Outbound Yachts 44/46

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See her sail

The Outbound Yachts 44/46, 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.

LivelySea-kindly

Her moderate displacement on a moderate beam gives 32 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 32

CoastalBluewater

1.78 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.

Capsize screening 1.78

LightHeavy

192 — moderately heavy for her waterline, a balanced cruising weight.

Displacement / length 192

EasygoingPowered-up

18.9 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.

Sail area / displacement 18.9

TenderStiff

36% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.

Ballast 36%

Powered-up and quick to accelerate — this one likes to sail.

Heavier than ~82% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2367 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Outbound Yachts 44/46, as the fleet has seen it

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The Outbound Yachts 44/46 is a Carl Schumacher-designed masthead sloop built from 2001 to the present, featuring a fin keel with a spade rudder. It measures 13.6 meters LOA, with a 4.1-meter beam, a 2.0-meter draft, and a displacement of 12,700 kg. A shoal draft version is available with a 5.5-foot draft. The boat's electrical systems can be configured with either 24-volt or 48-volt architectures.1:25 Aboard BoatHowTo, Jan Attenstedt and Nigel Calder discussed that while 48-volt systems can reduce copper weight, they require complex multi-voltage setups because low-draw equipment like lights and bilge pumps are not commonly available in 48-volt versions.0:41 Minimum conductor size requirements limit the weight savings of higher voltages on smaller vessels.1:22 For high-load equipment, a dedicated bow battery bank charged by a DC-to-DC converter can be a practical alternative to a full 48-volt conversion.2:39

Who's been looking

Market signal

Crews the fleet has filmed weighing this model up — no sale seen, and no asking price.

1channel looked into buying

From the fleet's own footage — our observed signal, not broker listings.

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

35.7%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Masthead Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

18.9

Displacement / length

191.7

Comfort ratio

32.5

Capsize screening

1.78

Hull speed

8.5 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1942

Hull

Hull type

Fin w/spade rudder

Construction

Fiberglass

Ballast type

Lead

Production

Years built

First built 2001

Units built

50

Designer

Carl Schumacher

Builder

Outbound Yachts

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The family

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