Outremer 45

Design

Designer

Patrick Le Quément

Naval architect

Barreau / Neuman

Interior designer

Darnet Design

Summary

Best Suited For

• Performance Cruising

  From the published figures: SA/D 26.2 (upwind 110 m², displacement 8800 kg) · 4 cabins

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 14.54 m · 4 cabins

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.

Dimensions

LOA

47.7 ft (14.54 m)

Hull length

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LWL

—

Beam

23.5 ft (7.15 m)

Draft (min)

4.1 ft (1.25 m)

Draft (max)

6.7 ft (2.05 m)

Air draft

67.3 ft (20.52 m)

Displacement

19,401 lb (8,800 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

3–4

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

743 ft² (69 m²)

Jib

441 ft² (41 m²)

Genoa

—

Sail area

1,184 ft² (110 m²)

Downwind sail area

1,798 ft² (167 m²)

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

38 hp

Engine count

2

Engine manufacturer

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Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

—

Fresh water capacity

—

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

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Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Keel type

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Rudder type

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Steering wheels

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Builder's Own Figures

Gennaker

115 m2 (option)

Length

14.54 m

CE approval persons

8/16 p

Displacement (loaded)

12 t

Spinnaker

167 m2 (option)

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

Videos whose title names the Outremer 45, from the channel the builder's site links; last checked 9/30/2026. Playing one loads YouTube's player, which may set cookies.

About Outremer

Premium production

French builder of bluewater cruising catamarans, founded in 1984 in La Grande-Motte and now part of the Grand Large Yachting group.

In June 1984 at La Grande Motte, Gérard Danson, a young architect from the Conati yard, joined the yard's best technician, Daniel Cailloux, to build a powerful, seaworthy 40-foot catamaran for offshore cruising. Danson's conviction was that lightness, fine hulls and low windage are what make a bluewater multihull behave at sea. A second boat was under way before the first had launched, others joined, and the small firm needed a name: Outremer -- overseas. The early cruising multihulls were built to their owners' wishes, open cockpit or not, small coachroof or large, outboard or inboard, and they placed well in the races they entered. A 50-footer followed with more space, new sheds were built, the teams grew and a design office was set up; the first Outremer 45, Bagnoles de l'Orne, won the OSTAR under Didier Levillain, and families began to see the catamaran as a safe boat for a sabbatical year or a circumnavigation. Danson's death in 2005 closed the first era. In 2007 the Grand Large Yachting group restarted production and brought in leading multihull architects, and the Outremer 49 -- fully infused structure, balanced hulls, level spaces, all-round visibility -- renewed the bluewater catamaran. Close to 400 Outremers have sailed since 1984; the yard is present in fifteen countries and exports 70 per cent of what it builds.

The Outremer Range

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

1. Outremer 6467.3 ft
2. Outremer 5757 ft
3. Outremer 5251.6 ft
4. Outremer 4848 ft
5. Outremer 45· this model47.7 ft
6. Outremer 4X47.7 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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