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Caliber Yachts 47 LRC

Cutter · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · First built 1999

A long-range cruiser with a 52.92-foot overall length and a high comfort ratio for extended offshore passages

Designed by Michael McCreary.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Ballast
Hull type
Fin With Rudder On Skeg

See her sail

The Caliber Yachts 47 LRC, on the water

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

Footage from Sailing Wind Therapy

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 narrow beam gives 39 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 39
CoastalBluewater

At 1.64 she sits well under the 2.0 line — a solidly ocean-capable hull for her size.

Capsize screening 1.64
LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 239
EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 15.8
TenderStiff

39% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.

Ballast 39%

A capable offshore cruiser with an easy motion when the sea gets up.

  • Heavier than ~84% of boats her size on file
  • Draws less than ~94% of boats her size on file

Compared with 1880 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Caliber Yachts 47 LRC, as the fleet has seen it

Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.

The Caliber Yachts 47 LRC is a Michael McCreary-designed cutter-rigged sailboat, built by Caliber Yachts since 1999, with an LOA of 14.8 meters (52.92 feet including bowsprit), a 4.0-meter beam, a 1.6-meter draft, and a displacement of 14,968 kg. Its hull features a fin with a rudder on a skeg. Aboard *Sailing Wind Therapy*, a chartered Caliber 47 LRC named *Sacagawea* sailed through the San Juan Islands, where its in-boom furler required battens to be inserted during the mainsail hoist.3:19 The crew managed a fouled anchor chain by lowering the rode or using a boat hook.5:00

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

On the water

The Caliber Yachts 47 LRC on video

The record

Full specifications

The complete reference set — tap any figure to switch between metric and imperial.

Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
39.4%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Cutter
Ratios
SA / displacement
15.8
Displacement / length
239.0
Comfort ratio
39.0
Capsize screening
1.64
Hull speed
8.4 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
1857
Hull
Hull type
Fin with rudder on skeg
Construction
Fiberglass
Production
Years built
First built 1999
Designer
Michael McCreary
Builder
Caliber Yachts

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The family

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