Haganes - CUSTOM FOR SALE

1907 Custom MV Haganes. Once a classic expedition and research charter yacht cruising Asia, she is now based in The Bahamas.

History

Ideal for weddings, honeymoons, film work, research, or pure relaxation, she is air conditioned, offers multiple cabins, and is equipped for fishing and diving; she has been well maintained and it shows. The MV Haganes is a 109-year-old former whaling ship, presently in need of some TLC and not in service for about 5 years, including a haulout with bottom painting and a thorough review of the various onboard systems. Her current owners purchased her from a couple who transformed her into a mini cruise ship, cruised the world with her, and operated her as both a dive charter and a luxury cruise charter.

In 2010 the vessel was purchased by a survey and research company and received a complete refit for deep-ocean survey work. A high-end suite of electronics was installed, and every system on board was addressed. Research has identified this refit history: 1928 / 1938 / 1940 / 1952 / 1965 / 1995 / 2003 / 2008/2010. The owners have since acquired a larger vessel and are placing HAGANES up for sale.

HAGANES has enjoyed many lives and many names. Built in 1907 as a whaling ship by Nyland Verksted in Oslo, her building number is 168. She was delivered to her first owners, H. Ellefsen, in Mjoafjord, Iceland, in March 1907 and named GUNNAR HAMUNDARSON. Over the years she has led a colorful career, including conversion to a yacht for the chairman of “King Oscar” Sardines. In 1938, as war loomed in Europe, she was chartered by the Norwegian Navy as a watch boat, and in 1940 she was taken by the Deutsche Kriegsmarine (Nazi Germany’s navy) and converted into a patrol boat. Around 1964 she became a coastal freighter, a transformation whose basic form and layout largely define her profile today.

From then until 2003 she passed through several owners, until she was rescued and restored to her former beauty by the couple who placed her into charter in the warm, clear waters of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The current sellers purchased her there, crossed the ocean on her own bottom to Mexico for refit, put her to work, and she now sits in Freeport Harbor in the Bahamas. She can sail anywhere in the world on her own bottom and is a true blue-water vessel. If you seek a head-turner with an extraordinary past, this is your girl.