BoatsPacific Seacraft 31

Pacific Seacraft 31

Cutter · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · First built 1987

A 1987-era cutter with a 42% ballast ratio, designed for offshore stability and re-introduced to production in 2002

Designed by William Crealock.

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

See her sail

The Pacific Seacraft 31, on the water

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

Footage from Hugh Robertson Sailing

Is it for you?

Character

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

LivelySea-kindly

Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 31 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 31
CoastalBluewater

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

Capsize screening 1.77
LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 348
EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 15.8
TenderStiff

43% of her weight is ballast — stiff, standing up well to her sails.

Ballast 43%

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

What the fleet has seen

The Pacific Seacraft 31, as the fleet has seen it

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

The Pacific SEACRAFT 31 is a 9.7-meter cutter-rigged sailboat designed by William Crealock, built by Pacific Seacraft, and first introduced in 1987. It features a fin keel with a rudder on a skeg, a 3.0-meter beam, a 1.5-meter draft, and displaces 4989 kg.33:32 The model was retired in 1999 but re-introduced in 2002. A shoal draft version with a 1.22-meter draft is also available.34:07

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

What they go for

Market signal

Where the fleet has seen this model come up for sale.

1seen sold

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

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
42.7%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Cutter
Ratios
SA / displacement
15.8
Displacement / length
348.2
Comfort ratio
30.6
Capsize screening
1.77
Hull speed
6.6 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
849
Hull
Hull type
Fin with rudder on skeg
Construction
Fiberglass
Ballast type
Lead
Production
Years built
First built 1987
Units built
100
Designer
William Crealock
Builder
Pacific Seacraft

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The family

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