Nordhavn is a trade name of a line of ocean-going trawler-styled motor yachts designed and produced by Pacific Asian Enterprises, Inc. (PAE) Overview PAE designs, builds and markets offshore passagemaking vessels ranging from in length. These full-displacement motor vessels travel at slow speeds - typically - but are able to cover thousands of miles on a single load of diesel fuel, and many have made long ocean passages. Most Nordhavn vessels have a raised forward pilothouse - separate from the main salon and galley - or an aft deckhouse with the pilothouse raised on a second level above the salon. The majority of Nordhavn vessels have standing headroom in the engine room, with most vessels having a single main engine and a "wing" 'get home' engine (which has a separate prop shaft and folding propeller). Some models optionally have twin engines. The vessels are constructed under the supervision of PAE project managers by boatbulding companies in Taiwan (Ta Shing Yachts), China (South Coast) and Europe (Turkey). Pacific Asian Enterprises, a California corporation, was incorporated in 1978. Dan Streech and Jim Leishman, the president and vice president respectively, were two of the company's three founding partners; Joe Meglen, the third founding partner, left the company in 2004. Originally, Pacific Asian Enterprises contracted to have vessels, including CT-41 and TransPac 49 sailing yachts, built in Taiwan and imported them into the USA. In its early years, the company's most successful product was its line of sailing yachts designed by naval architect Al Mason, starting with the Mason 43. In 1978, Jim Leishman's brother, still in high school, began working part-time for the company. He attended Saddleback College and obtained an AA degree but failed to finish his BA. The brother obtained a degree in naval architecture by subsequently enrolling in a home-study, pass-fail correspondence course at an institution at that time called "The Yacht Design Institute" and became PAE's chief designer. He does not hold a professional license. With the sailing yacht market in serious decline, in 1988, PAE built its first trawler—the Nordhavn 46 conceived by Jim Leishman and designed by his brother. As of the end of 2009, more than 500 Nordhavns had been built. For several years in the 1990s, PAE's standard offerings were its Nordhavn 46, 50, 57 and 62, vessels. However, in 1999 the company built the first in a new series of vessels: the Nordhavn 40,