Masthead Sloop · Lifting Keel With Dual Rudders · First built 2012
A 14.63m masthead sloop featuring a lifting keel and dual rudders that provide deep-water performance and shoal-draft access
Designed by Nick Hake.
See her sail
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from Berthon International
Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her light displacement on a narrow beam gives 25 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.
1.87 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
114 — light for her waterline, so she is easily driven and quick to accelerate.
20.0 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.
33% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.
Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.
Compared with 204 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
What the fleet has seen
Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.
The Seaward Yachts 46RK is a masthead sloop sailboat designed by Nick Hake and built by Seaward Yachts (Hake Yachts) since 2012. It features a lifting keel and dual rudders, with an LOA of 14.6 meters, a beam of 4.0 meters, and a displacement of 10,432 kg. The draft is 2.1 meters.
The living fleet
Where the fleet has filmed this boat.
Seen once across one channel of the fleet.
What broke, what changed
Moments from individual boats of this model that the fleet has filmed — one crew, one piece of kit, one day on the water. Not a review of the class, and not a count of anything.
InstalledTreadmaster
The decks are laid with Treadmaster Diamond Grip in grey.
aboard Berthon Internationalseen April 20232:24
InstalledRaymarine
The helm features a pair of Raymarine Hybrid Touch displays.
aboard Berthon Internationalseen April 20236:46
Each line is one crew's account of their own boat. Another Seaward Yachts 46RK may be fitted out entirely differently.
What they go for
Where the fleet has seen this model come up for sale.
The 2016 Seaward 42 Bounder is available with Berthon International
from Berthon Internationalseen April 2023watch
From the fleet's own footage — our observed signal, not broker listings.
The record
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Boats like this, on the water
Comparable boats the fleet has on camera: same type, within a quarter of her length. Open the boat, or watch the video — a timestamp means she only appears in passing.
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