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Sailing MonohullsLiveaboard · 40–50 ft

Sailing Monohulls · Liveaboard · 40–50 ft: YachtCodex lists 47 models, 12.4–15.2 m long. The builders with the most are Elan (4), Jeanneau (4), and Beneteau (3). The largest in production is the X-Yachts Xc 47 (15.2 m); the shallowest draft is the Sirius 40 DS's (0.95 m).

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Sailing Monohulls

One hull, a keel to hold it up against the sails, and the oldest arrangement still in production. A monohull heels, which is how it tells the crew what the wind is doing, and it rights itself because the ballast under it wants to hang downward. It is the form most sailors learn on and the one most ocean races are still run in.

Liveaboard

Boats with enough room, water and plumbing to be lived on rather than visited. The criteria are a length overall between 11 and 24 metres, three cabins or more, two heads or more where the builder publishes a number, and 300 litres of fresh water or more where that is published; day boats, sport cruisers, centre consoles and racers are excluded. A figure the builder never published does not disqualify a boat on the secondary conditions -- unknown is read as not contradicting -- but cabins and length must be there.

Models: 47
Builders: 24
Length range: 12.4–15.2 m41–50 ft
In production: 44