Allures 45.9

Design

Naval architect

Berret-Racoupeau Yacht Design

Interior designer

Berret-Racoupeau Yacht Design

Summary

Best Suited For

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 14.75 m · 3 cabins · fresh water 420 L

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

48.4 ft (14.75 m)

Hull length

44.9 ft (13.7 m)

LWL

—

Beam

14.5 ft (4.43 m)

Draft (min)

3.7 ft (1.12 m)

Draft (max)

9.5 ft (2.9 m)

Air draft

64 ft (19.5 m)

Displacement

27,910 lb (12,660 kg)

Ballast

9,921 lb (4,500 kg)

Cabins

2–3

Heads

—

Berths

4–8

Sail Plan

Main sail

544 ft² (50.5 m²)

Jib

—

Genoa

—

Sail area

1,012 ft² (94 m²)

Downwind sail area

1,249 ft² (116 m²)

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

60 hp

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

165 gal (625 L)

Fresh water capacity

111 gal (420 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

Aluminium

Hull material

Aluminium

Deck material

Composite

Keel type

Integral centreboard

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Leaflet (Sept 2023) figures that differ

min draught 1,10 m; ballast 4,49 t; empty displacement 12,60 t; genoa 43,5 m2; spinnaker 140 m2; 45.9/S version 10,63 t / 2,52 t ballast / draught 1,50 m

Displacement

light

LOA

14,75 m from the Sept 2023 leaflet (the site table gives hull length only)

Engine

60 hp / 44 kW

Brochure

About Allures Yachting

Semi-custom

French builder of aluminium blue-water cruising sailboats, founded in 2003 and part of the Grand Large Yachting group.

Allures Yachting was founded in 2003 as a French builder of aluminium sailboats for long-distance voyaging, from 40 to 52 feet. Its first generation of models started the story; by 2010 the yard was producing fifteen boats a year, had gained the industrial capacity to build its own hulls, and moved into a new building in Cherbourg where carpentry, equipment, deck and rigging were brought under one roof. The range was renewed in that period -- the 45 replaced the 44, the 52 succeeded the 51 in 2016, and the 40 evolved into the 39.9 -- and in 2017 a third generation began with the 40.9, 45.9 and 51.9, completed in 2021 with the 51.9, the first Allures with an aft cabin and a long cockpit. In 2019 an Allures 44 completed the Northwest Passage while an Allures 45 sailed Patagonia, and in 2025 the Horizon 47 revisited the bluewater cruising sailboat.

The Allures Yachting Range

Every model Allures Yachting publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Allures 51.951.1 ft
2. Allures 45.9· this model48.4 ft
3. Allures Horizon 4746.8 ft
4. Allures 40.940.6 ft

By the Same Designers

Boats this boat's designers also drew, for other builders too. Credits are grouped only where the names clearly agree, however each builder spelled them; an unclear one is left out.

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