Saphire 27
Fractional Sloop · Lifting Keel · First built 2013
A high-performance fractional sloop by Claudio Maletto featuring a lifting keel and a high sail-area-to-displacement ratio
Designed by Claudio Maletto & Fontana Maletto Navone.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Lifting Keel
Is it for you?
Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
TrailerableBeam 2.50 m — inside the 2.55 m no-permit tow width across most of Europe, and the 2.59 m US and Canadian limit. About 1,300 kg of hull, so roughly 1,900 kg on a trailer: check that against your own towing rating.Shoal draughtDraws 0.45 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.
LivelyComfort 11Sea-kindly
CoastalCapsize 2.31Bluewater
LightD/L 86Heavy
EasygoingSA/D 28.2Powered-up
TenderBallast 38%Stiff
Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.
The record
Full specifications
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Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
38.5%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Fractional Sloop
Ratios
SA / displacement
28.2
Displacement / length
86.0
Comfort ratio
10.7
Capsize screening
2.31
Hull speed
6.7 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
721
Hull
Hull type
Lifting Keel
Construction
Vinly w/PVC
Ballast type
Lead
Production
Years built
First built 2013
Designer
Claudio Maletto, Fontana Maletto Navone
Builder
Saphire AG, Delphia Yachts
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