Swan 51

Design

Designer

Lucio Micheletti

Naval architect

Germán Frers

Interior designer

Misa Poggi

Summary

Best Suited For

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 16.9 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.

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

55.4 ft (16.9 m)

Hull length

51 ft (15.55 m)

LWL

48.1 ft (14.67 m)

Beam

15.9 ft (4.85 m)

Draft (min)

6.7 ft (2.05 m)

Draft (max)

8 ft (2.45 m)

Air draft

—

Displacement

39,683 lb (18,000 kg)

Ballast

13,889 lb (6,300 kg)

Cabins

3

Heads

2

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

861 ft² (80 m²)

Jib

722 ft² (67.1 m²)

Genoa

—

Sail area

—

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

80 hp (Yanmar)

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Yanmar

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

172 gal (650 L)

Fresh water capacity

132 gal (500 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Fore triangle

63.1 m²

J

6.10 m

Service battery

24V 300Ah (20h)

Starting battery

12V 50Ah AGM

Shore power

230V 32A 50Hz

E

6.70 m

IG

20.70 m

Holding tanks

100 L

Hot water

40 L

Battery charger

70A

P

19.90 m

Layouts & Drawings

1 drawing from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

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  246249C Swan 51 Preliminary Sail Plan Clean — Nautor Swan

Brochure

Films of this model from the builder's official YouTube channel (Nautor Swan). They are the builder's own; the figures above are the reference.

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  Swan Rising: Two days to celebrate the Birth of the Swan 51 Class

  Nautor Swan · 5/19/2026

Videos whose title names the Swan 51, from the channel the builder's site links; last checked 9/30/2026. Playing one loads YouTube's player, which may set cookies.

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.

The Nautor Swan Range

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

1. Swan 7377.7 ft
2. Swan 6571.4 ft
3. Swan 5862.7 ft
4. Swan 5558.2 ft
5. Swan 51· this model55.4 ft
6. ClubSwan 5054.9 ft
7. ClubSwan 4347.8 ft
8. ClubSwan 3636.1 ft
9. 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.

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