Prout Ltd. Snowgoose 37 Elite
Catamaran, twin keels · Cutter · First built 1986
A wide-beamed cutter-rigged catamaran from a prolific series with over 500 hulls built for shoal-water cruising
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Hull type
- Catamaran Twin Keel
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The Prout Ltd. Snowgoose 37 Elite, on the water
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from The Sailing Brothers
Is it for you?
Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Shoal draftDraws 0.81 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.
LightD/L 143Heavy
EasygoingSA/D 18.9Powered-up
- Draws less than ~92% of boats her size on file
- Narrower than ~85% of boats her size on file
Compared with 215 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
The living fleet
Sailed by the fleet
Where the fleet has filmed this boat.
Seen 69 times across one channel of the fleet.
On the water
The Prout Ltd. Snowgoose 37 Elite on video
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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
Rig & sail area
Rig
Cutter
Ratios
SA / displacement
18.9
Displacement / length
142.9
Hull
Hull type
Catamaran Twin Keel
Construction
Fiberglass
Production
Years built
First built 1986
Designer
Prout
Builder
Prout Ltd, Sons
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Seawind 116011.60 mSame hull family0.3 m longerA 1.1-metre draft catamaran built for the charter trade, balancing a 20.91 sail area-to-displacement ratio for agility
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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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