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Northern Lights
48' 1980 Cooper Marine Mapleleaf 48
$79,000.00
Last Updated: 2025-06-18
1980 MAPLE LEAF 48
BUILT BY COOPER MARINE BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA DESIGNED BY STAN HUNTINGTON
Built as a go-anywhere offshore cruiser "Northern Lights" has a taller sail-plan and a 120 hp diesel engine to help get you to where you want to go. Big, beamy, a powerful design, the Mapleleaf 48 sails flat and fast. Her center-cockpit surrounds you with high-back portection. An aft cockpit with a transom door leading to a swim deck makes boarding from a dingy....easy.
Two large cabin, one forward, one aft, both have private head compartments. The galley is large yet well fitted for use underway. The main cabin is huge comfortable and friendly. There is a passageway leading to the aft cabin. In the passageway there is access to the engine room.
Make: Cooper Marine
Model: Mapleleaf 48
Year: 1980
Length: 48ft
Name: Northern Lights
Hull Material: Fiberglass
Engine/Fuel Type:
Located In: San Francisco, CA
- Category: Sail
- Class: Center Cockpit
- Designer: Huntingford
- Builder: Cooper Marine
- LOA: 48 feet
- Beam: 14.42 feet
- Total Engines: 1
- Engine 1
- EngineMake: Ford Leman
- EngineYear: 1980
- EngineFuel: diesel
- PropellerType: 3 Blade, Bronze
Additional Descriptions
Additional Information
SPECIFICATIONS
LOA 48'
LWL. 40
Beam 14' 6"
ENGINE
FORD LEHMAN 120 HP
HOURS UNKNOWN
DIRECT DRIVE
3 BLADED BRONZE PROPELLER
FRESH WATER TANKS
FUEL TANKAGE:
DAY TANK
2 OTHER FUEL TANKS
2 HOLDING TANKS
15 GALLONS
GALLEY
TOP LOADING FREEZER IN PASSAGE WAY
LARGE REFRIGERATOR / FREEZER
DOUBLE STAINLESS-STEEL SINK
U-SHAPE COUNTER
4 BURNER LPG STOVE
ACCOMMODQATIONS
LARGE HEAD COMPARTMENT FORWARD WITH SHOWER
CUSTOM STORAGE LOCKERS
DOUBLE CABIN FORWARD
HOT AN COLD PRESSURE WATER SYSTEM
LARGE MAIN CABIN WITH U SHAPED SETTEE AND
CONVERTIBLE BERTHING
SAILING GEAR
MAST HEAD DOUBLE SPREADER RIG
ROLLER FURLING JIB SYSTEM
HUGE LEWMAR SELF-TAILING GENOA WINCHES
LARGE LEWMAR SELF-TAILING MAIN-SHEET WINCH
MAINSAIL WITH REEF AND SAIL COVER
ROLLER FURLING GENOA
ANCHORING GEAR.
60 LB CQR WITH 300' OF CHAIN
ANCHOR WINDLESS
FORTRESS ANCHOR
ELECTRONIC AND NAVIGATION GEAR
VHF RADIO
WIND INDICATOR
SPEED
DEPTH
NAVIGATION INFORMATION UNIT
LARGE WHEEL MOUNTED COMPASS
SHORE POWER SYSTEM W/ CHARGER
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.

Gary Helms
Yacht & Ship Sales
garyhelms@rubiconyachts.com
510-865-2511
1150 Ballena Blvd., Ste 121
Alameda, CA 94501