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Brewer 44

Cutter · Keel/CB & Spade Rudder · First built 1984

A stretched evolution of the 12.8 featuring a reverse transom and a versatile keel-centerboard configuration

Designed by Ted Brewer & Edward S. Brewer, built by Ft. Myers Yacht.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Ballast
Hull type
Keel/CB & Spade Rudder

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The Brewer 44, on the water

The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.

Footage from Plan-Sea

Is it for you?

Character

Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.

LivelyComfort 37Sea-kindly
CoastalCapsize 1.76Bluewater
LightD/L 302Heavy
EasygoingSA/D 16.3Powered-up
TenderBallast 41%Stiff

A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen 4 times across 2 channels of the fleet.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

On the water

The Brewer 44 on video

What they go for

Market signal

Where the fleet has seen this model for sale, and the asking prices that came with it.

1seen for sale
2channels looked into buying
$35,000Median asking

For sale

  • A 1983 Ted Brewer custom design, 35-foot, listed for sale on Craigslist for $35,000; the hosts review the listing and discuss its potential as a blue-water cruising boat

    from 59° North Sailingseen March 20263:21

Weighed buying

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The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
41.4%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Cutter
Ratios
SA / displacement
16.3
Displacement / length
302.0
Comfort ratio
37.1
Capsize screening
1.76
Hull speed
7.9 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
1688
Hull
Hull type
Keel/CB & spade rudder
Construction
Fiberglass
Production
Years built
First built 1984
Designer
Ted Brewer, Edward S. Brewer
Builder
Ft. Myers Yacht, Shipbuilding

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The family

Related models

The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.

Brewer 12.8Commissioned by the Knickerbocker Yacht Club, this cutter features a keel/centerboard hull for versatile shoal-water accessBrewer 46A heavy-displacement cutter marketed under various names including Pan Oceanic, Seastar, and Mao TaWhitby Boatworks 42An Edward S. Brewer-designed long-keeled ketch built for offshore comfort and stability over a long production runMariner 47 (Brewer)A Ted Brewer-designed masthead sloop with a skeg-hung rudder, later produced as the Islander 48C.Oceanic 46 (Brewer)A Ted Brewer-designed cutter with a skeg-hung rudder, built for blue-water stability and comfortable offshore passage-makingIslander Yachts 48CA Ted Brewer-designed cutter with a skeg-hung rudder, also marketed as the Mariner 47

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