Pacific Seacraft 44

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The Pacific Seacraft 44, on the water

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Character

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

LivelySea-kindly

Her heavy displacement on a narrow beam gives 39 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 39

CoastalBluewater

At 1.68 she sits well under the 2.0 line — a solidly ocean-capable hull for her size.

Capsize screening 1.68

LightHeavy

325 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.

Displacement / length 325

EasygoingPowered-up

17.1 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.

Sail area / displacement 17.1

TenderStiff

40% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.

Ballast 40%

Built heavy and sea-kindly — a boat made to cross oceans and forgive a rough night.

Heavier than ~82% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2434 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Pacific Seacraft 44, as the fleet has seen it

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The Pacific SEACRAFT 44 is a William Crealock-designed cutter-rigged sailboat built by Pacific Seacraft from 1990 to the present, measuring 13.4 meters LOA with a 3.9-meter beam and 1.9-meter draft. Its fin keel with a rudder on skeg supports a displacement of 12473 kg. Aboard *Validated*, a Pacific SEACRAFT 44, a crew departing Stuart, Florida, for Virginia maintained speeds of 8 to 9 knots in 15 knots of wind in the Gulf Stream.7:43 Mechanical issues with torn reef lines prevented full mainsail reefing or raising, leading to scalloping in the sailcloth.6:14 The crew motor-sailed for two and a half days due to light winds and diverted to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, to avoid a low-pressure system and address maintenance needs.19:16

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

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The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

40.0%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Cutter

Ratios

SA / displacement

17.1

Displacement / length

325.4

Comfort ratio

39.4

Capsize screening

1.68

Hull speed

7.8 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1518

Hull

Hull type

Fin with rudder on skeg

Construction

Fiberglass

Production

Years built

First built 1990

Designer

William Crealock

Builder

Pacific Seacraft

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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.

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