Boreal Yachts 47
Cutter · Keel/CB & Spade Rudder · First built 2017
A 14.55-metre aluminum cutter with a 2.48-metre draft, optimized for high-latitude stability and blue-water performance
Designed by Jean-Francois Delvoye.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Keel/CB & Spade Rudder
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The Boreal Yachts 47, on the water
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Is it for you?
Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Shoal draftDraws 1.02 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.
LivelyComfort 25Sea-kindly
CoastalCapsize 2.00Bluewater
LightD/L 182Heavy
EasygoingSA/D 21.6Powered-up
TenderBallast 37%Stiff
A capable offshore cruiser with an easy motion when the sea gets up.
- Draws less than ~76% of boats her size on file
Compared with 206 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
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Sailed by the fleet
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Seen once across one channel of the fleet.
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Full specifications
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Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
36.9%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Cutter
Ratios
SA / displacement
21.6
Displacement / length
182.3
Comfort ratio
25.2
Capsize screening
2.00
Hull speed
8.3 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
1924
Hull
Hull type
Keel/CB & spade rudder
Construction
Aluminum
Ballast type
Lead
Production
Years built
First built 2017
Designer
Jean-Francois Delvoye
Builder
Boreal Yachts
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Ovni 4012.60 mSame hull family2.0 m shorterA 12.6-metre cutter with a high 25.21 sail-area-to-displacement ratio, built for agile performance during her 1984-1987
Southerly 42012.86 mSame hull family1.7 m shorterA Rob Humphreys-designed fractional sloop featuring a versatile swing keel that later evolved into the Southerly 430
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Related models
The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.
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