Outremer 51

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 26.6 (upwind 131 m², displacement 11200 kg) · 4 cabins

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 15.65 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

51.3 ft (15.65 m)

Hull length

—

LWL

—

Beam

24.8 ft (7.57 m)

Draft (min)

3.1 ft (0.95 m)

Draft (max)

7.7 ft (2.35 m)

Air draft

75.7 ft (23.08 m)

Displacement

24,692 lb (11,200 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

3–4

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

980 ft² (91 m²)

Jib

431 ft² (40 m²)

Genoa

—

Sail area

1,410 ft² (131 m²)

Downwind sail area

1,722 ft² (160 m²)

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

50 hp

Engine count

2

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

—

Fresh water capacity

—

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Displacement (loaded)

14.1 t

Solent autovireur

40 m2 (duplicate of jib)

Length

15.65 m

Gennaker

110 m2 (option)

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 5XDiscontinued60 ft
3. Outremer 5757 ft
4. Outremer 55Discontinued54.9 ft
5. Outremer 5251.6 ft
6. Outremer 51· this modelDiscontinued51.3 ft
7. Outremer 4848 ft
8. Outremer 4547.7 ft
9. 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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