SPECIFICATION
OVERVIEW
Wharf Rat is the newest MJM 29Z on the market. She is also the only one with the larger 300HP engine. The current owner bought her back in 2020 and since then she has had a professional captain and stored inside every winter. The owner had a new teak deck installed in 2021. The vessel has always received her annual maintenance and regular upgrades, like new batteries in 2023, new Vacuflush in 2021.
She was bought with low numbers and still has low hours at 540. The owners’ used Wharf Rat to cruise the bay and head into coastal Maine towns for lunch and dinner. Being as comfortable and quick as she is, they could explore in a wide range of conditions and with the larger engine, always get home quickly
The aft settee and mid ship settee allowed the crew to enjoy the sunny days and not so nice days on the water equally.
ADDITIONAL SPECS, EQUIPMENT AND INFORMATION
- Boat Name: MJM 29z Downeast 2012
- Builder: MJM
- Designer: Doug Zurn
- Location: Camden, ME
- Dry Weight: 7,600 lb
- Displacement Measure: 8,600 lb
- Brand: Volvo Penta
- Engine Model: D4
- Engine Type: Inboard
- Engine/Fuel Type: diesel
- Hours: 540
- Drive Type: Stern
- Engine Power: 300|horsepower
Electronics
- Fully equipped for coastal cruising with all electronics located at the helm station starboard side.
- Raymarine E-120 hybrid touch color radar/plotter
- Raymarine 4kw high definition
- Raydome Raymarine i-70 multi display with depth
- Raymarine SIG Hydraulic Autopilot with ST70 display
- Raymarine 218 VHF with remote mike with DSC
- Ritchie 4″ magnetic compass
Mechanicals
This MJM 29Z has the upgraded 300 HP Tier 3 Volvo D-4 diesel vs. the 220-260 hp engines typically found on this model providing 2+ extra knots at cruise speed.
- Volvo EVC/EC electronic engine controls
- 4 Cylinder, 3.7 liter turbo
- Aquamatic Duo-prop stern drive with integrated underwater exhaust
- Racor fuel filter
- Seafire manual/automatic fire suppression
- 2 electric bilge pumps
- Macerator pump 7000 BTU reverse cycle air conditioner
- Side Power SP40S Bow thruster controls Lenco trim tabs
- Volvo spares kit
Electrical System
- Wired for 12 Volt DC and 120 Volt AC service.
- A 2500 watt inverter will provide light load 120 volt service when off the dock.
12 Volt DC
- Distribution panel with breakers and remote battery switches
- Digital Volt & Amp meters
- 110 Amp alternator
- 2 4D AGM batteries (2023)
- Group 31 AGM engine start battery
120 Volt AC
- Distribution panel with breakers
- Digital Volt & Amp meters
- 30 amp shore power inlet at transom
- 50′ 30 amp shore power cord (still in wrapper) Outlets
- 10 gallon Isotherm hot water heater (also engine supplied)
- 2500 watt inverter/ 70 amp battery charger
Designer’s Description
The 29z is a powerboat designed to be comfortable for harbor and bay cruising, fun and easy to drive, exceptionally seaworthy and dry, fast, and fuel-efficient. The 29z Downeast Model has a large StrataGlass pilothouse with side windows that roll up and are strapped in place. One additional benefit of this configuration is the ability to lean out from the wheel to loop a midships dockline over a cleat on the dock to secure the boat. Additionally, as with all MJM Yachts, the front windshields hinge up parallel with the water for optimum ventilation as well as unobstructed visibility in fog or at night. Notice that MJM’s spotlights are mounted on the bow rail so that there’s no reflection off the deck or stainless to blind the helmsman.
A length to waterline beam ratio greater than 3:1 allows a better transition from modified V-shaped hull with knife-like entry to an 9-foot long planning surface with 17-degree deadrise, producing a softer entry into waves than is not possible with wider powerboats. 29z’s bow flare, apart from directing airflow and spray out and away from the pilothouse and cockpit to keep guests dry, works its magic with waves. Reserve buoyancy of the Carolina bow flare keeps the bow up when running fast down into the backside of waves, eliminating severe yaw (bow steer) to one side or the other … solving the problem of many Downeast or deep-V designs which have deep fore-foots that tend to bury and/or a keel or shape that cause too much directional control of the hull, resulting in delayed helm response. 29z steers with the secure, predictable touch of a sportscar, properly leaning into turns and handling large seas. An owner, on the notoriously rough Buzzard’s Bay, likes his 29z far better than his prior boat, a recent model 38 foot Downeast-style boat.
A solid swim platform suppresses exhaust and prop noise as well as being an important safety feature. If one falls overboard with nobody near to help, a 37” telescoping swim ladder with transom handle makes re-boarding easy. One major benefit of a sterndrive is that after several years of operation in lobster pot congested waterways in Maine, there is no record of a 29z snaring a pot when underway. On the outside chance you back into one inadvertently, the drive can be raised to clear the warps or a fouled prop by kneeling on the swim platform rather than having to go swimming in 50 degree water. Furthermore, a sterndrive will usually pop-up if hitting an underwater obstruction, then bounce back down again and continue to function.
The aft seat hinges up on counter-balanced pistons to provide excellent engine access. Notice also the absence of uncovered wood on deck and the midship deck drains to keep topsides from streaking. A built-in freshwater anchor & rode washdown system that works from the helm is a unique MJM feature on this size powerboat.
Construction
Built by Boston Boat Works the MJM 29Z is known for it’s light but extremely strong construction with full epoxy resin in the laminate and a layer of Kevlar in the external laminate. The hull is cored with Corecell closed cell foam with solid fiberglass along the centerline, chines, and at the hull to deck joint. After being laid up the entire structure is vacuum bagged to 14.7 psi and then fully post cured by being heated in an oven at very controlled rates to 140 degrees to insure complete curing of all resin. The hull is finished in Majestic Blue Awlcraft 2000, with a White boot stripe and Cordova Gold cove stripe.
- Below the waterline the hull is protected by Trilux black anti-fouling.
- The deck is cored with Airex closed cell PVC foam coring and finished with Moondust (tan) gel-coat on white.
- Lewmar low profile deck windlass
- Lewmar stainless steel anchor with 25′ chain and 250′ rode
- Fresh water anchor wash down
- Fortress FX-11 secondary anchor with chain and rode
- All stainless steel deck hardware and rails
- Thule rack system custom mounted on hard top will take sea kayak, paddle board and other accessories
- Rod holders in P&S cockpit coamings
- Transom door
- Fiberglass swim platform
- Armstrong flip down swim ladder
- H&C Transom shower
- Cockpit mooring cover (3 piece)
- 8 Type II Life jackets Life ring
- 2 fire extinguishers
- Flare kit
- 3 fenders and 4 35′ braided docklines
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.