[1][2][3][4][5][6] The design is a larger, heavier development of the North Star 500, with a coach house roof added.
[1][2] The design was built by North Star Yachts and Hughes Boat Works in Canada, from 1975 to 1977, but it is now out of production.
[1][2][7][8] The North Star 600 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim.
It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a nearly plumb transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel.
[1][2] The boat has a draft of 4.00 ft (1.22 m) with the standard keel and is fitted with a Universal Atomic 2 gasoline engine for docking and manoeuvring.