Swan 48 MKII

Name: Swan 48 MKII
Brand: Nautor Swan

Discontinued

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Design

Designer: Germán Frers
Naval architect: Germán Frers
Interior designer: Misa Poggi

Summary

Sailing MonohullSail

Length overall: 51.8 ft
Beam: 15.1 ft
Draft: 7.9 ft
Displacement: 33,069 lb
Cabins: 3

* A standard reference image, not the actual boat — shown to help visualise this model's published dimensions.

Best Suited For

Liveaboard
From the published figures: LOA 15.78 m · 3 cabins · 2 heads · fresh water 500 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.

Sail area / displacement

How much sail the boat carries for its weight — its power in light air.

23.3· Performance

How it is worked out

sail area (ft²) ÷ (displacement as ft³ of seawater)^⅔

mainsail + jib, added up

Displacement / length

How heavy the boat is for its waterline length. Lower is lighter and quicker; higher is steadier and roomier.

156· Light

How it is worked out

displacement (long tons) ÷ (0.01 × waterline length in ft)³

Ballast ratio

The share of the weight carried in the keel — a rough guide to stiffness, though how deep that weight sits matters as much.

35· Moderate

How it is worked out

ballast ÷ displacement × 100

Comfort ratio

Ted Brewer's measure of how gently a boat moves in a seaway. Higher means a slower, easier motion.

28.9· Coastal

How it is worked out

displacement (lb) ÷ (0.65 × (0.7 × LWL + 0.3 × LOA) × beam^1.333), lengths in ft

Capsize screening

A guide from the inquiry after the 1979 Fastnet race: below 2 was taken as suited to ocean passages. It ignores hull shape and where the ballast sits.

1.88· Below 2

How it is worked out

beam (ft) ÷ (displacement as ft³ of seawater)^⅓

Hull speed

Roughly the speed a displacement hull reaches before it has to climb its own bow wave.

9.0 kn

How it is worked out

1.34 × √(waterline length in ft), in knots

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.

Fuel and water on one scale: a tank twice the height holds twice as much.

Fuel95 gal
Water132 gal

Show the builders' own words

A figure marked with a quote mark was read from the builder's page. Open it for the exact line, the page and the date.

Dimensions

LOA: 51.8 ft (15.78 m)
Hull length: 48.5 ft (14.78 m)
LWL: 45.5 ft (13.88 m)
Beam: 15.1 ft (4.59 m)
Draft (min): 7.9 ft (2.4 m)
Draft (max): —
Air draft: —
Displacement: 33,069 lb (15,000 kg)
Ballast: 11,464 lb (5,200 kg)
Cabins: 3
Heads: 2
Berths: —

Sail Plan

Main sail: 830 ft² (77.1 m²)
Jib: 673 ft² (62.5 m²)
Genoa: —
Sail area: —
Downwind sail area: 2,333 ft² (216.7 m²)
Rig type: —

Engine and Tanks

Engine: 75 hp (Volvo Penta)
Engine count: 1
Engine manufacturer: Volvo Penta
Propulsion type: saildrive
Fuel capacity: 95 gal (360 L)
Fresh water capacity: 132 gal (500 L)
Black water capacity: —

Construction

Mast material: —
Hull material: —
Deck material: —
Keel type: T shaped contained draft keel
Rudder type: —
Steering wheels: —

Builder's Own Figures

Battery charger: 70 A
Shore power: 230 V 32 A 50 Hz
Service battery, AGM: 24 V 230 Ah (20h)
P: 19.90 m
TPS: 6.95 m
IG: 20.80 m
Holding tanks: 100 l
J: 5.66 m
Starting battery, AGM: 12 V 50 Ah AGM
Fore triangle: 58.9 m2
E: 6.60 m
Hot water: 40 l

Figures read fromthe builder's page

Layouts & Drawings

8 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

Swan 48MKII Sail Plan CLEANED — Nautor Swan
Swan 48MKII Sail Plan with options CLEANED — Nautor Swan
Swan 48MKII Conceptual General arrangement — Nautor Swan
Swan 48MKII Conceptual General arrangement with Optionals — Nautor Swan
swan48 deck 4 — Nautor Swan
swan48 deck 3 — Nautor Swan
swan48 deck 2 — Nautor Swan
swan48 deck 1 — Nautor Swan

Brochure

Download the official Swan 48 MKII brochure (PDF)

About Nautor Swan

Premium production

Finnish builder of luxury sailing yachts, founded in 1966 in Pietarsaari and known worldwide as Nautor Swan.

Oy Nautor AB was founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä at Pietarsaari, Finland, on centuries of Finnish boatbuilding and a wish to build high-performance sailing yachts of high quality. The first was the Swan 36, whose glass-reinforced hull came with a number of other innovations: it matched the traditional wooden yacht for performance and safety while steering more steadily, weighing less and offering more room below. Sparkman & Stephens drew roughly the first thousand Swans, the Swan 38 and Swan 47 among them, and the larger, seagoing Swan 55 and Swan 65 followed -- one of them, Sayula II, winning the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74. Ron Holland designed five yachts between 1978 and 1981, including the Swan 37, 39 and 42, and Germán Frers became the principal designer through the 1980s, later opening the one-design racing division with the Swan 45 in 2001 and the ClubSwan 42 in 2005. More than 2,350 yachts between 28 and 131 feet have been built in six decades. Everything is made at Pietarsaari, where engineering sits beside production, and the range now runs across six lines: Swan, Swan Maxi, ClubSwan, Swan Alloy, SwanScape and the motor yacht division Swan Shadow.

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The Nautor Swan Range

Every model Nautor Swan publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

Include 4 discontinued

Swan 5862.7 ft
Swan 5558.2 ft
Swan 54Discontinued55.8 ft
Swan 5155.4 ft
ClubSwan 5054.9 ft
Swan 48 MKII· this modelDiscontinued51.8 ft
ClubSwan 4347.8 ft
ClubSwan 3636.1 ft
ClubSwan 2835.1 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.