This is a very nice example of a 1984 Dyer 29 Trunk Cabin Soft Top. The boat has been freshly painted inside and out with poly urethane paint and fresh bottom paint. This boat is number 241 and was the largest engine they had installed in a 29 up to that point. It was made to go to the fishing grounds off of North Carolina and back in the same day. This boat has had a lot of recent servicing including cleaning all the heat exchangers. This boat had seen little running time in the last 6 years and what it has seen has been in fresh water. A feature not found often in Dyers is the addition of a 12,000 BTU Cruisair Revese Cycle A/C and heat unit. These boats are lovely to the eye and very seaworthy to run. This boat has had a cusotm trailer built by Triad Trailers, to be able to launch, recover and store. The trailer has a front landing gear wheel set to ease backing with the 25 foot tounge extender. The trailer alone would cost $12,000 or more today. This greatly extends the waters you can get to and the ability to keep it on the hard when not in use. 

Kingfisher is a Dyer 40, Hull #3, which was introduced in 1960. Like her smaller sister, she was designed by naval architect Nick Potter and has the same classic hull shape as the Dyer 29 which was first introduced in 1955. The Anchorage is one of the first yards in this country to build boats using fiberglass starting in the late 1940’s.  The solid fiberglass hand-laid hull on Kingfisher is 1” thick. Kingfisher was USCG documented when launched in 1962 and has remained documented under that name ever-since.  The Dyer 40 series was introduced with a sleeping cabin aft of the express bridge and a full cabin forward. The April, 1965 edition of Yachting Magazine references Kingfisher and features the background and history behind the introduction of the series. This design provided privacy for two couples while cruising. Bill Dyer, who built the Dyer 40 Blue Pigeon, for his own use, created this ‘Out Island’ design specifically for yachtsmen heading south to the Bahamas for the winter. Kingfisher was also of this design when launched and most probably ran twin 277 hp Seamaster engines which were later changed-out to 4-53 Detroit Diesels to achieve greater range as she was cruising between Florida and New England on a regular basis.   In 1994 Kingfisher was expertly rebuilt and refitted to her current updated layout by LAMB’S YACHT CENTER in Jacksonville Florida. Manuals for most systems and equipment on Kingfisher have been stored digitally. Maintenance logs since the 1994 rebuild have also been maintained.  

 DownEast 1975 Dyer Flush deck  8.2 Detroit  250 hp 1440 hrs 18k @ 2500 rpm 220 ZF gear w/ trolling valve  tiller w/stern controls 2018 new alternator & heat exchanger 2019 new top side & back curtains 2020 new Gramin chart plotter & radar Currently stored inside heated space ( easy to view ) 2-42 gal Monel tanks  Hynautic steering