Description
Morning Star has the two-stateroom, two-head layout. Some of her recent upgrades include:
- Newer prop shafts
- Newer couplers
- Newer cutlass bearings
- Newer repacking of shaft glands
- Newer bottom painting including epoxy primer (2026)
- New Simrad auto pilot
- Two new heads, holding tank and hoses
- New toilet monitoring system
- New expanded capacity hot water heater
- New Blue Seas battery monitor
- 2025 (4) new AGM house batteries
- New solar panels with Victron connect system
- New VHF/AIS on fly bridge
- New 260' anchor chain for bow anchor
- New flybridge stereo
- Upgraded fuel system w/backup Racor fuel filters on both engines as well as electric priming pumps
- Recent fuel polishing done on both tanks
- Engine oil tested in 2023
Specifications
Overview
- Asking Price
- $65,000
- Year
- 1978
- Make
- DeFever
- Model
- 41 Trawler
- Builder
- Formosa
- Designer
- Defever
- Condition
- Used
- Type
- Trawlers, Aft Cabin
- Hull Material
- Fiberglass
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CAApproximate area
Dimensions & Weight
- LOA
- 41 ft (12.5 m)
- Beam
- 14.17 ft (4.32 m)
- Draft
- 4 ft (1.22 m)
- Displacement
- 23,000 lb (10,433 kg)
Performance
- Cruising Speed
- 8 kn
Engines & Propulsion
- Number of Engines
- 2
- Total Power
- 270 hp
- Total Hours
- 780 hrs
- Fuel Type
- Diesel
- Drive Type
- Direct
- Engines
- 2× Isuzu · 135 hp each · 390 hrs · 1978 · Inboard · Direct · Bronze
Tankage
- Fuel
- 200 gal (757 L) · 2 tanks
- Fresh Water
- 250 gal (946 L) · 1 tank
- Holding
- 20 gal (76 L) · 1 tank
Accommodations
- Cabins
- 2
- Heads
- 2
Full Details
ENGINES and GENERATOR
- (2) Isuzu 6-cylinder fresh water cooled diesel engines
- (2) Velvet Drive transmissions
- (2) push / pull double lever controls
- (2) 1 3/4" stainless steel propeller shaft
- Bronze packing glands
- (2) helm stations with hydraulic steering
- Onan 4kw Generator with 500 hours
Electrical
- AC system / 30 amp / 125V shore power inlet with cord
- DC system
- Dual purpose 675 12V battery
- (4) 4D 12V batteries
- AC/DC panels
- Interior GFCI outlets
Accessories
- Zantrex True Charge 2 40amp battery charger
- Inverter
- Flybridge Bimini
Electronics
- West Marine 585 VHF
- Horizon LH5 Hailer
- Raymarine Radar / Sounder
- Remote controlled spotlight
- West Marine 480 VHF
Galley
- Magic Chef Refrigerator
- Magic Chef Microwave
- Magic Chef 4-burner LP gas range
- Galley sink
- Norcold DE-540 Refrigerator
- Plenty of storage!
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The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.














