. She also carries some heft at more than 21,000 pounds. However, with a full load and five passengers, she still can run to the 55-plus-mph top speed and cruise comfortably in the 40-mph range.
“This is a bottom design that Sea Force IX has proven to be successful with,” says Todd Albrecht, sales and marketing manager for Sea Force IX. Prior to his current position, Albrecht had long been with Jupiter Marine, and his experience with larger center consoles helped guide Sea Force IX with its new center console line. “It has been modified to get a little more deadrise, from a traditional 17-degree deadrise to a 23-degree bottom. The boat creates lift for the entire running surface with twin lifting strakes on both sides, no steps, and large chines. The faster you push the throttles, the higher it gets out of the water, and reduced wetting surface increases the fuel efficiency.”
A boat this big is a prime candidate for both the Yamaha Helm Master system and the Seakeeper 5 gyro stabilizer. Both are options, but neither product was on this boat, which was hull No. 1 of the 41.5 Sport line. However, Yamaha’s service network can now add the Helm Master system after the boat is purchased. While the joystick control may be what everyone talks about when discussing Helm Master, there’s much more to the system.
Because Helm Master now works with twin, triple and quad engine setups, it’s suitable for a variety of boat types and sizes. For 2018, Yamaha added a new feature with Helm Master called SetPoint. The feature’s three modes— FishPoint, DriftPoint, and StayPoint—provide even greater control for situations such as fishing, waiting for a bridge and controlled drifting.
The Sea Force IX 41.5 Sport Center Console is equipt with an elegant Edson wood steering wheel and twin Garmin GPSMAP 7616 multi-function displays.
Ride in style and comfort with these Llebroc helm chairs with footrests on the Sea Force IX 41.5 Sport Center Console.
Paying homage to the builder’s fishing background, the 41.5 Sea Force IX Sport Center Consolehas twenty (yes, 20) rod holders and rocket launchers. There’s also a 60-gallon livewell, custom outriggers, icemaker, abundant tackle storage, and a cockpit nearly big enough for a fighting chair. “We installed a diesel generator with a 30-gallon fuel tank,” Albrecht adds.
“For a weeklong trip to The Bahamas, that’s going to be enough fuel to power the generator so you can run everything, including the 16,000-BTU air conditioning, which offers two additional vents plumbed to the helm area.”
The two front-seat passengers and the captain ride in style on Llebroc helm chairs with footrests, while the captain looks forward to an elegant Edson wood steering wheel and twin Garmin GPSMAP 7616 multi-function displays. The Yamaha throttles and shifters are in a comfortable position and teak wood lines above decks. The helm is protected by an expansive hardtop. “The hardtop arch is an aluminum frame, and then the top is cored fiberglass,” says Albrecht. “We then paint the aluminum in house. The only way to give it this custom look was to do it ourselves.”
Below, the cabin of the Sea Force IX Sport Center Console has teak woodwork and a cabin that features a dining table that lowers on an electric actuator and converts the dinette to a queen berth. The cabin also features UltraLeather for all the fabric surfaces and Staron countertops. Accessories include an AC/DC stainless steel drawer-style refrigerator, microwave and freshwater sink. A stand-up head is much appreciated as is the abundant storage. In addition, access to the air conditioner and other ship’s systems is all easily achieved down below. A Bomar deck hatch allows for plenty of natural light and ventilation.
“We considered how someone is going to use this boat. They are going to fish, but they are also going to cruise, so it needs to be a yacht-style boat,” says Albrecht. “Here in
the bow, you have two big, comfortable lounge seats and a nice clean anchor setup.” Sea Force IX went with the shoot-through-the-bow-style anchor design that offers a crisp look
as well as shaving off overall length. “It started with our clients up north who are paying by the foot for dock space. “Having that anchor hanging is an extra foot of cost to them
at the dock. It’s a cleaner look to tuck it into the bow.”
The design of the Sea Force IX Sport Center Console includes a removable swim ladder, deployable from either side of the aft teak platform. The ladder attachments are built directly into the hull. “We built a boat that can be customized and used for many different activities,” Albrecht states. “That’s the goal with this center console line, and we’re looking forward to offering boats with even more utility and performance.”
SPECIFICATIONS
LOA: 41′ 8″ Beam: 12′ Draft: 2′ 8″ Displacement: 21,000 lbs. Fuel/Water: 500/60 gals. Power: 3x Yamaha
350-hp outboards Cruise/Top Speed: 41/55 MPH Range @ cruise: 375 nm MSRP: Price upon request Contact: Sea Force IX
(941) 721-9009 seaforceix.com
The Sea Force IX 41.5 Sport Center Console (41’8″ LOA, 12′ beam) comes loaded with features like dual transom dive/boarding doors and an electric head. Other features include the 16,000 BTU air conditioning in the cabin/console, which also is plumbed to the helm area, refrigerator and 440-pound-per-day ice chipper with above-deck dump.
Stay comfortable in three-wide helm seating with flip-up bolsters and armrests, recessed seating across the transom and additional lounge seating in the bow. Intended to get
you there in style, this tournament ready sportfish will be equally well suited to the yacht tender and Caribbean cruising markets. Powered by triple 350-hp Yamahas, she runs to a top speed of 55 mph and cruises at 35 mph with a 400-mile range.
The Sea Force IX 41.5 Sport CC (LOA: 41′ 5″, Beam: 12′) is the first in a new line of 41.5- to 56.5-foot boats from the Palmetto, Florida-based builder. The launch date for hull No. 1 is mid-summer 2017. When equipped with 1,200 maximum horsepower, the boat is expected to run at a top speed of approximately 60 mph and cruise at 40 mph, with an estimated 400-plus-mile range using the 500-gallon fuel tank.
The Sea Force IX 41.5 Sport CC also carries 60 gallons of fresh water, has a 15-gallon holding tank and carries 30 gallons of diesel for the optional generator. The boat is loaded with standard features like dual-transom side-entry boarding doors, electric head, AGM batteries, LED lighting throughout, microwave, AC/DC refrigerator, air conditioning in the console cabin as well as plumbed to the helm, three-wide helm seating with flip-up bolsters and armrests, and full powder-coated aluminum pipework. All construction will be 100 percent composite utilizing high-quality vinylester resins, epoxy, high-density PVC core, and the most advanced multi-directional knitted fiberglass available.
